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The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of reliable, noninvasive diagnostic tools for robust public health interventions. In this work, we fused magnetic respiratory sensing technology (MRST) with machine learning (ML) to create a…

We introduce the first Natural Office Talkers in Settings of Far-field Audio Recordings (``NOTSOFAR-1'') Challenge alongside datasets and baseline system. The challenge focuses on distant speaker diarization and automatic speech recognition…

The ICASSP 2022 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important area of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication. This is the third AEC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Marju Purin , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Karsten Sørensen , Robert Aichner

Speech activity detection (or endpointing) is an important processing step for applications such as speech recognition, language identification and speaker diarization. Both audio- and vision-based approaches have been used for this task in…

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, understanding the characteristics of the virus has become an important and challenging task in the scientific community. While tests do exist for COVID-19, the goal of our research is to explore other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jacob Householder , Andrew Householder , John Paul Gomez-Reed , Fredrick Park , Shuai Zhang

Respiratory diseases are among the most common causes of severe illness and death worldwide. Prevention and early diagnosis are essential to limit or even reverse the trend that characterizes the diffusion of such diseases. In this regard,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-15 Diego Perna , Andrea Tagarelli

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most challenging healthcare crises during the 21st century. As the virus continues to spread on a global scale, the majority of efforts have been on the development of vaccines and the mass immunization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Meysam Effati , Yu-Chen Sun , Hani E. Naguib , Goldie Nejat

One of the most serious global health threat is COVID-19 pandemic. The emphasis on improving diagnosis and increasing the diagnostic capability helps stopping its spread significantly. Therefore, to assist the radiologist or other medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Khalfalla Awedat , Almabrok Essa

In the current times, the fear and danger of COVID-19 virus still stands large. Manual monitoring of social distancing norms is impractical with a large population moving about and with insufficient task force and resources to administer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Sahana Srinivasan , Rujula Singh R , Ruchita R Biradar , Revathi SA

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multi-speaker environments remains a significant challenge, particularly when systems conditioned on speaker embeddings fail to generalize to unseen speakers. In this work, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Alexander Polok , Dominik Klement , Martin Kocour , Jiangyu Han , Federico Landini , Bolaji Yusuf , Matthew Wiesner , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Jan Černocký , Lukáš Burget

Since the emergence of COVID-19, deep learning models have been developed to identify COVID-19 from chest X-rays. With little to no direct access to hospital data, the AI community relies heavily on public data comprising numerous data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Rachael Harkness , Geoff Hall , Alejandro F Frangi , Nishant Ravikumar , Kieran Zucker

This paper presents the details of Task 1A Acoustic Scene Classification in the DCASE 2021 Challenge. The task targeted development of low-complexity solutions with good generalization properties. The provided baseline system is based on a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Irene Martín-Morató , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Tuomas Virtanen

Controlling the COVID-19 pandemic largely hinges upon the existence of fast, safe, and highly-available diagnostic tools. Ultrasound, in contrast to CT or X-Ray, has many practical advantages and can serve as a globally-applicable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jannis Born , Nina Wiedemann , Gabriel Brändle , Charlotte Buhre , Bastian Rieck , Karsten Borgwardt

This paper presents a novel deep learning approach for analyzing massive underwater acoustic data by leveraging a model trained on a broad spectrum of non-underwater (aerial) sounds. Recognizing the challenge in labeling vast amounts of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jeongsoo Park , Dong-Gyun Han , Hyoung Sul La , Sangmin Lee , Yoonchang Han , Eun-Jin Yang

Radiological image is currently adopted as the visual evidence for COVID-19 diagnosis in clinical. Using deep models to realize automated infection measurement and COVID-19 diagnosis is important for faster examination based on radiological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Pengyi Zhang , Yunxin Zhong , Xiaoying Tang , Yunlin Deng , Xiaoqiong Li

This paper presents the objective, dataset, baseline, and metrics of Task 3 of the DCASE2025 Challenge on sound event localization and detection (SELD). In previous editions, the challenge used four-channel audio formats of first-order…

The COVID-19 pandemic has profound global consequences on health, economic, social, political, and almost every major aspect of human life. Therefore, it is of great importance to model COVID-19 and other pandemics in terms of the broader…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Geoffrey C. Fox , Gregor von Laszewski , Fugang Wang , Saumyadipta Pyne

Mosquito-borne diseases affect more than one billion people each year and cause close to one million deaths. Traditional surveillance methods rely on traps and manual identification that are slow, labor-intensive, and difficult to scale.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Yuanbo Hou , Vanja Zdravkovic , Marianne Sinka , Yunpeng Li , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Kathy Willis , Stephen Roberts

We present CovidQA, the beginnings of a question answering dataset specifically designed for COVID-19, built by hand from knowledge gathered from Kaggle's COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge. To our knowledge, this is the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Raphael Tang , Rodrigo Nogueira , Edwin Zhang , Nikhil Gupta , Phuong Cam , Kyunghyun Cho , Jimmy Lin

Purpose: Accurate segmentation of lung and infection in COVID-19 CT scans plays an important role in the quantitative management of patients. Most of the existing studies are based on large and private annotated datasets that are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Jun Ma , Yixin Wang , Xingle An , Cheng Ge , Ziqi Yu , Jianan Chen , Qiongjie Zhu , Guoqiang Dong , Jian He , Zhiqiang He , Yuntao Zhu , Ziwei Nie , Xiaoping Yang