Benjamin van Niekerk

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2015-2024
Publications (10 Years): 26

Top Topics

Vector Quantized

Shot Transitions

Top Venues

IEEE Signal Process. Lett.

Publications

Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
Revisiting speech segmentation and lexicon learning with better features. CoRR (2024)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 30 (2023)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion. CoRR (2023)
Matthew Baas, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Leanne Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots. CoRR (2023)
Leanne Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Matthew Baas, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors. CoRR (2023)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Julian Zaïdi, Matthew Baas, Hugo Seuté, Herman Kamper
A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion. ICASSP (2022)
Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau
Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing. Interspeech (2021)
Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau
Daft-Exprt: Robust Prosody Transfer Across Speakers for Expressive Speech Synthesis. CoRR (2021)
Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
Towards Unsupervised Phone and Word Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Vector-Quantized Neural Networks. Interspeech (2021)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing. CoRR (2021)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Julian Zaïdi, Matthew Baas, Hugo Seuté, Herman Kamper
A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion. CoRR (2021)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
Vector-Quantized Neural Networks for Acoustic Unit Discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 Challenge. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
Vector-quantized neural networks for acoustic unit discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 challenge. CoRR (2020)
Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
Towards unsupervised phone and word segmentation using self-supervised vector-quantized neural networks. CoRR (2020)
Kayode Olaleye, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
Towards localisation of keywords in speech using weak supervision. CoRR (2020)
Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Benjamin van Niekerk, Ryan Eloff, Matthew Reynard, Steven D. James, Benjamin Rosman, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon
If dropout limits trainable depth, does critical initialisation still matter? A large-scale statistical analysis on ReLU networks. Pattern Recognit. Lett. 138 (2020)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Andreas C. Damianou, Benjamin Rosman
Online Constrained Model-based Reinforcement Learning. CoRR (2020)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Steven D. James, Adam Christopher Earle, Benjamin Rosman
Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning. ICML (2019)
Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Benjamin van Niekerk, Ryan Eloff, Matthew Reynard, Steven D. James, Benjamin Rosman, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon
If dropout limits trainable depth, does critical initialisation still matter? A large-scale statistical analysis on ReLU networks. CoRR (2019)
Ryan Eloff, André Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Avashna Govender, Leanne Nortje, Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Lisa van Staden, Herman Kamper
Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery for Speech Synthesis Using Discrete Latent-Variable Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Ryan Eloff, André Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Avashna Govender, Leanne Nortje, Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Lisa van Staden, Herman Kamper
Unsupervised acoustic unit discovery for speech synthesis using discrete latent-variable neural networks. CoRR (2019)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Steven D. James, Adam Christopher Earle, Benjamin Rosman
Will it Blend? Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning. CoRR (2018)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Andreas C. Damianou, Benjamin Rosman
Online Constrained Model-based Reinforcement Learning. UAI (2017)
Sheng Bau, Benjamin van Niekerk, David White
An Intermediate Value Theorem for the Decycling Numbers of Toeplitz Graphs. Graphs Comb. 31 (6) (2015)