Functional connectivity of the resting-state (RS) brain is a vehicle to study brain dysconnectivity aspects of diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar. Methods that are developed to measure functional connectivity are based on the underlying hypotheses regarding the actual nature of RS-connectivity including evidence of temporally dynamic versus static RS-connectivity and evidence of frequen...

This paper addresses the problem of recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker. We employ a speech fragment decoding technique that treats segregation and recognition as coupled problems. Data-driven techniques are used to segment a spectro-temporal representation into a set of spectro-temporal fragments, such that each fragment is dominated by one or other of the speech sources....

This paper addresses the problem of recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker. We employ a speech fragment decoding technique that treats segregation and recognition as coupled problems. Data-driven techniques are used to segment a spectro-temporal representation into a set of spectro-temporal fragments, such that each fragment is dominated by one or other of the speech sources....

We present a biologically motivated method for assessing the intelligibility of speech recorded or transmitted under various types of distortions. The method employs an auditory model to analyze the effects of noise, reverberations, and other distortions on the joint spectro-temporal modulations present in speech, and on the ability of a channel to transmit these modulations. The effects are su...

Spectro-temporal modulations of speech encode speech structures and speaker characteristics. An algorithm which distinguishes speech from non-speech based on spectro-temporal modulation energies is proposed and evaluated in robust text-independent closed-set speaker identification simulations using the TIMIT and GRID corpora. Simulation results show the proposed method produces much higher spea...

Recently, supervised speech separation has been extensively studied and shown considerable promise. Due to the temporal continuity of speech, speech auditory features and separation targets present prominent spectro-temporal structures and strong correlations over the time-frequency (T-F) domain, which can be exploited for speech separation. However, many supervised speech separation methods in...

The paper addresses the problem of recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker. It uses a two stage ‘Speech Fragment Decoding’ system. The system works by first segmenting a spectro-temporal representation of the mixture into a number of fragments, such that each fragment is dominated by a single source. An ASR search is then extended to find the combination of speech model sequen...

Understanding the human ability to reliably process and decode speech across a wide range of acoustic conditions and speaker characteristics is a fundamental challenge for current theories of speech perception. Conventional speech representations such as the sound spectrogram emphasize many spectro-temporal details that are not directly germane to the linguistic information encoded in the speec...

Conventional speech recognition system is constructed by unfolding the spectral-temporal input matrices into one-way vectors and using these vectors to estimate the affine parameters of neural network according to the vector-based error backpropagation algorithm. System performance is constrained because the contextual correlations in frequency and time horizons are disregarded and the spectral...