Tom Bäckström, adjunct professor (docent), D.Sc. (tech.)
Postal
Address
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing
P.O. Box 3000, FIN-02015 TKK, Finland
Street
Address
Otakaari 5A, 02150 Espoo
Room
I241b (a.k.a. Siberia)
Phone
+358-9-451 5843
Mobile
+358-50-341 3841
Fax
+358-9-460 224
Email
Tom.Backstrom_a_tkk.fi

Current activities

  • Teacher on course S-89.3650 Speech processing mathematics. (lectured next time fall 2008).
  • Research interests:
    • Speech analysis: Glottal inverse filtering, Kalman filtering, physical modelling of the vocal folds and parametrisation of the vocal folds
    • Speech coding: Line Spectrum Pair, robust spectral modelling of speech, bandwidth expansion
    • Speech enhancement: Kalman filtering, enhancement through physical modelling of the voice production system.
    • Forensic analysis of speech signals.
    • Mathematics: Toeplitz and Vandermonde matrices, polynomial transformations with respect to root loci
  • ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on "Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery" to be held June 4-6 at the premises of Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Past activities (not maintained)

Non-job related activities


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