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…
Paper proposes i-vector approach for NLI with improved accuracy.
problem Identifying a speaker's native language from speech in a second language.
method i-vector approach using MFCC and GFCC features.
result Improved accuracy in NLI system, especially with GFCC features.
Improved speech segment clustering using FTDTW.
problem Clustering speech segments of varying lengths and features.
method Feature Trajectory Dynamic Time Warping (FTDTW) for pairwise alignment of feature trajectories.
result Consistent and statistically significant improvements in cluster quality (F-measure and NMI).
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Improved ASR-free keyword spotting in under-resourced languages.
problem Dynamic time warping for keyword spotting in languages with limited resources.
method Multilingual bottleneck extractor and correspondence autoencoder integration.
result More than 11% absolute improvement in ROC AUC over MFCCs.
Speaker clustering is the task of differentiating speakers in a recording. In a way, the aim is to answer "who spoke when" in audio recordings. A common method used in industry is feature extraction directly from the recording thanks to MFCC features, and by using well-known techniques such as Gaussian Mixture Models (…
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.
Paper analyzes human vocal sentiment using various techniques.
problem Improving accuracy in emotion-level classification of human vocal expressions.
method Conventional vocal feature extraction, deep-learning approaches, context-level analysis, hyperparameter sweeps, data augmentation.
result Improved performance in emotion-level classification.
SwishNet improves speech, music, and noise classification and segmentation.
problem Speech, Music, and Noise classification/segmentation for audio processing.
method Proposes a fast and lightweight 1D CNN (SwishNet) for MFCC features, trained with knowledge distillation from ImageNet.
result Achieved high accuracy (>97% clip classification, >93% frame-wise segmentation) on MUSAN corpus.
This paper presents the Speech Technology Center (STC) systems submitted to Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures (ASVspoof) Challenge 2015. In this work we investigate different acoustic feature spaces to determine reliable and robust countermeasures against spoofing attacks. In addition to the c…
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…
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.
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.
Automatic feature extraction using neural networks has accomplished remarkable success for images, but for sound recognition, these models are usually modified to fit the nature of the multi-dimensional temporal representation of the audio signal in spectrograms. This may not efficiently harness the time-frequency repr…
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.
Paper uses CNNs to classify heart sounds from short segments.
problem Classifying heart sounds from short segments of individual beats.
method Developed a 1D-CNN and 2D-CNN ensemble for feature learning and score-level fusion.
result ECNN ensemble achieved 89.22% accuracy and 89.94% sensitivity on the PhysioNet CinC 2016 database.
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.
We consider multilingual bottleneck features (BNFs) for nearly zero-resource keyword spotting. This forms part of a United Nations effort using keyword spotting to support humanitarian relief programmes in parts of Africa where languages are severely under-resourced. We use 1920 isolated keywords (40 types, 34 minutes)…
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.
Synthetic speech data improves keyword spotting models with fewer real examples.
problem Training models for recognizing spoken keywords with limited real data.
method Used a pre-trained speech embedding model to extract features for training a small keyword spotting model.
result A model trained on synthetic speech data can detect 10 keywords with the same accuracy as a model trained on over 500 real examples.
This paper describes a novel energy-based probabilistic distribution that represents complex-valued data and explains how to apply it to direct feature extraction from complex-valued spectra. The proposed model, the complex-valued restricted Boltzmann machine (CRBM), is designed to deal with complex-valued visible unit…
In this paper we describe the recent advancements made in the IBM i-vector speaker recognition system for conversational speech. In particular, we identify key techniques that contribute to significant improvements in performance of our system, and quantify their contributions. The techniques include: 1) a nearest-neig…
Improves speech recognition in noisy environments using robust acoustic models.
problem Adverse environments with significant mismatch between training and test conditions.
method Theoretical analysis of data augmentation as vicinal risk minimization, using mixture of Gaussians to incorporate robust inductive bias.
result Waveform-based approach shows 150% relative improvement in out-of-distribution generalization.
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.
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.
CrossFilter tackles noisy labels in audio tagging.
problem Noisy labels in large audio datasets.
method CrossFilter framework using multiple representations and multi-task learning.
result Improves audio tagging performance on FSDKaggle2018 and FSDKaggle2019 datasets.
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.
FeAT improves OOD generalization by learning richer features.
problem Improving feature learning for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization.
method Feature Augmented Training (FeAT) iteratively augments and retains features from different subsets of training data.
result FeAT effectively learns richer features, boosting OOD performance.
In text classification, dictionaries can be used to define human-comprehensible features. We propose an improvement to dictionary features called smoothed dictionary features. These features recognize document contexts instead of n-grams. We describe a principled methodology to solicit dictionary features from a teache…
The paper defines and analyzes feature complexity in DNNs, proposing metrics for feature disentanglement and evaluation.
problem Understanding and quantifying the complexity of features learned by deep neural networks.
method Proposes a definition and disentanglement of feature complexity orders, introduces metrics for reliability and over-fitting evaluation.
result Establishes a relationship between feature complexity and DNN performance, and proposes a generic mathematical tool for network compression and knowledge distillation.