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20192025
most citedDeep Representation Learning in Speech Processing: Challenges, Recent Advances, and Future Trends

68 citations · 94 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.HC2025

Pioneering Multimodal Emotion Recognition in the Era of Large Models: From Closed Sets to Open Vocabularies

Jing Han, Zhiqiang Gao, Shihao Gao +4

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multi- and cross-modal integration capabilities. However, their potential for fine-grained…

cs.LG2025

Representation Learning with Parameterised Quantum Circuits for Advancing Speech Emotion Recognition

Thejan Rajapakshe, Rajib Rana, Farina Riaz +2

Quantum machine learning (QML) offers a promising avenue for advancing representation learning in complex signal domains. In this study, we investigate the use of parameterised qua…

cs.SD2024

Raw Audio Classification with Cosine Convolutional Neural Network (CosCovNN)

Kazi Nazmul Haque, Rajib Rana, Tasnim Jarin +1

This study explores the field of audio classification from raw waveform using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a method that eliminates the need for extracting specialised fea…

cs.SD2024

Intelligent Cardiac Auscultation for Murmur Detection via Parallel-Attentive Models with Uncertainty Estimation

Zixing Zhang, Tao Pang, Jing Han +1

Heart murmurs are a common manifestation of cardiovascular diseases and can provide crucial clues to early cardiac abnormalities. While most current research methods primarily focu…

cs.SD2024

HAFFormer: A Hierarchical Attention-Free Framework for Alzheimer's Disease Detection From Spontaneous Speech

Zhongren Dong, Zixing Zhang, Weixiang Xu +3

Automatically detecting Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from spontaneous speech plays an important role in its early diagnosis. Recent approaches highly rely on the Transformer architectu…

cs.SD2024★ 14 cited

emoDARTS: Joint Optimisation of CNN & Sequential Neural Network Architectures for Superior Speech Emotion Recognition

Thejan Rajapakshe, Rajib Rana, Sara Khalifa +3

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is crucial for enabling computers to understand the emotions conveyed in human communication. With recent advancements in Deep Learning (DL), the p…

cs.CL2023

Customising General Large Language Models for Specialised Emotion Recognition Tasks

Liyizhe Peng, Zixing Zhang, Tao Pang +4

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has gained tremendous attention over the past year. Previous studies have shown the astonishing performance of LLMs not only in other tas…

cs.SD2022

Multitask Learning from Augmented Auxiliary Data for Improving Speech Emotion Recognition

Siddique Latif, Rajib Rana, Sara Khalifa +2

Despite the recent progress in speech emotion recognition (SER), state-of-the-art systems lack generalisation across different conditions. A key underlying reason for poor generali…

cs.SD2022★ 4 cited

Domain Adapting Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-world Speech Emotion Recognition

Thejan Rajapakshe, Rajib Rana, Sara Khalifa +1

Computers can understand and then engage with people in an emotionally intelligent way thanks to speech-emotion recognition (SER). However, the performance of SER in cross-corpus a…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Normalise for Fairness: A Simple Normalisation Technique for Fairness in Regression Machine Learning Problems

Mostafa M. Amin, Björn W. Schuller

Algorithms and Machine Learning (ML) are increasingly affecting everyday life and several decision-making processes, where ML has an advantage due to scalability or superior perfor…

cs.SD2020★ 68 cited

Deep Representation Learning in Speech Processing: Challenges, Recent Advances, and Future Trends

Siddique Latif, Rajib Rana, Sara Khalifa +3

Research on speech processing has traditionally considered the task of designing hand-engineered acoustic features (feature engineering) as a separate distinct problem from the tas…

cs.SD2019★ 5 cited

Pre-training in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition

Thejan Rajapakshe, Rajib Rana, Siddique Latif +2

Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) is a combination of deep learning with reinforcement learning principles to create efficient methods that can learn by interacting with its en…