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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,814 Views
16 Pages

Black-Box Watermarking and Blockchain for IP Protection of Voiceprint Recognition Model

  • Jing Zhang,
  • Long Dai,
  • Liaoran Xu,
  • Jixin Ma and
  • Xiaoyi Zhou

1 September 2023

Deep neural networks are widely used for voiceprint recognition, whilst voiceprint recognition models are vulnerable to attacks. Existing protection schemes for voiceprint recognition models are insufficient to withstand various robustness attacks an...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
8,766 Views
25 Pages

30 December 2022

The detection and classification of engine-based moving objects in restricted scenes from acoustic signals allow better Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)-specific intelligent systems and audio-based surveillance systems. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,500 Views
17 Pages

Deep Learning System for Speech Command Recognition

  • Dejan Vujičić,
  • Đorđe Damnjanović,
  • Dušan Marković and
  • Zoran Stamenković

24 September 2025

We present a deep learning model for the recognition of speech commands in the English language. The dataset is based on the Google Speech Commands Dataset by Warden P., version 0.01, and it consists of ten distinct commands (“left”, &ldq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence: New Methods for Data Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,307 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2024

Emotion recognition by social robots is a serious challenge because sometimes people also do not cope with it. It is important to use information about emotions from all possible sources: facial expression, speech, or reactions occurring in the body....

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,691 Views
28 Pages

DeepHits: A Multimodal CNN Approach to Hit Song Prediction

  • Michael Nofer,
  • Valdrin Nimani and
  • Oliver Hinz

Hit Song Science aims to forecast a song’s success before release and benefits from integrating signals beyond audio content alone. We present DeepHits, an end-to-end multimodal network that combines (i) log-Mel spectrogram embeddings from a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,303 Views
13 Pages

High-Quality Text-to-Speech Implementation via Active Shallow Diffusion Mechanism

  • Junlin Deng,
  • Ruihan Hou,
  • Yan Deng,
  • Yongqiu Long and
  • Ning Wu

30 January 2025

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have proven to be useful in text-to-speech (TTS) tasks; however, it has been a challenge for traditional diffusion models to carry out real-time processing because of the need for hundreds of sampling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Machine-Learning Based Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,060 Views
19 Pages

28 December 2025

Accurate estimation of aircraft operations, such as takeoffs and landings, is critical for airport planning and resource allocation, yet it remains particularly challenging at non-towered airports, where no dedicated surveillance infrastructure exist...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Machine Learning and Automation for Air Traffic Control (ATC))
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,452 Views
23 Pages

Benchmarking Pretrained Models for Speech Emotion Recognition: A Focus on Xception

  • Ahmed Hassan,
  • Tehreem Masood,
  • Hassan A. Ahmed,
  • H. M. Shahzad and
  • Hafiz Muhammad Tayyab Khushi

27 November 2024

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an emerging technology that utilizes speech sounds to identify a speaker’s emotional state. Computational intelligence is receiving increasing attention from academics, health, and social media applications....

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,991 Views
19 Pages

Respiratory diseases are among the leading causes of death, with many individuals in a population frequently affected by various types of pulmonary disorders. Early diagnosis and patient monitoring (traditionally involving lung auscultation) are esse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT Technology in Bioengineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
549 Views
29 Pages

Automated Acoustic Side-Channel Attack on Keyboard Inputs via Combined Video–Audio Analysis

  • Dario Vranješ,
  • Ivo Stančić,
  • Marin Bugarić and
  • Toni Perković

Acoustic side-channel attacks (ASCAs) exploit unintended sound emitted by keyboards to infer typed input, but existing methods generally assume manually labelled training data and controlled environments, limiting their applicability to realistic sce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Progress in Embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) Systems Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,806 Views
27 Pages

Detection and Classification of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Audio Spectrogram Analysis

  • Salvatore Serrano,
  • Luca Patanè,
  • Omar Serghini and
  • Marco Scarpa

Sleep disorders are steadily increasing in the population and can significantly affect daily life. Low-cost and noninvasive systems that can assist the diagnostic process will become increasingly widespread in the coming years. This work aims to inve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Processing and Computer Vision Based on Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,483 Views
20 Pages

Due to increased air traffic flow, air traffic controllers (ATCs) operate in a state of high load or even overload for long periods of time, which can seriously affect the reliability and efficiency of controllers’ commands. Thus, the early ide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Air Traffic and Airspace Control and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,984 Views
21 Pages

Speech lie detection is a technique that analyzes speech signals in detail to determine whether a speaker is lying. It has significant application value and has attracted attention from various fields. However, existing speech lie detection algorithm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
414 Views
39 Pages

31 August 2026

Early diagnosis is essential for the effective management of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Although conventional auscultation is the primary screening method, its reliance on subjective interpretation and susceptibility to clinical background noise...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
724 Views
32 Pages

Addressing the Dissimulation Problem in the Assessment of Suicide Risk Using CNN-Based Voice Analysis: A Proof-of-Concept Study

  • Adela Magdalena Ciobanu,
  • Ana Voichita Tebeanu,
  • Vlad Tau,
  • Anca Ana Chendea and ,
  • Eduard Dan Franti,
  • Catalin Niculae,
  • Claudiu Ionut Vasile,
  • George Florian Macarie,
  • Liliana Neagu and
  • Gabriela Iorgulescu
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

Background/Objectives: Suicide remains a major public health concern, with over 700,000 deaths annually worldwide. Current risk assessment is limited by the tendency of at-risk patients to deny suicidal ideation, with denial rates of approximately 50...

(This article belongs to the Section Clinical Neurobiology, Precision Psychiatry and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,630 Views
21 Pages

6 November 2025

With the widespread use of audio editing software and artificial intelligence, it has become very easy to forge audio files. One type of these forgeries is copy-move forgery, which is achieved by copying a segment from an audio file and placing it in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimedia Smart Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,885 Views
22 Pages

Augmenting Aquaculture Efficiency through Involutional Neural Networks and Self-Attention for Oplegnathus Punctatus Feeding Intensity Classification from Log Mel Spectrograms

  • Usama Iqbal,
  • Daoliang Li,
  • Zhuangzhuang Du,
  • Muhammad Akhter and ,
  • Zohaib Mushtaq,
  • Muhammad Farrukh Qureshi and
  • Hafiz Abbad Ur Rehman
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 June 2024

Understanding the feeding dynamics of aquatic animals is crucial for aquaculture optimization and ecosystem management. This paper proposes a novel framework for analyzing fish feeding behavior based on a fusion of spectrogram-extracted features and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Animal Health and Welfare in Aquaculture)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,417 Views
18 Pages

Enhancing the Accuracy of Image Classification for Degenerative Brain Diseases with CNN Ensemble Models Using Mel-Spectrograms

  • Sang-Ha Sung,
  • Michael Pokojovy,
  • Do-Young Kang,
  • Woo-Yong Bae and ,
  • Yeon-Jae Hong and
  • Sangjin Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 June 2025

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) are prevalent neurodegenerative disorders among the elderly, leading to cognitive decline and motor impairments. As the population ages, the prevalence of these neurodegenerative disor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistics and Data Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,740 Views
29 Pages

Spectrogram Features for Audio and Speech Analysis

  • Ian McLoughlin,
  • Lam Pham,
  • Yan Song,
  • Xiaoxiao Miao and ,
  • Huy Phan,
  • Pengfei Cai,
  • Qing Gu,
  • Jiang Nan,
  • Haoyu Song and
  • Donny Soh
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

6 January 2026

Spectrogram-based representations have grown to dominate the feature space for deep learning audio analysis systems, and are often adopted for speech analysis also. Initially, the primary motivation behind spectrogram-based representations was their...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Audio Analysis: Spectrogram-Based Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,137 Views
23 Pages

IoT-Enabled WBAN and Machine Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition in Patients

  • Damilola D. Olatinwo,
  • Adnan Abu-Mahfouz,
  • Gerhard Hancke and
  • Hermanus Myburgh

8 March 2023

Internet of things (IoT)-enabled wireless body area network (WBAN) is an emerging technology that combines medical devices, wireless devices, and non-medical devices for healthcare management applications. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an activ...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Citations
14,822 Views
18 Pages

16 April 2021

Speaker identification is a classification task which aims to identify a subject from a given time-series sequential data. Since the speech signal is a continuous one-dimensional time series, most of the current research methods are based on convolut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Signal Processing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,899 Views
14 Pages

3D Convolution Recurrent Neural Networks for Multi-Label Earthquake Magnitude Classification

  • Muhammad Shakeel,
  • Kenji Nishida,
  • Katsutoshi Itoyama and
  • Kazuhiro Nakadai

20 February 2022

We examine a classification task in which signals of naturally occurring earthquakes are categorized ranging from minor to major, based on their magnitude. Generalized to a single-label classification task, most prior investigations have focused on a...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,702 Views
21 Pages

LightFD: Real-Time Fault Diagnosis with Edge Intelligence for Power Transformers

  • Xinhua Fu,
  • Kejun Yang,
  • Min Liu,
  • Tianzhang Xing and
  • Chase Wu

15 July 2022

Power fault monitoring based on acoustic waves has gained a great deal of attention in industry. Existing methods for fault diagnosis typically collect sound signals on site and transmit them to a back-end server for analysis, which may fail to provi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parallel and Edge Computing with Artificial Intelligence for Sensor Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,978 Views
20 Pages

28 March 2025

Voice data contain a wealth of temporal and spectral information and can be a valuable resource for disease classification. However, traditional methods are often not effective in capturing the key features required for the classification of multiple...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical & Healthcare AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,108 Views
26 Pages

21 October 2025

Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) faces distinct challenges due to its complex morphology, dialectal variations, and the presence of diacritical marks that strongly influence pronunciation and meaning. This study introduces a lightweight appr...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,132 Views
5 Pages

Audiovisual Fusion Technique for Detecting Sensitive Content in Videos

  • Daniel Povedano Álvarez,
  • Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco and
  • Luis Javier García Villalba

2 February 2026

The detection of sensitive content in online videos is a key challenge for ensuring digital safety and effective content moderation. This work proposes the Multimodal Audiovisual Attention (MAV-Att), a multimodal deep learning framework that jointly...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of First Summer School on Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,134 Views
16 Pages

3 July 2024

Although recent data-driven Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition (UATR) methods have played a dominant role in marine acoustics, they suffer from complex ocean environments and rather small datasets. To tackle such challenges, researchers have reso...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Space-Air-Ground-Ocean Integrated Sensing and Information Transmission)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
13,365 Views
19 Pages

14 February 2025

Recorded audio often contains speech from multiple people in conversation. It is useful to label such signals with speaker turns, noting when each speaker is talking and identifying each speaker. This paper discusses how to process speech signals to...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,740 Views
12 Pages

Research on Pantograph Defect Classification Based on Vibration Signals

  • Vytautas Gargasas,
  • Kęstas Rimkus,
  • Mindaugas Alekna,
  • Andrius Knyš and ,
  • Mindaugas Žilys and
  • Algimantas Valinevičius
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 December 2024

Pantograph-based electrical current transmission systems are used in electric traction vehicles. The contact surface between the pantograph and the catenary wire experiences mechanical and thermal effects during the train’s movement. Typically,...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,780 Views
14 Pages

Water Pipeline Leakage Detection Based on Coherent φ-OTDR and Deep Learning Technology

  • Shuo Zhang,
  • Zijian Xiong,
  • Boyuan Ji,
  • Nan Li and ,
  • Zhangwei Yu,
  • Shengnan Wu and
  • Sailing He
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 April 2024

Leakage in water supply pipelines remains a significant challenge. It leads to resource and economic waste. Researchers have developed several leak detection methods, including the use of embedded sensors and pressure prediction. The former approach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optical-Fiber-Related Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,599 Views
18 Pages

27 February 2025

This work proposes an approach that uses a feature space by combining the representation obtained in the unsupervised learning process and manually selected features defining the prosody of the utterances. In the experiments, we used two time-frequen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,790 Views
11 Pages

Research on Speech Synthesis Based on Mixture Alignment Mechanism

  • Yan Deng,
  • Ning Wu,
  • Chengjun Qiu,
  • Yan Chen and
  • Xueshan Gao

20 August 2023

In recent years, deep learning-based speech synthesis has attracted a lot of attention from the machine learning and speech communities. In this paper, we propose Mixture-TTS, a non-autoregressive speech synthesis model based on mixture alignment mec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue VOICE Sensors with Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,254 Views
18 Pages

29 November 2021

This study compared popular Deep Learning (DL) architectures to classify machining surface roughness using sound and force data. The DL architectures considered in this study include Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP), Convolution Neural Network (CNN), Lon...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,017 Views
24 Pages

10 November 2019

We evaluated electrocardiogram (ECG) biometrics using pre-configured models of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with various time-frequency representations. Biometrics technology records a person’s physical or behavioral characteristics in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrocardiogram (ECG) Signal and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,480 Views
15 Pages

Combining CBAM and Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm for Compressive Sensing of Bird Images

  • Dan Lv,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Danjv Lv,
  • Jing Lu and ,
  • Yixing Fu and
  • Zhun Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 September 2024

Bird research contributes to understanding species diversity, ecosystem functions, and the maintenance of biodiversity. By analyzing bird images and the audio of birds, we can monitor bird distribution, abundance, and behavior to better understand th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,727 Views
16 Pages

22 November 2024

Musical instrument recognition is a relatively unexplored area of machine learning due to the need to analyze complex spatial–temporal audio features. Traditional methods using individual spectrograms, like STFT, Log-Mel, and MFCC, often miss t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Audio Analysis: Spectrogram-Based Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,677 Views
16 Pages

24 January 2021

In this paper, feature extraction methods are developed based on the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) algorithm to be applied in weakly supervised sound event detection. Recently, the development of various features and systems have been attem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Methods with Noisy, Incomplete or Small Datasets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,003 Views
19 Pages

23 February 2022

In this publication, we present a deep learning-based method to transform the f0 in speech and singing voice recordings. f0 transformation is performed by training an auto-encoder on the voice signal’s mel-spectrogram and conditioning the auto-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing Based on Convolutional Neural Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,492 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2022

Rope jumping, as a fitness exercise recommended by many sports medicine practitioners, can improve cardiorespiratory capacity and physical coordination. Existing rope jump monitoring systems have limitations in terms of convenience, comfort, and exer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Sensing Technology and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
13,298 Views
13 Pages

9 April 2019

Text-to-speech synthesis is a computational technique for producing synthetic, human-like speech by a computer. In recent years, speech synthesis techniques have developed, and have been employed in many applications, such as automatic translation ap...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,297 Views
12 Pages

Recognition of Emotions in Speech Using Convolutional Neural Networks on Different Datasets

  • Marta Zielonka,
  • Artur Piastowski,
  • Andrzej Czyżewski,
  • Paweł Nadachowski and ,
  • Maksymilian Operlejn and
  • Kamil Kaczor
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2022

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), were applied to extract emotions based on spectrograms and mel-spectrograms. This study uses spectrograms and mel-spectrograms to investigate which feature extr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Neural Networks for Speech and Language Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,142 Views
13 Pages

27 July 2024

A speech signal can provide various information about a speaker, such as their gender, age, accent, and emotional state. The gender of the speaker is the most salient piece of information contained in the speech signal and is directly or indirectly u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,360 Views
25 Pages

Acoustic Signatures of Hive: Detecting Queen Bee Absence Through Machine Learning of Short Audio Segments

  • Pablo Ormeño-Arriagada,
  • Cristopher Jiménez,
  • Ramón Arias Gilart,
  • Daniel Ramírez and
  • Karen Yañez

25 May 2026

Honeybee population decline poses a serious threat to global biodiversity and agricultural productivity, underscoring the need for continuous and non-invasive hive monitoring solutions. In particular, early detection of queen absence is critical for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biology and Conservation of Honey Bees)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,371 Views
19 Pages

Empirical Mode Decomposition-Based Feature Extraction for Environmental Sound Classification

  • Ammar Ahmed,
  • Youssef Serrestou,
  • Kosai Raoof and
  • Jean-François Diouris

11 October 2022

In environment sound classification, log Mel band energies (MBEs) are considered as the most successful and commonly used features for classification. The underlying algorithm, fast Fourier transform (FFT), is valid under certain restrictions. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,580 Views
26 Pages

Marine Mammal Call Classification Using a Multi-Scale Two-Channel Fusion Network (MT-Resformer)

  • Xiang Li,
  • Chao Dong,
  • Guixin Dong,
  • Xuerong Cui and ,
  • Yankun Chen,
  • Peng Zhang and
  • Zhanwei Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The classification of high-frequency marine mammal vocalizations often faces challenges due to the limitations of acoustic features, which are sensitive to mid-to-low frequencies but offer low resolution in high-frequency ranges. Additionally, single...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,671 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2023

Environmental sound classification (ESC) tasks are attracting more and more attention. Due to the complexity of the scene and personnel mobility, there are some difficulties in understanding and generating environmental sound models for ESC tasks. To...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,748 Views
26 Pages

21 August 2025

Gunshot sound classification plays a crucial role in public safety, forensic investigations, and intelligent surveillance systems. This study evaluates the performance of deep learning models in classifying firearm sounds by analyzing twelve time&nda...

(This article belongs to the Section Image and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,555 Views
24 Pages

Age Prediction from Korean Speech Data Using Neural Networks with Diverse Voice Features

  • Hayeon Ku,
  • Jiho Lee,
  • Minseo Lee,
  • Seulgi Kim and
  • Janghyeok Yoon

27 January 2025

A person’s voice serves as an indicator of age, as it changes with anatomical and physiological influences throughout their life. Although age prediction is a subject of interest across various disciplines, age-prediction studies using Korean v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Speech, Image and Language Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,422 Views
34 Pages

3 November 2020

Over the past few years, the study of environmental sound classification (ESC) has become very popular due to the intricate nature of environmental sounds. This paper reports our study on employing various acoustic features aggregation and data enhan...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,618 Views
16 Pages

29 September 2023

In the current field of air traffic control speech, there is a lack of effective objective speech quality evaluation methods. This paper proposes a new network framework based on ResNet–BiLSTM to address this issue. Firstly, the mel-spectrogram...

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