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Mariam Yiwere

Biography & Research Interests

Mariam Yiwere received her Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Computer Science at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana in 2012, after which she served as a teaching assistant for the 2012/2013 academic year.  She received her Master of Engineering degree and her PhD degree in computer Engineering from the department of Computer Engineering, Hanbat National University, South Korea in August 2015 and February 2020 respectively.  
Since October 2020, Mariam has been working on the DTIF/DAVID project as a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Science and Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, and her research interests include Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Speaker Recognition and Verification, Sound Source Localization, Deep Learning and Computer Vision. 

Research Activities

Speaker Verification/Recognition for Children: I am currently training neural network models to recognize unique individuals based on variable length (text-independent) speech signals. Expressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis.
Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis: I am also working on generating synthetic human voices with expressivity/emotion. The goal is to generate voices that can express basic emotions, such as happiness, sadness and anger, while still expressing meaningful and natural linguistic content.
Child speech Data Collection: To facilitate experiments in the DTIF/DAVID Project, I gather publicly available child and emotional speech datasets, and I harvested some child speech data from the public domain online (e.g. YouTube).

Journal Publications

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Sound Source Distance Estimation using Deep Learning: An Image Classification Approach” | Sensors 2020, 20(1), 172| December 2019| DOI: 10.3390/s20010172

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Distance Estimation and Localization of Sound Sources in Reverberant Conditions using Deep Neural Networks ” | International Journal of Applied Engineering Research| November 2017

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Fast 360° Sound Source Localization using Signal Energies and Partial Cross Correlation for TDOA Computation” | Journal of Information Technology Applications & Management | March 2017

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “3-D Sound Source Localization using Energy-Based Region Selection and TDOA” | Journal of the Korean Institute of Information and Communication Engineering (JKIICE) | February 2017

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “A TDOA Sign – Based Algorithm for Fast Sound Source Localization using an L-shaped Microphone Array” | Journal of Information Technology Applications & Management | September 2016

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Fast Time Difference of Arrival Estimation for Sound Source Localization using Partial Cross Correlation” | Journal of Information Technology Applications & Management | September 2015

Conference Participation & Presentations

PHUNG Van Hiep, YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Insect Classification using Convolutional Neural Network” | The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | November 2019.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “CNN based Sound Source Localization”, |The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | May 2019.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Estimating Distance of Binaural Sound Sources using Deep Neural Networks” | The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | November 2018.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Binaural Sound Source Distance Estimation using Deep Neural Networks” | The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | May 2018.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Position Estimation of Binaural Sound Sources in Reverberant Conditions” | The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | October 2017.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Energy-based Sound Source Localization using Partial Cross-Correlation” | The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | November 2016.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “360°Sound Source Localization using Region Selection” | The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | May 2016.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Sound Source Localization using Partial Cross-Correlation and Signal Energies” | The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers, South Korea | December 2015.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Sound Source Localization for Video Surveillance Using Cross-Correlation” | The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | May 2015.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Object Tracking based on Frame Differencing and Camshift” | The Korea Society of Information Technology Applications, South Korea | May 2015.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Face Detection using Fast Adaboost Training”, | The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers, South Korea | December 2014.

YIWERE Mariam and RHEE Eun Joo, “Human Face Detection in Video using Skin Color Detection and Skin Region Parameters” | The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers, South Korea | December 2013.