Pallas: Novel Sound Classification at the Edge

Sound pollution is becoming an increasingly pressing issue in today’s world. To effectively address it, it must be measured. To this end, Serval was developed, an edge-ai powered sound recognition solution. Its lack of accuracy, however, makes it difficult to deploy. This thesis examines the potential for improving this solution while staying...

Rule Induction on Multiple Instance Learning Concepts

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a type of semi-supervised machine learning used recently in medical and multi-media fields. In MIL, instead of a single feature vector, a set of feature vectors has to be classified. Standard MIL algorithms assume that only some of these vectors are useful for building a classifier. This paper extends the...

Few shot emotion recognition using intelligent voice assistants and wearables: Learning from few samples of speech and physiological signals

Emotion Recognition is one of the vastly studied areas of affective computing. Attempts have been made to design emotion recognition systems for everyday settings. The ubiquitous nature of Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) in households, make them a great anchor for the introduction of emotion recognition technology to consumers. The existing...

Audio-visual authentication for mobile devices

Authentication is becoming an increasingly important application in the connected world and is driven by the growing use of mobile and IoT devices that use an increasing number of applications that require transactions of sensitive data. Security usually relies on passwords and/or two-factor authentication which are too intrusive for daily use....

Sense Umbrella Connection and Desensitisation: Weather Witness

As of this moment there is a lack of data about rainfall in cities. To collect such data, IBM has started the Sense Umbrella Connection and Desensitisation project. For this project an umbrella was equipped with a piezoelectric sensor and a Bluetooth device to record the rain that falls on the surface of this umbrella. One downside of this...