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The task of detecting whether a person wears a face mask from speech is useful in modelling speech in forensic investigations, communication between surgeons or people protecting themselves against infectious diseases such as COVID-19. In…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that operate in an event-driven manner and employ binary spike representation have recently emerged as promising candidates for energy-efficient computing. However, a cost bottleneck arises in obtaining…
We propose and analyze the use of an explicit time-context window for neural network-based spectral masking speech enhancement to leverage signal context dependencies between neighboring frames. In particular, we concentrate on soft masking…
Smart sensing is expected to become a pervasive technology in smart cities and environments of the near future. These services are improving their capabilities due to integrated devices shrinking in size while maintaining their…
We describe and analyze a simple and effective algorithm for sequence segmentation applied to speech processing tasks. We propose a neural architecture that is composed of two modules trained jointly: a recurrent neural network (RNN) module…
Activity recognition, as an important component of behavioral monitoring and intervention, has attracted enormous attention, especially in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Remote Health Monitoring (RHM) paradigms. While recently resource…
Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) on Transformers have significantly improved speaker verification (SV) by providing domain-general speech representations. However, existing approaches have underutilized the multi-layered…
Training machine learning models on mobile devices has the potential of improving both privacy and accuracy of the models. However, one of the major obstacles to achieving this goal is the memory limitation of mobile devices. Reducing…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising and energy-efficient alternative to conventional neural networks, thanks to their sparse binary activation. However, they face challenges regarding memory and computation overhead due to…
Existing speech processing systems consist of different modules, individually optimized for a specific task such as acoustic modelling or feature extraction. In addition to not assuring optimality of the system, the disjoint nature of…
We present a novel model designed for resource-efficient multichannel speech enhancement in the time domain, with a focus on low latency, lightweight, and low computational requirements. The proposed model incorporates explicit spatial and…
State-of-the-art speaker diarization systems utilize knowledge from external data, in the form of a pre-trained distance metric, to effectively determine relative speaker identities to unseen data. However, much of recent focus has been on…
The rapidly growing demand for on-chip edge intelligence on resource-constrained devices has motivated approaches to reduce energy and latency of deep learning models. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained particular interest due to…
State-of-the-art speech recognition systems typically employ neural network acoustic models. However, compared to Gaussian mixture models, deep neural network (DNN) based acoustic models often have many more model parameters, making it…
Data-driven speech enhancement employing deep neural networks (DNNs) can provide state-of-the-art performance even in the presence of non-stationary noise. During the training process, most of the speech enhancement neural networks are…
Speaker verification aims to verify whether an input speech corresponds to the claimed speaker, and conventionally, this kind of system is deployed based on single-stream scenario, wherein the feature extractor operates in full frequency…
As neural networks (NN) are deployed across diverse sectors, their energy demand correspondingly grows. While several prior works have focused on reducing energy consumption during training, the continuous operation of ML-powered systems…
The need to train DNN models on end-user devices (e.g., smartphones) is increasing with the need to improve data privacy and reduce communication overheads. Unlike datacenter servers with powerful CPUs and GPUs, modern smartphones consist…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have succeeded in many different perception tasks, e.g., computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, etc. The high-performed DNNs heavily rely on intensive resource consumption. For…
Sounds carry an abundance of information about activities and events in our everyday environment, such as traffic noise, road works, music, or people talking. Recent machine learning methods, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs),…