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The INTERSPEECH 2021 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: COVID-19 Cough, COVID-19 Speech, Escalation & Primates

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Schuller, Björn W., Batliner, Anton, Bergler, Christian, Mascolo, Cecilia, Han, Jing, Lefter, Iulia, Kaya, Heysem, Amiriparian, Shahin +16 more·2021·Interspeech 2021

Abstract

The INTERSPEECH 2021 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge addresses four different problems for the first time in a research competition under well-defined conditions: In the COVID-19 Cough and COVID-19 Speech Sub-Challenges, a binary classification on COVID-19 infection has to be made based on coughing sounds and speech; in the Escalation Sub-Challenge, a three-way assessment of the level of escalation in a dialogue is featured; and in the Primates Sub-Challenge, four species vs background need to be classified.We describe the Sub-Challenges, baseline feature extraction, and classifiers based on the 'usual' COMPARE and BoAW features as well as deep unsupervised representation learning using the AUDEEP toolkit, and deep feature extraction from pre-trained CNNs using the DEEP SPECTRUM toolkit; in addition, we add deep end-to-end sequential modelling, and partially linguistic analysis.

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  1. L. Stappen, B. Schuller, I. Lefter, E. Cambria, and I. Kompatsiaris, "Summary of muse 2020: Multimodal sentiment analysis, emotion- target engagement and trustworthiness detection in real-life me- dia," in Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2020, pp. 4769-4770.
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Schuller, B. W., Batliner, A., Bergler, C., Mascolo, C., Han, J., Lefter, I., Kaya, H., Amiriparian, S., Baird, A., Stappen, L., Ottl, S., Gerczuk, M., Tzirakis, P., Brown, C., Chauhan, J., Grammenos, A., Hasthanasombat, A., Spathis, D., Xia, T., Cicuta, P., Rothkrantz, L. J. M., Zwerts, J. A., Treep, J., & Kaandorp, C. S.
Affiliations
  • University of Augsburg (DE)
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • Delft University of Technology (NL)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • Imperial College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Schuller, Björn W.
Venue
Interspeech 2021
Publisher
ISCA
Published
2021-08-30
Pages
431-435
ISSN
2308-457X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3196831814
Cited by
89
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 18
FWCI
9.01
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Interspeech (USB) (publishedVersion)
  • Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (442218748)
  • H2020 European Research Council (833296)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Music and Audio Processing
Keywords
computational paralinguistics, COVID-19 detection, cough sounds, speech analysis, dialogue analysis, pre-trained CNN features

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