Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2023 Stefan Steidl Computational Paralinguistics Award:
- The Emotion Share Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
DEJAN PORJAZOVSKI, YAROSLAV GETMAN, TAMAS GROSZ, MIKKO KURIMO
Advancing Audio Emotion and Intent Recognition with Large Pre-Trained Models and Bayesian Inference - The Requests Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
NICOLAE-CĂTĂLIN RISTEA AND RADU TUDOR IONESCU
Cascaded Cross-Modal Transformer for Request and Complaint Detection
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2022 Stefan Steidl Computational Paralinguistics Award:
- The Vocalisations Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
TAMAS GROSZ, DEJAN PORJAZOVSKI, YAROSLAV GETMAN, SUDARSANA REDDY KADIRI, MIKKO KURIMO
Wav2vec2-based Paralinguistic Systems to Recognise Vocalised Emotions and Stuttering - The Stuttering Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
TAMAS GROSZ, DEJAN PORJAZOVSKI, YAROSLAV GETMAN, SUDARSANA REDDY KADIRI, MIKKO KURIMO
Wav2vec2-based Paralinguistic Systems to Recognise Vocalised Emotions and Stuttering - The Activity Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
GULSHAN SHARMA, ABHINAV DHALL, RAMANATHAN SUBRAMANIAN
A Transformer Based Approach for Activity Detection - The Mosquitoes Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
DEVESH KHANDELWAL, SEAN CAMPOS, SHWETHA CHITTA NAGARAJ, FRED NUGEN, ALBERTO TODESCHINI
VecNet: A Deep Learning Based Approach to Detect Mosquitoes
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2021 Stefan Steidl Computational Paralinguistics Award:
- The COVID-19 Cough Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
EDRESSON CASANOVA, ARNALDO CANDIDO JR., RICARDO CORSO FERNANDES JR., MARCELO FINGER, LUCAS RAFAEL STEFANEL GRIS, MOACIR A. PONTI, DANIEL PEIXOTO PINTO DA SILVA
Transfer Learning and Data Augmentation Techniques to the COVID-19 Identification Tasks in ComParE 2021 - The COVID-19 Speech Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
No award given – the baseline was not beaten by the participants. - The Escalation Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
JOSÉ Vicente EGAS-LÓPEZ, MERCEDES VETRÁB, LÁSZLÓ TÓTH, GÁBOR GOSZTOLYA
Identifying Conflict Escalation and Primates by Using Ensemble X-vectors and Fisher Vector Features - The Primates Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
THOMAS PELLEGRINI
Deep-learning-based central African primate species classification with MixUp and SpecAugment
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2020 Stefan Steidl Computational Paralinguistics Award:
- The Breathing Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
MAXIM MARKITANTOV, DENIS DRESVYANSKIY, DANILA MAMONTOV, HEYSEM KAYA, WOLFGANG MINKER, ALEXEY KARPOV
Ensembling End-to-End Deep Models for Computational Paralinguistics Tasks: ComParE 2020 Mask and Breathing Sub-Challenge - The Elderly Emotion Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
GIZEM SOGANCIOGLU, OXANA VERKHOLYAK, HEYSEM KAYA, DMITRII FEDOTOV, TOBIAS CADEE, ALBERT ALI SALAH, ALEXEY KARPOV
Is Everything Fine, Grandma? Acoustic and Linguistic Modeling for Robust Elderly Speech Emotion Recognition - The Mask Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
JENO SZEP, SALIM HARIRI
Paralinguistic Classification of Mask Wearing by Image Classifiers and Fusion
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2019 Stefan Steidl Computational Paralinguistics Award:
- The Styrian Dialect Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
SUNG-LIN YEH, GAO-YI CHAO, BO-HAO SU, YU-LIN HUANG, MENG-HAN LIN, YIN-CHUN TSAI, YU-WEN TAI, ZHENG-CHI LU, CHIEH-YU CHEN, TSUNG-MING TAI, CHIU-WANG TSENG, CHENG-KUANG LEE, CHI-CHUN LEE
Using Attention Networks and Adversarial Augmentation for Styrian Dialect Continuous Sleepiness and Baby Sound Recognition - The Continuous Sleepiness Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
GÁBOR GOSZTOLYA
Using Fisher Vector and Bag-of-Audio-Words Representations to Identify Styrian Dialects, Sleepiness, Baby & Orca Sounds - The Baby Sound Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
SUNG-LIN YEH, GAO-YI CHAO, BO-HAO SU, YU-LIN HUANG, MENG-HAN LIN, YIN-CHUN TSAI, YU-WEN TAI, ZHENG-CHI LU, CHIEH-YU CHEN, TSUNG-MING TAI, CHIU-WANG TSENG, CHENG-KUANG LEE, CHI-CHUN LEE
Using Attention Networks and Adversarial Augmentation for Styrian Dialect Continuous Sleepiness and Baby Sound Recognition - The Orca Activity Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
HAIWEI WU, WEIQING WANG, MING LI
The DKU-LENOVO Systems for the INTERSPEECH 2019 Computational Paralinguistic Challenge
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2018 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge:
- The Atypical Affect Sub-Challenge is awarded to:
CLAUDE MONTACIÉ, MARIE-JOSÉ CARATY
Vocalic, Lexical and Prosodic Cues for the INTERSPEECH 2018 Self-Assessed Affect Challenge - The Self-Assessed Affect Sub-Challenge is awarded to:
CLAUDE MONTACIÉ, MARIE-JOSÉ CARATY
Vocalic, Lexical and Prosodic Cues for the INTERSPEECH 2018 Self-Assessed Affect Challenge - The Crying Sub-Challenge is awarded to:
GÁBOR GOSZTOLYA, TAMÁS GRÓSZ, LÁSZLÓ TÓTH
General Utterance-Level Feature Extraction for Classifying Crying Sounds, Atypical & Self-Assessed Affect and Heart Beats - The Heart Beats Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
No award given – the baseline was not beaten by the participants.
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge:
- The Addressee Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
No award given – the baseline was not beaten by the participants. - The Cold Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
GÁBOR GOSZTOLYA, RÓBERT BUSA-FEKETE, TAMÁS GRÓSZ, LÁSZLÓ TÓTH
DNN-based Feature Extraction and Classifier Combination for Child-Directed Speech, Cold and SnoringIdentification - The Snoring Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
HEYSEM KAYA, ALEXEY A. KARPOV
Introducing Weighted Kernel Classifiers for Handling Imbalanced Paralinguistic Corpora: Snoring, Addressee and Cold
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge:
- The Deception Sub-Challenge is awarded to:
CLAUDE MONTACIÉ, MARIE-JOSÉ CARATY:
Prosodic Cues and Answer Type Detection for the Deception Sub-Challenge - The Sincerity Sub-Challenge is awarded to:
HEYSEM KAYA, ALEXEY A. KARPOV:
Fusing Acoustic Feature Representations for Computational Paralinguistics Tasks - The Native Language Sub-Challenge is awarded to:
ALBERTO ABAD, EUGÉNIO RIBEIRO, FÁBIO KEPLER, RAMON ASTUDILLO, ISABEL TRANCOSO:
Exploiting Phone Log-likelihood Ratio Features for the Detection of the Native Language of Non-native English Speakers
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2015 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge:
- The Degree of Nativeness Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
MATTHEW P. BLACK, DANIEL BONE, ZISIS I. SKORDILIS, RAHUL GUPTA, WEI XIA, PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS, SANDEEP NALLAN CHAKRAVARTHULA, BO XIAO, MAARTEN VAN SEGBROECK, JANGWON KIM, PANAYIOTIS G. GEORGIOU, SHRIKANTH S. NARAYANAN
Automated Evaluation of Non-native English Pronunciation Quality: Combining Knowledge- and Data-driven Features at Multiple Time - The Parkinson’s Condition Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
TAMÁS GRÓSZ, RÓBERT BUSA-FEKETE, GÁBOR GOSZTOLYA, LÁSZLÓ TÓTH
Assessing the Degree of Nativeness and Parkinson’s Condition Using Gaussian Processes and Deep Rectifier Neural Networks - The Eating Condition Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
HEYSEM KAYA, ALEXEY A. KARPOV, ALBERT ALI SALAH
Fisher Vectors with Cascaded Normalization for Paralinguistic Analysis
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge:
- The Cognitive Load Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
MAARTEN VAN SEGBROECK, RUCHIR TRAVADI, COLIN VAZ, JANGWON KIM, MATTHEW P. BLACK, ALEXANDROS POTAMIANOS, SHRIKANTH NARAYANAN
Classification of Cognitive Load from Speech using an i-vector Framework - The Physical Load Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
HEYSEM KAYA, TUGÇE ÖZKAPTAN, ALBERT ALI SALAH, SADIK FIKRET GÜRGEN
Canonical Correlation Analysis and Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis based Multi-View Acoustic Feature Reduction for Physical Load Prediction
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2013 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge:
- The Social Signals Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
RAHUL GUPTA, KARTIK AUDHKHASI, SUNGBOK LEE, SHRIKANTH NARAYANAN
Paralinguistic Event Detection From Speech Using Probabilistic Time-Series Smoothing and Masking - The Conflict Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
OKKO RÄSÄNEN AND JOUNI POHJALAINEN
Random Subset Feature Selection in Automatic Recognition of Developmental Disorders, Affective States, and Level of Conflict from Speech - The Emotion Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
GÁBOR GOSZTOLYA, RÓBERT BUSA-FEKETE, LÁSZLÓ TÓTH
Detecting Autism, Emotions and Social Signals Using AdaBoost - The Autism Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
MEYSAM ASGARI, ALIREZA BAYESTEHTASHK, IZHAK SHAFRAN
Robust and Accurate Features for Detecting and Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorders
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge:
- The Personality Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
ALEXEI V. IVANOV, XIN CHEN
Modulation Spectrum Analysis for Speaker Personality Trait Recognition - The Likability Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
CLAUDE MONTACIÉ, MARIE-JOSÉ CARATY
Pitch and Intonation Contribution to Speakers’ Traits Classification - The Pathology Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
JANGWON KIM, NAVEEN KUMAR, ANDREAS TSIARTAS, MING LI, SHRIKANTH S. NARAYANAN
Intelligibility Classification of Pathological Speech Using Fusion of Multiple Subsystems
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2011 Speaker State Challenge:
- The Intoxication Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
DANIEL BONE, MATTHEW P. BLACK, MING LI, ANGELIKI METALLINOU, SUNGBOK LEE, SHRIKANTH S. NARAYANAN
Intoxicated Speech Detection by Fusion of Speaker Normalized Hierarchical Features and GMM Supervectors - The Sleepiness Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
DONG-YAN HUANG, SHUZHI SAM GE, ZHENGCHEN ZHANG
Speaker State Classification Based on Fusion of Asymmetric SIMPLS and Support Vector Machines
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge:
- The Age Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
MARCEL KOCKMANN, LUKÁŠ BURGET, JAN “HONZA” CERNOCKÝ
Brno University of Technology System for Interspeech 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge - The Gender Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
HUGO MEINEDO, ISABEL TRANCOSO
Age and Gender Classification using Fusion of Acoustic and Prosodic Features - The Affect Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
JE HUN JEON, RUI XIA, YANG LIU
Level of Interest Sensing in Spoken Dialog Using Multi-level Fusion of Acoustic and Lexical Evidence
Winners of the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge:
- The Open Performance Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
PIERRE DUMOUCHEL, NAJIM DEHAK, YAZID ATTABI, REDA DEHAK, NARJES BOUFADEN
Cepstral and long-term features for emotion recognition - The Classifier Performance Sub-Challenge Prize is awarded to:
CHI-CHUN LEE, EMILY MOWER, CARLOS BUSSO, SUNGBOK LEE, SHRIKANTH NARAYANAN
Emotion recognition using a hierarchical binary decision tree approach
The organisers congratulate all winners and thank all participants for their outstanding contributions!
Overall the best result could mostly be reached by fusion of these.