Papers

• Jun Hou, Lawrence Rabiner, and Sorin Dusan, " Parallel and Hierarchical Speech Feature Classification Using Frame and Segment-Based Methods " INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2008 Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 September 2008

• Sorin Dusan, " Vocal Tract Length during Speech Production, " INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2007 Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 27-31, 2007.

• Jun Hou, Lawrence Rabiner, and Sorin Dusan, " On the Use of Time-Delay Neural Networks for Highly Accurate Classification of Stop Consonants, " INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2007 Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 27-31, 2007.

• Chin-Hui Lee, Mark Clements, Sorin Dusan, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Keith Johnson, Biing-Hwang Juang, and Lawrence Rabiner, " An Overview on Automatic Speech Attribute Transcription (ASAT), " INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2007 Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 27-31, 2007.

• Sorin Dusan and Sriram Ramachandran, " Flexible Speech and Pen Interaction with Handheld Devices," Invited, The 4th Romanian Academy Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania, May 2007.

• Sorin Dusan, " On the Relevance of some Spectral and Temporal Patterns for Vowel Classification, " Speech Communication, vol. 49, no. 1, pp.71-82, Jan. 2007.

• Sorin Dusan, James L. Flanagan, Amod Karve, and Mridul Balaraman " Speech Compression by Polynomial Approximation, " IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 387-395, Feb. 2007.

• Sorin Dusan and Lawrence Rabiner, " On the Relation between Maximum Spectral Transition Positions and Phone Boundaries, " INTERSPEECH/ICSLP 2006 Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Sep. 17-21, 2006.

• Sorin Dusan, " On the Distribution of Information and Instrinsic Variability for Classification of Coarticulated Vowels, " ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation Toulouse, France, May 20, 2006.

• Jun Hou, Lawrence Rabiner, and Sorin Dusan, " Automatic Speech Attribute Transcription (ASAT) - The Front End Processor, " ICASSP 2006 Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.

• Sorin Dusan, " On the Nature of Acoustic Information in Identification of Coarticulated Vowels, " INTERSPEECH-EUROSPEECH 2005 Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2005.

• Sorin Dusan and Larry Rabiner, " On Integrating Insights from Human Speech Perception into Automatic Speech Recognition, " INTERSPEECH-EUROSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2005.

• Sorin Dusan, " Estimation of Speaker's Height and Vocal Tract Length from Speech Signal, " INTERSPEECH-EUROSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2005.

• Sorin Dusan and Larry Rabiner, " Can Automatic Speech Recognition Learn more from Human Speech Perception," Invited, The 3rd Romanian Academy Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 2005.

• Sorin Dusan, " Non-Monotonic Spectral Transitions between Successive Phonemes, " Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(4), p. 2479(A), 2004.

• Mridul Balaraman, Sorin Dusan, and James Flanagan, " Supplementary Features for Improving Phone Recognition, " Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(4), p. 2479(A), 2004.

• Rajesh Chandrasekaran, Sorin Dusan, and James Flanagan, " User Expertise in Speech Centered Multimodal Human Computer Interaction, " Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(4), p. 2482(A), 2004.

• Sorin Dusan, " Effects of Phonetic Contexts on the Duration of Phonetic Segments in Fluent Read Speech, " International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, Oct. 2004.

• Sorin Dusan, James L. Flanagan, Amod Karve, and Mridul Balaraman, " Speech Coding Using Trajectory Compression and Multiple Sensors, " International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea, Oct. 2004.

• Sorin Dusan, " Spectral Variability at the Transition between Successive Phonemes, " 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, U.S.A., May 2004.

• Sorin Dusan, Gregory J. Gadbois, and James Flanagan,   Multimodal Interaction on PDA’s Integrating Speech and Pen Inputs," EUROSPEECH 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003
  

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " A System for Multimodal Dialogue and Language Acquisition," Invited, The 2nd Romanian Academy Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, Apr. 2003.

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " Low Bit Rate Speech Coding Using Spectral Trajectory Modeling," The First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2002.

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " Adaptive Dialog Based upon Multimodal Language Acquisition, " In Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Oct. 2002

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " An Adaptive Dialogue System Using Multimodal Language Acquisition, " In Proceedings of the International CLASS Workshop: Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2002

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " Adaptive Interface for Spoken Dialog," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 111, No. 5, Pt. 2, 5aSC34, 2002.

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " Human Language Acquisition by Computers, " In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics, Distance Learning and Intelligent Communication Systems, Malta, Sept. 2001.

• Sorin Dusan, " Methods for Integrating Phonetic and Phonological Knowledge in Speech Inversion, " In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech, Signal and Image Processing, Malta, Sept. 2001.

• Sorin Dusan and Li Deng, " Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion Using Dynamical and Phonological Constraints, " In Proceedings of the 5th Seminar on Speech Production: Models and Data, Kloster Seeon, Germany, May 1-4, 2000.

• Sorin Dusan and Li Deng, " Vocal-Tract Length Normalization for Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping Using Neural Networks, Abstract, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 106, No. 4, Pt. 2, 2pSC5, 1999.

• Sorin Dusan and Li Deng, " Recovering Vocal Tract Shapes form MFCC Parameters," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, 30th November-4th December , 1998.

• Sorin Dusan and Li Deng, " Estimation of Articulatory Parameters from Speech Acoustics by Kalman Filtering," In Proceedings of the Inaugural CITO Researcher Retreat, Hamilton, Canada, 1998.

• Sorin Dusan, Li Deng and Andrew Wong, " Classification of Articulatory and Acoustic Patterns of Speech in the Task Spaces," In Proceedings of the TRIO/ITRC Researcher Retreat, Kingston, Canada, 1997.

• Sorin Dusan, "Using an Artificial Excitation Source for Voiced Sound Production," In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Signal Processing, Aplications and Technology, Boston, USA, 1995.

• Sorin Dusan and Victor Manolovici, "Computerized System for Speech Signal Analysis," In Proceedings of the Symposium of Acoustics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, 1994.

• Sorin Dusan and Brenda Ghitulescu, "Non-Invasive Method for Monitoring the Arterial Oxygen Saturation in the Fingertip," In Proceedings of the Symposium on Achievements in Professional Electronics, Bucharest, Romania, 1994.

• Sorin Dusan and Victor Manolovici, "Mathematical Methods for Analyzing the Speech Signal," In Proceedings of the 5th National Symposium of Metrology, Bucharest, Romania, 1994.

• Sorin Dusan and Victor Manolovici, "Computerized System for Automatic Analysis and Interpretation of the Electrocardiographic Signals," In Proceedings of the 5th National Symposium of Metrology, Bucharest, Romania, 1994.

• Sorin Dusan, "A New Method of Rehabilitation for Voice Impaired," In Proceedings of the Symposium of Acoustics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, 1989.

• Sorin Dusan, Vergil Goian and Cornel Dragoi, "The Romanian Microprocessor-Controlled Three Channel Electrocardiograph," In Proceedings of the Symposium on Achievements in Professional Electronics, Bucharest, Romania, 1989.

• Sorin Dusan, "Method of Multiplexing the ECG Leads in the Floating Amplifier," In Proceedings of the Symposium on Achievements in Professional Electronics, Bucharest, Romania, 1987.

• Sorin Dusan, Cornel Dragoi and Daniel Nita, "Thermal Printer for Alphanumeric Data," In Proceedings of the Symposium on Achievements in Professional Electronics, Bucharest, Romania, 1987.

• Sorin Dusan, "Automatic Analysis and Processing of Standard ECG Leads," In Proceedings of the Symposium on Achievements in Professional Electronics, Bucharest, Romania, 1986.

• Sorin Dusan, "Using the INTEL-8080 Microprocessor in Automatic Recognition of Speech Sounds," In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the Technical Military Academy, Bucharest, Romania, 1982.

• Sorin Dusan, "Speech-To-Images Converting Device," In Proceedings of the National Conference of Electronics and Telecommunications, Bucharest, Romania, 1982.

• Sorin Dusan, "The Formant Vocoder - An Efficient Method of Compressing the Speech Signal," In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of Electronics and Telecommunications, Bucharest Polytechnic University, Bucharest, Romania, 1982.

• Sorin Dusan, "Psychedelic Lighting System on a TV Set," In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of Electronics and Telecommunications, Bucharest Polytechnic University, Bucharest, Romania, 1981.

Book Chapters / Papers in Books

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " Adaptive Human-Computer Dialogue," Chapter 15 in Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems, Springer (Kluwer Academic Publishers), (Eds. J. van Kuppevelt, L. Dybkjer, and N. Ole Bernsen), Boston/Dordrecht/London, Chapter 15, pp. 333-354, Dec. 2005.

• Sorin Dusan and Larry Rabiner, " Can Automatic Speech Recognition Learn more from Human Speech Perception?," In Trends in Speech Technology, Romanian Academy Publisher, (Ed. C. Burileanu), Bucharest, Romania, pp. 21-36, 2005.

• Sorin Dusan, " Information Fusion and Fission," Interview Chapter 13 in SIMILAR Dreams: Multimodal Interfaces in Our Future Life, SIMILAR Network of Excellence Consortium, (Eds. S. Daussogne and B. Macq) Chapter 13, pp. 289-294, 2005.

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " A System for Multimodal Dialogue and Language Acquisition," In Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, Romanian Academy Publisher, (Ed. C. Burileanu), Bucharest, Romania, 2003.

• Sorin Dusan and James Flanagan, " Human Language Acquisition by Computers, " In Advances in Signal Processing, Robotics and Communications, Electrical and Computer Engineering Series, WSES, 2001.

• Sorin Dusan, " Methods for Integrating Phonetic and Phonological Knowledge in Speech Inversion, " In Advances in Signal Processing, Robotics and Communications, Electrical and Computer Engineering Series, WSES, 2001.

• Ecaterina Vladescu and Sorin Dusan, "Digital Impulse Measurements," In Electrical and Electronic Measurements-Laboratory Manual, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Bucharest Polytechnic University, Bucharest, Romania, 1990.

• Sorin Dusan, "Issues in Recording and Automatic Analysis of Electrocardiographic Signals," In Biologic Signal, Romanian Academy Publisher, Bucharest, Romania, 1986.

• Sorin Dusan, "Supplementary Methods for Speech Perception," In Speech Analysis and Synthesis, Romanian Academy Publisher, Bucharest, Romania, 1984.

Ph.D. Thesis

• Sorin Dusan, " Statistical Estimation of Articulatory Trajectories from the Speech Signal Using Dynamical and Phonological Constraints," (PDF File 3.7 MB), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, April 2000

M.S. Thesis

• Sorin Dusan, " Formant Compression of Speech Signal and Conversion of Speech into Images," Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication Bucharest Polytechnic University, Bucharest, Romania, 1982

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