Publications

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  •  Xiao, X., Watanabe, S., Chng, E.S., Li, H., "Beamforming Networks Using Spatial Covariance Features for Far-field Speech Recognition", Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC)<br /> , DOI: 10.1109/​APSIPA.2016.7820724, December 2016.
    BibTeX TR2016-162 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Xiao2016dec,
    • author = {Xiao, Xiong and Watanabe, Shinji and Chng, Eng Siong and Li, Haizhou},
    • title = {Beamforming Networks Using Spatial Covariance Features for Far-field Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC)
      },
    • year = 2016,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/APSIPA.2016.7820724},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-162}
    • }
  •  Hori, T., Wang, H., Hori, C., Watanabe, S., Harsham, B.A., Le Roux, J., Hershey, J.R., Koji, Y., Jing, Y., Zhu, Z., Aikawa, T., "Dialog State Tracking with Attention-based Sequence-to-sequence Learning", IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), DOI: 10.1109/​SLT.2016.7846317, December 2016, pp. 552-558.
    BibTeX TR2016-163 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hori2016dec,
    • author = {Hori, Takaaki and Wang, Hai and Hori, Chiori and Watanabe, Shinji and Harsham, Bret A. and Le Roux, Jonathan and Hershey, John R. and Koji, Yusuke and Jing, Yi and Zhu, Zhaocheng and Aikawa, Takeyuki},
    • title = {Dialog State Tracking with Attention-based Sequence-to-sequence Learning},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {552--558},
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/SLT.2016.7846317},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-163}
    • }
  •  Takano, T., Moriya, T., Shinozaki, T., Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Duh, K., "Automated Structure Discovery and Parameter Tuning of Neural Network Language Model Based on Evolution Strategy", IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), DOI: 10.1109/​SLT.2016.7846334, December 2016.
    BibTeX TR2016-173 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Takano2016dec,
    • author = {Takano, Tomihiro and Moriya, Takafumi and Shinozaki, Takahiro and Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Duh, Kevin},
    • title = {Automated Structure Discovery and Parameter Tuning of Neural Network Language Model Based on Evolution Strategy},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
    • year = 2016,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/SLT.2016.7846334},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-173}
    • }
  •  Barker, J., Marxer, R., Vincent, E., Watanabe, S., "The Third 'CHIME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Analysis and Outcomes", Computer Speech & Language, DOI: 10.1016/​j.csl.2016.10.005, December 2016.
    BibTeX TR2016-171 PDF
    • @article{Barker2016dec,
    • author = {Barker, Jon and Marxer, Ricard and Vincent, Emmanuel and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {The Third 'CHIME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Analysis and Outcomes},
    • journal = {Computer Speech \& Language},
    • year = 2016,
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {Elsevier},
    • doi = {10.1016/j.csl.2016.10.005},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-171}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., Orlik, P.V., "Experimental Throughput Analysis in Screen-Camera Visual MIMO Communications", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), DOI: 10.1109/​GLOCOM.2016.7841827, December 2016.
    BibTeX TR2016-169 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fujihashi2016dec,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {Experimental Throughput Analysis in Screen-Camera Visual MIMO Communications},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)},
    • year = 2016,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841827},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-169}
    • }
  •  Vincent, E., Watanabe, S., Nugraha, A.A., Barker, J., Marxer, R., "An analysis of environment, microphone and data simulation mismatches in robust speech recognition", Computer Speech & Language, DOI: 10.1016/​j.csl.2016.11.005, December 2016.
    BibTeX TR2016-172 PDF
    • @article{Vincent2016dec,
    • author = {Vincent, Emmanuel and Watanabe, Shinji and Nugraha, Aditya Arie and Barker, Jon and Marxer, Ricard},
    • title = {An analysis of environment, microphone and data simulation mismatches in robust speech recognition},
    • journal = {Computer Speech \& Language},
    • year = 2016,
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {Elsevier},
    • doi = {10.1016/j.csl.2016.11.005},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-172}
    • }
  •  Tawara, N., Ogawa, T., Watanabe, S., Kobayashi, T., "Nested Gibbs sampling for mixture-of-mixture model and its application to speaker clustering", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, DOI: 10.1017/​ATSIP.2016.15, Vol. 5, October 2016.
    BibTeX TR2016-138 PDF
    • @article{Tawara2016oct,
    • author = {Tawara, Naohiro and Ogawa, Tetsuji and Watanabe, Shinji and Kobayashi, Tetsunori},
    • title = {Nested Gibbs sampling for mixture-of-mixture model and its application to speaker clustering},
    • journal = {APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing},
    • year = 2016,
    • volume = 5,
    • month = oct,
    • doi = {10.1017/ATSIP.2016.15},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-138}
    • }
  •  Delcroix, M., Watanabe, S., "Recent Advances in Distant Speech Recognition," Tech. Rep. TR2016-115, Interspeech Tutorials, September 2016.
    BibTeX TR2016-115 PDF
    • @techreport{Delcroix2016sep,
    • author = {Delcroix, Marc and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {Recent Advances in Distant Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech Tutorials},
    • institution = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2016,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-115}
    • }
  •  Erdogan, H., Hershey, J.R., Watanabe, S., Mandel, M., Le Roux, J., "Improved MVDR beamforming using single-channel mask prediction networks", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2016-552, September 2016, pp. 1981-1985.
    BibTeX TR2016-072 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Erdogan2016sep,
    • author = {Erdogan, Hakan and Hershey, John R. and Watanabe, Shinji and Mandel, Michael and Le Roux, Jonathan},
    • title = {Improved MVDR beamforming using single-channel mask prediction networks},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {1981--1985},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2016-552},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-072}
    • }
  •  Hori, C., Hori, T., Watanabe, S., Hershey, J.R., "Context-Sensitive and Role-Dependent Spoken Language Understanding using Bidirectional and Attention LSTMs", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2016-1171, September 2016, pp. 3236-3240.
    BibTeX TR2016-074 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hori2016sep,
    • author = {Hori, Chiori and Hori, Takaaki and Watanabe, Shinji and Hershey, John R.},
    • title = {Context-Sensitive and Role-Dependent Spoken Language Understanding using Bidirectional and Attention LSTMs},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {3236--3240},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1171},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-074}
    • }
  •  Isik, Y., Le Roux, J., Chen, Z., Watanabe, S., Hershey, J.R., "Single-Channel Multi-Speaker Separation using Deep Clustering", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2016-1176, September 2016, pp. 545-549.
    BibTeX TR2016-073 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Isik2016sep,
    • author = {Isik, Yusuf and Le Roux, Jonathan and Chen, Zhuo and Watanabe, Shinji and Hershey, John R.},
    • title = {Single-Channel Multi-Speaker Separation using Deep Clustering},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {545--549},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1176},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-073}
    • }
  •  Zmolikova, K., Karafiat, M., Vesely, K., Delcroix, M., Watanabe, S., Burget, L., Cernocky, J.H., "Data selection by sequence summarizing neural network in mismatch condition training", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2016-741, September 2016, pp. 2354-2358.
    BibTeX TR2016-075 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zmolikova2016sep,
    • author = {Zmolikova, Katerina and Karafiat, Martin and Vesely, Karel and Delcroix, Marc and Watanabe, Shinji and Burget, Lukas and Cernocky, Jan, Honza},
    • title = {Data selection by sequence summarizing neural network in mismatch condition training},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {2354--2358},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2016-741},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-075}
    • }
  •  Hayashi, T., Watanabe, S., Toda, T., Hori, T., Le Roux, J., Takeda, K., "Bidirectional LSTM-HMM Hybrid System for Polyphonic Sound Event Detection", Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), September 2016, pp. 35-39.
    BibTeX TR2016-114 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hayashi2016sep,
    • author = {Hayashi, Tomoki and Watanabe, Shinji and Toda, Tomoki and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan and Takeda, Kazuya},
    • title = {Bidirectional LSTM-HMM Hybrid System for Polyphonic Sound Event Detection},
    • booktitle = {Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {35--39},
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-114}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Mahajan, R., Marks, T.K., Tuzel, C.O., Wang, Y., Watanabe, S., Orlik, P.V., "High-Accuracy User Identification Using EEG Biometrics", International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), DOI: 10.1109/​EMBC.2016.7590835, August 2016, pp. 854-858.
    BibTeX TR2016-105 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2016aug,
    • author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Mahajan, Ruhi and Marks, Tim K. and Tuzel, C. Oncel and Wang, Ye and Watanabe, Shinji and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {High-Accuracy User Identification Using EEG Biometrics},
    • booktitle = {International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {854--858},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2016.7590835},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-105}
    • }
  •  Hori, C., Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Harsham, B.A., Hershey, J.R., Koji, Y., Fujii, Y., Furumoto, Y., "Driver Confusion Status Detection Using Recurrent Neural Networks", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), DOI: 10.1109/​ICME.2016.7552966, July 2016.
    BibTeX TR2016-088 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hori2016jul,
    • author = {Hori, Chiori and Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Harsham, Bret A. and Hershey, John R. and Koji, Yusuke and Fujii, Youichi and Furumoto, Yuki},
    • title = {Driver Confusion Status Detection Using Recurrent Neural Networks},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)},
    • year = 2016,
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICME.2016.7552966},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-088}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., Orlik, P.V., "Quality improvement and overhead reduction for soft video delivery", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), DOI: 10.1109/​ICC.2016.7511548, May 2016, pp. 1-6.
    BibTeX TR2016-077 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fujihashi2016may,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {Quality improvement and overhead reduction for soft video delivery},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {1--6},
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICC.2016.7511548},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-077}
    • }
  •  Hershey, J.R., Chen, Z., Le Roux, J., Watanabe, S., "Deep Clustering: Discriminative Embeddings for Segmentation and Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2016.7471631, March 2016, pp. 31-35.
    BibTeX TR2016-003 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hershey2016mar,
    • author = {Hershey, John R. and Chen, Zhuo and Le Roux, Jonathan and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {Deep Clustering: Discriminative Embeddings for Segmentation and Separation},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {31--35},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471631},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-003}
    • }
  •  Hori, T., Hori, C., Watanabe, S., Hershey, J.R., "Minimum Word Error Training of Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network Language Models for Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2016.7472827, March 2016, pp. 5990-5994.
    BibTeX TR2016-011 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hori2016mar,
    • author = {Hori, Takaaki and Hori, Chiori and Watanabe, Shinji and Hershey, John R.},
    • title = {Minimum Word Error Training of Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network Language Models for Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {5990--5994},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472827},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-011}
    • }
  •  Vesely, K., Watanabe, S., Zmolikova, K., Karafiat, M., Burget, L., Cernocky, J.H., "Sequence Summarizing Neural Network for Speaker Adaptation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2016.7472692, March 2016, pp. 5315-5319.
    BibTeX TR2016-001 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Vesely2016mar,
    • author = {Vesely, Karel and Watanabe, Shinji and Zmolikova, Katerina and Karafiat, Martin and Burget, Lukas and Cernocky, Jan, Honza},
    • title = {Sequence Summarizing Neural Network for Speaker Adaptation},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {5315--5319},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472692},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-001}
    • }
  •  Wisdom, S., Hershey, J.R., Le Roux, J., Watanabe, S., "Deep Unfolding for Multichannel Source Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2016.7471649, March 2016, pp. 121-125.
    BibTeX TR2016-008 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wisdom2016mar,
    • author = {Wisdom, Scott and Hershey, John R. and Le Roux, Jonathan and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {Deep Unfolding for Multichannel Source Separation},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {121--125},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471649},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-008}
    • }
  •  Xiao, X., Watanabe, S., Erdogan, H., Lu, L., Hershey, J., Seltzer, M., Chen, G., Zhang, Y., Mandel, M., Yu, D., "Deep Beamforming Networks for Multi-Channel Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2016.7472778, March 2016, pp. 5745-5749.
    BibTeX TR2016-002 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Xiao2016mar,
    • author = {Xiao, Xiong and Watanabe, Shinji and Erdogan, Hakan and Lu, Liang and Hershey, John and Seltzer, Mike and Chen, Guoguo and Zhang, Yu and Mandel, Michael and Yu, Dong},
    • title = {Deep Beamforming Networks for Multi-Channel Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2016,
    • pages = {5745--5749},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472778},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-002}
    • }
  •  Kanagawa, H., Tachioka, Y., Watanabe, S., Ishii, J., "Feature-Space Structural MAPLR with Regression Tree-Based Multiple Transformation Matrices for DNN", Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), DOI: 10.1109/​APSIPA.2015.7415425, December 2015, pp. 86-92.
    BibTeX TR2015-150 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kanagawa2015dec,
    • author = {Kanagawa, H. and Tachioka, Y. and Watanabe, S. and Ishii, J.},
    • title = {Feature-Space Structural MAPLR with Regression Tree-Based Multiple Transformation Matrices for DNN},
    • booktitle = {Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC)},
    • year = 2015,
    • pages = {86--92},
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/APSIPA.2015.7415425},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-150}
    • }
  •  Barker, J., Marxer, R., Vincent, E., Watanabe, S., "The Third 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Dataset, Task and Baselines", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), DOI: 10.1109/​ASRU.2015.75404837, December 2015, pp. 504-511.
    BibTeX TR2015-136 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Barker2015dec,
    • author = {Barker, J. and Marxer, R. and Vincent, E. and Watanabe, S.},
    • title = {The Third 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Dataset, Task and Baselines},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
    • year = 2015,
    • pages = {504--511},
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ASRU.2015.75404837},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-136}
    • }
  •  Hsiao, R., Ma, J., Hartmann, W., Karafiat, M., Grezl, F., Burget, L., Szoke, I., Cernocky, J., Watanabe, S., Chen, Z., Mallidi, S.H., Hermansky, H., Tsakalidis, S., Schwartz, R., "Robust Speech Recognition in Unknown Reverberant and Noisy Conditions", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), DOI: 10.1109/​ARSU.2015.7404841, December 2015, pp. 533-538.
    BibTeX TR2015-138 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hsiao2015dec,
    • author = {Hsiao, R. and Ma, J. and Hartmann, W. and Karafiat, M. and Grezl, F. and Burget, L. and Szoke, I. and Cernocky, J. and Watanabe, S. and Chen, Z. and Mallidi, S.H. and Hermansky, H. and Tsakalidis, S. and Schwartz, R.},
    • title = {Robust Speech Recognition in Unknown Reverberant and Noisy Conditions},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
    • year = 2015,
    • pages = {533--538},
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ARSU.2015.7404841},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-138}
    • }
  •  Moriya, T., Shinozaki, T., Watanabe, S., Duh, K., "Automation of System Building for State-of-the-Art Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Using Evolution Strategy", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), DOI: 10.1109/​ASRU.2015.7404852, December 2015, pp. 610-616.
    BibTeX TR2015-137 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Moriya2015dec,
    • author = {Moriya, T. and Shinozaki, T. and Watanabe, S. and Duh, K.},
    • title = {Automation of System Building for State-of-the-Art Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Using Evolution Strategy},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
    • year = 2015,
    • pages = {610--616},
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/ASRU.2015.7404852},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2015-137}
    • }