ODED GHITZA

EDUCATION

1977 – 1983 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Communications, Control and Computer Systems. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Title of Ph.D. thesis:``Auditory-based criteria for parameter quantization of linear prediction coded speech,'' (June 1983).

1975 – 1977 M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Communications, Control and Computer Systems Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Title of M.Sc. thesis: ``Pitch extraction of voiced speech new approaches,'' (March 1977).

1971 – 1975 B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003 – now Senior Research Scientist, Sensimetrics Corporation, Somerville, Massachusetts.

1985 – 2003 Member of Technical Staff, Acoustics and Speech Research, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

1984 – 1985 Speech Systems Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts.

1975 – 1984 Teaching and research activities, Department of Communications, Control and Computer Systems, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

1980 – 1984 Consultant, Signal Corps Research Labs, Israeli Defense Forces

1975 – 1980 Teacher, Technical College, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

1968 – 1975 Electrical Engineer, Signal Corps Research Labs, Israeli Defense Forces

AWARDS (Partial List)

1998 Elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, “For contributions to signal processing techniques for speech”.

1993 Elected Senior Member of IEEE.

1984 – 1985 Recipient of the MIT Myron A. Bantrell post-doctoral fellowship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Partial List)

Ghitza, O. (2001). “On the upper cutoff frequency of the auditory critical-band envelope detectors in the context of speech perception,” JASA, 110(3) , 1628-1640.

Ghitza, O. and Kroon, P. (2000). “Dichotic presentation of interleaving critical-band envelopes: An application to multi-descriptive coding,” in Proc. IEEE Speech Coding Workshop, Delavan, Wisconsin, September 72-74.

Ghitza, O. and Sondhi, M. M. (1999). “Perceptually motivated measures for automatic speech recognition,” in Proc. Robust Methods for Speech Recognition in Adverse Condition , pages 11-14, Tampere, Finland, May 25-26.

Kim, D. S., Ghitza, O. and Kroon, P. (1999). “A computational model for MOS prediction,” in Proc. IEEE Speech Coding Workshop , Provoo, Finland, June 20-23.

Ghitza, O. and Sondhi, M. M. (1997). “On the perceptual distance between speech segments,” JASA, 101(1), 522-529.

Ghitza, O. and Sondhi, M. M. (1996). “On the perceptual distance between speech segments,” in Proc. Workshop on Auditory Basis of Speech Perception, Keele, England, July. (Invited).

Ghitza, O. (1995). “Auditory models and human performance in tasks related to speech coding and speech recognition,” in Modern Methods of Speech Processing (R. P. Ramachandran and R. Mammone, editors), Kluwer, New-York.

Sandhu, S., Ghitza, O. and Lee C-H. (1995). “A comparative study of MEL Cepstra and EIH for phone classification under adverse conditions,” International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP '95, 409-412, Detroit, May 9-12.

Ghitza, O. (1994). “Auditory models and human performance in tasks related to speech coding and speech recognition,” IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio, SAP-2(1). Special issue on Neural networks for Speech Processing, 115-132 (Invited).

Ghitza, O. (1993c). “Processing of spoken CVCs in the auditory periphery: I. Psychophysics,” JASA, 94(5) , 2507-2516.

Ghitza, O. (1993b). “Adequacy of auditory models to predict internal human representation of speech sounds,” JASA, 93(4) , 2160-2171.

Ghitza, O. and Sondhi, M. M. (1993a). “Hidden Markov Models with Templates as Nonstationary States: An Application to Speech Recognition,” Computer Speech and Language, 7(2), 101-119.

Ghitza, O. (1992). “Auditory nerve representation as a basis for speech processing in,” Advances in speech signal processing (S. Furui and M. M. Sondhi, editors), Marcel Dekker, New York, 453-485.

Ghitza, O. (1988). “Temporal non-place information in the auditory nerve firing patterns as a front-end for speech recognition in a noisy environment,” Journal of Phonetics, 16(1) , 109-124. Theme issue on the Representation of speech in the auditory periphery (Invited).

Ghitza, O. (1988). “Auditory neural feedback as a basis for speech processing,” International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP '88, 91-94, New York, April.

Ghitza, O. (1987). “Auditory nerve representation criteria for speech analysis/synthesis,” IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech and Signal Proc., ASSP-35(6), 736-740.

Ghitza, O. (1986). ”Auditory nerve representation as a front-end for speech recognition in a noisy environment,” Computer Speech and Language, 1(2) , 109-131.

Ghitza, O. and Goldstein, J. L. (1986). “Scalar LPC quantization based on formant JNDs,” IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech and Signal Proc., ASSP-34(4) , 697-709.

Ghitza, O. and Goldstein, J. L. (1983). “JNDs for the spectral envelope parameters in natural speech,” in Hearing -- Physiological Bases and Psychophysics (R. Klinke and R. Hartmann, editors), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 352-359.

PATENTS

"Method And Apparatus For Performing Audio Coding And Decoding By Interleaving Smoothed Critical Band Envelopes At Higher Frequencies". Patent Office Filing Date: May 26, 2000.

"Method And Apparatus For Estimating Subjective Audio Signal Quality From Objective Distortion Measures" (2003). U.S Patent Number: 6,609,092.

"Analysis arrangement based on a model of human neural responses" (1990). U.S Patent Number: 4,905,285.