About the Authors
- Ian McLoughlin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ian McLoughlin, Haomin Zhang, Zhipeng Xie
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: ivm@kent.ac.uk
Affiliations School of Computing, The University of Kent, Medway, Kent, United Kingdom, National Engineering Laboratory of Speech and Language Information Processing, The University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China
- Haomin Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ian McLoughlin, Haomin Zhang, Zhipeng Xie
Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft
Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory of Speech and Language Information Processing, The University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China
- Zhipeng Xie
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ian McLoughlin, Haomin Zhang, Zhipeng Xie
Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software
Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory of Speech and Language Information Processing, The University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China
- Yan Song
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Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory of Speech and Language Information Processing, The University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China
- Wei Xiao
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis
¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation European Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich, Germany
- Huy Phan
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Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization
¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation The Institute for Signal Processing, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
Competing Interests
We have the following interests: Wei Xiao is employed by Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, and has been contributing time, effort and practical advice to this research in an effort to help ensure its eventual success. While he is employed by the same company as the funder, he is a coauthor on the basis of his defined intellectual input to this work in the area of signal processing methods, analytical techniques specifically related to feature dimension reduction. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.