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Keyword spotting (KWS) is essential for voice-driven applications, demanding both accuracy and efficiency. Traditional ASR-based KWS methods, such as greedy and beam search, explore the entire search space without explicitly prioritizing…

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Keyword Spotting plays a critical role in enabling hands-free interaction for battery-powered edge devices. Few-Shot Keyword Spotting (FS-KWS) addresses the scalability and adaptability challenges of traditional systems by enabling…

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The rapid adaptation of data driven AI models, such as deep learning inference, training, Vision Transformers (ViTs), and other HPC applications, drives a strong need for runtime precision configurable different non linear activation…

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Keyword spotting (KWS) has become an indispensable part of many intelligent devices surrounding us, as audio is one of the most efficient ways of interacting with these devices. The accuracy and performance of KWS solutions have been the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Mehmet Gorkem Ulkar , Osman Erman Okman

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to suppress the additive noise from a noisy speech signal to improve the speech's perceptual quality and intelligibility. However, the over-suppression phenomenon in the enhanced speech might degrade the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Yuchen Hu , Nana Hou , Chen Chen , Eng Siong Chng

The rapid advancement of wireless communication technologies, including 5G, emerging 6G networks, and the large-scale deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT), has intensified the need for efficient spectrum utilization. Automatic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Kuilian Yang , Li Zhang , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Khaled Nabil Salama

We introduce an efficient few-shot keyword spotting model for edge devices, EdgeSpot, that pairs an optimized version of a BC-ResNet-based acoustic backbone with a trainable Per-Channel Energy Normalization frontend and lightweight temporal…

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With the rapid upsurge of deep learning tasks at the network edge, effective edge artificial intelligence (AI) inference becomes critical to provide low-latency intelligent services for mobile users via leveraging the edge computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Xiangyu Yang , Sheng Hua , Yuanming Shi , Hao Wang , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Extreme edge-AI systems, such as those in readout ASICs for radiation detection, must operate under stringent hardware constraints such as micron-level dimensions, sub-milliwatt power, and nanosecond-scale speed while providing clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shubha R. Kharel , Prashansa Mukim , Piotr Maj , Grzegorz W. Deptuch , Shinjae Yoo , Yihui Ren , Soumyajit Mandal

Keyword Spotting (KWS) is essential in edge computing requiring rapid and energy-efficient responses. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are well-suited for KWS for their efficiency and temporal capacity for speech. To further reduce the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zeyang Song , Qianhui Liu , Qu Yang , Yizhou Peng , Haizhou Li

The demand for edge AI in vision-language tasks requires models that achieve real-time performance on resource-constrained devices with limited power and memory. This paper proposes two adaptive compression techniques -- Sparse Temporal…

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Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on power-sensitive edge devices presents a formidable challenge. While Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) is widely employed for energy optimization, traditional model-level scaling is often…

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Most current Deep Learning-based Semantic Communication (DeepSC) systems are designed and trained exclusively for particular single-channel conditions, which restricts their adaptability and overall bandwidth utilization. To address this,…

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Federated edge learning (FEEL) is a promising distributed learning technique for next-generation wireless networks. FEEL preserves the user's privacy, reduces the communication costs, and exploits the unprecedented capabilities of edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Aiman Erbad

Expanding the receptive field in a deep learning model for large-scale 3D point cloud segmentation is an effective technique for capturing rich contextual information, which consequently enhances the network's ability to learn meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Haodong Wang , Chongyu Wang , Yinghui Quan , Di Wang

This article presents the first keyword spotting (KWS) IC which uses a ring-oscillator-based time-domain processing technique for its analog feature extractor (FEx). Its extensive usage of time-encoding schemes allows the analog audio…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kwantae Kim , Chang Gao , Rui Graça , Ilya Kiselev , Hoi-Jun Yoo , Tobi Delbruck , Shih-Chii Liu

Automated Feature Engineering (AFE) refers to automatically generate and select optimal feature sets for downstream tasks, which has achieved great success in real-world applications. Current AFE methods mainly focus on improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Kafeng Wang , Pengyang Wang , Chengzhong xu

We propose a multi-stage framework for universal speech enhancement, designed for the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge. Our system first employs a Sparse Compression Network to robustly separate sources and extract an initial clean speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nabarun Goswami , Tatsuya Harada

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies wireless communication and sensing by sharing spectrum and hardware, which often incurs trade-offs between two functions due to limited resources. However, this paper shifts focus to…

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Parallel search algorithms harness the multithreading capability of modern processors to achieve faster planning. One such algorithm is PA*SE (Parallel A* for Slow Expansions), which parallelizes state expansions to achieve faster planning…

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