Aud-Sur: An Audio Analyzer Assistant for Audio Surveillance Applications

In this paper, we present an audio analyzer assistant tool designed for a wide range of audio-based surveillance applications (This work is a part of our DEFAME FAKES and EUCINF projects). The proposed tool, refered to as Aud-Sur, comprises two main phases Audio Analysis and Audio Retrieval, respectively. In the first phase, multiple open-source audio models are leveraged to extract information from input audio recording uploaded by a user. In the second phase, users interact with the Aud-Sur tool via a natural question-and-answer manner, powered by a large language model (LLM), to retrieve the information extracted from the processed audio file. The Aud-Sur tool was deployed using Docker on a microservices-based architecture design. By leveraging open-source audio models for information extraction, LLM for audio information retrieval, and a microservices-based deployment approach, the proposed Aud-Sur tool offers a highly extensible and adaptable framework that can integrate more audio tasks, and be widely shared within the audio community for further development.

HybridoNet-Adapt: A Domain-Adapted Framework for Accurate Lithium-Ion Battery RUL Prediction

Accurate prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) in Lithium-ion battery (LIB) health management systems is crucial for ensuring reliability and safety. Current methods typically assume that training and testing data share the same distribution, overlooking the benefits of incorporating diverse data sources to enhance model performance. To address this limitation, we introduce a data-independent RUL prediction framework along with its domain adaptation (DA) approach, which leverages heterogeneous data sources for improved target predictions. Our approach integrates comprehensive data preprocessing, including feature extraction, denoising, and normalization, with a data-independent prediction model that combines Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Multihead Attention, and a Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (NODE) block, termed HybridoNet. The domain-adapted version, HybridoNet Adapt, is trained using a novel technique inspired by the Domain-Adversarial Neural Network (DANN) framework, a regression ensemble method, and Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) to learn domain-invariant features from labeled cycling data in the source and target domains. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art techniques, providing reliable RUL predictions for real-world applications.

DIN-CTS: Low-Complexity Depthwise-Inception Neural Network with Contrastive Training Strategy for Deepfake Speech Detection

In this paper, we propose a deep neural network approach for deepfake speech detection (DSD) based on a lowcomplexity Depthwise-Inception Network (DIN) trained with a contrastive training strategy (CTS). In this framework, input audio recordings are first transformed into spectrograms using Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) and Linear Filter (LF), which are then used to train the DIN. Once trained, the DIN processes bonafide utterances to extract audio embeddings, which are used to construct a Gaussian distribution representing genuine speech. Deepfake detection is then performed by computing the distance between a test utterance and this distribution to determine whether the utterance is fake or bonafide. To evaluate our proposed systems, we conducted extensive experiments on the benchmark dataset of ASVspoof 2019 LA. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining the Depthwise-Inception Network with the contrastive learning strategy in distinguishing between fake and bonafide utterances. We achieved Equal Error Rate (EER), Accuracy (Acc.), F1, AUC scores of 4.6%, 95.4%, 97.3%, and 98.9% respectively using a single, low-complexity DIN with just 1.77 M parameters and 985 M FLOPS on short audio segments (4 seconds). Furthermore, our proposed system outperforms the single-system submissions in the ASVspoof 2019 LA challenge, showcasing its potential for real-time applications.

Towards Unsupervised Speaker Diarization System for Multilingual Telephone Calls Using Pre-trained Whisper Model and Mixture of Sparse Autoencoders

Existing speaker diarization systems heavily rely on large amounts of manually annotated data, which is labor-intensive and challenging to collect in real-world scenarios. Additionally, the language-specific constraint in speaker diarization systems significantly hinders their applicability and scalability in multilingual settings. In this paper, we therefore propose a cluster-based speaker diarization system for multilingual telephone call applications. The proposed system supports multiple languages and does not require large-scale annotated data for the training process as leveraging the multilingual Whisper model to extract speaker embeddings and proposing a novel Mixture of Sparse Autoencoders (Mix-SAE) network architecture for unsupervised speaker clustering. Experimental results on the evaluating dataset derived from two-speaker subsets of CALLHOME and CALLFRIEND telephonic speech corpora demonstrate superior efficiency of the proposed Mix-SAE network to other autoencoder-based clustering methods. The overall performance of our proposed system also indicates the promising potential of our approach in developing unsupervised multilingual speaker diarization applications within the context of limited annotated data and enhancing the integration ability into comprehensive multi-task speech analysis systems (i.e. multiple tasks of speech-to-text, language detection, speaker diarization integrated in a low-complexity system).

Deepfake Audio Detection Using Spectrogram-based Feature and Ensemble of Deep Learning Models

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based system for the task of deepfake audio detection. In particular, the draw input audio is first transformed into various spectrograms using three transformation methods of Short-time Fourier Transform (STFT), Constant-Q Transform (CQT), Wavelet Transform (WT) combined with different auditory-based filters of Mel, Gammatone, linear filters (LF), and discrete cosine transform (DCT). Given the spectrograms, we evaluate a wide range of classification models based on three deep learning approaches. The first approach is to train directly the spectrograms using our proposed baseline models of CNN-based model (CNN-baseline), RNN-based model (RNN-baseline), C-RNN model (C-RNN baseline). Meanwhile, the second approach is transfer learning from computer vision models such as ResNet-18, MobileNet-V3, EfficientNet-B0, DenseNet-121, SuffleNet-V2, Swint, Convnext-Tiny, GoogLeNet, MNASsnet, RegNet. In the third approach, we leverage the state-of-the-art audio pre-trained models of Whisper, Seamless, Speechbrain, and Pyannote to extract audio embeddings from the input spectrograms. Then, the audio embeddings are explored by a Multilayer perceptron (MLP) model to detect the fake or real audio samples. Finally, high-performance deep learning models from these approaches are fused to achieve the best performance. We evaluated our proposed models on ASVspoof 2019 benchmark dataset. Our best ensemble model achieved an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 0.03, which is highly competitive to top-performing systems in the ASVspoofing 2019 challenge. Experimental results also highlight the potential of selective spectrograms and deep learning approaches to enhance the task of audio deepfake detection.

The Impact of Frequency Bands on Acoustic Anomaly Detection of Machines using Deep Learning Based Model

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based model for Acoustic Anomaly Detection of Machines, the task for detecting abnormal machines by analysing the machine sound. By conducting extensive experiments, we indicate that multiple techniques of pseudo audios, audio segment, data augmentation, Mahalanobis distance, and narrow frequency bands, which mainly focus on feature engineering, are effective to enhance the system performance. Among the evaluating techniques, the narrow frequency bands presents a significant impact. Indeed, our proposed model, which focuses on the narrow frequency bands, outperforms the DCASE baseline on the benchmark dataset of DCASE 2022 Task 2 Development set. The important role of the narrow frequency bands indicated in this paper inspires the research community on the task of Acoustic Anomaly Detection of Machines to further investigate and propose novel network architectures focusing on the frequency bands.

LSTM-based Deep Neural Network With A Focus on Sentence Representation for Sequential Sentence Classification in Medical Scientific Abstracts

The Sequential Sentence Classification task within the domain of medical abstracts, termed as SSC, involves the categorization of sentences into pre-defined headings based on their roles in conveying critical information in the abstract. In the SSC task, sentences are often sequentially related to each other. For this reason, the role of sentence embedding is crucial for capturing both the semantic information between words in the sentence and the contextual relationship of sentences within the abstract to provide a comprehensive representation for better classification. In this paper, we present a hierarchical deep learning model for the SSC task. First, we propose a LSTM-based network with multiple feature branches to create well-presented sentence embeddings at the sentence level. To perform the sequence of sentences, a convolutional-recurrent neural network (C-RNN) at the abstract level and a multi-layer perception network (MLP) at the segment level are developed that further enhance the model performance. Additionally, an ablation study is also conducted to evaluate the contribution of individual component in the entire network to the model performance at different levels. Our proposed system is very competitive to the state-of-the-art systems and further improve F1 scores of the baseline by 1.0%, 2.8%, and 2.6% on the benchmark datasets PudMed 200K RCT, PudMed 20K RCT and NICTA-PIBOSO, respectively.

Landslide Detection and Segmentation Using Remote Sensing Images and Deep Neural Network

Knowledge about historic landslide event occurrence is important for supporting disaster risk reduction strategies. Building upon findings from 2022 Landslide4Sense Competition, we propose a deep neural network based system for landslide detection and segmentation from multisource remote sensing image input. We use a U-Net trained with Cross Entropy loss as baseline model. We then improve the U-Net baseline model by leveraging a wide range of deep learning techniques. In particular, we conduct feature engineering by generating new band data from the original bands, which helps to enhance the quality of remote sensing image input. Regarding the network architecture, we replace traditional convolutional layers in the U-Net baseline by a residual-convolutional layer. We also propose an attention layer which leverages the multi-head attention scheme. Additionally, we generate multiple output masks with three different resolutions, which creates an ensemble of three outputs in the inference process to enhance the performance. Finally, we propose a combined loss function which leverages Focal loss and IoU loss to train the network. Our experiments on the development set of the Landslide4Sense challenge achieve an F1 score and an mIoU score of 84.07 and 76.07, respectively. Our best model setup outperforms the challenge baseline and the proposed U-Net baseline, improving the F1 score/mIoU score by 6.8/7.4 and 10.5/8.8, respectively.

Robust-MBFD: A Robust Deep Learning System for Motor Bearing Faults Detection Using Multiple Deep Learning Training Strategies and A Novel Double Loss Function

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of motor bearing fault detection (MBFD), which involves the task of identifying faults in a motor bearing based on its vibration. To this end, we first propose and evaluate various machine learning based systems for the MBFD task. Furthermore, we propose three deep learning based systems for the MBFD task, each of which explores one of the following training strategies: supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, and unsupervised learning. The proposed machine learning based systems and deep learning based systems are evaluated, compared, and then they are used to identify the best model for the MBFD task. We conducted extensive experiments on various benchmark datasets of motor bearing faults, including those from the American Society for Mechanical Failure Prevention Technology (MFPT), Case Western Reserve University Bearing Center (CWRU), and the Condition Monitoring of Bearing Damage in Electromechanical Drive Systems from Paderborn University (PU). The experimental results on different datasets highlight two main contributions of this study. First, we prove that deep learning based systems are more effective than machine learning based systems for the MBFD task. Second, we achieve a robust and general deep learning based system with a novel loss function for the MBFD task on several benchmark datasets, demonstrating its potential for real-life MBFD applications.

Robust-MBDL: A Robust Multi-branch Deep Learning Based Model for Remaining Useful Life Prediction and Operational Condition Identification of Rotating Machines

In this paper, a Robust Multi-branch Deep learning-based system for remaining useful life (RUL) prediction and condition operations (CO) identification of rotating machines is proposed. In particular, the proposed system comprises main components: (1) an LSTM-Autoencoder to denoise the vibration data; (2) a feature extraction to generate time-domain, frequency-domain, and time-frequency based features from the denoised data; (3) a novel and robust multi-branch deep learning network architecture to exploit the multiple features. The performance of our proposed system was evaluated and compared to the state-of-the-art systems on two benchmark datasets of XJTU-SY and PRONOSTIA. The experimental results prove that our proposed system outperforms the state-of-the-art systems and presents potential for real-life applications on bearing machines.