3 papers
cs.SD2026
Cleaner Speech, Weaker Generalization: Revisiting Pitt-Derived Benchmarks for Alzheimer's Disease Detection
Luqi Sun, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Lin Zhang +5
Speech-based Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection increasingly relies on speech-enhanced and curated versions of the Pitt Corpus, where speech enhancement, sample selection, and demo…
cs.CL2026
Emotion Across Speech and Faces: Shared Affective Mechanisms in Multimodal Foundation Models
Xiutian Zhao, Luqi Sun, Björn Schuller +1
Modern multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have made rapid progress on tasks requiring integrated perception across speech, vision, and language, including emotion recognition. How…
eess.AS2026
Who is Speaking or Who is Depressed? A Controlled Study of Speaker Leakage in Speech-Based Depression Detection
Hsiang-Chen Yeh, Luqi Sun, Aurosweta Mahapatra +3
This study investigates whether speech-based depression detection models learn depression-related acoustic biomarkers or instead rely on speaker identity cues. Using the DAIC-WOZ d…