Definition
A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a parametric probability density function represented as a weighted sum of Gaussian
component densities. GMMs are commonly used as a parametric model of the probability distribution of continuous measurements
or features in a biometric system, such as vocal-tract related spectral features in a speaker recognition system. GMM
parameters are estimated from training data using the iterative Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm or Maximum A
Posteriori (MAP) estimation from a well-trained prior model.