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I am a Senior Lecturer in Signal Processing with the School of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications at The University of
New South Wales,
Prospective masters or PhD students, please contact me directly at 
to
discuss potential topics. Students looking for honours thesis topics, please
consult the school
database.
Academic Qualifications
B.E. (Hons), Ph.D., UNSW
PhD thesis: ″Wideband
extension of narrowband speech for enhancement and coding″
(full
text pdf).
Previous Research Appointments
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
(Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering), UNSW Asia,
Senior Researcher and Project Leader, National ICT
Researcher, National ICT
Senior Research Engineer, Motorola Labs (2001 - 2003)
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Previous Visiting Research
Appointments
Visiting Scientist, Human Language
Technologies Department, Institute
for Infocomms Research (I2R), A*STAR,
Conjoint Senior Lecturer,
Honorary Associate,
Teaching Experience | Professional Activities | Research Interests | Research
Grants | Publications | Patents
| Industry Experience | Contact Details
Teaching Experience
Year
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University
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Course
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Stage
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Role(s)
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Classes Taught
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2008
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UNSW
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ELEC9723 Speech Processing
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postgrad
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Lecturer, new lectures and lab design
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6 x 3 hours
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ENGG1000 Engineering Design and Innovation
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1
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12 x 5 hours
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Lecturer, Lab demonstrator
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4 x 1 hour, 10 x 4 hr
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2007
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UNSW
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XELT3010 Electronics
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3
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Lecturer-in-charge
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12 x 5 hours
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XELT3020 Signal Processing
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3
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Lecturer-in-charge
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6 x 5 hours
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2006
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UNSW
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ELEC9370 Digital Image Processing
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postgrad
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Lecturer
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4 x 3 hours
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ELEC9344 Speech and Audio Processing
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postgrad
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Lecturer
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2 x 3 hours
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2005
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INFO4010 Multimodal User Interaction
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honours
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Lecturer-in-charge, curriculum design
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4 x 2 hours
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UNSW
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ELEC9344 Speech and Audio Processing
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postgrad
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Lecturer
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2 x 3 hours
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2004
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SOFT3200 Software Development Project
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3
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Supervisor (2 groups)
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UNSW
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ELEC9344 Speech and Audio Processing
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postgrad
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Lecturer
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2 x 3 hours
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2003
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UNSW
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ELEC9344 Speech and Audio Processing
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postgrad
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Lecturer
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1 x 3 hours
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2002
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UNSW
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ELEC9342 Signal Processing and Applications
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postgrad
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Tutor, Lab demonstrator
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14 x 1-2 hours
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ELEC9344 Speech and Audio Processing
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postgrad
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Lecturer
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1 x 3 hours
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2001
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UNSW
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ELEC1011 Electrical Engineering
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1
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Invited lecture
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1 hour
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ELEC3004 Speech and Audio Processing
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3
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Lecture
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1 hour
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ELEC9344 Speech and Audio Processing
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postgrad
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Lecturer, new lab design
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1 x 3 hours
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2000
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UNSW
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ELEC9345 Neural Networks and Applications
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postgrad
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Lecture, plus some tutorials and labs, new lab
design
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1 x 2 hours
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ELEC4042 Digital Signal Processing
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4
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Lab demonstrator, new lab design
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14 x 4 hours
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1999
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UNSW
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ELEC3017 Electrical Engineering Design
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3
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Lab demonstrator
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14 x 6 hours
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ELEC4042 Digital Signal Processing
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4
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Lab demonstrator
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14 x 4 hours
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1998
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UNSW
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ELEC3017 Electrical Engineering Design
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3
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Lab demonstrator
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14 x 6 hours
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ELEC4042 Digital Signal Processing
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4
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Lab demonstrator
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14 x 4 hours
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1997
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UNSW
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ELEC3017 Electrical Engineering Design
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3
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Lab demonstrator
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14 x 6 hours
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Research
students
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Current: |
3 PhD
students (1 principal, 2 joint supervisor), 1 masters student (principal
supervisor) |
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Past: |
1 PhD
student (2008, now Postdoctoral Fellow in School of
EE&T, UNSW) |
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1 PhD
student (2008, now Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney) |
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1 Postdoctoral Fellow (2007, now Assistant Professor
at International Islamic University |
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1 Research Assistant (2005-2006, now a PhD student
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2 Masters students (2006; 2001 - now a researcher at
the Media Archiving Research Laboratory, |
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Many honours students: 6 in 2008 (one won CISRA and
EE&T Poster Competition Prizes), 1 in 2006 (USyd), 2 in 2005, 3 in 2004
(one now a PhD student at Stanford University), 6 in 2001. |
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2 Taste of Research Students (2008-09) (one won
NICTA Director’s Prize) |
Professional Activities
Professional Societies
Member, IEEE,
ISCA and ASSTA.
Refereeing -
Journals
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal
Processing (2009), IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2004,
2005, 2009), Speech Communications (2007 - 2009), Measurement Science and
Technology (2009), IEE Electronics Letters (2005 - 2009), EURASIP Journal on
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (2006, 2008), Int. J. on Computers and
Electrical Engineering (2008 - 2009), ACM Trans. Asian Language Information
Processing (2008), Physiological Measurement (2008), IEEE Journal of Selected
Topics in Signal Processing (2007), Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and
Signal Processing (2005).
Refereeing -
Conferences
IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and
Expo (2009), European Signal Processing Conference (2009), IEEE RIVF (2008),
Int. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communications Systems (2008), IEEE Int.
Symp. on Communications and Information Technologies (2007), IEEE Int. Conf. on
Information, Communications and Signal Processing (2007), IEEE Int. Symp. on
Communications and Information Tech. (2007), IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition
in Bioinformatics (2007), Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (2005, 2006),
Int. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2006), Int. Conf. on
Intelligent User Interfaces (2006, 2007), IEEE Int. Workshop on Horizontal
Interactive Human-Computer Systems (2006), Aust. Conference on Human-Computer
Interaction (2004), IEEE Region 10 TENCON Conference (2003), Int. Conf. on
Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) (1998).
Thesis
Examination
Curtin UT PhD thesis (2008), UNSW PhD thesis (2006),
two UNSW Masters theses (2005, 2001), MEngSc thesis (2007) and MPhil (2006).
Various honours theses from UNSW and USyd.
Conference
and Workshop Organization
Area Coordinator and Session
Chair, INTERSPEECH (2008).
Programme Committee Member, IEEE Workshop on Genomic
Signal Processing and Statistics (2006, 2007, 2009).
Programme Committee Member, IEEE Int. Conf. on
Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (2008).
Programme Committee Member, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia
Signal Processing (2008).
Programme Committee Member, Aust.
Software
Programme Committee Member,
HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI (VisHCI) (2006).
Programme Committee Member, Aust.
Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction: Workshop on Supporting Awareness in
Intense Distributed Collaboration (2006).
Co-chair, Int. Conf. on Inf.
Tech. Based Higher Education and Training: Workshop on Technologies,
Methodologies and Directions for Engineering Education (2006).
Session Chair, IEEE Int. Workshop
on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (2006).
Co-chair and Co-organiser,
NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop (2005).
Seminars and
Invited Talks
Epps, J., and Ambikairajah, E., ″Signal
Processing for Genomic Sequences″, invited tutorial, 5th IASTED Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern
Recognition and Applications (
Epps, J., ″Nuisance
Attribute Projection in Speaker Recognition″, seminar, Institute for Infocomms Research, A*STAR,
Epps, J., ″Signal
Processing in Biomedical Engineering″, seminar, UNSW Asia / Tan Tock Seng Hospital Seminar Series, Singapore, April
12th, 2007.
Epps, J. ″Co-worker
Awareness in Remote Collaboration over a Shared Application″, invited
presentation, CSIRO Media Science Meeting,
September 5th, 2006.
Epps, J. ″ViCAT: Intense
Remote Collaboration over Shared Creative Applications″, invited
presentation, Sydney University Media and
Technology Research Cluster Forum, March 1st, 2006.
Epps, J. ″A Study of
Integration Patterns During Multimodal Manual Gesture and Speech Input″,
invited presentation, NICTA Gestural Interaction Workshop, April
27-28th, 2005.
Epps, J. ″Fusion of Speech
and Manual Gesture Recognition-Based Inputs for Multimodal HCI″, invited
seminar, Smart Internet Technology CRC
Research Group, March 16th, 2005.
Chen, F., and Epps, J., ″Multimodal
User Interaction″, keynote speech at IEEE Int. Conf. on Signal
Processing (Beijing, China), August 31st, 2004.
Epps, J. ″Multimodal User
Interaction″, invited presentation, University
of Sydney Information Visualization Research Group, March 2004.
Seminars on
Introductory Signal Processing, Speech Recognition and Professional
Development, The
Scholarships
and Awards
Motorola BRAVO Award for Managing Product Group
Relationship during Technology Transfer (2003)
Gowrie Trust Fund Scholarship (1997 - 2000)
UNSW Co-op Scholarship (1992 - 1996)
Research
Interests
Multimodal systems, speech
recognition, speech and audio coding, speech enhancement, auditory modelling,
signal processing, statistical machine learning, genome signal processing
(microarray and sequence analysis).
Research Grants and Funding
Epps, J., Ying, H., and Huttley, G., “Investigation of
nucleosome structure using signal processing based periodicity measures”, UNSW
Faculty of Engineering Early Career Researcher Grant, 2009, A$30K.
Morrison, G. S., Rose, P., Ishihara, S., Ambikairajah,
E., Epps, J., Thiruvaran, T., Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J, and Ramos, D., ″Development and testing of a
forensic-voice comparison database for Australian English″,
ANU Linkage Pilot Grant / ARC Network in Human Communication Science, 2009,
A$4K.
Epps, J. R., and Ambikairajah, E., ″Speech
Signal Processing Laboratory″, UNSW Major Research Equipment and
Infrastructure Scheme, 2008, A$61K.
Epps, J. R., Leedham, G., Pervouchine, V., and
Ambikairajah, E., ″Speaker Authentication Research Laboratory″,
UNSW Asia Group Seed Funding Scheme, 2007, SGP$38.6K (A$31K).
NICTA research project funding and leadership:
Epps, J., ″Braccetto: Intense Remote
Collaboration over a Shared Workspace″, Endorsed by NICTA Research
Management Coordination Committee, 2006-2009, ~A$450K p.a. (NICTA portion of proposal: Kellar, B, Vernik, R., Epps,
J., and Schremmer, C., ″HxI: [braccetto] Business Case″, 2006-2009,
~A$2.5m p.a.)
Project leader, ″Visualisation and Interaction
on a Collaborative Access Table″, 2005-2006, ~A$380K p.a.
Epps, J., and Chen, F., Funding support from ARC
Network in Human Communication Science for NICTA-HCSNet MMUI Workshop 2005,
A$10K.
Publications
Edited Conference Proceedings
[1]nnChen, F., and Epps, J, Proceedings of MMUI 2005
(NICTA-HCSNet Multimodal User Interaction Workshop), Conf. in Research and
Practice in Information Technology, vol. 57, 2006, ISBN 1-920-68239-2.
Refereed Journal Articles
[11] nEpps,
J., ″Fast approximate computation of non-uniform DFTs for biological
sequence analysis″, to appear in IET
Electronics Letters, 2009.
[10]nThiruvaran,
T., Nosratighods, M., Ambikairajah, E., and Epps, J., ″Computationally
efficient frame-averaged FM feature extraction for speaker recognition″,
to appear in IET Electronics Letters, vol. 45, no. 6, 2009, pp. 335-337.
[9]nnEpps,
J., ″A Hybrid Technique for Periodicity Characterisation of Genomic
Sequence Data″, to appear in EURASIP J.
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 2009.
[8]nnAkhtar,
M., Epps, J., and
[7]nnThiruvaran,
T., Ambikairajah, E., and Epps, J., ″Extraction of FM components from
speech signals using an all-pole model″, IET
Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 6, March
2008, pp. 449-450.
[6]nnGunawan,
T. S., Epps, J., and Ambikairajah, E., ″A Boosting Approach to Exon
Detection in DNA Sequences″, IET Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 4, 2008, pp. 323-324.
[5]nnSong,
L., and Epps, J., ″Classifying EEG for Brain-Computer Interface: Learning
Optimal Filters for Dynamical System Features″, J. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2007.
[4]nnEpps, J. R., Ambikairajah, E., and Thiruvaran, T., ″Robust FM demodulation
of discrete-time signals using a least squares differential ratio″, IET
Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no.
13, June 2007, pp. 727-729. (errata)
[3]nnAmbikairajah, E., Epps, J., and Sheng, M., ″Signal
Processing Education using the Tablet PC and Electronic Whiteboard″, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol.
24, iss. 1., January 2007, pp. 130-133 (invited paper).
[2]nnEpps, J. R., and Holmes, W. H., ″Coding
wideband speech at narrowband bit rates″, Acoustics Australia,
vol. 29, no. 1, April 2001, pp. 13-16.
[1]nnEpps, J., Smith, J. R., and Wolfe,
J., ″A novel instrument to measure acoustic resonances of the vocal tract
during speech″, Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 8, 1997,
pp. 1112-1121.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
[42]nNguyen, V.,
Epps, J., and Bailey, J., ″Information
Theoretic Measures for Clusterings Comparison: Is a Correction for Chance
Necessary?″, to appear in Proc. Int. Conf. on Machine Learning
(Montreal, Canada), 2009.
[41]nNguyen, V., and
Epps, J., ″A Novel Approach
for Automatic Number of Clusters Detection in Microarray Data based on
Consensus Clustering″, to appear in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Bioinformatics and
Bioengineering (Taipei, Taiwan), 2009.
[40]nLi, H., Ma, B.,
Lee, K.-A., Sun, H., Zhu, D., Sim, K. C., You, C., Tong, R., Karkkainen, I.,
Huang, C.-L., Pervouchine, V., Guo, W., Li, Y., Dai, L., Nosratighods, M.,
Tharmarajah, T., Epps, J., Ambikairajah, E., Chng, E.-S., Schultz, T., Jin, Q., ″The I4U system in NIST 2008 speaker recognition
evaluation″, to appear in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech and
Sig. Proc. (Taipei, Taiwan), 2009.
The I4U submission was ranked
among the top few of 46 in the NIST SRE 2008.
[39]nNosratighods,
M., Thiruvaran, T., Epps, J., Ambikairajah, E., Ma, B., Li, H., ″Evaluation of a Fused FM and Cepstral-Based Speaker
Recognition System on the NIST 2008 SRE″, to appear in Proc. IEEE
Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech and Sig. Proc. (Taipei, Taiwan), 2009.
[38]nVidhyasaharan,
S.,
[37]nMaunder,
D. J., Ambikairajah, E., Epps, J., and Celler, B., ″Dual-Microphone
Sounds of Daily Life Classification for Telemonitoring in a Noisy Environment″,
in Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (
[36]nThiruvaran,
T.,
[35]nVidhyasaharan,
S.,
S. Vidhyasaharan won
the ASSTA New Researcher Award 2008
with this paper.
[34]nEpps,
J., Ambikairajah, E., and Akhtar, M., ″An Integer Period DFT for
Biological Sequence Processing″, in Proc.
IEEE Workshop on Genomic Signal
Processing and Statistics (
[33]nVidhyasaharan,
S.,
[32]nAkhtar,
M.,
[31]nAmbikairajah,
E., Epps, J., and Freney, S. J., ″A Self-Directed Learning Approach to
Signal Processing Education″, to appear in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech and Sig. Proc. (Las Vegas,
NV), 2008, pp. 2645-2648.
[30]nVidhyasaharan,
S.,
[29]nThiruvaran,
T.,
[28]nAkhtar,
M.,
[27]nVidhyasaharan,
S.,
[26]nAkhtar,
M., Epps, J., and
[25]nEpps,
J., and Close, B. S., ″A Study of Co-worker Awareness in Remote
Collaboration over a Shared Application″, in Proc. ACM Int. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San
Jose, CA), 2007, pp. 2363-2368.
[24]nNosratighods,
M.,
[23]nAkhtar,
M., Epps, J., and
[22]nNosratighods,
M.,
[21]nLogeswaran,
S.,
[20]nSong,
L., and Epps, J., ″Classifying EEG for Brain-Computer Interfaces:
Learning Optimal Filters for Dynamical System Features″, in Proc. Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (
[19]nLogeswaran,
S.,
[18]nEpps,
J., Lichman, S., and Wu, M., ″A Study of Hand Shape Use in Tabletop
Gesture Interaction″, in Proc. ACM
Int. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montreal, Canada), 2006.
[17]nSong,
L., and Epps, J., ″Improving Separability of EEG Signals during Motor
Imagery with an Efficient Circular Laplacian″, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech and Sig. Proc. (Toulouse,
France), vol. II, 2006, pp. 1048-1051.
[16]nAllen,
F.,
[15]nAllen,
F.,
[14]nChen,
F., Choi, E., Epps, J., Lichman, S., Ruiz, N., Shi, Y., Taib, R., and Wu, M., ″A
study of manual gesture-based selection for the PEMMI multimodal transport
management interface″, in Proc.
Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (
[13]nEpps,
J., and Choi, E., ″An Energy Search Approach to Variable Frame Rate
Front-End Processing for Robust ASR″, in Proc. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
(EUROSPEECH), (
[12]nAmbikairajah,
E., Epps, J., Sheng, M., Celler, B., and Chen, P., ″Experiences with an Electronic
Whiteboard Teaching Laboratory and Tablet PC-Based Lecture Presentations″,
in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust.,
Speech and Sig. Proc. (Philadephia, PA), vol. V, 2005, pp. 565-568.
[11]nEpps,
J., Oviatt, S., and Chen, F., ″Integration of Speech and Gesture Inputs
during Multimodal Interaction″, in Proc
Aust. Int. Conf. on Computer-Human Interaction (
[10]nGunawan,
T. S.,
[9]nnEpps, J., and
[8]nnChoi, E., Holter, T., Epps, J., and Gopalakrishnan, A., ″Temporal
structure constrained transformation for speaker adaptation″, in Proc IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing (Hong Kong, China), vol. 1, 2003, pp. 564-567.
[7]nnAmbikairajah, E., Epps, J., Sheng, M., and Celler, B., ″Evaluation
of a virtual teaching laboratory for signal processing education″, in Proc
IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (Hong Kong,
China), vol. 3, 2003, pp. 757-760.
[6]nnThomson, M., Boland, S., Smithers, M., Wu, M. and Epps,
J., ″Decomposition of speech into voiced and unvoiced components based on
a state-space signal model″, in Proc IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing (Hong Kong, China), vol. 1, 2003, pp. 160-163.
[5]nnAmbikairajah, A., Epps, J. and Lin, L., ″Wideband
speech and audio coding using gammatone filter banks″, in Proc IEEE
Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (Salt Lake City,
U.S.), 2001, pp. 773-776.
[4] nnEpps, J. and Holmes, W. H., ″A new very low bit
rate wideband speech coder with a sinusoidal highband model″, in Proc.
IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (Sydney, Aust.), vol. II, 2001, pp.
349-352
[3] nnEpps, J. and Holmes, W. H., ″A new technique for
wideband enhancement of narrowband speech″, in Proc. IEEE Speech
Coding Workshop (
[2] nnEpps, J. and Holmes, W. H., ″Speech enhancement
using STC-based bandwidth extension″, in Proc. International
Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Sydney, Aust.), 1998, pp.
519-522. (pdf)
[1] nnEpps,
J., Dowd, A., Smith, J. and Wolfe, J., ″Real time measurements of the
vocal tract resonances during speech″, in Proc.
EUROSPEECH (Rhodes, Greece), 1997, vol. 2, pp. 721-724. (html)
Refereed Minor Conference
Proceedings
[39]nThiruvaran,
T., Epps, J., Ambikairajah, E., and Jones, E., ″An investigation of
sub-band FM feature extraction in speaker recognition″, to appear in Proc. IET Irish Signals and Systems Conf. (
[38]nAkhtar,
M., Ambikairajah, E., and Epps, J., ″Digital signal processing techniques
for gene finding in eukaryotes″, in Proc.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Image and
Signal Processing (Cherbourg-Octeville,
[37]nGunawan,
T. S., Ambikairajah, E., and Epps, J., ″Higher order statistics and neural
network based multi-classifier system for gene identification″, in Proc. Int. Conf. on Signal Processing and Communications Systems (Gold Coast, Aust.), 2007.
[36]nAmbikairajah,
E., Freney, S. J., Epps, J., and Hesketh, T., ″Self-Directed Project Based
Learning - A Case Study″, in Proc.
18th Conf. of the Australasian
Association for Engineering Education (Melbourne,
Aust.), 2007.
[35]nAkhtar,
M., Ambikairajah, E., and Epps, J., ″Paired Comprehensive autoregressive
modelling for classification of genomic sequences″, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (Singapore), 2007, pp. 1-5.
[34]nGunawan,
T. S., Ambikairajah, E., and Epps, J., ″A signal boosting technique for
gene prediction″, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Communications and
Signal Processing (Singapore), 2007, pp. 1-4.
[33]nThiruvaran,
T., Ambikairajah, E., and Epps, J., ″Group delay features for speaker
recognition″, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Communications and
Signal Processing (Singapore), 2007, pp. 1-5.
[32]nNosratighods,
M., Ambikairajah, E., Epps, J. and Carey, M., ″Score weighting in speaker
verification systems″, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Communications and
Signal Processing (Singapore), 2007, pp. 1-4.
[31]nAmbikairajah,
E., Epps, J., Sheng, M., and Celler, B., ″Virtual Classroom on a DVD -
Revisiting Live Lectures″, in Proc.
ICEIT Workshop, World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS),
(
[30]nAkhtar,
M., Epps, J., and
[29]nSchremmer,
C., Krumm-Heller, A., Vernik, R., and Epps, J., ″Design Discussion of the [braccetto]
Research Platform: Rapidly Composable and Adaptable Telepresence Workstations
for Distributed Intensely Collaborating Teams of Teams″, in Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction (
[28]nThiruvaran,
T.,
[27]nNosratighods,
M.,
M. Nosratighods won the ASSTA New
Researcher Award 2006 with this paper.
[26]nChoi,
E., and Epps, J., ″A Novel Front-end Based on Variable Frame Rate
Analysis and Mel-filterbank Output Compensation for Robust ASR″, in Proc. 11th
Conf. on Speech Science and Technology (Auckland,
New Zealand), 2006.
[25]nAmbikairajah,
E., Epps, J., Hesketh, T., and Sheng, M., ″Factors Affecting Engineering Student Learning
and Study Behaviour″, in Proc. 17th Conf. of the Australasian Association
for Engineering Education (
[24]nMubarak,
O.,
[23]nAkhtar,
M.,
[22]nSchremmer,
C., Epps, J., and Vernik, R. ″Distributed Intense Collaborative Interaction -
Research Challenges in eResearch″, to appear in Proc. British HCI 2006 Workshop on Combining Visualisation and
Interaction to Facilitate Scientific Exploration and Discovery (London,
UK), vol. 2, pp. 260-263, September 2006.
[21]nAmbikairajah,
E., Epps, J., Sheng, M., and Celler, B. ″Revisiting Live Lectures: A Shift in Paradigm ?″,
in Proc. IEEE 7th Int. Conf.
on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (Sydney,
Aust.), 2006, pp. 1-4.
[20]nAmbikairajah,
E., Epps, J., Sheng, M., and Celler, B., ″A New Mode of Teaching for Self-Directed Learning″,
in Proc. IEE Int. Conf. on Engineering
Education (
[19]nMubarak,
O.,
[18]nChen,
F., Close, B., Eades, P., Epps, J., Hutterer, P., Lichman, S., Takatsuka, M.,
Thomas, B., and Wu, M., ″ViCAT: Visualisation and Interaction on a
Collaborative Access Table″, in Proc.
1st IEEE Int. Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (
[17]nChoi,
E., and Epps, J., ″On the Use of Forward Temporal Masking and Cumulative
Distribution Mapping for Noisy Speech Recognition″, in Proc. IEEE Int. Region 10 Conference (TENCON)
(Melbourne, Aust.), November 2005.
[16]nEpps,
J., ″A new approach to variable frame rate front-end processing for
robust speech recognition″, in Proc.
IEEE 8th Int. Symp on Sig. Proc. and its Appl. (Sydney, Aust.), August
2005, pp. 723-726.
[15]nAmbikairajah,
E., and Epps, J., ″Gene and exon prediction using time domain algorithms″,
in Proc. IEEE 8th Int. Symp on Sig. Proc.
and its Appl. (Sydney, Aust.), August 2005, pp. 199-202.
[14]nMubarak,
O.,
[13]nAkhtar,
M.,
[12]nAmbikairajah,
E., Epps, J., Sheng, M., and Celler, B., ″Evaluation of an electronic
whiteboard-based computing laboratory″, in Proc. Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Inf. & Comm. Tech. in Education
(Caceres, Spain), June 2005, pp. 748-751.
[11]nSheng,
M., Celler, B.,
[10]nAkhtar,
M.,
[9]nnEpps, J., and
[8]nnGunawan, T. S.,
[7]nnHolter, T., Epps, J., Gopalakrishnan, A., and Choi, E., ″Affine
transformations in speaker adaptation - why simpler is better″, in Proc.
9th Aust. Int. Conf. on Speech Science and Tech. (Melbourne, Aust.), 2002,
pp. 10-15. (pdf)
[6]nnChoi, E. H.C., Holter, T., Epps, J., and Gopalakrishnan, A., ″Exploitation
of feature vector structure for speaker adaptation″, in Proc. 9th
Aust. Int. Conf. on Speech Science and Tech. (Melbourne, Aust.), 2002, pp.
172-177. (pdf)
[5]nnThomson, M., Boland, S., Smithers, M., Wu, M. and Epps, J., ″Decomposition
of speech into voiced and unvoiced components based on a Kalman filterbank″,
in Proc. 9th Aust. Int. Conf. on Speech Science and Tech. (Melbourne,
Aust.), 2002, pp. 118-123.
[4]nnO″Malley, F.,
[3]nnAmbikairajah, E., Epps, J., and Kilmartin, L., ″Auditory
domain-based time-frequency parameterization for speech and audio coding″,
in Proc. Irish Signals and Systems Conf. (Maynooth, Ireland), 2001.
[2]nnAmbikairajah, E., Epps, J., O″Malley, F., and Kilmartin, L., ″Pitch
and voicing estimation of speech using auditory domain time-frequency analysis″,
in Proc. Irish Signals and Systems Conf. (
[1]nnEpps, J. and Holmes, W. H., ″Wideband
speech coding at narrowband bit rates″, in Proc. 8th Conf.
on Speech Science and Technology (Canberra, Aust.), 2000, pp. 398-403.
Non-Refereed
Publications
Epps, J., Response to interview questions, in
Chapter 13 of SIMILAR Dreams - Multimodal
Interfaces in Our Future Life, Presses universitaires de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Nueve, 2005, pp. 294-298, ISBN 2-930344-91-1.
Patents
Issued
″Method
and apparatus for estimating a spectral model of a signal used to enhance a
narrowband signal″, Australian Patent Number 754612, issued March 2003.
″Method
and apparatus for providing a speaker adapted speech recognition model set″,
US Patent Application Number 10/368756,
filed August 2004, issued March 2008.
Filed
″Front-end
processing of speech signals″, Australian Patent Application Number
2005905604, filed September 2006.
Industry Experience
Motorola Labs,
Motorola Labs, Sydney, Oct. 1999 - Jan. 2000 -
Postgraduate Research Intern, Speech Laboratory, working mainly on precise
pitch determination for speech coding systems.
Ci Technologies,
GEC Alsthom, Sydney, Jul. 1995 - Dec. 1995 - Trainee
Engineer, Projects Division, working mainly on SCADA systems for remote control
of hydroelectric power stations.
Alcatel
Energy
Contact
Details
Phone Number:
nnn+61 2 9385 6579 (Work)
Fax Number:
nnn+61 2 9385 5993 (Work)
E-mail Address:
Internet:
nhttp://maestro.ee.unsw.edu.au/~julien/
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UNSW
NSW 2052