Leo Lightburn

Postgraduate Research

Room 809
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
South Kensington Campus
Imperial College London
London SW7 2AZ, UK

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Speech enhancement
Noise reduction
Speech intelligibility

INFORMATION

Leo’s research is in the area of speech enhancement. He is currently investigating methods for improving the intelligibility of very noisy speech signals.

PUBLICATIONS

L. Lightburn, M. Brookes: A Weighted STOI Intelligibility Metric based on Mutual Information. In: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016.
L. Lightburn, M. Brookes: SOBM - A Binary Mask for Noisy Speech that Optimises an Objective Intelligibility Metric. In: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, 2015.