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20232025
most citedComFeAT: Combination of Neural and Spectral Features for Improved Depression Detection

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eess.AS2025

Towards Neural Audio Codec Source Parsing

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +2

A new class of audio deepfakes-codecfakes (CFs)-has recently caught attention, synthesized by Audio Language Models that leverage neural audio codecs (NACs) in the backend. In resp…

eess.AS2025

HYFuse: Aligning Heterogeneous Speech Pre-Trained Representations in Hyperbolic Space for Speech Emotion Recognition

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +4

Compression-based representations (CBRs) from neural audio codecs such as EnCodec capture intricate acoustic features like pitch and timbre, while representation-learning-based rep…

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

Towards Source Attribution of Singing Voice Deepfake with Multimodal Foundation Models

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +5

In this work, we introduce the task of singing voice deepfake source attribution (SVDSA). We hypothesize that multimodal foundation models (MMFMs) such as ImageBind, LanguageBind w…

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

Investigating the Reasonable Effectiveness of Speaker Pre-Trained Models and their Synergistic Power for SingMOS Prediction

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +4

In this study, we focus on Singing Voice Mean Opinion Score (SingMOS) prediction. Previous research have shown the performance benefit with the use of state-of-the-art (SOTA) pre-t…

eess.AS2025

Towards Machine Unlearning for Paralinguistic Speech Processing

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +6

In this work, we pioneer the study of Machine Unlearning (MU) for Paralinguistic Speech Processing (PSP). We focus on two key PSP tasks: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) and Depres…

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.AS2025

Towards Fusion of Neural Audio Codec-based Representations with Spectral for Heart Murmur Classification via Bandit-based Cross-Attention Mechanism

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +5

In this study, we focus on heart murmur classification (HMC) and hypothesize that combining neural audio codec representations (NACRs) such as EnCodec with spectral features (SFs),…

eess.AS2025

PARROT: Synergizing Mamba and Attention-based SSL Pre-Trained Models via Parallel Branch Hadamard Optimal Transport for Speech Emotion Recognition

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Girish +4

The emergence of Mamba as an alternative to attention-based architectures has led to the development of Mamba-based self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-trained models (PTMs) for spe…

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★ 1 cited

Beyond Speech and More: Investigating the Emergent Ability of Speech Foundation Models for Classifying Physiological Time-Series Signals

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Swarup Ranjan Behera, Girish +3

Despite being trained exclusively on speech data, speech foundation models (SFMs) like Whisper have shown impressive performance in non-speech tasks such as audio classification. T…

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

Representation Loss Minimization with Randomized Selection Strategy for Efficient Environmental Fake Audio Detection

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar +5

The adaptation of foundation models has significantly advanced environmental audio deepfake detection (EADD), a rapidly growing area of research. These models are typically fine-tu…

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

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…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

ComFeAT: Combination of Neural and Spectral Features for Improved Depression Detection

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Sarthak Jain, Shubham Singh +3

In this work, we focus on the detection of depression through speech analysis. Previous research has widely explored features extracted from pre-trained models (PTMs) primarily tra…

eess.AS2024

CoLLAB: A Collaborative Approach for Multilingual Abuse Detection

Orchid Chetia Phukan, Yashasvi Chaurasia, Arun Balaji Buduru +1

In this study, we investigate representations from paralingual Pre-Trained model (PTM) for Audio Abuse Detection (AAD), which has not been explored for AAD. Our results demonstrate…