Normalise or condition? Noise-floor front-ends for on-board keyword spotting under UAV rotor ego-noise

arXiv:2609.31699 · cs.SD, cs.CV, eess.AS · Submitted 2026-09-19 · Read on arXiv

cs.SD, cs.CV, eess.AS

Submitted: 2026-09-19

Updated: 2026-09-19

Terminology

• Accuracy — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Data Augmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Edge Deployment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Google Speech Commands — 1× in this paper
• Image and Vision Computing New Zealand — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Test-time Adaptation (TTA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Speech Commands: A Dataset for Limited-Vocabulary Speech Recognition
• Noise-Robust Keyword Spotting through Self-supervised Pretraining
• Evaluating Voice Command Pipelines for Drone Control: From STT and LLM to Direct Classification and Siamese Networks

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