Publications associées à Audio signal

Deep learning diagnostic and severity-stratification for interstitial lung diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in digital lung auscultations and ultrasonography: clinical protocol for an observational case-control study

BackgroundInterstitial lung diseases (ILD), such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are severe, progressive pulmonary disorders with a poor prognosis. Prom ...

BMC2023

Concurrent Evolution of Biomechanical and Physiological Parameters With Running-Induced Acute Fatigue

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Salil Apte, Gaëlle Prigent, Vincent Gremeaux

Understanding the influence of running-induced acute fatigue on the homeostasis of the body is essential to mitigate the adverse effects and optimize positive adaptations to training. Fatigue is a multifactorial phenomenon, which influences biomechanical, ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Unsupervised Voice Activity Detection by Modeling Source and System Information using Zero Frequency Filtering

Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step for speech technology applications. The task consists of deriving segment boundaries of audio signals which contain voicing information. In recent years, it has been shown that voice source ...

ISCA2022

Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw

New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...

2021

Electrical Signal Modeling in Cochlear Implants. Study of Temperature and Humidity Effects

Maria-Alexandra Paun

The present paper discusses the climatic effects of humidity and temperature on cochlear implant functioning and the quality of the electrical sound signal. MATLAB Simulink simulations were prepared, offering insights into signal behavior under such climat ...

MDPI2021

Multi-task Neural Network for Robust Multiple Speaker Embedding Extraction

Jean-Marc Odobez, Petr Motlicek, Weipeng He

This paper introduces a novel approach for extracting speaker embeddings from audio mixtures of multiple overlapping voices. This approach is based on a multi-task neural network. The network first extracts a latent feature for each direction. This feature ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

Viscoelastic surface electrode arrays to interface with viscoelastic tissues

Stéphanie Lacour, Alix Esther Anne Trouillet, Nicolas Vachicouras, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Christina Myra Tringides

Bioelectronic interfacing with living tissues should match the biomechanical properties of biological materials to reduce damage to the tissues. Here, the authors present a fully viscoelastic microelectrode array composed of an alginate matrix and carbon-b ...

Nature Research2021

Walsh-Hadamard-Based Orthogonal Sampling Technique for Parallel Neural Recording Systems

Alexandre Schmid, Reza Ranjandish

Walsh-Hadamard based orthogonal sampling of signals is studied in this paper, and an application of this technique is presented. Using orthogonal sampling, a single analog-to-digital converter (ADC) only is sufficient to perform parallel (simultaneous) rec ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Deep Learning Approaches for Auditory Perception in Robotics

Weipeng He

Auditory perception is an essential part of a robotic system in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and creating an artificial auditory perception system that is on par with human has been a long-standing goal for researchers. In fact, this is a challenging res ...

EPFL2021

ASAP: a Dataset of Aligned Scores and Performances for Piano Transcription

Andrew Philip McLeod

In this paper we present Aligned Scores and Performances (ASAP): a new dataset of 222 digital musical scores aligned with 1068 performances (more than 92 hours) of Western classical piano music.The scores are provided as paired MusicXML files and quantized ...

2020

Multisensory haptic system and method

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Simon Gallo

A computer-implemented method for operating a haptic device, the haptic device comprising a plurality of tactile displays configured to provide haptic stimuli to a user, the method including the steps of (a) processing an audio signal derived from an audio ...

2020

Longitudinal neural and vascular structural dynamics produced by chronic microelectrode implantation

Andrea Lozzi

Implanted microelectrode arrays sense local neuronal activity, signals which are used as control commands for brain computer interface (BCI) technology. Patients with tetraplegia have used BCI technology to achieve an extraordinary degree of interaction wi ...

2020

Architectural Sampling: A Formal Basis for Machine-Learnable Architecture

Immanuel Chee Beng Koh

The spatial and formal conception of architecture, and thus its modes of design perception and representation, directly contributes to its machine-learnability; and consequently, its capacity in leveraging today's machine learning apparatus for design inno ...

EPFL2019

Single-molecule sensing of peptides and nucleic acids by engineered aerolysin nanopores

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Nuria Cirauqui Diaz, Alice Duperrex, Elena Buglakova

Nanopore sensing is a powerful single-molecule approach for the detection of biomolecules. Recent studies have demonstrated that aerolysin is a promising candidate to improve the accuracy of DNA sequencing and to develop novel single-molecule proteomic str ...

Nature Research2019

Inpainting of Long Audio Segments With Similarity Graphs

Nathanaël Perraudin

We present a novel method for the compensation of long duration data loss in audio signals, in particular music. The concealment of such signal defects is based on a graph that encodes signal structure in terms of time-persistent spectral similarity. A sui ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Experimental evaluation of speech enhancement methods in remote microphone systems for hearing aids

Hervé Lissek, Gilles André Courtois, Ina Kodrasi, Vincent Pierre Olivier Grimaldi

Enhancing speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired subjects in complex acoustic conditions is still a challenging topic of research. To mitigate the detrimental effects of background noise and reverberation, current hearing instruments incorporate vario ...

European Acoustics Association2018

Method and apparatus for presenting to a user of a wearable apparatus additional information related to an audio scene

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Juri Ranieri

A method for presenting to a user of a wearable audio device a modified audio scene together with additional information related to the audio scene, comprising: capturing audio signals with a plurality of microphones; outputting an audio signal with a plur ...

2017

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

Hearing assistance system

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois

There is provided a hearing assistance system, comprising a transmission unit (10) comprising a microphone arrangement (17) for capturing audio signals from a voice of a speaker ( 11 ) using the transmission unit and being adapted to transmit the audio sig ...

2016

Automatic social role recognition and its application in structuring multiparty interactions

Ashtosh Sapru

Automatic processing of multiparty interactions is a research domain with important applications in content browsing, summarization and information retrieval. In recent years, several works have been devoted to find regular patterns which speakers exhibit ...

EPFL2015