Publications

A finished version of my PhD Thesis, Statistical Models for Natural Sounds is now ready. There are also a number of related audio demonstrations.

NEW: Turner, R. E. and Sahani, M. (2011). Demodulation as Probabilistic Inference Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 19(8), 2398--2411. There is an associated webpage with code and a listing of other related publications here.
Berkes, P., Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2009). A Structured Model of Video Reproduces Primary Visual Cortical Organisation PLoS Computational Biology, 5(9)
Turner, R. E., Walters, T.C., and Patterson, R.D. (2009) Inferring speaker size from speech formant data: A theoretical basis for vocal-tract length estimation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125(4)
Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2007) A maximum-likelihood interpretation for slow feature analysis, Neural Computation 19(4), 1022-1038.
Smith, D. R. R., Patterson, R. D., Turner, R., Kawahara, H., and Irino, T. (2005). "The processing and perception of size information in speech sounds," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117

NEW: Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2012). Probabilistic amplitude and frequency demodulation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (24), MIT Press. Supplementary material. Awarded spotlight presentation.
Turner, R. E., and Sahani, M. (2010) Statistical inference for single- and multi-band probabilistic amplitude demodulation. In ICASSP'10: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
Lucke, J., Turner, R.E., Sahani, M., and Henniges, M. (2009). Occlusive Components Analysis. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (22), MIT Press.
Turner, R. E., and Sahani, M. (2008) Modeling Natural Sounds With Modulation Cascade Processes, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (21), MIT Press.
Berkes, P., Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2008) On Sparstity and Overcompleteness in Image Models, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (21), MIT Press.
Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2007) Probabilistic Amplitude Demodulation,, Proceedings of the International Conference on Independent Components Analysis 2007 talk. Awarded best student paper.

Turner, R.E. and Sahani, M. (2010) Two problems with variational Expectation Maximisation for time-series models. In: Inference and Learning in Dynamic Models. Eds D. Barber, T. Cemgil and S. Chiappa, Cambridge University Press.
Turner, R.E., Al-Hames, M.A, Smith, D.R.R., Kawahara, H., Irino, T. and Patterson, R.D. (2006) Vowel normalisation: Time-domain processing of the internal dynamics of speech. In: Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception. Eds P. Divenyi, S. Greenberg and G. Meyer, IOS Press, 153-170.

Turner, R. E., Berkes, P., and Sahani, M. (2008) Two problems with variational Expectation Maximisation for time-series models , Presented at the Newton Institute, Cambridge, in the workshop on Inference and Estimation in Probabilistic Time-Series Models (Associated technical report with lots more examples). A video of the talk is available here.
Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2007) Probabilistic Amplitude Demodulation,, Models of Sound and Music Cognition , (NIPS Workshop) talk.
Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2006) Modeling Natural Sounds with Gaussian Modulation Cascade Processes Advances in Models for Acoustic Processing, (NIPS Workshop) talk.
Turner, R. E. and Patterson, R.D. (2003). An analysis of the size information in classical formant data: Peterson and Barney (1952) revisited. In: The Acoustical Society of Japan ,Vol 33, No. 9, 585-589.