@misc{MeyerBorislavovEckertetal., author = {Meyer, Werner and Borislavov, Borislav and Eckert, Friedrich and Richter, Christian and R{\"o}mer, Ronald and Beim Graben, Peter and Huber, Markus and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Formalisierung und Implementierung einer adaptiven kognitiven Architektur unter Verwendung von Strukturdiagrammen}, series = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2021 : Tagungsband der 32. Konferenz Berlin, 3.-5. M{\"a}rz 2021}, journal = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2021 : Tagungsband der 32. Konferenz Berlin, 3.-5. M{\"a}rz 2021}, editor = {Hillmann, Stefan and Weiss, Benjamin and Michael, Thilo and M{\"o}ller, Sebastian}, publisher = {TUDpress}, address = {Dresden}, isbn = {978-3-959082-27-3}, issn = {0940-6832}, pages = {67 -- 76}, abstract = {Das Fachgebiet der Kognitiven Technischen Systeme zeichnet sich durch einen hohen Grad an Interdisziplinarit{\"a}t (z. B. Kenntnisse auf den Gebieten Biologie, Psychologie, Informatik und den Ingenieurwissenschaften) aus. Nach wie vor besteht Bedarf an einer methodischen Darstellung des Fachgebietes, bei der die theoretische Durchdringung von Zusammenh{\"a}ngen zwischen den verschiedenen Wissensgebieten zus{\"a}tzlich durch Anschaulichkeit unterst{\"u}tzt wird. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt einen Fortschrittsbericht zur Realisierung eines Forschungs- und Experimentiersystems dar, mit dem wir dieses Anliegen unterst{\"u}tzen und {\"u}ber das wir erstmals konzeptionell in [1] berichtet haben. In diesem Beitrag folgen wir einem integrativen Ansatz zur Entwicklung einer kognitiven Architektur, mit der unter Verwendung repr{\"a}sentationaler Datenstrukturen adaptives Verhalten auf verschiedenen Zeitskalen sowie zwei wichtige Verhaltensprogramme f{\"u}r das Probleml{\"o}sen (Objektfindung, Exploration) auf der gemeinsamen Grundlage von Markov-Entscheidungsprozessen umgesetzt werden. Mit einem Kurzbericht zum Entwicklungsstand der physikalischen Experimentierumgebung und einer Zusammenfassung der bislang erreichten Ergebnisse beschließen wir den diesj{\"a}hrigen Beitrag.}, language = {de} } @misc{BeimGrabenHuberMeyeretal., author = {Beim Graben, Peter and Huber, Markus and Meyer, Werner and R{\"o}mer, Ronald and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Vector Symbolic Architectures for Context-Free Grammars}, series = {Cognitive Computation}, volume = {14}, journal = {Cognitive Computation}, number = {2}, issn = {1866-9964}, doi = {10.1007/s12559-021-09974-y}, pages = {733 -- 748}, abstract = {Vector symbolic architectures (VSA) are a viable approach for the hyperdimensional representation of symbolic data, such as documents, syntactic structures, or semantic frames. We present a rigorous mathematical framework for the representation of phrase structure trees and parse trees of context-free grammars (CFG) in Fock space, i.e. infinite-dimensional Hilbert space as being used in quantum field theory. We define a novel normal form for CFG by means of term algebras. Using a recently developed software toolbox, called FockBox, we construct Fock space representations for the trees built up by a CFG left-corner (LC) parser. We prove a universal representation theorem for CFG term algebras in Fock space and illustrate our findings through a low-dimensional principal component projection of the LC parser state. Our approach could leverage the development of VSA for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) by means of hyperdimensional deep neural computation.}, language = {en} } @misc{HuberLieblRoemerWirschingetal., author = {Huber-Liebl, Markus and R{\"o}mer, Ronald and Wirsching, G{\"u}nther and Schmitt, Ingo and beim Graben, Peter and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Quantum-inspired Cognitive Agents}, series = {Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics}, journal = {Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics}, number = {8}, issn = {2297-4687}, doi = {10.3389/fams.2022.909873}, pages = {1 -- 31}, abstract = {The concept of intelligent agents is—roughly speaking—based on an architecture and a set of behavioral programs that primarily serve to solve problems autonomously. Increasing the degree of autonomy and improving cognitive performance, which can be assessed using cognitive and behavioral tests, are two important research trends. The degree of autonomy can be increased using higher-level psychological modules with which needs and motives are taken into account. In our approach we integrate these modules in architecture for an embodied, enactive multi-agent system, such that distributed problem solutions can be achieved. Furthermore, after uncovering some weaknesses in the cognitive performance of traditionally designed agents, we focus on two major aspects. On the one hand, the knowledge processing of cognitive agents is based on logical formalisms, which have deficiencies in the representation and processing of incomplete or uncertain knowledge. On the other hand, in order to fully understand the performance of cognitive agents, explanations at the symbolic and subsymbolic levels are required. Both aspects can be addressed by quantum-inspired cognitive agents. To investigate this approach, we consider two tasks in the sphere of Shannon's famous mouse-maze problem: namely classifying target objects and ontology inference. First, the classification of an unknown target object in the mouse-maze, such as cheese, water, and bacon, is based on sensory data that measure characteristics such as odor, color, shape, or nature. For an intelligent agent, we need a classifier with good prediction accuracy and explanatory power on a symbolic level. Boolean logic classifiers do work on a symbolic level but are not adequate for dealing with continuous data. Therefore, we demonstrate and evaluate a quantum-logic-inspired classifier in comparison to Boolean-logic-based classifiers. Second, ontology inference is iteratively achieved by a quantum-inspired agent through maze exploration. This requires the agent to be able to manipulate its own state by performing actions and by collecting sensory data during perception. We suggest an algebraic approach where both kinds of behaviors are uniquely described by quantum operators. The agent's state space is then iteratively constructed by carrying out unitary action operators, while Hermitian perception operators act as observables on quantum eigenstates. As a result, an ontology emerges as the simultaneous solution of the respective eigenvalue equations. Tags: btuktqiai; btuktcogsys; btukttheseus; btuktqtheseus}, language = {en} } @misc{MaierWolff, author = {Maier, Isidor Konrad and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {A Decomposition Algorithm for Numerals based on Arithmetics}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7501698}, pages = {1}, abstract = {Poster presentation for an idea to decompose numerals}, language = {en} } @misc{TschoepeKraljevskiDuckhornetal., author = {Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze and Kraljevski, Ivan and Duckhorn, Frank and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Sprachtechnologie und akustische Mustererkennung in der medizinischen Anwendung}, series = {16. Landeskonferenz „Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen" 2021}, journal = {16. Landeskonferenz „Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen" 2021}, pages = {9}, language = {de} } @misc{RoemerbeimGrabenHuberLiebletal., author = {R{\"o}mer, Ronald and beim Graben, Peter and Huber-Liebl, Markus and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {(Pre-)linguistic Problem Solving based on Dynamic Semantics}, series = {14th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications - CogInfoCom 2023, September 22-23, Budapest, Hungary}, journal = {14th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications - CogInfoCom 2023, September 22-23, Budapest, Hungary}, isbn = {979-8-3503-2565-2}, issn = {2473-5671}, doi = {10.1109/CogInfoCom59411.2023.10397487}, pages = {147 -- 152}, language = {en} } @misc{MaierKuhnBeisegeletal., author = {Maier, Isidor Konrad and Kuhn, Johannes and Beisegel, Jesse and Huber-Liebl, Markus and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Minimalist Grammar: Construction without Overgeneration}, series = {arXiv}, journal = {arXiv}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2311.01820}, pages = {51}, abstract = {In this paper we give instructions on how to write a minimalist grammar (MG). In order to present the instructions as an algorithm, we use a variant of context free grammars (CFG) as an input format. We can exclude overgeneration, if the CFG has no recursion, i.e. no non-terminal can (indirectly) derive to a right-hand side containing itself. The constructed MGs utilize licensors/-ees as a special way of exception handling. A CFG format for a derivation A_eats_B↦∗peter_eats_apples, where A and B generate noun phrases, normally leads to overgeneration, e.\,g., i_eats_apples. In order to avoid overgeneration, a CFG would need many non-terminal symbols and rules, that mainly produce the same word, just to handle exceptions. In our MGs however, we can summarize CFG rules that produce the same word in one item and handle exceptions by a proper distribution of licensees/-ors. The difficulty with this technique is that in most generations the majority of licensees/-ors is not needed, but still has to be triggered somehow. We solve this problem with ϵ-items called \emph{adapters}.}, language = {en} } @misc{KuhnWolffBorislavov, author = {Kuhn, Johannes and Wolff, Matthias and Borislavov, Borislav}, title = {Epsilon-Verarbeitung bei Minimalistischen Grammatiken f{\"u}r Zahlen}, series = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Tagungsband der 35. Konferenz, 06.-08.03.2024, Regensburg}, journal = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Tagungsband der 35. Konferenz, 06.-08.03.2024, Regensburg}, publisher = {TUDpress}, address = {Dresden}, isbn = {978-3-95908-325-6}, issn = {0940-6832}, pages = {78 -- 85}, abstract = {Um bei Minimalistischen Grammatiken (MG) {\"U}bergenerierung zu vermeiden, kann man Eintr{\"a}ge mit leeren Exponenten (ε-Eintr{\"a}ge) verwenden. Ein Eintrag besteht aus einem Exponenten, der die {\"A}ußerung oder Schrift eines Wortes repr{\"a}sentiert, einer Merkmalsliste, welche die Syntax kodiert und einem λ-Ausdruck, der die Semantik repr{\"a}sentiert. Leere Eintr{\"a}ge f{\"u}hren allerdings zu einer schlechteren Verwendbarkeit der Grammatik f{\"u}r das Parsen. Die vorliegende Arbeit wird ein Umformungsalgorithmus f{\"u}r MGs vorstellen, sodass die Anzahl der ε-Eintr{\"a}ge verringert werden kann, um sie wieder f{\"u}r Parser verwendbar zu machen. Hierzu werden die ε-Eintr{\"a}ge mit den anderen Eintr{\"a}gen vorverarbeitet und dadurch neue Eintr{\"a}ge geschaffen. Die nun {\"u}berfl{\"u}ssigen ε-Eintr{\"a}ge k{\"o}nnen dann problemlos entfernt werden. Der Algorithmus wurde anhand von {\"u}ber 260 Zahlwortgrammatiken getestet.}, language = {de} } @misc{KuhnWolffMaier, author = {Kuhn, Johannes and Wolff, Matthias and Maier, Isidor Konrad}, title = {Wortgenerator f{\"u}r Minimalistische Grammatiken}, series = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Tagungsband der 36. Konferenz, 05.-07.03.2025, Halle/Saale}, journal = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Tagungsband der 36. Konferenz, 05.-07.03.2025, Halle/Saale}, editor = {Grawunder, Sven}, publisher = {TUDpress}, address = {Dresden}, isbn = {978-3-95908-803-9}, issn = {0940-6832}, pages = {27 -- 34}, abstract = {Um eine bidirektionale Verarbeitung von Sprache zu realisieren, ist es von Vorteil den gleichen Sprachformalismus f{\"u}r das Parsen und die Generierung zu verwenden. F{\"u}r Minimalistische Grammatiken gibt es eine ausgepr{\"a}gte Literatur zu Parsern, aber noch keine Ver{\"o}ffentlichung zu Generatoren. Diese Arbeit stellt einen ersten Generator vor, der mittels Minimalistischer Grammatiken und λ-Ausdr{\"u}cken, S{\"a}tze erzeugt. Der hier vorgestellte Generator kann entgegen manchen anderen Generatoren, von anderen Grammatikformalismen, mit ε-Regeln arbeiten.}, language = {de} } @misc{HuberLieblRosenowRoemeretal., author = {Huber-Liebl, Markus and Rosenow, Tillmann and R{\"o}mer, Ronald and Wirsching, G{\"u}nther and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {It all starts with a little difference : tensors as data and code.}, series = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2025 : Tagungsband der 36. Konferenz Halle/Saale, 5.-7. M{\"a}rz 2025}, journal = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2025 : Tagungsband der 36. Konferenz Halle/Saale, 5.-7. M{\"a}rz 2025}, editor = {Grawunder, Sven}, publisher = {TUDpress}, address = {Dresden}, isbn = {978-3-95908-803-9}, issn = {0940-6832}, pages = {170 -- 179}, abstract = {We further promote the idea of quantum inspiration and propose to equip cognitive systems not only with tensors for data representation but also for operation representation. We argue that these are two sides of the same coin. For experimental symbolic algorithms we introduce a suitable testbed and give its proper specification. We formalize our method of behavioural control with tensor algebra and discuss its implementation for our physical testbed realization.}, language = {en} } @misc{MaierRosenowTuurietal., author = {Maier, Isidor Konrad and Rosenow, Tillmann and Tuuri, Okko and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Frequency-magnitude relation of numeral words based on search-engine results}, series = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Tagungsband der 36. Konferenz, 05.-07.03.2025, Halle/Saale}, journal = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Tagungsband der 36. Konferenz, 05.-07.03.2025, Halle/Saale}, editor = {Grawunder, Sven}, publisher = {TUDpress}, address = {Dresden}, isbn = {978-3-95908-803-9}, issn = {0940-6832}, pages = {51 -- 60}, abstract = {We googled various numeral words from 28 languages. Different approaches for the description of the data were investigated. In all of the 28 languages, the found frequency-magnitude dependence fits better to a power law than to an exponential law. The result can be used to distinguish grammatically correct from incorrect numerals based on the prediction of search results.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{WolffSchubertHoffmannetal., author = {Wolff, Matthias and Schubert, R. and Hoffmann, R{\"u}diger and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze and Schulze, E. and Neun{\"u}bel, H.}, title = {Experiments in Acoustic Structural Health Monitoring of Airplane Parts}, series = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 30.3.-4.4.2008, Las Vegas, USA}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 30.3.-4.4.2008, Las Vegas, USA}, publisher = {IEEE}, isbn = {978-1-4244-1483-3}, doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518040}, pages = {2037 -- 2040}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{StrechaWolffDuckhornetal., author = {Strecha, Guntram and Wolff, Matthias and Duckhorn, Frank and Wittenberg, S{\"o}ren and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze}, title = {The HMM synthesis algorithm of an embedded unified speech recognizer and synthesizer}, series = {Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2009, Interspeech 2009, 6 - 10 September, 2009, Brighton, UK}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2009, Interspeech 2009, 6 - 10 September, 2009, Brighton, UK}, publisher = {ISCA}, address = {Brighton}, pages = {1763 -- 1766}, language = {en} } @misc{PuschCherifFarooqetal., author = {Pusch, T. and Cherif, Chokri and Farooq, Aamir and Wittenberg, S{\"o}ren and Wolff, Matthias and Hoffmann, R{\"u}diger and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze}, title = {Fehlerfr{\"u}herkennung an Textilmaschinen mit Hilfe der K{\"o}rperschallanalyse}, series = {Melliand Textilberichte}, volume = {90}, journal = {Melliand Textilberichte}, number = {3}, issn = {0341-0781}, pages = {113 -- 115}, language = {de} } @inproceedings{WolffTschoepe, author = {Wolff, Matthias and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze}, title = {Pattern recognition for sensor signals}, series = {Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors Conference 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand, 25 - 28 October 2009}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors Conference 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand, 25 - 28 October 2009}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-424-44548-6}, doi = {10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398338}, pages = {665 -- 668}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Wolff, author = {Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Akustische Mustererkennung}, publisher = {TUDpress}, address = {Dresden}, isbn = {978-3-942710-14-5}, pages = {XIV, 313}, language = {de} } @misc{LiKraljevskiMeyeretal., author = {Li, Huajian and Kraljevski, Ivan and Meyer, Paul and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {YOLO-ICP : deep learning integrated pose estimation for bin-picking of multiple objects}, series = {2024 IEEE SENSORS, Proceedings, Kobe, Japan, 2024}, journal = {2024 IEEE SENSORS, Proceedings, Kobe, Japan, 2024}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, address = {Piscataway, New Jersey}, isbn = {979-8-3503-6351-7}, doi = {10.1109/SENSORS60989.2024.10784539}, pages = {1 -- 4}, abstract = {In this paper, we present a novel deep learning-integrated pipeline called YOLO-ICP that aims to estimate the six degree of freedom (6-DoF) pose of objects using RGB-D sensors and does not require pose labels to train deep learning networks. YOLO-ICP integrates a real-time object detection algorithm with a point cloud registration method to estimate the pose of multiple objects. We evaluated our approach by quantitatively comparing it with baseline models on the OccludedLINEMOD dataset. Experimental results illustrate that our approach outperforms baseline models in challenging scenarios with textureless and occluded objects. In particular, our pipeline shows superior performance when dealing with small and symmetric objects in terms of the ADD(-S) metric.}, language = {en} } @misc{KraljevskiDuckhornSobeetal., author = {Kraljevski, Ivan and Duckhorn, Frank and Sobe, Daniel and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Speech-to-text in upper sorbian : current state}, series = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2025 : Tagungsband der 36. Konferenz Halle/Saale, 5.-7. M{\"a}rz 2025}, journal = {Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2025 : Tagungsband der 36. Konferenz Halle/Saale, 5.-7. M{\"a}rz 2025}, editor = {Grawunder, Sven}, publisher = {TUDpress}, address = {Dresden}, isbn = {978-3-95908-803-9}, issn = {0940-6832}, pages = {109 -- 116}, abstract = {This study presents recent advancements in Upper Sorbian Speech-to-Text (STT) technology. We provide an overview of the Sorbian languages, the available speech and language resources, and the development of an STT system based on a traditional approach, which includes acoustic, pronunciation, and language modeling. Due to the scarcity of resources for Sorbian languages, our approach leverages sub-word and word-class modeling techniques. The word-class modeling is based on Finite-State Transducer definitions, which are applicable to both offline text parsing and integration into the decoding graph of the STT system. Word-class parsing is performed on the speech corpus and utilized for language modeling with complete words, sub-word units, or both. Additionally, the same definitions can be applied to Named Entity Recognition during the post-processing of recognized transcriptions. This approach significantly reduces out-of-vocabulary words and enables greater customization of the recognizer for domain-specific applications. The system was implemented for the real-time transcription of church sermon broadcasts in Upper Sorbian. The domain-specific system achieved performance comparable to fine-tuned OpenAI Whisper models developed also by other initiatives while also providing a resource-efficient solution with semantically tagged recognition results.}, language = {en} } @misc{KraljevskiDuckhornSobeetal., author = {Kraljevski, Ivan and Duckhorn, Frank and Sobe, Daniel and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Preserving Language Heritage Through Speech Technology: The Case of Upper Sorbian}, series = {Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2024, Belgrade, Serbia, 25-28 November 2024}, journal = {Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2024, Belgrade, Serbia, 25-28 November 2024}, editor = {Karpov, Alexey and Delic, Vlado}, publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham}, isbn = {978-3-031-77960-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-77961-9_1}, pages = {3 -- 22}, abstract = {The modern world is facing a crisis with the rapid disappearance of endangered languages, which poses a serious threat to global cultural diversity. Speech Technologies and Artificial Intelligence present promising opportunities to address this crisis by supporting the documentation, revitalization, and everyday use of these vulnerable languages. However, despite recent and remarkable advancements in speech technology, significant challenges persist, particularly for languages with very limited resources and unique linguistic features. This paper details the development of Upper Sorbian speech technologies, focusing on the creation of a practical Speech-to-Text (STT) system as a versatile tool for language preservation. The study explores the current state of Sorbian languages and underscores collaborative efforts with the Foundation for the Sorbian People. Through a series of pilot and successive projects, each phase has contributed to the steady advancement of speech recognition modules and supporting tools, improving their performance, effectiveness and practical usability.}, language = {en} } @misc{SaeltzerTschoepeWolff, author = {Saeltzer, Gerhard and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze and Wolff, Matthias}, title = {Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Bestimmung eines medizinischen Gesundheitsparameters eines Probanden mittels Stimmanalyse}, pages = {31}, abstract = {Eine Vorrichtung zur Bestimmung eines Gesundheitsparameters eines Probanden mittels Stimmauswertung umfasst eine Verarbeitungseinrichtung, die ausgebildet ist, um eine digitalisierte Sprechprobe des Probanden basierend auf individuellen Modellparametern auszuwerten, um eine Messinformation zu erhalten, die innerhalb eines Toleranzbereichs auf einem Momentanwert des Gesundheitsparameters des Probanden basiert, wobei die individuellen Modellparameter einen funktionalen Zusammenhang zwischen der Sprechprobe oder von der Sprechprobe abgeleiteten Sprechmerkmalen und einem zugeordneten, momentanen Gesundheitsparameter angeben.}, language = {de} } @misc{WolffRoemerTschoepeetal., author = {Wolff, Matthias and R{\"o}mer, Ronald and Tsch{\"o}pe, Constanze and Hentschel, Dieter}, title = {Method and Device for Controlling the Behavior of Systems}, language = {en} }