Benjamin van Niekerk

According to our database, Benjamin van Niekerk authored at least 22 papers between 2015 and 2025.

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2025

Should Top-Down Clustering Affect Boundaries in Unsupervised Word Discovery?

Simon Malan, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper

CoRR, July, 2025

Analyzing and Improving Speaker Similarity Assessment for Speech Synthesis.

Marc-André Carbonneau, Benjamin van Niekerk, Hugo Seuté, Jean-Philippe Letendre, Herman Kamper, Julian Zaïdi

CoRR, July, 2025

LinearVC: Linear transformations of self-supervised features through the lens of voice conversion.

Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zaïdi, Marc-André Carbonneau

CoRR, June, 2025

Unsupervised Word Discovery: Boundary Detection with Clustering vs. Dynamic Programming.

Simon Malan, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2025

2024

Revisiting speech segmentation and lexicon learning with better features.

Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk

CoRR, 2024

Spoken-Term Discovery using Discrete Speech Units.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zaïdi, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2024

2023

Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper

IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2023

Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots.

Leanne Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors.

Matthew Baas, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

2022

Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis.

Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Julian Zaïdi, Matthew Baas, Hugo Seuté, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

2021

Daft-Exprt: Robust Prosody Transfer Across Speakers for Expressive Speech Synthesis.

Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau

CoRR, 2021

Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

Towards Unsupervised Phone and Word Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Vector-Quantized Neural Networks.

Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

2020

If dropout limits trainable depth, does critical initialisation still matter? A large-scale statistical analysis on ReLU networks.

Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Benjamin van Niekerk, Ryan Eloff, Matthew Reynard, Steven James, Benjamin Rosman, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon

Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2020

Towards localisation of keywords in speech using weak supervision.

Kayode Olaleye, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper

CoRR, 2020

Vector-Quantized Neural Networks for Acoustic Unit Discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 Challenge.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

2019

Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery for Speech Synthesis Using Discrete Latent-Variable Neural Networks.

Ryan Eloff, André Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Avashna Govender, Leanne Nortje, Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Lisa van Staden, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Steven James, Adam Christopher Earle, Benjamin Rosman

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2019

2018

Will it Blend? Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Steven James, Adam Christopher Earle, Benjamin Rosman

CoRR, 2018

2017

Online Constrained Model-based Reinforcement Learning.

Benjamin van Niekerk, Andreas C. Damianou, Benjamin Rosman

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2015

An Intermediate Value Theorem for the Decycling Numbers of Toeplitz Graphs.

Sheng Bau, Benjamin van Niekerk, David White

Graphs Comb., 2015