3 accepted papers
Swallowing disorders, broadly known as Dysphagia, are difficulties in the process of swallowing food. Many currently available methods for classifying healthy and dysphagic swallows typically use hand-picked acoustic features. This article presents a SegNet-based method for classifying healthy and d…
Source filter interaction (SFI) explains the drop in pitch caused due to the constriction in the vocal tract during voiced consonant production in a vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) sequence. In this work, we examine how the drop in pitch alters when such a VCV sequence is spoken at three different speak…
In this work, we focus on quantifying speaker identity information encoded in the head gestures of speakers, while they narrate a story. We hypothesize that the head gestures over a long duration have speaker-specific patterns. To establish this, we consider a classification problem to identify spea…