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This paper introduces the second DIHARD challenge, the second in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variation in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Neville Ryant , Kenneth Church , Christopher Cieri , Alejandrina Cristia , Jun Du , Sriram Ganapathy , Mark Liberman

As the burden of respiratory diseases continues to fall on society worldwide, this paper proposes a high-quality and reliable dataset of human sounds for studying respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia and COVID-19. It consists of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Truong V. Hoang , Quang H. Nguyen , Cuong Q. Nguyen , Phong X. Nguyen , Hoang D. Nguyen

For this final year project, the goal is to add to the published works within data synthesis for health care. The end product of this project is a trained model that generates synthesized images that can be used to expand a medical dataset…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yahya Saleh

Physicians routinely assess respiratory sounds during the diagnostic process, providing insight into the condition of a patient's airways. In recent years, AI-based diagnostic systems operating on respiratory sounds, have demonstrated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Justin Luong , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

COVID-19 has affected more than 223 countries worldwide and in the Post-COVID Era, there is a pressing need for non-invasive, low-cost, and highly scalable solutions to detect COVID-19. We develop a deep learning model to identify COVID-19…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuyang Yan , Wafaa Aljbawi , Sami O. Simons , Visara Urovi

We seek to evaluate the detection performance of a rapid primary screening tool of Covid-19 solely based on the cough sound from 8,380 clinically validated samples with laboratory molecular-test (2,339 Covid-19 positives and 6,041 Covid-19…

Cough audio signal classification is a potentially useful tool in screening for respiratory disorders, such as COVID-19. Since it is dangerous to collect data from patients with such contagious diseases, many research teams have turned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Lara Orlandic , Tomas Teijeiro , David Atienza

COVID-19 is a global health crisis that has been affecting many aspects of our daily lives throughout the past year. The symptomatology of COVID-19 is heterogeneous with a severity continuum. A considerable proportion of symptoms are…

Phonation, or the vibration of the vocal folds, is the primary source of vocalization in the production of voiced sounds by humans. It is a complex bio-mechanical process that is highly sensitive to changes in the speaker's respiratory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Mahmoud Al Ismail , Soham Deshmukh , Rita Singh

Millions of people have died worldwide from COVID-19. In addition to its high death toll, COVID-19 has led to unbearable suffering for individuals and a huge global burden to the healthcare sector. Therefore, researchers have been trying to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Sudip Vhaduri , Seungyeon Paik , Jessica E Huber

This paper addresses the issue of cough detection using only audio recordings, with the ultimate goal of quantifying and qualifying the degree of pathology for patients suffering from respiratory diseases, notably mucoviscidosis. A large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Drugman , Jerome Urbain , Thierry Dutoit

In this paper, we describe an approach for representation learning of audio signals for the task of COVID-19 detection. The raw audio samples are processed with a bank of 1-D convolutional filters that are parameterized as cosine modulated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Debottam Dutta , Debarpan Bhattacharya , Sriram Ganapathy , Amir H. Poorjam , Deepak Mittal , Maneesh Singh

The Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the most devastating events in recent history, claiming the lives of more than 5 million people worldwide. Even with the worldwide distribution of vaccines, there is an apparent need for affordable,…

This technical report investigates the performance of pre-trained audio models on COVID-19 detection tasks using established benchmark datasets. We fine-tuned Audio-MAE and three PANN architectures (CNN6, CNN10, CNN14) on the Coswara and…

Monitoring of prevalent airborne diseases such as COVID-19 characteristically involves respiratory assessments. While auscultation is a mainstream method for preliminary screening of disease symptoms, its utility is hampered by the need for…

Using machine learning algorithms for the rapid diagnosis and detection of the COVID-19 pandemic and isolating the patients from crowded environments are very important to controlling the epidemic. This study aims to develop a point-of-care…

In the framework of assessing the pathology severity in chronic cough diseases, medical literature underlines the lack of tools for allowing the automatic, objective and reliable detection of cough events. This paper describes a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Thomas Drugman , Jerome Urbain , Nathalie Bauwens , Ricardo Chessini , Anne-Sophie Aubriot , Patrick Lebecque , Thierry Dutoit

Coughing is a typical symptom of COVID-19. To detect and localize coughing sounds remotely, a convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning model was developed in this work and integrated with a sound camera for the visualization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Gyeong-Tae Lee , Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Sang-Min Choi , Youngkey Kim , Yong-Hwa Park

Computer audition (CA) has been demonstrated to be efficient in healthcare domains for speech-affecting disorders (e.g., autism spectrum, depression, or Parkinson's disease) and body sound-affecting abnormalities (e. g., abnormal bowel…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Kun Qian , Bjorn W. Schuller , Yoshiharu Yamamoto

Cough is a common symptom of respiratory and lung diseases. Cough detection is important to prevent, assess and control epidemic, such as COVID-19. This paper proposes a model to detect cough events from cough audio signals. The models are…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xinru Chen , Menghan Hu , Guangtao Zhai