no code implementations • 26 Sep 2023 • Xiaofeng Liu, Fangxu Xing, Maureen Stone, Jiachen Zhuo, Sidney Fels, Jerry L. Prince, Georges El Fakhri, Jonghye Woo
The tongue's intricate 3D structure, comprising localized functional units, plays a crucial role in the production of speech.
no code implementations • 9 Feb 2021 • Debasish Ray Mohapatra, Victor Zappi, Sidney Fels
The two-dimensional (2D) numerical approaches for vocal tract (VT) modelling can afford a better balance between the low computational cost and accurate rendering of acoustic wave propagation.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2021 • Pramit Saha, Debasish Ray Mohapatra, Sidney Fels
Considering the upper palate as fixed and the spline model as the dynamically moving lower surface (tongue) of the vocal tract, we compute 1D area functional values that are fed to the Pink Trombone, generating continuous speech sounds.
no code implementations • 29 Jun 2020 • Pramit Saha, Yadong Liu, Bryan Gick, Sidney Fels
Thousands of individuals need surgical removal of their larynx due to critical diseases every year and therefore, require an alternative form of communication to articulate speech sounds after the loss of their voice box.
no code implementations • 16 May 2020 • Pramit Saha, Sidney Fels
The articulatory geometric configurations of the vocal tract and the acoustic properties of the resultant speech sound are considered to have a strong causal relationship.
1 code implementation • 11 Dec 2019 • Amir H. Abdi, Purang Abolmaesumi, Sidney Fels
Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is an open problem in machine learning.
1 code implementation • 5 Dec 2019 • Amir H. Abdi, Mohammad H. Jafari, Sidney Fels, Theresa Tsang, Purang Abolmaesumi
The size and length of the left ventricle in the generated target echo view is compared against that of the target ground-truth to assess the validity of the echo view conversion.
no code implementations • 26 Nov 2019 • Amir H. Abdi, Purang Abolmaesumi, Sidney Fels
However, a qualitative study of the encoded latents reveal that there is not a consistent correlation between the reported metrics and the disentanglement potential of the model.
1 code implementation • 27 Jun 2019 • Amir H. Abdi, Mehran Pesteie, Eitan Prisman, Purang Abolmaesumi, Sidney Fels
The premorbid geometry of the mandible is of significant relevance in jaw reconstructive surgeries and occasionally unknown to the surgical team.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2019 • Pramit Saha, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Sidney Fels
Speech-related Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) aim primarily at finding an alternative vocal communication pathway for people with speaking disabilities.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2019 • Pramit Saha, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Sidney Fels
Speech-related Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technologies provide effective vocal communication strategies for controlling devices through speech commands interpreted from brain signals.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2019 • Pramit Saha, Sidney Fels
We propose a mixed deep neural network strategy, incorporating parallel combination of Convolutional (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), cascaded with deep autoencoders and fully connected layers towards automatic identification of imagined speech from EEG.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2018 • Debasish Ray Mohapatra, Sidney Fels
The coupling of vocal fold (source) and vocal tract (filter) is one of the most critical factors in source-filter articulation theory.
1 code implementation • 17 Sep 2018 • Amir H. Abdi, Pramit Saha, Praneeth Srungarapu, Sidney Fels
In this article, we propose a deep reinforcement learning method to estimate the muscle excitations in simulated biomechanical systems.
no code implementations • 29 Jul 2018 • Pramit Saha, Praneeth Srungarapu, Sidney Fels
Interestingly, the results show a marked difference in the model performance in the context of speech classification with respect to generic sequence or video classification tasks.