School of Science, Engineering & Environment

Intelligent and adaptive acoustics in buildings via blind room acoustic parameter estimation (2010)
Book Chapter
Li, F. (2010). Intelligent and adaptive acoustics in buildings via blind room acoustic parameter estimation. In 2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology (V3-663). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCET.2010.5485761

From an architectural acoustics perspective multi-purpose enclosures in buildings with variable and adaptive acoustics are difficult to achieve. However, such spaces may become more feasible using amplified sound with the aid of signal processing and... Read More about Intelligent and adaptive acoustics in buildings via blind room acoustic parameter estimation.

A combined blind source separation and adaptive noise cancellation scheme with potential application in blind acoustic parameter extraction (2008)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Chambers, J., Kendrick, P., Cox, T., & Li, F. (2008). A combined blind source separation and adaptive noise cancellation scheme with potential application in blind acoustic parameter extraction. Neurocomputing, 71(10-12), 2127-2139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2007.09.019

Room acoustic parameters such as reverberation time (RT) can be extracted from passively received speech signals by certain ‘blind’ methods, thereby mitigating the need for good controlled excitation signals or prior information of the room geometry.... Read More about A combined blind source separation and adaptive noise cancellation scheme with potential application in blind acoustic parameter extraction.

Blind estimation of reverberation parameters for non-diffuse rooms (2007)
Journal Article
Kendrick, P., Li, F., Cox, T., Zhang, Y., & Chambers, J. (2007). Blind estimation of reverberation parameters for non-diffuse rooms. Acta acustica united with Acustica, 93(5), 760-770

Reverberation time is an important objective parameter for the acoustics of enclosed spaces. Blind estimation of the reverberation time from naturally occurring sound sources alleviates the logistical constraints of traditional measurement methods, a... Read More about Blind estimation of reverberation parameters for non-diffuse rooms.

A neural network model for speech intelligibility quantification (2007)
Journal Article
Li, F., & Cox, T. (2007). A neural network model for speech intelligibility quantification. Applied Soft Computing, 7(1), 145-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2005.05.002

A neural network based model is developed to quantify speech intelligibility by blind-estimating speech transmission index, an objective rating index for speech intelligibility of transmission channels, from transmitted speech signals without resort... Read More about A neural network model for speech intelligibility quantification.

Room acoustic parameter extraction from music signals (2006)
Journal Article
Kendrick, P., Cox, T., Zhang, Y., Chambers, J., & Li, F. (2006). Room acoustic parameter extraction from music signals. Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 5, V-801. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1661397

A new method, employing machine learning techniques and a modified low frequency envelope spectrum estimator, for estimating important room acoustic parameters including reverberation time (RT) and early decay time (EDT) from received music signals h... Read More about Room acoustic parameter extraction from music signals.

Hidden auxiliary media channels in audio signals by perceptually insignificant component replacement (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Jackson, T., Li, F., & Yates, K. (2005, July). Hidden auxiliary media channels in audio signals by perceptually insignificant component replacement. Presented at 2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This paper proposes a method for the formation of an auxiliary media channel within a host signal. Using a psychoacoustic frequency masking model, perceptually insignificant subband components of the host audio signal are identified and removed. The... Read More about Hidden auxiliary media channels in audio signals by perceptually insignificant component replacement.

Handwriting authentication by envelopes of sound signature (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Li, F. (2004, August). Handwriting authentication by envelopes of sound signature. Presented at 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004., Cambridge, United Kingdom

Frictions between a rigid-nib pen and paper result in audible sounds that are correlated with the dynamics of writing. Such writing-sounds were previously used as a biometric identity to achieve writer authentication. This paper presents an alternati... Read More about Handwriting authentication by envelopes of sound signature.

A neural network for blind identification of speech transmission index (2003)
Journal Article
Li, F., & Cox, T. (2003). A neural network for blind identification of speech transmission index. Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2, II-757. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2003.1202477

A hybrid neural network model is proposed to determine the speech transmission index of a transmission channel from transmitted speech signals without resort to prior knowledge of original speech. It comprises a Hilbert transform pre-processor, a PCA... Read More about A neural network for blind identification of speech transmission index.

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