Public Talks
- Auditory scene analysis and the statistics of natural sounds presented at the Listening in the Wild Workshop, Queen Mary University, London, 2013. Click here to see a video of the talk.
- An introductory tutorial on Gaussian Processes presented at the Sheffield Gaussian Process Summer School June, 2013
- Modulation cascades, sound textures, and mid-level audition, presented at the British Neuroscience Association Conference. The talk included two demonstration sounds: samples from the forward model (slides 30-45) and audio texture demo (slide 46).
- Machine learning for audio neuroscience, presented at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
- New
views of the Kalman Filter connect machine learning, signal
processing, and system identification, presented at the European
Research Network for System Identification workshop.
- A brief introduction to Bayesian inference, presented at the ACCN summer school in Poland.
- Natural scene statistics and the properties of the visual system, presented at the ACCN summer school in Poland.
- A new 15 minute tutorial talk on Gaussian Processes and connections to signal processing and computer vision, presented at the Engineering Division F conference
- A brief overview of my audio research presented to Oxford Engineering Department
- A brief overview of my vision research presented to Cambridge Engineering Department
- Decomposing signals into a sum of AM-FM
sinusoids using probabilistic inference. Presented at
the Computational Audition Workshop, HWK - Institute for Advanced Study, Northern Germany.
- Probabilistic Auditory Scene
Analysis
talk Presented at
the Computational Audition Workshop, Gatsby Unit, UCL, London. (For stimuli see here.)
- Probabilistic amplitude demodulation
talk Invited Presentation at
ICASSP, Dallas, Texas.
- Probabilistic Auditory Scene
Analysis
talk Presented at
the Auditory
Group Clinical Laboratory, Newcastle University Medical School.
- Probabilistic Auditory Scene
Analysis
talk Presented at the Gordon Research
Conference Sensory
coding and the natural environment.
- Two problems with Variational Expectation Maximisation in
Time-Series
models paper, technical report, and
talk. Presented at the Newton Institute, Cambridge, in the workshop
on Inference
and Estimation in Probabilistic Time-Series Models. A video of the
talk is
available here.
- On sparsity and overcompleteness in image models talk presented at the Inference group, Cambridge.
- Probabilistic Amplitude Demodulation talk , video and paper presented at Music Brain and Cognition Workshop, NIPS Workshops, Whistler. (Identical to ICA 2007.)
- Probabilistic Amplitude Demodulation talk and paper presented at ICA2007, London. Won best student paper award. (Talk also presented at the Gatsby annual review, 10/10/2007)
- Extracting the speaker vocal tract length from speech data: Inference of Vocal Tract Length from vowel formants, R. Turner, T. Walters and R. Patterson , talk presented at the Size Meeting, CNBH, Cambridge
- On Sparsity and Overcompleteness in Image Models: talk the cortical processing meeting, Budapest.
- Modeling Natural Sounds with Modulation Cascade Processes: Amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, probabilistic STFTs and Gaussian modulation cascade models presented at the Gatsby-ENS meeting in London.
- Modeling Natural Sounds with Modulation Cascade Processes: Algorithms for Probabilistic Signal processing including demodulation (AM and FM) and STFTs presented to the Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, Cambridge.
- Generative models for amplitude modulation: Algorithms for Probabilistic Amplitude Demodulation presented to the Inference group, Cambridge, 2007.
- Advances in Models for Acoustic Processing NIPS workshop, Vancouver talk and paper: 'Modeling Natural Sounds with Gaussian Modulation Cascade Processes', R. Turner and M. Sahani 2006
- Extracting the speaker vocal tract length from speech data: Inference of Vocal Tract Length from vowel formants, R. Turner, T. Walters and R. Patterson , talk presented at the CNBH, Cambridge
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