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Obtaining meaningful quality scores for machine translation systems through human evaluation remains a challenge given the high variability between human evaluators, partly due to subjective expectations for translation quality for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Daniel Licht , Cynthia Gao , Janice Lam , Francisco Guzman , Mona Diab , Philipp Koehn

Self-supervised learning (SSL) leverages large datasets of unlabeled speech to reach impressive performance with reduced amounts of annotated data. The high number of proposed approaches fostered the emergence of comprehensive benchmarks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Salah Zaiem , Youcef Kemiche , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid , Mirco Ravanelli

It is crucial to distinguish mislabeled samples for dealing with noisy labels. Previous methods such as Coteaching and JoCoR introduce two different networks to select clean samples out of the noisy ones and only use these clean ones to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Rumeng Yi , Yaping Huang

Research in the past several years has boosted the performance of automatic speaker verification systems and countermeasure systems to deliver low Equal Error Rates (EERs) on each system. However, research on joint optimization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zhongwei Teng , Quchen Fu , Jules White , Maria E. Powell , Douglas C. Schmidt

We target the problem of developing new low-complexity networks for the sound event detection task. Our goal is to meticulously analyze the performance-complexity trade-off, aiming to be competitive with the large state-of-the-art models,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tobias Morocutti , Florian Schmid , Jonathan Greif , Francesco Foscarin , Gerhard Widmer

Attention mechanisms in biological perception are thought to select subsets of perceptual information for more sophisticated processing which would be prohibitive to perform on all sensory inputs. In computer vision, however, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mateusz Malinowski , Carl Doersch , Adam Santoro , Peter Battaglia

We study the capabilities of speech processing systems trained simply to predict large amounts of transcripts of audio on the internet. When scaled to 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervision, the resulting models generalize…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Alec Radford , Jong Wook Kim , Tao Xu , Greg Brockman , Christine McLeavey , Ilya Sutskever

Risk assessment tools are widely used around the country to inform decision making within the criminal justice system. Recently, considerable attention has been devoted to the question of whether such tools may suffer from racial bias. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-01 Riccardo Fogliato , Max G'Sell , Alexandra Chouldechova

In this paper we describe the top-scoring IDLab submission for the text-independent task of the Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) Challenge 2020. The main difficulty of the challenge exists in the large degree of varying phonetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Kris Demuynck

Keyword spotting (KWS) and speaker verification (SV) have been studied independently although it is known that acoustic and speaker domains are complementary. In this paper, we propose a multi-task network that performs KWS and SV…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Myunghun Jung , Youngmoon Jung , Jahyun Goo , Hoirin Kim

Speaker verification systems experience significant performance degradation when tasked with short-duration trial recordings. To address this challenge, a multi-scale feature fusion approach has been proposed to effectively capture speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Junjie Li

Human voices can be used to authenticate the identity of the speaker, but the automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are vulnerable to voice spoofing attacks, such as impersonation, replay, text-to-speech, and voice conversion.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 You Zhang , Fei Jiang , Zhiyao Duan

Speaker verification at large scale remains an open challenge as fixed-margin losses treat all samples equally regardless of quality. We hypothesize that mislabeled or degraded samples introduce noisy gradients that disrupt compact speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Massa Baali , Sarthak Bisht , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

HOI detection has long been dominated by task-specific models, sometimes with early vision-language backbones such as CLIP. With the rise of large generative VLMs, a key question is whether standalone VLMs can perform HOI detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Qinqian Lei , Bo Wang , Robby T. Tan

As software systems grow in scale and complexity, understanding the distribution of programming language topics within source code becomes increasingly important for guiding technical decisions, improving onboarding, and informing tooling…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Michael Zhang , Yuan Tian , Mariam Guizani

Cross-lingual self-supervised learning has been a growing research topic in the last few years. However, current works only explored the use of audio signals to create representations. In this work, we study cross-lingual self-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andreas Zinonos , Alexandros Haliassos , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

This paper proposes a multi-task learning network with phoneme-aware and channel-wise attentive learning strategies for text-dependent Speaker Verification (SV). In the proposed structure, the frame-level multi-task learning along with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yan Liu , Zheng Li , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have been evolving quickly and reaching human parity in certain cases. The systems usually perform pretty well on reading style and clean speech, however, most of the available systems suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Quang Minh Nguyen , Thai Binh Nguyen , Ngoc Phuong Pham , The Loc Nguyen

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

The spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) challenge was designed to promote the study of jointly-optimised solutions to accomplish the traditionally separately-optimised tasks of spoofing detection and speaker verification.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Wanying Ge , Hemlata Tak , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans