Admission requirements
Not applicable.
Description
During this seminar the fundamentals of audio processing and indexing will be studied. Applications in the area of speech recognition and understanding, audio synthesis and content based audio and music retrieval will be discussed. State of the art work on speech recognition, speech synthesis and content based audio and music retrieval will be studied and presented by the participants.
The seminar starts with several lectures and accompanying assignments in the form of workshops; followed by a literature selection, study, and presentations by all the students; the seminar ends with final project demos / presentations.
Course objectives
At the end of the seminar, the student:
Is able to explain and apply the fundamental methods of audio processing, audio indexing, speech synthesis, and speech recognition and understanding.
Is able to apply basic audio processing algorithms to audio data and anayse and evaluate their performance.
Is able to understand, analyse, evaluate, explain and discuss selected scientific research and experiments in the field of science and technology of audio processing, audio retrieval and spoken language processing.
Is able to acquire, analyse and evaluate necessary knowledge of state of the art methods in the field of audio indexing and retrieval by studying scientific publications from journals and proceedings.
Is able to create and design, implement, execute and report on a scientific audio processing or indexing experiment.
Timetable
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Mode of instruction
Lectures
Seminar
Workshops
Presentations
Projects
Reports
Course load
Hours of study: 168 (= 6 EC)
Lectures: 26
Practical work: 62
Other: 80
Assessment method
Presentation (20% of the final grade) and Project (40% of the final grade). 4 workshops (each 10% of the final grade, totaling 40% of the final grade).
The teacher will inform the students how the inspection of and follow-up discussion of the work will take place.
Reading list
Lecture slides and further materials will be made available on the website of the course.
List of recommended books:
Fundamentals of Speech Recognition by Lawrence Rabiner, and Biing-Hwang Juang (Hardcover, 507 pages; Publisher: Pearson Education POD; ISBN: 0130151572; 1st edition, April 12, 1993)
Theory and Applications of Digital Speech Processing by Lawrence Rabiner amd Ronald Schafer, (Pubisher: Pearson, ISBN 0-13-603428-4, 1st edition, 2011).
Automatic Speech Recognition: A Deep Learning Approach (Signals and Communication Technology) by Dong Yu and Li Deng, Springer; 2015 edition (November 11, 2014).
Deep Learning for NLP and Speech Recognition by Uday Kamath, John Liu, James Whitaker (Springer, 219).
Registration
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Contact
Lecturer: dr. Erwin M. Bakker
Assistant: To be announced.
Website: Audio Processing and Indexing