Conferences

• D. May, T. Ma, S. Srinivasan, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Continuous Speech Recognition Using Nonlinear Dynamic Invariants," submitted to INTERSPEECH, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
  
  
• T. Ma, S. Srinivasan, D. May, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Robust Speech Recognition Using Linear Dynamic Models," submitted to INTERSPEECH, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
  
  
• S. Srinivasan, T. Ma, D. May, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Nonlinear Mixture Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models For Speech Recognition," submitted to INTERSPEECH, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
  
  
• D. May, S. Srinivasan, T. Ma, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Continuous Speech Recognition Using Nonlinear Dynamic Invariants," submitted to the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008.
  
  
• D. May, S. Srinivasan, T. Ma and J. Picone, "Continuous Speech Recognition Using Nonlinear Dynamical Invariants," submitted to the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 2008.
  
  
• M. Harper, A. Acero, S. Bangalore, J. Carbonell, J. Cohen, B. Cuthill, C. Espy-Wilson, C. Fellbaum, J. Garofolo, C.H. Lee, J. Lester, A. McCallum, N. Morgan, M. Picheny, J. Picone, L. Ramshaw, J. Reynar, H. Shemtov and C. Voss, "Report on NSF-Sponsored Human Language Technology Workshop on Industrial Centers," Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit XI, pp. 239-246,Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2007.
  
  
• J. Picone, "Information Retrieval From Voice: The Importance of Flexibility and Efficiency," presented at the Spoken Term Detection Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, December 2006.
  
  
• S. Prasad, S. Srinivasan, M. Pannuri, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Nonlinear Dynamical Invariants for Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 2518-2521, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, September 2006.
  
  
• S. Prasad, S. Srinivasan and J. Picone, "Reconstructed Phase Space of a Vector Time Series," submitted to the 14th European Signal Processing Conference, Florence, Italy, September 2006.
  
  
• H.P. Greeley, J. Berg, E. Friets, J.P. Wilson, S. Raghavan and J. Picone, "Detecting Fatigue From Voice Using Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp. 567-571, Vancouver, Canada, August 2006.
  
  
• T. Stanley, J. Baca, M. Liu and J. Picone, "A Distributed Prototyping Environment for Human Language Technology," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp. 594-599, Vancouver, Canada, August 2006.
  
  
• W. Holland, D. May, J. Baca, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "A Unified Language Model Architecture for Web-based Speech Recognition Grammars," IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp. 87-91, Vancouver, Canada, August 2006.
  
  
• W. Holland, J. Baca, D. Duncan, and J. Picone, "Language Model Grammar Conversion," presented at the 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2006.
  
  
• T. Stanley, J. Baca, M. Elliott and J. Picone, "Enhancements to the DARPA Communicator Architecture," presented at the 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2006.
  
  
• M. Pannuri, W. Holland, J. Baca, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Grammar Transformations in Speech Recognition," submitted to IEEE Southeastcon, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, March 2006.
  
  
• M. Liu, T. Stanley, J. Baca and J. Picone, "Robust Architecture for Human Language Technology," Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 196-199, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, March 2006.
  
  
• S. Srinivasan, S. Prasad, S. Patil, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Estimation of Lyapunov Spectra From a Time Series," Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 192-195, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, March 2006.
  
  
• S. Patil, S. Srinivasan, S. Prasad, R. Irwin, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Sequential State-Space Filters for Speech Enhancement," Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 240-243, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, March 2006.
  
  
• S. Raghavan, G. Lazarou and J. Picone, "Speaker Verification Using Support Vector Machines," Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 188-191, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, March 2006.
  
  
• J. Baca, W. Holland, D. Duncan and J. Picone, "Language Model Grammar Conversion," submitted to the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
  
  
• J. Baca, T. Stanley, M. Elliott and J. Picone, "Enhancements to the DARPA Communicator Architecture," submitted to the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
  
  
• H.P. Greeley, J. Berg, E. Friets, J.P. Wilson, S. Raghavan and J. Picone, "Detecting Fatigue From Voice Using Speech Recognition," submitted to the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
  
  
• W. Jenkins, R. Lewis, G. Lazarou, J. Picone and Z. Rowland, "Integrating Vehicle Performance Monitoring with Existing Wireless Technology," submitted to the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, San Francisco, USA, November 2005.
  
  
• W. Gao , and S. Porandla, "Design Optimization of a Parallel Hybrid Electric Powertrain," Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 6-12, September 2005.
  
  
• W. Gao , S. Porandla, S. Musunuri, J. Mathews, J. Picone, S. Neema and J. Gray, "Hybrid Powertrain Design Using a Domain-Specific Modeling Environment," Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 530-535, September 2005.
  
  
• J. Brocato and J. Picone, "Writing While Designing: Combining ECE Senior Design with an Existing Technical Writing Course," presented at the American Society for Engineering Education - Southeastern Section - Annual Conference (ASEE SE), Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, April 2005.
  
  
• W. Jenkins, R. Lewis, G. Lazarou, J. Picone and Z. Rowland, "Real-time Vehicle Performance Monitoring Using Wireless Networking," Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, pp. 375-380, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, USA, November 2004.
  
  
• H. Gao, R. Duncan, J. Baca and J. Picone, "Signal Processing Tools for Speech Recognition," The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, pp. 543-547, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, USA, November 2004.
  
  
• R.Q. Hu, W. Hu and G.Y. Lazarou, "A Backup Path Wavelength Rearrangement Scheme in an Optical Network," submitted to the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), Miami, Florida, USA, March 2005.
  
  
• T. Imbiriba, A. Klautau, N. Parihar, S. Raghavan, and J. Picone, "GMM And Kernel-Based Speaker Recognition with the ISIP Toolkit," Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, pp. 371-380, Sao Luis, Brazil, September 2004.
  
  
• I. Alphonso and J. Picone, "Network Training For Continuous Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the 12th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 565-568, Vienna, Austria, September 2004.
  
  
• N. Parihar, J. Picone, D. Pearce, and H.G. Hirsch, "Performance Analysis of the Aurora Large Vocabulary Baseline System," Proceedings of the 12th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 553-556, Vienna, Austria, September 2004.
  
  
• J. Baranski, M. Crocker, and G.Y. Lazarou, "Dynamic Routing Protocol Performance in a Fault-Tolerant Ethernet-based IP Network," Proceedings of the 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2004), pp. 1-5, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2004.
  
  
• J. Brocato and J. Picone, "Writing While Designing: Combining ECE Senior Design with an Existing Technical Writing Course," submitted to the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 2004.
  
  
• R. Sundaram and J. Picone, "Effects of Transcription Errors on Supervised Learning in Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 169-172, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2004.
  
  
• I. Alphonso and J. Picone, "Network Training For Continuous Speech Recognition," submitted to the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2004.
  
  
• N. Parihar, J. Picone, D. Pearce, and H.G. Hirsch, "Performance Analysis of the Aurora Large Vocabulary Baseline System," submitted to the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2004.
  
  
• H. Gao, R. Duncan, J. Baca and J. Picone, "Signal Processing Tools for Speech Recognition," submitted to the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2004.
  
  
• J. Li and G.Y. Lazarou, "A Bit-Map-Assisted Energy Efficient MAC Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'04), pp. 55-60, Berkeley, California, USA, April 2004.
  
  
• J. Li and G.Y. Lazarou, "Modeling the Energy Consumption of MAC Schemes in Wireless Cluster-Based Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the 15th IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (MSO), pp. 313-318, Marina del Rey, California, USA, March 2004.
  
  
• J. Baranski, M. Crocker and G. Lazarou, "Fault-Tolerant Reconfigurable Ethernet-Based IP Network Proxy," Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT), pp. 214-220, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, November 2003.
  
  
• M. Selvaraj, G.Y. Lazarou, and R. Hu, "Proportional Bandwidth, Delay, and Loss Differentiation," Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT), pp. 291-296, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, November 2003.
  
  
• D. Zheng, G.Y. Lazarou, and R. Hu, "A Comprehensive TCP Stochastic Model," Proceedings of The 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT), pp. 291-296, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, November 2003.
  
  
• N. Parihar, and J. Picone, "An Analysis of the Aurora Large Vocabulary Evaluation," European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 337-340, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
  
  
• J. Baca, F. Zheng, H. Gao, and J. Picone, "Dialog Systems for Automotive Environments," European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 1929-1932, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
  
  
• N. Parihar, J. Picone, D. Pearce, and H.G. Hirsch, "Performance Analysis of the Aurora Large Vocabulary Baseline System," submitted to the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
  
  
• H. Gao, R. Duncan, J. Baca and J. Picone, "Signal Processing Tools for Speech Recognition," submitted to the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
  
  
• D. Zheng, G.Y. Lazarou and R. Hu, "A Stochastic Model for Short-lived TCP Flows," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'03), pp. 291-296, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2003.
  
  
• R. Hu, J. Babbitt, H. Abu-Amara, C. Rosenberg and G.Y. Lazarou, Connectivity Planning and Call Admission Control in an On-board Cross-connect Based Multimedia Geo Satellite Network", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'03), pp. 422-427, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2003.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker, and J. Picone, "Advances in Hybrid SVM/HMM Speech Recognition," presented at the GSPx / International Signal Processing Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 2003.
  
  
• G.Y. Lazarou, X. Xiangdong and V.S. Frost, "Internet Traffic Modeling Using the Index of Variability," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (MSO), pp. 31-37, Palm Springs, California, USA, February 2003.
  
  
• J. Hamaker, J. Picone, and A. Ganapathiraju, "A Sparse Modeling Approach to Speech Recognition Based on Relevance Vector Machines," Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, pp. 1001-1004, Denver, Colorado, USA, September 2002.
  
  
• S. Harabagiu, J. Picone, and D. Moldovan, "Voice Activated Question Answering," presented at the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2002.
  
  
• K. Huang and J. Picone, "Internet-Accessible Speech Recognition Technology," presented at the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, August 2002.
  
  
• F. Zheng, J. Hamaker, F. Goodman, B. George, N. Parihar, and J. Picone, "The ISIP 2001 NRL Evaluation for Recognition of Speech in Noisy Environments," presented at the Speech In Noisy Environments (SPINE) Workshop, Orlando, Florida, USA, November 2001.
  
  
• B. Jelinek, F. Zheng, N. Parihar, J. Hamaker, and J. Picone, "Generalized Hierarchical Search in the ISIP ASR System," Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1553-1556, Pacific Grove, California, USA, November 2001.
  
  
• J. Picone, R. Duncan, and J. Hamaker, "Internet-Accessible Speech Recognition Technology," presented at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, San Diego, California, USA, July 2001.
  
  
• R. Sundaram and J. Picone, "The Effects of Transcription Errors," Proceedings of the Speech Transcription Workshop, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, USA, May 2001.
  
  
• R. Sundaram, J. Hamaker, and J. Picone, "TWISTER: The ISIP 2001 Conversational Speech Evaluation System," Proceedings of the Speech Transcription Workshop, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, USA, May 2001.
  
  
• B. George, B. Necioglu, J. Picone, G. Shuttic, and R. Sundaram, "An Interoperability Study of Speech Enhancement and Speech Recognition Systems," submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 2001.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Hybrid SVM/HMM Architectures for Speech Recognition," submitted to Neural Information Processing Systems, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 2000.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker and J. Picone, "A Hybrid ASR System Using Support Vector Machines," Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, vol. 4, pp. 504-507, Beijing, China, October 2000.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Support Vector Machines For Automatic Data Cleanup," Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, vol. 4, pp. 210-213, Beijing, China, October 2000.
  
  
• B. George, B. Necioglu, J. Picone, G. Shuttic, and R. Sundaram, "The 2000 NRL Evaluation for Recognition of Speech in Noisy Environments," presented at the Speech In Noisy Environments (SPINE) Workshop, Naval Research Laboratory, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, October, 2000.
  
  
• Z. Long, J. Picone, and V. Rudis, "The Optimization of Edge and Line Detectors for Forest Image Analysis," Proceedings of the 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, vol. 5, pp. 171-176, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2000.
  
  
• P. Beyerlein, W. Byrne, J. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, B. Marthi, J. Morgan, N. Peterek, J. Picone, D. Vergyri, and W. Wang, "Towards Language Independent Acoustic Modeling," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 2, pp. 1029-1032, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker and J. Picone, "Hybrid HMM/SVM Architectures for Speech Recognition," Speech Transcription Workshop, College Park, Maryland, USA, May 2000.
  
  
• R. Sundaram, A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker and J. Picone, "ISIP 2000 Conversational Speech Evaluation System," Speech Transcription Workshop, College Park, Maryland, USA, May 2000.
  
  
• J. Picone, C. Atkeson and I. Alphonso, "Harnessing High Bandwidth: Applications in Speech Recognition," presented at the Spring 2000 Internet2 Member Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, March 2000.
  
  
• P.J. Price and J. Picone, "Automatic Speech Recognition: Better Than Text?" presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, Washington, D.C., USA, February 2000.
  
  
• G. Doddington, A. Ganapathiraju, J. Picone and Y. Wu, "Adding Word Duration Information to Bigram Language Models," presented at the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, USA, December 1999.
  
  
• P. Beyerlein, W. Byrne, J. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, B. Marthi, J. Morgan, N. Peterek, J. Picone, and W. Wang, "Towards Language Independent Acoustic Modeling," presented at the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, USA, December 1999.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh, A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker, J. Picone and M. Ordowski, "A Public Domain Speech-to-Text System," Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 2127-2130, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.
  
  
• J. Picone, W. Byrne, P. Beyerlein, J. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, J. Morgan, N. Peterek, B. Marthi and W. Wang, "Knowledge-Based Phone Mappings," Proceedings of the 1999 NSF Workshop on Language Engineering for Students and Professionals Integrating Research and Education, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, August 1999.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, N. Deshmukh, J. Hamaker, V. Mantha, Y. Wu, X. Zhang, J. Zhao and J. Picone, "ISIP Public Domain LVCSR System," Proceedings of the Speech Transcription Workshop, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, USA, June 1999.
  
  
• J. Picone, S. Pike, R. Regan, T. Kamm, J. Bridle, L. Deng, Z. Ma, H. Richards and M. Schuster, "Initial Evaluation of Hidden Dynamic Models on Conversational Speech," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 109-112, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 1999.
  
  
• R. Duncan and J. Picone, "A UNIX-Based Speech Data Collection Platform," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 29-31B, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, March 1999.
  
  
• V. Mantha, R. Duncan, Y. Wu, J. Zhao, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Implementation and Analysis of Speech Recognition Front-Ends," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 32-35, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, March 1999.
  
  
• J. Zhao, J. Hamaker, N. Deshmukh, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Fast Search Algorithms for Continuous Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 36-39, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, March 1999.
  
  
• S. Balakrishnama, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Linear Discriminant Analysis for Signal Processing Problems," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 78-81, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, March 1999.
  
  
• X. Zhang, V. Ramani, Z. Long, Y. Zeng, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Scenic Beauty Estimation Using Independent Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 274-277, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, March 1999.
  
  
• J. Hamaker, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Information Theoretic Approaches to Model Selection," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 2931-2934, Sydney, Australia, November 1998.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker and J. Picone, "Support Vector Machines for Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 2923-2926, Sydney, Australia, November 1998.
  
  
• J. Ngan, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Improved Surname Pronunciations Using Decision Trees," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 3285-3288, Sydney, Australia, November 1998.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh, A. Ganapathiraju, A. Gleeson, J. Hamaker and J. Picone, "Resegmentation of Switchboard," Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 1543-1546, Sydney, Australia, November 1998.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker, A. Skjellum and J. Picone, "Contemporary View of FFT Algorithms," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, pp. 130-133, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 1998.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh, A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker and J. Picone, "An Efficient Public Domain LVCSR Decoder," Proceedings of Speech Transcription Workshop, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, USA, September 1998.
  
  
• J. Hamaker, N. Deshmukh, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Resegmentation and Transcription of the SWITCHBOARD Corpus," Proceedings of Speech Transcription Workshop, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, USA, September 1998.
  
  
• J. Picone, J. Bridle, L. Deng, T. Kamm, J. Ma, S. Pike, R. Reagan, H. Richards, and M. Schuster, "Evaluation of Hidden Dynamic Models on Continuous Speech," Proceedings of the 1998 NSF Workshop on Language Engineering for Students and Professionals Integrating Research and Education, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, August 1998.
  
  
• C.P. Charalambos, G.Y. Lazarou, V.S. Frost, J. Evans and R. Jonkman, "Experimental and Simulation Performance Results of TCP/IP over High-Speed ATM over ACTS," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 72-78, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 1998.
  
  
• J. Hamaker, A. Ganapathiraju, J. Picone and J. Godfrey, "Advances in Alphadigit Recognition Using Syllables," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 421-424, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 1998.
  
  
• J. Shaffer, J. Hamaker and J. Picone, "Visualization of Signal Processing Concepts," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1853-1856, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 1998.
  
  
• A. Le, J. Ngan, J. Shaffer, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "A Comparison of Classification Algorithms on Highly Nonlinear Signal Processing Problems," submitted to IEEE Southeastcon, Orlando, Florida, USA, April 1998.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, V. Goel, J. Picone, A. Corrada, G. Doddington, K. Kirchoff, M. Ordowski and B. Wheatley, "Syllable - A Promising Recognition Unit for LVCSR," Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, pp. 207-214, Santa Barbara, California, USA, December 1997.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, G. Doddington, A. Corrada, V. Goel, B. Wheatley, K. Kirchoff, M. Ordowski, and J. Picone, "Syllable-Based Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the 1997 Summer Workshop on Speech Recognition, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, August 1997.
  
  
• V.A. Rudis, R.E. Thill, J.H. Gramann, J. Picone, N. Kalidindi and P. Tappe, "Understory structure by season following uneven-aged reproduction cutting: a comparison of selected measurement methods two and six years after treatment," presented at the First Biennial North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, June 1997.
  
  
• L. DaSilva, J. Evans, D. Niehaus, V. Frost, R. Jonkman, B. Lee and G. Lazarou, "Performance Experiences in a Wide Area ATM Network," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'03), pp. 1694-1698, Montreal, Canada, USA, June 1997.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh, A. Le, J. Ngan, J. Hamaker and J. Picone, " An Advanced System to Generate Multiple Pronunciations of Proper Nouns," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1467-1470, Munich, Germany, April 1997.
  
  
• J.J. Godfrey, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Microsegment-Based Connected Digit Recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1755-1758, Munich, Germany, April 1997.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Echo Cancellation For Evaluating Speaker Identification Technology," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 100-102, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, April 1997.
  
  
• N. Kalidindi, A. Le, J. Picone, L. Zheng, H. Yaquin and V.A. Rudis, "Scenic Beauty Estimation of Forestry Images," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 337-339, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, April 1997.
  
  
• M. Balducci, A. Choudary, A. Ganapathiraju, J. Hamaker, J. Picone and A. Skjellum, "Benchmarking of Serial and Parallel FFT Algorithms," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 328-330, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, April 1997.
  
  
• J. Ngan and J. Picone, "Issues in Generating Pronunciation Dictionaries for Voice Interfaces to Spatial Databases," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 97-99, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, April 1997.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh, R. Duncan, A. Ganapathiraju and J. Picone, "Benchmarking Human Performance for Continuous Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. SuP1P1.10, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, October 1996.
  
  
• G.Y. Lazarou, V.S. Frost, J.B. Evans and D. Niehaus, "Using Measurements to Validate Simulation Models of TCP/IP over High Speed ATM Wide Area Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'96), pp. 309-314, Dallas, Texas, USA, June 1996.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh, M. Weber and J. Picone, "Automated Generation of N-Best Pronunciations of Proper Nouns," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 283-286, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 1996.
  
  
• A. Ganapathiraju, L. Webster, J. Trimble, K. Bush and P. Kornman, "Comparison of Energy-Based Endpoint Detectors for Speech Signal Processing," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 500-503, Tampa, Florida, USA, April 1996.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh, A. Ganapathiraju, R.J. Duncan and J. Picone, "Human Speech Recognition Performance on the 1995 CSR Hub-3 Corpus," Proceedings of the Speech Recognition Workshop, pp. 129-134, Harriman, New York, USA, February 18-21, 1996.
  
  
• J. Picone and M. Ostendorf, "New Approaches to Stochastic Modeling of Speech," Proceedings of the IEEE ASR Workshop, pp. 27-35, Snowbird, Utah, USA, December 1995 (session co-chair).
  
  
• Y. Muthusamy, E. Holliman, B. Wheatley, J. Picone and J. Godfrey, "Voice Across Hispanic America: A Telephone Speech Corpus of American Spanish," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 85-88, Detroit, Michigan, USA, May 1995.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh and J. Picone, "Methodologies for Language Modeling and Search in Continuous Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon, pp. 192-198, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 1995.
  
  
• N. Deshmukh, J. Picone and Y.H. Kao, "Efficient Search Strategies in Hierarchical Pattern Recognition Systems," Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, pp. 89-91, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA, March 1995.
  
  
• W.J. Ebel and J. Picone, "Human Speech Recognition Performance on the 1994 CSR Spoke 10 Corpus," Proceedings of the Spoken Language Systems Technology Workshop, pp. 53-59, Austin, Texas, USA, January 1995.
  
  
• B. Wheatley, T. Staples and J. Picone, "A Language-Portable Orthography Analysis System," Proceedings of the Speech Research Symposium XIV, pp. 126-128, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 1994.
  
  
• J. Picone, "Recent Trends in Speech Coding For Personal Communications," presented at the IEEE Wichita Section Conference on Communications, Networking and Signal Processing, Wichita, Kansas, April 1994.
  
  
• J. Picone, T. Staples, K. Kondo and N. Arai, "The Voice Across Japan Database: The Japanese Language Contribution to POLYPHONE," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. I-89-I-92, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, April 1994.
  
  
• K. Kondo, J. Picone and B. Wheatley, "A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and English Digit Recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. I-101-I-104, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, April 1994.
  
  
• K. Kondo, J. Picone and B. Wheatley, "A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and English Digit Recognition," Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, pp. 129-130, Tokyo, Japan, March 1994.
  
  
• J. Picone, "Managing Software Complexity in Signal Processing Research," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. III-41-III-44, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, April 1993.
  
  
• J. Picone, K. Kondo and T. Staples, "Towards Robust Phonetic Recognition of Spoken Japanese," Proceedings of the Texas Instruments Japan Technical Meeting, vol. 9, pp. 55-56, Tokyo Japan, November 6, 1992.
  
  
• M.S. Andrews, R.D. DeGroat and J. Picone, "A High Performance MUSIC/Cepstral Based Pitch Detector," presented at the Twenty-Fourth Annual ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, San Francisco, California, USA, November 1990.
  
  
• J. Picone, "The Demographics of Speaker Independent Digit Recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 105-108, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 1990.
  
  
• S. Andrews and J. Picone, "Robust Pitch Determination Via SVD Based Cepstral Methods," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 253-256, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 1990.
  
  
• B. Wheatley and J. Picone, "Integrating Speech Technologies For Medical Applications," presented at the Medical Applications of Voice Response Technology Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 1989.
  
  
• S. Andrews, R. DeGroat and J. Picone, "Robust Cepstral Based Pitch Determination," presented at the Twenty-Third Annual ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, October 1989.
  
  
• J. Picone, "On Modeling Duration in Context," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 421-424, Glasgow, Scotland, May 1989.
  
  
• C. Hemphill and J. Picone, "Speech Recognition in a Unification Grammar Framework," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 723-726, Glasgow, Scotland, May 1989.
  
  
• J. Picone and G.R. Doddington, "The Phonetic Vocoder," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 580-583, Glasgow, Scotland, May 1989.
  
  
• J. Picone, "Speech Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models," presented at the 1989 Speech Technology Conference, New York City, New York, USA, May 1989.
  
  
• J. Picone, "Towards an Integrated Research and Development Environment," presented at the 1989 Speech Technology Conference, New York City, New York, USA, May 1989.
  
  
• J. Picone, "Automated Speech Recognition: Hidden Markov Models and Beyond," presented at the Dallas IEEE, Section Meeting, Dallas, Texas April 1989.
  
  
• C. Hemphill and J. Picone, "Unifying Speech and Natural Language," presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium, Series at Palo Alto, California, USA, March 1989.
  
  
• C. Hemphill and J. Picone, "Chart Parsing of Stochastic Spoken Language Models," Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, pp. 250-255, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, February 1989.
  
  
• G.R. Doddington, J. Picone and J. Godfrey, "The LPC Trace as an HMM Development Tool," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 84, supplement 1, Fall 1988.
  
  
• J. Picone, G.R. Doddington and J. Godfrey, "A Layered Grammar Approach to Speaker Independent Speech Recognition," presented at the 1988 IEEE Speech Recognition Workshop, Harriman, New York, USA, June 1988.
  
  
• J. Picone, M.A. Johnson and W.T. Hartwell, "Enhancing Speech Recognition Performance with Echo Cancellation," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 529-532, New York, New York, USA, April 1988.
  
  
• R.S. Sukkar, J.L. LoCicero and J. Picone, "LPC Excitation Based on ZINC Function Decomposition," Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, vol. 1, pp. 285-289, Tampa, Florida, USA, November 1988.
  
  
• R.S. Sukkar, J.L. LoCicero and J. Picone, "LPC Coding of Speech Using a Novel Excitation Model," Proceedings of the 31st Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 920-923, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, August 1988.
  
  
• J. Picone, "Recent Trends in Digital Speech Coding," presented at the 1987 Eastern Communications Forum, Stamford, Connecticut, USA, May 1987.
  
  
• J. Picone and G.R. Doddington, "Low Rate Speech Coding Using Contour Quantization," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1652-1655, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 1987.
  
  
• J. Picone, G.R. Doddington and B.G. Secrest, "Robust Pitch Detection in a Noisy Telephone Environment," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1442-1445, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 1987.
  
  
• E.C. Bronson, D.A. Carlone, W.B. Kleijn, K.M. Odell, J. Picone and D.L. Thomson, "Harmonic Coding of Speech at 4.8 kbits/s," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 2213-2216, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 1987.
  
  
• J. Picone, D.P. Prezas, W.T. Hartwell and J.L. LoCicero, "Multi-Pulse Linear Predictive Coding Using An Analytic Signal Representation," Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, vol. 2, pp. 23.2.1-23.2.5, Houston, Texas, USA, December 1986.
  
  
• J. Picone, D.P. Prezas, W.T. Hartwell and J.L. LoCicero, "Spectrum Estimation Using an Analytic Signal Representation," Proceedings of the Third Annual ASSP Workshop on Spectrum Estimation, vol. 1, pp. 172-175, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 1986.
  
  
• J. Picone, "Recent Trends in Digital Speech Coding," Proceedings of the National Communications Forum, vol. XXXX, book 2, pp. 691-696, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 1986.
  
  
• P.K. Rajasekaran, G.R. Doddington and J. Picone, "Recognition of Speech Under Stress and in Noise," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 733-736, Tokyo, Japan, April 1986.
  
  
• D.P. Prezas, J. Picone, and D.L. Thompson, "Fast and Accurate Pitch Detection Using Pattern Recognition and Adaptive Time Domain Analysis," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 109-112, Tokyo, Japan, April 1986.
  
  
• J. Picone and J. Naik, "Meeting Summary: The First Annual Dallas Chapter Workshop on Signal Processing Technology," IEEE ASSP Magazine, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 26, July 1985.
  
  
• K.M. Goudie, J. Picone and W.M. Fisher, "Phonetic String Alignment," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 77, supplement 1, pp. S12, Spring 1985.