Benjamin van Niekerk

35 papers A* 1A 10Misc 2Journal 22

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Interpreting Speaker Characteristics in the Dimensions of Self-Supervised Speech Features. CoRR Kyle Janse van Rensburg, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2025	J	`jnl`	Analyzing and Improving Speaker Similarity Assessment for Speech Synthesis. CoRR Marc-André Carbonneau, Benjamin van Niekerk, Hugo Seuté, Jean-Philippe Letendre, Herman Kamper, Julian Zaïdi
2025	A	`conf`	LinearVC: Linear Transformations of Self-Supervised Features Through the Lens of Voice Conversion. INTERSPEECH Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zaïdi, Marc-André Carbonneau
2025	J	`jnl`	LinearVC: Linear transformations of self-supervised features through the lens of voice conversion. CoRR Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zaïdi, Marc-André Carbonneau
2025	J	`jnl`	Should Top-Down Clustering Affect Boundaries in Unsupervised Word Discovery? CoRR Simon Malan, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2025	Misc	`conf`	Unsupervised Word Discovery: Boundary Detection with Clustering vs. Dynamic Programming. ICASSP Simon Malan, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2024	J	`jnl`	Revisiting speech segmentation and lexicon learning with better features. CoRR Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
2024	A	`conf`	Spoken-Term Discovery using Discrete Speech Units. INTERSPEECH Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zaïdi, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
2024	J	`jnl`	Unsupervised Word Discovery: Boundary Detection with Clustering vs. Dynamic Programming. CoRR Simon Malan, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2023	J	`jnl`	Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion. CoRR Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
2023	J	`jnl`	Rhythm Modeling for Voice Conversion. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
2023	A	`conf`	Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots. INTERSPEECH Leanne Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2023	J	`jnl`	Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots. CoRR Leanne Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2023	A	`conf`	Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors. INTERSPEECH Matthew Baas, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2023	J	`jnl`	Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors. CoRR Matthew Baas, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2022	Misc	`conf`	A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion. ICASSP Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Julian Zaïdi, Matthew Baas, Hugo Seuté, Herman Kamper
2022	A	`conf`	Daft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau
2021	J	`jnl`	A Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion. CoRR Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau, Julian Zaïdi, Matthew Baas, Hugo Seuté, Herman Kamper
2021	A	`conf`	Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing. Interspeech Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
2021	J	`jnl`	Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing. CoRR Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
2021	J	`jnl`	Daft-Exprt: Robust Prosody Transfer Across Speakers for Expressive Speech Synthesis. CoRR Julian Zaïdi, Hugo Seuté, Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-André Carbonneau
2021	A	`conf`	Towards Unsupervised Phone and Word Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Vector-Quantized Neural Networks. Interspeech Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
2020	J	`jnl`	If dropout limits trainable depth, does critical initialisation still matter? A large-scale statistical analysis on ReLU networks. Pattern Recognit. Lett. Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Benjamin van Niekerk, Ryan Eloff, Matthew Reynard, Steven James, Benjamin Rosman, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon
2020	J	`jnl`	Online Constrained Model-based Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Benjamin van Niekerk, Andreas C. Damianou, Benjamin Rosman
2020	J	`jnl`	Towards localisation of keywords in speech using weak supervision. CoRR Kayode Olaleye, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2020	J	`jnl`	Towards unsupervised phone and word segmentation using self-supervised vector-quantized neural networks. CoRR Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
2020	A	`conf`	Vector-Quantized Neural Networks for Acoustic Unit Discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 Challenge. INTERSPEECH Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
2020	J	`jnl`	Vector-quantized neural networks for acoustic unit discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 challenge. CoRR Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
2019	A*	`conf`	Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning. ICML Benjamin van Niekerk, Steven James, Adam Christopher Earle, Benjamin Rosman
2019	J	`jnl`	If dropout limits trainable depth, does critical initialisation still matter? A large-scale statistical analysis on ReLU networks. CoRR Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Benjamin van Niekerk, Ryan Eloff, Matthew Reynard, Steven James, Benjamin Rosman, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon
2019	A	`conf`	Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery for Speech Synthesis Using Discrete Latent-Variable Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH 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
2019	J	`jnl`	Unsupervised acoustic unit discovery for speech synthesis using discrete latent-variable neural networks. CoRR 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
2018	J	`jnl`	Will it Blend? Composing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Benjamin van Niekerk, Steven James, Adam Christopher Earle, Benjamin Rosman
2017	A	`conf`	Online Constrained Model-based Reinforcement Learning. UAI Benjamin van Niekerk, Andreas C. Damianou, Benjamin Rosman
2015	J	`jnl`	An Intermediate Value Theorem for the Decycling Numbers of Toeplitz Graphs. Graphs Comb. Sheng Bau, Benjamin van Niekerk, David White