Title:
Audio diarization for LENA data and its application to computing language behavior statistics for individuals with autism

dc.contributor.advisor Clements, Mark A.
dc.contributor.author Pawar, Rahul Shivaji
dc.contributor.committeeMember Anderson, David
dc.contributor.committeeMember Moore, Elliot
dc.contributor.committeeMember Fekri, Faramarz
dc.contributor.committeeMember Jones, Rebecca
dc.contributor.department Electrical and Computer Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2020-01-14T14:45:34Z
dc.date.available 2020-01-14T14:45:34Z
dc.date.created 2019-12
dc.date.issued 2019-08-27
dc.date.submitted December 2019
dc.date.updated 2020-01-14T14:45:34Z
dc.description.abstract The objective of this dissertation is to develop diarization algorithms for LENA data and study its application to compute language behavior statistics for individuals with autism. LENA device is one of the most commonly used devices to collect audio data in autism and language development studies. LENA child and adult detector algorithms were evaluated for two different datasets: i) older children dataset consisting of children already diagnosed with autism spectrum disor- der and ii) infants dataset consisting of infants at risk for autism. I-vector based diarization algorithms were developed for the two datasets to tackle two scenarios: a) some amount of labeled data is present for every speaker present in the audio recording and b) no labeled data is present for the audio recording to be diarized. Further, i-vector based diarization methods were applied to compute objective measures of assessment. These objective measures of assessment were analyzed to show they can reveal some aspects of autism severity. Also, a method to extract a 5 minute high child vocalization audio window from a 16 hour day long recording was developed, which was then used to compute canonical babble statistics using human annotation.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/62285
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Diarization
dc.subject Autism
dc.title Audio diarization for LENA data and its application to computing language behavior statistics for individuals with autism
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Clements, Mark A.
local.contributor.corporatename School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level Doctoral
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