4 papers
Beyond saliency: enhancing explanation of speech emotion recognition with expert-referenced acoustic cues
Seham Nasr, Zhao Ren, David Johnson
Explainable AI (XAI) for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is critical for building transparent, trustworthy models. Current saliency-based methods, adapted from vision, highlight s…
Machine Unlearning in Speech Emotion Recognition via Forget Set Alone
Zhao Ren, Rathi Adarshi Rammohan, Kevin Scheck +1
Speech emotion recognition aims to identify emotional states from speech signals and has been widely applied in human-computer interaction, education, healthcare, and many other fi…
An Introduction to Silent Paralinguistics
Zhao Ren, Simon Pistrosch, Buket Coşkun +4
The ability to speak is an inherent part of human nature and fundamental to our existence as a social species. Unfortunately, this ability can be restricted in certain situations,…
End-to-end Acoustic-linguistic Emotion and Intent Recognition Enhanced by Semi-supervised Learning
Zhao Ren, Rathi Adarshi Rammohan, Kevin Scheck +2
Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, a…