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Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) for supervised learning can be viewed as a pipeline of a feature extractor (i.e. last hidden layer) and a linear classifier (i.e. output layer) that is trained jointly with stochastic gradient descent (SGD). In…
We improve the recently developed Neural DUDE, a neural network-based adaptive discrete denoiser, by combining it with the supervised learning framework. Namely, we make the supervised pre-training of Neural DUDE compatible with the…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) fail to learn effectively under label noise and have been shown to memorize random labels which affect their generalization performance. We consider learning in isolation, using one-hot encoded labels as the sole…
While deep neural networks have shown impressive results in automatic speaker recognition and related tasks, it is dissatisfactory how little is understood about what exactly is responsible for these results. Part of the success has been…
Single-channel speech enhancement with deep neural networks (DNNs) has shown promising performance and is thus intensively being studied. In this paper, instead of applying the mean squared error (MSE) as the loss function during DNN…
Speakers tend to engage in adaptive behavior, known as entrainment, when they become similar to their interlocutor in various aspects of speaking. We present an unsupervised deep learning framework that derives meaningful representation…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have found applications in diverse signal processing (SP) problems. Most efforts either directly adopt the DNN as a black-box approach to perform certain SP tasks without taking into account of any known…
We address the problem of reconstructing sparse signals from noisy and compressive measurements using a feed-forward deep neural network (DNN) with an architecture motivated by the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (ISTA). We…
As for the humanoid robots, the internal noise, which is generated by motors, fans and mechanical components when the robot is moving or shaking its body, severely degrades the performance of the speech recognition accuracy. In this paper,…
In this paper, various structures and methods of Deep Artificial Neural Networks (DNN) will be evaluated and compared for the purpose of continuous Persian speech recognition. One of the first models of neural networks used in speech…
We study the performance of stochastically trained deep neural networks (DNNs) whose synaptic weights are implemented using emerging memristive devices that exhibit limited dynamic range, resolution, and variability in their programming…
Deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement algorithms in microphone arrays have now proven to be efficient solutions to speech understanding and speech recognition in noisy environments. However, in the context of ad-hoc microphone…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have delivered a remarkable performance in many tasks of computer vision. However, over-parameterized representations of popular architectures dramatically increase their computational complexity and storage…
In this paper we propose to use utterance-level Permutation Invariant Training (uPIT) for speaker independent multi-talker speech separation and denoising, simultaneously. Specifically, we train deep bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory…
We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for speech recognition that explicitly employs knowledge of the background environmental noise within a deep neural network acoustic model. A deep neural network is used to predict the…
Sparse neural networks have been widely applied to reduce the computational demands of training and deploying over-parameterized deep neural networks. For inference acceleration, methods that discover a sparse network from a pre-trained…
In this work, we theoretically investigate the generalization properties of neural networks (NN) trained by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm with large learning rates. Under such a training regime, our finding is that, the…
This paper demonstrates two novel methods to estimate the global SNR of speech signals. In both methods, Deep Neural Network-Hidden Markov Model (DNN-HMM) acoustic model used in speech recognition systems is leveraged for the additional…
In PET, the amount of relative (signal-dependent) noise present in different body regions can be significantly different and is inherently related to the number of counts present in that region. The number of counts in a region depends, in…