Thomas Niesler

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Niesler is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Niesler has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 27 papers in Signal Processing and 12 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Niesler's work include Speech Recognition and Synthesis (33 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (21 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (18 papers). Thomas Niesler is often cited by papers focused on Speech Recognition and Synthesis (33 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (21 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (18 papers). Thomas Niesler collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Thomas Niesler's co-authors include Madhurananda Pahar, Marisa Klopper, Robin M. Warren, Philip C. Woodland, Andreas H. Diacon, Febe de Wet, Thomas Hain, Ben Loos, E. W. D. Whittaker and Grant Theron and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Experimental Cell Research.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Niesler

79 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

COVID-19 cough classification using machine learning and global smartphone recordings

2021 195 citations Madhurananda Pahar, Marisa Klopper et al. Computers in Biology and Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Niesler South Africa	17	509	325	289	244	146	85	1.2k
Roneel V. Sharan Australia	16	129 0.3×	259 0.8×	213 0.7×	93 0.4×	155 1.1×	57	767
Zhao Ren Germany	19	303 0.6×	380 1.2×	248 0.9×	132 0.5×	42 0.3×	64	1.0k
Taufiq Hasan Bangladesh	17	756 1.5×	803 2.5×	137 0.5×	48 0.2×	29 0.2×	51	1.2k
Mohammad Fraiwan Jordan	18	156 0.3×	191 0.6×	211 0.7×	100 0.4×	27 0.2×	48	887
Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos Brazil	21	355 0.7×	100 0.3×	13 0.0×	383 1.6×	80 0.5×	112	1.2k
Shlomo Dubnov United States	20	389 0.8×	1.0k 3.2×	64 0.2×	51 0.2×	17 0.1×	93	1.4k
Yandre M. G. Costa Brazil	17	467 0.9×	630 1.9×	70 0.2×	323 1.3×	4 0.0×	65	1.3k
Farshad Almasganj Iran	15	337 0.7×	356 1.1×	55 0.2×	12 0.0×	170 1.2×	78	692
Shawn Hershey United States	4	442 0.9×	967 3.0×	59 0.2×	28 0.1×	31 0.2×	5	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Niesler

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All Works

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Niesler, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Code-Switched Language Modelling Using a Code Predictive Lstm in Under-Resourced South African Languages. 18. 785–791.

Niesler, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Kleinvoet: a Spatially-Distributed Temporally-Synchronised Infrasonic Recorder. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(1). 1 indexed citations

Pahar, Madhurananda, et al.. (2022). Automatic Non-Invasive Cough Detection based on Accelerometer and Audio Signals. Journal of Signal Processing Systems. 94(8). 821–835. 16 indexed citations

Pahar, Madhurananda & Thomas Niesler. (2021). Deep Transfer Learning based COVID-19 Detection in Cough, Breath and Speech using Bottleneck Features. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

Kamper, Herman, et al.. (2021). Feature learning for efficient ASR-free keyword spotting in low-resource languages. Computer Speech & Language. 71. 101275–101275. 12 indexed citations

Yılmaz, Emre, et al.. (2021). Code-switched automatic speech recognition in five South African languages. Computer Speech & Language. 71. 101262–101262. 12 indexed citations

Pahar, Madhurananda, Marisa Klopper, Robin M. Warren, & Thomas Niesler. (2021). COVID-19 cough classification using machine learning and global smartphone recordings. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 135. 104572–104572. 195 indexed citations breakdown →

Yılmaz, Emre, et al.. (2020). Semi-supervised Development of ASR Systems for Multilingual Code-switched Speech in Under-resourced Languages. arXiv (Cornell University). 3468–3474.

Kriel, Jurgen, et al.. (2020). Mitochondrial event localiser (MEL) to quantitativelydescribe fission, fusion and depolarisation in the three-dimensional space. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0229634–e0229634. 4 indexed citations

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Niesler, Thomas, et al.. (2018). A First South African Corpus of Multilingual Code-switched Soap Opera Speech. Language Resources and Evaluation. 14 indexed citations

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Theron, Grant, Robin M. Warren, Marisa Klopper, et al.. (2018). Detection of tuberculosis by automatic cough sound analysis. Physiological Measurement. 39(4). 45005–45005. 70 indexed citations

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Loos, Ben, et al.. (2018). Improved region of interest selection and colocalization analysis in three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy samples using virtual reality. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0201965–e0201965. 8 indexed citations

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Engelbrecht, Lize, Ben Loos, Craig Kinnear, et al.. (2018). Wild-type and mutant (G2019S) leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) associate with subunits of the translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane (TOM) complex. Experimental Cell Research. 375(2). 72–79. 4 indexed citations

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Loos, Ben, et al.. (2017). Virtual reality assisted microscopy data visualization and colocalization analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. 18(S2). 64–64. 37 indexed citations

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Niesler, Thomas, et al.. (2015). Improved visual speech synthesis using dynamic viseme k-means clustering and decision trees.. AVSP. 169–174. 1 indexed citations

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Mixdorff, Hansjörg, et al.. (2011). An Acoustic Analysis of Tone in Sesotho.. ICPhS. 1402–1405. 4 indexed citations

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Wet, Febe de, et al.. (2007). Human and automatic accent identification of Nguni and Sotho Black South African English. South African Journal of Science. 103. 159–164. 10 indexed citations

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Niesler, Thomas, et al.. (2006). Automatic detection, segmentation and assessment of snoring from ambient acoustic data. Physiological Measurement. 27(10). 1047–1056. 82 indexed citations

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Roux, Justus C., et al.. (2004). The African Speech Technology Project: An Assessment. Language Resources and Evaluation. 29 indexed citations

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Woodland, Philip C., et al.. (2002). Experiments in broadcast news transcription. 2. 909–912. 16 indexed citations

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