Publications by Eklavya Sarkar

On feature representations for marmoset vocal communication analysis

The acoustic analysis of marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocalisations is often used to understand the evolutionary origins of human language. Currently, the analysis is largely carried out in a manual or semi-manual manner. Thus, there is a need to develop ...

2025

Transferability of Learnt Speech Representations for Decoding Non-Human Vocal Communication

Eklavya Sarkar

Humans and animals both use acoustic signals for vocal communication. The advent of self-supervised learning (SSL) has enabled neural networks to learn robust and general feature representations through the intrinsic acoustic structure of input signals, wi ...

EPFL2025

On the Utility of Speech and Audio Foundation Models for Marmoset Call Analysis

Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar

Marmoset monkeys encode vital information in their calls and serve as a surrogate model for neuro-biologists to understand the evolutionary origins of human vocal communication. Traditionally analyzed with signal processing-based features, recent approache ...

2024

Feature Representations for Automatic Meerkat Vocalization Classification

Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar

Understanding evolution of vocal communication in social animals is an important research problem. In that context, beyond humans, there is an interest in analyzing vocalizations of other social animals such as, meerkats, marmosets, apes. While existing ap ...

2024

Can Self-Supervised Neural Representations Pre-Trained on Human Speech distinguish Animal Callers?

Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models use only the intrinsic structure of a given signal, independent of its acoustic domain, to extract essential information from the input to an embedding space. This implies that the utility of such representations is no ...

ISCA2023

Are GAN-based Morphs Threatening Face Recognition?

Sébastien Marcel, Eklavya Sarkar, Laurent Colbois

Morphing attacks are a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security or access control ...

IEEE2022

Unsupervised Voice Activity Detection by Modeling Source and System Information using Zero Frequency Filtering

Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step for speech technology applications. The task consists of deriving segment boundaries of audio signals which contain voicing information. In recent years, it has been shown that voice source ...

ISCA2022

Vulnerability Analysis of Face Morphing Attacks from Landmarks and Generative Adversarial Networks

Sébastien Marcel, Eklavya Sarkar, Laurent Colbois

Morphing attacks is a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security or access control. ...

Idiap2020