ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION & TRAINING

EDUCATION

Master of Science

Major in Computer Application, NanJing University of Science and Technology,1999,China

Bachelor of Science

Major in Computer software, NanJing University of Science and Technology, 1992, China

PhD Research

Topic: Automatic Speaker and Language Identification

Introduction: The technologies used in Speaker and language identification (SLID) applications are closely related as both apply statistical models to identify speaker’s identity and the language from recorded speech data. While the progress of speaker and language identification research in the last few years has been heartening, significant improvements is still required for real-world environment applications. In real world applications, available data is often noisy and/or has short duration. Although human can normally successfully apply SLID using these data, current systems are unable to perform as robustly. This indicates that current systems have not exploited all available information in the recording and improvements can be made. The objectives of this PhD research are to develop more efficient and accurate SLID methods.

My supervisors

Principle superviosr: Dr. Eng Siong Chng, School of Comput er Engineering, Nanyang Technological Universicy, Singapore
Co-supervisor: Dr. Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Rearch (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

PROFESSIONAL WORKING EXPERIENCE

June 1999 - present: Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) , Singapore, Senior Research Engineer
August 1997 - January 1999: The Computer and Language Information Engineering Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Science, Associated Student

PUBLICATION

Journal

Bin Ma, Haizhou Li and Rong Tong, "Spoken Language Recognition Using Ensemble Classifiers", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. Vol. 15, issue 7, pp. 2053-2062, Sept. 2007

Conference

Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li and Eng Siong Chng, "Target-oriented phone tokenizers for spoken language recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), pp. 4221-4224, Las Vegas, USA, March 2008.

Rong Tong, Haizhou Li, Bin Ma and Eng Siong Chng, "Spoken Language Recognition with Relevance Feedback", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), pp.861-864, Hawaii, USA, April 2007

Bin Ma, Rong Tong, Haizhou Li, "Discriminative Vector for Spoken Language Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Hawaii, USA, April 2007.

Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Donglai Zhu, Haizhou Li and Eng Siong Chng, "Integrating Acoustic, Prosodic and Phonotactic features for Spoken language identification", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006), pp.205-208, Toulouse, France, May 2006

Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Kong Aik Lee, Chang Huai You, Dong Lai Zhou, Tomi Kinnunen, Han wu Sun, Ming hui Dong, Eng Siong Chng and Hai zhou Li, " Fusion of Acoustic and Tokenization Features for Speaker Recognition," 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP, Singapore, December 2006

Bin Ma, Donglai Zhu, Rong Tong and Haizhou Li, "Speaker Cluster based GMM Tokenization for Speaker Recognition", Interspeech 2006, Sept 17-21, 2006, Pittsburgh, USA

Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, and Rong Tong, "Vector-Based Spoken Language Recognition using Output Coding", Interspeech 2006, Sept 17-21, 2006, Pittsburgh, USA.

Bin Ma, Donglai Zhu and Rong Tong, "Chinese Dialect Identification Using Tone Features Based on Pitch Flux", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006), May 14-19, 2006, Toulouse, France

Kong-Aik Lee, Hanwu Sun, Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Minghui Dong, Changhuai You, Donglai Zhu, Chin-Wei Eugene Koh, Lei Wang, Tomi Kinnunen, Eng-Siong Chng, and Haizhou Li, "The IIR submission to CSLP 2006 speaker recognition evaluation," accepted for presentation in 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP, December 2006, Singapore.