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Journal Papers

  1. F. Antonacci, J. Filos, M. R. P. Thomas, E. A. P. Habets, A. Sarti, P. A. Naylor and S. Tubaro, "Inference of Room Geometry from Acoustic Impulse Responses," submitted to IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process.
  2. T. Drugman, M. R. P. Thomas, J. Gudnason, T. Dutoit and P. A. Naylor, "Detection of Glottal Closing Instants from Voiced Speech: A Quantitative Review," in IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 20 no. 3 pp. 994–1006, March 2012.
  3. M. R. P. Thomas, J. Gudnason and P. A. Naylor, "Estimation of Glottal Closing and Opening Instants in Voiced Speech using the YAGA Algorithm," in IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vo. 20, no. 1, pp. 82–91, Jan 2012.
  4. J. Gudnason, M. R. P. Thomas, D. P. W. Ellis and P. A. Naylor, "Data-Driven Voice Source Waveform Modelling," to appear in Speech Communication, 2011.
  5. M. R. P. Thomas and P. A. Naylor. "The SIGMA Algorithm: A Glottal Activity Detector for Electroglottographic Signals," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1557–1566, Nov. 2009.

Conference Papers

  1. M. R. P. Thomas, N. D. Gaubitch, E. A. P. Habets and P. A. Naylor, "An Insight into Common Filtering in Noisy SIMO Blind System Identification," in Proc. International Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2012, Kyoto, Japan 2012.
  2. A. Sarti, W. Kellermann, R. Rabenstein, P. A. Naylor, M. Omologo, P. Svaizer, F. Antonacci, P. Annibale, P. Bestagini, A. Canclini, D. Markovic, K. Kowalczyk, M. R. P. Thomas and A. Brutti, "The SCENIC Project: Space-Time Audio Processing for Environment-Aware Acoustic Sensing and Rendering," to appear in Proc. AES 131st Convention, New York, Oct. 2011.
  3. M. R. P. Thomas, N. D. Gaubitch and P. A. Naylor, "Application of Channel Shortening to Acoustic Channel Equalization in the Presence of Noise and Estimation Error," to appear in Proc. Workshop on App. of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoust. (WASPAA), New Paltz, New York, Oct. 2011.
  4. A. Canclini, F. Antonacci, M. R. P. Thomas, J. Filos, A. Sarti, P. A. Naylor and S. Tubaro," Exact Localization of Acoustic Reflectors from Quadratic Constraints," in Proc. Workshop on App. of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoust. (WASPAA), New Paltz, New York, Oct. 2011.
  5. J. Filos, A. Canclini, M. R. P. Thomas, F. Antonacci, A. Sarti and P. A. Naylor, "Robust Inference of Room Geometry from Acoustic Impulse Responses," in Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Barcelona, Spain, August 2011.
  6. D. P. Jarrett, E. A. P. Habets, M. R. P. Thomas, N. D. Gaubitch and P. A. Naylor, "Dereverberation Performance of Rigid and Open Spherical Microphone Arrays: Theory & Simulation," in Proc. Workshop on Hands Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2011.
  7. D. P. Jarrett, E. A. P. Habets, M. R. P. Thomas and P. A. Naylor, "Simulating Room Impulse Responses for Spherical Microphone Arrays," to appear in Proc. International Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prage, Czech Republic, May 2011.
  8. M. R. P. Thomas, N. D. Gaubitch, E. A. P. Habets and P. A. Naylor, "Supervised Identification and Removal of Common Filter Components in Adaptive Blind SIMO System Identification," in Proc. Intl. Workshop Acoust. Echo Noise Control (IWAENC), Tel Aviv, Israel, August 2010.
  9. M. R. P. Thomas, B. Geiser, J. Gudnason, P. A. Naylor and P. Vary, "Voice Source Estimation for Artificial Bandwidth Extension of Telephone Speech," in Proc. International Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, TX, USA, March 2010.
  10. J. Gudnason, M. R. P. Thomas, D. P. W. Ellis and P. A. Naylor, "Voice Source Waveform Analysis and Synthesis using Principal Component Analysis and Gaussian Mixture Modelling," in Proc. Interspeech Conf., Brighton, UK, September 2009.
  11. M. R. P. Thomas, J. Gudnason and P. A. Naylor, "Detection of Glottal Closing and Opening Instants using an Improved DYPSA Framework" in Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Glasgow, Scotland, August 2009.
  12. M. R. P. Thomas, J. Gudnason and P. A. Naylor, "Data-Driven Voice Source Waveform Modelling" in Proc. International Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
  13. M. R. P. Thomas, J. Gudnason and P. A. Naylor, "Application of the DYPSA Algorithm to Segmented Time Scale Modification of Speech" in Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.
  14. M. R. P. Thomas and P. A. Naylor, "The SIGMA Algorithm for Estimation of Reference-Quality Glottal Closure Instants from Electroglottograph Signals," in Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.
  15. N. D. Gaubitch, M. R. P. Thomas and P. A. Naylor, "Subband Method for Multichannel Least Squares Equalization of Room Transfer Functions," in Proc. Workshop on App. of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoust. (WASPAA), New Paltz, New York, Oct. 2007.
  16. M. R. P. Thomas, N. D. Gaubitch, Jon Gudnason and P. A. Naylor, "A Practical Multichannel Dereverberation Algorithm using Multichannel DYPSA and Spatiotemporal Averaging," in Proc. Workshop on App. of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoust. (WASPAA), New Paltz, New York, Oct. 2007.
  17. M. R. P. Thomas, N. D. Gaubitch and P. A. Naylor, "Multichannel DYPSA for Identification of Glottal Closure in Reverberant Speech," in Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Poznan, Poland, Sept. 2007.

Contribution to Books

  1. N. D. Gaubitch, M. R. P. Thomas, and P. A. Naylor, "Dereverberation using LPC-based Approaches," in Speech Dereverberation, P. A. Naylor and N. D. Gaubitch (eds.), Springer, 2010, ch.4, pp 99–132.

Internal Publications

  1. M. R. P. Thomas, "A TV-Anytime Group Information Editor," BBC R&D Technical Note, no. 2573, Oct. 2004.
  2. M. R. P. Thomas and C. Poole, "Alternative Hardware for ASIMux Video Playout Software," BBC R&D Technical Note, no. 2267, Oct. 2003.
  3. M. R. P. Thomas, "Project SPuD: Sound Processor and Delay for Plasma Display Panels," BBC R&D Design Manual, AAA-1824-0130, Sept. 2002.
  4. M. R. P. Thomas, A . Wiewiorka and T. Ferne, "A Tokenising Compression Algorithm," BBC R&D Technical Note, no. 1830, Apr. 2002.

Theses

  1. M. R. P. Thomas, "A Novel Loudspeaker Equaliser," MEng Thesis, University of London, June 2006.
  2. M. R. P. Thomas, "Glottal-Synchronous Speech Processing," PhD Thesis, Imperial College London, May 2010.