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Automatic sleep staging plays a vital role in assessing sleep quality and diagnosing sleep disorders. Most existing methods rely heavily on long and continuous EEG recordings, which poses significant challenges for data acquisition in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lejun Ai , Yulong Li , Haodong Yi , Jixuan Xie , Yue Wang , Jia Liu , Min Chen , Rui Wang

Sleep is an essential component of human physiology, contributing significantly to overall health and quality of life. Accurate sleep staging and disorder detection are crucial for assessing sleep quality. Studies in the literature have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Kianoosh Kazemi , Iman Azimi , Michelle Khine , Rami N. Khayat , Amir M. Rahmani , Pasi Liljeberg

Interpretable entity representations (IERs) are sparse embeddings that are "human-readable" in that dimensions correspond to fine-grained entity types and values are predicted probabilities that a given entity is of the corresponding type.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Diego Garcia-Olano , Yasumasa Onoe , Joydeep Ghosh , Byron C. Wallace

A new ensemble framework for interpretable model called Linear Iterative Feature Embedding (LIFE) has been developed to achieve high prediction accuracy, easy interpretation and efficient computation simultaneously. The LIFE algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-19 Agus Sudjianto , Jinwen Qiu , Miaoqi Li , Jie Chen

Classification of sleep stages plays an essential role in diagnosing sleep-related diseases including Sleep Disorder Breathing (SDB) disease. In this study, we propose an end-to-end deep learning architecture, named SSNet, which comprises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Haifa Almutairi , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

Many recent studies have focused on fine-tuning pre-trained models for speech emotion recognition (SER), resulting in promising performance compared to traditional methods that rely largely on low-level, knowledge-inspired acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

Accurate classification of sleep stages from less obtrusive sensor measurements such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) or photoplethysmogram (PPG) could enable important applications in sleep medicine. Existing approaches to this problem have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jonathan F. Carter , Lionel Tarassenko

Nowadays, neural network (NN) and deep learning (DL) techniques are widely adopted in many applications, including recommender systems. Given the sparse and stochastic nature of collaborative filtering (CF) data, recent works have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Giuseppe Serra , Peter Tino , Zhao Xu , Xin Yao

The best-performing approaches for scholarly document quality prediction are based on embedding models. In addition to their performance when used in classifiers, embedding models can also provide predictions even for words that were not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Lucie Dvorackova , Marcin P. Joachimiak , Michal Cerny , Adriana Kubecova , Vilem Sklenak , Tomas Kliegr

Face image quality is an important factor to enable high performance face recognition systems. Face quality assessment aims at estimating the suitability of a face image for recognition. Previous work proposed supervised solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Correctly identifying sleep stages is important in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders. This work proposes a joint classification-and-prediction framework based on CNNs for automatic sleep staging, and, subsequently, introduces a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Huy Phan , Fernando Andreotti , Navin Cooray , Oliver Y. Chén , Maarten De Vos

Despite significant advances in deep learning-based sleep stage classification, the clinical adoption of automatic classification models remains slow. One key challenge is the lack of explainability, as many models function as black boxes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Stephan Goerttler , Yucheng Wang , Fei He , Min Wu

Automatic sleep stage scoring is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. Although deep learning models have advanced the field, many existing models are computationally demanding and designed for single-channel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhaowen Wang , Dongdong Zhou , Qi Xu , Fengyu Cong , Mohammad Al-Sa'd , Jenni Raitoharju

Recent developments in speech emotion recognition (SER) often leverage deep neural networks (DNNs). Comparing and benchmarking different DNN models can often be tedious due to the use of different datasets and evaluation protocols. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Neil Scheidwasser-Clow , Mikolaj Kegler , Pierre Beckmann , Milos Cernak

We introduce an innovative approach to automated sleep stage classification using EOG signals, addressing the discomfort and impracticality associated with EEG data acquisition. In addition, it is important to note that this approach is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Suvadeep Maiti , Shivam Kumar Sharma , Raju S. Bapi

Sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, parasomnias, and hypersomnia, affect 50-70 million adults in the United States (Hillman et al., 2006). Overnight polysomnography (PSG), including brain monitoring using electroencephalography (EEG), is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Siddharth Biswal , Joshua Kulas , Haoqi Sun , Balaji Goparaju , M Brandon Westover , Matt T Bianchi , Jimeng Sun

Sleep quality is central to human health, yet reliable and scalable sleep assessment remains an unmet challenge in both clinical and home-care settings. Manual scoring is labor-intensive and impractical for long-term monitoring, whereas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Shengwei Guo , Guobing Sun

Speech contains both acoustic and linguistic patterns that reflect cognitive decline, and therefore models describing only one domain cannot fully capture such complexity. This study investigates how early fusion (EF) of speech and its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Krystof Novotny , Laureano Moro-Velázquez , Jiri Mekyska

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is the use of machines to detect the emotional state of humans based on the speech, which is gaining importance in natural human-computer interaction. Speech is a very valuable source of information, as…

How can we find interpretable, domain-appropriate models of natural phenomena given some complex, raw data such as images? Can we use such models to derive scientific insight from the data? In this paper, we propose some methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Christopher J. Soelistyo , Alan R. Lowe