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Semi-automatic computerized system for the segmentation of online handwriting
Gavenčiak, Michal ; Mekyska, Jiří (referee) ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (advisor)
The prevalence of developmental dysgraphia among school children is between 10-30%, yet in Czech Republic, there is no objective method to diagnose it or determine its severity. Past studies have shown the possibility of automatic diagnosis using digital data gathered using a digitizing tablet and a stylus. Data gathered within an ongoing study contain information on position, time stamp, tilt, pressure and azimuth of the stylus. These data are, however, unsuitable for further analysis due unspecified number of exercises contained in one SVC file. Within this thesis the data is analysed and a program, which is able to segment these data into units of exercises and display the processed data on the screen, is designed and implemented.
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Research of modern articulation features for the analysis of hypokinetic dysarthria
Vrba, Filip ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Galáž, Zoltán (advisor)
This thesis deals with hypokinetic dysarthria, as a disorder of motor speech, which occurs in approximately 70% of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Two newly designed speech parameters for quantification of articulation within HD are analysed in this thesis. This parameters were validated on recording of both healthy and PD speakers. The theoretical part describes conventional and used methods of speech signal processing, parameterization and statistical analysis. In the part of the system implementation is described practical design of new parameters and also methods of their statistical evaluation by correlation analysis and machine learning. The aim of this work is to design new speech parameters for HD diagnostics. The proposed system was implemented in MATLAB software environment.
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Human behaviour monitoring system based on smartphone and bracelet data analysis
Mikulec, Marek ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
There has been established new technological field using smart phones and wearable devices for medical research since the arrival of health 4.0. The main goal of this work is to design, implement and test new system for monitoring people´s behaviour using smart phone and wearable device. These smart compoments should oblige requirements of health~4.0. This work uses open source software AWARE Framework and data from Fitbit API. The final system enables gathering and sharing 36 measurable metrics from smart phone and wearable device. Furthermore it secures efective access to gathered data and puts particular emphasis on the security of the system. Finally the system was used to examine a patterns of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep behaviour disorder.
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Development of modern acoustic features quantifying hypokinetic dysarthria
Kowolowski, Alexander ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Galáž, Zoltán (advisor)
This work deals with designing and testing of new acoustic features for analysis of dysprosodic speech occurring in hypokinetic dysarthria patients. 41 new features for dysprosody quantification (describing melody, loudness, rhythm and pace) are presented and tested in this work. New features can be divided into 7 groups. Inside the groups, features vary by the used statistical values. First four groups are based on absolute differences and cumulative sums of fundamental frequency and short-time energy of the signal. Fifth group contains features based on multiples of this fundamental frequency and short-time energy combined into one global intonation feature. Sixth group contains global time features, which are made of divisions between conventional rhythm and pace features. Last group contains global features for quantification of whole dysprosody, made of divisions between global intonation and global time features. All features were tested on Czech Parkinsonian speech database PARCZ. First, kernel density estimation was made and plotted for all features. Then correlation analysis with medicinal metadata was made, first for all the features, then for global features only. Next classification and regression analysis were made, using classification and regression trees algorithm (CART). This analysis was first made for all the features separately, then for all the data at once and eventually a sequential floating feature selection was made, to find out the best fitting combination of features for the current matter. Even though none of the features emerged as a universal best, there were a few features, that were appearing as one of the best repeatedly and also there was a trend that there was a bigger drop between the best and the second best feature, marking it as a much better feature for the given matter, than the rest of the tested. Results are included in the conclusion together with the discussion.
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Comparison of specialized actigraphs with wearable devices in quantitative sleep analysis
Čech, Vladimír ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Mikulec, Marek (advisor)
Actigraphy and smart wearable devices provide similar functionality in quantitative sleep analysis. This work aims to verify how common wearable devices stand in comparison with a specialized actigraph used in clinical practice. The actigraph used in this work was Geneactiv Original and it was used to compare the sleep analysis results of eleven commercially available devices. The measurements for nine of the measured devices lasted for one week. Two devices were measured for six days. During sleep, the device was worn on the same hand as the actigraph, and at the same time a sleep diary was kept, in which data on the time of lying down, the time of awakening and the number of awakenings per night were recorded. After a week of measurement, the data obtained from the actigraph were evaluated by software and then compared with the data provided by the second device. In this work, data of total sleep time, sleep onset latency, number of awakenings during the night and sleep efficiency are compared. Ten of the eleven devices measured higher total sleep time and higher sleep efficiency than the actigraph. These devices measured higher total sleep time by 1.21 % – 12.06 % and measured higher sleep efficiency by 2.86 % - 13.86 %. One device, namely Fossil Sport, measured lower total sleep time by 9.02 % and lower sleep efficiency by 9.13 %. Sleep onset latency was the most distinct parameter. Wearable devices measured higher sleep time by 86.72 % – 1225.95 %. Neither device nor actigraph could reliably determine the number of awakenings during the night unless it was a significant physical activity during the night. From the results of the work, it is not possible to say in general that all commercially available devices would be a reliable substitute for actigraphy.
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Analysis of Speech Masked by Noise in Public Transport Vehicles
Kobližka, Martin ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Jirásek, Ondřej (advisor)
This work deals with the problems of noise and speech masking in public transport . The theoretical is focused on the perception of sound in terms of loudness and frequency. The practical part includes recording noise inside public transport vehicles and determining the loudness and masking thresholds by the Zwicker method using Matlab. Furthermore, speech recording in different dynamics, listening tests and their evaluation in terms of speech intelligibility.
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Vamp Plugin for Sonic Visualiser
Pilát, Peter ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Kiska, Tomáš (advisor)
In my Bachelor Thesis, I devote myself to obtaining information from music, the way it can be obtained, the aspect of musical information, and the use of the methods themselves. Then I analyze content-oriented music management methods and also include parameterisation of music recordings and audio signal overall. After familiarizing with the specific parameterization tools to implement the Vamp plugin, which are Sonic Visualiser and Sonic Anotator, I characterize the Vamp Plugin and explain in detail its composition. As explained in the manuals and the calculations in progress, the RMS calculation function of the given signal with the possibility of segmentation functions as well as the function of displaying the sound rate or possible changes in the track temperature. Last but not least, we mention the possible use of these supplements in the future and in different sectors.
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Development of laboratory exercises for subject the Signals and systems analysis
Doleček, Josef ; Mucha, Ján (referee) ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (advisor)
The bachelor thesis deals with basic operation with signals and, using demonstrative applications in Matlab, it should explain these operation to CASS (Signals and Systems Analysis) students. In the theory part continuous-time signals (signals classification, periodic signals, Fourier series), complex numbers, sampling and discrete-time signals (operation of convolution and correlation) are described. Practical applications explain: square signal harmonics synthesis, two discrete-time signals convolution and cross-correlation, object distance detection by radar using cross-correlation, complex model of harmonic signal and signals sampling.
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Differential analysis of multilingual corpus in patients with neurodegenerative diseases
Kováč, Daniel ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
This diploma thesis focuses on the automated diagnosis of hypokinetic dysarthria in the multilingual speech corpus, which is a motor speech disorder that occurs in patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease. The automatic speech recognition approach to diagnosis is based on the acoustic analysis of speech and subsequent use of mathematical models. The popularity of this method is on the rise due to its objectivity and the possibility of working simultaneously on different languages. The aim of this work is to find out which acoustic parameters have high discriminative power and are universal for multiple languages. To achieve this, a statistical analysis of parameterized speech tasks and subsequent modelling by machine learning methods was used. The analyses were performed for Czech, American English, Hungarian and all languages together. It was found that only some parameters enable the diagnosis of the hypokinetic disorder and are, at the same time, universal for multiple languages. The relF2SD parameter shows the best results, followed by the NST parameter. When classifying speakers of all the languages together, the model achieves accuracy of 59 % and sensitivity of 72 %.
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Automatic speech recordings segmentation tool
Santa, Roman ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Kováč, Daniel (advisor)
Nástroj pre automatickú segmentáciu spracováva nahrávky reči a extrahuje hovorené slovo z nahrávok. Je dôležité, aby pokročilá analýza pracovala iba s rečovými časťami z nahrávky. Nástroj na segmentáciu má ulahčiť spracovanie nahrávok pre analýzu rozdielov medzi hláskami pacientov s parkinsonovou chorobou a tými zdravými. Cieľ tejto práce je navrhnúť a otestovať detektory reči s Google WebRTC detektorom a vybrať ten najvhodnejší detektor reči s minimálnym počtom chýb. Ďalej, vytvoriť nástroj na segmentáciu nahrávok a otestovať rozpoznávanie reči pomocou dynamic time warping. Bola použitá databáza poskytnutá laboratóriom pre analýzu mozgových ochorení. Obsahuje české a maďarské nahrávky s rovnakým počtom mužských a ženských pacientov a aj rovnakým počtom zdravých pacientov a pacientov s parkinsonovou chorobou. Najlepšie výsledky v testoch dosiahol detektor na základe energie reči. Nebol zistený žiaden rozdiel v presnosti detektoru pri spracovaní mužských a ženských nahrávok alebo nahrávok zdravých či chorých pacientov. Nahrávky s nízkym odstupom signálu od šumu boli náročnejšie na spracovanie s frekvenciou chýb od 12%. Na základe výsledkov, bol navrhnutý nový detektor pre spracovanie úplnej nahrávky. Na záver bol testovaný algoritmus pre rozpoznávanie podobnosti reči na základe melovských kepstrálnych koeficientov.
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