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In the realm of digital audio processing, Voice Activity Detection (VAD) plays a pivotal role in distinguishing speech from non-speech elements, a task that becomes increasingly complex in noisy environments. This paper details the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Joshua Ball

Sociometric badges are an emerging technology for study how teams interact in physical places. Audio data recorded by sociometric badges is often downsampled to not record discussions of the sociometric badges holders. To gain more…

In a speech recognition system, voice activity detection (VAD) is a crucial frontend module. Addressing the issues of poor noise robustness in traditional binary VAD systems based on DFSMN, the paper further proposes semantic VAD based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Lingyun Zuo , Keyu An , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) in the presence of background noise remains a challenging problem in speech processing. Accurate VAD is essential in automatic speech recognition, voice-to-text, conversational agents, etc, where noise can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl , Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad , Amin Edraki , Masoud Asgharian , Vahid Partovi Nia

With recent deep learning based approaches showing promising results in removing noise from images, the best denoising performance has been reported in a supervised learning setup that requires a large set of paired noisy images and ground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Rihuan Ke

In this paper, we propose a state-of-the-art video denoising algorithm based on a convolutional neural network architecture. Previous neural network based approaches to video denoising have been unsuccessful as their performance cannot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Matias Tassano , Julie Delon , Thomas Veit

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) refers to the problem of distinguishing speech segments from background noise. Numerous approaches have been proposed for this purpose. Some are based on features derived from the power spectral density,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Thomas Drugman , Yannis Stylianou , Yusuke Kida , Masami Akamine

In this paper we demonstrate that performance of voice activity detection (VAD) system operating in presence of background noise can be improved by concatenating acoustic input features with electroencephalography (EEG) features. We also…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Yan Han , Ahmed H Tewfik

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

Observational studies are based on accurate assessment of human state. A behavior recognition system that models interlocutors' state in real-time can significantly aid the mental health domain. However, behavior recognition from speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Haoqi Li , Brian Baucom , Panayiotis Georgiou

In this paper, we propose a state-of-the-art video denoising algorithm based on a convolutional neural network architecture. Until recently, video denoising with neural networks had been a largely under explored domain, and existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Matias Tassano , Julie Delon , Thomas Veit

Visual voice activity detection (V-VAD) uses visual features to predict whether a person is speaking or not. V-VAD is useful whenever audio VAD (A-VAD) is inefficient either because the acoustic signal is difficult to analyze or because it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Sylvain Guy , Stéphane Lathuilière , Pablo Mesejo , Radu Horaud

We propose a novel voice activity detection (VAD) model in a low-resource environment. Our key idea is to model VAD as a denoising task, and construct a network that is designed to identify nuisance features for a speech classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Jonathan Svirsky , Ofir Lindenbaum

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of computer vision tasks, where massive labeled images are routinely required for model optimization. Yet, the data collected from the open world are unavoidably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Peng Cui , Yang Yue , Zhijie Deng , Jun Zhu

Activity recognition has become a popular research branch in the field of pervasive computing in recent years. A large number of experiments can be obtained that activity sensor-based data's characteristic in activity recognition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Li Xue , Si Xiandong , Nie Lanshun , Li Jiazhen , Ding Renjie , Zhan Dechen , Chu Dianhui

A deep learning approach to blind denoising of images without complete knowledge of the noise statistics is considered. We propose DN-ResNet, which is a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) consisting of several residual blocks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Haoyu Ren , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Deep neural networks (DNN) techniques have become pervasive in domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. They have achieved great success in these domains in task such as machine translation and image generation. Due…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Peter Ochieng

This paper describes a preliminary investigation of Voice Pathology Detection using Deep Neural Networks (DNN). We used voice recordings of sustained vowel /a/ produced at normal pitch from German corpus Saarbruecken Voice Database (SVD).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Pavol Harar , Jesus B. Alonso-Hernandez , Jiri Mekyska , Zoltan Galaz , Radim Burget , Zdenek Smekal

Estimating time-frequency domain masks for speech enhancement using deep learning approaches has recently become a popular field of research. In this paper, we propose a mask-based speech enhancement framework by using concatenated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

Deep learning based methods hold state-of-the-art results in low-level image processing tasks, but remain difficult to interpret due to their black-box construction. Unrolled optimization networks present an interpretable alternative to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Nikola Janjušević , Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani , Yao Wang