Naomi Harte
Associate Professor
Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Harte is an Assistant Professor in Digital Media Systems in the School of Engineering. She was appointed as an SFI Engineering Initiative Lecturer in Digital Media in 2008. Prior to returning to academia, Dr. Harte worked in high-tech start-ups in the field of DSP Systems Development, including her own company founded in 2002. She also previously worked in McMaster University in Canada. Dr. Harte's specialist area is Human Speech Communication. Her industrial background brings a real-world approach to her research. Her work involves the design and application of mathematical algorithms to enhance or augment speech communication between humans and technology. Since her appointment, she has established a strong international reputation in the speech processing community. Dr. Harte's research simultaneously represents academic excellence and industrial relevance. She has published over 60 peer reviewed papers in her specialist areas. For the past two years, Dr. Harte has been involved in a major collaboration with Google Chrome and YouTube, leading to multiple patent applications and publications.
Research Interest
Audio-visual speech processing; Birdsong Analysis; Emotion in Speech; Human-Computer Interaction; Information/Communication Systems; Multimedia; Signal Processing; Speaker Recognition; SPEECH; Speech Biometrics; Speech processing/technology; Speech Quality; SPEECH RECOGNITION
Publications
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Ailbhe Cullen and Naomi Harte, Late Integration of Features for Acoustic Emotion Recognition, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)., 2013, pp1 - 5
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Andrew Hines, Eoin Gillen, Jan Skoglund, Damien Kelly, Anil Kokaram and Naomi Harte, Perceived Audio Quality for Streaming Stereo Music. , ACM Multimedia, Orlando, FL, USA, 2014, pp1173 - 1176
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Francois Pitie and Damien Kelly and Thierry Foucu and Naomi Harte and Anil C. Kokaram , Assessment of Audio/Video synchronisation in streaming media., International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, Singapore, 2014, pp171 - 176
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Pitie, F., Kelly, D., Foucu, T., Harte, N., Kokaram, A. , Assessment of Audio/Video synchronisation in streaming media, 2014 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, QoMEX 2014, 2014 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, QoMEX 2014, 2014, pp171-176
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Finnian Kelly, Rahim Saeidi, Naomi Harte, David van Leeuwen, Effect of long-term ageing on i-vector speaker verification, Computer Speech & Language, InterSpeech, Singapore, 2014, pp1068 - 1084
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Hines A, Gillen E, Kelly D, Skoglund J, Kokaram A, Harte N, ViSQOLAudio: An objective audio quality metric for low bitrate codecs, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, (6), 2015, pEL449 - EL455
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Hines A, Gillen E, Harte N, Measuring and monitoring speech quality for voice over IP with POLQA, ViSQOL and P.563, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2015, 2015-January, 2015, pp438 - 442
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Harte N, Gillen E, Hines A, TCD-VoIP, a research database of degraded speech for assessing quality in VoIP applications, 7th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, QoMEX 2015, 26-29 May 2015 , IEEE, 2015, 7148100-
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Harte N, Gillen E, TCD-TIMIT: An audio-visual corpus of continuous speech, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 17, (5), 2015, p603 - 615
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C. O Reilly, D. J. Kelly, N. M. Marples and N. Harte , Quantifying difference in vocalizations of bird populations, Proceedings of Interspeech 2015, 2015, 2015, p3417 - 3421
