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Jayawardena S; Epps J; Ambikairajah E, 2019, 'Evaluation Measures for Depression Prediction and Affective Computing', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 6610 - 6614, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682956

Gunendradasan T; Irtza S; Ambikairajah E; Epps J, 2019, 'Transmission Line Cochlear Model Based AM-FM Features for Replay Attack Detection', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 6136 - 6140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682771

Rana R; Gururajan R; McKenzie G; Dunn J; Gray A; Zhou X; Barua PD; Epps J; Humphris GM, 2019, 'A Novel Framework for Distress Detection through an Automated Speech Processing System', in Proceedings - 2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2018, pp. 610 - 614, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-29

Gunendradasan T; Ambikairajah E; Epps J; Li H, 2019, 'An adaptive-Q cochlear model for replay spoofing detection', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 2918 - 2922, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2361

Wickramasinghe B; Ambikairajah E; Le PN; Epps J, 2018, 'Perceptual Frequency Scale-based Filters for Replay Spoofing Attack Detection', in 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, ICIAfS 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIAFS.2018.8913356

Jayawardena S; Epps J; Ambikairajah E, 2018, 'Support Vector Ordinal Regression for Depression Severity Prediction', in 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, ICIAfS 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIAFS.2018.8913383

Gamage KW; Dang T; Sethu V; Epps J; Ambikairajah E, 2018, 'Speech-based Continuous Emotion Prediction by Learning Perception Responses related to Salient Events: A Study based on Vocal Affect Bursts and Cross-Cultural Affect in AVEC 2018', in AVEC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop, co-located with MM 2018, pp. 47 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3266302.3266314

Huang Z; Epps J; Joachim D; Chen M, 2018, 'Depression detection from short utterances via diverse smartphones in natural environmental conditions', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, International Speech Communication Association, INDIA, Hyderabad, pp. 3393 - 3397, presented at Interspeech 2018, INDIA, Hyderabad, 02 August 2018 - 06 September 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1743

Atcheson M; Sethu V; Epps J, 2018, 'Demonstrating and modelling systematic time-varying annotator disagreement in continuous emotion annotation', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 3668 - 3672, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1933

Gunendradasan T; Wickramasinghe B; Le PN; Ambikairajah E; Epps J, 2018, 'Detection of replay-spoofing attacks using frequency modulation features', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 636 - 640, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1473

Wickramasinghe B; Irtza S; Ambikairajah E; Epps J, 2018, 'Frequency domain linear prediction features for replay spoofing attack detection', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 661 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1574

Latif S; Rana R; Younis S; Qadir J; Epps J, 2018, 'Transfer learning for improving speech emotion classification accuracy', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 257 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1625

Latif S; Rana R; Qadir J; Epps J, 2018, 'Variational autoencoders to learn latent representations of speech emotion', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 3107 - 3111, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1568

Konstantinou G; Epps J, 2017, 'Facilitating online casual interactions and creating a community of learning in a first-year electrical engineering course', in Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2017, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), HONG KONG, Educ Univ Hong Kong, Tai Po, pp. 128 - 133, presented at 2017 IEEE 6th International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), HONG KONG, Educ Univ Hong Kong, Tai Po, 12 December 2017 - 14 December 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2017.8252317

Dang T; Atcheson M; Stasak B; Hayat M; Goecke R; Huang Z; Le P; Epps J; Jayawardena S; Sethu V, 2017, 'Investigating word affect features and fusion of probabilistic predictions incorporating uncertainty in AVEC 2017', in Ringeval F; Schuller BW; Valstar MF; Gratch J; Cowie R; Pantic M (eds.), AVEC 2017 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, co-located with MM 2017, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Mountain View, California, USA, pp. 27 - 35, presented at 7th Annual Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, Mountain View, California, USA, 23 October 2017 - 23 October 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3133944.3133952

Stasak B; Epps J; Lawson A, 2017, 'Analysis of phonetic markedness and gestural effort measures for acoustic speech-based depression classification', in 2017 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos, ACIIW 2017, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 165 - 170, presented at 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 23 October 2017 - 26 October 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACIIW.2017.8272608

Stasak B; Epps J, 2017, 'Differential performance of automatic speech-based depression classification across smartphones', in 2017 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos, ACIIW 2017, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 171 - 175, presented at 2017 Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 23 October 2017 - 26 October 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACIIW.2017.8272609

Stasak B; Epps J; Goecke R, 2017, 'Elicitation design for acoustic depression classification: An investigation of articulation effort, linguistic complexity, and word affect', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 834 - 838, presented at INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 20 August 2017 - 24 August 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1223

Chen S; Epps J; Ambikairajah E; Le PN, 2017, 'An investigation of crowd speech for room occupancy estimation', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 324 - 328, presented at INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 20 August 2017 - 24 August 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-70

Huang Z; Epps J, 2017, 'An investigation of emotion dynamics and kalman filtering for speech-based emotion prediction', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 3301 - 3305, presented at INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 20 August 2017 - 24 August 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1707

Dang T; Sethu V; Epps J; Ambikairajah E, 2017, 'An investigation of emotion prediction uncertainty using Gaussian Mixture Regression', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 1248 - 1252, presented at INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 20 August 2017 - 24 August 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-512

Fernando S; Sethu V; Ambikairajah E; Epps J, 2017, 'Bidirectional modelling for short duration language identification', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 2809 - 2813, presented at INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 20 August 2017 - 24 August 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-286

Huang Z; Epps J, 2017, 'A PLLR and multi-stage Staircase Regression framework for speech-based emotion prediction', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, USA, pp. 5145 - 5149, presented at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, LA, USA, 05 March 2017 - 09 March 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953137

Stasak B; Epps J, 2016, 'Depression Prediction Via Acoustic Analysis of Formulaic Word Fillers', in Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia, pp. 277 - 280, presented at 16th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST2016), Sydney, Australia, 06 December 2016 - 09 December 2016

Huang Z; Epps J, 2016, 'Time to Embrace Emotion Change: Selecting Emotionally Salient Segments for Speech-based Emotion Prediction', in Proceedings of 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1 - 3, presented at 16th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST2016), Sydney, Australia, 06 December 2016 - 09 December 2016, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311518605_Time_to_Embrace_Emotion_Change_Selecting_Emotionally_Salient_Segments_for_Speech-based_Emotion_Prediction

Huang Z; Stasak B; Dang T; Gamage KW; Le P; Sethu V; Epps J, 2016, 'Staircase regression in OA RVM, data selection and gender dependency in AVEC 2016', in AVEC 2016 - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2016, ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, pp. 19 - 26, presented at 6th International Workshop on Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition Challenge - Depression, Mood, and Emotion (AVEC), Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, 16 October 2016 - 16 October 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2988257.2988265

Stasak B; Epps J; Cummins N; Goecke R, 2016, 'An investigation of emotional speech in depression classification', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, Ca, USA, pp. 485 - 489, presented at 2016 Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, Ca, USA, 08 September 2016 - 12 September 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-867

Shahin M; Epps J; Ahmed B, 2016, 'Automatic classification of lexical stress in English and Arabic languages using deep learning', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, San Francisco CA, USA, pp. 175 - 179, presented at Interspeech 2016, San Francisco CA, USA, 08 September 2016 - 12 September 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-644

Alghowinem S; Goecke R; Epps J; Wagner M; Cohn J, 2016, 'Cross-cultural depression recognition from vocal biomarkers', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 1943 - 1947, presented at Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, 08 September 2016 - 12 September 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1339

Huang Z; Epps J, 2016, 'Detecting the instant of emotion change from speech using a martingale framework', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 5195 - 5199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472668

Epps J; Sethu V; Eaton R; Ambikairajah E, 2015, 'High Definition Multi-View Video Guidance for Self-Directed Learning and More Effective Engineering Laboratories', Geelong,Australia, presented at Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Geelong,Australia, 06 December 2015 - 09 December 2015, https://aaee2015conference.sched.org/event/5aaZ/4b-high-definition-multi-view-video-guidance-for-self-directed-learning-and-more-effective-engineering-laboratories

Makepeace R; Epps J, 2015, 'Automatic task analysis based on head movement', in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, pp. 5167 - 5170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319555

Hines C; Sethu V; Epps J, 2015, 'Twitter: A new online source of automatically tagged data for conversational speech emotion recognition', in ASM 2015 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia, co-located with ACM MM 2015, pp. 9 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2813524.2813529

Huang Z; Dang T; Cummins N; Stasak B; Le P; Sethu V; Epps J, 2015, 'An investigation of annotation delay compensation and output-associative fusion for multimodal continuous emotion prediction', in AVEC 2015 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, co-Located with MM 2015, pp. 41 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2808196.2811640

Cummins N; Sethu V; Epps J; Krajewski J, 2015, 'Relevance Vector Machine for Depression Prediction', in Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Dresden, Germany, presented at Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Dresden, Germany, 06 September 2015 - 10 September 2015, http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2015/i15_0110.html

Huang Z; Epps J; Ambikairajah E, 2015, 'An Investigation of Emotion Change Detection from Speech', Dresden, pp. 1329 - 1333, presented at INTERSPEECH, Dresden, 06 September 2015 - 10 September 2015, http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2015/i15_1329.html

Larsen ME; Cummins N; Boonstra TW; O'Dea B; Tighe J; Nicholas J; Shand F; Epps J; Christensen H, 2015, 'The use of technology in Suicide Prevention', in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ITALY, Milan, pp. 7316 - 7319, presented at 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), ITALY, Milan, 25 August 2015 - 29 August 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320081

Cummins N; Epps J; Sethu V; Krajewski J, 2015, 'Weighted pairwise Gaussian likelihood regression for depression score prediction', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 4779 - 4783, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178878

Ravishankar J; Epps J; Ladouceur F; Eaton R; Ambikairajah E, 2015, 'Using iPads/Tablets as a teaching tool: Strategies for an electrical engineering classroom', in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering: Learning for the Future Now, TALE 2014, pp. 246 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062634

Epps J, 2014, 'Automatic Assessment of Depression from Speech and Behavioural Signals', in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, ACM, pp. 1 - 1, presented at MM '14: 2014 ACM Multimedia Conference, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2661806.2661820

Cummins N; Sethu V; Epps J; Krajewski J, 2014, 'Probabilistic acoustic volume analysis for speech affected by depression', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 1238 - 1242

Schuller B; Steidl S; Batliner A; Epps J; Eyben F; Ringeval F; Marchi E; Zhang Y, 2014, 'The INTERSPEECH 2014 computational paralinguistics challenge: Cognitive & physical load', in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 427 - 431

Cummins N; Epps J; Sethu V; Krajewski J, 2014, 'Variability compensation in small data: Oversampled extraction of i-vectors for the classification of depressed speech', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 970 - 974, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853741

Yu K; Epps J; Chen F, 2013, 'Mental workload classification via online writing features', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR, pp. 1110 - 1114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2013.225

Thiruvaran T; Ambikairajah E; Epps J; Enzinger E, 2013, 'A comparison of single-stage and two-stage modelling approaches for automatic forensic speaker recognition', in 2013 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ICIIS 2013 - Conference Proceedings, pp. 433 - 438, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIInfS.2013.6732023

Huang CC; Epps J; Enzinger E, 2013, 'Separate MAP adaptation of GMM parameters for forensic voice comparison on limited data', in 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2013), Guangzhou, China, pp. 1 - 6, presented at 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Guangzhou, China, 18 November 2013 - 21 November 2013

Alghowinem S; Goecke R; Wagner M; Epps J; Gedeon T; Breakspear M; Parker G, 2013, 'A comparative study of different classifiers for detecting depression from spontaneous speech', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 8022 - 8026, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639227

Alghowinem S; Goecke R; Wagner M; Epps J; Breakspear M; Parker G, 2013, 'Detecting depression: A comparison between spontaneous and read speech', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 7547 - 7551, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639130

Sethu V; Epps J; Ambikairajah E, 2013, 'Speaker variability in speech based emotion models - Analysis and normalisation', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 7522 - 7525, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639125

Cummins N; Epps J; Ambikairajah E, 2013, 'Spectro-temporal analysis of speech affected by depression and psychomotor retardation', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, pp. 7542 - 7546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639129


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