Research

Digital signal processing; biomedical signal processing; multimodal and audio-visual signal processing; scalable wavelet video compression; voice over IP (VoIP); signal separation; quality of service (QoS); video quality metrics; wavelets; fractal measures; non-linear and chaotic dynamic systems; speaker tracking and speech enhancement/separation by correlating acoustic speech and visual lip reading; obtaining clean fetal ECG signals without interference from the signals from the mother; measuring QoS for video conferencing or video on demand.

Activities

Track Chair, Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (2006)

Journal Articles

M. Talebinejad, A.D.C. Chan, A. Miri, and R.M. Dansereau (2009), “Fractal analysis of myoelectric signals: A novel power spectrum-based method,” Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology (publication pending).

M.H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and W.-Y. Chan (2009), “Monaural speech separation based on gain adapted minimum mean square error estimation,” Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology (publication pending).

W. Kinsner, and R. Dansereau (2008), “A relative fractal dimension spectrum for a perceptual complexity measure,” International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence 2(1): 73-86.

M.H. Radfar, R.M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan (2008), “Speaker independent model based single channel speech separation,” Neurocomputing 72(1-3): 71-78.

Y.A. Mahgoub, and R.M. Dansereau (2008), “Time domain method for precise estimation of sinusoidal model parameters of co-channel speech,” Research Letters in Signal Processing 2008: 5.

M.H. Radfar, R.M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan (2007), “A maximum likelihood estimation of vocal-tract-related filter characteristics for single channel speech separation,” EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing 2007: 15.

M.H. Radfar, and R.M. Dansereau (2007), “Single-channel speech separation using soft mask filtering,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 15(8): 2299-2310.

Zhong Lin, R. A. Goubran, and R. M. Dansereau (2007), “Noise estimation using speech/nonspeech frame decision and subband spectral tracking,” Speech Communication 49(7-8): 542-557

M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan (2007), “A generalized approach for model-based speaker-dependent single channel speech separation,” Iranian Journal of Science and Technology 31(B3): 361-375.

M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan (2007), “Monaural speech segregation based on fusion of source-driven with model-driven techniques,” Speech Communication 49(6): 464-476.

Conference Publications

T. K. Helaly, R. M. Dansereau, and M. El-Tanany, “Improved power amplifier efficiency via Walsh code assignment in synchronous CDMA systems,” International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, Aug 2009.

M.H. Radfar, and R.M. Dansereau, “Long-term gain estimation in model-based single channel speech separation,” IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, Oct 2007.

M.H. Radfar, and R.M. Dansereau, “Single channel speech separation using minimum mean square error estimation of sources’ log spectra,” IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Aug 2007.

M.H. Radfar, and R.M. Dansereau, “Single channel speech separation using maximum a posteriori estimation,” International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Aug 2007.

V. Badee, R.M. Dansereau, and A.D.C. Chan, “Multichannel fetal ECG extraction and enhancement using triggered adaptive filtering with weighted transitions,” 30th Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, Jun 2007.