Publications

Book chapters and journal articles

Bruce Denby, Tamás Gábor Csápo, Michael Wand: Future Speech Interfaces with Sensors and Machine Intelligence. Sensors 23(4), 2023.
Mikhail Andronov, Varvara Voinarovska, Natalia Andronova, Michael Wand, Djork-ArnéClevert, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Reagent prediction with a molecular transformer improves reaction data quality. Chemical Science, vol. 14, pp. 3235 -- 3246, 2023.
Michael Wand, Morten B. Kristoffersen, Andreas W. Franzke, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Analysis of Neural Network based Proportional Myoelectric Hand Prosthesis Control. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 69(7), pp. 2283 - 2293, 2022.
Morten B. Kristoffersen, Andreas W. Franzke, Raoul M. Bongers, Michael Wand, Alessio Murgia, Corry K. van der Sluis: User training for machine learning controlled upper limb prostheses: a serious game approach. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, vol. 18, art. 32, 2021.
Tanja Schultz, Michael Wand, Thomas Hueber, Dean J. Krusienski, Christian Herff, Jonathan S. Brumberg: Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication: A Survey. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 25(12), 2017, pp. 2257 - 2271.
Michael Wand, Matthias Janke, Tanja Schultz: Tackling Speaking Mode Varieties in EMG-Based Speech Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 61(10), 2014, pp. 2515 - 2526.
Michael Wand, Matthias Janke, Till Heistermann, Christopher Schulte, Adam Himmelsbach, Tanja Schultz: Application of Electrode Arrays for Artifact Removal in an Electromyographic Silent Speech Interface. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 452, pp. 300 - 312. Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2013, Barcelona, Spain. Revised Selected Papers.
Tanja Schultz, Christoph Amma, Dominic Heger, Felix Putze, Michael Wand: Biosignale-basierte Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen. at - Automatisierungstechnik, vol. 61(11), 2013, pp. 760 - 769.
Tanja Schultz, Michael Wand: Modeling Coarticulation in EMG-based Continuous Speech Recognition. Speech Communication Journal, vol. 52(4), 2010, pp. 341 - 353.
Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Speaker-Adaptive Speech Recognition Based on Surface Electromyography. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 52, pp. 271 - 285 Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2009 2009, Porto, Portugal. Revised Selected Papers.
Guido Schneider, Hannes Uecker, and Michael Wand: Interaction of Modulated Pulses in Nonlinear Oscillator Chains. Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, vol. 17(3), 2011, pp. 279 - 298

Peer-reviewed conference publications

2021

Krsto Proroković, Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Improving Stateful Premise Selection with Transformers. Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, 2021.

2020

Inma Hernáez Rioja, Jose A. Gonzalez-Lopez, Eva Navas, Jose Luis Pérez Córdoba, Ibon Saratxaga, Gonzalo Olivares, Jon Sanchez, Alberto Galdón, Victor García Romillo, Míriam González-Atienza, Tanja Schultz, Phil D. Green, Michael Wand, Ricard Marxer, Lorenz Diener: Voice Restoration with Silent Speech Interfaces (ReSSInt). Proc. Iberspeech, 2020 (held in 2021), pp. 130 - 134.
Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Fusion Architectures for Word-based Audiovisual Speech Recognition. Proc. of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2020, pp. 3491 - 3495.
Krsto Proroković, Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Meta-Learning for Recalibration of EMG-Based Upper Limb Prostheses. Proc. of the 7th ICML Workshop on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), 2020.
Luigi Fiorillo, Michael Wand, Italo Marino, Paolo Favaro, Francesca D. Faraci: Temporal dependency in automatic sleep scoring via deep learning based architectures: An empirical study. Proc. of the 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2020.
Matteo Riva, Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Motion Dynamics Improve Speaker-independent Lipreading. Proc. of the 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020.

2019

Krsto Proroković, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Adaptation of an EMG-Based Speech Recognizer via Meta-Learning. Proc. of the 7th IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, 2019.

2018

Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Domain-Adversarial Training for Session Independent EMG-based Speech Recognition. Proc. of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2018, pp. 3167 - 3171.
Michael Wand, Thang Vu, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Investigations on End-to-End Audiovisual Fusion. Proc. of the 43th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018, pp.3041 - 3045.

2017

Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Improving Speaker-Independent Lipreading with Domain-Adversarial Training. Proc. of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2017, pp. 3662 - 3666.

2016

Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Deep Neural Network Frontend for Continuous EMG-based Speech Recognition. Proc. of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2016, pp. 3032 - 3036.
Michael Wand, Jan Koutník, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Lipreading with Long Short-Term Memory. Proc. of the 41th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016.

2014

Niyawadee Jib Srisuwan, Chusak Limsakul, Pornchai Phukpattaranont, Tanja Schultz, Michael Wand, Matthias Janke: Enhancement of EMG-based Thai Number Words Classification using Frame-based Time Domain Feature with Stacking Filter Proceedings of 2014 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, 2014.
Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Pattern Learning with Deep Neural Networks in EMG-based Speech Recognition. Proc. of the 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014, pp. 4200 - 4203.
Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Towards Real-life Application of EMG-based Speech Recognition by using Unsupervised Adaptation Proc. of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2014, pp. 1189 - 1193.
Michael Wand, Matthias Janke, Tanja Schultz: The EMG-UKA Corpus for Electromyographic Speech Processing. Proc. of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2014, pp. 1593 - 1597.
Marlene Zahner, Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz Conversion from Facial Myoelectric Signals to Speech: A Unit Selection Approach Proc. of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2014, pp. 1184 - 1188.
Dominic Telaar, Michael Wand, Dirk Gehrig, Felix Putze, Christoph Amma, Dominic Heger, Ngoc Thang Vu, Mark Erhardt, Tim Schlippe, Matthias Janke, Christian Herff, Tanja Schultz: BioKIT - Real-time Decoder For Biosignal Processing Proc. of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2014, pp. 2650 - 2654.
Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Till Heistermann, Kishore Prahallad, Tanja Schultz: Fundamental Frequency Generation for Whisper-to-Audible Speech Conversion. Proc. of the 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014, pp. 2598 - 2602.
Michael Wand, Christopher Schulte, Matthias Janke, Tanja Schultz: Compensation of Recording Position Shifts for a Myoelectric Silent Speech Recognizer. Proc. of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014, pp. 2113 - 2117.
Till Heistermann, Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Spatial Artifact Detection for Multi-Channel EMG-Based Speech Recognition. Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), 2014. pp. 189 - 196.

2013

Michael Wand, Adam Himmelsbach, Till Heistermann, Matthias Janke, Tanja Schultz: Artifact Removal Algorithm for an EMG-based Silent Speech Interface Proc. of the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013, pp. 5750 - 5753.
Michael Wand, Christopher Schulte, Matthias Janke, Tanja Schultz: Array-based Electromyographic Silent Speech Interface Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), 2013

2012

Christian Johner, Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Inferring Prosody from Facial Cues for EMG-based Synthesis of Silent Speech Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE), 2012
Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Keigo Nakamura, Tanja Schultz: Further Investigations on EMG-to-Speech Conversion Proc. of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012, pp. 2113 - 2117.
Michael Wand, Matthias Janke, Tanja Schultz: Decision-tree based Analysis of Speaking Mode Discrepancies in EMG-based Speech Recognition Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), 2012

2011

Keigo Nakamura, Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Estimation of Fundamental Frequency from Surface Electromyographic Data Proc. of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011
Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Analysis of Phone Confusion in EMG-based Speech Recognition Proc. of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011
Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Session-Independent EMG-based Speech Recognition Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), 2011
Christian Herff, Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Impact of Different Feedback Mechanisms in EMG-based Speech Recognition Proc. of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2011
Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Investigations on Speaking Mode Discrepancies in EMG-based Speech Recognition Proc. of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2011

2010

Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Impact of Lack of Acoustic Feedback in EMG-based Silent Speech Recognition Proc. of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2010
Dominic Heger, Felix Putze, Christoph Amma, Thomas Wielatt, Igor Plotkin, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: BiosignalsStudio: A flexible Framework for Biosignal Capturing and Processing Proc. of the 33rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010
Matthias Janke, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Spectral Energy Mapping for EMG-based Recognition of Silent Speech Proc. of the First International Workshop on Bio-inspired Human-Machine Interfaces and Healthcare Applications (Side event of Biosignals 2010 conference)
Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Towards Speaker-Adaptive Speech Recognition based on Surface Electromyography Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (Biosignals), Porto, Portugal

2009

Arthur Toth, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Synthesizing Speech from Electromyography using Voice Transformation Techniques Proc. of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2009
Michael Wand, Arthur Toth, Szu-Chen (Stan) Jou, Tanja Schultz: Impact of Different Speaking Modes on EMG-based Speech Recognition Proc. of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2009

2007

Michael Wand, Szu-Chen (Stan) Jou, Tanja Schultz: Wavelet-based Front-End for Electromyographic Speech Recognition Proc. of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2007

Supervised and Co-Supervised Student Theses

Christian Squadrito: EMG-based Speech Recognition with Transformer Architecture. Master's Thesis, 2023
Silvia Traversa: End-to-end EMG-based Speech Recognition. Master's Thesis, 2022
Matteo Riva: Speaker-Independent Lipreading with Neural Networks Exploiting Motion Dynamics. Master's Thesis, 2019
Marlene Zahner: Konvertierung von myoelektrischen Signalen der Gesichtsmuskulatur zu Sprache: Ein Unit Selection-Ansatz. Master's Thesis, 2014
Maximilian Vogel: Kontextsensitive Konvertierung von geflüsterter auf hörbare Sprache: Implementierung und Evaluation. Bachelor's Thesis, 2013
Christopher Schulte: Kompensation unterschiedlicher Elektrodenpositionierungen in der EMG-basierten Sprachverarbeitung. Master's Thesis, 2013
Adam Himmelsbach: Rauschunterdrückung durch Quellenseparation in der EMG-basierten Spracherkennung. Bachelor's Thesis, 2013
Till Heistermann: Decomposition of Multichannel Electromyographic Signals for a Silent Speech Interface. Bachelor's Thesis, 2013
Christian Johner: Erkennung prosodischer Merkmale durch EMG-basierte Klassifikation der Gesichtsmuskulatur. Diploma Thesis, 2013
Michael Ikkert: Implementierung und Evaluation eines Large Margin Estimation Algorithmus für HMMs. Diploma Thesis, 2013
Luben Alexandrov: F0-Erkennung bei elektromyographischer Sprachsynthese mit Elektrodenarrays. Bachelor's Thesis, 2012
Evgheni Kirzner: Analyse und Klassifikation von EEG und EMG bei lauter und lautloser Sprache. Bachelor's Thesis, 2011
Christopher Schulte: Aufbau eines EMG-basierten Spracherkennungssystems unter Verwendung von Elektrodenarrays. Master's Thesis, 2011
Kais Kara: Session-adaptive Speech Recognition based on Surface Electromyography. Student Research Thesis, 2010
Matthias Janke: Spektrale Methoden zur EMG-basierten Erkennung lautloser Sprache. Diploma Thesis, 2010
Gu Feng: Initialization Methods for an EMG-based Silent Speech Recognizer. Diploma Thesis, 2010
Thomas Wielatt: Entwicklung eines Werkzeuges zur Echtzeitvisualisierung von Biosignalen. State Exam Admission Thesis, 2009
Kristina Schaaff: EEG-based Emotion Recognition. Diploma Thesis, 2008

Dissertation

January 2014: Doctoral dissertation Advancing Electromyographic Continuous Speech Recognition: Signal Preprocessing and Modeling, at the lab of Prof. Tanja Schultz.