Øystein Birkenes

Position: PhD Student
Office: C-239
Phone: +47 73 55 03 98
Fax: +47 73 59 26 40
E-mail: birkenes(a)iet.ntnu.no
Address: Signal Processing Group,
Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
O.S. Bragstads pl. 2B,
N-7491 Trondheim, NORWAY

Publications:
O. Birkenes, T. Matsui, K. Tanabe, and T.A. Myrvoll,
"N-best rescoring for speech recognition using penalized logistic regression machines with garbage class" (pdf),
in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu, USA, Apr 2007.

M. Cuturi, J.P. Vert, O. Birkenes, and T. Matsui,
"A kernel for time series based on global alignments" (pdf),
in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu, USA, Apr 2007.

M. Cuturi, J.P. Vert, O. Birkenes, and T. Matsui,
"Isolated-Word Recognition Using Global Alignment Kernel",
in Proc. ASJ (Acoustical Society of Japan) 2007.

O. Birkenes, T. Matsui, K. Tanabe, and T.A. Myrvoll
"Continuous speech recognition with penalized logistic regression machines" (pdf),
in Proc. IEEE Nordig Signal Processing Symposium (NORSIG), Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2006.

O. Birkenes, T. Matsui, and K. Tanabe,
"Isolated-word recognition with penalized logistic regression machines" (pdf),
in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Tolouse, France, May 2006.

O. Birkenes, and T. Matsui
"Speaker recognition with penalized logistic regression machines",
in Proc. ASJ (Acoustical Society of Japan), Tokyo, Japan, March 2006.

O. Birkenes, T. Matsui, and K. Tanabe,
"Probabilistic isolated-word speech recognition via maximum penalized logistic regression likelihood",
in Proc. ASJ (Acoustical Society of Japan), Sendai, Japan, Sept 2005.

O. Birkenes, R.A. Kennedy, and T.S. Pollock,
"Spatial Limits for Direction of Arrival Estimation for Narrowband Wireless Communication" (pdf),
in Proc. Norsk Symposium i Signalbehandling (NORSIG), Bergen, Norway, Oct 2003.

Theses and other unpublished work:
Oystein Birkenes,
"A Framework for Speech Recognition using Logistic Regression" (pdf),
PhD thesis, July 2007.

O. Birkenes,
"Automatic Speech Recognition - Plug-In MAP, Kernel Methods, and Hybrid Systems" (pdf),
unpublished research note, March 2005.

Øystein Birkenes,
"On the Limits to Determining the Direction of Arrival for Narrowband Wireless Communication" (pdf),
Diploma thesis, Aug 2002.

Patents:
O. Birkenes, T. Matsui, and K. Tanabe,
"Speech recognition system and method (in Japanese)", 2005, No. 05-191DK (patent pending in Japan).
Last updated: 11 Aug 2007