- Date: May 10, 2014
Where: REVERB Workshop
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - Mitsubishi Electric's submission to the REVERB workshop achieved the second best performance among all participating institutes. The team included Yuuki Tachioka and Tomohiro Narita of MELCO in Japan, and Shinji Watanabe and Felix Weninger of MERL. The challenge addresses automatic speech recognition systems that are robust against varying room acoustics.
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- Date: June 1, 2013
Where: International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Discriminative Methods for Noise Robust Speech Recognition: A CHiME Challenge Benchmark" by Tachioka, Y., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME).
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- Date: June 1, 2013
Awarded to: Yuuki Tachioka, Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John R. Hershey
Awarded for: "Discriminative Methods for Noise Robust Speech Recognition: A CHiME Challenge Benchmark"
Awarded by: International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The results of the 2nd 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge are out! The team formed by MELCO researcher Yuuki Tachioka and MERL Speech & Audio team researchers Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John Hershey obtained the best results in the continuous speech recognition task (Track 2). This very challenging task consisted in recognizing speech corrupted by highly non-stationary noises recorded in a real living room. Our proposal, which also included a simple yet extremely efficient denoising front-end, focused on investigating and developing state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition back-end techniques: feature transformation methods, as well as discriminative training methods for acoustic and language modeling. Our system significantly outperformed other participants. Our code has since been released as an improved baseline for the community to use.
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- Date: May 2, 2013
Where: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Block Coordinate Descent for Sparse NMF" by Potluru, V.K., Plis, S.M., Le Roux, J., Pearlmutter, B.A., Calhoun, V.D. and Hayes, T.P. was presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
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- Date: December 12, 2012
Where: International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Compressive Clustering of High-Dimensional Data" by Ruta, A. and Porikli, F. was presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).
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- Date: December 6, 2012
Where: APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Bayesian Approaches to Acoustic Modeling: A Review" by Watanabe, S. and Nakamura, A. was published in APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
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- Date: November 28, 2012
Where: Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Factorial Models for Noise Robust Speech Recognition" by Hershey, J.R., Rennie, S.J. and Le Roux, J. was published in the book Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition.
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- Date: November 1, 2012
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Structured Discriminative Models For Speech Recognition" by Gales, M., Watanabe, S. and Fosler-Lussier, E. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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- Date: October 22, 2012
Where: Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Evaluation of Two Types of In-Vehicle Music Retrieval and Navigation Systems" by Zhang, J., Borowsky, A., Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Harsham, B., Weinberg, G., Romoser, M.R.E. and Fisher, D.L. was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).
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- Date: October 13, 2012
Where: IEEE International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DIMPVT)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Classification and Pose Estimation of Vehicles in Videos by 3D Modeling within Discrete-Continuous Optimization" by Hodlmoser, M., Micusik, B., Liu, M.-Y., Pollefeys, M. and Kaampel, M. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DIMPVT).
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- Date: June 28, 2012
Where: International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Bayesian Networks for Matcher Composition in Automatic Schema Matching" by Nikovski, D., Esenther, A., Ye, X., Shiba, M. and Takayama, S. was presented at the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS).
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- Date: March 31, 2012
Where: International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Latent Dirichlet Reallocation for Term Swapping" by Heaukulani, C., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML).
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- Date: March 13, 2012
Where: Acoustical Society of Japan Spring Meeting (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Speech Enhancement by Indirect VTS" by Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the Acoustical Society of Japan Spring Meeting (ASJ).
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- Date: January 10, 2012
Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "Scalable Active Learning for Multi-Class Image Classification" by Joshi, A.J., Porikli, F. and Papanikolopoulos, N. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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- Date: January 1, 2012
Where: Video Analytics for Business Intelligence
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "Object Detection & Tracking" by Porikli, F. and Yilmaz, A. was published in the book Video Analytics for Business Intelligence.
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- Date: September 2, 2011
Awarded to: Fatih Porikli and Huseyin Ozkan.
Awarded for: "Data Driven Frequency Mapping for Computationally Scalable Object Detection"
Awarded by: IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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- Date: August 30, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Data Driven Frequency Mapping for Computationally Scalable Object Detection" by Porikli, F. and Ozkan, H. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS).
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- Date: June 25, 2011
Awarded to: Paul A. Viola and Michael J. Jones
Awarded for: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features"
Awarded by: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - Paper from 10 years ago with the largest impact on the field: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features", originally published at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001).
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- Date: March 15, 2011
Where: Machine Vision and Applications
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "In-vehicle Camera Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition" by Ruta, A., Porikli, F.M., Watanabe, S. and Li, Y. was published in Machine Vision and Applications.
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- Date: September 26, 2010
Where: Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Ungrounded Independent Non-Negative Factor Analysis" by Raj, B., Wilson, K.W., Krueger, A. and Haeb-Umbach, R. was presented at the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
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- Date: September 26, 2010
Where: Interspeech
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Vocabulary Independent Spoken Query: a Case for Subword Units" by Gouvea, E. and Ezzat, T. was presented at Interspeech.
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- Date: August 18, 2010
Where: Joint IAPR International Conference on Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition (SSPR & SPR)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Learning on Manifolds" by Porikli, F. was presented at the Joint IAPR International Conference on Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition (SSPR & SPR).
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- Date: July 24, 2010
Where: Black Hat Technical Security Conference
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Keeping the Good Stuff In: Confidential Information Firewalling with the CRM114 Spam Filter & Text Classifier" by Yerazunis, W.S., Kato, M., Kori, M., Shibata, H. and Hackenberg, K. was presented at the Black Hat Technical Security Conference.
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- Date: June 13, 2010
Where: IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "RelCom: Relational Combinatorics Features for Rapid Object Detection" by Venkatraman, V. and Porikli, F.M. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum.
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- Date: June 1, 2010
Awarded to: Vijay Venkataraman and Fatih Porikli
Awarded for: "RelCom: Relational Combinatorics Features for Rapid Object Detection"
Awarded by: IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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