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9 papers

cs.SD2026

Beyond Residual Connections: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections for Robust Speaker Representation Learning

Zezhong Jin, Xiaoyu Wang, Zhe Li +4

Residual connections are fundamental to deep speaker recogni- tion models, such as ECAPA-TDNN and ResNet. However, standard identity mapping limits information flow to a sin- gle p…

cs.MM2026

EmoEUS: Uncertainty Supervision for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Zilong Huang, Kong Aik Lee, Junjie Li +2

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) can leverage multimodal and contextual cues to boost recognition performance. However, existing fusion approaches in MERC ofte…

cs.MM2026

EII-SCL: Harnessing Emotional Inertia for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Zilong Huang, Kong Aik Lee, Chong-Xin Gan +3

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) achieves accurate predictions by integrating multimodal and contextual information in dialogues. While current MERC approaches…

eess.AS2026

Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using Discrete Audio Tokens

Zheng Liang, Junjie Li, Kong Aik Lee

Neural audio codecs (NACs) enable efficient audio compression and have achieved success in downstream tasks such as speech synthesis. However, their discrete representations consis…

cs.SD2026

Towards Robust Uncertainty-Aware Speaker Modeling

Junjie Li, Yang Xiao, Kong Aik Lee

Speaker embeddings aggregate frame-level acoustic features into compact representations for speaker recognition. Recent uncertainty-aware speaker modeling approaches further charac…

eess.AS2026

UNet-Based Fusion and Exponential Moving Average Adaptation for Noise-Robust Speaker Recognition

Chong-Xin Gan, Peter Bell, Man-Wai Mak +4

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm…