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Face recognition has advanced considerably with the availability of large-scale labeled datasets. However, how to further improve the performance with the easily accessible unlabeled dataset remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Haiming Yu , Yin Fan , Keyu Chen , He Yan , Xiangju Lu , Junhui Liu , Danming Xie

Deep neural networks have achieved outstanding performance over various tasks, but they have a critical issue: over-confident predictions even for completely unknown samples. Many studies have been proposed to successfully filter out these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Jihyo Kim , Jiin Koo , Sangheum Hwang

Ear recognition can be described as a revived scientific field. Ear biometrics were long believed to not be accurate enough and held a secondary place in scientific research, being seen as only complementary to other types of biometrics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos

Recently, ocular biometrics in unconstrained environments using images obtained at visible wavelength have gained the researchers' attention, especially with images captured by mobile devices. Periocular recognition has been demonstrated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Luiz A. Zanlorensi , Rayson Laroca , Diego R. Lucio , Lucas R. Santos , Alceu S. Britto , David Menotti

Speech classification has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications, particularly in classifying physical and mental states. However, these tasks are challenging due to the high variability in speech signals. Ensemble…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Felix Burkhardt

Biometric identification is a reliable method to verify individuals based on their unique physical or behavioral traits, offering a secure alternative to traditional methods like passwords or PINs. This study focuses on ear biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Youssef Mohamed , Zeyad Youssef , Ahmed Heakl , Ahmed Zaky

Silent speech decoding, which performs unvocalized human speech recognition from electroencephalography/electromyography (EEG/EMG), increases accessibility for speech-impaired humans. However, data collection is difficult and performed…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-18 Masakazu Inoue , Motoshige Sato , Kenichi Tomeoka , Nathania Nah , Eri Hatakeyama , Kai Arulkumaran , Ilya Horiguchi , Shuntaro Sasai

There has been a growing effort to develop universal speech enhancement (SE) to handle inputs with various speech distortions and recording conditions. The URGENT Challenge series aims to foster such universal SE by embracing a broad range…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kohei Saijo , Wangyou Zhang , Samuele Cornell , Robin Scheibler , Chenda Li , Zhaoheng Ni , Anurag Kumar , Marvin Sach , Yihui Fu , Wei Wang , Tim Fingscheidt , Shinji Watanabe

EEG decoding systems based on deep neural networks have been widely used in decision making of brain computer interfaces (BCI). Their predictions, however, can be unreliable given the significant variance and noise in EEG signals. Previous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Tiehang Duan , Zhenyi Wang , Sheng Liu , Sargur N. Srihari , Hui Yang

The ICASSP 2021 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important part of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Kusha Sridhar , Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Markus Loide , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Robert Aichner , Sriram Srinivasan

The capability for environmental sound recognition (ESR) can determine the fitness of individuals in a way to avoid dangers or pursue opportunities when critical sound events occur. It still remains mysterious about the fundamental…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Qiang Yu , Yanli Yao , Longbiao Wang , Huajin Tang , Jianwu Dang , Kay Chen Tan

Unconstrained text recognition is an important computer vision task, featuring a wide variety of different sub-tasks, each with its own set of challenges. One of the biggest promises of deep neural networks has been the convergence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Mohamed Yousef , Khaled F. Hussain , Usama S. Mohammed

Environmental sound classification (ESC) is a challenging problem due to the complexity of sounds. The ESC performance is heavily dependent on the effectiveness of representative features extracted from the environmental sounds. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Zhichao Zhang , Shugong Xu , Tianhao Qiao , Shunqing Zhang , Shan Cao

In this paper, we introduce a large-scale, controlled, and multi-platform object recognition dataset denoted as Challenging Unreal and Real Environments for Object Recognition (CURE-OR). In this dataset, there are 1,000,000 images of 100…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Dogancan Temel , Jinsol Lee , Ghassan AlRegib

Open-set face recognition describes a scenario where unknown subjects, unseen during the training stage, appear on test time. Not only it requires methods that accurately identify individuals of interest, but also demands approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Rafael Henrique Vareto , William Robson Schwartz

This study investigates the use of ear as a biometric for authentication and shows experimental results obtained on a newly created dataset of 420 images. Images are passed to a quality module in order to reduce False Rejection Rate. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Nazmeen Bibi Boodoo , R. K. Subramanian

Learning against label noise is a vital topic to guarantee a reliable performance for deep neural networks. Recent research usually refers to dynamic noise modeling with model output probabilities and loss values, and then separates clean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-13 Yingsong Huang , Bing Bai , Shengwei Zhao , Kun Bai , Fei Wang

Consider a regression problem where there is no labeled data and the only observations are the predictions $f_i(x_j)$ of $m$ experts $f_{i}$ over many samples $x_j$. With no knowledge on the accuracy of the experts, is it still possible to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-09 Omer Dror , Boaz Nadler , Erhan Bilal , Yuval Kluger

The use of EEG as a biometrics modality has been investigated for about a decade, however its feasibility in real-world applications is not yet conclusively established, mainly due to the issues with collectability and reproducibility. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Takashi Nakamura , Valentin Goverdovsky , Danilo P. Mandic

The number of end-to-end speech recognition models grows every year. These models are often adapted to new domains or languages resulting in a proliferation of expert systems that achieve great results on target data, while generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Igor Gitman , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Aleksandr Laptev , Boris Ginsburg