Patents and Publications

The following patents have been filed and are in various stages of processing.

1.WO 2015010954 A1: Thoshkahna et al.(8 co-inventors) - Apparatus and method for encoding and de-coding an encoded audio signal using temporal noise/patch shaping

2.WO 2015010952 A1: Thoshkahna et al.(5 co-inventors) - Apparatus and method for decoding and encoding an audio signal using adaptive spectral tile selection

3. WO 2015010948 A1: Thoshkahna et al.(8 co-inventors) - Apparatus and method for encoding or de-coding an audio signal with intelligent gap filling in the spectral domain

4. WO 2015010947 A1: Thoshkahna et al.(8 co-inventors) - Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods using two-channel processing within an intelligent gap filling framework

Theses:

1) PhD,Indian Institute of Science,2012: A hierarchical approach to music analysis and source separation (pdf).

2) MSc(Engg),Indian Institute of Science,2006: Algorithms for Music Information Retrieval (pdf).

The following are my publications ( Accepted or under review ).

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-2016-

1. Design and evaluation of the effectiveness of a sonification technique for real time heart-rate data - Benjamin Stahl and Balaji Thoshkahna, Journal of Multimodal Interfaces, 2016.

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-2015-

1. Real time heart-rate sonification for athletes - Benjamin Stahl and Balaji Thoshkahna, International Conference on Auditory Display(ICAD),2015.

2. Virtual reality platform for sonification evaluation - Thimmaiah Kuppanda, Norberto Degara, David Worrall, Balaji Thoshkahna and Meinard Mueller, International Conference on Auditory Display(ICAD),2015.

3. Novel Audio Features for Capturing Tempo Salience in Music Recordings - Balaji Thoshkahna, Meinard Mueller, Venkatesh Kulkarni and Nanzhu Zhiang, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing(ICASSP),2015.

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-2014-

1. Detecting Components of an ECG signal for Sonification - David Worrall, Balaji Thoshkahna and Norberto Degara, International Conference on Auditory Display(ICAD),2014.

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-2012-

1. A Modified Spectrogram Diffusion Algorithm for Improved Harmonic/Percussion Separation in Music Signals-Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan, SPCOM 2012.(Audio example files)

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-2011-

1. Percussive transients detection in music using a human auditory loudness model - Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan, Centenary Conference of EE,2011.(.pdf)

2. A postprocessing technique for improved harmonic / percussion separation for polyphonic music - Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan, 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference(ISMIR),2011.(.pdf) (Audio example files)

3. A transient detection algorithm for audio using iterative analysis of STFT - Balaji Thoshkahna,Francois Xavier Nsabimana and K.R.Ramakrishnan, 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference(ISMIR), 2011.(.pdf) (Audio example files)

4. A psychoacoustically motivated algorithm for detection of percussive transients --- Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan : 6th Intl. Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications(SIGMAP),2011(Nominated for Best Paper Award).(.pdf)

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-2010-

1.A loudness model based sound onset detection algorithm --- Balaji Thoshkahna : MIREX Onset Detection Contest,2010.(pdf)

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-2009-

1.An onset detection algorithm for Query by Humming ( QBH ) applications using psychoacoustic knowledge -- Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan : 17th European Signal Processing conference(EUSIPCO),2009.(pdf)

2.A psychoacoustically motivated sound onset detection algorithm for polyphonic audio-- Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan : 4th Intl. Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications(SIGMAP),2009.(pdf)

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-2008-

1.A robust initialization scheme for faster convergence of the dichotomous search algorithm for single frequency estimation-- Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan : 9th International Conference on Signal Processing(ICSP),2008.(pdf)

2.A psychoacoustics based sound onset detection algorithm for polyphonic audio -- Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan : 9th International Conference on Signal Processing(ICSP),2008.(pdf)

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-2007-

1.A novel melody line identification algorithm for polyphonic MIDI music -- Sudha Velusamy, Balaji Thoshkahna, and K.R.Ramakrishnan : 13th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM),2007.(pdf)

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-2006-

1.A Speech-Music Discriminator Using HILN Model Based Features-- Balaji Thoshkahna, V. Sudha and K.R. Ramakrishnan : IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing(ICASSP),2006.(pdf)

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-2005-

1. Projekt Quebex: A Query by Example system for audio retrieval -- Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan : International Conference on Multimedia and Expo(ICME)-2005. (pdf)

2.Arminion: A Query by Example system for audio retrieval -- Balaji Thoshkahna and K.R.Ramakrishnan : Computer Music Modelling and Retrieval(CMMR)-2005.(pdf)

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