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Thesis: “Model-based Sparse Component Analysis for Multi-party Distant Speech Recognition”
Thesis: “Sound Localization by Beamforming Techniques for Robust Speech Recognition”
Thesis: “Design and Implementation of a Band-Pass FIR Filter using TMS320C57 DSP processor”
PhD Fellowship, SCALE (Speech Communication with Adaptive LEarning) Marie-Curie international training network, 2009-2012 Ranked 1st among 65 MSc. Students of the major of Computer Architecture at Sharif University of Technology, 2006 Ranked 59th out of ~20,000 participant in the graduate entrance exam of Computer Architecture, Ranked 10th (interviewed) accepted at Sharif University, 2004
Ranked 170th
in the National University
Entrance Exam among
~250,000 students, 1997
Provincial nominee for national physics olympiad competition, 1996-1997
Patent Method, apparatus and computer program product for determining the location of a plurality of speech sources, 2012US-13/654055, October 2012 Journal Papers “Structured Sparsity Models for Multiparty Speech Recovery from Reverberant Recordings”, with M. Golbabaee, H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, 2012. [bibtex] “Verified Speaker Localization Utilizing Voicing Level in Split-bands”, with M. J. Taghizadeh, M. Bahrololum, M. Ghanbari, Signal Processing, vol. 89, Issue 6, pp 1038-1049, June 2009. [bibtex] “Room Acoustic Modeling and Speech Dereverberation Exploiting Sparsity and Low-rank Structures”, with M. Golbabaee, H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, 2013 “Optimal Structured Sparse Coding for Spatio-Spectral Information Recovery”, with B. Raj, H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, 2013 Conference Papers: “Room Acoustic Modeling Exploiting Joint Sparsity and Low-rank Structures”, with M. Golbabaee, H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), Lausanne, Switzerland, July, 2013. [bibtex] “A Multipath Sparse Beamfroming Method”, with B. Raj, H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), Lausanne, Switzerland, July, 2013; nominated for best paper award. [bibtex] “Structured Sparse Coding for Microphone Array Position Calibration”, with B. Raj, H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, SAPA-SCALE Conference, Intl. Speech Communication Association, Portland, OR, September, 2012. [bibtex] “Computational Methods for Structured Sparse Component Analysis of Convolutive Speech Mixtures”, with M. E. Davies, H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, Intl. Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March, 2012. [bibtex] “Multi-party Speech Recovery Exploiting Structured Sparsity Models”, with M. J. Taghizadeh, H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, Intl. Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH’2011. [bibtex] - Demo “An Integrated Framework for Multi-Channel Multi-Source Localization and Voice Activity Detection”, with M. J. Taghizadeh, P. N. Garner, H. Bourlard, H. R. Abutalebi, Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), Edinburgh, Scotland, 2011. [bibtex] “Model-Based Compressive Sensing for Distant Multi-Party Speech Recognition”, with H. Bourlard, V. Cevher, Intl. Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011; winner of IEEE spoken language processing award. [bibtex] - Demo “Sparse Component Analysis for Speech Recognition in Multi-speaker Environment”, with H. Bourlard and P. N. Garner, Intl. Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH’2010. [bibtex] “Analysis of Phone Posterior Feature Space Exploiting Class-Specific Sparsity and MLP-Based Similarity”, with B. Picart, H. Bourlard, , Intl. Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, Texas, March 2010. [bibtex] “Far-field Continuous Speech Recognition System based on Speaker Localization and Sub-band Beamforming”, with M. J. Taghizadeh, H. Sameti, , Proceedings of The 6th International ACS/IEEE Conference on Computer Systems and Applications ,Doha, Qatar, pp 495-500, April 2008. [bibtex] “Speaker Direction Finding for Practical Systems: A Comparison of Different Approaches”, with S. Ghanbari, M. J. Taghizadeh, H. Sameti, , Proceeding of the third Annual IEEE BENELUX/DSP valley signal processing symposium, Metropolis, Antwerp, Belgium, pp 129-133, March 2007. [bibtex] “Robust Speaker Localization Utilizing a Novel Beamforming Algorithm Based on Harmonic Structures”, with H. Sameti, M. Sh. Moin, , Proceeding of the 12th International Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC'07), Tehran, Iran, February 2007. [bibtex] Workshop “Speaker Verification and Localization by Microphone Array”, Presented in a one-day workshop on Biometrics at the 15th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE’07), Tehran, May 12th, 2007 Technical Report * Structured Sparse Component Analysis of Compressive Acoustic Measurements”, with H. Bourlard and V. Cevher, IDIAP-RR-Internal, 2011, September 2011 * Investigation of kNN Classifiers on Posterior Features Towards Application in Automatic Speech Recognition, with H. Bourlard and B. Picart, IDIAP-RR-76, May 2009 * Kalman and Extended Kalman Filters for Source Tracking, ITRC Technical report, Multimedia Systems Research Group, August 2006 * Speech Recognition Systems: A Survey Study, ITRC Technical report, Multimedia Systems Research Group, May 2006 * Voice Activity Detection: The Practical Solution for a Continuous Speech Recognition Engine, ITRC Technical report, Multimedia Systems Research Group, September 2005 * Test Procedure for G.168 and G.729 ITU-T Recommendations, ITRC Technical report, VOIP Project, December 2004 * Design and Simulation of a Fixed-Point G.168 Multichannel Echo Canceller for TMS320C6416 EVM platform, ITRC Technical report, VOIP Project, October 2004 * Fax Tone Detection and Generation, Design and Simulation on the TMS320C6416 code composer, ITRC Technical report, VOIP Project, December 2003 * How to Write a Linux PCI Device Driver for TMS320C6416 EVM platform, ITRC Technical report, VOIP Project, May, 2003 * 2040 PCI Controller for DSP Boards, ITRC Technical report, VOIP Project, January 2003
Reviewing Manuscripts ACM transactions of speech and language processing Neural Computing and Applications Journal IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing IEEE Signal Processing Letters IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Information Technology 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Meetings and presentations Summer School on Machine Learning in Cambridge, UK, 29 August to 10 September 2009 SCALE winter school on distant speech recognition at Saarland university, Germany, 11-22 January, 2010 ICASSP conference in Dallas, Texas, USA, 14-19 March, 2010 Google Scholars Retreat at Google office in Zurich, Switzerland, 28-30 June, 2010 INTERSPEECH Conference in Makuhari, Japan, 26-30 September, 2010 HSCMA workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 May to 1 June, 2011 SPARS'11 workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, 27-30 June, 2011 INTERSPEECH Conference, Florence, Italy, 28-31 August, 2011, photos Interactive Multimodal Information Management Summer Institute, Switzerland, 2010-2011, photos SCALE winter school on "Beyond HMM" at Radboud university, Nijmegen, 24-27 January, 2012 - Session Chair: Keynote on "Exemplar-based methods for automatic speech recognition"
IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, 13 June, 2012 - Invited Visit - Presentation: Model-based Sparse Component Analysis for Recovering Multi-Party Speech from Multi-channel Recordings Machine Learning Workshop, EPFL, Switzerland, 19 November, 2012 - Invited Talk - Presentation: Structured Sparse Coding for Machine Listening
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