Search Results for author: Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Found 29 papers, 6 papers with code

Dynamic Modality and View Selection for Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Missing Modalities

no code implementations18 Apr 2024 Luciana Trinkaus Menon, Luiz Carlos Ribeiro Neduziak, Jean Paul Barddal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr

The study of human emotions, traditionally a cornerstone in fields like psychology and neuroscience, has been profoundly impacted by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI).

Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Methods for Generating Drift in Text Streams

no code implementations18 Mar 2024 Cristiano Mesquita Garcia, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr, Jean Paul Barddal

To learn from textual data over time, the machine learning system must account for concept drift.

Improving Sampling Methods for Fine-tuning SentenceBERT in Text Streams

no code implementations18 Mar 2024 Cristiano Mesquita Garcia, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr, Jean Paul Barddal

The proliferation of textual data on the Internet presents a unique opportunity for institutions and companies to monitor public opinion about their services and products.

Joint Multimodal Transformer for Emotion Recognition in the Wild

1 code implementation15 Mar 2024 Paul Waligora, Haseeb Aslam, Osama Zeeshan, Soufiane Belharbi, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Marco Pedersoli, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger

Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) systems typically outperform unimodal systems by leveraging the inter- and intra-modal relationships between, e. g., visual, textual, physiological, and auditory modalities.

Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Guided Interpretable Facial Expression Recognition via Spatial Action Unit Cues

1 code implementation1 Feb 2024 Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger

In particular, using this aus codebook, input image expression label, and facial landmarks, a single action units heatmap is built to indicate the most discriminative regions of interest in the image w. r. t the facial expression.

Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER)

Concept Drift Adaptation in Text Stream Mining Settings: A Comprehensive Review

no code implementations5 Dec 2023 Cristiano Mesquita Garcia, Ramon Simoes Abilio, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr., Jean Paul Barddal

Due to the advent and increase in the popularity of the Internet, people have been producing and disseminating textual data in several ways, such as reviews, social media posts, and news articles.

From Environmental Sound Representation to Robustness of 2D CNN Models Against Adversarial Attacks

no code implementations14 Apr 2022 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

This paper investigates the impact of different standard environmental sound representations (spectrograms) on the recognition performance and adversarial attack robustness of a victim residual convolutional neural network, namely ResNet-18.

Adversarial Attack Adversarial Robustness +1

Texture Characterization of Histopathologic Images Using Ecological Diversity Measures and Discrete Wavelet Transform

no code implementations27 Feb 2022 Steve Tsham Mpinda Ataky, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Texture descriptors have been quite popular in medical image analysis, particularly in histopathologic images (HI), due to the variability of both the texture found in such images and the tissue appearance due to irregularity in the staining process.

Towards Robust Speech-to-Text Adversarial Attack

no code implementations15 Mar 2021 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

This paper introduces a novel adversarial algorithm for attacking the state-of-the-art speech-to-text systems, namely DeepSpeech, Kaldi, and Lingvo.

Adversarial Attack Room Impulse Response (RIR) +1

Multi-Discriminator Sobolev Defense-GAN Against Adversarial Attacks for End-to-End Speech Systems

no code implementations15 Mar 2021 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

This paper introduces a defense approach against end-to-end adversarial attacks developed for cutting-edge speech-to-text systems.

A Novel Bio-Inspired Texture Descriptor based on Biodiversity and Taxonomic Measures

1 code implementation13 Feb 2021 Steve Tsham Mpinda Ataky, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Texture can be defined as the change of image intensity that forms repetitive patterns, resulting from physical properties of the object's roughness or differences in a reflection on the surface.

Translation

Continuous Emotion Recognition with Spatiotemporal Convolutional Neural Networks

no code implementations18 Nov 2020 Thomas Teixeira, Eric Granger, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper, we investigate the suitability of state-of-the-art deep learning architectures based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for continuous emotion recognition using long video sequences captured in-the-wild.

Emotion Recognition Facial Expression Recognition +2

Class-Conditional Defense GAN Against End-to-End Speech Attacks

no code implementations22 Oct 2020 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper we propose a novel defense approach against end-to-end adversarial attacks developed to fool advanced speech-to-text systems such as DeepSpeech and Lingvo.

Generative Adversarial Network Sentence

Conditioning Trick for Training Stable GANs

no code implementations12 Oct 2020 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Raymel Alfonso Sallo, Olivier St-Georges, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper we propose a conditioning trick, called difference departure from normality, applied on the generator network in response to instability issues during GAN training.

Improving Stability of LS-GANs for Audio and Speech Signals

no code implementations12 Aug 2020 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Raymel Alfonso Sallo, Olivier St-Georges, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper we address the instability issue of generative adversarial network (GAN) by proposing a new similarity metric in unitary space of Schur decomposition for 2D representations of audio and speech signals.

Generative Adversarial Network

From Sound Representation to Model Robustness

no code implementations27 Jul 2020 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper, we investigate the impact of different standard environmental sound representations (spectrograms) on the recognition performance and adversarial attack robustness of a victim residual convolutional neural network.

Adversarial Attack Adversarial Robustness +1

Cross-Representation Transferability of Adversarial Attacks: From Spectrograms to Audio Waveforms

1 code implementation22 Oct 2019 Karl Michel Koerich, Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Sajjad Abdoli, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr., Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Furthermore, the audio waveforms reconstructed from the perturbed spectrograms are also able to fool a 1D CNN trained on the original audio.

Incremental and Decremental Fuzzy Bounded Twin Support Vector Machine

1 code implementation22 Jul 2019 Alexandre Reeberg de Mello, Marcelo Ricardo Stemmer, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper we present an incremental variant of the Twin Support Vector Machine (TWSVM) called Fuzzy Bounded Twin Support Vector Machine (FBTWSVM) to deal with large datasets and learning from data streams.

General Classification Robust classification

Bag-of-Audio-Words based on Autoencoder Codebook for Continuous Emotion Prediction

no code implementations6 Jul 2019 Mohammed Senoussaoui, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

The conventional BoW model is based on a dictionary (codebook) built from elementary representations which are selected randomly or by using a clustering algorithm on a training dataset.

Clustering

Speaker Sincerity Detection based on Covariance Feature Vectors and Ensemble Methods

no code implementations26 Apr 2019 Mohammed Senoussaoui, Patrick Cardinal, Najim Dehak, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Automatic measuring of speaker sincerity degree is a novel research problem in computational paralinguistics.

A Novel Orthogonal Direction Mesh Adaptive Direct Search Approach for SVM Hyperparameter Tuning

no code implementations26 Apr 2019 Alexandre Reeberg Mello, Jonathan de Matos, Marcelo R. Stemmer, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr., Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper, we propose the use of a black-box optimization method called deterministic Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm with orthogonal directions (Ortho-MADS) for the selection of hyperparameters of Support Vector Machines with a Gaussian kernel.

A Robust Approach for Securing Audio Classification Against Adversarial Attacks

no code implementations24 Apr 2019 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper we first review some strong adversarial attacks that may affect both audio signals and their 2D representations and evaluate the resiliency of the most common machine learning model, namely deep learning models and support vector machines (SVM) trained on 2D audio representations such as short time Fourier transform (STFT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and cross recurrent plot (CRP) against several state-of-the-art adversarial attacks.

Audio Classification BIG-bench Machine Learning +2

End-to-End Environmental Sound Classification using a 1D Convolutional Neural Network

3 code implementations18 Apr 2019 Sajjad Abdoli, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper, we present an end-to-end approach for environmental sound classification based on a 1D Convolution Neural Network (CNN) that learns a representation directly from the audio signal.

Ranked #6 on Environmental Sound Classification on UrbanSound8K (Accuracy metric, using extra training data)

Environmental Sound Classification General Classification +1

Unsupervised Feature Learning for Environmental Sound Classification Using Weighted Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Network

no code implementations8 Apr 2019 Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In this paper we propose a novel environmental sound classification approach incorporating unsupervised feature learning from codebook via spherical $K$-Means++ algorithm and a new architecture for high-level data augmentation.

Benchmarking Classification +5

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