Recent Publications
Journal Papers & Book Chapters
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D., “Spectro-Temporal Modeling of Musical Instrument Harmonic Magnitude Trajectories for Source Separation Iterative Phase Estimation for the Synthesis of Single-Channel Separated Sources, ” submitted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2009.
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D., “Iterative Phase Estimation for the Synthesis of Single-Channel Separated Sources, ” submitted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2009.
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D., “Separation of Harmonic Musical Instrument Notes using Spectro-Temporal Modeling of Harmonic Magnitudes and Multiple Input Spectrogram Inversion,” under review Journal on Audio Speech & Music Signal Processing, 2009.
Lu, W. & Sen, D., “Analysis
of Salient Feature Jitter in the Cochlea for Objective Prediction of
Temporally Localized Distortion in Synthesized Speech,” EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Vol. 2009, Article ID 865723, 11 pages, 2009. doi:10.1155/2009/865723.
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D., “Spectral envelope sensitivity of musical instrument sounds,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(1), pp 500-506, Jan 2008.
Zhang, H, Blackburn, T., Phung, T. & Sen, D., “A Novel Wavelet Transform Technique for On-line Partial Discharge Measurements, Part 1: WT De-noising Algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 14(1), pp 3-14, February, 2007.
Zhang, H, Blackburn, T., Phung, T. & Sen, D., “A Novel Wavelet Transform Technique for On-line Partial Discharge
Measurements, Part 2: On-site Noise Rejection Application,” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 14(1), pp 15-22, February, 2007.
Sen, D. & Allen, J.B., “Functionality of cochlear micromechanics - as elucidated by upward spread of masking and two tone suppression,“ Acoustics Australia, 34(1), pp 37-42, April, 2006.
Gunawan, T. S., Ambikairajah, E. & Sen, D., “Speech and Audio Coding Using Temporal Masking,” chapter in Signal Processing for Telecommunications and Multimedia, Eds: Wysocki, Honary, and Wysocki, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
Allen, J.B. & Sen, D. “The role of micromechanics in explaining two tone suppression and the upward spread of masking,” chapter in Biophysics of the Cochlea: From Molecules to Models, Eds: A.W. Gummer, World Scientific, 2003.
Conference Papers
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D., "Music Source Separation Synthesis using Multiple Input Spectrogram Inversion," Proc. International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, October 5th-7th, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D., "Spectro-Temporal Modeling of Harmonic Magnitude Tracks for Music Source Separation," Proc. International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, October 5th-7th, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Lu, W.L., and Sen, D., "Extraction of cochlear processed formants for prediction of temporally localized distortions in synthesized speech," Proc. International conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, April 2009.
Meng, Q., Sen, D., Wang, S. and Hayes, L., "Impulse response measurement with sine sweeps and amplitude modulation schemes," International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Gold Coast, December 2008.
Lu, W. & Sen, D., “Extraction and tracking of formant response jitter in the cochlea for objective prediction of SB/SF DAM attributes,” Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, September, 2008.
Blay, K.R, Weiss, F., Clark, D.A., Degroot, G.J.J.B., Bick, M. & Sen, D., “Signal Processing Techniques for Improved Performance of a SQUID-Based Metal-Detector”, Applied supercondictivity conference, Chicago, August 2008.
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D. “ Identification of partials in polyphonic mixtures based on temporal envelope similarity,” 123rd Audio Engineering Society Convention, New York, October, 2007.
Ng, A., von Brasch, A., Sen, D. & Wang, S., "Real time equalization of room acoustics for room equalization," Workshop on Spatial Audio for Mobile Devices, Singapore, September 2007.
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D. “ Musical instrument spectral envelope sensitivity, ” Proc. International conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, April, 2007.
Sen, D. , Li, W., Chung, D. & Lam, P. “ Simulating consonant and vowel recognition rates in cochlear implantees for varying comression ratios and number of electrodes using normal listeners, ” Association of Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) convention, Denver, February 10-15, 2007.
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D. “ An Exploration of the Spectral Envelope Space of Musical Instruments using Envelope Morphing Permutation Strategies, ” Association of Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) convention, Denver, February 10-15, 2007.
Sen, D., Li, W., Chung, D. & Lam, P. “ Exploring the parameter space of Cochlear Implant Processors for consonant and vowel recognition rates using normal hearing listeners, ” Proc. Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2006.
Gunawan, D. & Sen, D. “ Spectral Envelope Sensitivity of Musical Instruments, ” Proc. Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2006.
Wang, S., Sen, D. & Lu, W. “ Subband Analysis of Time Delay Estimation in the STFT Domain, ” Proc. Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2006.
Lu, W., Sen, D. & Wang, S. “ Accurate Delay Measurement of Coded Speech Signals with Subsample Resolution, ” Proc. Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2006.
Tan, B. & Sen, D. “ The Use of the Attack Transient Envelope in Instrument Recognition, ” Proc. Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2006.
Loh, S.K., Kanhere, S., & Sen, D. “ Performance of a Bluetooth IP Network for Streaming High Quality Audio, ” Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Nov, 2005.
Gunawan, D., & Sen, D. “ Sinusoidal Frequency Estimation based on the Time Derivative of the STFT Phase Response, ” 118th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), December, 2005.
Sinha, D., Ferreira, A.J.F, & Sen, D. “ A novel fractal Self-similarity model for the spectral representation of Audio Signals and its application to low bit rate audio coding, ” 118th Audio Engineering Society (AES) convention, Barcelona, May 28-31, 2005.
Sen, D., Louie, R. & Allen, J.B. “ Predicting DPOAEs using a model of the Cochlea incorporating voltage controlled stiffness coupled to a forward/reverse model of the Ear Canal/Middle Ear, ” Association of Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) convention, New Orleans, February 19-24, 2005.
Sen, D. “ Predicting foreground SH, SL and BNH DAM scores for multidimensional objective measure of speech quality, ” Proc. International conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, May 2004.
Gunawan, T.S., Ambikairajah, E. & Sen, D. “ Comparison of Temporal Masking Models for Speech and Audio Coding Applications, ” International Symposium on Digital Signal Processing and Communication Systems, December 2003.
Sen, D. & Dedhia, B. “ Slope of the Human Auditory Nerve Response at the Tail, Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), Feb., 2003.
Sen, D. “ Determining the dimensions of speech quality from PCA and MDS analysis of the Diagnostic Acceptability Measure, ” Measurement of Speech and Audio Quality In Networks (MESAQIN) Workshop, Jan 2002.
Allen, J.B. & Sen, D. “ A possible role of cochlear micromechanics in explaining two tone suppression and the upward spread of masking, ” Workshop on Perceptual Consequences of Cochlear Nonlinearity, Oldenburg, Germany, August 2001.
Sen, D. & Allen, J.B. “ Benchmarking a two dimensional cochlear model against experimental auditory data, ” Midwinter Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), St Petersburg, Feb 2001.
Sen, D. & Allen, J.B. “ Tectorial membrane mechanics and outer hair cell stiffness, ” Midwinter Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), St Petersburg, Feb 2000.
Older Publications
Allen, J.B. & Sen, D. “ Is Tectorial Membrane filtering required to explain Two Tone Suppression and the Upward Spread Of Masking?, ” chapter in Recent Developments in Auditory Mechanism, World Scientific, Singapore, 1999.
Kang, H.G. & Sen, D. “ Embedded WI Coding Between 2.0 And 4.8 kbit/s, ” IEEE International Speech Coding Workshop, Finland, June 1999.
Kang, H.G. & Sen, D. “ Phase Adjustment in Waveform Interpolation, ” International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Arizona, March 1999.
Sen, D. & Allen, J.B. “ Reproducing Upward Spread of Masking and Two Tone Suppression Using a Non-linear Model of the Cochlea, ” Midwinter Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), St Petersburg, Feb 1999.
Allen, J.B. & Sen, D. “ An unified theory of Two Tone Suppression and the Upward Spread of Masking, ” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103 (5), May 1998.
Sen, D. & Allen, J.B. “ Possible quantitative relationship between BM stiffness, OHC motility and IHC response, ” Midwinter Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), St Petersburg, Feb 1997.
Sen, D. & Allen, J.B. “ A new auditory masking model for speech and audio coders, ” IEEE International Speech Coding Workshop, Pocono Manor, NY, Sept 1997.
Allen, J.B. & Sen, D. “ A time domain model of cochlear transduction incorporating OHC non-linear compression, ” Midwinter Meeting, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO), Feb 1997.
Kleijn, W.B., Shoham, Y., Sen, D. & Hagen, R. “ A low complexity Waveform Interpolation Coder ”, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Atlanta, 1996.
Sen, D. & Kleijn, W.B. “ Synthesis Methods in Sinusoidal and Waveform Interpolation Speech Coders ”, IEEE International Speech Coding Workshop, Annapolis, 1995.
Ahn, R., Sen, D. and Holmes, W.H. “ Use of pitch predictors in speech coders ”, ISITA, 1994
Yim, S., Sen, D. and Holmes, W.H. “ Comparison of ARMA Modeling Methods for Low Bit Rate Speech Coding ”, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Adelaide, Vol I, pp 273-276, April 1994.
Sen, D. & Holmes, W.H. “ Perceptual Enhancement of CELP Speech Coders ”, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Adelaide, Vol II pp 105-108, April 1994.
Sen, D. and Holmes, W.H. “ PERCELP - Perceptually Enhanced Random Codebook Excited Linear Prediction ”, IEEE International Speech Coding Workshop, St Adele, pp 101-102, 1993.
Sen, D., Irving, D.H. and Holmes, W.H. “ Use of an Auditory Model to Improve Quality or lower the rate of Speech Coders ”, Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vol 13 No 2, pp 123-128, June 1993.
Sen, D., Irving, D.H. and Holmes, W.H. “ Using an auditory model to improve speech coders ”, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Minneapolis, Minnesota, Vol. 2, pp 411-414, April 1993.
Sen, D., Irving, D.H. and Holmes, W.H. “ Using an auditory model to improve the quality and/or reduce the bit rate of speech coders ”, Communication '92 Conference, Sydney, 1992.


