Robert E. Yantorno, Ph.D.
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: 215-204-3381
Email: robert.yantorno@temple.edu
Website: http://www.temple.edu/speech_lab/

Degrees

Research Interests - Speech Processing Lab

• Speaker Identification
• Speech processing
• Low-bit-rate speech coding
• Speech excitation and articulation modeling 
• Speech quality

Selected Publications

• Ofoegbu, U. O., Iyer, A. N.,Yantorno, R. E., and Wenndt, S. J., "Unsupervised Indexingof Noisy Conversations with Short Speaker Utterances", IEEE Aerospace Conference 2007.

• Ofoegbu, U. O., Iyer, A. N., Yantorno, R. E., and Wenndt, S. J., "A Novel Approach to Automatic Three-Way Call Detection", ICSLP 2006.

• Iyer, A. N., Ofoegbu, U. O., Yantorno, R. E., and Wenndt, S. J., "Speaker Identification in adverse conditions", IEEE Aerospace Conference  2007.

• Pal, P., Iyer, A., and Yantorno, R.E., "Emotion Detection from Infant Facial Expressions and Cries", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing 2006.

• Khanwalkar, S.S., Smolenski, B.Y., Yantorno, R.E., and Wenndt, S.J., "Enhancement of Speaker Identification Using Sid-Usable Speech", European Signal Processing Conference, EURSIPCO 2005.

• Iyer, A.N., Smolenski, B.Y., Yantorno, R.E., Cupples, E.J., Wenndt, S.J., "Speaker Identification Improvement Using the Usable Speech Concept", European Signal Processing Conference, EURSIPCO 2004, pp. 349-352.

• Shah, J., Yantorno, R.E., Smolenski, B., Iyer, A.N., "Sequential K-Nearest Neighbor Pattern Recognition for Usable Speech Classification", European Signal Processing Conference, EURSIPCO 2004, pp: 741-744.

• Yantorno, R.E., Smolenski, B.Y., Iyer, A., Shah, J., "Usable Speech Detection Using a Context Dependent Gaussian Mixture Model Classifier", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2004 (invited paper).

• Shah, J. Yantorno, R.E., and Smolenski, B., "Decision Level Fusion of Usable Speech Measures Using Consensus Theory", IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ISPACS, pp: 245-250, December 2003, Awaji Island, Japan.

Projects

• "Noise Robust Speaker Count System Using Mixture Model Clustering", funded by the U.S. Air Force, 2004-2006.
• "Development of an Automatic Segmentation Algorithm", funded by the U.S. Air Force, 2003-2004.
• "Usable Speech Measures - Their Development and Fusion", funded by the U.S. Air Force, 2002-2004.

Present Teaching (Spring 2008)

• INVESTING FOR THE FUTURE
• STOCHASTIC PROCESS & SIGNAL & SYSTEMS 

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