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  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to neural network based speech recognition and translation and multimodal interfaces

Overview

Alex Waibel is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and has a strong research profile within computer science, focusing on artificial intelligence, computer vision, and signal processing. Their work spans multiple subfields, including natural language processing techniques, speech and dialogue systems, multimodal machine learning applications, and human pose and action recognition.

Their recent papers include:

  • Incremental learning of humanoid robot behavior from natural interaction and large language models, 2024, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Deep Episodic Memory for Verbalization of Robot Experience, 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Where did I leave my keys? - Episodic-Memory-Based Question Answering on Egocentric Videos, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
  • Low Latency ASR for Simultaneous Speech Translation, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Active Learning for Massively Parallel Translation of Constrained Text into Low Resource Languages, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Leonard Bärmann
  • Stefan Constantin
  • Fabian Peller-Konrad
  • Jan Niehues
  • Tamim Asfour

Alex Waibel has published extensively in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), with 14 publications, as well as in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Their research covers the following topics:

  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Topic Modeling
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition

Waibel's scientific contributions and work in neural network-based speech recognition, translation, and multimodal interfaces earned recognition including the IEEE Fellow award in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Phoneme recognition using time-delay neural networks

    Alexander Waibel;Toshiyuki Hanazawa;Geoffrey Hinton;Kiyohiro Shikano

  • A real-time face tracker

    Jie Yang;A. Waibel

  • A time-delay neural network architecture for isolated word recognition

    Kevin J. Lang;Alex H. Waibel;Geoffrey E. Hinton

  • Recognizing emotion in speech

    F. Dellaert;T. Polzin;A. Waibel

  • Skin-Color Modeling and Adaptation

    Jie Yang;Weier Lu;Alex Waibel

  • Modular construction of time-delay neural networks for speech recognition

    Alex Waibel

  • Language-independent and language-adaptive acoustic modeling for speech recognition

    Tanja Schultz;Tanja Schultz;Alex Waibel;Alex Waibel

  • Readings in speech recognition

    Alex Waibel;Kai-Fu Lee

  • Automatic detection and recognition of signs from natural scenes

    Xilin Chen;Jie Yang;Jing Zhang;A. Waibel

  • Locating and correcting erroneously recognized portions of utterances by rescoring based on two n-best lists

    Alex H. Waibel;Arthur E. McNair

  • Toward Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Universal Encoder and Decoder

    Thanh-Le Ha;Jan Niehues;Alexander H. Waibel

  • Method and apparatus for correcting and repairing machine-transcribed input using independent or cross-modal secondary input

    Alexander Waibel;Bernhard Suhm;Arthur McNair

  • Smart Sight: a tourist assistant system

    Jie Yang;Weiyi Yang;M. Denecke;A. Waibel

  • Online handwriting recognition: the NPen++ recognizer

    S. Jaeger;S. Manke;J. Reichert;A. Waibel

  • Extracting deep bottleneck features using stacked auto-encoders

    Jonas Gehring;Yajie Miao;Florian Metze;Alex Waibel

  • System and methods for maintaining speech-to-speech translation in the field

    Alexander Waibel;Ian R. Lane

  • A novel objective function for improved phoneme recognition using time-delay neural networks

    J.B. Hampshire;A.H. Waibel

  • Enhanced speech-to-speech translation system and methods for adding a new word

    Alexander Waibel;Ian R. Lane

  • Multimodal error correction for speech user interfaces

    Bernhard Suhm;Brad Myers;Alex Waibel

  • Natural human-robot interaction using speech, head pose and gestures

    R. Stiefelhagen;C. Fugen;R. Gieselmann;H. Holzapfel

  • Enhanced speech-to-speech translation system and methods

    Alexander Waibel;Ian R. Lane

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Niehues
Jan Niehues Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Tanja Schultz
Tanja Schultz University of Bremen
Stephan Vogel
Stephan Vogel University of Graz
Jie Yang
Jie Yang Carnegie Mellon University
Florian Metze
Florian Metze Carnegie Mellon University
Alon Lavie
Alon Lavie Carnegie Mellon University
Rainer Stiefelhagen
Rainer Stiefelhagen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Lori Levin
Lori Levin Carnegie Mellon University
Graham Neubig
Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University
Hagen Soltau
Hagen Soltau Google (United States)

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