Deep learning system tracks stool consistency for GI disease assessment.
problem Lack of objective stool consistency measurements in chronic GI disease.
method Computer vision and deep convolutional neural networks (CNN).
result Developed a stool detection and tracking system.
Over 150,000 new people in the United States are diagnosed with colorectal cancer each year. Nearly a third die from it (American Cancer Society). The only approved noninvasive diagnosis tools currently involve fecal blood count tests (FOBTs) or stool DNA tests. Fecal blood count tests take only five minutes and are av…
This work draws inspiration from three important sources of research on dissimilarity-based clustering and intertwines those three threads into a consistent principled functorial theory of clustering. Those three are the overlapping clustering of Jardine and Sibson, the functorial approach of Carlsson and Mémoli to par…
Improved speech recognition using EEG and video.
problem Enhancing continuous speech recognition systems.
method Implemented a CTC-based ASR model using EEG features.
result EEG features improve continuous visual speech recognition.
Study shows emotion affects speaker recognition and vice versa.
problem Dependencies between emotion and speaker recognition.
method Transfer learning and fine-tuning for emotion classification.
result Fine-tuning improves emotion recognition performance by 30.40% on IEMOCAP, 7.99% on MSP-Podcast, and 8.61% on Crema-D.
With the recent renaissance of deep convolution neural networks, encouraging breakthroughs have been achieved on the supervised recognition tasks, where each class has sufficient training data and fully annotated training data. However, to scale the recognition to a large number of classes with few or now training samp…
End-to-end speech recognition using EEG without speech input.
problem Speech recognition without direct speech input.
method Implemented attention model and CTC-based ASR systems for EEG signals; fused EEG with noisy speech features.
result Demonstrated end-to-end speech recognition using EEG signals.
New proof for sphere recognition algorithm.
problem Sphere recognition algorithm proof.
method New proof of a lemma in Abigail Thompson's algorithm.
result New proof of a lemma in Abigail Thompson's proof of the Recognition Algorithm for 3-spheres.
Continuous speech recognition from brain activity without vocalization.
problem Recognizing silent speech from EEG signals.
method Implemented a CTC ASR model using EEG signals.
result Demonstrated feasibility of EEG for continuous silent speech recognition.
VoxCeleb 2019 challenge assesses speaker recognition in uncontrolled settings.
problem Evaluate speaker recognition technology in unconstrained data.
method Public dataset, challenge, and workshop at Interspeech 2019.
result Baseline results and discussions provided.
Paper proposes Roweisposes for 3D action recognition using generalized eigenvalue problem.
problem Need for basic methods in 3D action recognition.
method Roweisposes uses Roweis discriminant analysis for generalized subspace learning.
result Roweisposes is effective for 3D action recognition.
This is a survey article on recognition problem of frontal singularities. We specify geometrically several frontal singularities and then we solve the recognition problem of such singularities, giving explicit normal forms. We combine the recognition results by K. Saji and several arguments on openings, which was perfo…
Paper tackles zero-shot activity recognition using video features and text embeddings.
problem Zero-shot activity recognition with videos.
method Auto-encoder model for multimodal joint embedding, 3D convolutional action recognition for visual features, GloVe word embeddings for textual features.
result Improved zero-shot recognition results with top-n accuracy and mean Nearest Neighbor Overlap.
A new deep neural network improves short-speech recognition.
problem Improving speaker recognition for short-duration speech segments.
method Proposes UtterIdNet, a novel deep neural network architecture.
result Consistent and stable performance for short segments, especially sub-second durations.
Paper explores EEG-based speech recognition using transformers, showing faster training and better performance for smaller vocabularies.
problem Continuous speech recognition using EEG features.
method Transformer-based ASR model compared to RNN-based models.
result Transformer models perform better for smaller vocabularies but RNN models outperform them for larger vocabularies.
EmbraceNet fusion model for multi-sensor activity recognition.
problem Human activity recognition using multiple sensors is challenging.
method Independent processing of each sensor, feature fusion with EmbraceNet, post-processing, and additional processes.
result Improved performance in SHL recognition challenge.
Paper improves EEG-based speech recognition using CTC and beam search.
problem Improving continuous speech recognition from EEG signals.
method Implemented CTC-based ASR system, initialized weights, used external language model, studied articulatory feature prediction.
result Enhanced performance of EEG-based speech recognition systems.
TransFall uses transfer learning to improve activity recognition from mobile sensors.
problem Performance degradation due to platform and user movement differences.
method Two-tier data transformation, label estimation, and model generation layers.
result TransFall enhances activity recognition accuracy for new scenarios.
AV-CPL uses continuous pseudo-labels for AVSR combining labeled and unlabeled data.
problem Improving AVSR performance with labeled and unlabeled data.
method Semi-supervised method using continuous pseudo-labels generated by the same AVSR model.
result Significant improvements in VSR performance on LRS3 dataset.
Neural network framework for language recognition considers sequence information and improves accuracy.
problem Challenging task of automatic language identification in noisy conditions.
method Proposes a neural network framework with bidirectional LSTM and attention modeling for relevance weighting.
result Significant improvements over conventional methods in noisy conditions and multi-speaker speech.
The paper presents a recognition system for Pashto letters using KNN and ANN.
problem Challenging handwritten character recognition, especially for Pashto letters.
method Designed a database of 4488 images, used zoning feature extractor, KNN, and ANN classifiers.
result Achieved overall classification accuracy of 70.05% using KNN and 72% using ANN.
Fawkes protects images from unauthorized facial recognition models.
problem Unauthorized training of facial recognition models poses privacy risks.
method Fawkes adds imperceptible pixel-level changes (cloaks) to images before release.
result Fawkes can protect images from misidentification by 95% and 80% even when clean images are leaked.
Paper shows continuous speech recognition with EEG features, no speech input.
problem Continuous speech recognition with limited vocabulary and noisy/no speech input.
method Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) model, EEG features, new deep learning architecture.
result Continuous speech recognition achieved on limited vocabulary with noisy/no speech input.
Paper proposes a framework to protect user anonymity in emotion recognition.
problem Preserving user anonymity in face-based emotion recognition systems.
method Adversarial learning framework using CNN architecture.
result The proposed approach minimizes identity-specific information and maximizes emotion-dependent information.
Learned feature representations and sub-phoneme posteriors from Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been used separately to produce significant performance gains for speaker and language recognition tasks. In this work we show how these gains are possible using a single DNN for both speaker and language recognition. The u…
Study develops sign recognition system for DHH users.
problem Accessibility of voice-controlled devices for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing users.
method Multimodal data (RGB video and skeletal data) for sign language recognition using deep learning.
result Validation on GMUASL51 dataset of 12 users and 13107 samples across 51 signs.
Hybrid and end-to-end models compare in syllable recognition.
problem Comparing hybrid and end-to-end models for syllable recognition.
method Traditional hybrid system (kaldi) vs. end-to-end (TensorFlow) models.
result Hybrid models with explicit syllable knowledge outperform end-to-end models.
Random forest can be adapted for open-set recognition with improved performance.
problem Handling unknown classes in real-world classification tasks.
method Incorporating distance metric learning and distance-based open-set recognition into random forest.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art open-set recognition methods.
This paper presents a novel method for structural data recognition using a large number of graph models. In general, prevalent methods for structural data recognition have two shortcomings: 1) Only a single model is used to capture structural variation. 2) Naive recognition methods are used, such as the nearest neighbo…
Enhances 2D face recognition with 3D features using active illumination.
problem Improving robustness of 2D face recognition to spoofing attacks and low-light conditions.
method Projecting a high spatial frequency pattern onto the face to recover 3D information and a 2D image simultaneously.
result Significantly boosts face recognition performance and dramatically improves robustness to spoofing attacks.
We build CSI-Net, a unified Deep Neural Network~(DNN), to learn the representation of WiFi signals. Using CSI-Net, we jointly solved two body characterization problems: biometrics estimation (including body fat, muscle, water, and bone rates) and person recognition. We also demonstrated the application of CSI-Net on tw…
Improved speech emotion recognition using pre-trained language models.
problem Challenging task of speech emotion recognition for natural human-machine interaction.
method Fine-tuning pre-trained language models for text emotion recognition, combining with speech emotion recognition.
result 73.5% accuracy in speech emotion recognition on a subset of IEMOCAP dataset.
Proves NP and co-NP status for knot core recognition in solid torus.
problem Determining if a knot is the core of a solid torus.
method Alternate proof and corollary of Hopf link recognition problem.
result Proves NP and co-NP status for solid torus core recognition problem.
The performance of automatic speech recognition systems(ASR) degrades in the presence of noisy speech. This paper demonstrates that using electroencephalography (EEG) can help automatic speech recognition systems overcome performance loss in the presence of noise. The paper also shows that distillation training of auto…
Deep learning improves speaker recognition verification and identification.
problem Limited progress in speaker recognition for 5-6 years.
method Applied deep learning techniques in speaker verification and identification.
result Deep learning becomes the state-of-the-art solution for speaker recognition.
NIST CTS Superset offers a large dataset for telephony speaker recognition.
problem Lack of a large-scale, uniform dataset for telephony speaker recognition.
method Compilation of speech segments from multiple corpora, including Greybeard, Switchboard, and Mixer series.
result Results on the NIST 2020 CTS Speaker Recognition Challenge serve as a reference baseline.
Study proposes a decision tree for more accurate depression recognition in speech.
problem Subjective bias in traditional depression diagnosis methods.
method A novel speech segment fusion method based on decision tree.
result The proposed decision tree model improves depression classification performance.
FineHand learns hand shapes for better ASL recognition.
problem Difficult ASL recognition due to fast, articulate gestures.
method Combines manual and deep learning for hand shape embeddings, uses RNN for sequential gestures.
result Improved video gesture recognition accuracy on GMU-ASL51 benchmark.
A new approach to unsupervised learning using recognition-parametrised models.
problem Discovering meaningful latent structure in observational data.
method Recognition-Parametrised Model (RPM) combining parametric and non-parametric components.
result Effective learning of latent structure without explicit generative models.
Single neurons can perform as well as dense networks in binary and multi-class recognition tasks.
problem Designing efficient neural networks for recognition tasks.
method Investigated the use of single or multiple neurons in neural networks for binary and multi-class recognition tasks.
result Sparse networks can be as efficient as dense networks in both binary and multi-class tasks.
Project extends emotion recognition database and trains neural networks for categorical and dimensional emotions.
problem Understanding and recognizing emotions for human-computer interaction, safety, and medical research.
method Training CNN + RNN models with emotion category and valence/arousal representations, comparing three model types.
result Categorical emotion recognition performance improves with combined model training.
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is a recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture that has been designed to address the vanishing and exploding gradient problems of conventional RNNs. Unlike feedforward neural networks, RNNs have cyclic connections making them powerful for modeling sequences. They have been successfully u…
Personalized activity recognition improves performance for diverse users.
problem Poor performance of impersonal algorithms for individual users.
method Personalized activity recognition using deep embeddings from a fully convolutional neural network with triplet loss.
result Novel subject triplet loss provides the best performance overall.
Current UAV-recorded datasets are mostly limited to action recognition and object tracking, whereas the gesture signals datasets were mostly recorded in indoor spaces. Currently, there is no outdoor recorded public video dataset for UAV commanding signals. Gesture signals can be effectively used with UAVs by leveraging…
VoiceFilter-Lite separates speech from background in real-time for on-device speech recognition.
problem Separate speech from background in real-time for on-device speech recognition.
method Asymmetric loss, adaptive runtime suppression, quantization to 8-bit.
result VoiceFilter-Lite achieves real-time speech separation and maintains speech recognition performance.
Universal audio perturbations fool ASR systems.
problem Speech recognition systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
method Developed an algorithm to create universal perturbations that fool ASR models.
result Universal perturbations can fool ASR systems across different models.
We introduce an approach based on moving frames for polygon recognition and symmetry detection. We present detailed algorithms for recognition of polygons modulo the special Euclidean, Euclidean, equi-affine, skewed-affine and similarity Lie groups, and explain the procedure for a generic Lie group. The time complexity…
A framework uses deep learning for activity recognition in IoT devices.
problem Activity recognition in IoT devices without physical contact.
method Background subtraction followed by 3D-Convolutional Neural Networks.
result Enhanced activity recognition using small IoT devices.