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
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.
I had the privilege of presenting on 'Advancements in Speech Signal Processing for Security and Voice Privacy Protection' at the Speech and Hearing Research Group (SpandH) and CDT seminar held in the Ada Lovelace Room, Regent Court, University of Sheffield. Despite the briefness of my research visit, I gained valuable insights and knowledge, thanks to the guidance of Prof. Jon Barker and the welcoming atmosphere provided by my colleagues at the SpandH laboratory.
Grateful to have had the opportunity to visit Prof. Trevor Cox at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK. He generously guided us through a laboratory tour, providing explanations of the various experiment rooms within the Acoustic and Audio Engineering department.
Our paper ThaiSpoof: A Database for Spoof Detection in Thai Language has been accepted for presentation at The 18th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing and The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (iSAI-NLP 2023).
Our paper Spoof Detection using Voice Contribution on LFCC features and ResNet-34 has been accepted for presentation at The 18th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing and The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (iSAI-NLP 2023).
Mr. Tran Duc Minh, Mr. Hung Le, Mr. Daiki Tokieda (Tokyo Satelite) from Okada laboratory and Mr. Haowei Cheng from Unoki laboratory got their master degree. Many congratulations!
Our paper Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction Using an Auditory Periphery Model with Hearing Loss has been accepted for publication in Applied Acoustics.
I am undertaking a six-week research visit (September 11 - October 20, 2023) in the Speech and Hearing Research Group (SpandH), Department of Computer Science, at the University of Sheffield, UK under the supervision of Prof. Jon Barker.
We presented our work in the 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2023), Helsinki, Finland.