Yuanbo Hou

Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126

9052 Gent

BELGIUM

Yuanbo Hou is a Ph.D. scholarship recipient at UGent. He is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Engineering at the WAVES Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium, under the supervision of Prof. Dick Botteldooren. He received the M.E. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 2020. He worked as a short-term honorary research assistant at University College London, U.K., in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Jian Kang. His research concerns AI for sound, using deep learning and signal processing to analyze and recognize sounds.

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News

16 December 2023	Together with three of my teammates, we won the team championship in the 2023 Chinese Students and Scholars Association (ChiSAG) Table Tennis Championship.
13 December 2023	One paper was accpeted by ICASSP 2024.
9 December 2023	One paper was accpeted by AAAI 2024.
8 November 2023	One article was accpeted by Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA).
24 October 2023	One article was accpeted by Applied Acoustics.
9 October 2023	One article was accpeted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP).
26 September 2023	One article was accpeted by IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL).
31 July 2023	One paper was accpeted by ICONIP 2023.
17 May 2023	One paper was accpeted by INTERSPEECH 2023.
17 February 2023	One paper was accpeted by ICASSP 2023.

Selected Publications

JASA

AI-based soundscape analysis: Jointly identifying sound sources and predicting annoyance

Yuanbo Hou, Qiaoqiao Ren, Huizhong Zhang, Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, Dick Botteldooren

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 15 NOVEMBER 2023

IEEE TASLP

Cooperative Scene-Event Modelling for Acoustic Scene Classification

Yuanbo Hou, Bo Kang, Andrew Mitchell, Wenwu Wang, Jian Kang, Dick Botteldooren

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. 9 October 2023

IEEE SPL

Audio Event-Relational Graph Representation Learning for Acoustic Scene Classification

Yuanbo Hou, Siyang Song, Chuang Yu, Wenwu Wang, Dick Botteldooren

IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 26 September 2023

INTERSPEECH

Joint Prediction of Audio Event and Annoyance Rating in an Urban Soundscape by Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning

Yuanbo Hou, Siyang Song, Cheng Luo, Andrew Mitchell, Qiaoqiao Ren, Weicheng Xie, Jian Kang, Wenwu Wang, Dick Botteldooren

International Speech Communication Association. 20 August 2023

ICASSP

GCT: Gated Contextual Transformer for Sequential Audio Tagging

Yuanbo Hou, Yun Wang, Wenwu Wang, Dick Botteldooren

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 5 May 2023

ICASSP

Sound event detection with sequentially labelled data based on connectionist temporal classification and unsupervised clustering

Yuanbo Hou, Qiuqiang Kong, Shengchen Li, Mark D. Plumbley

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 17 April 2019