Publications in International & National Conferences

List of various publications that feature in national and international conferences.

  1. P. Rao, Musical information extraction from the singing voice, Invited paper, Proc. of the National Conference on Signal & Image Processing Applications, IET Mumbai and C.O.E.P., September, 2009.
  2. V. Rao and P. Rao, Improving polyphonic melody extraction by dynamic programming based dual F0 tracking, Proc. of the 12th Intl. Conf. on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-09), Como, Italy, 2009.
  3. V. Patil, S. Joshi and P. Rao. Improving the robustness of phonetic segmentation to accent and style variation with a two-staged approach, Proc. of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K., 2009. 
  4. V. Rao, S. Ramakrishnan and P. Rao, Singing voice detection in polyphonic music using predominant pitch, Proc. of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K., 2009.
  5. N. Santosh, S. Ramakrishnan, V. Rao, and P. Rao, Improving singing voice detection in presence of pitched accompaniment, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications (NCC), 2009.
  6. N. Tamrakar, Deepak M. and P. Rao, An 800 bps MBE vocoder with low delay, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications (NCC), 2009.
  7. V. Rao and P. Rao, Vocal melody detection in pitched accompaniment using harmonic matching methods, Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-08), September 2008, Espoo, Finland.
  8. V. Rao and P. Rao, Melody extraction using harmonic matching, Extended Abstract for MIREX 2008 Audio Melody Extraction Evaluation task.
  9. V. Karjigi and P. Rao, Landmark based recognition of stops: acoustic attributes versus smoothed spectra, Interspeech 2008, September 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
  10. V. Rao and P. Rao, Objective evaluation of a melody extractor for North Indian classical vocal performances, Proc. of Frontier of Research in Speech & Music (FRSM), February 2008, Kolkata, India.
  11. V. Patil and P. Rao, Acoustic cues to manner of articulation of obstruents in marathi, Proc. of Frontier of Research in Speech & Music (FRSM), February 2008, Kolkata, India.
  12. R. Siva Kumar, Neelesh Tamrakar and P. Rao, Segment based MBE speech coding at 1000 bps, Proc. of NCC 2008, Mumbai, India.
  13. V. Rao, Ramakrishnan and P. Rao, Singing voice detection in North Indian classical music, Proc. of NCC 2008, Mumbai, India.
  14. V. Karjigi, P. Rao, Four-way classification of place of articulaton of Marathi unvoiced stops from burst spectra, Proc. of WISP December 2007, Guwahati, India.
  15. Pradeep Kumar P., P. Rao, S. Dutta Roy, Note onset detection in natural humming, Proc. of ICCIMA 2007, Volume 04, pp.176-180., 2007
  16. V. Karjigi, B. Patel and P. Rao, Identification of stop consonants for acoustic keyword spotting in continuous speech, Proc. of Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), September 2007, Jaipur, India.
  17. A.Bapat, V. Rao and P. Rao, Melodic contour extraction for Indian classical vocal music, Proc. of Music-AI (International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music) in IJCAI, 2007, Hyderabad, India.
  18. P. Kumar, M. Joshi, S. Hariharan, S. Dutta-Roy and P. Rao, Sung note segmentation for a query-by-humming system, Proc. of Music-AI (International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music) in IJCAI, 2007, Hyderabad, India.
  19. P. Patwardhan and P. Rao, Signal adaptive MBE model for low bit rate speech coding, Proc. of National Conference on Communications (NCC), 2007, Kanpur, India.
  20. R. Singh and P. Rao, Spectral subtraction speech enhancement with RASTA filtering, Proc. of National Conference on Communications (NCC), 2007, Kanpur, India.
  21. V. Karjigi, P. Rao and K. Samudravijaya, Investigation of acoustic attributes of Marathi unvoiced stops for classification, Proc. of Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM), 2007, Mysore, India.
  22. V. Rao and P. Rao, Vocal trill and glissando thresholds for Indian listeners, Proc. of Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM), 2007, Mysore, India.
  23. N. Kamath, V. Rao and P. Rao,Voice quality synthesis with the bandwidth enhanced sinusoidal model,Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP), 2006, Hubli, India.
  24. A.Bapat and P.Rao, Pitch tracking of voice in tabla background by the two-way mismatch method, Proc. of the 13th Int. Conf. on Advanced Computing and Communications, 2005, Coimbatore, India.
  25. A.Bapat, P.Rao, H.V.Sahasrabuddhe, On errors in pitch tracking with tabla accompaniment, Proc. of IMAE, 2005, Pune.
  26. A.K. Gupta and P.Rao, Designing a channel coding scheme for the low rate MBE vocoder, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, 2005, I.I.T., Kharagpur
  27. S. Dutta Roy, P. Rao , A.S. Galinde and R. Bhargava, Melodic-contour based QBH systems: analytical modeling and performance evaluation, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, 2005, I.I.T., Kharagpur.
  28. P. Patwardhan and P.Rao, Adaptive frequency warping for improved spectral modeling, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Technology (ICSLT-O-COCOSDA), 2004, New Delhi, India.
  29. K. Manohar and P. Rao, Reduction of burst noises in STSA speech enhancement, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Technology (ICSLT-O-COCOSDA), 2004, New Delhi, India
  30. K.Manohar and P.Rao, A comparison study of spectral subtraction speech enhancement methods, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, 2004, I.I.Sc. Bangalore.
  31. Pradeep Kumar P. and P.Rao, A study of frequency-scale warping for speaker recognition, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, 2004, I.I.Sc., Bangalore.
  32. P. Rao and P. Patwardhan, On the representation of voice source aperiodicities in the  MBE speech coding model, Proc. of ISCA Workshop on Voice Quality: Functions, Analysis and Synthesis, Geneva, August 2003
  33. P. Patwardhan and P. Rao, Frequency warped all-pole modeling of vowel spectra: dependence on voice and vowel quality, Proc. of Workshop on Spoken Language Processing, T.I.F.R., Mumbai, January 2003.
  34. S. Shandilya and P. Rao, Retrieving pitch of the singing voice in polyphonic audio, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, 2003, I.I.T. Madras.
  35. P. Rao, M. Pathak and T. R. Ramamohan, Robustness of the MBE vocoder to acoustic background noise, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, 2003, I.I.T. Madras.
  36. M. Anand Raju, B. Sundaram and P. Rao, TANSEN: a query-by-humming based music retrieval system, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, 2003, I.I.T. Madras.
  37. S. K. Shandilya and P. Rao, Pitch detection of singing voice in fully musical audio�, Proc. of 114th  Convention of Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam, March 2003
  38. P. Patwardhan and P. Rao, Controlling perceived degradation in spectral envelope modeling via predistortion, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, September, 2002, Denver, U.S.A.
  39. G. Moharir, P. Patwardhan and P. Rao, Spectral enhancement preprocessing for the sinusoidal coding of noisy speech, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, September, 2002, Denver, U.S.A.
  40. M. Anand Raju and P. Rao, Building a melody retrieval system, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, 2002, I.I.T. Bombay.
  41. A. Malot, P. Rao and V. M. Gadre, Spectrum interpolation synthesis for the compression of music signals, Proc. of the COST G-6 Conf. On Digital Audio Effects, Limerick, Ireland, 2001.
  42. P. Rao, Applying perceptual distance to the discrimination of sounds, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, I.I.T. Kanpur, January 2001.
  43. P. Patwardhan, S. P. Sira and P. Rao, Some insights into psychoacoustic modeling for MPEG Layer 3 audio coding, Proc. of the National Conference on Communications, I. I. T. Kharagpur, 1999.
  44. P. Rao, A robust method for the estimation of formant frequency modulations in speech signals, Proc. of the International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,Atlanta, U.S.A., 1996.
  45. P. Rao, Y.Asakawa, and H.Sekine, 8 kb/s low-delay speech coding with 4 ms frame size, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan, 1994.
  46. A. Swami and P. Rao, Cumulant-based CDT detectors for oto-acoustic signals, Proc. SPIE-94, vol. 2296, Advanced Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations -V, 1994.
  47. P. Rao, A robust narrowband transient signal detector, Proc. of the International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Toronto, Canada, 1991.
  48. C. Griffin, P. Rao and F. Taylor, Round-off error analysis of the discrete-Wigner distribution using fixed point arithmetic, Proc. of the International Conf. On Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Glasgow, Scotland, 1989.