Prof Saeed Vaseghi

Research Interests

Communications and signal processing.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2009) Vaseghi, S., Yan, Q. and Ghorshi, A., Speech accent profiles: modeling and synthesis, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 26 (3) : 69- 74

(2008) Darch, J., Milner, B. and Vaseghi, S., Analysis and prediction of acoustic speech features from mel-frequency cepstral coefficients in distributed speech recognition architectures, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124 (6) : 3989- 4000

(2008) Ghorshi, S., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Cross-entropic comparision of formants of British, Australian and American English accents, Speech Communication 50 (7) : 564- 579

(2008) Zavarehei, E. and Vaseghi, S., Interpolation of lost speech segments using LP-HNM model with codebook post-processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 10 (3) : 493- 502

(2008) Yan, Q., Vaseghi, S., Zavarehei, E., Milner, B., Darch, J., White, P. and Andrianakis, I., Kalman tracking of linear predictor and harmonic noise models for noisy speech enhancement, Computer Speech and Language 22 (1) : 69- 83

(2007) Yan, Q., Vaseghi, S., Rentzos, D. and CH, H., Analysis and synthesis of formant spaces, of British, Australian, and American accents, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 15 (2) : 676- 689

(2007) Yan, Q., Vaseghi, S., Zavarehei, E., Milner, B., Darch, J., White, P. and Andrianakis, I., Formant tracking linear prediction model using HMMs and Kalman filters for noisy speech processing, Computer Speech and Language 21 (3) : 543- 561

(2007) Zavarehei, E., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Noisy speech enhancement using harmonic-noise model and codebook-based post-processing, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 15 (4) : 1194- 1203

(2006) Zavarehei, E., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Inter-frame modeling of DFT trajectories of speech and noise for speech enhancement using Kalman filters, Speech Communication 48 (11) : 1545- 1555

(2006) Darch, J., Milner, B. and Vaseghi, S., MAP prediction of formant frequencies and voicing class from MFCC vectors in noise, Speech Communication 48 (11) : 1556- 1572

(2000) McCourt, P., Harte, N. and Vaseghi, S., Discriminative multi-resolution sub-band and segmental phonetic model combination, Electronic Letters 36 (3) : 270- 271

(1998) Hanna, P., Harte, N., Ming, J., Vaseghi, S. and Smith, FJ., Variation of features of interframe dependent HMM for speech recognition, Electronics Letters 34 (9) : 858- 859

Conference Papers

(2008) Milner, B., Darch, J. and Vaseghi, S., Applying noise compensation methods to robustly predict acoustic speech features from MFCC vectors in noise, 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008)

(2007) Zavarehei, E. and Vaseghi, S., Interpolation of lost speech segments using LP-HNM model with codebook-mapping post-processing, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2007)

(2007) Darch, J., Milner, B., Almajai, I. and Vaseghi, S., An investigation into the correlation and prediction of acoustic speech features from MFCC vectors, 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007)

(2007) Almajai, I., Milner, B., Darch, J. and Vaseghi, S., Visually-derived wiener filters for speech enhancement, 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007),

(2006) Vaseghi, S., Zavarehei, E. and Yan, Q., Speech bandwidth extension: extrapolations of spectral envelop and harmonicity quality of excitation, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006)

(2006) Vaseghi, S., Zavarehei, E. and Yan, Q., Speech bandwidth extension: extrapolations of spectral envelop and harmonicity quality of excitation, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006)

(2006) Zavarehei, E., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Temporal modelling and Kalman filtering of DFT trajectories for enhancement of noisy speech, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006)

(2006) Zavarehei, E., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Temporal modelling and kalman filtering of DFT trajectories for enhancement of noisy speech, 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006)

(2005) Zavarehei, E., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Speech enhancement using Kalman filters for restoration of short-time DFT trajectories, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2005)

(2005) Low, PH. and Vaseghi, S., Synthesising unseen context units using triphones in concatenative text to speech synthesisers, 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications/11th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (CITSA/ISAS 2005)

(2005) Low, PH. and Vaseghi, S., Applying F0, duration and power models with microprosody components in text to speech (TTS) synthesis, 47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005 on Multimedia Systems and Applications

(2005) Darch, J., Milner, B., Shao, X., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Predicting formant frequencies from MFCC vectors, 30th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'05)

(2005) Ming, J., Stewart, D. and Vaseghi, S., Speaker identification in unknown noisy conditions - a universal compensation approach, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP '05)

(2004) Yan, Q., Vaseghi, S., Rentzos, D. and CH, H., Analysis by synthesis of acoustic correlates of British, Australian and American accents, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'04)

(2004) Rentzos, D., Vaseghi, S., Yan, Q. and CH, H., Voice conversion through transformation of spectral and intonation features, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'04)

(2003) Yan, Q., Vaseghi, S., Rentzos, D., CH, H. and Turajlic, E., Analysis of acoustic correlates of British, Australian and American accents, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 03)

(2003) Rentzos, D., Vaseghi, S., Turajlic, E., Yan, Q. and CH, H., Transformation of speaker characteristics for voice conversion, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 03)

(2003) Low, PH., CH, H. and Vaseghi, S., Using estimated formants tracks for formants smoothing in text to speech (TTS) synthesis, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 03)

(2003) Yan, Q. and Vaseghi, S., Analysis, modelling and synthesis of formants of British, American and Australian accents, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03)

(2003) Turajlic, E., Rentzos, D., Vaseghi, S. and CH, H., Evaluation of methods for parameteric formant transformation in voice conversion, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03)

(2002) Yan, Q. and Vaseghi, S., A comparative analysis of UK and US English accents in recognition and synthesis, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'02)

(2002) Low, PH. and Vaseghi, S., Synthesis of unseen context and spectral and pitch contour smoothing in concatenated text to speech synthesis, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP '02)

(2000) Doherty, B., Vaseghi, S. and McCourt, P., Full covariance modelling and adaptation in sub-bands, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'00)

(2000) Chen, AM., Vaseghi, S. and McCourt, P., State based sub-band LP Wiener filters for speech enhancement in car environments, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'00)

(1999) McMahon, P., Harte, N., Vaseghi, S. and McCourt, P., Discriminative spectral-temporal multi-resolution features for speech recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '99)

(1998) McCourt, P., Vaseghi, S. and Harte, N., Multi-resolution cepstral features for phoneme recognition across speech sub-bands, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP '98)

(1997) Vaseghi, S., Harte, N. and Milner, B., Multi-resolution phonetic/segmental features and models for HMM-based speech recognition, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP '97)

(1996) Vaseghi, S. and Milner, B., A comparitive analysis of channel-robust features and channel equalization methods for speech recognition, 4th International Congress on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP '96 )

(2006) Ghorshi, S., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Comparative analysis of formants of British, Americal and Australian accents, INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing

(2006) Zavarehei, E., Vaseghi, S. and Yan, Q., Weighted codebook mapping for noisy speech enhancement using harmonic-noise model, INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing