Publications related to Smart speaker

In-Memory Hardware and Architectural Extensions for Workloads Acceleration

Utilization of edge devices has exploded in the last decade, with such use cases as wearable devices, autonomous driving, and smart homes. As their ubiquity grows, so do expectations of their capabilities. Simultaneously, their formfactor and use cases lim ...

EPFL2022

Fair Voice Biometrics: Impact of Demographic Imbalance on Group Fairness in Speaker Recognition

Mirko Marras

Speaker recognition systems are playing a key role in modern online applications. Though the susceptibility of these systems to discrimination according to group fairness metrics has been recently studied, their assessment has been mainly focused on the di ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

mu RAI: Securing Embedded Systems with Return Address Integrity

Mathias Josef Payer

Embedded systems are deployed in security critical environments and have become a prominent target for remote attacks. Microcontroller-based systems (MCUS) are particularly vulnerable due to a combination of limited resources and low level programming whic ...

INTERNET SOC2020

Trustworthy speaker recognition with minimal prior knowledge using neural networks

Hannah Muckenhirn

The performance of speaker recognition systems has considerably improved in the last decade. This is mainly due to the development of Gaussian mixture model-based systems and in particular to the use of i-vectors. These systems handle relatively well noise ...

EPFL2019

Low-latency speaker spotting with online diarization and detection

Sébastien Marcel, Nicholas Evans

This paper introduces a new task termed low-latency speaker spotting (LLSS). Related to security and intelligence applications, the task involves the detection, as soon as possible, of known speakers within multi-speaker audio streams. The paper describes ...

2018

Real-Time Distributed Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimal Power Flow

Colin Neil Jones, Georgios Stathopoulos, Jean-Hubert Hours, Yuejiang Liu

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem, a fundamental problem in power systems, is generally nonconvex and computationally challenging for networks with an increasing number of smart devices and real-time control requirements. In this paper, we first investi ...

2017

Template-matching for text-dependent speaker verification

Petr Motlicek, Subhadeep Dey

In the last decade, i-vector and Joint Factor Analysis (JFA) approaches to speaker modeling have become ubiquitous in the area of automatic speaker recognition. Both of these techniques involve the computation of posterior probabilities, using either Gauss ...

2017

A Scalable and Secure System Architecture for Smart Buildings

Georgios Lilis

Recent years has seen profound changes in building technologies both in Europe and worldwide. With the emergence of Smart Grid and Smart City concepts, the Smart Building has attracted considerable attention and rapid development. The introduction of novel ...

EPFL2017

Deep neural network based posteriors for text-dependent speaker verification

Petr Motlicek, Subhadeep Dey

The i-vector and Joint Factor Analysis (JFA) systems for text- dependent speaker verification use sufficient statistics computed from a speech utterance to estimate speaker models. These statis- tics average the acoustic information over the utterance ther ...

IEEE2016

System fusion and speaker linking for longitudinal diarization of TV shows

Hervé Bourlard, Petr Motlicek

Performing speaker diarization while uniquely identifying the speakers in a collection of audio recordings is a challenging task. Based on our previous work on speaker diarization and linking, we developed a system for diarizing longitudinal TV show data s ...

IEEE2016

An Event-driven Low Power Electronics for Loads Metering and Control in Smart Buildings

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Gilbert Didier Francis Conus, Nastaran Asadi Zanjani

The Internet of Things market is experiencing a period of intense growth. From 7 to 10 billion of connected devices in 2013, it is expected to reach 26 to 30 billion in 2020. Smart buildings represent between 2 to 21% of this market. Indeed, the possibilit ...

Ieee2016

PriBots: Conversational Privacy with Chatbots

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Kassem Fawaz

Traditional mechanisms for delivering notice and enabling choice have so far failed to protect users’ privacy. Users are continuously frustrated by complex privacy policies, unreachable privacy settings, and a multitude of emerging standards. The miniaturi ...

2016

Food/Non-food Image Classification and Food Categorization using Pre-Trained GoogLeNet Model

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, Ashutosh Singla

Recent past has seen a lot of developments in the field of image-based dietary assessment. Food image classification and recognition are crucial steps for dietary assessment. In the last couple of years, advancements in the deep learning and convolutional ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

The Smart Device Specification for Remote Labs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi, Sten Govaerts

This paper presents the Smart Device specification to interface with remote labs. To encourage the broader sharing of remote labs, the Smart Device paradigm decouples the client from the server and provides well-defined interfaces between client and server ...

IEEE2015

The Smart Device Specification for Remote Labs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi, Sten Govaerts

This paper presents the Smart Device specification to interface with remote labs. To encourage the broader sharing of remote labs, the Smart Device paradigm decouples the client from the server and provides well-defined interfaces between client and server ...

2015

Online Unsupervised State Recognition in Sensor Data

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Julien Eberle

Smart sensors, such as smart meters or smart phones, are nowadays ubiquitous. To be "smart", however, they need to process their input data with limited storage and computational resources. In this paper, we convert the stream of sensor data into a stream ...

2015

Enabling Speech Applications using Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays

Mohammadjavad Taghizadeh

Microphone arrays are central players in hands-free speech interface applications. The main duty of a microphone array is capturing distant-talking speech with high quality. A microphone array can acquire the desired speech signals selectively by leading t ...

EPFL2015

Modified group delay feature based total variability space modelling for speaker recognition

In this paper, modified group delay (MODGD) features are used to model target speakers in the Total Variability Space (TVS) framework for speaker recognition. MODGD based features have been shown to improve speaker recognition performance owing to the abil ...

2015

An Extensible Architecture for the Integration of Remote and Virtual Laboratories in Public Learning Tools

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sten Govaerts

Remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in universities. The integration of remote laboratories in learning tools (learning management systems, content man- agement systems, or perso ...

2015

Smart Imaging and On-Focal-Plane Image Acquisition and Processing in Standard CMOS Technology

Nikola Katic

In recent years, modern imaging sensors and systems have become increasingly complex following the growing demand for high-quality and high-resolution imaging. Commercially available sensors having 30-40 mega-pixel resolutions are common nowadays, while pr ...

EPFL2014