Publications

  • M. H. Radfar, A. Wright, and L. Stein, " PGMLAB: An easy-to-use C library for fast learning and inference in large discrete Bayesian networks," ” ACM transaction on Mathematical Software, under review, 2017
  • M. H. Radfar, W. Wong, and Q. Morris, " BayMiR: inferring evidence for endogenous miRNA-induced gene repression from mRNA expression profiles," BMC Genomic April, 2014.
  • M. H. Radfar, D. Model, R. M. Dansereau, and W.-Y. Chan, W. Wong " Gain adapted factorial hidden Markov models for source separation," Signal Processing.
  • M. H. Radfar, W. Wong, and Q. Morris, " Computational Prediction of Intronic microRNA Targets Using Host Gene Expression Reveals Novel Regulatory Mechanisms," PLoS ONE, 2012.
  • M.H. Radfar, and Q. Morris, "'Identifying the synergistic impact of miRNAs on large scale gene expression data ," International Conference on System Biology, Sept. 2012, Toronto
  • M.H. Radfar, and Q. Morris, " 'miRNAs target prediction using large scale gene expression data ," presented at Regulatory and Non-Coding RNAs meetings, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Oct. 2012
  • A. Yadolahi, H. Alshaer, M.H. Radfar, T. D. Bradley, " 'Relationship of Respiratory Sounds to Alterations in the Upper Airway Resistance", In proc. IEEE Intern. Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
  • H. Alshaer, M. Garcia, M.H. Radfar, G. R. Fernie, T. D. Bradley, "Detection of upper airway narrowing via classification of lpc coefficiets: implications for obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis' ," IEEE Intern. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2011 Prague), May. 22-27, 2011.
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and W.-Y. Chan, " Monaural speech separation based on gain adapted minimum mean square error estimation," Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol 10, no. 1, 17 pages.
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and Sayadiyan, "Speaker independent model based single channel speech separation," Neurocomputing, Vol. 27, no. 1, Dec. 2008, 9 pages.
  • M.H. Radfar, R.M Dansereau, "Single Channel Speech Separation using Soft Mask Filtering," IEEE Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol 15, issue 8, Nov. 2007, pp. 2299 - 2310, 12 pages.
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, "Monaural speech segregation based on fusion of source-driven with model-driven techniques," Speech Communication, Elsevier, Volume 49, Issue 6, June 2007, Pages 464-476, 13 pages
  • M. H. Radfar, A. Sayadiyan and R. M. Dansereau, "A generalized approach for model-based speaker-dependent single channel speech separation techniques," Journal of Science and Technology,vol. 31, no. B3, pp. 361-375, 2007, 15 pages
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, "A Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Vocal-Tract-Related Filter Characteristics for Single Channel Speech Separation," EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing, Vol. I, 2007, Article ID 84186, 15 pages
  • M. H. Radfar, A. H. Banihashemi, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, "Nonlinear minimum mean square error estimator for mixture-maximization approximation," Electronic Letters, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 75-76, June 2006, 2 pages
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, W.-Y. Chan, W. Wong, "MPtracker: A new multi-pitch detection and separation algorithm for mixed speech signals," ," IEEE Intern. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2011 Prague), May. 22-27, 2011.
  • M. H. Radfar and M. Hamilton, " A voice activated device for insulin dosage calculations for visually impaired diabetes," Proc. of the IEEE Canadian Conf. on Elec. and Comp. Eng. (CCECE'2011 Niagara Falls), May 7-10, 2011
  • M. H. Radfar, W. Wong, Q. D. Morris, "Predicting the Target Genes of Intronic MicroRNAs Using Large-scale Gene ExpressionData," In proc. IEEE Intern. Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'2010 Buenos Aires.), Sep. 1-5, 2010.
  • M. H. Radfar, W. Wong, R. M. Dansereau, W.-Y. Chan, "Scaled factorial hidden Markov models: A new technique for compensating gain differences in model-based single channel speech separation," In proc. IEEE Intern. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2010 Dallas), Mar. 14-19, 2010.
  • M. H. Radfar, W.-Y. Chan, R. M. Dansereau, W. Wong, "Performance comparison of HMM and VQ based single channel speech separation," In proc. Interspeech'2009, Intern. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2009, Brighton, UK), Sep. 6-10, 2009.
  • M. H. Radfar, W. Wong, W.-Y. Chan, and R. M. Dansereau, "Gain estimation in model-based single channel speech separation," In proc. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP'2009, Grenoble, France), Sep. 2-4, 2009.
  • M. H. Radfar and R. M. Dansereau, "Long-term gain estimation in model-based single channel speech separation," in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA2007, New Paltz, NY), October 21-24, 2007, pp. 143-146.
  • M. H. Radfar and R. M. Dansereau, "Single channel speech separation using minimum mean square error estimation of sources' log spectra," in Proc. of 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP'2007 Thessaloniki, Greece), Aug. 27-29, 2007, pp. 128-132.
  • M. H. Radfar and R. M. Dansereau, "Single Channel Speech Separation Using Maximum a Posteriori Estimation," in Proc. of Interspeech'2007, Intern. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2007 Antwerp, Belgium), Aug. 27-31, 2007, pp. 958-961.
  • M. H. Radfar, A. Sayadiyan, and R. M. Dansereau, "A new algorithm for two-talker pitch tracking in single channel paradigm," IEEE Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing (ICSP'2006, Guilin, China), Nov. 16-20, 2006, 4 pages
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, "A joint identification-separation technique for single channel speech separation," IEEE DSP Workshop, Jackson Lake Lodge, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming,USA, Sept. 24-27, 2006, 6 pages
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, "A joint probabilistic-deterministic approach using source-filter modeling of speech signal for single channel speech separation," IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Maynooth, Ireland, Sept. 6-8, 2006, pp. 47-52, 6 pages
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, "Performance Evaluation of Three Features for Model-Based Single Channel Speech Separation Problem," International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech-- ICSLP), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,USA Sept. 17-21 , 2006, PP. 2610-2613. 4 pages
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, "A Novel Low Complexity VQ-based Single Channel Speech Separation Technique," IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, August, Vancouver, Canada, 27-30, 2006, 6 pages PDF
  • M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, "On the choice of window size in model-based single channel speech separation," Proc. of the IEEE Canadian Conf. on Elec. and Comp. Eng. (CCECE'2006 Ottawa), May 7-10, 2006, 4 pages
  • M.H. Radfar, A. Sayadiyan, and N. Mobini, ìSingle Microphone Speech Separation using MixMax and Binary Masking Approach,î in Proc. of ICEE, Tehran, Iran, 2005.
  • N. Mobini, B. Vahdat, and M.H. Radfar, ìAn FPGA based implementation of G.729î, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May. 2005.
  • M.H. Radfar, A. Sayadyian, N. Mobini, ìA Robust Pitch Detection using Adaptive Wavelet Denoising,î in Proc. of 4th International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Multirate Systems, Athens, Greece, Dec, 2004.
  • M.H. Radfar, N. Mobini, K. Faez; ìWavelet packet based features selection and fuzzy ART-MAP neural network classifier for speech classification,î in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT, Germany, 14-17, Dec. 2003.
  • M.H. Radfar and K. Faez, ìAn Accurate Speech Classification based on Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Networks and Wavelet Packet,î in Proc. of 8th Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, ANZIIS, Sydney, Australia,10-12th Dec. 2003. PDF
  • M.H. Radfar and S. Khorsandi, ìTraffic Engineering in MPLSñDifferentiated Service Environment with Generalized Processor Sharing,î in Proc. of The 8th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology IKT, May, Tehran, Iran, 2005.
  • S. Khorsandi, M.H. Radfar, ìPerformance analysis of a non-homogeneous GPS system under Markov modulated fluid traffic,î in Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), Nov 2002, Singapore, 2002.
  • M.H. Radfar, M. Safavi, ìDesign of a VC-Merge Capable ATM Switch Output Module with MPLS and Diffserv Functionality,î in Proc. IEEE, International Symposium on Telecommunications, Tehran, Iran, Sep. 2001.