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Conference Papers

2025

Junan Li, Jinchao Li, Ka Ho Wong, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng. Generate, Align and Predict (GAP): Detecting Neurocognitive Disorders via Cross-modal Consistency in Narratives, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Computing for Health and Medicine (MCHM), 25 October 2025, doi: 10.1145/3728424.3760767
Jiawen Kang, Dongrui Han, Lingwei Meng, Jingyan Zhou, Jinchao Li, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng. ”On the Within-class Variation Issue in Alzheimer's Disease Detection”, Interspeech, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 17-21 August 2025
Shujie Hu, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng, Jiajun Deng, Huimeng Wang, Guinan Li, Chengxi Deng, Tianzi Wang, Mingyu Cui, Helen Meng, Xunying Liu. On-the-fly Routing for Zero-shot MoE Speaker Adaptation of Speech Foundation Models for Dysarthric Speech Recognition", Interspeech, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 17-21 August 2025
Jiawen Kang, Lingwei Meng, Mingyu Cui, Yuejiao Wang, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Disentangling Speakers in Multi-Talker Speech Recognition with Speaker-Aware CTC”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, April 2025
Lingwei Meng, Shujie Hu, Jiawen Kang, Zhaoqing Li, Yuejiao Wang, Wenxuan Wu, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Large Language Model Can Transcribe Speech in Multi-Talker Scenarios with Versatile Instructions”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, April 2025
Zhe Li, Man-wai Mak, Mert Pilanci, Hung-yi Lee, Helen Meng, “Spectral-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Speaker Verification”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, April 2025

2024

Jiawen Kang, Junan Li, Jinchao Li, Xixin Wu, Helen, Meng, “Not All Errors Are Equal Investigation of Speech Recognition Errors in Alzheimer’s Disease Detection”, International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Beijing, November 2024
Junan Li, Yuren Wang, Yunxiang Li, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng, "Devising a Set of Compact and Explainable Spoken Language Feature for Screening Alzheimer’s Disease", International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Beijing, November 2024
Yuejiao Wang, Xianmin Gong, Xixin Wu, Patrick Wong, Helene Fung, Man Wai Mak, Helen Meng, "Naturalistic Language-related Movie-Watching fMRI Task for Detecting Neurocognitive Decline and Disorder", International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Beijing, November 2024
Lingwei Meng, Jiawen Kang, Yuejiao Wang, Helen Meng, "Empowering Whisper as a Joint Multi-Talker and Target-Talker Speech Recognition System", Interspeech, Kos Island, Greece, September 2024
Zhe Li, Man-wai Mak, Hung-yi Lee, Helen Meng, “Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning of Speaker-Aware Dynamic Prompts for Speaker Verification”, Interspeech, Kos Island, Greece, September 2024
Yuejiao Wang, Xianmin Gong, Lingwei Meng, Xinxin Wu, Helen Meng, “Large Language Model-based FMRI Encoding of Language Functions for Subjects with Neurocognitive Disorder”, Interspeech, Kos Island, Greece, September 2024
Zhe Li, Man-Wai Mak, Helen Mei-Ling Meng, "Dual Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Speaker Representation via Speaker Prompt Tuning and Adapters", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, pp. 10751-10755, April 2024
Jiawen Kang, Lingwei Meng, Mingyu Cui, Haohan Guo, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Cross-Speaker Encoding Network for Multi-Talker Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, pp. 10751-10755, April 2024

2023

Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, Helen M. Meng, “Jointly Modelling Transcriptions and Phonemes with Optimal Features to Detect Dementia from Spontaneous Cantonese”, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), Taipei, November 2023
Helen Meng, Brian Mak, Man-Wai Mak, Helene Fung, Xianmin Gong, Timothy Kwok, Xunying Liu, Vincent Mok, Patrick Wong, Jean Woo, Xixin Wu, Ka Ho Wong, Sean Shensheng Xu, Naijun Zheng, Ranzo Huang, Jiawen Kang, Xiaoquan Ke, Junan Li, Jinchao Li, Yi Wang, “Integrated and Enhanced Pipeline System to Support Spoken Language Analytics for Screening Neurocognitive Disorders”, Interspeech, Dublin, Ireland, August 2023
Shujie Hu, Xurong Xie, Zengrui Jin, Mengzhe Geng, Yi Wang, Mingyu Cui, Jiajun Deng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Exploring Self-supervised Pre-trained ASR Models For Dysarthric and Elderly Speech Recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023
Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, and Helen M. MENG, "Feature Selection and Text Embedding for Detecting Dementia from Spontaneous Cantonese", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, June 2023 
Jinchao Li, Kaitao Song, Junan Li, Bo Zheng, Dongsheng Li, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Leveraging Pretrained Representations with Task-related Keywords for Alzheimer's Disease Detection”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023 
Yi Wang, Jiajun Deng, Tianzi Wang, Bo Zheng, Shoukang Hu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Exploiting prompt learning with pre-trained language models for Alzheimer's Disease detection”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023 
Lingwei Meng, Jiawen Kang, Mingyu Cui, Yuejiao Wang, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng, “A Sidecar Separator Can Convert a Single-Talker Speech Recognition System to a Multi-Talker One,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023
Zhe Li, Man-Wai Mak, Helen Meng, “Discriminative Speaker Representation via Contrastive Learning with Class-Aware Attention in Angular Space”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023 

2022

Jinchao Li, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, and Helen Meng, “Alzheimer’s Disease Detection using Pretrained Acoustic Representations: A Comparison Study”, CCF National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC), Hefei, China, December 2022 
Zhe Li, Man-Wai Mak, “Speaker Representation Learning via Contrastive Loss with Maximal Speaker Separability”, IEEE Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), pp. 962-967, 2022
Jinchao Li, Shuai Wang, Yang Chao, Xunying Liu and Helen Meng, “Context-aware Multimodal Fusion for Emotion Recognition”, Interspeech, Incheon, Korea, September 2022
Tianzi Wang, Jiajun Deng, Mengzhe Geng, Zi Ye, Shoukang Hu, Yi Wang, Mingyu Cui, Zengrui Jin, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Conformer Based Elderly Speech Recognition System for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection”, Interspeech, Incheon, Korea, September 2022
Yi Wang, Tianzi Wang, Zi Ye, Lingwei Meng, Shoukang Hu, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Exploring linguistic feature and model combination for speech recognition based automatic AD detection", Interspeech, Incheon, Korea, September 2022
Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, and Helen M. Meng, "Automatic Selection of Discriminative Features for Dementia Detection in Cantonese-Speaking People", Interspeech, Incheon, Korea, September 2022
Shujie Hu, Shansong Liu, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng, Tianzi Wang, Shoukang Hu, Mingyu Cui, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Exploiting Cross Domain Acoustic-to-articulatory Inverted Features for Disordered Speech Recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, May 2022 
Junhao Xu, Jianwei Yu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Mixed Precision DNN Quantization for Overlapped Speech Separation and Recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, May 2022 
Guinan Li, Jianwei Yu, Jiajun Deng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Audio-visual multi-channel speech separation, dereverberation and recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, May 2022 
Naijun Zheng, Na Li, Xixin Wu, Lingwei Meng, Jiawen Kang, Haibin Wu, Chao Weng, Dan Su, Helen Meng, “THE CUHK-Tencent Speaker Diarization System for the ICASSP 2022 Multi-Channel Multi-Party Meeting Transcription Challenge”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, May 2022. 
Naijun Zheng, Na Li, JianWei Yu, Chao Weng, Dan Su, XunYing Liu, Helen Meng, “Multi-Channel Speaker Diarization Using Spatial Features for Meetings”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore. May 2022 
Shujie Hu, Shansong Liu, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng, Tianzi Wang, Shoukang Hu, Mingyu Cui, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Exploiting Cross-domain Acoustic- to-articulatory Inverted Features for Disordered Speech Recognition”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore. May 2022 
Zijian Ding, Jiawen Kang, Tinky Oi Ting HO, Ka Ho Wong, Helene H. Fung, Helen Meng, Xiaojuan Ma, “TalkTive: A Conversational Agent Using Backchannels to Engage Older Adults in Neurocognitive Disorders Screening”, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1-19, April 2022 

2021

Sean Shensheng Xu, Man-Wai Mak, Ka Ho Wong, Helen Meng, Timothy C.Y. Kwok, "Speaker Turn Aware Similarity Scoring for Diarization of Speech-Based Cognitive Assessments", Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), Tokyo, December 2021
Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, Jinchao Li, Helen M. Meng, "Dual Dropout Ranking of Linguistic Features for Alzheimer’s Disease Recognition", Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), Toyko, December 2021
Disong Wang, Liqun Deng, Yu Ting Yeung, Xiao Chen, Xunying Liu and Helen Meng, “Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Dysarthric Speech Detection via Domain Adversarial Training and Mutual Information Minimization”, Interspeech, Brno, Czech Republic, 30 August – 3 September, 2021
Mengzhe Geng, Shansong Liu, Jianwei Yu, Xurong Xie, Shoukang Hu, Zi Ye, Zengrui Jin, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Spectro-Temporal Deep Features for Disordered Speech Assessment and Recognition”, Interspeech, Brno, Czech Republic, 30 August – 3 September, 2021
Zengrui Jin, Mengzhe Geng, Xurong Xie, Jianwei Yu, Shansong Liu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Adversarial Data Augmentation for Disordered Speech Recognition”, Interspeech, Brno, Czech Republic, 30 August – 3 September, 2021
Jiajun Deng, Fabian Ritter Gutierrez, Shoukang Hu, Mengzhe Geng, Xurong Xie, Zi Ye, Shansong Liu, Jianwei Yu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Bayesian Parametric and Architectural Domain Adaptation of LF-MMI Trained TDNNs for Elderly and Dysarthric Speech Recognition”, Interspeech, Brno, Czech Republic, 30 August – 3 September, 2021
Shoukang Hu, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu, Mingyu Cui, Mengzhe Geng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Neural Architecture Search for LF-MMI Trained Time Delay Neural Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6-11 June 2021 
Jinchao Li, Jianwei Yu, Zi Ye, Simon Wong, Manwai Mak, Brian Mak, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “A Comparative Study of Acoustic and Linguistic Features Classification for Alzheimer's Disease Detection”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6-11 June 2021
Zi Ye, Shoukang Hu, Jinchao Li, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng, Jianwei Yu, Junhao Xu, Boyang Xue, Shansong Liu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Development of The CUHK Elderly Speech Recognition System for Neurocognitive Disorder Detection Using the Dementiabank Corpus”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6-11 June 2021
Naijun Zheng, Na Li, Bo Wu, Meng Yu, JianWei Yu, Chao Weng, Dan Su, XunYing Liu, Helen Meng, “A Joint Training Framework of Multi-Look Separator and Speaker Embedding Extractor for overlapped Speech”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6-11 June 2021
Sean Shensheng Xu, Man-Wai Mak, Ka Ho Wong, Helen Meng, and Timothy C.Y. Kwok, "Age-Invariant Speaker Embedding for Diarization of Cognitive Assessments", International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Hong Kong, January 2021

2020

Naijun Zheng, Xixin Wu, Jinghua Zhong, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Speaker-Aware Linear Discriminant Analysis in Speaker Verification", Interspeech, October 2020 
Jianwei Yu, Bo Wu, Rongzhi Gu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Lianwu Chen, Yong Xu, Meng Yu, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, "Audio-visual Multi-channel Recognition of Overlapped Speech", Interspeech, October 2020

Journal Papers

2026

Zhe Li, Man-Wai Mak, Mert Pilanci, Hung Yi Lee and Helen Meng, "Towards a Unified View of Parameter-Efficient Speech Pretrained Models for Speaker Verification", in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 34, pp. 2276-2289, 8 April 2026, doi:10.1109/TASLPRO.2026.3682068

2025

Tianzi Wang, Xurong Xie, Zengrui Jin, Mengzhe Geng, Jiajun Deng, Zhaoqing Li, Shoukang Hu, Shujie Hu, Guinan Li, Mingyu Cui, Helen Meng and Xunying Liu, "Towards Effective and Efficient Non-Autoregressive Decoders for Conformer and LLM-Based ASR Using Block-Based Attention Mask", in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 33, pp. 4880-4896, 17 November 2025, doi: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3633090.
Zhe Li, Man-Wai Mak, Jen-Tzung Chien, Mert Pilanci, Zezhong Jin and Helen Meng, "Disentangling Speech Representations Learning With Latent Diffusion for Speaker Verification", in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 33, pp. 3896-3907, 15 September 2025, doi: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3610023.
Jinchao Li, Yuejiao Wang, Junan Li, Jiawen Kang, Bo Zheng, Ka Ho Wong, Brian Kan-Wing Mak, Helene H. Fung, Jean Woo, Man-Wai Mak, Timothy Kwok, Vincent Mok, Xianmin Gong, Xixin Wu, Patrick C. M. Wong and Helen Meng, "Detecting Neurocognitive Disorders Through Analyses of Topic Evoluation and Cross-Model Consistency in Visual-Stimulated Narratives", in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 741-756, 15 October 2025, doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2025.3622049.
Zhe Li, Man-Wai Mak, Mert Pilanci and Helen Meng, "Mutual Information-Enhanced Contrastive Learning With Margin for Maximal Speaker Separability," in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 33, pp. 2961-2972, 26 June 2025, doi: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3583485.

2024

Shujie Hu, Xurong Xie, Mengzhe Geng, Zengrui Jin, Jiajun Deng, Guinan Li, Yi Wang, Mingyu Cui, Tianzi Wang, Helen Meng and Xunying Liu , “Self-Supervised ASR Models and Features for Dysarthric and Elderly Speech Recognition”, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 32, pp. 3561-3575, 3 July 2024, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2024.3422839.
Sean Shensheng Xu, Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak, Ka Ho Wong, Helen Meng, Timothy Kwok, Jason Gu, Jian Zhang, Wei Tao and Chunqi Chang, “Speaker-turn Aware Diarization for Speech-Based Cognitive Assessments”, in Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 169,  16 January 2024, doi:10.3389/fnins.2023.1351848
Xiaoquan Ke, Man-Wai Mak and Helen Meng, “Automatic Selection of Spoken Language Biomarkers for Dementia Detection”, in Neural Networks, vol. 169, pp. 191-204, January 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2023.10.018

2023

Guinan Li, Jiajun Deng, Mengzhe Geng, Zengrui Jin, Tianzi Wang, Shujie Hu, Mingyu Cui, Helen Meng and Xunying Liu, "Audio-Visual End-to-End Multi-Channel Speech Separation, Dereverberation and Recognition", in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 31, pp. 2707-2723, 14 July 2023, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2023.3294705

2022

Mengzhe Geng, Xurong Xie, Zi Ye, Tianzi Wang, Guinan Li, Shujie Wu, Xunying Liu and Helen Meng , "Speaker Adaptation Using Spectro-Temporal Deep Features for Dysarthric and Elderly Speech Recognition", in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 30, pp. 2597-2611, 14 July 2022, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2023.3294705
Xianmin Gong, Patrick C. M. Wong, Helene H. Fung, Vincent C. T. Mok, Timothy C. Y. Kwok, Jean Woo, Ka Ho Wong and Helen Meng, “The Hong Kong Grocery Shopping Dialog Task (HK-GSDT): A Quick Screening Test for NCDs”, in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), vol. 19(2):13302, 15 Octocber 2022, doi:10.3390/ijerph192013302

2021

Shansong Liu, Mengzhe Geng, Shoukang Hu, Xurong Xie, Mingyu Cui, Jianwei Yu, Xunying Liu and Helen Meng, “Recent Progress in the CUHK Dysarthric Speech Recognition System”, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 29, pp. 2267-2281, 23 June 2021, doi:10.1109/TASLP.2021.30918
Jianwei Yu, Shi- Xiong Zhang, Bo Wu, Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Mengzhe Geng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, Dong Yu, “Audio-Visual Multi-Channel Integration and Recognition of Overlapped Speech”, in IEEE/ACM Transactions On Audio, Speech, And Language Processing, vol. 29, pp. 2067-2082, 13 May 2021 , doi:10.1109/TASLP.2021.3078883
Shoukang Hu, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu, Jianwei Yu, Zi Ye, Mengzhe Geng, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng, “Bayesian Learning of LF- MMI Trained Time Delay Neural Networks for Speech Recognition”, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 29, pp. 1514-1529, 26 March 2021, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2021.3069080
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