ICASSP 2012 in Kyoto, Japan

We presented our first paper based on our recent work on Dirichlet processes. The goal of this work is to replace conventional hidden Markov model based acoustic models with nonparametric Bayesian methods.

Of course, there are better reasons to go to Kyoto. From 1991 to 1993, we lived in Tsukuba, Japan while creating a research center for Texas Instruments. Kyoto is one of the great cities in the world, mixing amazing culture and history in a thriving, contemporary urban landscape. Enjoy some of our fond memories of life in Japan.

One of the highlights of the trip was reconnecting with an old friend, Kazz Kondo, who was the first speech researcher we hired, and who was instrumental in creating a strong program in human language technology research.

Guest Column
March 2012
Shuang Lu

Shuang Lu is currently a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University. She completed her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Jiangnan University, China. Her academic interests include near-infrared/thermal image processing, medical image processing and object tracking. Her curent research interests are applications of advanced statistical models and American Sign Language recognition.

Painting is one of her favorite hobbies. This picture, known as The Flying Apsaras, depicts one of the goddesses in a fairy tale of ancient China who is good at dancing and singing. Shuang also works as a teaching assistant in the department, where she is responsible for teaching students about MATLAB in a variety of curcuits, signal processing and magnetic fields courses.