Michael A. Carlin
321 Barton Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
email: macarlin at jhu dot edu
About Me
I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the ECE Dept. and a member of the Center for Language and Speech
Processing, working under the guidance of Mounya Elhilali. I am also a
Graduate Fellow of the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.
From 2006 through 2008 I worked for the Information Directorate of the
Air Force Research Laboratory
where I worked on various aspects of unsupervised audio segmentation. I also worked with colleagues on speaker and language recognition systems, as well as with speech modification.
Education
Temple University, M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, 2007.
Temple University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2005.
Research Interests
My general interests include statistical signal processing, pattern
recognition, and various aspects of speech and audio signal
processing. Some applications that I've worked on include acoustic
speaker and language/dialect recognition, unsupervised audio segmentation, and detection of concurrent speech.
I am also particularly interested in computational models of audition
and exploring how such models can help make current speech processing
systems more robust. Furthermore, I am interested in how complex
acoustic patterns such as speech and music are encoded along the auditory pathway.
Publications and Conference Presentations
Lawson, A., Linderman, M., Leonard, M., Stauffer, A., Pokines, B, and
Carlin, M. A. ``Perturbation and Pitch Normalization as Enhancements
to Speaker Recognition.'' To appear in Proc. ICASSP 2009.
Carlin, M. A. ``Estimation of Target-to-Interferer Ratio using the
Auditory Image Model.'' Presented at Acoustics '08, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,
Paris, France, June 2008.
Lawson, A., Carlin, M. A., Stauffer, A., and Linderman, M. ``Automatic
Data Enhancement for Language Identification using STRAIGHT Voice
Generation.'' Presented at Acoustics '08,
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Paris, France, June 2008.
Carlin, M. A., Smolenski, B. Y. ``Detection of Speaker Change Points in
Conversational Speech.'' In Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky,
MT, March 2007.
Carlin, M. A., Smolenski, B. Y., and Wenndt, S. J. ``Unsupervised
Detection of Whispered Speech in the Presence of Normal Phonation.''
In Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.
Personal
In my free time (and when the weather cooperates), I enjoy
weightlifting, running, snowboarding, and cycling. Most
recently, I have
also proven myself to be a crappy golfer. I also enjoy spending time
with my wife, performing auditory scene analysis on the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra, cooking, growing/shaving beards, and
homebrewing beer. When I remember, I post occasionally to a weblog.
Last updated 22 Jan 2009.