Dr.-Ing. Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro

Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung)

Research associates

Address

Martensstraße 3
91058 Erlangen

Contact

paula.andrea.perez@fau.de
+49 9131 85-27775
lme.tf.fau.de/persons/perez/

Since 2025:
Management Committee member in Germany for the European Network to Advance the Development and Implementation of Vocal Biomarkers (eVoiceNet)

07.2025-ongoing:
Scientific Representative, Profile Center Medical Engineering (FAU MT), Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Since 2024:
Postdoctoral Researcher at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

12/2023-01/2025:
Guest researcher at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Since 08/2023:
Guest researcher at King's College, London
2022:
Activity-Leader/Coordinator of the EIT Health M.Sc. in HMDA
04/2021 - 08/2024:
PhD Candidate at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
10/2020-04/2021:
Spirio Sessions Projekt at TH Nürnberg
01/2019-07/2024:
Lecturer at Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Antioquia, Colombia

2025

Speech-Driven Generative AI for Personalized Cine-MRI Sequence Generation in Clinical Speech Therapy

(FAU Funds)

Project leader: Paula Andrea Perez Toro
Term: January 15, 2025 - January 14, 2026

Abstract

Generative AI has revolutionized the ability to simulate and generate information from learned distributions, with impactful applications in fields such as natural language processing and computer vision. This project will utilize generative models for two key medical applications: (1) simulation of patient speech stimuli: AI will simulate vocal tract movements of patients undergoing therapy for tongue cancer or cleft lip and palate conditions.

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2024

Coordinated grid protection based on machine learning methods

(Third Party Funds Single)

Project leader: Andreas Maier, Johann Jäger, Siming Bayer
Term: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027
Acronym: Netzschutz-KI
Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)

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2026

Conference Contributions

Hernandez A., Arias Vergara T., Maier A., Perez Toro PA.:
Confidence-guided error correction for disordered speech recognition
In: Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain: 2026
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11463078
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Liu D., Arias-Vergara T., Hutter J., Maier A., Perez Toro PA.:
Audio–Vision Contrastive Learning for Phonological Class Recognition
28th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2025 (Erlangen, DEU, August 25, 2025 - August 28, 2025)
In: Kamil Ekštein, Miloslav Konopík, Ondrej Pražák, František Pártl (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2026
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-02548-7_6
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Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Bueß L., Hutter J., Woo J., Maier A.:
Cross‑modal diffusion for region‑aligned vocal tract MRI synthesis
DOI: 10.1117/12.3087986
URL: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13930/3087986/Crossmodal-diffusion-for-regionaligned-vocal-tract-MRI-synthesis/10.1117/12.3087986.short
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2025

Journal Articles

Perez Toro PA., Dineley J., Iniesta R., Zhang Y., Matcham F., Siddi S., Lamers F., Haro JM., Penninx BW., Folarin AA., Arias-Vergara T., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E., Maier A., Wykes T., Vairavan S., Dobson R., Narayan VA., Hotopf M., Cummins N.:
Exploring biases related to the use of large language models in a multilingual depression corpus
In: Scientific Reports 15 (2025), Article No.: 36197
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-19980-x
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Perez Toro PA., Ferrante FJ., Pérez G., Tee BL., de Leon J., Nöth E., Schuster M., Maier A., Slachevsky A., Gorno-Tempini ML., Ibáñez A., Orozco Arroyave JR., García A.:
Automated Speech Markers of Alzheimer Dementia: Test of Cross-Linguistic Generalizability
In: Journal of Medical Internet Research 27 (2025), Article No.: e74200
ISSN: 1438-8871
DOI: 10.2196/74200
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Hung H., Piske T., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Maier A.:
kidsNARRATE: a versatile corpus for studying Chinese-english bilingual L2 narrative skills in preschoolers
In: Language Resources and Evaluation 59 (2025), p. 3117-3138
ISSN: 1574-020X
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-025-09851-2
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Weise T., Demir K., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Maier A., Nöth E., Schuster M., Heismann B., Yang SH.:
Towards End-to-End Speech Articulation and Spoken Language Analysis Using Deep Learning
In: Human-Centric Intelligent Systems 5 (2025), p. 103-122
ISSN: 2667-1336
DOI: 10.1007/s44230-025-00094-6
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Conference Contributions

Oelhaf J., Kordowich G., Kim C., Perez Toro PA., Maier A., Jäger J., Bayer S.:
Impact of Data Sparsity on Machine Learning for Fault Detection in Power System Protection
33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025) (Palermo, September 8, 2025 - September 12, 2025)
In: 2025 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2025
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11226584
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Oelhaf J., Kordowich G., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Maier A., Jäger J., Bayer S.:
A Systematic Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods for Fault Detection and Line Identification in Electrical Power Grids
ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Hyderabad, April 6, 2025 - April 11, 2025)
In: ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New York City: 2025
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10890544
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Hernandez A., Arias-Vergara T., Maier A., Perez Toro PA.:
Enhancing ASR Accuracy for Speakers with Parkinson’s Disease Using Instruction-Tuned LLMs
28th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2025 (Erlangen, DEU, August 25, 2025 - August 28, 2025)
In: Kamil Ekštein, Miloslav Konopík, Ondrej Pražák, František Pártl (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2025
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-02551-7_14
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Kunzmann S., Perez Toro PA., Maier A.:
Synthetic Image Evaluation Towards a Gamified Ranking Tool for Enhancing the Annotation Task
DOI: 10.1109/NSS/MIC/RTSD57106.2025.11286684
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Li CJ., Yeo E., Choi K., Perez Toro PA., Someki M., Das RK., Yue Z., Orozco Arroyave JR., Nöth E., Mortensen DR.:
Towards Inclusive ASR: Investigating Voice Conversion for Dysarthric Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages
26th Interspeech Conference 2025 (Rotterdam, August 17, 2025 - August 21, 2025)
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2025
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-512
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2024

Journal Articles

Tayebi Arasteh S., Arias-Vergara T., Perez Toro PA., Weise T., Packhäuser K., Schuster M., Nöth E., Maier A., Yang SH.:
Addressing challenges in speaker anonymization to maintain utility while ensuring privacy of pathological speech
In: Communications Medicine 4 (2024), Article No.: 182
ISSN: 2730-664X
DOI: 10.1038/s43856-024-00609-5
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Lesyk E., Arias Vergara T., Nöth E., Maier A., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Perez Toro PA.:
Empathetic Deep Learning: Transferring Adult Speech Emotion Models to Children With Gender-Specific Adaptations Using Neural Embeddings
In: Human-Centric Intelligent Systems 4 (2024), p. 633-642
ISSN: 2667-1336
DOI: 10.1007/s44230-024-00088-w
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Conference Contributions

Hernandez A., Perez Toro PA., Arias-Vergara T., Vasquez-Correa JC., Yang SH., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
Anonymizing Dysarthric Speech: Investigating the Effects of Voice Conversion on Pathological Information Preservation
27th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2024 (Brno, CZE, September 9, 2024 - September 13, 2024)
In: Elmar Nöth, Aleš Horák, Petr Sojka (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70566-3_14
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Arias Vergara T., Perez Toro PA., Liu X., Xing F., Stone M., Zhuo J., Prince JL., Schuster M., Nöth E., Woo J., Maier A.:
Contrastive Learning Approach for Assessment of Phonological Precision in Patients with Tongue Cancer Using MRI Data
25th Interspeech Conferece 2024 (Kos Island, September 1, 2024 - September 5, 2024)
In: Interspeech 2024 2024
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-2236
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Perez Toro PA., Dineley J., Kaczkowska A., Conde P., Zhang Y., Matcham F., Siddi S., Haro JM., Bruce S., Wykes T., Bailón R., Vairavan S., Dobson RJ., Maier A., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Narayan VA., Hotopf M., Cummins N.:
LONGITUDINAL MODELING OF DEPRESSION SHIFTS USING SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2024 (Seoul, KOR, April 14, 2024 - April 19, 2024)
In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings 2024
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447195
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Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Weise T., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
Multilingual Speech and Language Analysis for the Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment: Outcomes from the Taukadial Challenge
25th Interspeech Conferece 2024 (Kos Island, September 1, 2024 - September 5, 2024)
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2024
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-2115
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Weise T., Klumpp P., Demir K., Perez Toro PA., Schuster M., Nöth E., Heismann B., Maier A., Yang SH.:
Speaker-and Text-Independent Estimation of Articulatory Movements and Phoneme Alignments from Speech
25th Interspeech Conferece 2024 (Kos Island, September 1, 2024 - September 5, 2024)
In: Interspeech 2024 2024
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1208
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Liu X., Xing F., Bian Z., Arias Vergara T., Perez Toro PA., Maier A., Stone M., Zhuo J., Prince JL., Woo J.:
Tagged-to-Cine MRI Sequence Synthesis via Light Spatial-Temporal Transformer
27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024 (Marrakesh, October 6, 2024 - October 10, 2024)
In: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2024, Cham: 2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72104-5_67
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2023

Authored Books

Rios-Urrego CD., Escobar-Grisales D., Moreno-Acevedo SA., Perez Toro PA., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
Automatic Pronunciation Assessment of Non-native English Based on Phonological Analysis
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023
ISBN: 9783031404979
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40498-6_30
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Weise T., Maier A., Demir K., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Heismann B., Nöth E., Schuster ME., Yang SH.:
Impact of Including Pathological Speech in Pre-training on Pathology Detection
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023
ISBN: 9783031404979
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40498-6_13
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Conference Contributions

Weise T., Maier A., Demir K., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Heismann B., Nöth E., Schuster M., Yang SH.:
Impact of Including Pathological Speech in Pre-training on Pathology Detection
TSD 2023: Text, Speech, and Dialogue (Pilsen, September 4, 2023 - September 6, 2023)
In: Kamil Ekštein, František Pártl, Miloslav Konopík (ed.): Text, Speech, and Dialogue, Cham: 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40498-6_13
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Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Braun F., Hönig F., Tobón-Quintero CA., Aguillón D., Lopera F., Hincapié-Henao L., Schuster M., Riedhammer K., Maier A., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
Automatic Assessment of Alzheimer's across Three Languages Using Speech and Language Features
24th International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, IRL, August 20, 2023 - August 24, 2023)
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2079
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Hung H., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Maier A., Nöth E.:
Speaking Clearly, Understanding Better: Predicting the L2 Narrative Comprehension of Chinese Bilingual Kindergarten Children Based on Speech Intelligibility Using a Machine Learning Approach
Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, August 20, 2023 - August 24, 2023)
In: Interspeech 2023 2023
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2057
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Weise T., Perez Toro PA., Deitermann A., Hoffmann B., Demir K., Straetz T., Nöth E., Maier A., Kallert T., Yang SH.:
Multi-Modal Biomarker Extraction Framework for Therapy Monitoring of Social Anxiety and Depression Using Audio and Video
International Conference on Machine Learning (Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Healthcare) (Hawaii Convention Center, 1801 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815, United States, July 29, 2023 - July 29, 2023)
In: Andreas K. Maier, Julia A. Schnabel, Pallavi Tiwari, Oliver Stegle (ed.): International Conference on Machine Learning (Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Healthcare), Cham: 2023
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47679-2_3
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Perez Toro PA., Rodriguez Salas D., Arias Vergara T., Bayerl SP., Klumpp P., Riedhammer KT., Schuster M., Nöth E., Maier A., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
Transferring Quantified Emotion Knowledge for the Detection of Depression in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Forestnets
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Rhodes Island, June 4, 2023 - June 10, 2023)
In: ICASSP 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095219
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Gallo-Aristizabal JD., Escobar-Grisales D., Rios-Urrego CD., Perez Toro PA., Nöth E., Maier A., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
Assessment of Handwriting in Patients With Parkinson's Disease Using Non-Intrusive Tasks
20th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2023 (Cartagena, COL, April 18, 2023 - April 21, 2023)
In: Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2023
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230617
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Braun F., Perez Toro PA., Bayerl SP., Pérez-Toro PA., Hönig F., Lehfeld H., Hillemacher T., Nöth E., Bocklet T., Riedhammer K.:
Classifying Dementia in the Presence of Depression: A Cross-Corpus Study
24th International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, IRL, August 20, 2023 - August 24, 2023)
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1997
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Arias Vergara T., Londoño-Mora E., Perez Toro PA., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
Measuring Phonological Precision in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate
24th International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, August 20, 2023 - August 24, 2023)
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2099
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2022

Authored Books

Perez Toro PA., Klumpp P., Vásquez-Correa JC., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Arias Vergara T.:
50 Shades of Gray: Effect of the Color Scale for the Assessment of Speech Disorders
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022
ISBN: 9783031162695
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16270-1_29
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Journal Articles

Perez Toro PA., Rodriguez Salas D., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
Interpreting acoustic features for the assessment of Alzheimer's disease using ForestNet
In: Smart Health 26 (2022), Article No.: 100347
ISSN: 2352-6483
DOI: 10.1016/j.smhl.2022.100347
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Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Vásquez-Correa JC., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
Depression assessment in people with Parkinson's disease: The combination of acoustic features and natural language processing
In: Speech Communication 145 (2022), p. 10-20
ISSN: 0167-6393
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2022.09.001
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Carvajal-Castano HA., Perez Toro PA., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
Classification of Parkinson's Disease Patients-A Deep Learning Strategy
In: Electronics 11 (2022), Article No.: 2684
ISSN: 2079-9292
DOI: 10.3390/electronics11172684
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Muneton-Santa G., Escobar-Grisales D., Orlando Lopez-Pabon F., Perez Toro PA., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
Classification of Poverty Condition Using Natural Language Processing
In: Social Indicators Research (2022)
ISSN: 0303-8300
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-022-02883-z
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Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Vásquez-Correa JC., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
Depression assessment in people with Parkinson's disease: The combination of acoustic features and natural language processing
In: Speech Communication 145 (2022), p. 10-20
ISSN: 0167-6393
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2022.09.001
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Perez Toro PA., Rodriguez Salas D., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Maier A.:
Interpreting acoustic features for the assessment of Alzheimer's disease using ForestNet
In: Smart Health 26 (2022), Article No.: 100347
ISSN: 2352-6483
DOI: 10.1016/j.smhl.2022.100347
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Conference Contributions

Hernandez A., Perez Toro PA., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR., Maier A., Yang SH.:
Cross-lingual Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Improved Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Interspeech (Seoul, September 18, 2022 - September 22, 2022)
In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2022 2022
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10674
URL: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2022/hernandez22_interspeech.html
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Kordowich G., Lorz T., Jaworski M., Klumpp P., Perez Toro PA., Gaube S., Kereit M., Böhme K., Nöth E., Jäger J.:
Erdschlusserkennung basierend auf Künstlichen Neuronalen Netzen
12. VDE ETG-/FNN-Tutorial Schutz- und Leittechnik (Berlin, June 21, 2022 - June 22, 2022)
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Perez Toro PA., Klumpp P., Hernandez A., Arias Vergara T., Lillo P., Slachevsky A., García AM., Schuster M., Maier A., Nöth E., Orozco Arroyave JR.:
Alzheimer's Detection from English to Spanish Using Acoustic and Linguistic Embeddings
23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022 (Incheon, September 18, 2022 - September 22, 2022)
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10883
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Schäfer P., Perez Toro PA., Klumpp P., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E., Maier A., Abad A., Schuster M., Arias Vergara T.:
CoachLea: an Android Application to Evaluate the Speech Production and Perception of Children with Hearing Loss
23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
URL: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140086069∨igin=inward
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Schäfer P., Perez Toro PA., Klumpp P., Orozco Arroyave JR., Nöth E., Maier A., Abad A., Schuster M., Arias Vergara T.:
CoachLea: an Android Application to Evaluate the Speech Production and Perception of Children with Hearing Loss
23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022 (Incheon, KOR, September 18, 2022 - September 22, 2022)
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
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Klumpp P., Arias-Vergara T., Perez-Toro PA., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
Common Phone: A Multilingual Dataset for Robust Acoustic Modelling
13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) (Marseille, FRANCE)
In: LREC 2022: THIRTEEN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION, PARIS: 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5846137
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tom Dieck T., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Nöth E., Klumpp P.:
Wav2vec behind the Scenes: How end2end Models learn Phonetics
23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022 (Incheon, September 18, 2022 - September 22, 2022)
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10865
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tom Dieck T., Perez Toro PA., Arias Vergara T., Nöth E., Klumpp P.:
Wav2vec behind the Scenes: How end2end Models learn Phonetics
23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2022
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10865
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2021

Journal Articles

Klumpp P., Arias Vergara T., Vásquez-Correa JC., Perez Toro PA., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Batliner A., Nöth E.:
The Phonetic Footprint of Parkinson's Disease
In: Computer Speech and Language 72 (2021)
ISSN: 0885-2308
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2021.101321
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0885230821001169
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Perez Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Bocklet T., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
User State Modeling Based on the Arousal-Valence Plane: Applications in Customer Satisfaction and Health-Care
In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2021)
ISSN: 1949-3045
DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3112543
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Conference Contributions

Perez Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Sierra-Castrillón M., Roldán-López ME., Aguillón D., Hincapié-Henao L., Tóbon-Quintero CA., Bocklet T., Schuster M., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
Acoustic and Linguistic Analyses to Assess Early-Onset and Genetic Alzheimer's Disease
ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414009
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9414009
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Perez Toro PA., Vásquez-Correa JC., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
Emotional State Modeling for the Assessment of Depression in Parkinson’s Disease
24th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2021 (Olomouc, CZE, September 6, 2021 - September 9, 2021)
In: Kamil Ekštein, František Pártl, Miloslav Konopík (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83527-9_39
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Vasquez Correa J., Arias Vergara T., Klumpp P., Perez Toro PA., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
End-2-End Modeling of Speech and Gait from Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Comparison Between High Quality Vs. Smartphone Data
ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414729
URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9414729
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Perez Toro PA., Bayerl S., Arias Vergara T., Vasquez Correa J., Klumpp P., Schuster M., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Riedhammer K.:
Influence of the Interviewer on the Automatic Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Context of the ADReSSo Challenge
22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021 (, August 30, 2021 - September 3, 2021)
In: Proc. Interspeech 2021 2021
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1589
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Klumpp P., Bocklet T., Arias Vergara T., Vasquez Correa J., Perez Toro PA., Bayerl S., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
The Phonetic Footprint of Covid-19
Interspeech 2021 (, August 30, 2021 - September 3, 2021)
In: Proc. Interspeech 2021 2021
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1488
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2020

Journal Articles

Orozco-Arroyave JR., Vasquez Correa J., Klumpp P., Perez Toro PA., Escobar-Grisales D., Roth N., Ríos-Urrego CD., Strauß M., Carvajal-Castaño HA., Bayerl S., Castrillón-Osorio LR., Arias-Vergara T., Küderle A., López-Pabón FO., Parra-Gallego LF., Eskofier B., Gómez-Gómez LF., Schuster M., Nöth E.:
Apkinson: the smartphone application for telemonitoring Parkinson's patients through speech, gait and hands movement
In: Neurodegenerative Disease Management (2020)
ISSN: 1758-2024
DOI: 10.2217/nmt-2019-0037
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Perez Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Arias Vergara T., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
Nonlinear dynamics and Poincare sections to model gait impairments in different stages of Parkinson's disease
In: Nonlinear Dynamics 100 (2020), p. 3253-3276
ISSN: 0924-090X
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-020-05691-7
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Conference Contributions

Klumpp P., Arias Vergara T., Vasquez Correa J., Perez Toro PA., Hönig FT., Nöth E., Orozco-Arroyave JR.:
Surgical mask detection with deep recurrent phonetic models
21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2020
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1723
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2019

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Vásquez-Correa JC., Klumpp P., Arias-Vergara T., Strauß M., Küderle A., Roth N., Bayerl S., García-Ospina N., Perez Toro PA., Parra-Gallego LF., Rios-Urrego CD., Escobar-Grisales D., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Eskofier B., Nöth E.:
Apkinson: A mobile solution for multimodal assessment of patients with Parkinson's disease
20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Crossroads of Speech and Language, INTERSPEECH 2019 (Graz, September 15, 2019 - September 19, 2019)
In: Gernot Kubin, Thomas Hain, Bjorn Schuller, Dina El Zarka, Petra Hodl (ed.): Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2019
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-8003
URL: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2019/abstracts/8003.html
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Perez-Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Strauß M., Orozco Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
Natural Language Analysis to Detect Parkinson's Disease
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27947-9_7
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Pérez-Toro PA., Vasquez Correa J., Strauß M., Orozco Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
Natural Language Analysis to Detect Parkinson’s Disease
22nd International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2019 (Ljubljana, September 11, 2019 - September 13, 2019)
In: Kamil Ekštein (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27947-9_7
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2018

Conference Contributions

Perez Toro PA., Camilo Vasquez-Correa J., Arias-Vergara T., Garcia-Ospina N., Orozco-Arroyave JR., Nöth E.:
A Non-linear Dynamics Approach to Classify Gait Signals of Patients with Parkinson's Disease
5th Workshop on Engineering Applications (WEA) (Medellin, COLOMBIA, October 17, 2018 - October 19, 2018)
In: APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCES IN ENGINEERING, WEA 2018, PT II, BERLIN: 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00353-1_24
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2025

Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Elsbeth Wendler-Kalsch Promotionspreis – 2025
Paula Andrea Perez Toro: ATE Promotionspreis (Alumni TF Erlangen) – 2025

2024

Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Taukadial Challenge (Interspeech 2024) – 2024
Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Summa Cum Laude PhD Thesis (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – 2024

2023

Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Travel Grant (Interspeech) – 2023

2020

Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Scholarship for exchange students (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)) – 2020

2019

Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Research Intership (Bayerische Hochschulzentrum für Lateinamerika (BAYLAT)) – 2019
Paula Andrea Perez Toro: "Estudiante Instructor" Best Admission Exam for Master's degree (Univesity of Antioquia) – 2019

2018

Paula Andrea Perez Toro: Best Bachelor degree projects (University of Antioquia) – 2018

Current Theses & Projects

Title	Type	Student	Period	Status
Alzheimers subtype classification and analysis	Project	Fayaiz Uddin	May 2026 – Oct 2026	running
Speech Emotion Recognition	MA thesis	Ahmed Abdelwahed		running
Machine Learning Approaches for Depression Detection Using Speech Data	MA thesis	Vanshika Vanshika		running
Prediction of the ear canal from 3D ear impression models	MA thesis	Mahshid Afshari		running
Large Language Models for Surgical Workflow Monitoring and Summarization	MA thesis	Daoqi Jin		running
Temperatures in MRI Scanners	MA thesis			running
Multimodal Speech MRI	MA thesis	Julian Hernadez-Potes		running
Multimodal Aphasia Detection	MA thesis	Ziyue Wang		running
Towards Autonomous Knowledge Evolution: A Self-Evolving Knowledge Graph-Based Retrieval Framework for Domain-Specific Intelligent Systems	MA thesis	Souranil Kahali	Oct 2025 – Apr 2026	running
Aphasia Assessment with Speech and Language	MA thesis			running
Aphasia Assessment Using Deep Learning	MA thesis	Piuli Basu		running
Text Embedddings in Pathological Speech	Project			running
Transferring of emotional knowledge: from quantitative emotions to qualitative emotions	Project	Maneesha Thomas	Dec 2023	running

Open Positions

Title	Type	Student	Period
MRI Reconstruction	MA thesis		Jun 2026

Completed Theses & Projects

Title	Type	Student	Period	Status
Automatic Prediction of German Regional Accents	MA thesis	Veronika Stengl		finished
Machine Learning Approaches for Depression Detection Using Speech Data	MA thesis	Vanshika Vanshika		finished
DistNeural networks for hearing aid processing	MA thesis	Amiri Paria		finished
Investigating the Influence of Different Motion Sensors for Detecting Parkinson’s Disease	MA thesis	Mohammad Hamza	Sep 2025	finished
MRI-Based Learning Approaches for Cross-Dataset Dementia Classification	MA thesis	Hamideh Hamidnezhad		finished
Annotation by Speech in Radiology	MA thesis	Jan Geier		finished
Android App Respiratory Diseases	MA thesis			finished
Gen AI: Speech Emotion Recognition	MA thesis	Md Raihan	May 2025 – Nov 2025	finished
Speech Emotion Recognition Demo	Project			finished
Text Generation in Alzheimer’s Disease	MA thesis	Mahmoud Alimizel	Jul 2024 – Jan 2025	finished
A Bias Analysis on Audio and Linguistic Embeddings for the Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease	MA thesis	Kashaf Gulzar	Sep 2023	finished
Generation of Clinical Text Reports from Chest X-Ray Images	Project	Md Hasan	Feb 2024 – Aug 2024	finished
Graph Neural Networks in Pathological Speech	MA thesis			finished
Cross-Dataset Phonological Speech Analysis of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate	MA thesis	Marta López-Brea García	Dec 2023 – Jun 2024	finished
Automatic recognition of bavarian dialects	Project	Veronika Stengl	Nov 2023 – Apr 2024	finished
Large Language Model for Generation of Structured Medical Report from X-ray Transcriptions	MA thesis	Uttam Asodariya	Sep 2023 – Mar 2024	finished
Natural Language Text Generation for Symbolic Descriptions Using Language Models	MA thesis	Deepak Parappagoudar	Aug 2023 – Dec 2023	finished
Word Embeddings Applied to Alzheimer’s Disease	Project	Uttam Chandubhai Asodariya	Nov 2022 – Mar 2023	finished
Edge-AI: Self-sensing backpressure estimation in piezoelectric micropumps using machine learning methods on a limited hardware	MA thesis	Mohammadhossien Sheikhsarraf	May 2023 – Nov 2023	finished
Alzheimer’s Disease and Depression: A Bias Analysis and Machine Learning Investigation	Project	Kashaf Gulzar	Oct 2023	finished
Empathetic Deep Learning to the Rescue: Speech Emotion Recognition from Adults to Children	MA thesis	Elina Lesyk	Feb 2022 – Jul 2022	finished
Classical Acoustic Markers for Depression in Parkinson’s Disease	BA thesis	Luca Manzke	Feb 2022 – Jul 2022	finished

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Speech-Driven Generative AI for Personalized Cine-MRI Sequence Generation in Clinical Speech Therapy

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Coordinated grid protection based on machine learning methods

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