Zdravko Kacic

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1988-2022
Publications (10 Years): 10

Top Topics

Generation Algorithm

Conversational Agent

Language Modelling

Top Venues

Comput. Electr. Eng.

Int. J. Speech Technol.

EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process.

Publications

Grega Mocnik, Zdravko Kacic, Riko Safaric, Izidor Mlakar
Capturing Conversational Gestures for Embodied Conversational Agents Using an Optimized Kaneda-Lucas-Tomasi Tracker and Denavit-Hartenberg-Based Kinematic Model. Sensors 22 (21) (2022)
Iztok Kramberger, Zdravko Kacic, Gregor Donaj
Binocular Phase-Coded Visual Stimuli for SSVEP-Based BCI. IEEE Access 7 (2019)
Marko Kos, Matej Rojc, Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic, Damjan Vlaj
A speech-based distributed architecture platform for an intelligent ambience. Comput. Electr. Eng. 71 (2018)
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Janez Brest, Borko Boskovic, Zdravko Kacic
Improved Differential Evolution for Large-Scale Black-Box Optimization. IEEE Access 6 (2018)
Matej Rojc, Izidor Mlakar, Zdravko Kacic
The TTS-driven affective embodied conversational agent EVA, based on a novel conversational-behavior generation algorithm. Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 57 (2017)
Marko Kocevar, Bojan Kotnik, Amor Chowdhury, Zdravko Kacic
Real-time fingerprint image enhancement with a two-stage algorithm and block-local normalization. J. Real Time Image Process. 13 (4) (2017)
Gregor Donaj, Zdravko Kacic
Context-dependent factored language models. EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process. 2017 (2017)
Damjan Vlaj, Marko Kos, Zdravko Kacic
Quick and efficient definition of hangbefore and hangover criteria for voice activity detection. IWSSIP (2016)
Tomaz Lovrencic, Mitja Stular, Zdravko Kacic, Andrej Zgank
QoS Estimation and Prediction of Input Modality in Degraded IP Networks. Wirel. Pers. Commun. 80 (2) (2015)
Ales Stricelj, Zdravko Kacic
Detection of objects on waters' surfaces using CEIEMV method. Comput. Electr. Eng. 46 (2015)
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Zdravko Kacic, Darinka Verdonik
Statistical machine translation of subtitles for highly inflected language pair. Pattern Recognit. Lett. 46 (2014)
Izidor Mlakar, Zdravko Kacic, Matej Rojc
Describing and Animating Complex Communicative Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior Using Eva-Framework. Appl. Artif. Intell. 28 (5) (2014)
Gregor Donaj, Zdravko Kacic
Manual sorting of numerals in an inflective language for language modelling. Int. J. Speech Technol. 17 (3) (2014)
Gregor Donaj, Zdravko Kacic
The Use of Several Language Models and Its Impact on Word Insertion Penalty in LVCSR. SPECOM (2013)
Marko Kos, Zdravko Kacic, Damjan Vlaj
Acoustic classification and segmentation using modified spectral roll-off and variance-based features. Digit. Signal Process. 23 (2) (2013)
Damjan Vlaj, Zdravko Kacic, Marko Kos
Voice activity detection algorithm using nonlinear spectral weights, hangover and hangbefore criteria. Comput. Electr. Eng. 38 (6) (2012)
Izidor Mlakar, Zdravko Kacic, Matej Rojc
Form-Oriented Annotation for Building a Functionally Independent Dictionary of Synthetic Movement. COST 2102 Training School (2011)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
Gradient-Descent Based Unit-Selection Optimization Algorithm Used for Corpus-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis. Appl. Artif. Intell. 25 (7) (2011)
Matej Rojc, Harald Höge, Zdravko Kacic
Remote-based text-to-speech modules' evaluation framework: the RES framework. Lang. Resour. Evaluation 44 (4) (2010)
Damjan Vlaj, Aleksandra Zögling Markus, Marko Kos, Zdravko Kacic
Acquisition and Annotation of Slovenian Lombard Speech Database. LREC (2010)
Bojan Kotnik, Harald Höge, Zdravko Kacic
Noise robust F0 determination and epoch-marking algorithms. Signal Process. 89 (12) (2009)
Marko Kos, Matej Grasic, Zdravko Kacic
Online Speech/Music Segmentation Based on the Variance Mean of Filter Bank Energy. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2009 (2009)
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Tomaz Rotovnik, Zdravko Kacic, Janez Brest
Using Data-Driven Subword Units in Language Model of Highly Inflective Slovenian Language. Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell. 23 (2) (2009)
Bojan Kotnik, Pierre Sendorek, Sergey Astrov, Turgay Koç, Tolga Çiloglu, Laura Docío Fernández, Eduardo Rodríguez Banga, Harald Höge, Zdravko Kacic
Evaluation of voice activity and voicing detection. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Harald Höge, Zdravko Kacic, Bojan Kotnik, Matej Rojc, Nicolas Moreau, Horst-Udo Hain
Evaluation of Modules and Tools for Speech Synthesis: the ECESS Framework. LREC (2008)
Matej Grasic, Marko Kos, Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic
Two step speaker segmentation method using Bayesian information criterion and adapted Gaussian mixtures models. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
Time and space-efficient architecture for a corpus-based text-to-speech synthesis system. Speech Commun. 49 (3) (2007)
Bojan Kotnik, Zdravko Kacic
A Comprehensive Noise Robust Speech Parameterization Algorithm Using Wavelet Packet Decomposition-Based Denoising and Speech Feature Representation Techniques. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2007 (2007)
Tomaz Rotovnik, Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Zdravko Kacic
Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of an inflected language using stems and endings. Speech Commun. 49 (6) (2007)
Matej Rojc, Tomaz Rotovnik, Miso Brus, Dusan Jan, Zdravko Kacic
Embodied Conversational Agents in Wizard-of-Oz and Multimodal Interaction Applications. COST 2102 Workshop (Vietri) (2007)
Matej Rojc, Harald Höge, Zdravko Kacic
ECESS Platform for Web Based TTS Modules and Systems Evaluation. COST 2102 Workshop (Patras) (2007)
Bojan Kotnik, Zdravko Kacic
A noise robust feature extraction algorithm using joint wavelet packet subband decomposition and AR modeling of speech signals. Signal Process. 87 (6) (2007)
Matej Rojc, Darinka Verdonik, Zdravko Kacic
A framework for efficient development of Slovenian written language resources used in speech processing applications. Int. J. Speech Technol. 10 (2-3) (2007)
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Zdravko Kacic
Statistical machine translation from Slovenian to English. J. Comput. Inf. Technol. 15 (1) (2007)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
A Unified Approach to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for the Plattos Slovenian Text-to-Speech System. Appl. Artif. Intell. 21 (6) (2007)
Andrej Zgank, Darinka Verdonik, Alexandra Zögling Markus, Zdravko Kacic
SINOD - Slovenian non-native speech database. LREC (2006)
Andrej Zgank, Tomaz Rotovnik, Matej Grasic, Marko Kos, Damjan Vlaj, Zdravko Kacic
Sloparl - slovenian parliamentary speech and text corpus for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic
Conversion from phoneme based to grapheme based acoustic models for speech recognition. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Matej Rojc, Pablo Daniel Agüero, Antonio Bonafonte, Zdravko Kacic
Training the tilt intonation model using the JEMA methodology. INTERSPEECH (2005)
Andrej Zgank, Darinka Verdonik, Aleksandra Zögling Markus, Zdravko Kacic
BNSI Slovenian broadcast news database - speech and text corpus. INTERSPEECH (2005)
Andrej Zgank, Bogomir Horvat, Zdravko Kacic
Data-driven generation of phonetic broad classes, based on phoneme confusion matrix similarity. Speech Commun. 47 (3) (2005)
Damjan Vlaj, Bojan Kotnik, Bogomir Horvat, Zdravko Kacic
A Computationally Efficient Mel-Filter Bank VAD Algorithm for Distributed Speech Recognition Systems. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2005 (4) (2005)
Janez Zibert, France Mihelic, Jean-Pierre Martens, Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo Neto, Laura Docío Fernández, Carmen García-Mateo, Petr David, Jindrich Zdánský, Matús Pleva, Anton Cizmar, Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic, Csaba Teleki, Klára Vicsi
The COST278 broadcast news segmentation and speaker clustering evaluation - overview, methodology, systems, results. INTERSPEECH (2005)
Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic, Frank Diehl, Klára Vicsi, György Szaszák, Jozef Juhár, Slavomír Lihan
The COST 278 MASPER Initiative - Crosslingual Speech Recognition with Large Telephone Databases. LREC (2004)
Janez Stergar, Çaglayan Erdem, Bogomir Horvat, Zdravko Kacic
A Data-driven Adaptation of Prosody in a Multilingual TTS. LREC (2004)
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Modelling highly inflected languages. Inf. Sci. 166 (1-4) (2004)
Bojan Kotnik, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
The Development and Integration of the LDA-Toolkit Into COST249 SpeechDat(II) SIG Reference Recognizer. LREC (2004)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
Using Finite-State Tranducer Theory for Representation on Very Large Scale Lexicons. Informatica (Slovenia) 28 (2) (2004)
Andrej Zgank, Tomaz Rotovnik, Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Darinka Verdonik, Janez Kitak, Damjan Vlaj, Vladimir Hozjan, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Acquisition and Annotation of Slovenian Broadcast News Database. LREC (2004)
Darinka Verdonik, Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
Creating Slovenian Language Resources for Development of Speech-to-speech Translation Components. LREC (2004)
Bojan Kotnik, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Noise robust speech parameterization based on joint wavelet packet decomposition and autoregressive modeling. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Bojan Imperl, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat, Andrej Zgank
Clustering of triphones using phoneme similarity estimation for the definition of a multilingual set of triphones. Speech Commun. 39 (3-4) (2003)
Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Comparison of Acoustic Adaptation Methods in Multilingual Speech Recognition Environment. TSD (2003)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
Efficient Development of Lexical Language Resources and their Representation. Int. J. Speech Technol. 6 (3) (2003)
Vladimir Hozjan, Zdravko Kacic
Improved emotion recognition with large set of statistical features. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Vladimir Hozjan, Zdravko Kacic
Context-Independent Multilingual Emotion Recognition from Speech Signals. Int. J. Speech Technol. 6 (3) (2003)
Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Data driven generation of broad classes for decision tree construction in acoustic modeling. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Zdravko Kacic
Introduction. Int. J. Speech Technol. 6 (3) (2003)
Vladimir Hozjan, Zdravko Kacic, Asunción Moreno, Antonio Bonafonte, Albino Nogueiras
Interface Databases: Design and Collection of a Multilingual Emotional Speech Database. LREC (2002)
Andrej Zgank, Tomaz Rotovnik, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Uniform Speech Recognition Platform for Evaluation of New Algorithms. TSD (2002)
Janez Kaiser, Bogomir Horvat, Zdravko Kacic
Overall risk criterion estimation of hidden Markov model parameters. Speech Commun. 38 (3-4) (2002)
Bojan Kotnik, Damjan Vlaj, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Efficient additive and convolutional noise reduction procedures. INTERSPEECH (2002)
Vladimir Hozjan, Zdravko Kacic
Objective analysis of emotional speech for English and Slovenian Interface emotional speech databases. LREC (2002)
Tomaz Rotovnik, Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Bogomir Horvat, Zdravko Kacic
Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Slovenian Language Using Data-Driven Morphological Models. TSD (2002)
Tomaz Rotovnik, Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Bogomir Horvat, Zdravko Kacic
A comparison of HTK, ISIP and julius in slovenian large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. INTERSPEECH (2002)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic, Darinka Verdonik
Design and Implementation of the Slovenian Phonetic and Morphology Lexicons for the Use in Spoken Language Applications. LREC (2002)
Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Preliminary Evaluation of Slovenian Mobile Database PoliDat. LREC (2002)
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Zdravko Kacic
Topic detection for language model adaptation of highly-inflected languages by using a fuzzy comparison function. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Bojan Kotnik, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
A multiconditional robust front-end feature extraction with a noise reduction procedure based on improved spectral subtraction algorithm. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Bojan Kotnik, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
A computational efficient real time noise robust speech recognition based on improved spectral subtraction method. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Marcel Ogner, Zdravko Kacic
Speaker normalization based on test to reference speaker mapping. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Klára Vicsi, Peter Roach, Anne-Marie Öster, Zdravko Kacic, Ferenc Csatári, Anna Sfakianaki, R. Veronik, Géza Gordos
A multilingual, multimodal, speech training system, SPECO. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Damjan Vlaj, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
The use of noisy frame elimination and frequency spectrum magnitude reduction in noise robust speech recognition. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognizer for Slovenian Language. TSD (2001)
Andrej Zgank, Bojan Imperl, Finn Tore Johansen, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Crosslingual speech recognition with multilingual acoustic models based on agglomerative and tree-based triphone clustering. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
Representation of large lexica using finite-state transducers for the multilingual text-to-speech synthesis systems. INTERSPEECH (2001)
Bojan Imperl, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat, Andrej Zgank
Agglomerative vs. tree-based clustering for the definition of multilingual set of triphones. ICASSP (2000)
Børge Lindberg, Finn Tore Johansen, Narada D. Warakagoda, Gunnar Lehtinen, Zdravko Kacic, Andrej Zgank, Kjell Elenius, Giampiero Salvi
A Noise Robust Multilingual Reference Recogniser Based on Speechdat(II). INTERSPEECH (2000)
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Looking for topic similarities of highly inflected languages for language model adaptation. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Klára Vicsi, Peter Roach, Anne-Marie Öster, Zdravko Kacic, Peter Barczikay, Andras Tantos, Ferenc Csatári, Zsolt Bakcsi, Anna Sfakianaki
A Multimedia, Multilingual Teaching and Training System for Children with Speech Disorders. Int. J. Speech Technol. 3 (3-4) (2000)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
Design of Optimal Slovenian Speech Corpus for Use in the Concatenative Speech Synthesis System. LREC (2000)
Marcel Ogner, Zdravko Kacic
Normalized time-frequency speech representation in articulation training systems. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Zdravko Kacic
Topic-Sensitive Language Modelling. TSD (2000)
Matej Rojc, Zdravko Kacic
A Computational Platform for Development of Morphologic and Phonetic Lexica. LREC (2000)
Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat, Aleksandra Zögling
Issues in Design and Collection of Large Telephone Speech Corpus for Slovenian Language. LREC (2000)
Finn Tore Johansen, Narada D. Warakagoda, Børge Lindberg, Gunnar Lehtinen, Zdravko Kacic, Andrej Zgank, Kjell Elenius, Giampiero Salvi
The COST 249 SpeechDat Multilingual Reference Recogniser. LREC (2000)
Janez Kaiser, Bogomir Horvat, Zdravko Kacic
A novel loss function for the overall risk criterion based discriminative training of HMM models. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Klára Vicsi, Peter Roach, Anne-Marie Öster, Zdravko Kacic, Peter Barczikay, I. Sinka
SPECO - a multimedia multilingual teaching and training system for speech handicapped children. EUROSPEECH (1999)
Marcel Ogner, Zdravko Kacic
Speaker normalization for audio-visual articulation training. EUROSPEECH (1999)
Bojan Imperl, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
A study of harmonic features for the speaker recognition. Speech Commun. 22 (4) (1997)
Bojan Imperl, Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
The use of harmonic features in speaker recognition. ICASSP (1997)
Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
Using isofrequency neural column for harmonic sound scene decomposition. EUROSPEECH (1993)
Zdravko Kacic, Bogomir Horvat
A Methodology for Efficiency Estimation of the Speech Signal Feature Extraction Methods. Pattern Recognition (1988)