Hi, I'm Candy! I am an assistant professor at School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). My primary research interests are speech signal processing, machine learning, and social signal processing (SSP). My Ph.D. thesis focuses on privacy preservation and secure speech communication. In addition to primary research, I also carried out a research project on personality traits and communication skills modeling with Prof. Shogo Okada. I obtained my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Information Science, JAIST, advised by Prof. Masashi Unoki.
Research interests: speech information hiding, voice privacy, social signal processing, and machine learning.
News
Our paper Do We Need to Watch It All? Efficient Job Interview Video Processing with Differentiable Masking has been accepted for presentation at the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024).
Our application for the JAIST Grant for the establishment of an advanced research base (JAIST Science Hub)) 2024 (令和6年度先端研究拠点形成支援（JAISTサイエンスハブ構築支援）) was accepted.
Our application for the JAIST Grant for fundamental research FY2024 (令和6年度研究拠点形成支援事業（萌芽的研究）) was accepted.
Our paper Incremental Multimodal Sentiment Analysis on HAI Based on Multitask Active Learning with Inter-Annotator Agreement has been accepted for presentation at the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2024).
Our paper Are Recent Deep Learning-Based Speech Enhancement Methods Ready to Confront Real-World Noisy Environments? has been accepted for presentation at the 25th Interspeech Conference.
New year, new goals! Let's make FY 2024 a productive and fulfilling year in research and beyond!
We had a graduation ceremony for nine master students from Okada laboratory and one of my co-advise student from Unoki laboratory. Congratulations and best wishes for your next journey!
I participated in the 2024 Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ), Takushoku University(Bunkyo Campus), Tokyo, Japan.
Our papers were presented in 2024 RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing, Alamoana Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii.
We have a laboratory party to celebrate master students who have successfully passed their defense and also for many other good news! :D
Nine master students from Okada laboratory finished their final defense. One of my co-advise student from Unoki laboratory also finished her final defense and Ph.D entrance examination. お疲れ様でした!
We have JAIST-UI-ITB Human Information Science Hub Symposium and farewell party.
We are glad to welcome ten students from UI and ITB (Indonesia) to JAIST (19 January - 8 February 2024). They participate in the JST Sakura Science Program. Five students have been assigned to the Sakti laboratory. I am co-advising three students who have been assigned to the Unoki laboratory, and two students who have been assigned to the Okada laboratory. We also have a welcome party with Indonesian community in JAIST.
Wishing you a Happy New Year 2024 filled with hope and joy! Our heartfelt condolences go out to those affected by the recent 7.6M earthquake in Noto region of Ishikawa prefecture. While we felt its impact and encountered some equipment damage, our campus remains intact, and we are resuming our regular activities.
We had a second collaboration meeting on ASEAN-IVO project titled 'Spoof detection for automatic speaker verification' at Bandung, Indonesia.
Our papers were presented in The 18th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2023), Bangkok, Thailand.
I participated in the Joint Workshop of VoicePersonae and ASVspoof 2023, Tokyo, Japan.
I am truly honored to have been given the opportunity to deliver a lecture on Voice Biometrics and Secure Speech Communication in the IF4071 Speech Processing course at the School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.