Publications

Journal Papers

1. Younggwan Kim, Myungjong Kim, Jahyun Goo, and Hoirin Kim, "Learning self-informed feature contribution for deep learning-based acoustic modeling," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 2204-2214, Nov. 2018. link

2. Jun Wang, Prasanna V. Kothalkar, Myungjong Kim, Beiming Cao, Yana Yunusova, Thomas F. Campbell, Daragh Heitzman, Jordan R. Green, "Automatic speech severity estimation for individuals with ALS from speech acoustic and articulatory samples," International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 669-679, 2018. link

3. Myungjong Kim, Beiming Cao, Ted Mau, and Jun Wang, "Speaker-independent silent speech recognition from flesh-point articulatory movements using an LSTM neural network," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 2323-2336, Dec. 2017. link

4. Myungjong Kim, Younggwan Kim, Joohong Yoo, Jun Wang, and Hoirin Kim, "Regularized speaker adaptation of KL-HMM for dysarthric speech recognition," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 1581-1591, Sep. 2017. link

5. Younggwan Kim, Myung Jong Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Scaled norm-based Euclidean projection for sparse speaker adaptation," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2015, no. 102, pp. 1-7, Dec. 2015. link

6. Myung Jong Kim, Younggwan Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Automatic intelligibility assessment of dysarthric speech using phonologically-structured sparse linear model,"IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 694-704, Apr. 2015. link

7. Myung Jong Kim and Hoirin Kim, "Audio-based objectionable content detection using discriminative transforms of time-frequency dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1390-1400, Oct. 2012. link

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

1. Myungjong Kim, Nordine Sebkhi, Beiming Cao, Maysam Ghovanloo, and Jun Wang, "Preliminary test of a wireless magnetic tongue tracking system for silent speech interface," in Proceedings of IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), pp. 1-4, Oct. 2018. (Cleveland, OH) link

2. Beiming Cao, Myungjong Kim, Jun R. Wang, Jan van Santen, Ted Mau, and Jun Wang, "Articulation-to-speech synthesis using articulatory flesh point sensors’ orientation information," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 3152-3156, Sep. 2018. (Hyderabad, India) pdf

3. Kwanghoon An, Myungjong Kim, Kristin Teplansky, Jordan R. Green, Thomas F. Campbell, Daragh Heitzman, and Jun Wang, "Automatic early detection of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from intelligible speech using convolutional neural networks," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1913-1917, Sep. 2018. (Hyderabad, India) pdf

4. Debadatta Dash, Myungjong Kim, Kristin Teplansky, and Jun Wang, "Automatic speech recognition with articulatory information and a unified dictionary for Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and Oriya," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1046-1050, Sep. 2018. (Hyderabad, India) pdf

5. Myungjong Kim, Beiming Cao, Kwanghoon An, and Jun Wang, "Dysarthric speech recognition using convolutional LSTM neural network," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 2948-2952, Sep. 2018. (Hyderabad, India) pdf

6. Myungjong Kim, Beiming Cao, and Jun Wang, "Multi-view representation learning via canonical correlation analysis for dysarthric speech recognition," in Proceedings of International Conference on Mechatronics and Intelligent Robotics, May 2018. (Kunming, China) link

7. Myungjong Kim, Beiming Cao, Ted Mau, and Jun Wang, "Multiview representation learning via deep CCA for silent speech recognition," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 2769-2773, Aug. 2017. (Stockholm, Sweden) pdf

8. Beiming Cao, Myungjong Kim, Jan van Santen, Ted Mau, and Jun Wang, "Integrating articulatory information in deep learning-based text-to-speech synthesis," inProceedings of Interspeech, pp. 254-258, Aug. 2017. (Stockholm, Sweden) pdf

9. Jun Wang, Myungjong Kim, Angel W. Hernandez-Mulero, Daragh Heitzman, and Paul Ferrari, "Towards decoding speech production from single-trial magnetoencephalography (meg) signals," in Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3036-3040, Mar. 2017. (New Orleans, LA) link

10. Beiming Cao, Myungjong Kim, Ted Mau, Jun Wang, "Recognizing whispered speech produced by an individual with surgically reconstructed larynx using articulatory movement data," in Proceedings of the 7th workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), pp. 80-86, Sep. 2016. (San Francisco, CA) link

11. Jun Wang, Prasanna V. Kothalkar, Myungjong Kim, Yana Yunusova, Thomas F. Campbell, Daragh Heitzman, Jordan R. Green, "Predicting intelligible speaking rate in individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from a small number of speech acoustic and articulatory samples," in Proceedings of the 7th workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), pp. 91-97, Sep. 2016. (San Francisco, CA) link

12. Myungjong Kim, Jun Wang, Hoirin Kim, "Dysarthric speech recognition using Kullback-Leibler divergence-based hidden Markov model," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 2671-2675, Sep. 2016. (San Francisco, CA) pdf

13. Hyungjun Lim, Myung Jong Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Cross-acoustic transfer learning for sound event classification," in Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2054-2058, Mar. 2016. (Shanghai, China) link

14. Myung Jong Kim, Joohong Yoo, Younggwan Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Speech emotion classification using tree-structured sparse logistic regression," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1541-1545, Sep. 2015. (Dresden, Germany) pdf

15. Hyungjun Lim, Myung Jong Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Robust sound event classification using LBP-HOG based bag-of-audio-words feature representation," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 3325-3329, Sep. 2015. (Dresden, Germany) pdf

16. Hyungjun Lim, Myung Jong Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Bag-of-audio-words feature representation using GMM clustering for sound event classification," in Proceedings of International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC), pp. 170-175, Jan. 2015. (Singapore) pdf

17. Myung Jong Kim, Joohong Yoo, and Hoirin Kim, "Dysarthric speech recognition using dysarthria-severity-dependent and speaker-adaptive models," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 3622-3626, Aug. 2013. (Lyon, France) pdf

18. Myung Jong Kim, Younggwan Kim, Seungki Hong, and Hoirin Kim, "Robust detection of infant crying in adverse environments using weighted segmental two-dimensional linear frequency cepstral coefficients," in Proceedings of International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp. 1-4, Jul. 2013. (San Jose, USA) link

19. Myung Jong Kim and Hoirin Kim, "Combination of multiple speech dimensions for automatic assessment of dysarthric speech intelligibility," in Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1323-1326, Sep. 2012. (Portland, USA) pdf

20. Myung Jong Kim and Hoirin Kim, "Automatic assessment of dysarthric speech intelligibility based on selected phonetic quality features," in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Part II, LNCS 7383, pp. 447-450, Jul. 2012. (Linz, Austria) pdf link

21. Myung Jong Kim and Hoirin Kim, "Automatic extraction of pornographic contents using radon transform based audio features," in Proceedings of 9th Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), pp. 205-210, Jun. 2011. (Madrid, Spain) link

22. Insoo Kim, Myung Jong Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Emotion recognition using normalized histogram of speech features," in Proceedings of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), pp. 6, Dec. 2010. (Singapore) pdf

23. Myung Jong Kim, Younggwan Kim, JaeDeok Lim, and Hoirin Kim, "Automatic detection of malicious sound using segmental two-dimensional mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and histograms of oriented gradients," in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia (ACMMM), pp. 887-890, Oct. 2010. (Firenze, Italy) link

24. Myung Jong Kim, Sung Joo Lee, Hoirin Kim, and Hyung Soon Kim, "A robust target signal detector based on statistical models using binaural cross-similarity information," in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 2082-2086, Aug. 2010. (Aalborg, Denmark) link

Conference Abstracts

1. D. Dash, M. Kim, P. Ferrari, and J. Wang, "Brain activation pattern analysis for speech production decoding from MEG signals," The Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Oct. 2018. (Atlanta, Georgia)

2. M. Kim, P. Ferrari, S. Malik, D. Heitzman, and J. Wang, "Decoding spoken speech from MEG signals," The 21st International Conference on Biomagnetism (Biomag), Aug. 2018. (Philadelphia, PA)

3. Jun Wang, Myungjong Kim, Angel Hernandez-Mulero, Daragh Heizman, Paul Ferrari, "Mapping non-invasive brain activity (MEG) signals to spoken phrases," the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Jul. 2017. (Groningen, the Netherlands) (Winner of the Best Poster Award)

4. Myungjong Kim, Paul Ferrari, Daragh Heizman, Angel Hernandez-Mulero, and Jun Wang, "Decoding speech production from MEG signals for BCI-based communication,"the 8th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, May 2017. (Shanghai, China)

Korean Domestic Journal Papers

1. Hyungjun Lim, Myung Jong Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Sound event classification using deep neural network based transfer learning," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 143-148 , 2016.

Korean Domestic Conference Papers

1. Myung Jong Kim, Youngjoo Suh, and Hoirin Kim, "Automatic assessment of dysarthria severity using pronunciation variation pattern and sparse linear model," inProceedings of the 2014 Autumn Conference of the Korean Society of Speech Sciences, pp. 193-194, Nov. 2014.

2. Myung Jong Kim, Jumin Park, and Hoirin Kim, "Dysarthric speech recognition based on dysarthria-severity dependent acoustic models," in Proceedings of KSCSP2013, Aug. 2013. (Winner of the Best Paper Presentation Award)

3. Myung Jong Kim, Jumin Park, and Hoirin Kim, "Dysarthric speech recognition based on variable frame rate analysis," in Proceedings of the 2013 Spring Conference of the Korean Society of Speech Sciences, pp. 27-29, May 2013.

4. Youngjoo Suh, Myung Jong Kim, Kitae Kim, Jaiyoung Roh, and Hoirin Kim, "Improving speech recognition accuracy by applying anti-aliasing filtering in feature space," inProceedings of the IEEK Summer Conference 2011, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 712-714, Jun. 2011.

5. Myung Jong Kim and Hoirin Kim, Intelligibility assessment of dysarthric speech based on similarity of likelihood distribution," in Proceedings of the 2011 Spring Conference of the Korean Society of Speech Sciences, pp. 173-174, Jun. 2011.

6. Myung Jong Kim, Jaiyoung Roh, Kitae Kim, and Hoirin Kim, Automatic detection of objectionable contents using Radon transform based audio features," in Proceedings of the ASK Spring Conference, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 479-482, May 2011.

7. Myung Jong Kim, Joohong Yoo, Insoo Kim, and Hoirin Kim, "Malicious sound recognition using segmental two-dimensional mel-frequency cepstral coefficients," in Proceedings of the IEEK Summer Conference 2010, pp. 16-17, Jun. 2010.

Korean Domestic Patents

1. "Method and apparatus for speaker verification," 10-1564087-0000, Oct. 2015.

2. "Cleaning robot of building outside wall," 10-0878880-0000, Jan. 2009.

Magazines (Media Coverage)

1. "Sound of sex could alert internet porn filter," New Scientist Magazine, May 2011.

Preprints

1. Myungjong Kim, Taeyeon Ki, Aviral Anshu, and Vijendra Raj Apsingekar, "North America Bixby Speaker Diarization System for the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2021," arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13518 (2021). link

2. Myungjong Kim, Vijendra Raj Apsingekar, and Divya Neelagiri, "X-Vectors with Multi-Scale Aggregation for Speaker Diarization," arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.07367 (2021). link