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Calliope: A TTS-based Narrated E-book Creator Ensuring Exact Synchronization, Privacy, and Layout Fidelity
Hugo L. Hammer, Vajira Thambawita, Pål Halvorsen
A narrated e-book combines synchronized audio with digital text, highlighting the currently spoken word or sentence during playback. This format supports early literacy and assists…
Anatomy-Preserving Latent Diffusion for Generation of Brain Segmentation Masks with Ischemic Infarct
Lucia Borrego, Vajira Thambawita, Marco Ciuffreda +3
The scarcity of high-quality segmentation masks remains a major bottleneck for medical image analysis, particularly in non-contrast CT (NCCT) neuroimaging, where manual annotation…
ECG-IMN: Interpretable Mesomorphic Neural Networks for 12-Lead Electrocardiogram Interpretation
Vajira Thambawita, Jonas L. Isaksen, Jørgen K. Kanters +2
Deep learning has achieved expert-level performance in automated electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis, yet the "black-box" nature of these models hinders their clinical deployment. Tr…
Medico 2025: Visual Question Answering for Gastrointestinal Imaging
Sushant Gautam, Vajira Thambawita, Michael Riegler +2
The Medico 2025 challenge addresses Visual Question Answering (VQA) for Gastrointestinal (GI) imaging, organized as part of the MediaEval task series. The challenge focuses on deve…
Multimodal Integration Challenges in Emotionally Expressive Child Avatars for Training Applications
Pegah Salehi, Sajad Amouei Sheshkal, Vajira Thambawita +2
Dynamic facial emotion is essential for believable AI-generated avatars, yet most systems remain visually static, limiting their use in simulations like virtual training for invest…
Advancing sleep detection by modelling weak label sets: A novel weakly supervised learning approach
Matthias Boeker, Vajira Thambawita, Michael Riegler +2
Understanding sleep and activity patterns plays a crucial role in physical and mental health. This study introduces a novel approach for sleep detection using weakly supervised lea…