{"id":250,"date":"2026-04-23T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/?p=250"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:31:14","slug":"heba-nematallah-defends-her-phd-thesis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/2026\/heba-nematallah-defends-her-phd-thesis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohre Foroushi defends her PhD thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 38.513931%;\">\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zohre-Fig1-ComputerSpeechAndLanguage-240x129.png\" alt=\"Audio-visual speech enhancement\" width=\"240\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zohre-Fig1-ComputerSpeechAndLanguage-240x129.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zohre-Fig1-ComputerSpeechAndLanguage-400x215.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zohre-Fig1-ComputerSpeechAndLanguage-160x86.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zohre-Fig1-ComputerSpeechAndLanguage-360x194.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/richarddansereau\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zohre-Fig1-ComputerSpeechAndLanguage.png 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.486069%;\">\n<h3>Zohre successfully defended her PhD thesis:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><b>Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement using Unsupervised Learning Methods.<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This PhD thesis develops a novel unsupervised audio\u2011visual speech enhancement framework that combines sound and lip\u2011movement cues to improve speech clarity in noisy environments. It introduces an audio\u2011visual recurrent variational autoencoder enhanced with advanced probabilistic sampling, a silence\u2011aware noise model, and a new video inpainting method to handle partially occluded faces. Together, these innovations significantly improve speech quality and intelligibility\u2014especially in challenging real\u2011world conditions\u2014while demonstrating strong performance across multiple benchmark datasets.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations !<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zohre successfully defended her PhD thesis: Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement using Unsupervised Learning Methods. This PhD thesis develops a novel unsupervised audio\u2011visual speech enhancement framework that combines sound and lip\u2011movement cues to improve speech clarity in noisy environments. It introduces an audio\u2011visual recurrent variational autoencoder enhanced with advanced probabilistic sampling, a silence\u2011aware noise model, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zohre Foroushi defends her PhD thesis - Prof. Richard M. 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