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Benjamin van Niekerk

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

13

Venues

4

Active years

2017–2025

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

13 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2025ICASSPUnsupervised Word Discovery: Boundary Detection with Clustering vs. Dynamic Programming.Simon Malan, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2025InterspeechLinearVC: Linear Transformations of Self-Supervised Features Through the Lens of Voice Conversion.Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zadi, Marc-Andr Carbonneau
2024InterspeechSpoken-Term Discovery using Discrete Speech Units.Benjamin van Niekerk, Julian Zadi, Marc-Andr Carbonneau, Herman Kamper
2023InterspeechVoice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors.Matthew Baas, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2023InterspeechVisually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots.Leanne Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Herman Kamper
2022ICASSPA Comparison of Discrete and Soft Speech Units for Improved Voice Conversion.Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-Andr Carbonneau, Julian Zadi, Matthew Baas, Hugo Seut, Herman Kamper
2022InterspeechDaft-Exprt: Cross-Speaker Prosody Transfer on Any Text for Expressive Speech Synthesis.Julian Zadi, Hugo Seut, Benjamin van Niekerk, Marc-Andr Carbonneau
2021InterspeechTowards Unsupervised Phone and Word Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Vector-Quantized Neural Networks.Herman Kamper, Benjamin van Niekerk
2021InterspeechAnalyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing.Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Matthew Baas, Herman Kamper
2020InterspeechVector-Quantized Neural Networks for Acoustic Unit Discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 Challenge.Benjamin van Niekerk, Leanne Nortje, Herman Kamper
2019ICMLComposing Value Functions in Reinforcement Learning.Benjamin van Niekerk, Steven James, Adam Christopher Earle, Benjamin Rosman
2019InterspeechUnsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery for Speech Synthesis Using Discrete Latent-Variable Neural Networks.Ryan Eloff, Andr Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Avashna Govender, Leanne Nortje, Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Lisa van Staden, Herman Kamper
2017UAIOnline Constrained Model-based Reinforcement Learning.Benjamin van Niekerk, Andreas C. Damianou, Benjamin Rosman