Speech Lab IIT Madras

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Speech and Vision Laboratory (SVL) is a academic research laboratories of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in IIT Madras.

Head of lab :
Prof. C. Chandra Sekhar.

Research Activities

Speech and man-machine communication related research areas
Speech signal processing
Speech-to-text conversion
Text-to-speech conversion
Speaker verification and recognition
Speech enhancement
Spoken language identification
Event based analysis of speech
Speech enhancement in multispeaker environment
Development of phonetic engine for Indian languages
Speaker segmentation and tracking
Automatic prosody and duration modelling and manipulation
Studies on throat microphone speech
Processing of VoIP speech

Vision related research areas
One dimesional processing of images
Content-based storage and retrieval of information
Face detection and recognition studies
Person authentication by audio/video based techniques
Handwritten character recognition for Indian scripts

Computational intelligence and related research areas
Applications of artificial neural networks
Applications of kernel methods
Learning kernels from data
Hidden Markov models in kernel feature space
Trajectory classification and clustering
Clustering using spiking neural networks
Classification using Gaussian processes
Variational Bayes methods

Some completed projects

Word Spotting (2004-2006, DLRL(DRDO), Hyderabad, India)

Phonetic engine for Indian languages (1999-2006 , Intel)

Speaker Recognition (1998-2006, OGI, USA)

High Performance Detection System (2003-2006, NSTL (DRDO), Visakhapatnam, India)

Communication and Information Technology Research Program (2002-2006, CAIR (DRDO), Bangalore, India)

Speaker Verification (2002-2006, DLRL (DRDO), Hyderabad, India)

Contact detail :
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai - 600036
India.
Fax : +91-44-2257 4352 / 2257 0545
+91-44-2257 5382/5383 (Speech and Vision Laboratory)
Phone: +91-44-2257 4363 (Office)