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mike.brookes@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| Reader | ||||
| Mike Brookes research concentrates on the application of signal processing algorithms to speech and image processing and to software radio systems. He combines expertise in signal processing and digital system design and is interested both in the development of new algorithms and in their real-time hardware implementation. | ||||
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p.naylor@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| Reader, Director of Postgraduate Studies | ||||
| Patrick A. Naylor joined the staff of the CSP group at Imperial College where he is also Director of Postgraduate Studies in 1989. His research interests are in the areas of speech and audio signal processing and he has worked in particular on adaptive signal processing for acoustic echo control, SIMO/MIMO acoustic system identification, classification including speech and speaker recognition, multi-channel speech enhancement, speech production modeling and DAB systems. | ||||
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rehan.ahmad@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2003) | ||||
| Rehan Ahmad got his B.S. degree from University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan in 2001 then worked in Avaz Networks Inc. for a year in a VoIP SoC development project. He received his M.S. degree in 2003 from Imperial College London and is doing his Ph.D. with Dr. Patrick A. Naylor now. His areas of research are multichannel adaptive filters and acoustic dereverberation. | ||||
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jason.filos03@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Nov 2008) | ||||
| Jason's research is in the area of blind system identification and sound localization. He is currently woking in a team (SCENIC project) to investigate on how to infer acoustical properties of an unknown environment. He is also heavily interested in music production and performance, either by himself or associated with other musicians, and likes to travel the world to each place on the map! | ||||
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ndg@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| Research Associate | ||||
| Nick's research interests are in reverberant speech enhancement, blind system identification, approximate channel equalization, multirate signal processing and AR modeling of reverberant speech. He is currently involved in the CLEAR project. | ||||
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pradeep.loganathan03@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2007) | ||||
| Pradeep's research will focus on the development of time and frequency domain adaptive filtering algorithms, that are robust to changes in the sparseness of the impulse response. | ||||
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dushyant.sharma02@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Jul 2008) | ||||
| Dushyant’s research is in the area of Speech Enhancement and he will be developing new algorithms that take into account useful knowledge about the speech signal to be enhanced. Currenlty he is working as part of a small team investingating new techniques for Speech Enhancement. He is also interested in Music Therapy and enjoys cricket, areo-modelling and listening to Indian Classical Music. | ||||
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mark.r.thomas@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2006) | ||||
| Mark’s research area is multichannel speech processing. He enjoys seeing theory come to life in real-time hardware, both for his research and his hobbies. As a keen musician he likes to spend time singing in choirs and jamming on the piano in his band down in the EE basement. When he’s doing none of the above he can usually be found playing snooker, in his garage tinkering with his car or on his motorbike blasting round Surrey’s quick B-roads. | ||||
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wancheng.zhang07@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2005) | ||||
| Wancheng's research focuses on fast equalization of room acoustics, which is robust to system identification errors. | ||||
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Vinesh Bhunjun |
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vinesh.bhunjun@imperial.ac.uk | |
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2002 - End date: Nov 2006) | ||||
| Vinesh's research dealt with the application of signal processing algorithms to speech processing particularly to the field of single-channel speech enhancement. Some of the themes explored are signal representation, eigenanalysis of speech signals, estimation techniques, minimum statistics, and speech modelling. | ||||
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jg@ru.is | ||
| Research Associate | ||||
| Jon's research interests are voice modelling and front-end processing for speech- and speaker recognition and pattern recognition techniques such as Markov Modelling applied to those tasks. More specifically he is interested in seeing how different components in the speech signal, such as closed and open phases in voiced speech and stops and fricatives in unvoiced speech contribute to the recognition process. Jon is currently an Assistant Professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland. | ||||
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andykhong@ntu.edu.sg | ||
| Research Associate | ||||
| Andy Khong’s research interests were mainly in the area of adaptive algorithms both in time and frequency domains, as well as their analysis with applications to single and multichannel acoustic echo cancellation and speech enhancement. He was also working on multi-modal sensor fusion for parameter security systems. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
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shawn.lin04@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2005 - End date: Jun 2009) | ||||
| Shawn’s research interest is mainly on the blind multichannel acoustic system identification with robustness to common zeros, which has been considered as one of the channel identifiability conditions so far. Shawn likes everything relevant to cars, although he hasn’t been able to afford a car himself. He could also be helpful when specific softwares, eBooks or even computer games and latest movies are needed. | ||||
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Uttachai Manmontri |
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uttachai.manmontri@imperial.ac.uk | |
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2002 - End date: Nov 2006) | ||||
| Uttachai's research focused on design and analysis of gradient-based algorithms for blind signal separation (BSS) and blind signal extraction (BSE). He is now back in Thailand for the next step of his career. | ||||
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manolis.tsakiris08@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| MSc Student (Start date: Oct 2008 - End date: Oct 2009) | ||||
| Manolis is interested in adaptive filtering and matrix analysis. In his free time he practices at aikido and reads crime novels. | ||||
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jimi.wen@gmail.com | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2005 - End date: Jun 2009) | ||||
| Jimi's research interests are in audio signal processing, but as our ears play many tricks on us, he believes we have to analyze the signal from the view of our auditory systems instead of visualizing it. In his spare time he likes to make music and perform at small gigs. He is also a die hard fan of soccer, basketball, American football and baseball. And what ever time is left he enjoys cooking, fashion and hair design. | ||||
Alex Wright |
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alexander.wright@imperial.ac.uk | ||
| PhD Student (Start date: Oct 2001 - End date: Dec 2005) | ||||
| Alex’s research interests have focused on Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) and in particular how adaptive signal processing can be used to improve the bit error rate for COFDM receivers when the quality of the tuner is cost-constrained. Alex is also the coolest system administrator the group has ever had. He has now left us (physically, yes, although not in spirit) for the next step on his career. | ||||