Scientific Publications

2015
Titel	Tagung	Autoren	Referent
Gaussian Free Cluster Tree Construction Using Deep Neural Network
Semi-Supervised Training in Low-Resource ASR and KWS		Florian Metze, Ankur Gandhe, Yajie Miao, Zaid Sheikh, Yun Wang, Di Xu, Hao Zhang, Jungsuk Kim, Ian Lane, Won Kyum Lee, Sebastian Stüker, Markus Müller

2014
Titel	Tagung	Autoren	Referent
Sesla Transcriber: A Speech Transcription Tool that adapts to your Skill and Time Budget		Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura, Alexander Waibel
On-the-fly User Modeling for Cost-Sensitive Correction of Speech Transcripts		Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura, Alexander Waibel
Multilingual Deep Bottle Neck Features: A Study on Language Selection and Training Techniques		Markus Müller, Sebastian Stüker, Zaid Sheikh, Florian Metze, Alex Waibel
The Speech Recognition Virtual Kitchen: Launch Party		Andrew Plummer, Eric Riebling, Anuj Kumar, Florian Metze, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Rebecca Bates
Query-By-Example Spoken Term Detection on Multilingual Unconstrained Speech		Xavier Anguera, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, Igor Szöke, Andi Buzo, Florian Metze, Mikel Penagarikano
Neural Network Language Models for Low Resource Languages		Ankur Gandhe, Florian Metze, Ian Lane
Towards Speaker Adaptive Training of Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models		Yajie Mao, Hao Zhang, Florian Metze
Improving Language-Universal Feature Extraction with Deep Maxout and Convolutional Neural Networks		Yajie Miao, Florian Metze
Distributed Learning of Multilingual DNN Feature Extractors Using GPUs		Yajie Miao, Hao Zhang, Florian Metze
Word-Based Probalistic Phonetic Retrieval for Low-Resource Spoken Term Detection		Di Xu, Florian Metze
An In-Depth Comparison of Keyword Specific Thresholding and Sum-to-One Score Normalization		Yun Wang, Florian Metze
A Multisensory Non-Invasive System for Laughter Analysis		Sarah Cosentino, Susanne Burger, Lara Martin, Florian Metze, Tatsuhiro Kishi, Kenji Hashimoto, Salvatore Sessa, Massimiliano Zecca, Atsuo Takanishi
Improved Audio Features for Large-Scale Multimedia Event Detection		Florian Metze, Shourabh Rawat, Yipei Wang
Query-By-Example Spoken Term Detection Evaluation on Low-Resource Languages		Xavier Anguera Miro, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, Igor Szöke, Andi Buzo, Florian Metze, Mikel Penagarikano
Exploring Audio Semantic Concept for Event-Based Video Retrieval		Yipei Wang, Shourabh Rawat, Florian Metze
Semi-Automatic Audio Semantic Concept Discovery for Multimedia Retrieval		Yipei Wang, Shourabh Rawat, Florian Metze
Optimization of Neural Network Language Models for Keyword Search		Ankur Gandhe, Florian Metze, Alex Waibel, Ian Lane
Augmenting Translation Models with Simulated Acoustic Confusions for improved Spoken Language Translation		Yulia Tsetkov, Florian Metze, Chris Dyer
Applause: A Learning Tool for Low-Ressource Languages		Nikolas Wolfe, Vinay Vyas Vemuri, Lara J. Martin, Florian Metze, Alan W. Black
Demystifying Development of Speech Recognizers for Novices		Anuj Kumar, Florian Metze, Eric Riebling, Matthew Kam
Segmentation for Efficient Supervised Language Annotation with an Explicit Cost-Utility Tradeoff		Matthias Sperber, Mirjam Simantzik, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel
Learning of grasp selection based on shape-templates		A. Herzog, P. Pastor, M. Kalakrishnan, L. Righetti, J. Bohg, T. Asfour, S. Schaal
Changing Pre-Grasp Strategies With Increasing Object Location Uncertainty		B. Illing, T. Asfour, N. S. Pollard
Inter-vehicle Communication: Quo Vadis		F. Dressler, H. Hartenstein, O. Altintas, O. Tonguz
AEminium: A Permission-Based Concurrent-by-Default Programming Language Approach		Sven Stork, Karl Naden, Joshua Sunshine, Manuel Mohr, Alcides Fonseca, Paulo Marques, Jonathan Aldrich

2013
Titel	Tagung	Autoren	Referent
Models of tone for tonal and non-tonal languages		Florian Metze, Zaid A.W. Sheikh, Alex Waibel, Jonas Gehring, Kevin Kilgour, Quoc Bao Nguyen, Van Huy Nguyen
DNN Acoustic Modeling with Modular Multi-Lingual Networks		Jonas Gehring, Quoc Bao Nguyen, Florian Metze, Alex Waibel
Multiagent Coordination for Energy Consumption Scheduling in Consumer Cooperatives		Andreas Veit, Ying Xu, Ronghuo Zheng, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Katia Sycara
Measuring the Structural Importance through Rhetorical Structure Index		Narine Kokhlikyan, Alex Waibel, Yuqi Zhang, Joy Ying Zhang
Efficient Speech Transcription Through Respeaking		Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Christian Fügen, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel
Synthesizing Object Receiving Motions of Humanoid Robots with Human Motion Database		K. Yamane, M. Revfi, T. Asfour
Modular Combination of Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling		J. Gehring, W. Lee, K. Kilgour, I. Lane, Y. Miao, A. Waibel
Extracting Deep Bottleneck Features Using Stacked Auto-Encoders		Jonas Gehring, Yajie Miao, Florian Metze, Alex Waibel
Incremental Unsupervised Training for University Lecture Recognition		Michael Heck, Sebastian Stüker, Sakriani Sakti, Alex Waibel, Satoshi Nakamura
Verification and Evaluation of Fail-Safe Virtual Traffic Light Applications		T. Neudecker, N. An, H. Hartenstein

2012
Titel	Tagung	Autoren
Evaluation of Interactive User Corrections for Lecture Transcription		Henrich Kolkhorst, Kevin Kilgour, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel
Templates for pre-grasp sliding interactions		D. Kappler, L. Chang, N. Pollard, T. Asfour, R. Dillmann
Constellation - An Algorithm for Finding Robot Configurations that Satisfy Multiple Constraints		P. Kaiser, D. Berenson, N. Vahrenkamp, T. Asfour, R. Dillmann, S. Srinivasa
Template-Based Learning of Grasp Selection		A. Herzog, P. Pastor, M. Kalakrishnan, L. Righetti, T. Asfour, S. Schaal
Encoding of Periodic and their Transient Motions by a Single Dynamic Movement Primitive		J. Ernesti, L. Righetti, M. Do, T. Asfour, S. Schaal
The KIT-NAIST (Contrastive) English ASR System for IWSLT 2012		Michael Heck, Keigo Kubo, Matthias Sperber, Sakriani Sakti, Sebastian Stüker, Christian Saam, Kevin Kilgour, Christian Mohr, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel
The 2012 KIT and KIT-NAIST English ASR Systems for the IWSLT Evaluation		Christian Saam, Christian Mohr, Kevin Kilgour, Michael Heck, Matthias Sperber, Keigo Kubo, Sebastian Stüker, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel
Robust Multi-Pose Face Tracking by Multi-Stage Tracklet Association		M. Roth, M. Bäuml, R. Nevatia, R. Stiefelhagen
Feasibility of Virtual Traffic Lights in Non-Line-Of-Sight Environments		T. Neudecker, N. An, O. Tonguz, T. Gaugel, J. Mittag
A Runtime Quality Measurement Framework for Cloud Database Service Systems	Markus Klems, David Bermbach, René Weinert

2011
Title	Author	Source
Unsupervised Vocabulary Selection for Simultaneos Lecture Translation	Paul Märgner, Kevin Kilgour, Ian Lane, Alex Waibel	IWSLT 2011, San Francisco, USA
The Evolution of Cooperation in Self-Interested Agent Societies: A Critical Study	Lisa-Maria Hofmann, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Katia Sycara	Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011)
Template-Based Learning of Grasp Selection	A. Herzog, P. Pastor, M. Kalakrishnan, L. Righetti, T. Asfour, S. Schaal	Proceedings IROS-2011 Workshop "The PR2 Workshop-Results, Challenges and Lessons Learned in Advancing Robots with a Common Platform", September, 2011
Overview of the IWSLT 2011 Evaluation Campaign	Marcello Federico, Luisa Bentivogli, Michael Paul, Sebastian Stüker	Proceedings of the International Workshop on Speech Translation (IWSLT 2011)

2010
Title	Author	Source
Unified Representation of Pre-Grasp Strategies for Object Manipulation	D. Kappler, L. Chang, M. Przybylski, N. Pollard, T. Asfour, R. Dillmann	IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), December, 2010

2009
Title	Author	Source
Incremental Adaption of Speech-to-Speech Translation	Nguyen Bach, Roger Hsiao, Matthias Eck, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Stephan Vogel, Tanja Schultz, Ian R. Lane, Alex Waibel	North American Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Conference, NAACL-HLT 2009, Boulder, USA, 01. May 2009
Open-Set Face Recognition-based Visitor Interface System	Hazim K. Ekenel, Lorant Szaz-Toth, Rainer Stiefelhagen	7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, LNCS, Vol.5815, pp.43-52, Liege, Belgium, October 13-15, 2009.
Pronunciation Modeling for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition	H. Al-Haj, R. Hsiao, I. Lane, A.W. Black, A. Waibel	IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understandig, ASRU 2009, Merano, Italy, 13-17 December 2009
Humanoid Motion Planning for Dual-Arm Manipulation and Re-Grasping Tasks	N. Vahrenkamp, D. Berenson, T. Asfour, J. Kuffner, R. Dillmann	IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2646-2470, October, 2009

2008
Titel	Tagung	Autoren	Referent
Multilingual Spoken Language Processing		Tanja Schultz, Pascale Fung
Diacritization as a machine translation problem and as a sequence labeling problem		Tim Schlippe, ThuyLinh Nguyen, Stephan Vogel
Monitoring Visual Focus of Attention via Local Discriminant Projection		H. Zhang, L. Toth, W. Deng, J. Guo, Jie Yang
Adaptive Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots		N. Vahrenkamp, C. Scheurer, T. Asfour, J. Kuffner, R. Dillmann
Discriminative Word Alignment via Alignment Matrix Modeling		Stephan Vogel, Jan Niehues

Tagungen
Title	Author	Source
Can you Talk or only Touch-Talk? A VoIP-based phone feature for quick, quiet, and private communication	Maria Danninger, L. Takayama, Q. Wang, C. Schultz, J. Beringer, P. Hofmann, F. James, C. Nass	ACM & IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI 2008, Chania, Crete, Greece, 01. January 2007
The ISL Phrase-Based MT System for the 2007 ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation	Kay Rottmann, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Stephan Vogel	ACL 2007 Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, ACL SMT WS 2007, Prague, Czech Republik, 23. June 2007
The CMU TransTac 2007 Eyes-free and Hands-free Two-way Speech-to-Speech Translation System	Nguyen Bach, Matthias Eck, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Thilo Köhler, Sebastian Stüker, ThuyLinh Nguyen, Roger Hsaio, Alex Waibel, Stephan Vogel, Tanja Schultz, Alan Black	International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2007, Trento Italy, 15. Ocober 2007
The CMU-UKA statistical machine translation systems for IWSLT 2007	Ian R. Lane, Andreas Zollmann, ThuyLinh Nguyen, Nguyen Bach, Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, Kay Rottmann, Ying (Joy) Zhang, Alex Waibel	International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2007, Trento, Italy, 15. October 2007
Semantic Extensions of the Ephyra QA system in TREC 2007	Nico Schäfer, Guido Sautter, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Manas Pathak, Eric Nyberg	Text Retrieval Conference 2007, TREC 2007, Gaithersburg, United States, 06. November 2007
Manipulation Planning Among Movable Obstacles	M. Stilman, J. Schamburek, J. Kuffner, T. Asfour	IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), April, 2007
Planning for Robust Execution of Humanoid Motions using Future Perceptive Capability	P. Michel, C. Scheurer, J. Kuffner, N. Vahrenkamp, R. Dillmann	IEEE/RSj International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3223-3228, October, 2007
Word Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation with a POS-Based Distortion Model	Kay Rottmann, Stephan Vogel	The 11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-07), Skövde, Sweden, Sept. 7-9, 2007

2006
Title	Author	Source
A pattern learning approach to question answering within the Ephyra framework	Nico Schäfer, Petra Gieselmann, Thomas Schaaf, Alex Waibel	Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE, TSD 2006, Brno, Czech Republic, Sept. 2006
The Connector Service - Predicting Availability in Mobile Contexts	Maria Danninger, Tobias Kluge, E. Robles, L. Takayama, Q. Wang, Rainer Stiefelhagen, C. Nass, Alex Waibel	3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms, MLMI 2006, Washington D.C., USA, 01. May 2006
Speech-to-Speech Translation Services for the Olympic Games 2008	Sebastian Stüker, Chengqing Zong, Jürgen Reichert, Wenjie Cao, Muntsin Kolss, Guodong Xie, Kay Peterson, Peng Ding, Victoria Arranz, Jian Yu, Alex Waibel	3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms, MLMI 2006, Washington D.C., USA, 30. April 2006
Open Domain Speech Recognition & Translation: Lectures and Speeches	Christian Fügen, Muntsin Kolss, Dietmar Bernreuther, Sebastian Stüker, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel	International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2006, ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, 01. May 2006
Articulatory Feature Classification using Surface Electromyography	Szu-Chen Jou, Lena Maier-Hein, Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel	International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2006, ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, 15. May 2006
Syntax Augmented Machine Translation via Chart Parsing	Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal	Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WSMT 2006, New York City, NY, USA, 31. May 2006
Towards Continuous Speech Recognition Using Surface Electromyography	Szu-Chen Jou, Tanja Schultz, Matthias Walliczek, Florian Kraft, Alex Waibel	International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 01. September 2006
Sub-Word Unit based Non-Audible Speech Recognition using Surface Electromyography	Matthias Walliczek, Florian Kraft, Szu-Chen Jou, Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel	International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 01. September 2006
Advances in Lecture Recognition: The ISL RT-06S Evaluation System	Christian Fügen, Matthias Wölfel, John McDonough, Shajith Ikbai Mohamed, Florian Kraft, Kornel Laskowski, Mari Ostendorf, Sebastian Stüker, Kenichi Kumatani	International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 31. August 2006
Cross-System Adaption and Combination for Continuous Speech Recognition: The Influence of Phoneme Set and Acoustic Front-End	Sebastian Stüker, Christian Fügen, Susanne Burger, Matthias Wölfel	International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 31. August 2006
The CMU-UKA Syntax Augmented Machine Translation System for IWSLT-06	Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel	International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2006, Kyoto, Japan, 27. November 2006
The UKA/CMU Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006	Matthias Eck, Ian R. Lane, Nguyen Bach, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Muntsin Kolss, Bing Zhao, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel	International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2006, Kyoto, Japan 28. November 2006
Efficient Collision and Self-Collision Detection for Humanoids Based on Sphere Trees Hierarchies	K. Steinbach, J. Kuffner, T. Asfour, R. Dillmann	IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2006
An Integrated Approach to Inverse Kinematics and Path Planning for Redundant Manipulators	D. Bertram, J. Kuffner, R. Dillmann, T. Asfour	IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1874-1879, May, 2006

2005
Titel	Tagung	Autoren	Referent
Temporal ICA for Classification of Acoustic Events in a Kitchen Environment		Florian Kraft, Thomas Schaaf, Alex Waibel, Rob Malkin
Document Driven Machine Translation Enhanced ASR		Christian Fügen, Sebastian Stüker, Tanja Schultz, Thomas Schaaf, Alex Waibel
The CMU Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2005		Sanjika Hewavitharana, Bing Zhao, Matthias Eck, Chiori Hori, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel
Speech Translation Enhanced Automatic Speech Recognition		Sebastian Stüker, Christian Fügen, Tanja Schultz, Thomas Schaaf, Alex Waibel
Session Independent non-audible speech recognition using surface electromyography		L. Maier-Hein, F. Metze, T. Schultz, A. Waibel

2004
Title	Author	Source
Issues in Meeting Transcription - The ISL Meeting Transcription System	Florian Metze, Qin Jin, Christian Fügen, Kornel Laskowski, Yue Pan, Tanja Schultz	International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, ICSLP 2004, Jeju Island, Korea, 04. October 2004