This paper proposes a new method for an optimized mapping of temporal variables, describing a temporal stream data, into the recently proposed NeuCube spiking neural network architecture. This optimized mapping extends the use of the NeuCube, which was initially designed for spatiotemporal brain data, to work on arbitr…
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We explore a framework called boosted Markov networks to combine the learning capacity of boosting and the rich modeling semantics of Markov networks and applying the framework for video-based activity recognition. Importantly, we extend the framework to incorporate hidden variables. We show how the framework can be ap…
We propose Graphical Generative Adversarial Networks (Graphical-GAN) to model structured data. Graphical-GAN conjoins the power of Bayesian networks on compactly representing the dependency structures among random variables and that of generative adversarial networks on learning expressive dependency functions. We intr…
New method finds sparse groups of input variables for neural networks.
problem Finding optimal groups of input variables for neural networks.
method Developed a new loss function and optimization algorithm for multi-layer non-linear neural networks to achieve group sparsity.
result Achieved group sparsity in three real-world datasets, improving model performance and excluding a significant number of variables.
This study provides benchmarks for different implementations of LSTM units between the deep learning frameworks PyTorch, TensorFlow, Lasagne and Keras. The comparison includes cuDNN LSTMs, fused LSTM variants and less optimized, but more flexible LSTM implementations. The benchmarks reflect two typical scenarios for au…
Paper proposes a new HMM approach for better action recognition.
problem Capturing complex temporal dependency patterns in skeleton-based actions.
method Introduces a hierarchical HMM with a latent variable layer for dynamic inference.
result Proposed approach effectively models complex sequential data and handles missing values.
An Investigation Into On-device Personalization of End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition Modelseess.AS
Mobile training improves speech recognition for users with unique speech characteristics.
problem Limited generalization of speaker-independent speech recognition models for users with very different speech characteristics.
method Securely training personalized end-to-end speech recognition models on mobile devices, splitting gradient computation to reduce memory usage.
result On-device personalization achieved 58.1% relative word error rate reduction compared to 63.7% in a server environment, with 18.7% performance degradation.
The problem of identifying voice commands has always been a challenge due to the presence of noise and variability in speed, pitch, etc. We will compare the efficacies of several neural network architectures for the speech recognition problem. In particular, we will build a model to determine whether a one second audio…
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.
This paper benchmarks speech LVMs against deterministic models and adapts a video model to speech.
problem Speech generation models are inferior to deterministic models.
method Developed a speech benchmark of LVMs and compared them against deterministic models.
result The Clockwork VAE outperforms previous LVMs and reduces the gap to deterministic models.
Bayesian method improves neural net convergence for character recognition.
problem Improving convergence rate of neural network training algorithms.
method Customization of Kalman filter into Bayesian statistics for initialization of weights.
result Improved convergence rate for backpropagation training algorithm.
We introduce a new approach to learning in hierarchical latent-variable generative models called the "distributed distributional code Helmholtz machine", which emphasises flexibility and accuracy in the inferential process. In common with the original Helmholtz machine and later variational autoencoder algorithms (but …
Master thesis applies deep learning to sEMG hand gesture recognition, improving accuracy.
problem Reliability issues in sEMG-based hand gesture recognition due to motion artefacts and variability.
method Used deep learning on Unibo-INAIL dataset, collecting data over 8 sessions of 7 subjects.
result Deep learning architecture yields 81.2% inter-posture test accuracy and 75.9% inter-day test accuracy.
The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can be significantly compromised by previously unseen conditions, which is typically due to a mismatch between training and testing distributions. In this paper, we address robustness by studying domain invariant features, such that domain information become…
Visual perception is a challenging problem in part due to illumination variations. A possible solution is to first estimate an illumination invariant representation before using it for recognition. The object albedo and surface normals are examples of such representations. In this paper, we introduce a multilayer gener…
Paper extends ICA to ISA with auxiliary variables for better speech representation learning.
problem Learning unsupervised speech representations with independent subspaces.
method Theoretical framework of nonlinear ISA with auxiliary variables.
result Proposes an algorithm to learn speech representations with independent subspaces.
This paper addresses the problem of emotion recognition from physiological signals. Features are extracted and ranked based on their effect on classification accuracy. Different classifiers are compared. The inter-subject variability and the personalization effect are thoroughly investigated, through trial-based and su…
This paper considers the problem of recognizing eating gestures by tracking wrist motion. Eating gestures can have large variability in motion depending on the subject, utensil, and type of food or beverage being consumed. Previous works have shown viable proofs-of-concept of recognizing eating gestures in laboratory s…
This research explores a modified VAE model to learn disentangled representations for object recognition.
problem Learning invariant representations for object recognition from diverse appearances.
method Develops a modified Variational Autoencoder (-VAE) to enforce disentangled representations using variational inference.
result Demonstrates that the incompatibility between -VAE's conditional independence and latent variable independence leads to non-monotonic inference performance.
The problem of finding a reduced dimensionality representation of categorical variables while preserving their most relevant characteristics is fundamental for the analysis of complex data. Specifically, given a co-occurrence matrix of two variables, one often seeks a compact representation of one variable which preser…
Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems need to be robust under acoustic variability arising from environmental, speaker, channel, and recording conditions. Ensuring such robustness to variability is a challenge in modern day neural network-based ASR systems, especially when all types of variability are not s…
Time Adaptive Gaussian Modelstat.ML
TAGM models time-varying connections between variables.
problem Inferring temporal relationships between covariates.
method Time Adaptive Gaussian Model (TAGM) using Hidden Markov Models and Gaussian Graphical Models.
result TAGM outperforms state-of-the-art methods for temporal network inference.
There has recently been significant interest in hard attention models for tasks such as object recognition, visual captioning and speech recognition. Hard attention can offer benefits over soft attention such as decreased computational cost, but training hard attention models can be difficult because of the discrete la…
Classification of sequence data is the topic of interest for dynamic Bayesian models and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). While the former can explicitly model the temporal dependencies between class variables, the latter have a capability of learning representations. Several attempts have been made to improve perform…
T-PSDA improves speaker recognition accuracy on toroidal submanifolds.
problem Improving speaker recognition accuracy on hypersphere embeddings.
method Extends PSDA to model within and between-speaker variabilities in toroidal submanifolds of the hypersphere.
result T-PSDA achieves accuracy on par with cosine scoring on VoxCeleb and large accuracy gains on NIST SRE'21.
In emotion recognition, it is difficult to recognize human's emotional states using just a single modality. Besides, the annotation of physiological emotional data is particularly expensive. These two aspects make the building of effective emotion recognition model challenging. In this paper, we first build a multi-vie…
Historical documents present many challenges for offline handwriting recognition systems, among them, the segmentation and labeling steps. Carefully annotated textlines are needed to train an HTR system. In some scenarios, transcripts are only available at the paragraph level with no text-line information. In this work…
In some speaker recognition scenarios we find conversations recorded simultaneously over multiple channels. That is the case of the interviews in the NIST SRE dataset. To take advantage of that, we propose a modification of the PLDA model that considers two different inter-session variability terms. The first term is t…
Deep Neural Networks for Automatic Speech Processing: A Survey from Large Corpora to Limited Dataeess.AS
Survey on DNNs for speech processing, focusing on limited data challenges.
problem Challenges in training DNNs for speech tasks with limited data.
method Overview of techniques for few-shot speech processing.
result Promising few-shot techniques for speech processing.
The past several years have seen both an explosion in the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and the design of accelerators to make CNN inference practical. In the architecture community, the lion share of effort has targeted CNN inference for image recognition. The closely related problem of video recognition…
New method improves fairness of facial recognition systems.
problem Facial recognition systems exhibit bias across different demographic groups.
method Optimizes centroid-based scores to reduce bias in pre-trained models.
result Demonstrates significant improvement in fairness with minimal loss in accuracy.
Unified framework improves cross-corpus EEG emotion recognition by aligning prototypes and refining decision boundaries.
problem Cross-corpus EEG emotion recognition suffers from performance degradation due to physiological variability and device inconsistencies.
method Prototype-driven Adversarial Alignment (PAA) framework with three configurations: local, contrastive, and boundary-aware.
result State-of-the-art performance improvements across four cross-corpus evaluation protocols.
A Controlled Set-Up Experiment to Establish Personalized Baselines for Real-Life Emotion Recognitionstat.ML
We design, conduct and present the results of a highly personalized baseline emotion recognition experiment, which aims to set reliable ground-truth estimates for the subject's emotional state for real-life prediction under similar conditions using a small number of physiological sensors. We also propose an adaptive st…
We marry ideas from deep neural networks and approximate Bayesian inference to derive a generalised class of deep, directed generative models, endowed with a new algorithm for scalable inference and learning. Our algorithm introduces a recognition model to represent approximate posterior distributions, and that acts as…
Two-stage neural network for few-shot image recognition.
problem Few-shot image recognition for novel categories.
method Multi-layer neural network with feature extraction and classification stages.
result Competitive performance on four standard datasets.
DUPLE tackles cross-deployment recognition in fiber-optic perimeter security with meta-learning.
problem Cross-deployment recognition challenges in fiber-optic perimeter security due to label scarcity and distribution shifts.
method DUPLE employs statistically guided meta-learning to enhance recognition robustness across unseen deployments.
result DUPLE consistently outperforms traditional and meta-learning baselines in cross-deployment DFOS benchmarks.
We present the recent advances along with an error analysis of the IBM speaker recognition system for conversational speech. Some of the key advancements that contribute to our system include: a nearest-neighbor discriminant analysis (NDA) approach (as opposed to LDA) for intersession variability compensation in the i-…
The problem of domain generalization is to take knowledge acquired from a number of related domains where training data is available, and to then successfully apply it to previously unseen domains. We propose a new feature learning algorithm, Multi-Task Autoencoder (MTAE), that provides good generalization performance …
Adaptive feature normalization improves model robustness to extraneous variables.
problem Degrading model performance due to extraneous variables in deep learning.
method Adaptive feature normalization using instance normalization instead of batch normalization.
result Adaptive normalization leads to significant performance gains across different datasets and architectures.
New approach predicts under latent shifts using high-dimensional images.
problem Prediction under latent subgroup shifts with high-dimensional observations.
method Recognition-parametrised model (RPM) for identifying causal latent structure.
result Successfully adapts predictions for high-dimensional image data.
Latent variable models can be used to probabilistically "fill-in" missing data entries. The variational autoencoder architecture (Kingma and Welling, 2014; Rezende et al., 2014) includes a "recognition" or "encoder" network that infers the latent variables given the data variables. However, it is not clear how to handl…
Radio frequency (RF) sensors are used alongside other sensing modalities to provide rich representations of the world. Given the high variability of complex-valued target responses, RF systems are susceptible to attacks masking true target characteristics from accurate identification. In this work, we evaluate differen…
Pairwise quantile regression tackles similarity scoring in biometric systems.
problem Analyzing errors in similarity scoring for facial recognition.
method Established theoretical guarantees for pairwise quantile regression solutions, leveraging sharp concentration results for -processes.
result Proved generalization bounds and identified conditions for fast learning rates.
Amortized inference allows latent-variable models trained via variational learning to scale to large datasets. The quality of approximate inference is determined by two factors: a) the capacity of the variational distribution to match the true posterior and b) the ability of the recognition network to produce good vari…
Deep convolutional neural networks have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance on a number of image recognition benchmarks, including the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC-2012). The winning model on the localization sub-task was a network that predicts a single bounding box and a confid…
Classification and Geometry of General Perceptual Manifoldscond-mat.dis-nn
Perceptual manifolds arise when a neural population responds to an ensemble of sensory signals associated with different physical features (e.g., orientation, pose, scale, location, and intensity) of the same perceptual object. Object recognition and discrimination requires classifying the manifolds in a manner that is…
Leveraging Deep Neural Network Activation Entropy to cope with Unseen Data in Speech Recognitioncs.LG
Unseen data conditions can inflict serious performance degradation on systems relying on supervised machine learning algorithms. Because data can often be unseen, and because traditional machine learning algorithms are trained in a supervised manner, unsupervised adaptation techniques must be used to adapt the model to…
Method identifies variable matches from data values.
problem Identifying same variables from different datasets.
method Deep embeddings of datasets adaptively account for data variation.
result Method outperforms standard statistical techniques.