Publications
- Giuliana Monachino, Beatrice Zanchi, Michael Wand, Giulio Conte, Athina Tzovara, Francesca Dalia Faraci: Overcoming data scarcity in life-threatening
arrhythmia detection through transfer learning.
Communications Medicine 5, article 248, 2025.
- Mikhail Andronov, Natalia Andronova, Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Djork-Arné Clevert: Accelerating the inference of string generation-based chemical reaction models for industrial applications.
Journal of Cheminformatics, vol. 17(1), article 31, 2025.
- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tanja Schultz, Christoph Amma, Dominic Heger, Felix Putze, Michael Wand:
Biosignale-basierte Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen.
at - Automatisierungstechnik, vol. 61(11), 2013, pp. 760 - 769.
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Tanja Schultz, Michael Wand:
Modeling Coarticulation in EMG-based Continuous Speech Recognition.
Speech Communication Journal, vol. 52(4), 2010, pp. 341 - 353.
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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.
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Guido Schneider, Hannes Uecker, 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
2026
- Fabrizio Leopardi, Faezeh Labbaf, Tomáš Kolárik, Michael Wand, Natasha Sharygina1: Interpreting Logical Explanations of Classifying
Neural Networks Conversion using Speaker-Independent Speech Training Targets.
Proc. of the 34th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), 2026, to appear.
2025
- Kevin Scheck, Tom Dombeck, Zhao Ren, Peter Wu, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: DiffMV-ETS: Diffusion-based Multi-Voice Electromyography-to-Speech
Conversion using Speaker-Independent Speech Training Targets.
Proc. of the 26st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2025, pp. 5573 - 5577.
- Faezeh Labbaf, Tomáš Kolárik, Martin Blicha, Grigory Fedyukovich, Michael Wand, Natasha Sharygina: Space Explanations of Neural Network Classification.
Proc. of the 37th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2025.
2024
- Mikhail Andronov, Natalia Andronova, Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Djork-Arné Clevert: Curating Reagents in Chemical Reaction Data with an Interactive Reagent Space Map.
Proc. of the International Workshop on AI in Drug Discovery (side event of the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks), 2024.
- Zhao Ren, Kevin Scheck, Qinhan Hou, Stefano van Gogh, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Diff-ETS: Learning a Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Electromyography-to-Speech Conversion.
Proc. of the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2024.
- Qinhan Hou, Stefano van Gogh, Kevin Scheck, Zhao Ren, Tanja Schultz, Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber: emg2vec: Self-supervised Pretraining in
Electromyography-based Silent Speech Interfaces.
Proc. of the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2024.
- Kevin Scheck, Zhao Ren, Tom Dombeck, Jenny Sonnert, Stefano van Gogh, Qinhan Hou, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz: Cross-Subject Training and Adaptation
for Electromyography-to-Speech Synthesis.
Proc. of the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2024.
2021
- Krsto Proroković, Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber: Improving Stateful Premise Selection with Transformers.
Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, 2021.
- 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, 2021, pp. 130 - 134.
2020
- 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
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
2016
2014
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Mario Amante and Séréna Bochereau and Mariama Dione and Brygida Maria Dzidek and David Gueorguiev and Andreas Heinrich and Athanasia Moungon and Thomas Sednaoui and Eric Vezzoli and Zlatko Vidrih and Teja Vodlak and Michael Wand:
The PROTOTOUCH project: An FP7 EU marie curie initial training network.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Haptics (EuroHaptics), 2014.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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2012
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Christian Squadrito:
EMG-based Speech Recognition with Transformer Architecture.
Master's Thesis, 2023
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Silvia Traversa:
End-to-end EMG-based Speech Recognition.
Master's Thesis, 2022
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Matteo Riva:
Speaker-Independent Lipreading with Neural Networks Exploiting Motion Dynamics.
Master's Thesis, 2019
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Marlene Zahner:
Konvertierung von myoelektrischen Signalen der Gesichtsmuskulatur zu Sprache: Ein Unit Selection-Ansatz.
Master's Thesis, 2014
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Maximilian Vogel:
Kontextsensitive Konvertierung von geflüsterter auf hörbare Sprache: Implementierung und Evaluation.
Bachelor's Thesis, 2013
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Christopher Schulte:
Kompensation unterschiedlicher Elektrodenpositionierungen in der EMG-basierten Sprachverarbeitung.
Master's Thesis, 2013
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Adam Himmelsbach:
Rauschunterdrückung durch Quellenseparation in der EMG-basierten Spracherkennung.
Bachelor's Thesis, 2013
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Till Heistermann:
Decomposition of Multichannel Electromyographic Signals for a Silent Speech Interface.
Bachelor's Thesis, 2013
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Christian Johner:
Erkennung prosodischer Merkmale durch EMG-basierte Klassifikation der Gesichtsmuskulatur.
Diploma Thesis, 2013
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Michael Ikkert:
Implementierung und Evaluation eines Large Margin Estimation Algorithmus für HMMs.
Diploma Thesis, 2013
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Luben Alexandrov:
F0-Erkennung bei elektromyographischer Sprachsynthese mit Elektrodenarrays.
Bachelor's Thesis, 2012
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Evgheni Kirzner:
Analyse und Klassifikation von EEG und EMG bei lauter und lautloser Sprache.
Bachelor's Thesis, 2011
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Christopher Schulte:
Aufbau eines EMG-basierten Spracherkennungssystems unter Verwendung von Elektrodenarrays.
Master's Thesis, 2011
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Kais Kara:
Session-adaptive Speech Recognition based on Surface Electromyography.
Student Research Thesis, 2010
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Matthias Janke:
Spektrale Methoden zur EMG-basierten Erkennung lautloser Sprache.
Diploma Thesis, 2010
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Gu Feng:
Initialization Methods for an EMG-based Silent Speech Recognizer.
Diploma Thesis, 2010
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Thomas Wielatt:
Entwicklung eines Werkzeuges zur Echtzeitvisualisierung von Biosignalen.
State Exam Admission Thesis, 2009
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Kristina Schaaff:
EEG-based Emotion Recognition.
Diploma Thesis, 2008
Dissertation