Center for Robust Speech Systems

Chi Zhang

Biographical Sketch

Chi Zhang(Leo) earned the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China in 2004, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark in 2006. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Since the fall of 2006 he has been a Research Assistant with the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS) at the University of Texas at Dallas. During the summer of 2010, he was an Intern DSP Engineer with Starkey Labs Inc. in Eden Prairie, MN, where he worked in the DSP group on algorithm development.

Publications

• Chi Zhang and John H.L. Hansen, "An Unsupervised Effective Algorithm for Whisper-Island Detection", in IEEE Transaction on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol.99, 2010.
• Chi Zhang, Tao Yu and John H.L. Hansen, "Microphone Array Processing For Distance Speech Capture: A Probe Study on Whisper Speech Detection", in Asilomar 2010, CA, US.
• Chi Zhang and John H.L. Hansen, "Advancements in Whisper-Island Detection using the Linear Predictive Residual", in ICASSP 2010, pp. 5170-5173, Dallas, Tx, US, MArch 2010.
• Chi Zhang and John H.L. Hansen, "Advancements in Whisper-Island Detection within Normally Phonated Audio Streams", in Interspeech 2009, pp. 860-863, Brighton, UK, Sep. 2009
• Chi Zhang and John H.L. Hansen, "An Entropy based Feature for Whisper-Island Detection within Audio Streams", in Interspeech 2008, pp. 2510-2513, Brisbane, Australia, Sep. 2008.
• Chi Zhang and John H.L. Hansen, "Effective Segmentation based on Vocal Effort Change Point Detection", in ITRW 2008, Aalborg, Denmark, 2008.
• Chi Zhang and John H.L. Hansen, "Analysis and Classification of Speech Mode: Whispered through Shouted", in Interspeech 2010, pp. 2289-2292, Antwerp, Belgium, Sep. 2007.

Personnel

• Prof. John H.L. Hansen
• Prof. Yang Liu
• Prof. Philip Loizou
• Prof. Abhijeet Sangwan
• Prof. Hynek Boril
• Prof. Oldooz Hazrati
• Dr. Finnian Kelly
• Chengzhu Yu
• Lakshmish Kaushik
• Seyedmahdad (Matt) Mirsamadi
• Abhinav Misra
• Qian Zhang
• Yang ZhengShivesh Ranjan
• Chunlei Zhang
• Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad
• Harishchandra Dubey
• Ahmet Bulut
• Shahram Ghorbani
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