Vocalizations carry emotional, physiological and individual information. This suggests that
they may serve as potentially useful indicators for inferring animal welfare. At the same time …

Speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a vital role in human–machine interaction. A large
number of SER schemes have been anticipated over the last decade. However, the …

Bound states of solitons (“molecules”) occur in various settings, playing an important role in
the operation of fiber lasers, optical emulation, encoding, and communications. Soliton …

Finding subsets of a dataset that somehow deviate from the norm, ie where something
interesting is going on, is a classical Data Mining task. In traditional local pattern mining …

Recent studies have shown that music is capable of conveying semantically meaningful
concepts. Several questions have subsequently arisen particularly with regard to the precise …

Both minor and major depression have high prevalence and are important causes of social
burden worldwide; however, there is still no objective indicator to detect minor depression …

While it is clear that artificial agents that are able to express emotions increase trust in
Human–Machine Interaction, most studies looking at this effect concentrated on the …

Rolling element bearing is a vital component in rotating machinery, such as a wind turbine
(WT) system. By accurately monitoring its health condition, the faults can be detected at an …

Featured Application The automated classification of respiratory sound has gained
increasing attention in recent years and has been the subject of a growing number of …

This paper investigates the underlying cognitive processes of sound–color associations by
connecting perceptual evidence from research on cross-modal correspondences to sound …