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State-of-the-art hearing aids (HA) are limited in recognizing acoustic environments. Much effort is spent on research to improve listening experience for HA users in every acoustic situation. There is, however, no dedicated public database to train acoustic environment recognition algorithms with a specific focus on HA applications accounting for their requirements. Existing acoustic scene classification databases are inappropriate for HA signal processing.

As handwriting input becomes more prevalent, the large symbol inventory required to support Chinese handwriting recognition poses unique challenges. This paper describes how the Apple deep learning recognition system can accurately handle up to 30,000 Chinese characters while running in real-time across a range of mobile devices.

We propose a general projection-free metric learning framework, where the minimization objective $\min_{\M \in \cS} Q(\M)$ is a convex differentiable function of the metric matrix $\M$, and $\M$ resides in the set $\cS$ of generalized graph Laplacian matrices for connected graphs with positive edge weights and node degrees.
Unlike low-rank metric matrices common in the literature, $\cS$ includes the important positive-diagonal-only matrices as a special case in the limit.

Epilepsy affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. Semiology of epileptic seizures contain major clinical signs to classify epilepsy syndromes currently evaluated by epileptologists by simple visual inspection of video. There is a necessity to create automatic and semiautomatic methods for seizure detection and classification to better support patient monitoring management and diagnostic decisions. One of the current promising approaches are the marker-less computer-vision techniques.

Scene text detection has received attention for years and achieved an impressive performance across various benchmarks. In this work, we propose an efficient and accurate approach to detect multi-oriented text in scene images. The proposed feature fusion mechanism allows us to use a shallower network to reduce the computational complexity. A self-attention mechanism is adopted to suppress false positive detections.

As automatic speaker recognizer systems become mainstream, voice spoofing attacks are on the rise. Common attack strategies include replay, the use of text-to-speech synthesis, and voice conversion systems. While previously-proposed end-to-end detection frameworks have shown to be effective in spotting attacks for one particular spoofing strategy, they have relied on different models, architectures, and speech representations, depending on the spoofing strategy.

We propose a hybrid method for reconstructing thermographic images by combining the recently developed virtual wave concept with deep neural networks. The method can be used to detect defects inside materials in a non-destructive way. We propose two architectures along with a thorough evaluation that shows a substantial improvement compared to state-of-the-art reconstruction procedures. The virtual waves are invariant of the thermal diffusivity property of the material.

Attention networks constitute the state-of-the-art paradigm for capturing long temporal dynamics. This paper examines the efficacy of this paradigm in the challenging task of emotion recognition in dyadic conversations. In this work, we introduce a novel attention mechanism capable of inferring the immensity of the effect of each past utterance on the current speaker emotional state.