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Pankaj Wasnik

10 accepted papers

2026

EW-DETR: Evolving World Object Detection via Incremental Low-Rank DEtection TRansformer

CVPR 2026

Real-world object detection must operate in evolving environments where new classes emerge, domains shift, and unseen objects must be identified as unknown--all without accessing prior data. We introduce Evolving World Object Detection (EWOD), a paradigm coupling incremental learning, domain adaptat

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Listen like a Teacher: Mitigating Whisper Hallucinations Using Adaptive Layer Attention and Knowledge Distillation

AAAI 2026technical

The Whisper model, an open-source automatic speech recognition system, is widely adopted for its strong performance across multilingual and zero-shot settings. However, it frequently suffers from hallucination errors, especially under noisy acoustic conditions. Previous works to reduce hallucination

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DuET: Dual Incremental Object Detection via Exemplar-Free Task Arithmetic

ICCV 2025poster

Real-world object detection systems, such as those in autonomous driving and surveillance, must continuously learn new object categories and simultaneously adapt to changing environmental conditions. Existing approaches, Class Incremental Object Detection (CIOD) and Domain Incremental Object Detecti…

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2025

EmoReg: Directional Latent Vector Modeling for Emotional Intensity Regularization in Diffusion-based Voice Conversion

AAAI 2025technical

The Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to convert the discrete emotional state from the source emotion to the target for a given speech utterance while preserving linguistic content. In this paper, we propose regularizing emotion intensity in the diffusion-based EVC framework to generate precise…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Enhancing Entertainment Translation for Indian Languages Using Adaptive Context, Style and LLMs

AAAI 2025technical

We address the challenging task of neural machine translation (NMT) in the entertainment domain, where the objective is to automatically translate a given dialogue from a source language content to a target language. This task has various applications, particularly in automatic dubbing, subtitling,…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2025

Enhancing Whisper's Accuracy and Speed for Indian Languages through Prompt-Tuning and Tokenization

ICASSP 2025accepted

Automatic speech recognition has recently seen a significant advancement with large foundational models such as Whisper. However, these models often struggle to perform well in low-resource languages, such as Indian languages. This paper explores two novel approaches to enhance Whisper’s multilingua…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Faster Machine Translation Ensembling with Reinforcement Learning and Competitive Correction

NAACL 2025findings

Ensembling neural machine translation (NMT) models to produce higher-quality translations than the L individual models has been extensively studied. Recent methods typically employ a candidate selection block (CSB) and an encoder-decoder fusion block (FB), requiring inference across all candidate mo…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Graph-Assisted Culturally Adaptable Idiomatic Translation for Indic languages

ACL 2025finding

Translating multi-word expressions (MWEs) and idioms requires a deep understanding of the cultural nuances of both the source and target languages. This challenge is further amplified by the one-to-many nature of idiomatic translations, where a single source idiom can have multiple target-language e…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Precise Event Spotting in Sports Videos: Solving Long-Range Dependency and Class Imbalance

CVPR 2025poster

Precise Event Spotting (PES) aims to identify events and their class from long, untrimmed videos, particularly in sports. The main objective of PES is to detect the event at the exact moment it occurs. Existing methods mainly rely on features from a large pre-trained network, which may not be ideal…

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2024

Isometric Neural Machine Translation using Phoneme Count Ratio Reward-based Reinforcement Learning

NAACL 2024findings

Traditional Automatic Video Dubbing (AVD) pipeline consists of three key modules, namely, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Neural Machine Translation (NMT), and Text-to-Speech (TTS). Within AVD pipelines, isometric-NMT algorithms are employed to regulate the length of the synthesized output text.…