Daniel R. van Niekerk

23 papers A 10B 1Journal 6Unranked 6

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Learnability of English diphthongs: One dynamic target vs. two static targets. Speech Commun. Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
2024	J	`jnl`	Artificial vocal learning guided by speech recognition: What it may tell us about how children learn to speak. J. Phonetics Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Santitham Prom-on, Lorna F. Halliday, Yi Xu
2024	—	`conf`	In Pursuit for the Best Error Metric for Optimisation of Articulatory Vowel Synthesis. SPECOM (2) Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
2023	A	`conf`	Self-Supervised Solution to the Control Problem of Articulatory Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Branislav Gerazov, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu
2023	J	`jnl`	Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation. Speech Commun. Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Lorna F. Halliday, Santitham Prom-on, Yi Xu
2022	A	`conf`	Evoc-Learn - High quality simulation of early vocal learning. INTERSPEECH Yi Xu, Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Peter Birkholz, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Lorna F. Halliday
2022	A	`conf`	Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
2022	J	`jnl`	Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets. CoRR Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
2021	A	`conf`	Model-Based Exploration of Linking Between Vowel Articulatory Space and Acoustic Space. Interspeech Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
2020	J	`jnl`	Evaluating Features and Metrics for High-Quality Simulation of Early Vocal Learning of Vowels. CoRR Branislav Gerazov, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
2020	A	`conf`	Finding Intelligible Consonant-Vowel Sounds Using High-Quality Articulatory Synthesis. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
2017	A	`conf`	Rapid Development of TTS Corpora for Four South African Languages. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Neil Kleynhans, Oddur Kjartansson, Martin Jansche, Linne Ha
2017	—	`conf`	Universal Dependencies for Afrikaans. UDW@NoDaLiDa Peter Dirix, Liesbeth Augustinus, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Frank Van Eynde
2016	B	`conf`	AfriBooms: An Online Treebank for Afrikaans. LREC Liesbeth Augustinus, Peter Dirix, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, Frank Van Eynde, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen
2016	—	`conf`	Code-switched English Pronunciation Modeling for Swahili Spoken Term Detection. SLTU Neil Kleynhans, William Hartmann, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Richard M. Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis, Marelie H. Davel
2014	A	`conf`	A target approximation intonation model for yorùbá TTS. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2014	J	`jnl`	Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yorùbá for tone realisation in speech synthesis. Speech Commun. Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2013	A	`conf`	Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in yorùbá. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2012	—	`conf`	Tone realisation in a yorùbá speech recognition corpus. SLTU Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2010	A	`conf`	An intonation model for TTS in sepedi. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2010	—	`conf`	Introducing the Speect speech synthesis platform. Blizzard Challenge Johannes A. Louw, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Georg I. Schlünz
2009	A	`conf`	Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2009	—	`conf`	Using Cell Phones to Improve Language Skills: The Hadeda Project. AFRICOM Laurie L. Butgereit, Adele Botha, Daniel R. van Niekerk

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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