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eess.AS2026

Bridging the Age Gap: Towards Detecting Neural Audio Codec Synthesized Elderly Speech Deepfake

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +1

In this study, we introduce the Elderly CodecFake Detection (ECFD) task and release the Elderly-CodecFake (ECF) dataset in English and Chinese. We show that state-of-the-art CF det…

eess.AS2026

Towards Detecting Neural Audio Codec Synthesized Heart Sounds

Girish, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +3

In this paper, we introduce Synthetic Heart Sound Detection (SHAC), a task aimed at identifying phonocardiograms (PCGs) synthesized using neural audio codecs (NACs). To facilitate…

eess.AS2026

Bridging the SEA Gap: An Initial Benchmark for Neural Audio Codec-Synthesized Speech Deepfakes in South-East Asian Languages

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +1

Codecfakes (CFs) are a type of speech deepfakes generated through Audio Language Models (ALMs), with Neural Audio Codecs (NACs) forming the core mechanism for speech encoding and g…

cs.CR2026

Impact Analysis of Speech Representation Learning Models for Acoustic Side-Channel Attack

Nitin Choudhury, Bikrant Bikram Pratap Maurya, Arun Balaji Buduru +2

Acoustic side-channel attacks (ASCA) on keyboards have gained increasing attention, yet impact of speech representation learning models in ASCA remains unexplored. Addressing this,…

cs.MM2026

RoboKA: KAN Informed Multimodal Learning for RoboCall Surveillance System

Nitin Choudhury, Nikhil Kumar, Aditya Kumar Sinha +5

Wide exploration on robocall surveillance research is hindered due to limited access to public datasets, due to privacy concerns. In this work, we first curate Robo-SAr, a syntheti…

eess.AS2026

Indic-CodecFake meets SATYAM: Towards Detecting Neural Audio Codec Synthesized Speech Deepfakes in Indic Languages

Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Orchid Chetia Phukan +1

The rapid advancement of Audio Large Language Models (ALMs), driven by Neural Audio Codecs (NACs), has led to the emergence of highly realistic speech deepfakes, commonly referred…

cs.CR2026

FOCA: Multimodal Malware Classification via Hyperbolic Cross-Attention

Nitin Choudhury, Bikrant Bikram Pratap Maurya, Orchid Chetia Phukan +1

In this work, we introduce FOCA, a novel multimodal framework for malware classification that jointly leverages audio and visual modalities. Unlike conventional Euclidean-based fus…

eess.AS2025

Are Multimodal Foundation Models All That Is Needed for Emofake Detection?

Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Girish, Orchid Chetia Phukan +5

In this work, we investigate multimodal foundation models (MFMs) for EmoFake detection (EFD) and hypothesize that they will outperform audio foundation models (AFMs). MFMs due to t…

eess.AS2025

SNIFR : Boosting Fine-Grained Child Harmful Content Detection Through Audio-Visual Alignment with Cascaded Cross-Transformer

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Girish +8

As video-sharing platforms have grown over the past decade, child viewership has surged, increasing the need for precise detection of harmful content like violence or explicit scen…

eess.AS2025

Are Mamba-based Audio Foundation Models the Best Fit for Non-Verbal Emotion Recognition?

Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish +5

In this work, we focus on non-verbal vocal sounds emotion recognition (NVER). We investigate mamba-based audio foundation models (MAFMs) for the first time for NVER and hypothesize…

eess.AS2025

Source Tracing of Synthetic Speech Systems Through Paralinguistic Pre-Trained Representations

Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Orchid Chetia Phukan +5

In this work, we focus on source tracing of synthetic speech generation systems (STSGS). Each source embeds distinctive paralinguistic features--such as pitch, tone, rhythm, and in…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Investigating Prosodic Signatures via Speech Pre-Trained Models for Audio Deepfake Source Attribution

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Drishti Singh, Swarup Ranjan Behera +2

In this work, we investigate various state-of-the-art (SOTA) speech pre-trained models (PTMs) for their capability to capture prosodic signatures of the generative sources for audi…

eess.AS2024

Multi-View Multi-Task Modeling with Speech Foundation Models for Speech Forensic Tasks

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Devyani Koshal, Swarup Ranjan Behera +2

Speech forensic tasks (SFTs), such as automatic speaker recognition (ASR), speech emotion recognition (SER), gender recognition (GR), and age estimation (AE), find use in different…

eess.AS2024

SeQuiFi: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Speech Emotion Recognition with Sequential Class-Finetuning

Sarthak Jain, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Swarup Ranjan Behera +2

In this work, we introduce SeQuiFi, a novel approach for mitigating catastrophic forgetting (CF) in speech emotion recognition (SER). SeQuiFi adopts a sequential class-finetuning s…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

Avengers Assemble: Amalgamation of Non-Semantic Features for Depression Detection

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Swarup Ranjan Behera, Shubham Singh +5

In this study, we address the challenge of depression detection from speech, focusing on the potential of non-semantic features (NSFs) to capture subtle markers of depression. Whil…

eess.AS2024

Strong Alone, Stronger Together: Synergizing Modality-Binding Foundation Models with Optimal Transport for Non-Verbal Emotion Recognition

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Girish +5

In this study, we investigate multimodal foundation models (MFMs) for emotion recognition from non-verbal sounds. We hypothesize that MFMs, with their joint pre-training across mul…

eess.AS2024

Are Music Foundation Models Better at Singing Voice Deepfake Detection? Far-Better Fuse them with Speech Foundation Models

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Sarthak Jain, Swarup Ranjan Behera +3

In this study, for the first time, we extensively investigate whether music foundation models (MFMs) or speech foundation models (SFMs) work better for singing voice deepfake detec…

eess.AS2024★ 2 cited

ASGIR: Audio Spectrogram Transformer Guided Classification And Information Retrieval For Birds

Yashwardhan Chaudhuri, Paridhi Mundra, Arnesh Batra +2

Recognition and interpretation of bird vocalizations are pivotal in ornithological research and ecological conservation efforts due to their significance in understanding avian beh…

eess.AS2024

VoxMed: One-Step Respiratory Disease Classifier using Digital Stethoscope Sounds

Paridhi Mundra, Manik Sharma, Yashwardhan Chaudhuri +2

As respiratory illnesses become more common, it is crucial to quickly and accurately detect them to improve patient care. There is a need for improved diagnostic methods for immedi…

cs.LG2024

Modality-Order Matters! A Novel Hierarchical Feature Fusion Method for CoSAm: A Code-Switched Autism Corpus

Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Girish, Muskaan Singh +1

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neuro-developmental challenge, presenting a spectrum of difficulties in social interaction, communication, and the expression of repetit…

eess.AS2024

AVR: Synergizing Foundation Models for Audio-Visual Humor Detection

Sarthak Sharma, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Drishti Singh +2

In this work, we present, AVR application for audio-visual humor detection. While humor detection has traditionally centered around textual analysis, recent advancements have spotl…

cs.LG2024

Towards Multilingual Audio-Visual Question Answering

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Priyabrata Mallick, Swarup Ranjan Behera +3

In this paper, we work towards extending Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) to multilingual settings. Existing AVQA research has predominantly revolved around English and repli…

eess.AS2024

The Reasonable Effectiveness of Speaker Embeddings for Violence Detection

Sarthak Jain, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Arun Balaji Buduru +1

In this paper, we focus on audio violence detection (AVD). AVD is necessary for several reasons, especially in the context of maintaining safety, preventing harm, and ensuring secu…

eess.AS2024

PERSONA: An Application for Emotion Recognition, Gender Recognition and Age Estimation

Devyani Koshal, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Sarthak Jain +2

Emotion Recognition (ER), Gender Recognition (GR), and Age Estimation (AE) constitute paralinguistic tasks that rely not on the spoken content but primarily on speech characteristi…