Research Areas

Multimedia Technology

• speech recognition
• speech synthesis
• speaker verification
• sound event detection
• machine learning
• deep learning
• image classification

Publication

• Thesis/Dissertation
• Chia-Ping Chen, Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition, PhD dissertation, University of Washington
• Chia-Ping Chen, Phase Diagrams of a Decorated Ising Model in Magnetic Field, master thesis, National Tsing-hua University
• Journal papers
• Wei-Ting Lin, Ting-Wei Chen, and Chia-Ping Chen, Speaker Verification System Based on Time Delay Neural Network with Pre-activated CNN Stem and Deep Layer Aggregation, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 2, March 2024
• Hou-An lin and Chia-Ping Chen, Training Speech Recognition Model with Speech Synthesis and Text Discriminator, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 2, March 2024
• Li-Yu Huang and Chia-Ping Chen, Improving Speech Synthesis by Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Discriminator, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 1, January 2024
• Sung-Jen Huang, Chia-Chuan Liu, Chia-Ping Chen, Sound Event Detection System Based on VGGSKCCT Model Architecture with Knowledge Distillation, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 37, 2023
• Hung-Pang Lin and Chia-Ping Chen, NSYSU-MITLab Speech Recognition System for Formosa Speech Recognition Challenge 2020, International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 26(1), 2021
• Yu-Jia Zhang, Chia-Ping Chen, Shan-Wen Hsiao, Bo-Cheng Chan, and Chung-li Lu, NSYSU+CHT Speaker Verification System for Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge 2020, International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 25(2), 2020
• An-Chieh Cheng and Chia-Ping Chen, Real-Time Mandarin Speech Synthesis System, International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 24(2), 2019
• Chia-Ping Chen, Tzu-Hsuan Tseng, and Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Sentiment Analysis on Social Network: Using Emoticon Characteristics for Twitter Polarity Classification, International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 23(1), 2018
• Chia-Ping Chen, Yi-Chin Huang, Chung-Hsien Wu, and Kuan-De Lee, Polyglot Speech Synthesis Based on Cross-lingual Frame Selection Using Auditory and Articulatory Features, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 22(10), pp. 1558-1570, 2014
• Chia-Ping Chen and Yi-Chang Chen, Refinements of Machine Translation by Automatic Editorial Operations, Journal of The Chinese Institute of Engineers, 36(6), pp. 743-748, 2013
• Chia-Ping Chen, Ja-Zang Yeh, and Bo-Feng Wu, Novel Frequency Masking Curves for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition, Journal of The Chinese Institute of Engineers, 36(6), pp. 696-703, 2013
• Chih-Yu Hsu and Chia-Ping Chen, Speaker-Dependent Model Interpolation for Statistical Emotional Speech Synthesis, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2012, 2012:21
• Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Hsien Wu, and Wei-Bin Liang, Robust dialogue act detection based on partial sentence tree, derivation rule, and spectral clustering algorithm, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2012, 2012:13
• Kuo-Hau Wu, Chia-Ping Chen, and Bing-Feng Yeh, Noise-Robust Speech Feature Processing with Empirical Mode Decomposition, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2011, 2011:9
• Chia-Ping Chen and Jeff Bilmes, MVA Processing of Speech Features, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 15 (1), pp. 257-270, Jan. 2007
• Ming-Shun Lin, Chia-Ping Chen, and Hsin-Hsi Chen, An Approach to Using the Web as a Live Corpus for Spoken Transliteration Name Access, International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 11 (3), 2006
• Invited papers
• Chia-Ping Chen, Machine Translation: A Score Years Ago, ACLCLP Newsletter, 21 (4), 2010
• Conference/Workshop/Symposium papers
• Huai-Zhe Yang, Chia-Ping Chen, Shan-Yun He, and Cheng-Ruei Li, Bilingual and Code-switching TTS Enhanced with Denoising Diffusion Model and GAN, Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2024, Kos Island
• Shiu-Hsiang Liou, Po-Cheng Chan, Chia-Ping Chen, Tzu-Chieh Lin, Chung-Li Lu, Yu-Han Cheng, Hsiang-Feng Chuang, and Wei-Yu Chen, Enhancing ECAPA-TDNN with Feature Processing Module and Attention Mechanism for Speaker Verification, Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2024, Kos Island
• Chia-Chuan Liu, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu, Bo-Cheng Chan, Yu-Han Cheng, Hsiang-Feng Chuang and Wei-Yu Chen, Regression-Based Sound Event Detection with Semi-Supervised Learning, Proceedings of APSIPA ASC 2023, Taipei
• Ting-Wei Chen, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu, Bo-Cheng Chan, Yu-Han Cheng, Hsiang-Feng Chuang and Wei-Yu Chen, A Lightweight Speaker Verification Model for Edge Device, Proceedings of APSIPA ASC 2023, Taipei
• Chia-Chuan Liu, Sung-Jen Huang, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu, Bo-Cheng Chan, Yu-Han Cheng, Hsiang-Feng Chuang and Wei-Yu Chen, Lightweight Sound Event Detection Model with RepVGG Architecture, Rocling 2022
• Ting-Wei Chen, Wei-Ting Lin, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu, Bo-Cheng Chan, Yu-Han Cheng, Hsiang-Feng Chuang and Wei-Yu Chen, Investigation of feature processing modules and attention mechanisms in speaker verification system, Rocling 2022
• Chuan-Pu Chiu, Hou-An Lin, and Chia-Ping Chen, Mandrin-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition System For Specific Domain, Rocling 2022
• Hsin-Jou Lien, Li-Yu Huang, and Chia-Ping Chen, Development of Mandarin-English code-switching speech synthesis system, Rocling 2022
• Yih-Wen Wang, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu, and Bo-Cheng Chan, Semi-Supervised Sound Event Detection Using Self-Attention and Multiple Techniques of Consistency Training, Proceedings of APSIPA ASC 2021, Tokyo, Japan
• Hou-An Lin and Chia-Ping Chen, Exploiting Low-Resource Code-Switching Data to Mandarin-English Speech Recognition Systems, Proceedings of Rocling 2021
• Sung-Jen Huang, Yih-Wen Wang, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu and Bo-Cheng Chan, RCRNN-based Sound Event Detection System with Specific Speech Resolution, Proceedings of Rocling 2021
• Wei-Ting Lin, Yu-Jia Zhang, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu and Bo-Cheng Chan, Discussion on domain generalization in the cross-device speaker verification system, Proceedings of Rocling 2021
• Yu-Jia Zhang, Yih-Wen Wang, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu and Bo-Cheng Chan, Improving Time Delay Neural Network Based Speaker Recognition with Convolutional Block and Feature Aggregation Methods, Proceedings of Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech
• Hung-Pang Lin, Yu-Jia Zhang and Chia-Ping Chen, Systems for Low-Resource Speech Recognition Tasks in Open Automatic Speech Recognition and Formosa Speech Recognition Challenges, Proceedings of Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech
• Yi-Wen Wang and Chia-Ping Chen, Real-Time Single-Speaker Taiwanese-Accented Mandarin Speech Synthesis System, Proceedings of Rocling 2020
• Yu-Jia Zhang, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-li Lu, Bo-Cheng Chan, and Shan-Wen Hsiao, NSYSU+CHT Speaker Verification System for Far-Field Speaker Verification Challenge 2020, Proceedings of Rocling 2020
• Po-Chin Wang, Chia-Ping Chen, Chung-Li Lu, Bo-Cheng Chan, and Shan-Wen Hsiao, Improving Embedding-based Neural-Network Speaker Recognition, Proceedings of Odyssey 2020, Tokyo
• Yi-Fan Chen, Amey Patel and Chia-Ping Chen, Image Haze Removal By Adaptive CycleGAN, Proceedings of APSIPA ASC 2019, Lanzhou, China
• An-Chieh Cheng and Chia-Ping Chen, Real-Time Mandarin Speech Synthesis System, Proceedings of Rocling 2019
• Chih-Ting Yeh, Po-Chin Wang, Su-Yu Zhang, Chia-Ping Chen, Shan-Wen Hsiao, Bo-Cheng Chan and Chung-li Lu, Time Delay Neural Network-based Speaker Embedding Function Fine-tuned with Triplet Loss for Distance-based Speaker Recognition, Proceedings of Rocling 2019
• Su-Yu Chang, Kai-Cheng Wu and Chia-Ping Chen, Transfer-Representation Learning for Detecting Spoofing Attacks with Converted and Synthesized Speech in Automatic Speaker Verification System, Procceedings of Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria
• Zi-Yuan Gao and Chia-Ping Chen, AI Deep Learning with Multiple Labels for Sentiment Classification of Tweets, Proceedings of ISCAS 2019, Sapporo, Japan
• Chia-Ping Chen, Su-Yu Zhang, Chih-Ting Yeh, Jia-Ching Wang, Tenghui Wang, Chien-Lin Huang, Speaker Characterization Using TDNN-LSTM Based Speaker Embedding, Proceedings of ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK
• Tzu-Hsuan Ting and Chia-Ping Chen, Combining De-noising Auto-encoder and Recurrent Neural Networks in End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition for Noise Robustness, IEEE SLT 2018 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Athens, Greece
• Chih-Ting Yeh and Chia-Ping Chen, Combining Convolutional Neural Network and Recurrent Neural Network in Tweet Polarity Classification, Proceedings of Rocling 2018
• Zi-Yuan Gao and Chia-Ping Chen, deepSA2018 at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Multi-task Learning of Different Label for Affect in Tweets, International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation at NAACL HLT 2018, New Orleans, USA
• Po-Wei Hsiao and Chia-Ping Chen, Effective Attention Mechanism in Dynamic Models for Speech Emotion Recognition, Proceedings of ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada
• Po-Wei Hsiao, Po-Chen Hsieh, and Chia-Ping Chen, Using Teacher-Student Model Emotional Speech Recognition, Proceedings of Rocling 2017
• Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Tzu-Hsuan Tseng, and Chia-Ping Chen, deepSA at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Interpolated Deep Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis in Twitter, SemEval-2017 International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation at ACL 2017, Vancouver, Canada
• Po-Yuan Shih, Chia-Ping Chen, and Chung-Hsien Wu, Speech Emotion Recognition with Ensemble Learning Methods, Proceedings of ICASSP 2017, New Orleans, USA
• Po-Yuan Shih, Chia-Ping Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang, Speech Emotion Recognition with Skew-robust Neural Networks, Proceedings of ICASSP 2017, New Orleans, USA
• Tzu-Hsuan Yang, Tzu-Hsuan Tseng, and Chia-Ping Chen, Recurrent Neural Network-based Language Models with Variation in Net Topology, Language, and Granularity, Proceedings of IALP 2016, Tainan, Taiwan
• Tzu-Hsuan Tseng, Tzu-Hsuan Yang, and Chia-Ping Chen, Verifying the Long-range Dependency of RNN Language Models, Proceedings of IALP 2016, Tainan, Taiwan
• Chia-Ping Chen, Bo-Chang Chiou, and Chia-Hsien Chan, An Emotional Speech Database in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Hakka, Proceedings of Oriental-COCOSDA 2016, Bali, Indonesia
• Chia-Ying Chen and Chia-Ping Chen, Support Super-Vector Machines in Automatic Speech Emotion Recognition, Rocling 2016
• Chia-Hsien Chan and Chia-Ping Chen, Use Multilayer Perceptron To Recognize Emotion in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka Database, Rocling 2016
• Tung-Han Wu and Chia-Ping Chen, Effects of Label in Neural Speech Emotion Recognition System, Rocling 2016
• Chia-Ping Chen, Po-Yuan Shih, and Wei-Bin Liang, Integration of Orthogonal Feature Detectors in Parameter Learning of Artificial Neural Networks to Improve Robustness and the Evaluation on Hand-written Digit Recognition Tasks, Proceedings of ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China
• Bo-Chang Chiou and Chia-Ping Chen, Speech Emotion Recognition with Cross-lingual Databases, Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, Singapore
• Chung-Hsien Wu, Yi-Chin Huang, Shih-Lun Lin, and Chia-Ping Chen, Natural Speech Synthesis Based On Hybrid Approach with Candidate Expansion and Verification, Proceedings of ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy
• Bo-Chang Chiou and Chia-Ping Chen, Feature Space Dimension Reduction in Speech Emotion Recognition Using Support Vector Machine, Proceedings of APSIPA 2013, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Chia-Ping Chen and Bing-Feng Yeh, Yet Another Gaussian Mixture Model-based Feature Compensation Method for Robust Noisy-Digit Recognition, Proceedings of ICASSP 2013, Vancouver, Canada
• Meng-Sung Wu, Chia-Ping Chen, and Hsin-Min Wang, Query-document Relevance Topic Models, The 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2013), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7819, pages 209-220, April 2013
• Miau-Luan Hsu and Chia-Ping Chen, Data-driven Rescaled Teager Energy Cepstral Coefficients for Noise-robust Speech Recognition, Proceedings of APSIPA 2012, Hollywood, USA
• Ming-Kuan Wu and Chia-Ping Chen, Concatenation-based Method for the Synthesis of Engine Noise with Continuously Varying Speed, Proceedings of Rocling 2012
• Chia-Ping Chen, Yi-Chin Huang, Chung-Hsien Wu, and Kuan-De Lee, Cross-Lingual Frame Selection Method for Polyglot Speech Synthesis, Proceedings of ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan
• Chung-Hsiang Huang and Chia-Ping Chen, MAM: A Multi-Accent Mandarin Corpus, Proceedings of Oriental Cocosda 2011, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
• Wei-Bin Liang, Chung-Hsien Wu, and Chia-Ping Chen, Semantic Information and Derivation Rules for Robust Dialogue Act Detection in a Spoken Dialogue System, Proceedings of ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, USA
• Ja-Zang Yeh and Chia-Ping Chen, Auditory Front-ends for Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognition, Proceedings of International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) 2010, Tainan, Taiwan
• Kuo-Hao Wu and Chia-Ping Chen, Empirical Mode Decomposition For Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognition, Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan
• Chih-Yung Yang and Chia-Ping Chen, A Hidden Markov Model-Based Approach for Emotional Speech Synthesis, 7th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop 2010, Kyoto, Japan
• Sheng-Chiuan Chiou and Chia-Ping Chen, Noise-Robust Feature Extraction Based on Forward Masking, Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK
• Shih-Sian Cheng, Chun-Han Tseng, Chia-Ping Chen and Hsin-Min Wang, Speaker Diarization Using Divide-and-Conquer, Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK
• Yi-Chang Chen and Chia-Ping Chen, A Framework for Machine Translation Output Combination, Proceedings of Rocling 2009
• Ja-Jang Yeh and Chia-Ping Chen, Noise-Robust Speech Features Based on Cepstral Time Coefficients, Proceedings of Rocling 2009
• Chun-Han Tseng and Chia-Ping Chen, Chinese Input Method Based On Reduced Mandarin Phonetic Alphabet, Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, pp. 733-736, Pittsburgh, USA
• Tai-Hung Chen, Chun-Han Tseng and Chia-Ping Chen, Automatic Learning of Context-Free Grammar, Proceedings of Rocling 2006
• Ming-Shun Lin, Chia-Ping Chen and Hsin-Hsi Chen, An Approach of Using the Web as a Live Corpus for Spoken Transliteration Name Access, Proceedings of Rocling 2005
• Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes and Chia-Ping Chen, Focused Word Segmentation for ASR, Proceedings of Eurospeech 2005, pp. 393-396, Lisbon, Portugal
• Chia-Ping Chen, Jeff Bilmes, and Dan Ellis, Speech Feature Smoothing for Robust ASR, Proceedings of ICASSP 2005, pp. 525-528, Philadelphia, USA
• Chia-Ping Chen, Karim Filali, and Jeff Bilmes, Frontend Post-Processing and Backend Model Enhancement on the Aurora 2.0/3.0 Databases, Proceedings of ICSLP 2002, pp. 241-244, Denver, USA
• Chia-Ping Chen, Jeff Bilmes, and Katrin Kirchhoff, Low-Resource Noise-Robust Feature Post-Processing on Aurora 2.0, Proceedings of ICSLP 2002, pp. 2445-2448, Denver, USA
• Technical Reports
• Chia-Ping Chen and Jeff Bilmes, MVA Processing of Speech Features, Technical Report UWEETR-2003-0024, EE Department, University of Washington
• Chia-Ping Chen and Jeff Bilmes, Towards Simple Methods of Noise-Robustness, Technical Report UWEETR-2002-0002, EE Department, University of Washington

Academic Activities

• Conference
• Tutorial chair, ISCSLP 2018, Taipei, Taiwan
• Session chair, APSIPA 2018, Honolulu, USA
• Keynote speech chair, Speech Signal Processing Workshop 2018, Taichung, Taiwan
• Keynote speech chair, APSIPA 2013, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• General chair, ROCLING 2013, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Program chair, ROCLING 2012, Chung-Li, Taiwan
• Tutorial chair, O-COCOSDA 2011, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
• Tutorial chair, ISCSLP 2010, Tainan and Sun-Moon Lake, Taiwan
• Lectures
• Machine Learning and AI, Graduate Seminar of National Chia-Yi University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
• Machine Learning and AI, Graduate Seminar of National Ping-Tung University, Ping-Tung, Taiwan
• Machine Learning and AI, Graduate Seminar of National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Tutorial on Affective Computing, APSIPA 2012, Hollywood, USA
• Spoken Language Technology, Graduate Seminar of National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Noise-robust Speech Feature Processing Method, Speech Signal Processing Workshop 2006, Taipei, Taiwan