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Hamilton Pereira da Silva

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Performance evaluation in the reconstruction of 2D images of computed tomography using massively parallel programming CUDA

Analysis of processing time and similarity of images generated between CPU and GPU architectures and sequential and parallel programming. For image processing a computer with AMD FX-8350 processor and an Nvidia GTX 960 Maxwell GPU was used, along with the CUDAFY library and the programming language C\# with the IDE Visual studio. The results of the comparisons indicate that the form of sequential programming in a CPU generates reliable images at a high custom of time when compared to the forms of parallel programming in CPU and GPU. While parallel programming generates faster results, but with increased noise in the reconstructed image. For data types float a GPU obtained best result with average time equivalent to 1/3 of the processor, however the data is of type double the parallel CPU approach obtained the best performance. For the float data type, the GPU had the best average time performance, while for the double data type the best average time performance was for the parallel approach CPU. Regarding image quality, the sequential approach obtained similar outputs, while the parallel approaches generated noise in their outputs.

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Speech2Phone: A Novel and Efficient Method for Training Speaker Recognition Models

In this paper we present an efficient method for training models for speaker recognition using small or under-resourced datasets. This method requires less data than other SOTA (State-Of-The-Art) methods, e.g. the Angular Prototypical and GE2E loss functions, while achieving similar results to those methods. This is done using the knowledge of the reconstruction of a phoneme in the speaker's voice. For this purpose, a new dataset was built, composed of 40 male speakers, who read sentences in Portuguese, totaling approximately 3h. We compare the three best architectures trained using our method to select the best one, which is the one with a shallow architecture. Then, we compared this model with the SOTA method for the speaker recognition task: the Fast ResNet-34 trained with approximately 2,000 hours, using the loss functions Angular Prototypical and GE2E. Three experiments were carried out with datasets in different languages. Among these three experiments, our model achieved the second best result in two experiments and the best result in one of them. This highlights the importance of our method, which proved to be a great competitor to SOTA speaker recognition models, with 500x less data and a simpler approach.

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