13 papers
DRONEAUDIONET: Noise Suppression for Drone Audition-based Search and Rescue
Chitralekha Gupta, Soundarya Ramesh, Yifei Luo +1
Microphones mounted on UAVs enable aerial acoustic scene analysis applications such as search-and-rescue, wildlife monitoring, and industrial inspection. However, drone rotor noise…
Beyond Descriptions: A Generative Scene2Audio Framework for Blind and Low-Vision Users to Experience Vista Landscapes
Chitralekha Gupta, Jing Peng, Ashwin Ram +3
Current scene perception tools for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) individuals rely on spoken descriptions but lack engaging representations of visually pleasing distant environmental l…
VisceroHaptics: Investigating the Effects of Gut-based Audio-Haptic Feedback on Gastric Feelings and Gastric Interoceptive Behavior
Mia Huong Nguyen, Moritz Alexander Messerschmidt, Jochen Huber +1
Gastric interoception influences eating behavior and emotions, making its modulation valuable for healthcare and human-computer-interaction applications. However, whether gastric i…
DroneAudioset: An Audio Dataset for Drone-based Search and Rescue
Chitralekha Gupta, Soundarya Ramesh, Praveen Sasikumar +2
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones, are increasingly used in search and rescue missions to detect human presence. Existing systems primarily leverage vision-based methods wh…
Towards Temporally Explainable Dysarthric Speech Clarity Assessment
Seohyun Park, Chitralekha Gupta, Michelle Kah Yian Kwan +3
Dysarthria, a motor speech disorder, affects intelligibility and requires targeted interventions for effective communication. In this work, we investigate automated mispronunciatio…
EmoSign: A Multimodal Dataset for Understanding Emotions in American Sign Language
Phoebe Chua, Cathy Mengying Fang, Takehiko Ohkawa +3
Unlike spoken languages where the use of prosodic features to convey emotion is well studied, indicators of emotion in sign language remain poorly understood, creating communicatio…