Herman Kamper

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2011-2024
Publications (10 Years): 133

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University of Edinburgh, UK (PHD)

Education History

University of Edinburgh, UK

PHD

Publications

Christiaan Jacobs, Herman Kamper
Leveraging Multilingual Transfer for Unsupervised Semantic Acoustic Word Embeddings. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 31 (2024)
Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
Revisiting speech segmentation and lexicon learning with better features. CoRR (2024)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
Disentanglement in a GAN for Unconditional Speech Synthesis. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 32 (2024)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
Voice Conversion for Stuttered Speech, Instruments, Unseen Languages and Textually Described Voices. CoRR (2023)
Urs J. De Swardt, Herman Kamper
Semi-Supervised Machine Learning for Livestock Threat Classification Using GPS Data. IEEE Access 11 (2023)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 30 (2023)
Herman Kamper
Word Segmentation on Discovered Phone Units With Dynamic Programming and Self-Supervised Scoring. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 31 (2023)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion. CoRR (2023)
Christiaan Jacobs, Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina, Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Bruce A. Bassett, Herman Kamper
Towards hate speech detection in low-resource languages: Comparing ASR to acoustic word embeddings on Wolof and Swahili. CoRR (2023)
Ruan van der Merwe, Herman Kamper
Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting for Few-Shot Spoken Word Classification Through Meta-Learning. CoRR (2023)
Leanne Nortje, Dan Oneata, Herman Kamper
Visually grounded few-shot word learning in low-resource settings. CoRR (2023)
Leanne Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots. CoRR (2023)
Christiaan Jacobs, Herman Kamper
Leveraging multilingual transfer for unsupervised semantic acoustic word embeddings. CoRR (2023)
Matthew Baas, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors. CoRR (2023)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
Disentanglement in a GAN for Unconditional Speech Synthesis. CoRR (2023)
Yevgen Matusevych, Thomas Schatz, Herman Kamper, Naomi H. Feldman, Sharon Goldwater
Infant Phonetic Learning as Perceptual Space Learning: A Crosslinguistic Evaluation of Computational Models. Cogn. Sci. 47 (7) (2023)
Matthew Baas, Kevin Eloff, Herman Kamper
TransFusion: Transcribing Speech with Multinomial Diffusion. SACAIR (2022)
Kayode Olaleye, Dan Oneata, Herman Kamper
Keyword Localisation in Untranscribed Speech Using Visually Grounded Speech Models. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. 16 (6) (2022)
Kayode Olaleye, Dan Oneata, Herman Kamper
YFACC: A Yorùbá speech-image dataset for cross-lingual keyword localisation through visual grounding. CoRR (2022)
Kayode Olaleye, Dan Oneata, Herman Kamper
YFACC: A Yorùbá Speech-Image Dataset for Cross-Lingual Keyword Localisation Through Visual Grounding. SLT (2022)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
GAN You Hear Me? Reclaiming Unconditional Speech Synthesis from Diffusion Models. SLT (2022)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
Voice Conversion Can Improve ASR in Very Low-Resource Settings. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Werner van der Merwe, Herman Kamper, Johan A. du Preez
A Temporal Extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery. CoRR (2022)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
GAN You Hear Me? Reclaiming Unconditional Speech Synthesis from Diffusion Models. CoRR (2022)
Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
Towards visually prompted keyword localisation for zero-resource spoken languages. CoRR (2022)
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)
Matthew Baas, Kevin Eloff, Herman Kamper
TransFusion: Transcribing Speech with Multinomial Diffusion. CoRR (2022)
Herman Kamper
Word Segmentation on Discovered Phone Units with Dynamic Programming and Self-Supervised Scoring. CoRR (2022)
Ewald van der Westhuizen, Herman Kamper, Raghav Menon, John A. Quinn, Thomas Niesler
Feature learning for efficient ASR-free keyword spotting in low-resource languages. Comput. Speech Lang. 71 (2022)
Kayode Olaleye, Dan Oneata, Herman Kamper
Keyword localisation in untranscribed speech using visually grounded speech models. CoRR (2022)
Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
Towards Visually Prompted Keyword Localisation for Zero-Resource Spoken Languages. SLT (2022)
Werner van der Merwe, Herman Kamper, Johan Adam du Preez
A Temporal Extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Christiaan Jacobs, Herman Kamper
Multilingual transfer of acoustic word embeddings improves when training on languages related to the target zero-resource language. CoRR (2021)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
Voice Conversion Can Improve ASR in Very Low-Resource Settings. CoRR (2021)
Enno Hermann, Herman Kamper, Sharon Goldwater
Multilingual and unsupervised subword modeling for zero-resource languages. Comput. Speech Lang. 65 (2021)
André Nortje, Willie Brink, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
BINet: A binary inpainting network for deep patch-based image compression. Signal Process. Image Commun. 92 (2021)
Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing. Interspeech (2021)
Christiaan Jacobs, Yevgen Matusevych, Herman Kamper
Acoustic word embeddings for zero-resource languages using self-supervised contrastive learning and multilingual adaptation. CoRR (2021)
Arnu Pretorius, Kale-ab Tessera, Andries P. Smit, Claude Formanek, St John Grimbly, Kevin Eloff, Siphelele Danisa, Lawrence Francis, Jonathan Shock, Herman Kamper, Willie Brink, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Alexandre Laterre, Karim Beguir
Mava: a research framework for distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning. CoRR (2021)
Herman Kamper, Yevgen Matusevych, Sharon Goldwater
Improved Acoustic Word Embeddings for Zero-Resource Languages Using Multilingual Transfer. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 29 (2021)
Yevgen Matusevych, Herman Kamper, Thomas Schatz, Naomi Feldman, Sharon Goldwater
A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing. EACL (2021)
Kevin Eloff, Arnu Pretorius, Okko Räsänen, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
Towards Learning to Speak and Hear Through Multi-Agent Communication over a Continuous Acoustic Channel. CoRR (2021)
Christiaan Jacobs, Herman Kamper
Multilingual Transfer of Acoustic Word Embeddings Improves When Training on Languages Related to the Target Zero-Resource Language. Interspeech (2021)
Lisa van Staden, Herman Kamper
A Comparison of Self-Supervised Speech Representations As Input Features For Unsupervised Acoustic Word Embeddings. SLT (2021)
Christiaan Jacobs, Yevgen Matusevych, Herman Kamper
Acoustic Word Embeddings for Zero-Resource Languages Using Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning and Multilingual Adaptation. SLT (2021)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
StarGAN-ZSVC: Towards Zero-Shot Voice Conversion in Low-Resource Contexts. CoRR (2021)
Yevgen Matusevych, Herman Kamper, Thomas Schatz, Naomi H. Feldman, Sharon Goldwater
A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing. CoRR (2021)
Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
Direct Multimodal Few-Shot Learning of Speech and Images. Interspeech (2021)
Kayode Olaleye, Herman Kamper
Attention-Based Keyword Localisation in Speech using Visual Grounding. CoRR (2021)
Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
Towards Unsupervised Phone and Word Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Vector-Quantized Neural Networks. Interspeech (2021)
Kayode Olaleye, Herman Kamper
Attention-Based Keyword Localisation in Speech Using Visual Grounding. 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)
Arnu Pretorius, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon
On the expected behaviour of noise regularised deep neural networks as Gaussian processes. Pattern Recognit. Lett. 138 (2020)
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)
Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
Direct multimodal few-shot learning of speech and images. CoRR (2020)
Puyuan Peng, Herman Kamper, Karen Livescu
A Correspondence Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Acoustic Word Embeddings. CoRR (2020)
Petri-Johan Last, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
Unsupervised feature learning for speech using correspondence and Siamese networks. CoRR (2020)
Herman Kamper, Yevgen Matusevych, Sharon Goldwater
Improved acoustic word embeddings for zero-resource languages using multilingual transfer. CoRR (2020)
Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi E. Fasubaa, Tajudeen Kolawole, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo, Salomey Osei, Sackey Freshia, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa, Mofe Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Jane Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen, Kevin Degila, Kelechi Ogueji, Kathleen Siminyu, Julia Kreutzer, Jason Webster, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Iroro Orife, Ignatius Ezeani, Idris Abdulkabir Dangana, Herman Kamper, Hady Elsahar, Goodness Duru, Ghollah Kioko, Espoir Murhabazi, Elan Van Biljon, Daniel Whitenack, Christopher Onyefuluchi, Chris Emezue, Bonaventure Dossou, Blessing Sibanda, Blessing Itoro Bassey, Ayodele Olabiyi, Arshath Ramkilowan, Alp Öktem, Adewale Akinfaderin, Abdallah Bashir
Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages. CoRR (2020)
Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi E. Fasubaa, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Salomey Osei, Freshia Sackey, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa Berhe, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen, Kevin Degila, Kelechi Ogueji, Kathleen Siminyu, Julia Kreutzer, Jason Webster, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Iroro Orife, Ignatius Ezeani, Idris Abdulkabir Dangana, Herman Kamper, Hady Elsahar, Goodness Duru, Ghollah Kioko, Espoir Murhabazi, Elan Van Biljon, Daniel Whitenack, Christopher Onyefuluchi, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Blessing Sibanda, Blessing Itoro Bassey, Ayodele Olabiyi, Arshath Ramkilowan, Alp Öktem, Adewale Akinfaderin, Abdallah Bashir
Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages. EMNLP (Findings) (2020)
Herman Kamper, Yevgen Matusevych, Sharon Goldwater
Multilingual acoustic word embedding models for processing zero-resource languages. CoRR (2020)
Herman Kamper, Yevgen Matusevych, Sharon Goldwater
Multilingual Acoustic Word Embedding Models for Processing Zero-resource Languages. ICASSP (2020)
Kayode Olaleye, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
Towards localisation of keywords in speech using weak supervision. CoRR (2020)
Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
StarGAN-ZSVC: Towards Zero-Shot Voice Conversion in Low-Resource Contexts. SACAIR (2020)
Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
Unsupervised vs. transfer learning for multimodal one-shot matching of speech and images. CoRR (2020)
Petri-Johan Last, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
Unsupervised Feature Learning for Speech Using Correspondence and Siamese Networks. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 27 (2020)
Yevgen Matusevych, Thomas Schatz, Herman Kamper, Naomi H. Feldman, Sharon Goldwater
Evaluating computational models of infant phonetic learning across languages. CoRR (2020)
Lisa van Staden, Herman Kamper
A comparison of self-supervised speech representations as input features for unsupervised acoustic word embeddings. 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)
Sameer Bansal, Herman Kamper, Adam Lopez, Sharon Goldwater
Cross-Lingual Topic Prediction For Speech Using Translations. ICASSP (2020)
Yevgen Matusevych, Herman Kamper, Sharon Goldwater
Analyzing autoencoder-based acoustic word embeddings. CoRR (2020)
Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
Unsupervised vs. Transfer Learning for Multimodal One-Shot Matching of Speech and Images. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Iroro Orife, Julia Kreutzer, Blessing Sibanda, Daniel Whitenack, Kathleen Siminyu, Laura Martinus, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Vukosi Marivate, Salomon Kabongo, Musie Meressa, Espoir Murhabazi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Elan Van Biljon, Arshath Ramkilowan, Adewale Akinfaderin, Alp Öktem, Wole Akin, Ghollah Kioko, Kevin Degila, Herman Kamper, Bonaventure Dossou, Chris Emezue, Kelechi Ogueji, Abdallah Bashir
Masakhane - Machine Translation For Africa. CoRR (2020)
Yevgen Matusevych, Thomas Schatz, Herman Kamper, Naomi Feldman, Sharon Goldwater
Evaluating computational models of infant phonetic learning across languages. CogSci (2020)
André Nortje, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
Deep motion estimation for parallel inter-frame prediction in video compression. CoRR (2019)
Ankita Pasad, Bowen Shi, Herman Kamper, Karen Livescu
On the Contributions of Visual and Textual Supervision in Low-Resource Semantic Speech Retrieval. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Ankita Pasad, Bowen Shi, Herman Kamper, Karen Livescu
On the Contributions of Visual and Textual Supervision in Low-resource Semantic Speech Retrieval. CoRR (2019)
Raghav Menon, Herman Kamper, Ewald van der Westhuizen, John A. Quinn, Thomas Niesler
Feature Exploration for Almost Zero-Resource ASR-Free Keyword Spotting Using a Multilingual Bottleneck Extractor and Correspondence Autoencoders. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Herman Kamper
Truly Unsupervised Acoustic Word Embeddings Using Weak Top-down Constraints in Encoder-decoder Models. ICASSP (2019)
Ryan Eloff, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
Multimodal One-shot Learning of Speech and Images. ICASSP (2019)
Herman Kamper, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Karen Livescu
Semantic Speech Retrieval With a Visually Grounded Model of Untranscribed Speech. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 27 (1) (2019)
Herman Kamper, Aristotelis Anastassiou, Karen Livescu
Semantic query-by-example speech search using visual grounding. CoRR (2019)
André Nortje, Willie Brink, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
BINet: a binary inpainting network for deep patch-based image compression. CoRR (2019)
Arnu Pretorius, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon
On the expected behaviour of noise regularised deep neural networks as Gaussian processes. CoRR (2019)
Sameer Bansal, Herman Kamper, Karen Livescu, Adam Lopez, Sharon Goldwater
Pre-training on high-resource speech recognition improves low-resource speech-to-text translation. NAACL-HLT (1) (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)
Sameer Bansal, Herman Kamper, Adam Lopez, Sharon Goldwater
Classifying topics in speech when all you have is crummy translations. CoRR (2019)
Herman Kamper, Aristotelis Anastassiou, Karen Livescu
Semantic Query-by-example Speech Search Using Visual Grounding. ICASSP (2019)
Herman Kamper, Michael Roth
Visually Grounded Cross-Lingual Keyword Spotting in Speech. SLTU (2018)
Ryan Eloff, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
Multimodal One-Shot Learning of Speech and Images. CoRR (2018)
Raghav Menon, Herman Kamper, John A. Quinn, Thomas Niesler
Almost Zero-Resource ASR-free Keyword Spotting using Multilingual Bottleneck Features and Correspondence Autoencoders. CoRR (2018)
Herman Kamper, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Karen Livescu
Semantic Speech Retrieval With a Visually Grounded Model of Untranscribed Speech. CVPR Workshops (2018)
Raghav Menon, Herman Kamper, John A. Quinn, Thomas Niesler
Fast ASR-free and almost zero-resource keyword spotting using DTW and CNNs for humanitarian monitoring. CoRR (2018)
Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Steve Kroon, Herman Kamper
Critical initialisation for deep signal propagation in noisy rectifier neural networks. CoRR (2018)
Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Steve Kroon, Herman Kamper
Critical initialisation for deep signal propagation in noisy rectifier neural networks. NeurIPS (2018)

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