Ramani Duraiswami
Professor
4244 Iribe Center
(301) 405-6710
Education:
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (Mechanical Engineering)
Biography:
Ramani Duraiswami is a professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
His research in audio and computational acoustics aims to replicate human spatial sound processing in machines, using insights from physical mechanisms, computing and experiments. In scientific computing, Duraiswami works on solving large-scale problems with approximation algorithms and parallel computing, focusing on improving speed with advanced algorithms and multicore architectures.
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Publications
2006
2006. Head-related transfer functions via the fast multipole accelerated boundary element method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120(5):3342-3343.
2006. Efficient computation of 3-D acoustical scattering from multiple arbitrarily shaped objects using the boundary element method/fast multipole method (BEM/FMM). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120(5):3282-3282.
2006. Capture and rendering of spatial sound over headphones. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120(5):3094-3094.
2006. Spherical and hemispherical microphone arrays for capture and analysis of sound fields. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120(5):3225-3225.
2006. Numerical computation of the Green?s function for two-dimensional finite-size photonic crystals of infinite length Optics ExpressOpt. Express. 14(23):11362-11371.
2006. FMM accelerated BEM for 3D Laplace & Helmholtz equations. Proceedings Int. Conf. on Boundary Element Techniques.
2006. 3D structure recovery and unwarping of surfaces applicable to planes. International journal of computer vision. 66(3):261-281.
2006. Fast multipole method for the biharmonic equation in three dimensions. Journal of Computational Physics. 215(1):363-383.
2006. Headphone-Based Reproduction of 3D Auditory Scenes Captured by Spherical/Hemispherical Microphone Arrays. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on. 5:V-V.
2006. Very fast optimal bandwidth selection for univariate kernel density estimation. Technical Reports from UMIACS UMIACS-TR-2005-73.
2006. Fast head-related transfer function measurement via reciprocity. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120(4):2202-2215.
2006. Numerical Analysis of Plasmon Resonances Based on Fast Multipole Method. Electromagnetic Field Computation, 2006 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on. :459-459.
2006. Frequency Independent Flexible Spherical Beamforming Via Rbf Fitting. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 5:V-V-V-V.
2006. Fast optimal bandwidth selection for kernel density estimation. Proceedings of the sixth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. :524-528.
2005
2005. Processing of reverberant speech for time-delay estimation. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 13(6):1110-1118.
2005. High Order Spatial Audio Capture and Its Binaural Head-Tracked Playback Over Headphones with HRTF Cues. Audio Engineering Society Convention 119.
2005. Fast Multipole Method for the Biharmonic Equation. UMIACS-TR-2005-29
2005. Comparison of the Efficiency of Translation Operators Used in the Fast Multipole Method for the 3D Laplace Equation. Technical Reports from UMIACS UMIACS-TR–2005-09.
2005. Fast Computation of Sums of Gaussians in High Dimensions. Technical Reports from UMIACS UMIACS-TR-2005-69.
2005. Speaker Localization Using Excitation Source Information in Speech. Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 13(5):751-761.
2005. Approximate expressions for the mean and the covariance of the maximum likelihood estimator for acoustic source localization. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on. 3:iii/73-iii/76Vol.3-iii/73-iii/76Vol.3.
2005. A robust and self-reconfigurable design of spherical microphone array for multi-resolution beamforming. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on. 4:iv/1137-iv/1140Vol.4-iv/1137-iv/1140Vol.4.
2005. The manifolds of spatial hearing. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on. 3:iii/285-iii/288Vol.3-iii/285-iii/288Vol.3.
2005. Neuromimetic sound representation for percept detection and manipulation. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. 9:1350-1350.
2005. Plane-wave decomposition analysis for spherical microphone arrays. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2005. :150-153.
2005. Fast multiple object tracking via a hierarchical particle filter. Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on. 1:212-219Vol.1-212-219Vol.1.
2005. Extracting the frequencies of the pinna spectral notches in measured head related impulse responses. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 118(1):364-374.
2005. Efficient mean-shift tracking via a new similarity measure. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2005. CVPR 2005. IEEE Computer Society Conference on. 1:176-183vol.1-176-183vol.1.
2005. Bayesian filtering and integral image for visual tracking. Proceedings of the Worshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS'05).
2005. High Order Spatial Audio Capture and Its Binaural Head-Tracked Playback Over Headphones with HRTF Cues. Audio Engineering Society Convention 119.
2005. Computation of scattering from clusters of spheres using the fast multipole method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 117(4):1744-1761.
2005. A video-based framework for the analysis of presentations/posters. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition. 7(2):178-187.
2005. High Order Spatial Audio Capture and Binaural Head-Tracked Playback over Headphones with HRTF Cues. Proceedings 119th convention of AES.
2005. Efficient kernel machines using the improved fast Gauss transform. Advances in neural information processing systems. 17:1561-1568.
2005. Computation of scattering from clusters of spheres using the fast multipole method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 117:1744-1744.
2004
2004. Recording and reproducing high order surround auditory scenes for mixed and augmented reality. Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2004. ISMAR 2004. Third IEEE and ACM International Symposium on. :240-249.
2004. Automatic position calibration of multiple microphones. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on. 4:iv-69-iv-72vol.4-iv-69-iv-72vol.4.
2004. Multi-level fast multipole method for thin plate spline evaluation. Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on. 3:1683-1686Vol.3-1683-1686Vol.3.
2004. FAST ALGORITHMS TO COMPUTE MATRIX-VECTOR PRODUCTS FOR PASCAL MATRICES. Technical Reports from UMIACS UMIACS-TR-2004-08.
2004. A spherical microphone array system for traffic scene analysis. Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2004. Proceedings. The 7th International IEEE Conference on. :338-342.
2004. On-Line Kernel-Based Tracking in Joint Feature-Spatial Spaces. IEEE, 0-7695-2158-2164.
2004. Rendering localized spatial audio in a virtual auditory space. Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on. 6(4):553-564.
2004. Extracting the frequencies of the pinna spectral notches from measured head-related impulse responses. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116(4):2625-2625.
2004. Flexible layout and optimal cancellation of the orthonormality error for spherical microphone arrays. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on. 4:iv-41-iv-44vol.4-iv-41-iv-44vol.4.
2004. A study of the pinna anthropometry and the spectral notch frequencies. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116(4):2625-2625.
2004. Similarity measure for nonparametric kernel density based object tracking. Eighteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver.
2004. Capture and recreation of higher order 3d sound fields via reciprocity. International Conference on Audio Display.
2004. Sonification of geo-referenced data for auditory information seeking: Design principle and pilot study. Proceedings of ICAD.
2004. Structure of applicable surfaces from single views. Computer Vision-ECCV 2004. :482-496.
2004. Efficient computation of acoustical scattering from N spheres via the fast multipole method accelerated flexible generalized minimal residual method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116(4):2528-2528.
2004. SoftPOSIT: Simultaneous pose and correspondence determination. International Journal of Computer Vision. 59(3):259-284.
2004. INTERPOLATION AND RANGE EXTRAPOLATION OF HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS. IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING. 4
2004. TM Electromagnetic Scattering from 2D Multilayered Dielectric Bodies-Numerical Solution. Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society journal. (2):100-107.
2004. Rendering localized spatial audio in a virtual auditory space. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 6(4):553-564.
2004. Accelerated speech source localization via a hierarchical search of steered response power. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 12(5):499-508.
2004. Computation of Green's function for finite-size photonic crystals by boundary element method. Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. IEEE. 4:4320-4323Vol.4-4320-4323Vol.4.
2003
2003. Data Structures, Optimal Choice of Parameters, and Complexity Results for Generalized Multilevel Fast Multipole Methods in $d$ Dimensions. Technical Reports from UMIACS UMIACS-TR-2003-28.
2003. Two methods for solving a 3D acoustic inverse scattering problem. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113(4):2191-2191.
2003. Analysis of particular phononic structures using single integral equations. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113(4):2284-2284.
2003. Tracking a moving speaker using excitation source information. Eighth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.
2003. Extracting significant features from the HRTF. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Auditory Display.
2003. Augmented intelligibility in simultaneous multi-talker environments. Proc. International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD’03). :71-74.
2003. Acoustical scattering from N spheres using a multilevel fast multipole method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113(4):2334-2334.
2003. Efficient kernel density estimation using the fast gauss transform with applications to color modeling and tracking. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 25(11):1499-1504.
2003. Efficient kernel density estimation using the fast gauss transform with applications to color modeling and tracking. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 25(11):1499-1504.
2003. Simultaneous pose and correspondence determination using line features. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Computer Society Conference on. 2:II-424-II-431vol.2-II-424-II-431vol.2.
2003. Pitch and timbre manipulations using cortical representation of sound. Multimedia and Expo, IEEE International Conference on. 3:381-384.
2003. HRTF personalization using anthropometric measurements. Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2003 IEEE Workshop on.. :157-160.