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Alberto Abad is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and researcher at INESC-ID. He is the coordinator of the Human Language Technologies laboratory at INESC-ID and the deputy coordinator of the Master in Computer Science and Engineering of IST. He is also an IEEE Senior member, an ACM member, an ISCA member, and an Associated Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing journal. Alberto Abad has developed his research career in the area of human language technologies for more than 15 years. His research interests include robust speech recognition, speaker and language characterization, applied machine learning, healthcare applications, and privacy-preserving speech processing. During these years, Alberto Abad has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier conferences and scientific journals of the field. He has been Principal Investigator of FCT funded project VITHEA and INESC-ID representative in the DIRHA European project, Biovisualspeech CMU-Portugal project, and TAPAS ITN. He is currently INESC-ID/IST PI at Accelerat.ai project. He has also been team member in various Spanish and Portuguese national and international projects, and team leader in international technological evaluation challenges achieving excellent results. He has supervised and co-supervised more than 25 M.Sc. theses and 1 Ph.D. thesis (+5 on-going) and lectured in courses at both Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and IST on a variety of topics, including signal processing, machine learning, programming principles, object-oriented programming, and compilers. Alberto Abad has been actively involved in research community activities, including conference organization, and closely collaborated with local industry and start-up companies.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alberto Abad

Citation names

  • Abad, Alberto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
341F-5DB8-AF2D
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2122-5148
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M5hzAIwAAAAJ&hl=es

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Catalan Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2007/06/29
Concluded
 PhD degree at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Technical University of Catalonia (Doctor)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
"A multi-microphone approach to speech processing in a smart-room environment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 MH Cum Laude
2002/09/16
Concluded
 Telecommunication Engineer of the Technical Superior Telecommunication Engineering School of Barcelona, Technical University of Catalonia (Licenciatura)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
"Implementación de un sistema automático de información meteorológica por teléfono" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/08/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2008/08/01 - 2013/07/31 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2007/02/13 - 2008/07/31 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/05/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2015/02/01 - 2022/05/01 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2013/08/01 - 2015/01/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2005/02/01 - 2006/01/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2003/01/01 - 2006/12/31 PhD Student (Training Researchers Catalan Government grant) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
2001/06/01 - 2002/09/01 Project collaboration grant Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Accelerat.AI
02/C05-i01.01/2022.PC644865762-00000008
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2022/06/30 Privacidade em diarização do orador: deteção segura de "quem fala quando"
CMU/TIC/0069/2019
10.54499/CMU/TIC/0069/2019
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/11/01 - 2021/10/31 TAPAS - Training Network on Automatic Processing of Pathological Speech
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 (766287)
Principal investigator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Euratom
Ongoing
2016/04/01 - 2021/03/31 Plataforma interactiva com bio-feedback visual para terapia da fala
CMUP-ERI/TIC/0033/2014
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015/02/01 - 2019/02/01 RAGE - Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-system
H2020-ICT-2014-1 (644187)
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Euratom
Concluded
2013/03/26 - 2017/03/25 COST IC1206 - De-Identification for Privacy Protection in Multimedia Content
COST Action IC1206
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Concluded
2013/12/01 - 2015/11/30 SPEDIAL - Spoken Dialogue Analytics
FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA/611396
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
2012/02/01 - 2015/07/31 SUSPECT - Tecnologias Seguras de Fala
PTDC/EIA-CCO/122542/2010
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/01/01 - 2014/12/31 DIRHA - Distant-speech Interaction for Robust Home Applications
FP7-ICT-2011-7 (288121)
Principal investigator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
2008/07/01 - 2013/06/30 Robust speech recognition, speaker and language identification, computational acoustic scene analysis and multimodal audio-visual applications
CONT_DOUT/26/INESC-ID/307/8925/ 4/2006
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/06/01 - 2013/05/31 VITHEA : Terapeuta Virtual para o tratamento da Afasia
RIPD/ADA/109646/2009
Principal investigator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/10/01 - 2013/03/31 FalaComigo - Enhance the Cultural Tourism through the Interaction with Virtual Characters
EU/FEDER - COMPETE, 13449
Researcher
2010/11/01 - 2012/10/31 EUTV - Adaptive Channels in Europe
FP7-SME-2010-1/262428
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2008/03/01 - 2012/08/31 LIREC - Living with Robots and Interactive Companions
FP7-ICT-2007-1 / 215554
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2009/05/01 - 2012/07/31 PT-STAR - Investigação Avançada em Tradução de Fala de e para Português
CMU-PT/HuMach/0039/2008
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/01/01 - 2011/06/30 POSTPORT - Adaptação de Tecnologias de Fala a outras Variantes do Português
PTDC/PLP/72404/2006
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/07/01 - 2010/06/30 I-DASH The Investigator’s Dashboard
SIP-2007-TP-131703
Researcher
2007/02/01 - 2010/01/31 VIDIVIDEO - Interactive semantic video search with a large thesaurus of machine learned audio-visual
FP6-2005-IST-6 / 045547
Researcher
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Villavicencio, A.; Moreira, V.; Abad, A.; Caseli, H.; Gamallo, P.; Ramisch, C.; Oliveira, H.G.; Paetzold, G.H.. Preface. 2018.
    10.13109/9783666539497.vii
  2. Abad, A.; Ortega, A.; Teixeira, A.; Mateo, C.G.; Martínez Hinarejos, C.D.; Perdigão, F.; Batista, F.; Mamede, N.. Preface. 2016.
  3. Hämäläinen, A.; Cho, H.; Candeias, S.; Pellegrini, T.; Abad, A.; Tjalve, M.; Trancoso, I.; Dias, M.S.. Automatically recognising European Portuguese children’s speech: Pronunciation patterns revealed by an analysis of ASR errors. 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-09761-9
  4. Matos, M.; Abad, A.; Astudillo, R.; Trancoso, I.. Recognition of distant voice commands for home applications in Portuguese. 2014.
Book chapter
  1. Anna Pompili; Alberto Abad; Isabel Trancoso; José Fonseca; Isabel P. Martins. "Evaluation and Extensions of an Automatic Speech Therapy Platform". 43-52. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_5
  2. Margarida Grilo; Isabel Guimarães; Mariana Ascensão; Alberto Abad; Ivo Anjos; João Magalhães; Sofia Cavaco. "The BioVisualSpeech European Portuguese Sibilants Corpus". 23-33. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_3
  3. Mariana Julião; Alberto Abad; Helena Moniz. "Comparison of Heterogeneous Feature Sets for Intonation Verification". 13-22. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_2
  4. Francisco Oliveira; Alberto Abad; Isabel Trancoso. "A Multiplayer Voice-Enabled Game Platform for the Elderly". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_40
  5. Isabel Trancoso; Joana Correia; Francisco Teixeira; Bhiksha Raj; Alberto Abad. "Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-030-00810-9_1
  6. Isabel Trancoso; Joana Correia; Francisco Teixeira; Bhiksha Raj; Alberto Abad. "Speech Analytics for Medical Applications". 26-37. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-030-00794-2_3
  7. Anna Pompili; Alberto Abad; Paolo Romano; Isabel P. Martins; Rita Cardoso; Helena Santos; Joana Carvalho; Isabel Guimarães; Joaquim J. Ferreira. "Automatic Detection of Parkinson’s Disease: An Experimental Analysis of Common Speech Production Tasks Used for Diagnosis". 411-419. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-64206-2_46
  8. Hämäläinen, Annika; Cho, Hyongsil; Candeias, Sara; Pellegrini, Thomas; Abad, Alberto; Tjalve, Michael; Trancoso, Isabel; Dias, Miguel Sales. "Automatically Recognising European Portuguese Children¿s Speech". In Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 1-11. Springer International Publishing, 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-09761-9_1
Conference paper
  1. Carvalho, Carlos; Abad, Alberto. "Memory-augmented conformer for improved end-to-end long-form ASR". 2023.
    10.21437/interspeech.2023-893
  2. Botelho, Catarina; Abad, Alberto; Schultz, Tanja; Trancoso, Isabel. "Towards Reference Speech Characterization for Health Applications". 2023.
    10.21437/interspeech.2023-1435
  3. Quintas, Sebastião; Abad, Alberto; Mauclair, Julie; Woisard, Virginie; Pinquier, Julien. "Towards Reducing Patient Effort for the Automatic Prediction of Speech Intelligibility in Head and Neck Cancers". 2023.
    10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10094921
  4. Teixeira, Francisco; Abad, Alberto; Raj, Bhiksha; Trancoso, Isabel. "Privacy-Preserving Automatic Speaker Diarization". 2023.
    10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10096113
  5. Sousa, Rodrigo; Pinto, Helena Sofia; Abad, Alberto; Neto, Daniel; Gago, Joaquim. "Extraction of structural and semantic features for the identification of Psychosis in European Portuguese". 2022.
    10.21437/iberspeech.2022-21
  6. Teixeira, Francisco; Abad, Alberto; Raj, Bhiksha; Trancoso, Isabel. "Towards End-to-End Private Automatic Speaker Recognition". 2022.
    10.21437/interspeech.2022-10672
  7. Botelho, Catarina; Schultz, Tanja; Abad, Alberto; Trancoso, Isabel. "Challenges of using longitudinal and cross-domain corpora on studies of pathological speech". 2022.
    10.21437/interspeech.2022-10995
  8. Maria Forjó; Daniel Neto; Abad, Alberto; Pinto, HSofia; Joaquim Gago. "A new European Portuguese corpus for the study of Psychosis through speech analysis". 2022.
  9. Thomas Rolland; Abad, Alberto; Catia Cucchiarini; Helmer Strik. "Multilingual Transfer Learning for Children Automatic Speech Recognition". Paper presented in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022.
  10. Quintas, Sebastião; Abad, Alberto; Mauclair, Julie; Woisard, Virginie; Pinquier, Julien. "Utilisation de réseaux de neurones profonds avec attention pour la prédiction de l’intelligibilité de la parole de patients atteints de cancers ORL". 2022.
    10.21437/jep.2022-7
  11. Julião, Mariana; Abad, Alberto; Moniz, Helena. "Can Prosody Transfer Embeddings be Used for Prosody Assessment?". 2022.
    10.21437/speechprosody.2022-60
  12. Ablimit, Ayimnisagul; Botelho, Catarina; Abad, Alberto; Schultz, Tanja; Trancoso, Isabel. "Exploring Dementia Detection from Speech: Cross Corpus Analysis". 2022.
    10.1109/icassp43922.2022.9747167
  13. Carvalho, Carlos; Abad, Alberto. "TRIBUS: An end-to-end automatic speech recognition system for European Portuguese". Paper presented in IberSPEECH 2021, 2021.
    10.21437/iberspeech.2021-40
  14. Botelheiro, Diogo; Abad, Alberto; Freitas, João; Correia, Rui. "Nativeness Assessment for Crowdsourced Speech Collections". Paper presented in IberSPEECH 2021, 2021.
    10.21437/iberspeech.2021-5
  15. Ribeiro, Rui; Abad, Alberto; Lopes, José. "Domain Adaptation in Dialogue Systems using Transfer and Meta-Learning". 2021.
    10.21437/iberspeech.2021-44
  16. Solera-Ureña, R.; Botelho, C.; Teixeira, F.; Rolland, T.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Transfer learning-based cough representations for automatic detection of COVID-19". 2021.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1702
  17. Shamsabadi, A.S.; Teixeira, F.S.; Abad, A.; Raj, B.; Cavallaro, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Foolhd: Fooling Speaker Identification by Highly Imperceptible Adversarial Disturbances". 2021.
    10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9413760
  18. Botelho, C.; Abad, A.; Schultz, T.; Trancoso, I.. "Visual Speech for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection". 2021.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1717
  19. Abad, Alberto; Bell, Peter; Carmantini, Andrea; Renais, Steve. "Cross Lingual Transfer Learning for Zero-Resource Domain Adaptation". Paper presented in ICASSP, 2020.
    Published • 10.1109/icassp40776.2020.9054468
  20. Pompili, A.; Solera-Ureña, R.; Abad, A.; Cardoso, R.; Guimarães, I.; Fabbri, M.; Martins, I.P.; Ferreira, J.. "Assessment of Parkinson's disease medication state through automatic speech analysis". 2020.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2726
  21. Botelho, C.; Diener, L.; Küster, D.; Scheck, K.; Amiriparian, S.; Schuller, B.W.; Schultz, T.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Toward silent paralinguistics: Speech-to-EMG - Retrieving articulatory muscle activity from speech". 2020.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2926
  22. Julião, M.; Abad, A.; Moniz, H.. "Exploring text and audio embeddings for multi-dimension elderly emotion recognition". 2020.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2290
  23. Mendonça, J.; Teixeira, F.; Trancoso, I.; Abad, A.. "Analyzing breath signals for the interspeech 2020 compare challenge". 2020.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2778
  24. Pompili, A.; Rolland, T.; Abad, A.. "The INESC-ID multi-modal system for the ADReSS 2020 challenge". 2020.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2833
  25. Cavaco, Sofia; Guimarães, Isabel; Ascensão, Mariana; Abad, Alberto; Anjos, Ivo; Oliveira, Francisco; Martins, Sofia; et al. "The BioVisualSpeech corpus of words with sibilants for speech therapy games development". 2020.
  26. Grilo, Ana Margarida; Guimarães, Isabel; Ascensão, Mariana; Abad, Alberto; Anjos, Ivo; Magalhães, João; Cavaco, Sofia. "The BioVisualSpeech european portuguese sibilants corpus". 2020.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_3
  27. Mendes, Carlos; Abad, Alberto; Neto, João Paulo; Trancoso, Isabel. "Recognition of Latin American Spanish Using Multi-Task Learning". 2019.
    10.21437/interspeech.2019-2772
  28. Lai, C.-I.; Abad, A.; Richmond, K.; Yamagishi, J.; Dehak, N.; King, S.. "Attentive Filtering Networks for Audio Replay Attack Detection". 2019.
    10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682640
  29. Teixeira, F.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Privacy-preserving Paralinguistic Tasks". 2019.
    10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683595
  30. Botelho, M.C.; Trancoso, I.; Abad, A.; Paiva, T.. "Speech as a Biomarker for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection". 2019.
    10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682431
  31. Dias, M.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Exploring Hashing and Cryptonet Based Approaches for Privacy-Preserving Speech Emotion Recognition". 2018.
    10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8461451
  32. Teixeira, F.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Patient privacy in paralinguistic tasks". 2018.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2186
  33. Pompili, Anna; Abad, Alberto; Martins de Matos, David; Pavão Martins, Isabel. "Topic coherence analysis for the classification of Alzheimer's disease". Paper presented in IberSPEECH 2018, 2018.
    10.21437/iberspeech.2018-59
  34. Lopez-Otero, P.; Docio-Fernandez, L.; Abad, A.; Garcia-Mateo, C.. "Depression detection using automatic transcriptions of de-identified speech". 2017.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1201
  35. Abad, Alberto. "Fusion of Simple Models for Native Language Identification". 2017.
    10.18653/v1/W17-5048
  36. Abad, A.; Ribeiro, E.; Kepler, F.; Astudillo, R.; Trancoso, I.. "Exploiting phone log-likelihood ratio features for the detection of the native language of non-native English speakers". 2016.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1491
  37. Lopes, J.; Chorianopoulou, A.; Palogiannidi, E.; Moniz, H.; Abad, A.; Louka, K.; Iosif, E.; Potamianos, A.. "The SpeDial datasets: Datasets for Spoken Dialogue Systems analytics". 2016.
  38. Matos, M.; Abad, A.; Serralheiro, A.. "The DIRHA Portuguese corpus: A comparison of home automation command detection and recognition In simulated and Real data". 2016.
  39. Fernando Batista; Pedro dos Santos Lopes Curto ; Trancoso, Isabel; Abad, Alberto; Jaime Rodrigues Ferreira; Eugénio Ribeiro; Helena Gorete Silva Moniz; David Martins de Matos; Ricardo Ribeiro. "SPA: Web-based Platform for easy Access to Speech Processing Modules". Paper presented in In LREC, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016.
  40. Portelo, J.; Abad, A.; Raj, B.; Trancoso, I.. "Privacy-preserving Query-by-Example Speech Search". 2015.
    10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178280
  41. Giannoulis, P.; Brutti, A.; Matassoni, M.; Abad, A.; Katsamanis, A.; Matos, M.; Potamianos, G.; Maragos, P.. "Multi-room speech activity detection using a distributed microphone network in domestic environments". 2015.
    10.1109/EUSIPCO.2015.7362588
  42. Correia, J.; Brutti, A.; Abad, A.. "Multi-channel speaker verification based on total variability modelling". 2015.
  43. Lopes, J.; Salvi, G.; Skantze, G.; Abad, A.; Gustafson, J.; Batista, F.; Meena, R.; Trancoso, I.. "Detecting repetitions in spoken dialogue systems using phonetic distances". 2015.
  44. Ribeiro, E.; Ferreira, J.; Olcoz, J.; Abad, A.; Moniz, H.; Batista, F.; Trancoso, I.; et al. "Combining multiple approaches to predict the degree of nativeness". 2015.
  45. Correia, M.J.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Exploiting magnitude and phase spectral information for converted speech detection". 2014.
    10.1109/SLT.2014.7078607
  46. Cristoforetti, L.; Ravanelli, M.; Omologo, M.; Sosi, A.; Abad, A.; Hagmüller, M.; Maragos, P.. "The DIRHA simulated corpus". 2014.
  47. Portêlo, J.; Raj, B.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Privacy-preserving speaker verification using secure binary embeddings". 2014.
    10.1109/MIPRO.2014.6859762
  48. Portêlo, J.; Raj, B.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Privacy-preserving speaker verification using garbled GMMS". 2014.
  49. Correia, M.J.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Preventing converted speech spoofing attacks in speaker verification". 2014.
    10.1109/MIPRO.2014.6859772
  50. Astudillo, R.F.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. "Accounting for the residual uncertainty of multi-layer perceptron based features". 2014.
    10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854929
  51. Pedro Fialho; Coheur, Luisa; Curto, Sergio; Pedro Cláudio; Ângela Costa; Abad, Alberto; Hugo Meinedo; Isabel Trancoso. "Meet EDGAR, a tutoring agent at MONSERRATE". Paper presented in 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 2013.
    Published
  52. Khoury, E.; Vesnicer, B.; Franco-Pedroso, J.; Violato, R.; Boulkcnafet, Z.; Mazaira Fernandez, L.M.; Diez, M.; et al. "The 2013 speaker recognition evaluation in mobile environment". 2013.
    10.1109/ICB.2013.6613025
  53. Abad, A.; Rodríguez-Fuentes, L.J.; Penagarikano, M.; Varona, A.; Bordel, G.. "On the calibration and fusion of heterogeneous spoken term detection systems". 2013.
  54. Abad, A.; Astudillo, R.F.; Trancoso, I.. "The L2F spoken web search system for mediaeval 2013". 2013.
  55. Portelo, J.; Raj, B.; Boufounos, P.; Trancoso, I.; Abad, A.. "Speaker verification using Secure Binary Embeddings". 2013.
  56. Portêlo, J.; Abad, A.; Raj, B.; Trancoso, I.. "Secure binary embeddings of front-end factor analysis for privacy preserving speaker verification". 2013.
  57. Pompili, Anna; Abad, Alberto; Trancoso, Isabel; Fonseca, Jose ; Martins, Isabel P.; Leal, Gabriela; Farrajota, Luisa. "An on-line system for remote treatment of aphasia". Paper presented in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, 2011.
  58. Moniz, H.; Batista, F.; Meinedo, H.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.; Mata, A.I.; Mamede, N.. "Prosodically-based automatic segmentation and punctuation". 2010.
  59. Abad, A.; Hernand, J.. "Speech enhancement and recognition by integrating adaptive beamforming and Wiener filtering". 2004.
  60. Anguita, J.; Hernando, J.; Abad, A.. "Jacobian adaptation with improved noise reference for speaker verification". 2004.
  61. Abad, A.; Nadeu, C.; Hernando, J.; Padrell, J.. "Jacobian adaptation based on the frequency-filtered spectral energies". 2003.
Journal article
  1. Anna Pompili; Alberto Abad; David Martins de Matos; Isabel Pavao Martins. "Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Production for the Automatic Identification of Alzheimer's Disease". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 14 2 (2020): 261-271. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTSP.2020.2967879.
    10.1109/JSTSP.2020.2967879
  2. Cavaco, S.; Guimarães, I.; Ascensão, M.; Abad, A.; Anjos, I.; Oliveira, F.; Martins, S.; et al. "The biovisualspeech corpus of words with sibilants for speech therapy games development". Information (Switzerland) 11 10 (2020): 1-18. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85093071742&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/info11100470
  3. Nautsch, Andreas; Jiménez, Abelino; Treiber, Amos; Kolberg, Jascha; Jasserand, Catherine; Kindt, Els; Delgado, Héctor; et al. "Preserving privacy in speaker and speech characterisation". Computer Speech & Language 58 (2019): 441-480. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2019.06.001.
    10.1016/j.csl.2019.06.001
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Other

Other output
  1. Domain Adaptation in Dialogue Systems using Transfer and Meta-Learning. 2021. Ribeiro, R.; Abad, A.; Lopes, J.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85102429221&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  2. Using self-supervised feature extractors with attention for automatic COVID-19 detection from speech. 2021. Mendonça, J.; Solera-Ureña, R.; Abad, A.; Trancoso, I.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85110970988&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  3. FooLHD: Fooling speaker identification by highly imperceptible adversarial disturbances. 2020. Shamsabadi, A.S.; Teixeira, F.S.; Abad, A.; Raj, B.; Cavallaro, A.; Trancoso, I.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85098129123&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  4. The INESC-ID Multi-Modal System for the ADReSS 2020 Challenge. 2020. Pompili, A.; Rolland, T.; Abad, A.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094719865&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  5. Assessment of Parkinson's disease medication state through automatic speech analysis. 2020. Pompili, A.; Solera-Ureña, R.; Abad, A.; Cardoso, R.; Guimarães, I.; Fabbri, M.; Martins, I.P.; Ferreira, J.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094338673&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  6. Cross lingual transfer learning for zero-resource domain adaptation. 2019. Abad, A.; Bell, P.; Carmantini, A.; Renals, S.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094752010&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  7. Attentive filtering networks for audio replay attack detection. 2018. Lai, C.-I.; Abad, A.; Richmond, K.; Yamagishi, J.; Dehak, N.; King, S.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85094536082&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Secure machine learning for speech
Supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Speech and Language Technologies Applied to the Therapy of Reading Disabilities
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Automatic Speech Recognition
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Domain Adaptation for Neural Generative-Based Dialogue Systems
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2021 TRIBUS: An end-to-end automatic speech recognition system in Portuguese
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Deep unsupervised learning for low-resource automatic speech recognition
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Speech and language technologies applied to diagnosis and therapy of brain diseases
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Surdez na 3a idade: um simulador de surdez através de realidade virtual
Supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Vithea. Development of a Mobile Application for Remote Speech Therapy
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Prosody Assessment for computer assisted therapy and language learning
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Contributions to speech processing for children with speech disorders
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Privacy in Paralinguistic Tasks
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Privacy-preserving speech Emotion Recognition
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Privacy Enhanced Voice Recognition
Supervisor
 Engenharia de Redes de Comunicações (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language 2020

Title

2021 Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
IEEE, United States

Other distinction

2016 Winner of the INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge - Native Language Sub-Challenge
2014 Second award at the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2014 to the MSc thesis by Anna Pompili “Speech and language technologies for aphasia therapy”
2013 Best presented Service Award at the Conference Saúde CUF 2013 - Mobile Health (VITHEA project)
José de Mello Saúde, Portugal
2013 IV Gala of Inclusion - Applied Research AWARD to INESC-ID for his work in the VITHEA project
2012 2nd Best Demo Award at Iberspeech 2012 (VITHEA project)