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Journal Papers
- Tarun Pruthi, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson and Brad H. Story, Simulation and analysis of nasalized vowels based on magnetic resonance imaging data , J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121(6), pp 3858-3873, June 2007.
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Acoustic parameters for automatic detection of nasal manner , Speech Communication, 43(3), pp 225-239, Aug 2004.
Conference Papers
- Tarun Pruthi, Mihai Despa, and Amit Juneja, Speech recognition in loud noise using an ear-insert microphone , JASA, 127(3), p. 1815, Apr 2010 (Invited paper).
- Siddharth Chhatpar, Chris Blanco, Jeff Czerniak, Orin Hoffman, Amit Juneja, Tarun Pruthi, D. Liu, R. Karlsen and Jonathan Brown, Field experiments using SPEAR: A speech control system for UGVs, SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing, Orlando, FL, April 2009.
- Siddharth Chhatpar, Lester Ngia, Chris Vlach, Dong Lin, Craig Birkhimer, Amit Juneja, Tarun Pruthi, Orin Hoffman, and Tristan Lewis, Hands-free device control using sound picked up in the ear canal, SPIE Defense + Security 2008, Orlando, FL, March 2008.
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Acoustic Parameters for the Automatic Detection of Vowel Nasalization, Interspeech, Antwerp, Aug 2007, pp. 1925-1928 ( PDF ).
- Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Tarun Pruthi, Amit Juneja and Om Deshmukh, Landmark-based Approach to Speech Recognition: An Alternative to HMMs, Interspeech, Antwerp, Aug 2007, pp.886-889 ( PDF ).
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, An MRI based Study of the Acoustic Effects of Sinus Cavities and its Application to Speaker Recognition, Interspeech, Pittsburgh, Sep 2006, pp. 2110-2113( PDF ).
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Automatic Classification of Nasals and Semivowels , 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Barcelona, Aug 2003, pp. 3061-3064 ( PDF ).
- Himaanshu Gupta, Amit K Agrawal, Tarun Pruthi, Chandra Shekhar, and Rama Chellappa, An Experimental Evaluation of Linear and Kernel-Based Methods for Face Recognition , Workshop on the Application of Computer Vision (WACV), Orlando, Dec 2002, pp. 13-18 ( PDF ).
- Tarun Pruthi, Sameer Saksena and Pradip K. Das, Swaranjali: Isolated Word Recognition for Hindi Language using VQ and HMM , International Conference on Multimedia Processing and Systems (ICMPS), IIT Madras, Aug 2000 ( PDF ).
Abstracts
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Automatic detection of vowel nasalization using knowledge-based acoustic parameters, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120(5), p. 3377, Nov 2006 ( Poster PPT ).
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Acoustic parameters for nasality based on a model of the auditory cortex, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 119(5), p. 3338, June 2006 ( Poster PPT ).
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Simulating and understanding the effects of velar coupling area on nasalized vowel spectra , J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 118(3), p. 2024, Sep 2005 ( Poster PPT ). Won the best student paper award.
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Advances in the acoustic correlates of nasals from analysis of MRI data , J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115(5), p. 2543, May 2004 ( Poster PPT ).
Posters
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Acoustic parameters for automatic detection of nasal manner , Tech 2004, University of Maryland, College Park, Mar 2004 ( Poster PDF ).
- Tarun Pruthi and Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Automatic Classification of Nasals and Semivowels , Research Review Day 2003, University of Maryland, College Park, Mar 2003 ( Poster PDF ).
Reports
- Tarun Pruthi, Analysis, vocal-tract modeling and automatic detection of vowel nasalization , PhD Thesis, Jan 18, 2007. Committee Members: Prof. Carol Espy-Wilson (Chair), Prof. Shihab A. Shamma, Prof. Jonathan Simon, Prof. Corine Bickley, Prof. William Idsardi ( PDF ).
- Tarun Pruthi, Computational auditory scene analysis , Independent study report, May 2002 ( PDF ).
- Tarun Pruthi, Face recognition , Course Project Presentation, May 2002 ( PDF ).
- Tarun Pruthi, Multipitch estimation , Course Project Report, Dec 10, 2001 ( PDF ).
- Tarun Pruthi, A resonance detector for environmental sounds , Course Project Report, Dec 7, 2001 ( PDF ).
Magazine Articles
- Tarun Pruthi, New frontiers of Speech Recognition , In Phase, IIT Guwahati ECE Society Magazine, Feb 2008 ( Download a copy of the Feb 2008 issue from here ).