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Marie A. Roch

Associate Professor of Computer Science



Publications

Refereed Journal and Conference Proceedings

  1. T. Helble, G. R. Ierley, G. L. D'spain, M. A. Roch, J. A. Hildebrand, "A generalized power-law detection algorithm for humpback whale vocalizations," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 131(4), pp. 2682-2699, 2012.
  2. M. A. Roch, T.S. Brandes, B. Patel, Y. Barkley, S. Baumann-Pickering, M.S. Soldevilla, "Automated extraction of odontocete whistle contours," J. Acous. Soc. Am., Vol. 130(4), pp. 2212-2223, 2011. Postprint available.
  3. M. A. Roch, H. Klinck, S. Baumann-Pickering, S. Baumann-Pickering, D. K..Mellinger, S. Qui, M. S. Soldevilla, and J. A. Hildebrand, "Classification of echolocation clicks of odontocetes from the Southern California Bight," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 129(1), pp.467-475, 2011. Postprint available.
  4. T. M. Yack, J. Barlow, M. A. Roch, H. Klinck, S. Martin, D. K. Mellinger, D. Gillespie, “Comparison of beaked whale detection algorithms,” Appl. Acous. Vol. 71(11), pp. 1043-1049, Nov. 2010.
  5. S. Baumann-Pickering, M. A. Roch, S. M. Wiggins, H.-U. Schnitzler, and J. A. Hildebrand, "Discriminating features of echolocation clicks of melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra), bottlenose dolphins (Tursipos truncatus) and Gray's spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris longirostris)", Vol. 128(4), pp. 2112-2224, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2010.
  6. N. Nichols, L. Atlas, A. Bowles, M. Roch, "Call and component evaluation for improved performance of recognition of killer whale individuals," to appear in Proc. IEEE Oceans, Seattle, WA, Sept. 2010.
  7. S. Baumann-Pickering, S. M. Wiggins, E. H. Roth, M. A. Roch, H.-U. Schnitzler, J. A. Hildebrand, “Echolocation signals of a beaked whale at Palmyra Atoll,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 127(6), pp. 3790-3799, July 2010.
  8. S. K. Madhusudhana, M. A. Roch, E. M. Oleson, M. S. Soldevilla, J. A. Hildebrand, "Blue Whale B and D Call Classification Using a Frequency Domain Based Robust Contour Extractor," Proc. IEEE Oceans, Bremen, Germany, 7 pp., May 2009.
  9. M. S. Soldevilla, M. A. Roch, E. E. Henderson, G. S. Campbell, S. M. Wiggins, and J. A. Hildebrand, "Classification of Risso’s and Pacific white-sided dolphins using spectral properties of echolocation clicks," in J. Acoust. Soc. Am. , Vol 124(1), pp. 609-624, July 2008.
  10. S. K. Madhusudhana, E. M. Oleson, M. S. Soldevilla, M. A. Roch, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Frequency based algorithm for robust contour extraction for blue whale B and D calls,” in Proc. IEEE Oceans, Kobe, Japan, 8 pp., April 2008.
  11. M. A. Roch, M. S. Soldevilla, R. Hoenigman, S. M. Wiggins, J. A. Hildebrand, "Comparison of machine learning techniques for the classification of echolocation clicks from three species of odontocetes," Canadian Acoust. Vol. 36(1), pp. 41-47, 2008. Postprint available.
  12. M. A. Roch, R. R. Hurtig, T. Huang, J. Liu, and Sonia Arteaga, “Foreground auditory scene analysis for hearing aids,” in Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 28(11), pp. 1351-1359, Aug, 2007.
  13. M. A. Roch, M. S. Soldevilla, J. C. Burtenshaw, E. Henderson, and J. A. Hildebrand, “Gaussian mixture model classification of odontocetes in the Southern California Bight and the Gulf of California,” in J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., Vol. 121(3), pp. 1737-1748, March, 2007. Postprint available.
  14. L. Girod and M. A. Roch, “An overview of the use of remote embedded sensors for audio acquisition and processing,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2006), San Diego, CA, December 2006. Postprint available.
  15. M. Roch, “Gaussian-Selection Based Non-Optimal Search for Speaker Identification,” Speech Communication . Vol. 48(10), pp. 85-95, January 2006.
  16. M. Roch, R. R. Hurtig, T. Huang, and J. Liu, “Audio Scene Analysis as a Control System for Hearing Aids,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2005), Irvine, CA, pp. 772-778, December 2005.
  17. M. Roch, R. R. Hurtig, J. Liu, and T. Huang, “Towards a Cohort-Selective Frequency-Compression Hearing Aid,” in Proceedings of The International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 164-170, June 2004.
  18. M. Roch and Y. Cheng, “Speaker Segmentation Using the MAP-Adapted Bayesian Information Criterion,” in Proceedings of Odyssey04, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Toledo, Spain : ISCA, pp. 349-354, May 2004.
  19. M. A. Roch, “Gaussian selection based non-optimal search for speaker identification,” invited paper, in Proceedings of the Special Workshop in Maui, January 2004, CD-ROM.
  20. M. A. Roch, “A Gaussian-selection based preclassifier for speaker recognition,” in Proceedings of the Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics of The Acoustical Society of America and The Mexican Institute of Acoustics, December 2002, CD-ROM.
  21. M. A. Roch and R. R. Hurtig, “The integral decode: A smoothing technique for robust HMM-based speaker recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 10(5), pp. 315-324, July 2002.

Other scholarly work

  1. S. Baumann-Pickering, L. K. Baldwin, A. E. Simonis, M. A. Roch, M. L. Melcon, J. A. Hildebrand, E. M. Oleson, R. W. Baird, G. S. Schorr, D. L. Webster, D. J. McSweeny, “Characterization of Marine Mammal Recordings from the Hawaii Range Complex,” NPS-OC-10-004CR, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 2010.  Accessible via:  http://www.nps.edu/Research/TechReports.html
  2. J. A. Hildebrand, H. Bassett, S. Baumann-Pickering, G. Campbell, A. Cummins, S. Kerosky, M. Melcon, K. Merkens, L. Munger, M. A. Roch, L. Roche, A. Simonis and S. Wiggins, “High Frequency Acoustic Recording Package Data Summary Report,” March 14, 2009 – March 26, 2010 SOCAL Site N. Marine Physical Laboratory. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, LA Jolla, CA, 2010.
  3. J. A. Hildebrand, H. Bassett, S. Baumann-Pickering, G. Campbell, A. Cummins, S. Kerosky, M. Melcon, K. Merkens, L. Munger, M. A. Roch, L. Roche, A. Simonis and S. Wiggins (2010b) High Frequency Acoustic Recording Package Data Summary Report March 11, 2009 – March 25, 2010 SOCAL Site M. Marine Physical Laboratory. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, LA Jolla, CA, 2010.
  4. M. A. Roch, A. E. Rosenberg, and F. K. Soong, “The use of pitch contour information to improve text-dependent speaker verification performance,” Tech. Mem. BL011526-951228-18TM, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, December 1995.

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