Towards bio-responsive control for music (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, D., Murphy, D., & Fazenda, B. (2017, December). Towards bio-responsive control for music. Presented at DMRN+12 : Digital Music Research Network, Queen Mary University London

Music and audio applications are well suited to tactile control. In sound and music computing there can be a disconnect between design of human-computer interfacing and application congruent design. A categorical approach is proposed, considering act... Read More about Towards bio-responsive control for music.

Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. (2017, November). Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers. Presented at Reproduced Sound 2017, Nottingham, UK

Hearing loss affects one in six people in the United Kingdom and, given an ageing population, this figure is increasing.1 Numerous studies highlight that improvements in the intelligibility of television sound are required to increase television’s... Read More about Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers.

Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. (2017, November). Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes. Presented at Reproduced Sound, Southampton, UK

As an acoustic scene becomes more complex listeners increasingly rely on complementary intelligibility cues, such as context and language structure, to understand speech. Despite the role salient non-speech audio elements, like sound effects, play in... Read More about Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes.

Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pozo, M., Chiky, R., Meziane, F., & Metais, E. (2017, November). Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions. Presented at 33ème conférence sur la Gestion de Données — Principes, Technologies et Applications, Nancy, France

The cold-start is the situation in which the recommender system has no or not enough information about the (new) users/items i.e. their ratings/feedback; hence, the recommendations are not well performed. This issue is commonly encountered in techniq... Read More about Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions.

Automatic ROI detection and classification of the Achilles tendon ultrasound images (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Benrabha, J., & Meziane, F. (2017, October). Automatic ROI detection and classification of the Achilles tendon ultrasound images. Presented at International Conference on Internet of Things and Machine Learning (IML2017), Liverpool, United Kingdom

Ultrasound (US) imaging plays an important role in medical imaging technologies. It is widely used because of its ease of use and low cost compared to other imaging techniques. Specifically, ultrasound imaging is used in the detection of the Achil... Read More about Automatic ROI detection and classification of the Achilles tendon ultrasound images.

Consumers’ trust and popularity of negative posts in social media : a case study on the integration between B2C and C2C business models (2017)
Presentation / Conference
AlSheikh, S., Shaalan, S., & Meziane, F. (2017, October). Consumers’ trust and popularity of negative posts in social media : a case study on the integration between B2C and C2C business models. Presented at 4th International Conference on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2017), Krakow, Poland

Trust can be defined as the vulnerability of trustor towards trustee to meet certain expectations. This paper extends the definition of trust to cover digital world and illustrate the trust model used by most of nowadays online stores. The social... Read More about Consumers’ trust and popularity of negative posts in social media : a case study on the integration between B2C and C2C business models.

A POS-based preordering approach for English-to-Arabic statistical machine translation (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hadj Ameur, M., Guessoum, A., & Meziane, F. (2017, October). A POS-based preordering approach for English-to-Arabic statistical machine translation. Presented at International Conference on Arabic Language Processing (ICALP’17), Fez, Morocco

In this work, we present a POS-based preordering approach that tackles both long- and short-distance reordering phenomena. Syntactic unlexicalized reordering rules are automatically extracted from a parallel corpus using only word alignment and a so... Read More about A POS-based preordering approach for English-to-Arabic statistical machine translation.

Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pozo, M., Chiky,, R., Meziane, F., & Metais, E. (2017, September). Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions. Presented at 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, Nicosia, Cyprus

The cold-start is the situation in which the recommender system has no or not enough information about the (new) users/items, i.e. their ratings/feedback; hence, the recommendations are not accurate. Active learning techniques for recommender system... Read More about Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions.

A novel, soft, bending actuator for use in power assist and rehabilitation exoskeletons (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2017, September). A novel, soft, bending actuator for use in power assist and rehabilitation exoskeletons. Presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada

This article presents the development of a fully soft, exoskeleton robot for power augmentation and rehabilitation of a human wrist joint. The system is powered by novel bending pneumatic muscles which have been combined with contractor pneumatic mus... Read More about A novel, soft, bending actuator for use in power assist and rehabilitation exoskeletons.

Perceptually-motivated generation of electric guitar timbres using an interactive genetic algorithm (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A. (2017, September). Perceptually-motivated generation of electric guitar timbres using an interactive genetic algorithm. Presented at 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, Salford, UK

This paper presents a system for the interactive modification of electric guitar timbre. A genetic algorithm was used to explore the parameter space of a simplified re-amping circuit, which consisted of an initial high-pass filter, a soft-clipping ci... Read More about Perceptually-motivated generation of electric guitar timbres using an interactive genetic algorithm.

On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., Loughran, R., & Fazenda, B. (2017, September). On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production. Presented at 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP 2017), Salford, UK

Intelligent music production tools aim to assist the user by automating music production tasks. Many previous systems sought to create the best possible mix based on technical parameters but rarely has subjectivity been directly incorporated. This pa... Read More about On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production.

Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016 (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A. (2017, September). Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016. Presented at 20th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-17), Edinburgh, UK

This paper presents the co-authorship network of the DAFx conference series, from its inception in 1998 to the present, along with subsequent analysis. In total 1,281 unique authors have contributed 1,175 unique submissions to this conference series.... Read More about Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016.

An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Oleiwi, H., Wang, Y., Curioni, M., Augusthus Nelson, L., Chen, X., & Shabalin, I. (2017, September). An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete. Presented at 20th International Corrosion Congress & Process Safety Congress (EUROCORR 2017), Prague

This paper reports an experimental study on the influence of chloride contamination on the polarization resistance, concrete resistivity, and the potential shift of concrete reinforcement under different cathodic protection (CP) current densities. Re... Read More about An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete.

Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Oleiwi, H., Wang, Y., Curioni, M., Augusthus Nelson, L., Chen, X., & Shabalin, I. (2017, September). Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water. Presented at 20th International Corrosion Congress & Process Safety Congress (EUROCORR 2017), Prague

Cathodic protection (CP) has been approved in practice to be an effective technique to protect steel reinforcement in concrete from corrosion under severe environmental conditions. Using constant current for CP is the most popular approach in practic... Read More about Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water.

Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Sudarsono, A., Lam, Y., & Davies, W. (2017, August). Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment. Presented at INTER-NOISE 2017, Hong Kong

Previous studies have shown relationships between sound objects by grouping general sound objects according to how people perceive them (i.e. positively or negatively), but not according to how specific sound objects and their interaction affect so... Read More about Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment.

Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Yousif, K., & Li, F. (2017, August). Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach. Presented at 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2017), Luton, UK

Speaker recognition has been developed into a relatively mature state over the past few decades through continuous research and development work. Existing methods typically use the robust features extracted from noise and reverberation free speech si... Read More about Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach.

Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Francombe, J., Mason, R., Jackson, P., Brookes, T., Hughes, R., Woodcock, J., …Pike, C. (2017, August). Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction. Presented at AM '17: Audio Mostly 2017, London, United Kingdom

Whilst it is possible to create exciting, immersive listening experiences with current spatial audio technology, the required systems are generally difficult to install in a standard living room. However, in any living room there is likely to already... Read More about Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction.

Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Laurent, M., Jemai, A., & Attia, R. (2017, July). Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications. Presented at SECRYPT 2017 : 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Madrid, Spain

In this paper, we propose a novel constant-size threshold attribute-based signcryption scheme for securely sharing data through public clouds. Our proposal has several advantages. First, it provides flexible cryptographic access control, while prese... Read More about Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications.

An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Bones, O., Cox, T., & Davies, W. (2017, July). An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy. Presented at 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration ICSV24, London, UK

In an attempt to cultivate standardization in soundscape reporting Brown, Kang and Gjestland offered an influential schema by which the acoustic environment is divided initially into indoor and outdoor environments, and within each into further cate... Read More about An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy.

Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Tansey, N., Waddington, D., & Davies, W. (2017, July). Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments. Presented at 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration ICSV24, London

The aim of this paper is to review current research on materials and methods that can be incorporated within local environment and building design concepts to mitigate noise due to deliveries. The use of innovative materials, design and master planni... Read More about Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments.