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Overview

Abeer Alwan is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, located in the United States. Their research spans computer science and psychology, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and signal processing. Additional subfields of interest include experimental and cognitive psychology, physiology, and social psychology. The main topics addressed in their work encompass speech recognition and synthesis, speech and audio processing, speech and dialogue systems, phonetics and phonology research, voice and speech disorders, natural language processing techniques, and emotion and mood recognition.

Alwan has contributed to numerous publications in recognized venues. These include a significant number of works in arXiv (Cornell University), as well as multiple publications in Interspeech 2022 and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Other frequent publication venues are SSRN Electronic Journal and the ICASSP 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Their recent papers showcase a range of topics related to speech-based technologies and auditory processing. Notable examples are:

  • "Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research," 2021, Computer Speech & Language
  • "Fraug: A Frame Rate Based Data Augmentation Method for Depression Detection from Speech Signals," 2022, ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  • "Towards Better Domain Adaptation for Self-Supervised Models: A Case Study of Child ASR," 2022, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
  • "Enhancing accuracy and privacy in speech-based depression detection through speaker disentanglement," 2023, Computer Speech & Language
  • "DRAFT: A Novel Framework to Reduce Domain Shifting in Self-supervised Learning and Its Application to Children's ASR," 2022, Interspeech 2022

Collaborations have occurred with a range of colleagues, of whom the most frequent co-authors include Vijay Ravi, Ruchao Fan, Jinhan Wang, Jonathan Flint, and Amber Afshan. These collaborations reflect a sustained engagement within the research community working on machine learning, speech analysis, and related psychological aspects.

Best Publications

  • Age, sex, and vowel dependencies of acoustic measures related to the voice source.

    Markus Iseli;Yen-Liang Shue;Abeer Alwan

  • An articulatory study of fricative consonants using magnetic resonance imaging

    Shrikanth S. Narayanan;Abeer A. Alwan;Katherine Haker

  • adaptive mobile multimedia networks

    A. Alwan;R. Bagrodia;N. Bambos;M. Gerla

  • Toward articulatory-acoustic models for liquid approximants based on MRI and EPG data. Part I. The laterals

    Shrikanth S. Narayanan;Abeer A. Alwan;Katherine Haker

  • Steady-state analysis of continuous adaptation in acoustic feedback reduction systems for hearing-aids

    M.G. Siqueira;A. Alwan

  • Joint Robust Voicing Detection and Pitch Estimation Based on Residual Harmonics

    Thomas Drugman;Abeer Alwan

  • Acoustic modeling of American English /r/.

    Carol Y. Espy-Wilson;Suzanne E. Boyce;Michel Jackson;Shrikanth Narayanan

  • On the Relationship between Face Movements, Tongue Movements, and Speech Acoustics

    Jintao Jiang;Abeer Alwan;Patricia A. Keating;Edward T. Auer

  • Optical phonetics and visual perception of lexical and phrasal stress in English.

    Rebecca Scarborough;Patricia Keating;Sven L. Mattys;Taehong Cho

  • On the use of variable frame rate analysis in speech recognition

    Qifeng Zhu;A. Alwan

  • A contribution to simulating a three-dimensional larynx model using the finite element method.

    Marcelo de Oliveira Rosa;José Carlos Pereira;Marcos Grellet;Abeer Alwan

  • A model of dynamic auditory perception and its application to robust word recognition

    B. Strope;A. Alwan

  • Glottal source processing: From analysis to applications

    Thomas Drugman;Paavo Alku;Abeer Alwan;Bayya Yegnanarayana

  • A Database of Vocal Tract Resonance Trajectories for Research in Speech Processing

    Li Deng;Xiaodong Cui;R. Pruvenok;Yanyi Chen

  • A nonlinear dynamical systems analysis of fricative consonants

    Shrikanth S. Narayanan;Abeer A. Alwan

  • Reducing F0 Frame Error of F0 tracking algorithms under noisy conditions with an unvoiced/voiced classification frontend

    Wei Chu;Abeer Alwan

  • An improved correction formula for the estimation of harmonic magnitudes and its application to open quotient estimation

    M. Iseli;A. Alwan

  • Noise source models for fricative consonants

    S. Narayanan;A. Alwan

  • Variability in the relationships among voice quality, harmonic amplitudes, open quotient, and glottal area waveform shape in sustained phonation.

    Jody Kreiman;Yen Liang Shue;Gang Chen;Markus Iseli

  • Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research

    Matthew Marge;Carol Y. Espy-Wilson;Nigel G. Ward;Abeer Alwan

  • Band-limited feedback cancellation with a modified filtered-X LMS algorithm for hearing aids

    Hsiang-Feng Chi;Shawn X. Gao;Sigfrid D. Soli;Abeer Alwan

  • Noise robust speech recognition using feature compensation based on polynomial regression of utterance SNR

    Xiaodong Cui;A. Alwan

  • Speech Coding: Fundamentals and Applications

    Mark Hasegawa‐Johnson;Abeer Alwan

  • On the perception of voicing in syllable-initial plosives in noise.

    Jintao Jiang;Marcia Chen;Abeer Alwan

  • Text to Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances

    Shrikanth Narayanan;Abeer Alwan

  • Acoustic modelling of American English /r/.

    Carol Y. Espy-Wilson;Shrikanth S. Narayanan;Suzanne Boyce;Abeer Alwan

Frequent Co-Authors

Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California
Mitchell S. Sommers
Mitchell S. Sommers Washington University in St. Louis
Sungbok Lee
Sungbok Lee University of Southern California
Gregory J. Pottie
Gregory J. Pottie University of California, Los Angeles
Horacio Franco
Horacio Franco SRI International
Richard D. Wesel
Richard D. Wesel University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B. Yegnanarayana
B. Yegnanarayana International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Sven L. Mattys
Sven L. Mattys University of York
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock University of California, Los Angeles

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