Arnab Ghoshal

I am now at the Spoken Language Systems group at Saarland University as a post-doc with the SCALE project. This homepage will be moved to its new location.

A slightly outdated CV in PDF format.

Education

• Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2009.
• MSE, Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2005.
• B.Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2002.

Research Activities

• Member of the 2009 CLSP Summer Workshop team "Low Development Cost, High Quality Speech Recognition for New Languages and Domains" (June-July, 2009).
• Member of the 2008 CLSP Summer Workshop team "Multilingual Spoken Term Detection: Finding and Testing New Pronunciations" (July-August, 2008). The dataset used for this work can be found here.
• Visiting Researcher at the Spoken Language Systems group, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany (September, 2007 - February, 2008).
• Research Intern at Microsoft Speech Research Group, Redmond, WA (Summer 2004).
• Research Intern at Microsoft Speech Research Group, Redmond, WA (Summer 2003).

Publications

• Dogan Can, Erica Cooper, Arnab Ghoshal, Martin Jansche, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Michael Riley, Murat Saraclar, Abhinav Sethy, Morgan Ulinski and Christopher White, "Web derived Pronunciations for Spoken Term Detection", in Proc. ACM SIGIR 2009.
• Arnab Ghoshal, Sanjeev Khudanpur and Dietrich Klakow, "Impact of novel sources on content-based image and video retrieval", in Proc. IEEE ICASSP , 2009.
• Arnab Ghoshal, Martin Jansche, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Michael Riley and Morgan Ulinski, "Web-derived pronunciations", in Proc. EEE ICASSP, 2009.
• Arnab Ghoshal and Sanjeev Khudanpur, "Source adaptation for improved content-based video retrieval", in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2006. (Co-winner, student paper contest)
• Arnab Ghoshal, Pavel Ircing and Sanjeev Khudanpur, "Hidden Markov models for automatic annotation and content based retrieval of images and video", in Proc. ACM SIGIR, 2005.
• A Ghoshal, S Khudanpur, J Magalhães, S Overell, S Rüger and A Yavlinsky, "Imperial College and Johns Hopkins University at TRECVID", in Proceedings of the 2006 TREC Video Retrieval Conference (TRECVID-2006), 2006.
• B Pytlik, A Ghoshal, D Karakos and S Khudanpur, "TRECVID 2005 experiments at Johns Hopkins University: Using hidden Markov models for video retrieval", in Proceedings of the 2005 TREC Video Retrieval Conference (TRECVID-2005), 2005.

Previous work

• My undergrad thesis was titled "A Text-to-Speech System for Indian Languages", suprevised by Prof. Anupam Basu.
• I have worked on conversion of digital images to Braille, during the junior year of my undergrads. (Indian Copyright No. CPR/410/MB/Y/070603)