Information & computer science publications

We present a defense against coercion attacks using the concept of implicit learning from cognitive psychology. We use a carefully crafted computer game to plant a secret password in the participant’s brain…

In this paper, we present the Modulation of Medium Duration Speech Amplitude feature, which is a composite feature capturing subband speech modulations and a summary modulation.

We elicit personal-assistant speech using a recognizer with a dramatically increased endpoint threshold, and find frequent non-final pauses. Based on the new data, we develop low-cost acoustic features to discriminate…

In this paper, we build on our previous work and study the feasibility of an operational deployment of an adaptive ensemble-method framework for modeling cell behavior.

Accurate phone-level segmentation of speech remains an important task for many subfields of speech research. We investigate techniques for boosting the accuracy of automatic phonetic segmentation based on HMM acoustic-phonetic…

We sketch a pragmatic but principled mechanism for quantifying the level of completeness of goals in a Belief-Desire-Intention--like agent.

In this work, we propose an efficient simplification scheme, named sVTS, in order to show that the VTS approach gives improvements in large scale applications compared to state-of-the-art systems.

We address the problem of subselecting a large set of acoustic data to train automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To this end, we apply a novel data selection technique based…

This paper addresses a new control strategy to reduce the damage to a humanoid robot during a fall. Instead of following the traditional approach of finding a favorable configuration with…