Detects AI-synthesized speech using cepstral and bispectral analysis.
problem Validating the authenticity of speech from AI-generated content.
method Integrates cepstral and bispectral analysis for distinguishing human from AI-synthesized speech.
result Higher-order statistics show less correlation for human speech compared to AI-synthesis, and cepstral analysis reveals unique power components.
Model classifies environment sounds using multiple feature channels and attention mechanisms.
problem Environment sound classification task.
method Multiple feature channels (MFCC, GFCC, CQT, Chromagram) and attention mechanism in a deep CNN.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on three benchmark datasets.
Quantifying similarity between data objects is an important part of modern data science. Deciding what similarity measure to use is very application dependent. In this paper, we combine insights from systems theory and machine learning, and investigate the weighted cepstral distance, which was previously defined for si…
Speech emotion recognition system using features and text.
problem Improving accuracy in emotion recognition from speech.
method Used speech features (Spectrogram, MFCC) and text, trained Deep Neural Networks.
result Combined MFCC-Text CNN model achieved highest accuracy.
A novel text-independent speaker identification (SI) method is proposed. This method uses the Mel-frequency Cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and the dynamic information among adjacent frames as feature sets to capture speaker's characteristics. In order to utilize dynamic information, we design super-MFCCs features by cas…
Detects adversarial examples in deep speech recognition.
problem Vulnerability of deep speech recognition systems to adversarial attacks.
method Formulated as a classification problem, generated adversarial and normal datasets, trained CNN.
result Accurately distinguishes between adversarial and normal examples for known attacks.
ResNet with Focal Loss improves speech emotion recognition.
problem Speech emotion recognition using plain text features is insufficient.
method Residual Convolutional Neural Network (ResNet) trained with Focal Loss.
result Focal Loss enhances model's focus on hard examples.
An important step in speaker verification is extracting features that best characterize the speaker voice. This paper investigates a front-end processing that aims at improving the performance of speaker verification based on the SVMs classifier, in text independent mode. This approach combines features based on conven…
CycleGAN-VC2 improves voice conversion without parallel data.
problem Challenges in non-parallel voice conversion.
method Improved CycleGAN-VC with three techniques: two-step adversarial losses, 2-1-2D CNN generator, and PatchGAN discriminator.
result CycleGAN-VC2 significantly reduces the gap between converted and target speech.
This paper proposes a framework based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic heart sound classification using short-segments of individual heart beats. We design a 1D-CNN that directly learns features from raw heart-sound signals, and a 2D-CNN that takes inputs of two- dimensional time-frequency fea…
Paper proposes a CNN for speech emotion recognition using center loss and reconstruction.
problem Speech emotion recognition (SER) in audio signals.
method Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with center loss and reconstruction as regularizers.
result Proposed method achieves highly discriminative features for SER.
Machine learning detects frog calls in audio recordings with high accuracy.
problem Estimating frog presence in audio recordings from tropical environments.
method Gaussian mixture model classification of frog calls with 20 cepstral features.
result The algorithm achieved an average weighted error rate of 0.9% for nine species classification.
We present a machine learning based method for noise classification using a low-power and inexpensive IoT unit. We use Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients for audio feature extraction and supervised classification algorithms (that is, support vector machine and k-nearest neighbors) for noise classification. We evaluate…
A new method classifies heart sounds using i-vectors and machine learning.
problem Heart sound classification for disease diagnostics.
method Extract i-vectors from MFCC features, apply PCA and VAE for dimensionality reduction, then use GMMs and SVM for classification.
result The method improves heart sound classification by 16% on the Physionet dataset.
This paper proposes an approach to detect emotion from human speech employing majority voting technique over several machine learning techniques. The contribution of this work is in two folds: firstly it selects those features of speech which is most promising for classification and secondly it uses the majority voting…
A model classifies music genres from MP3 files using metric learning and feature extraction.
problem Classifying music genres from MP3 files efficiently and accurately.
method Metric learning and feature extraction using MFCC and PCA.
result Promising results in classification accuracy compared to baseline algorithms.
Feature extraction for automatic classification of EEG signals typically relies on time frequency representations of the signal. Techniques such as cepstral-based filter banks or wavelets are popular analysis techniques in many signal processing applications including EEG classification. In this paper, we present a com…
In this work, a novel solution to the speaker identification problem is proposed through minimization of statistical divergences between the probability distribution (g). of feature vectors from the test utterance and the probability distributions of the feature vector corresponding to the speaker classes. This approac…
Enhanced transformer converts whispered speech to natural speech.
problem Machine recognition of whispered speech is challenging.
method Proposes an enhanced transformer architecture trained end-to-end using supervised learning.
result Similar formant distributions of converted speech to groundtruth.
Level assessment for foreign language students is necessary for putting them in the right level group, furthermore, interviewing students is a very time-consuming task, so we propose to automate the evaluation of speaker fluency level by implementing machine learning techniques. This work presents an audio processing s…
Novel method segments heart sound signals using LSTMs with attention.
problem Heart sound segmentation for diagnostic applications.
method Bidirectional LSTMs with attention mechanisms.
result State-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks.
Web-based framework detects Parkinson's disease from speech recordings.
problem Early detection of Parkinson's disease from speech recordings.
method Collected data from 726 participants, extracted acoustic and deep learning features, trained machine learning models.
result Achieved 0.75 AUC performance in detecting Parkinson's disease.
Clinical electroencephalographic (EEG) data varies significantly depending on a number of operational conditions (e.g., the type and placement of electrodes, the type of electrical grounding used). This investigation explores the statistical differences present in two different referential montages: Linked Ear (LE) and…
Sparse coding is an unsupervised learning algorithm that learns a succinct high-level representation of the inputs given only unlabeled data; it represents each input as a sparse linear combination of a set of basis functions. Originally applied to modeling the human visual cortex, sparse coding has also been shown to …
Recently, the connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model coupled with recurrent (RNN) or convolutional neural networks (CNN), made it easier to train speech recognition systems in an end-to-end fashion. However in real-valued models, time frame components such as mel-filter-bank energies and the cepstral coeffic…
This paper proposes a method for generating speech from filterbank mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), which are widely used in speech applications, such as ASR, but are generally considered unusable for speech synthesis. First, we predict fundamental frequency and voicing information from MFCCs with an autoreg…
The paper detects amateur drones using acoustic signals, overcoming interference.
problem Detection of unmonitored UAVs (amateur drones) for security and safety.
method Machine learning approach using Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for acoustic signal detection.
result The RMS values of PSD with KNN outperform other methods in detecting AmDr.
SCM-GAN converts any song to sound like a different singer.
problem Converting songs to sound like a different artist.
method Transfer learning and GANs to separate vocals and instruments, then convert and merge.
result SCM-GAN improves song conversion metrics by 35% GV and 13% MS.
Paper classifies movie genres using multimodal data.
problem Challenging task of multi-label movie genre classification.
method Created dataset from video clips, subtitles, synopses, and posters. Extracted features using various descriptors. Evaluated using different classifiers and late fusion strategy.
result Best F-Score result of 0.628 achieved by combining LSTM on synopses and CNN on movie trailer frames.
New method clusters infant vocalizations using topological data.
problem Clustering infant vocalizations for developmental analysis.
method Topologically augmented signal representation with Dirichlet process mixture model.
result 8 clusters of vocalizations identified in the first 12 months of life.
Improved neural network training for speech recognition using power-law nonlinearity and uniform distribution criterion.
problem Stability and uniformity of feature distribution in neural network training.
method Power-function based and histogram-based Maximum Uniformity of Distribution (MUD) algorithms.
result Power-function based MUD outperforms conventional MFCCs in speech recognition systems.
Paper optimizes KWS models using NAS and quantization for limited resources.
problem Developing efficient keyword spotting models in resource-constrained environments.
method Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for model structure optimization and quantization of weights and activations.
result Achieved high accuracy (95.55%) with minimal parameters and operations using NAS and quantization.
Deep-neural-network (DNN) based noise suppression systems yield significant improvements over conventional approaches such as spectral subtraction and non-negative matrix factorization, but do not generalize well to noise conditions they were not trained for. In comparison to DNNs, humans show remarkable noise suppress…
Starting from a dataset with input/output time series generated by multiple deterministic linear dynamical systems, this paper tackles the problem of automatically clustering these time series. We propose an extension to the so-called Martin cepstral distance, that allows to efficiently cluster these time series, and a…
Voice conversion (VC) aims at conversion of speaker characteristic without altering content. Due to training data limitations and modeling imperfections, it is difficult to achieve believable speaker mimicry without introducing processing artifacts; performance assessment of VC, therefore, usually involves both speaker…
This paper explores how different audio signal representations affect topological signatures and their predictive power.
problem The impact of different signal representations on topological signatures and their predictive power.
method The study compares three different signal representations (embedding, spectrogram, and spectrogram zeroes) and evaluates their topological signatures for speaker gender, vowel type, and individual prediction.
result Topological signatures from spectrogram zeroes offer the best improvement for gender prediction, and different representations are complementary.
Identifies features most relevant to concept drift in data.
problem Identifying features most relevant to concept drift.
method Distinguishing between drift inducing and faithfully drifting features; deriving minimal subsets of features to characterize drift.
result Derives a detection algorithm for concept drift.
New method evaluates feature interactions using orthogonal variance decomposition.
problem Feature selection fails to account for interactions between features.
method Orthogonal variance decomposition to evaluate feature subsets considering interactions.
result Our method accurately identifies relevant features and improves model accuracy.
Paper predicts EEG features from acoustic features using RNN and GAN.
problem Predicting EEG features from acoustic features.
method Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN).
result Lower RMSE and normalized RMSE values compared to generating acoustic features from EEG features.
Introduces RFI for assessing feature importance relative to any subset of features.
problem Lack of nuanced feature importance computation.
method Generalizes PFI and CFI to assess relative feature importance.
result Derives general interpretation rules for RFI.
A single pre-trained agent guides feature selection using knockoffs.
problem Feature selection challenges in AI-readiness of data.
method Generates knockoff features and uses reinforcement learning.
result Optimal feature subset identified with reduced dependency on target variable.
Feature networks link ML features via graph structure for enhanced learning.
problem Enhancing feature expressiveness and learning efficiency in machine learning.
method Graph representation of feature vectors, leveraging Fourier and functional analysis.
result Feature networks enable novel, complex feature dependencies.
Approach for selecting features by discarding nuisance and correlated ones.
problem Large datasets with correlated and nuisance features.
method Laplacian score criterion, autoencoder architecture, concrete layer.
result Outperforms similar approaches in clustering performance.
New stability measures for similar features improve feature selection accuracy.
problem Existing stability measures fail to distinguish similar features in highly correlated datasets.
method Introduce new adjusted stability measures that consider feature similarities.
result One new stability measure considers highly similar features as interchangeable.
Counterexamples show HSIC feature selection misses critical features.
problem Feature selection using HSIC misses important features.
method Feature selection via HSIC maximization.
result HSIC feature selection can miss critical features.
This paper shows feature importance remains valid even in low-performing models.
problem Feature importance validity in low-performing machine learning models for biomedical data.
method Experiments with synthetic and real biomedical datasets to compare feature rank stability under different data reductions.
result Feature importance can be maintained even at low performance levels if data size is adequate.
New algorithms select and rank features from MTS without feature extraction.
problem Feature extraction step for MTS classification.
method Directly computes similarity between time series and assesses cluster structure matching labels.
result Techniques match labels well without feature extraction.
Pipeline learns topological features for protein stability prediction.
problem Predicting protein stability using topological features.
method Data-driven method to learn topological features, comparing with expert features.
result Topological features achieve 92%-99% of SME-based models' performance.