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The safety of children in children home has become an increasing social concern, and the purpose of this experiment is to use machine learning applied to detect the scenarios of child abuse to increase the safety of children. This…

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Accurately detecting voiced intervals in speech signals is a critical step in pitch tracking and has numerous applications. While conventional signal processing methods and deep learning algorithms have been proposed for this task, their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Yixuan Zhang , Heming Wang , DeLiang Wang

Decoding infant cry causes remains challenging for healthcare monitoring due to short nonstationary signals, limited annotations, and strong domain shifts across infants and datasets. We propose a compact acoustic framework that fuses…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Niloofar Jazaeri , Hilmi R. Dajani , Marco Janeczek , Martin Bouchard

Dream narratives provide a unique window into human cognition and emotion, yet their systematic analysis using artificial intelligence has been underexplored. We introduce DreamNet, a novel deep learning framework that decodes semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tapasvi Panchagnula

Crowd simulation is a central topic in several fields including graphics. To achieve high-fidelity simulations, data has been increasingly relied upon for analysis and simulation guidance. However, the information in real-world data is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feixiang He , Yuanhang Xiang , Xi Zhao , He Wang

Current computational-emotion research has focused on applying acoustic properties to analyze how emotions are perceived mathematically or used in natural language processing machine learning models. While recent interest has focused on…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Daniel Szelogowski

Speech technology systems struggle with many downstream tasks for child speech due to small training corpora and the difficulties that child speech pose. We apply a novel dataset, SpeechMaturity, to state-of-the-art transformer models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Theo Zhang , Madurya Suresh , Anne S. Warlaumont , Kasia Hitczenko , Alejandrina Cristia , Margaret Cychosz

It has been suggested in developmental psychology literature that the communication of affect between mothers and their infants correlates with the socioemotional and cognitive development of infants. In this study, we obtained day-long…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Xuewen Yao , Dong He , Tiancheng Jing , Kaya de Barbaro

Large-scale datasets have been pivotal to the advancements of deep learning models in recent years, but training on such large datasets invariably incurs substantial storage and computational overhead. Meanwhile, real-world datasets often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Suorong Yang , Peng Ye , Wanli Ouyang , Dongzhan Zhou , Furao Shen

Infant sleep is critical to brain and behavioral development. Prior studies on infant sleep/wake classification have been largely limited to reliance on expensive and burdensome polysomnography (PSG) tests in the laboratory or wearable…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Kai Chieh Chang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Nancy L. McElwain , Bashima Islam

Malnutrition among newborns is a top public health concern in developing countries. Identification and subsequent growth monitoring are key to successful interventions. However, this is challenging in rural communities where health systems…

Speaker recognition systems are widely used in various applications to identify a person by their voice; however, the high degree of variability in speech signals makes this a challenging task. Dealing with emotional variations is very…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Ali Bou Nassif , Ismail Shahin , Ashraf Elnagar , Divya Velayudhan , Adi Alhudhaif , Kemal Polat

Background: Infant cry acoustics provide a promising window into early neurodevelopment and may serve as scalable biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders. However, conventional microphone-based recordings are highly susceptible to…

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Noise reduction is an important part of modern hearing aids and is included in most commercially available devices. Deep learning-based state-of-the-art algorithms, however, either do not consider real-time and frequency resolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Hendrik Schröter , Tobias Rosenkranz , Alberto N. Escalante B. , Marc Aubreville , Andreas Maier

Automatic crowd counting using density estimation has gained significant attention in computer vision research. As a result, a large number of crowd counting and density estimation models using convolution neural networks (CNN) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

A timely detection of seizures for newborn infants with electroencephalogram (EEG) has been a common yet life-saving practice in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). However, it requires great human efforts for real-time monitoring,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Ziyue Li , Yuchen Fang , You Li , Kan Ren , Yansen Wang , Xufang Luo , Juanyong Duan , Congrui Huang , Dongsheng Li , Lili Qiu

Non-speech emotion recognition has a wide range of applications including healthcare, crime control and rescue, and entertainment, to name a few. Providing these applications using edge computing has great potential, however, recent studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ibrahim Malik , Siddique Latif , Sanaullah Manzoor , Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Raja Jurdak

Accurate and interpretable classification of infant cry paralinguistics is essential for early detection of neonatal distress and clinical decision support. However, many existing deep learning methods rely on correlation-driven acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Geofrey Owino , Bernard Shibwabo Kasamani , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Edem Wornyo

We introduce CrossNet, a complex spectral mapping approach to speaker separation and enhancement in reverberant and noisy conditions. The proposed architecture comprises an encoder layer, a global multi-head self-attention module, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Vahid Ahmadi Kalkhorani , DeLiang Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manually identifying correct or incorrect labels is…

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