HIWIRE Publications

2005 Publications

• D. Dimitriadis, P. Maragos and A. Potamianos,
  " Robust AM-FM Features for Speech Recognition",
  IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 12, No. 9, pp. 621 - 624, Sept 2005.

• A. Dimakis and P. Maragos,
  " Phase-Modulated Resonances Modeled as Self-Similar Processes With Application to Turbulent Sounds",
  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 4261 - 4272, Nov. 2005.

• I. Kokkinos and P. Maragos,
  " Nonlinear Speech Analysis Using Models for Chaotic Systems",
  IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 13, no. 6, Nov. 2005

• D. Dimitriadis, N. Katsamanis, P. Maragos, G. Papandreou and V. Pitsikalis,
  Towards Automatic Speech Recognition in Adverse Environments,
  in Proc. HERCMA 2005 -- 7th Hellenic European Conference on Research on Computer Mathematics and its Applications, Athens, Greece, September 2005.

• D. Dimitriadis, A. Potamianos and P. Maragos,
  Auditory Teager Energy Cepstrum Coefficients for Robust Speech Recognition,
  in Proc. Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech -- 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005.

• G. Evangelopoulos and P. Maragos,
  Multiband Modulation Energy Features for Voice Event Detection,
  in Proc. Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech -- 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005.

• A. Katsamanis and P. Maragos,
  Advances in Statistical Estimation and Tracking of AM-FM Speech Components,
  in Proc. Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech -- 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005.

• J.M. Gorriz, J. Ramirez, J.C. Segura, C.G. Puntonet,
  Improved MO-LRT VAD based on bispectra Gaussian model,
  IEE Electronic Letters, Volume 41, Issue 15, pp. 877-879, July, 2005.

• J.M. Gorriz, Javier Ramirez, Jose C. Segura, S. Hornillo,
  Voice Activity Detection Using Higher Order Statistics,
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.3512/2005, pp. 837 - 844.

• Javier Ramirez, Jose C. Segura, Carmen Benitez, Luz Garcia, Antonio J. Rubio.
  Statistical Voice Activity Detection using a Multiple Observation Likelihood Ratio Test,
  IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 12, No. 10, October 2005, pp. 689-692.

• Roberto Gemello, Franco Mana, Renato De Mori.
  Non-linear estimation of voice activity to improve automatic recognition of noisy speech,
  Proc. Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech -- 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005. pp. 2617-2620.

• Bouselmi G., Fohr D., Illina I.,
  " Fully Automated Non-Native Speech Recognition Approach Using Confusion Based Acoustic Model Integration",
  Proceedings of Interspeech, European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005.

2006 Publications

• A. Potamianos, G. Bouselmi, D. Dimitriadis, D. Fohr, Roberto Gemello, I. Illina, Franco Mana, P. Maragos, M. Matassoni, V. Pitsikalis, J. Ramirez, E. Sanchez-Soto, J. Segura, and P. Svaizer,
  " Towards Speaker and Enviromental Robustness in ASR: the HIWIRE project",
  in Proc. Workshop on  Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation, (Toulouse, France), May 2006.

• S. Scanzio, D. Albesano, R. Gemello, P. Laface, and Franco Mana,
  " Adapting Hybrid ANN/HMM to Speech Variations", in Proc. Workshop on Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation, (Toulouse, France), May 2006.

• R. Gemello, F. Mana, D. Albesano, " Adaptation of Hybrid ANN/HMM models using hidden linear transformations and conservative training'', in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process., (Toulouse, France), May 2006.

• D. Albesano, R. Gemello, P. Laface, F. Mana, and S. Scanzio, " Adaptation of Artificial Neural Networks Avoiding Catastrophic Forgetting'', in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Neural Networks, (Vancouver, Canada), July 2006.

• R. Gemello, F. Mana, and R. De Mori, " Automatic Speech Recognition with a modified Ephraim-Malah Rule'', in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol 13, No. 1, pp-56-59, January 2006.

• A. Potamianos, E. Sanchez-Soto, and K. Daoudi, " Stream weight computation for multi-stream classifiers,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process., (Toulouse, France), May 2006.

• K. Mokios, N. Sidiropoulos, and A. Potamianos, " Blind speech separation algorithm using PARAFAC and integer least squares,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process., (Toulouse, France), May 2006.

• G. Bousselmi, D. Fohr, I. Illina, J.-P. Haton, " Fully Automated Non-Native Speech Recognition Using Confusion-Based Acoustic Model Integration And Graphemic Constraints'', in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process., (Toulouse, France), May 2006.

• G. Bouselmi, D. Fohr, I. Illina, J.-P. Haton, " Multilingual Non-Native Speech Recognition using Phonetic Confusion-Based Acoustic Model Modi cation and Graphemic Constraints", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing - ICSLP, Pittsburgh, september 2006

• G. Bouselmi, D. Fohr, I. Illina, J.-P. Haton, " Reconnaissance de parole non native fondée sur l'utilisation de confusion phonétique et de contraintes graphèmiques", JEP'06, Dinard, june 2006

• S. Demange, C. Cerisara, J.-P. Haton " Missing data mask models with global frequency and temporal constraints" International Conference on Spoken Language Processing - ICSLP Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, september 2006

• S. Demange, C. Cerisara and J.-P. Haton " Mask Estimation for Missing Data Recognition using Background Noise Sniffing" International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP 06, Toulouse, May 2006

• L. Garcia, J.C. Segura, J. Ramirez, A. De la Torre, C. Benitez: " Parametric nonlinear feature equalization for robust speech recognition". IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006).

• J. Ramirez, P. Yelamos, J.M. Gorriz, C.G. Puntonet, J.C. Segura, " SVM-enabled Voice Activity Detection", Third International Symposium on Neural Networks 2006 (ISNN 2006).

• R. Culebras, J. Ramirez and J. M. Gorriz, " Effective Speech/Pause Discrimination Combining Noise Suppression and Fuzzy Logic Rules". IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006).

• J. M. Gorriz, J. Ramirez, J. C. Segura, C. G. Puntonet and L. Garcia. "Effective Speech/Pause Discrimination Using an Integrated Bispectrum Likelihood Ratio Test". IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006).

• J.M. Gorriz, J. Ramirez, C.G. Puntonet, E.W. Lang, and K. Stadlthanner. " Independent Component Analysis applied to Voice Activity Detection". International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2006).

• J.M. Gorriz, J. Ramirez, I. Turias, C.G. Puntonet, J. Gonzαlez, E.W. Lang. " C-means Clustering applied to Speech Discrimination". International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2006).

• P. Yelamos, J. Ramirez, J.M. Gorriz, C.G. Puntonet, J.C. Segura. " Speech Event Detection Using Support Vector Machines". International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2006).

• R. Culebras, J. Ramirez, J.M. Gorriz, J.C. Segura. " Fuzzy Logic Speech/Non-speech Discrimination for Noise Robust Speech Processing". International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2006).

• J.M. Gorriz, J. Ramirez, J.C. Segura, C.G. Puntonet, J. Gonzαlez, E.W. Lang. " Noise Subspace Fuzzy C-means Clustering for Robust Speech Recognition". International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2006).

• K. Mokios, N. Sidiropoulos, and A. Potamianos, "Blind speech separation algorithm using PARAFAC and integer least squares,'' submitted to Trans. of Speech and Audio Processing, 2006 (under review).

• J. Ramirez, P. Yelamos, J. M. Gorriz, J.C. Segura, " SVM-based Speech Endpoint Detection Using Contextual Speech Features", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 42(7), March 2006 pp. 426 - 428.

• J. Ramirez, J. M. Gorriz, J. C. Segura, C. G. Puntonet, A. Rubio. " Speech/Non-speech Discrimination based on Contextual Information Integrated Bispectrum LRT". IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 13(8), August 2006 pp. 497 - 500.

• J.M. Gorriz, J. Ramirez, C. G. Puntonet, J.C. Segura. " Generalized-LRT based voice activity detector". IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol.13(10), Oct. 2006 pp. 636 - 639.

• L. Garcia , Jose C. Segura , C. Benitez, J. Ramirez, A. de la Torre " Normalization of the inter-frame information using smoothing filtering" Proc. INTERSPEECH'2006, pp.369-372, Pittsburgh, 2006

• Javier Ramirez, Pablo Yelamos, Juan Manuel Gorriz, José C. Segura and Luz Garcia " Speech/Non-Speech discrimination combining advanced feature extraction and SVM learning" Proc. INTERSPEECH'2006, pp.1662-1665, Pittsburgh, 2006

• Angel de la Torre, Javier Ramirez, Carmen Benitez, Jose C. Segura, Luz García, Antonio J. Rubio " Noise robust model-based Voice Activity Detection" Proc. INTERSPEECH'2006, pp.1954-1957, Pittsburgh, 2006

• J.M. Gorriz, J. Ramirez, C.G. Puntonet, J.C. Segura " An Efficient Bispectrum Phase Entropy-based Algorithm for VAD" Proc. INTERSPEECH'2006, pp.2322-2325, Pittsburgh, 2006

• J. M. Gorriz, J. Ramirez, J. C. Segura, C.G. Puntonet " An effective cluster-based model for robust speech detection and speech recognition in noisy environments" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 120(1), July 2006, pp. 470-481

• D. Dimitriadis and P. Maragos,
  " Continuous Energy Demodulation Methods and Application to Speech Analysis",
  Speech Communication, vol 48, pp. 819–837, 2006.

• V. Pitsikalis and P. Maragos,
  " Filtered Dynamics and Fractal Dimensions for Noisy Speech Recognition",
  IEEE Signal Proc. Letters, Vol.13, No.11, pp 711-714, November 2006.

• G. Evangelopoulos and P. Maragos,
  "Multiband Modulation Energy Tracking for Noisy Speech Detection",
  IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol.14, no.6, pp.2024-2038, Nov. 2006.

• A. Katsamanis, G. Papandreou, V. Pitsikalis, and P.Maragos,
  "Multimodal Fusion by Adaptive Compensation for Feature Uncertainty with Application to Audiovisual Speech Recognition",
  in Proc. 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2006), Florence, Italy, Sep. 2006.

• S. Leukimmiatis and P. Maragos,
  "Optimum Post-Filter Estimation for Noise Reduction in Multichannel Speech Processing",
  in Proc. 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, Sep. 2006.

• S. Leukimmiatis, D. Dimitriadis and P. Maragos,
  "An Optimum Microphone Array Post-Filter for Speech Applications",
  in Proc. Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh PA, USA, pp. 2142-2145, Sep. 2006.

• V. Pitsikalis, A. Katsamanis, G. Papandreou, and P.Maragos,
  "Adaptive Multimodal Fusion by Uncertainty Compensation", in Proc. Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Pittsburgh PA, USA, pp. 2458-2461, Sep. 2006.

• M. Matassoni, P. Svaizer,
  "Efficient time delay estimation based on cross-power spectrum phase", European signal Processing conference (EUSIPCO 2006), Florence, Italy, September 2006

2007 Publications

• G. Bouselmi, D. Fohr and I. Illina
  "Discriminative Phoneme Sequences Detection for Non Native Speaker's Origin Classification"
  in Proc. International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, ISSPA 2007, February 2007.

• G.Tsontzos, V.Diakoloukas, Ch.Koniaris and V.Digalakis
  "Estimation of General Identifiable Linear Dynamic Models with an Application in Speech Recognition"
  in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Apr. 2007.

• J. Ramirez, J.C. Segura and J.M. Gorriz
  "Revised Contextual LRT for Voice Activity Detection"
  in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Apr. 2007.

• E. Sanchez-Soto, A. Potamianos and K. Daoudi
  "Unsupservised Stream Weight Estimation Using Anti-Models"
  in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Apr. 2007.

• J.C. Segura, T. Ehrette, A. Potamianos, D. Fohr, I. Illina, P-A. Breton, V. Clot, R. Gemello, M. Matassoni and P. Maragos, The HIWIRE database, a noisy and non-native English speech corpus for cockpit communication, online at http://www.hiwire.org/, 2007.

• D. Dimitriadis, P. Maragos and S.Lefkimmiatis
  "Multiband, Multisensor Robust Features for Noisy Speech Recognition",
  in Proc. Interspeech- Eurospeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 2007

• Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Jose C. Segura, Luz Garcia, Alexandros Potamianos, Petros Maragos and Vassilis Pitsikalis
  "Advanced Front-end for Robust Speech Recognition in Extremely Adverse Environments",
  in Proc. Interspeech- Eurospeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 2007

• P.M. Martinez, J.C. Segura, L. Garcia
  "Robust Distributed Speech Recognition Using Histogram Equalization and Correlation Information",
  in Proc. Interspeech- Eurospeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 2007

• J. Ramirez, J.M. Gorriz, J.C. Segura
  "Improved Voice Activity Detection based on integrated bispectrum likelihood ratio tests for robust speech recognition",
  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 121(5), May 2007, pp. 2946-2958

• J. Ramirez, J.C. Segura, J.M. Gorriz, L. Garcia
  "Improved Voice Activity Detection Using Contextual Multiple Hypothesis Testing for Robust Speech Recognition",
  accepted for publication, IEEE Trans. on ASL 2007, to appear.

• G. Papandreou, A. Katsamanis, V. Pitsikalis and P. Maragos,
  "Multimodal Fusion and Learning with Uncertain Features Applied to Audiovisual Speech Recognition",
  Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP-2007), Chania, Greece, October 2007

• G. Bouselmi, D. Fohr, I. Illina, “Combined Acoustic and Pronunciation Modelling for Non-Native Speech Recognition”, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007

• S. Demange, C. Cerisara, J.P. Haton “Accurate marginalization range for missing data recognition”, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007

• G. Bouselmi, D. Fohr, I. Illina, J.P. Haton, “détection de la langue maternelle des locuteurs non natifs fondée sur l'extraction de séquences discriminates de phonèmes”, TAIMA, Hammamet, 2007