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Transcription of aviation communications has several applications, from assisting air traffic controllers in identifying the accuracy of read-back errors to search and rescue operations. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Shokoufeh Mirzaei , Jesse Arzate , Yukti Vijay

Automatic spoken instruction understanding (SIU) of the controller-pilot conversations in the air traffic control (ATC) requires not only recognizing the words and semantics of the speech but also determining the role of the speaker.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Dongyue Guo , Jianwei Zhang , Bo Yang , Yi Lin

Accurate recognition of aviation commands is vital for flight safety and efficiency, as pilots must follow air traffic control instructions precisely. This paper addresses challenges in speech command recognition, such as noisy environments…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yuanxi Lin , Tonglin Zhou , Yang Xiao

Pilot readback of Air Traffic Control (ATC) voice instructions is a primary safeguard against miscommunication in air transportation. However, readback anomalies remain implicated in approximately 80% of aviation incidents. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Qihan Deng , Minghua Zhang , Yang Yang , Zhenyu Gao

This paper describes a simple yet efficient repetition-based modular system for speeding up air-traffic controllers (ATCos) training. E.g., a human pilot is still required in EUROCONTROL's ESCAPE lite simulator (see…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Amrutha Prasad , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Petr Motlicek , Saeed Sarfjoo , Iuliia Nigmatulina , Karel Vesely

Many road accidents occur due to drivers failing to read sign board due to various reasons. Especially at night, the tiredness of driver reduces his perception to small things like speed limit of sign the board, curve ahead sign board. For…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Gangadhar , Parimala Prabhakar , Abhishek S , Prajwal , Suraj Naik

In this paper, a multilingual end-to-end framework, called as ATCSpeechNet, is proposed to tackle the issue of translating communication speech into human-readable text in air traffic control (ATC) systems. In the proposed framework, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yi Lin , Bo Yang , Linchao Li , Dongyue Guo , Jianwei Zhang , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang

Accurate estimation of aircraft operations, such as takeoffs and landings, is critical for effective airport management, yet remains challenging, especially at non-towered facilities lacking dedicated surveillance infrastructure. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Abdullah All Tanvir , Chenyu Huang , Moe Alahmad , Chuyang Yang , Xin Zhong

Dense and complex air traffic scenarios require higher levels of automation than those exhibited by tactical conflict detection and resolution (CD\&R) tools that air traffic controllers (ATCO) use today. However, the air traffic control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-16 George Vouros , George Papadopoulos , Alevizos Bastas , Jose Manuel Cordero , Ruben Rodrigez Rodrigez

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted networks are increasingly foreseen as a promising approach for emergency response, providing rapid, flexible, and resilient communications in environments where terrestrial infrastructure is degraded…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Nuno Saavedra , Pedro Ribeiro , André Coelho , Rui Campos

The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) protocol is increasingly being adopted by the aviation industry as a method for aircraft to relay their position to Air Traffic Control (ATC) monitoring systems. ADS-B provides greater…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Christopher Neal , Jean-Yves De Miceli , David Barrera , José Fernandez

Air traffic trajectory recognition has gained significant interest within the air traffic management community, particularly for fundamental tasks such as classification and clustering. This paper introduces Aircraft Trajectory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Thaweerath Phisannupawong , Joshua Julian Damanik , Han-Lim Choi

In the domain of air traffic control (ATC) systems, efforts to train a practical automatic speech recognition (ASR) model always faces the problem of small training samples since the collection and annotation of speech samples are expert-…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yi Lin , Qin Li , Bo Yang , Zhen Yan , Huachun Tan , Zhengmao Chen

Air traffic control (ATC) is a safety-critical service system that demands constant attention from ground air traffic controllers (ATCos) to maintain daily aviation operations. The workload of the ATCos can have negative effects on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yutian Pang , Jueming Hu , Christopher S. Lieber , Nancy J. Cooke , Yongming Liu

Training automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems requires large amounts of well-curated paired data. However, human annotators usually perform "non-verbatim" transcription, which can result in poorly trained models. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Dongji Gao , Hainan Xu , Desh Raj , Leibny Paola Garcia Perera , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Traffic signs recognition (TSR) plays an essential role in assistant driving and intelligent transportation system. However, the noise of complex environment may lead to motion-blur or occlusion problems, which raise the tough challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zhenghao Xi , Yuchao Shao , Yang Zheng , Xiang Liu , Yaqi Liu , Yitong Cai

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) aims to develop systems capable of describing an audio recording using a textual sentence. In contrast, Audio-Text Retrieval (ATR) systems seek to find the best matching audio recording(s) for a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Etienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini , Julien Pinquier

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in designing small-footprint yet effective Connectionist Temporal Classification based keyword spotting (CTC-KWS) systems. They are typically deployed on low-resource computing platforms,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Yu Xi , Haoyu Li , Hao Li , Jiaqi Guo , Xu Li , Wen Ding , Kai Yu

Recent dialogue systems rely on turn-based spoken interactions, requiring accurate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Errors in ASR can significantly impact downstream dialogue tasks. To address this, using dialogue context from user and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Wonjun Lee , San Kim , Gary Geunbae Lee

Recently, deep end-to-end learning has been studied for intent classification in Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). However, end-to-end models require a large amount of speech data with intent labels, and highly optimized models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Suyoung Kim , Jiyeon Hwang , Ho-Young Jung