Rahim Saeidi, Ph.D.

As of 01.10.2011 I am working at Centre for Language and Speech Technology in Radboud University Nijmegen as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow for BBfor2 project. Here is the Link to my Ph.D. Thesis.
E-mail: firstname.lastname@let.ru.nl
Phone: +31 243611668

Awards and Grants
CIMO 2009
TES - Tekniikan edistämissäätiö, 2009 (full year grant)
TES - Tekniikan edistämissäätiö, 2010 (incentive grant)
NOKIA - 2010 (incentive grant)

Affiliations
IEEE student member (since 2009)
ISCA student member (since 2011)

Teaching:
Spring 2009: TA for Digital Speech Processing Course (Exercise page).
Fall 2009 : TA for Pattern Recognition Course (Exercise page)
Spring 2010 : Scientific Writing

Publications:

2012

Journals

• C. Hanilci, T. Kinnunen, F. Ertas, R. Saeidi, J. Pohjalainen, P. Alku, “Regularized All-Pole Models for Speaker Verification Under Noisy Environments”, to appear in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

Conferences

• P. Mowlaee, R. Saeidi, M. G. Christensen, R. Martin, Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of Single-channel Speech Separation Algorithims, accepted to ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan.

• C. Hanilci, T. Kinnunen, R. Saeidi, J. Pohjalainen, P. Alku, F. Ertas, J. Sandberg, M. Hansson-Sandsten, Comparing Spectrum Estimators in Speaker Verification Under Additive Noise Degradation, accepted to ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan.

• P. Mowlaee, R. Saeidi, R. Martin, Model-driven speech enhancement for multisource reverberant environment (Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign SiSEC 2011), accepted to The 10th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Source Separation LVA/ICA 2012.

2011

Conferences

• R. Saeidi, T. Kinnunen, Alternative Spectrum Estimation in MFCCs for Speaker Verification: NIST SRE’08 and SRE’10 corpora, in Proc. SRE11 analysis workshop, Atlanta, Dec. 2011.

• J. Rodriguez-Fuentes, M. Penagarikano, A. Varona, M. Diez, G. Bordel, D. Martinez, J. Villalba, A. Miguel, A. Ortega, E. Lleida, A. Abad, O. Koller, I. Trancoso, P. Lopez-Otero, L. Docio-Fernandez, C. Garcia-Mateo, R. Saeidi, M. Soufifar, T. Kinnunen, T. Svendsen, P. Fränti, Multi-Site Heterogenous System Fusions for the Albayzin 2010 Language Recognition Evaluation, in Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2011), pp. 377--382, Hawaii, December 2011.

• P. Mowlaee, R. Saeidi, Z. -H. Tan, M. G. Christensen, T. Kinnunen, S. H. Jensen, P. Fränti, Sinusoidal-based Approach for Single-Channel Speech Separation Challenge, in Proc. Interspeech 2011.

• D. Kolossa, R. F. Astudillo, A. Abad, S. Zeiler, R. Saeidi, P. Mowlaee, J. P. da Silva Neto, R. Martin, CHIME Challenge: Approaches to Robustness using Beamforming and Uncertainty-of-Observation Techniques, in Proc. CHiME 2011 - Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments, Interspeech 2011 satellite event.

2010

Journals

• R. Saeidi, J. Pohjalainen, T. Kinnunen, P. Alku, Temporally Weighted Linear Prediction Features for Tackling Additive Noise in Speaker Verification, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 17(6), pp. 599-602, June 2010.

• J. Sandberg, M. Hansson-Sandsten, T. Kinnunen, R. Saiedi, P. Flandrin and P. Borgnat, Multitaper Estimation of Frequency-Warped Cepstra With Application to Speaker Verification, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 17 (4), pp. 343-346, April 2010.

Conferences

• R. Saeidi, P. Mowlaee, T. Kinnunen, Z. H Tan, M. G. Christensen, S. H. Jensen and P. Fränti, Improving Monaural Speaker Identification by Double-Talk Detection, Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, pp. 1069-1072, September 2010 (presentation).

• J. Pohjalainen, R. Saiedi, T. Kinnunen, and P. Alku, Extended Weighted Linear Prediction (XLP) Analysis of Speech and its Application to Speaker Verification in Adverse Conditions, Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, pp. 1477-1480, September 2010.

• T. Kinnunen, R. Saiedi, J. Sandberg, and M. Hansson-Sandsten, What Else is New Than the Hamming Window? Robust MFCCs for Speaker Recognition via Multitapering, Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, pp. 2734-2737, September 2010.

• R. Saiedi, J. Pohjalainen, T. Kinnunen, and P. Alku, Temporally Weighted Linear Prediction Features for Speaker Verification in Additive Noise, Odyssey 2010: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 40-46, June 2010 (presentation, talk).

• R. Saeidi, P. Mowlaee, T. Kinnunen, Z. H Tan, M. G. Christensen, S. H. Jensen and P. Fränti, Signal-to-signal ratio independent speaker identification for co-channel speech signals, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2010 , Turkey, August 2010.

• R. Saeidi, T. Kinnunen, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, R. D. Rodman and P. Fränti, Joint Frame and Gaussian Selection for Text Independent Speaker Verification , in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010, Dallas, US, 2010 (Related press news: NCSU and ISNA).

• P. Mowlaee, R. Saiedi, Z. -H. Tan, M. G. Christensen, P. Fränti, and S. H. Jensen, Joint Single-Channel Speech Separation and Speaker Identification , in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010, Dallas, US, 2010.

2009

Journals

• R. Saeidi, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R. D. Rodman, Particle Swarm Optimization for Sorted Adapted Gaussian Mixture Models, IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 17 (2), 344-353, February 2009

2008

Conferences

• R. Saeidi, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R. D. Rodman, Effects of Feature Domain Normalizations on Text Independent Speaker Verification Using Sorted Adapted GMMs, International CSI Computer Conference CSICC, CCIS 6, pp. 493–500, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008

• R. Saeidi, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R. D. Rodman, Hierarchical Mixture Clustering and its Application to GMM Based Text Independent Speaker Identification,in Proc. International Symposium on Telecommunications IST 2008, Tehran, Iran, 2008

2007

Conferences

• R. Saeidi, T. Ganchev, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, Text Independent Speaker Verification Using enhanced Sorted Gaussian Mixture Model, IEEE International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication ICSPC 2007, vol. I, pp. 1191-1194, Dubai, UAE, 2007

• H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi,R. Saeidi, Speaker Identification Performance Enhancement Using Gaussian Mixture Model with GMM Classification Post-Processor, IEEE International Conf. on Signal Processing and Communication ICSPC 2007, vol. I, pp. 501-504, Dubai, UAE, 2007

• R. Saeidi, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, R. D. Rodman, and T. Kinnunen, A new segmentation algorithm combined with transient frames power for text independent speaker verification, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP 2007, vol. IV, pp. 305-308, Las Vegas, USA, 2007

• H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, R. Saeidi, M. R. Rohani, and R. D. Rodman, Combined inter-frame and intra-frame fast scoring methods for efficient implementation of GMM-based Speaker Verification Systems, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP 2007, vol. IV, pp. 309-312, Las Vegas, USA, 2007

2006

Conferences

• H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, R. Saeidi, Efficient Implementation of GMM Based Speaker Verification Using Sorted Gaussian Mixture Model, in Proc. European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2006, Florence, Italy, 2006

• R. Saeidi, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, M. Khalaj Amirhosseini, An Efficient GMM Classification Post-Processing Method For Structural Gaussian Mixture Model Based Speaker Verification, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP 2006, vol. I, pp. 909-912, Toulouse, France, 2006

Updated: 12.01.2012