Publications

See my google scholar page for more information

Thesis

• Turner, R. E., Statistical Models for Natural Sounds, UCL PhD thesis. There are also a number of related audio demonstrations.

Journal Publications

• 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

Refereed Conference Publications

• NEW: Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2012). Decomposing signals into a sum of amplitude and frequency modulated sinusoids using probabilistic inference. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2173-2176.
• Turner, R.E., and Sahani, M. (2012). Probabilistic amplitude and frequency demodulation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (24), MIT Press. 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.

Book chapters

• 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.

Unrefereed Conference Publications

• 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) Modeling sounds with modulation cascade processes, 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.

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