Publications by Zohreh Mostaani

Towards Integrated Processing of Physiological Signals and Speech

Research in speech processing has largely focused on source-system modeling, where vocal fold vibrations serve as the source and the vocal cavity's articulations as the system. Nonetheless, speech production includes a complex combination of physiological ...

EPFL2025

Predicting Heart Activity from Speech using Data-driven and Knowledge-based features

Mathew Magimai Doss, Zohreh Mostaani

Accurately predicting heart activity and other biological signals is crucial for diagnosis and monitoring. Given that speech is an outcome of multiple physiological systems, a significant body of work studied the acoustic correlates of heart activity. Rece ...

ISCA Archives2024

On Breathing Pattern Information in Synthetic Speech

Mathew Magimai Doss, Zohreh Mostaani

The respiratory system is an integral part of human speech production. As a consequence, there is a close relation between respiration and speech signal, and the produced speech signal carries breathing pattern related information. Speech can also be gener ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2022

On The Relationship Between Speech-Based Breathing Signal Prediction Evaluation Measures And Breathing Parameters Estimation

Mathew Magimai Doss, Zohreh Mostaani, Venkata Srikanth Nallanthighal

The respiratory system is one of the major components of the speech production system. Any alteration in breathing can result in changes in speech. Specific breathing characteristics, such as breathing rate and tidal volume, can indicate a person's patholo ...

IEEE2021

Deep learning architectures for estimating breathing signal and respiratory parameters from speech recordings

Mathew Magimai Doss, Zohreh Mostaani, Venkata Srikanth Nallanthighal

Respiration is an essential and primary mechanism for speech production. We first inhale and then produce speech while exhaling. When we run out of breath, we stop speaking and inhale. Though this process is involuntary, speech production involves a system ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Deep Models and Shortwave Infrared Information to Detect Face Presentation Attacks

Guillaume Heusch, Sébastien Marcel, Zohreh Mostaani

This paper addresses the problem of face presentation attack detection using different image modalities. In particular, the usage of short wave infrared (SWIR) imaging is considered. Face presentation attack detection is performed using recent models based ...

IEEE2020

Biometric Face Presentation Attack Detection with Multi-Channel Convolutional Neural Network

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Zohreh Mostaani

Face recognition is a mainstream biometric authentication method. However, vulnerability to presentation attacks (a.k.a spoofing) limits its usability in unsupervised applications. Even though there are many methods available for tackling presentation atta ...

2020

Detection of Age-Induced Makeup Attacks on Face Recognition Systems Using Multi-Layer Deep Features

Sébastien Marcel, Zohreh Mostaani

Makeup is a simple and easy instrument that can alter the appearance of a person’s face, and hence, create a presentation attack on face recognition (FR) systems. These attacks, especially the ones mimicking ageing, are difficult to detect due to their clo ...

2020