American Journal of Signal Processing

American Journal of Signal Processing publishes articles on signal processing research and applications. It covers aspects from fundamental principles to practical implementation, intending to bring up-to-date, emerging and active technical developments, issues, and events to the research, educational, and professional communities.

Hossein Najaf-Zadeh

Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Signal Processing

Engineer, Communications Research Centre, Canada

Research Areas

Audio/Speech processing, Broadcating.

Education

2000Ph.D. electrical engineering, McGill University, Canada

Experience

2001project leader of the audio processing group, the Communications Research Centre Canada

Publications: Journals

[1]  R. Pichevar, H. Najaf-Zadeh, L. Thibault and H. Lahdili, "New Trends in Biologically-Inspired Audio Coding", to appear as a chapter in "Recent Advances in Signal Processing", In-Tech pub., 2009.
[2]  R. Pichevar, H. Najaf-Zadeh, L. Thibault, and H. Lahdili, "Auditory-Inspired Sparse Representation of Multimedia Signals with Applications to Audio Coding", Speech Communication (Elsevier) , vol. 53, issue 5, pp 643-657, 2011.
[3]  H. Lahdili , H. Najaf-Zadeh and L. Thibault, "Statistical Multiplexing for Digital Audio Broadcasting Applications", subimitted to IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2008.
[4]  H. Najaf-Zadeh and P. Kabal, "Perceptual Coding of Narrow-Band Audio Signals at Low Rates", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 609-622, March 2006.
[5]  R. Pichevar, H. Najaf-Zadeh, F. Mustiere, C. Srinivasa, and H. Lahdili, " Sparse Object-Based Audio Coding Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization of Spikegrams", SPARS 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland.
[6]  F. Mustiere, H. Najaf-Zadeh, R. Pichevar, H. Lahdili, and M. Bouchard, "Sparse Audio Coding Via Targeted Dithering and Combinatorial Decoding", Eusipco 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.
[7]  R. Pichevar , H. Najaf-Zadeh, and F. Mustiere, " Neural-Based Approach to Perceptual Sparse Coding of Audio Signals", IEEE Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
[8]  R. Pichevar and H. Najaf-Zadeh, "Pattern Extraction in Sparse Representations with Application to Audio Coding", European Signal Proc. Conf. (EUSIPCO), 2009, Glasgow, Scotland.
[9]  R. Pichevar, H. Najaf-Zadeh, and H. Lahdili, "Biologically-Inspired Sparse Coding of Music", International Conference on Machine Learning's workshop on sparse methods for music audio, Montreal, 2009.
[10]  R. Pichevar and H. Najaf-Zadeh, "Pattern Extraction in Sparse Representations with Application to Audio Coding", European Signal Proc. Conf. (EUSIPCO), Glasgow, 2009.
[11]  H. Najaf-Zadeh, R. Pichevar, L. Thibault and H. Lahdili, "Perceptual Matching Pursuit for Audio Coding", AES 124th Convention, Amsterdam, 2008.
[12]  R. Pichevar, H. Najaf-Zadeh, "Differential graph-based coding of spikes in a biologically-inspired universal audio coder", AES 124th Convention, Amsterdam, 2008.
[13]  R. Pichevar, H. Najaf-Zadeh, "'Evolutionary Entropy-Constrained Modulus Quantization For Matching Pursuit Audio Coding", European Signal Proc. Conf. (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, 2008.
[14]  R. Pichevar, H. Najaf-Zadeh, and L. Thibault, "A Biologically-Inspired Low-Bit-Rate Universal Audio Coder", AES 122nd Convention, Vienna, May 2007.
[15]  H. Najaf-Zadeh, H. Lahdili, L. Thibault and Michel Lavoie, "Use of Auditory Temporal Masking in the MPEG Psychoacoustic Model 2", AES 114th Convention, Amsterdam, March 2003.
[16]  H. Najaf-Zadeh, H. Lahdili and L. Thibault, "Incorporation of Inharmonicity Effects into Auditory Masking Models", AES 113th Convention, Los Angeles, Oct. 2002.
[17]  H. Najaf-Zadeh and P. Kabal, "Narrowband Perceptual Audio Coding: Enhancements for Speech", 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Aalborg, Sept. 2001
[18]  H. Najaf-Zadeh and P. Kabal, "Perceptual Bit Allocation for Low Rate Coding of Narrowband Audio", ICASSP, Istanbul, June 2000.
[19]  H. Najaf-Zadeh and P. Kabal, "Improving Perceptual Coding of Narrowband Audio Signals at Low Rates", ICASSP, Phoenix, March 1999.
[20]  H. Najaf-Zadeh and P. Kabal, "Perceptual Coding of Narrowband Audio Signals at 8 kbit/s", IEEE Speech Coding Workshop, Pocono Manor, Sept. 1997.