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BabAR: from phoneme recognition to developmental measures of young children's speech production

Marvin Lavechin, Elika Bergelson, Roger Levy · 2026

Studying early speech development at scale requires automatic tools, yet automatic phoneme recognition, especially for young children, remains largely unsolved. Building on decades of data collection,…

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BaldWhisper: Faster Whisper with Head Shearing and Layer Merging

Yaya Sy, Christophe Cerisara, Irina Illina · 2025

Pruning large pre-trained transformers for low-resource languages is challenging, as it often requires massive retraining data to recover performance. For instance, Distill-Whisper prunes Whisper by 4…

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Low-resource keyword spotting using contrastively trained transformer acoustic word embeddings

Julian Herreilers, Christiaan Jacobs, Thomas Niesler · 2025

We introduce a new approach, the ContrastiveTransformer, that produces acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) for the purpose of very low-resource keyword spotting. The ContrastiveTransformer, an encoder-onl…

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Music Therapy based Stress Prediction using Homological Feature Analysis on EEG Signals

Srikireddy Dhanunjay Reddy, Tharun Kumar Reddy Bollu · 2025

Stress became a common factor in the busy daily routines of all academic and corporate working environments. Everyone checks for efficient stress-buster alternatives to calm down from work pressure. I…

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Gait Disorder Assessment Based on a Large-Scale Clinical Trial: WiFi vs. Video vs. Doctor's Visual Inspection

Alireza Parsay, Mert Torun, Philip R. Delio, Yasamin Mostofi · 2025

Neurological gait disorders affect a large population, significantly reducing life quality. This paper brings a foundational understanding to the potentials of emerging sensing modalities (e.g., WiFi)…

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A Monolithic Cybersecurity Architecture for Power Electronic Systems

Kirti Gupta, Subham Sahoo, Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi · 2024

Power electronic systems (PES) face significant threats from various data availability and integrity attacks, significantly affecting the performance of communication networks and power system operati…

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Online learning for robust voltage control under uncertain grid topology

Christopher Yeh, Jing Yu, Yuanyuan Shi, Adam Wierman · 2023

Voltage control generally requires accurate information about the grid's topology in order to guarantee network stability. However, accurate topology identification is challenging for existing methods…

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Multilingual training set selection for ASR in under-resourced Malian languages

Ewald van der Westhuizen, Trideba Padhi, Thomas Niesler · 2021

We present first speech recognition systems for the two severely under-resourced Malian languages Bambara and Maasina Fulfulde. These systems will be used by the United Nations as part of a monitoring…

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Assign Hysteresis Parameter For Ericsson BTS Power Saving Algorithm Using Unsupervised Learning

Thaer Sahmoud, Wesam Ashor · 2021

Gaza Strip suffers from a chronic electricity deficit that affects all industries including the telecommunication field, so there is a need to optimize and reduce power consumption of the telecommunic…

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Improved propagation models for lte path loss prediction in urban & suburban Ghana

James D. Gadze, Kwame A. Agyekum, Stephen J. Nuagah, E.A. Affum · 2020

To maximize the benefits of LTE cellular networks, careful and proper planning is needed. This requires the use of accurate propagation models to quantify the path loss required for base station deplo…

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Multi-Target Multiple Instance Learning for Hyperspectral Target Detection

Susan Meerdink, James Bocinsky, Alina Zare, Nicholas Kroeger, Connor McCurley, Daniel Shats, Paul Gader · 2019

In remote sensing, it is often challenging to acquire or collect a large dataset that is accurately labeled. This difficulty is usually due to several issues, including but not limited to the study si…

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PaToPa: A Data-Driven Parameter and Topology Joint Estimation Framework in Distribution Grids

Jiafan Yu, Yang Weng, Ram Rajagopal · 2017

The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) calls for new planning and operational tools. However, such tools depend on system topology and line parameters, which may be missing …

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Voltage Regulation Algorithms for Multiphase Power Distribution Grids

Vassilis Kekatos, Liang Zhang, Georgios B. Giannakis, Ross Baldick · 2015

Time-varying renewable energy generation can result in serious under-/over-voltage conditions in future distribution grids. Augmenting conventional utility-owned voltage regulating equipment with the …

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Collocated Adaptive Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems

Francesco Romano, Daniele Pucci, Francesco Nori · 2014

Collocated adaptive control of underactuated systems is still a main concern for the control community, all the more so because the collocated dynamics is no longer linear with respect to the constant…

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Design of a small-scale prototype for research in airborne wind energy

Lorenzo Fagiano, Trevor Marks · 2013

Airborne wind energy is a new renewable technology that promises to deliver electricity at low costs and in large quantities. Despite the steadily growing interest in this field, very limited results …

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