Niko Moritz
- Phone: 617-621-7525
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Research / Technical Staff
Visiting Research Scientist -
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Ph.D., University of Oldenburg, 2016 -
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Biography
Niko's research interests are in automatic speech recognition and machine learning with application to acoustic events and speech. Prior to joining MERL in 2018, Niko spent 9 years at the Hearing, Speech and Audio (HSA) Technology branch of the Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg (Germany) doing R&D to build automatic speech recognition systems.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL presenting 13 papers and an industry talk at ICASSP 2020 Date: May 4, 2020 - May 8, 2020
Where: Virtual Barcelona
MERL Contacts: Karl Berntorp; Petros Boufounos; Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Niko Moritz; Philip Orlik; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern; Siheng Chen
Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL researchers are presenting 13 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held virtually from May 4-8, 2020. Petros Boufounos is also presenting a talk on the Computational Sensing Revolution in Array Processing (video) in ICASSP’s Industry Track, and Siheng Chen is co-organizing and chairing a special session on a Signal-Processing View of Graph Neural Networks.
Topics to be presented include recent advances in speech recognition, audio processing, scene understanding, computational sensing, array processing, and parameter estimation. Videos for all talks are available on MERL's YouTube channel, with corresponding links in the references below.
This year again, MERL is a sponsor of the conference and will be participating in the Student Job Fair; please join us to learn about our internship program and career opportunities.
ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year. Originally planned to be held in Barcelona, Spain, ICASSP has moved to a fully virtual setting due to the COVID-19 crisis, with free registration for participants not covering a paper.
- MERL researchers are presenting 13 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held virtually from May 4-8, 2020. Petros Boufounos is also presenting a talk on the Computational Sensing Revolution in Array Processing (video) in ICASSP’s Industry Track, and Siheng Chen is co-organizing and chairing a special session on a Signal-Processing View of Graph Neural Networks.
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NEWS MERL Speech & Audio Researchers Presenting 7 Papers and a Tutorial at Interspeech 2019 Date: September 15, 2019 - September 19, 2019
Where: Graz, Austria
MERL Contacts: Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Jonathan Le Roux; Niko Moritz; Gordon Wichern
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL Speech & Audio Team researchers will be presenting 7 papers at the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2019, which is being held in Graz, Austria from September 15-19, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in end-to-end speech recognition, speech separation, and audio-visual scene-aware dialog. Takaaki Hori is also co-presenting a tutorial on end-to-end speech processing.
Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. It gathers around 2000 participants from all over the world.
- MERL Speech & Audio Team researchers will be presenting 7 papers at the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2019, which is being held in Graz, Austria from September 15-19, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in end-to-end speech recognition, speech separation, and audio-visual scene-aware dialog. Takaaki Hori is also co-presenting a tutorial on end-to-end speech processing.
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Research Highlights
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MERL Publications
- , "Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition With The Transformer Model", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054476, April 2020, pp. 6074-6078.BibTeX TR2020-040 PDF Video
- @inproceedings{Moritz2020apr,
- author = {Moritz, Niko and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition With The Transformer Model},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {6074--6078},
- month = apr,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054476},
- issn = {2379-190X},
- isbn = {978-1-5090-6631-5},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-040}
- }
- , "Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Using Attention-Based Speaker Memory For End-To-End ASR", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054249, April 2020, pp. 7384-7388.BibTeX TR2020-037 PDF Video
- @inproceedings{Sari2020apr,
- author = {Sari, Leda and Moritz, Niko and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Using Attention-Based Speaker Memory For End-To-End ASR},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {7384--7388},
- month = apr,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054249},
- issn = {2379-190X},
- isbn = {978-1-5090-6631-5},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-037}
- }
- , "Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition with Joint CTC-Attention Based Models", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), , December 2019, pp. 936-943.BibTeX TR2019-159 PDF
- @inproceedings{Moritz2019dec,
- author = {Moritz, Niko and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition with Joint CTC-Attention Based Models},
- booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {936--943},
- month = dec,
- isbn = {978-1-7281-0305-1},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-159}
- }
- , "Unidirectional Neural Network Architectures for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2837, September 2019, pp. 76-80.BibTeX TR2019-098 PDF
- @inproceedings{Moritz2019sep,
- author = {Moritz, Niko and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Unidirectional Neural Network Architectures for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {76--80},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2837},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-098}
- }
- , "Vectorized Beam Search for CTC-Attention-based Speech Recognition", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2860, September 2019, pp. 3825-3829.BibTeX TR2019-102 PDF
- @inproceedings{Seki2019sep2,
- author = {Seki, Hiroshi and Hori, Takaaki and Watanabe, Shinji and Moritz, Niko and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Vectorized Beam Search for CTC-Attention-based Speech Recognition},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {3825--3829},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2860},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-102}
- }
- , "Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition With The Transformer Model", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054476, April 2020, pp. 6074-6078.
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