Professor Jon Barker

PhD

School of Computer Science

Personal Chair

Director of PGT Studies

Member of the Speech and Hearing (SpandH) research group

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j.p.barker@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1824

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Professor Jon Barker
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Professor Jon Barker is a member of the Speech and Hearing Research Group. He has a first degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridge University, UK. After receiving a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 1999, he worked for some time at GIPSA-lab, Grenoble and IDIAP research institute in Switzerland before returning to Sheffield where he has had a permanent post since 2002.

His research interests lie in noise-robust speech processing. Key application areas include distant-microphone speech recognition, speech intelligibility prediction and improved speech processing for hearing-aid users.

Research interests

Professor Barker’s research interests are focused around machine listening and the computational modelling of human hearing. A recent focus has been on modelling speech intelligibility, ie can we predict whether or not a speech signal will be intelligible to a given listener?

This understanding will help us produce better signal processing for application such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. Another strand of his work is about taking insights gained from human auditory perception and using them to engineer robust automatic speech processing systems.

Publications

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

  • Barker J, Akeroyd MA, Bailey W, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Firth J, Graetzer S & Naylor G (2024) The 2nd Clarity Prediction Challenge: A Machine Learning Challenge for Hearing Aid Intelligibility Prediction. ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 14 April 2024 - 19 April 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2024) The ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW) (pp 93-94), 14 April 2024 - 19 April 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Akeroyd MA, Bailey W, Barker J, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Graetzer S, Naylor G, Podwińska Z & Tu Z (2023) The 2nd Clarity Enhancement Challenge for Hearing Aid Speech Intelligibility Enhancement: Overview and Outcomes. ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 June 2023 - 10 June 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cox TJ, Barker J, Bailey W, Graetzer S, Akeroyd MA, Culling JF & Naylor G (2023) Overview of the 2023 ICASSP SP Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids. ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 June 2023 - 10 June 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Bannister S, Firth J, Graetzer S, Vos R, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Greasley A & Whitmer W (2023) The First Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge: Improving Music for Those With a Hearing Loss. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3528 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Deadman J & Barker J (2022) Improved Simulation of Realistically-Spatialised Simultaneous Speech Using Multi-Camera Analysis in The Chime-5 Dataset. ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Deadman J, Ma N & Barker J (2022) Auditory-Based Data Augmentation for end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition. ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Cvetkovic Z, Christensen H & Barker J (2022) MULTI-MODAL ACOUSTIC-ARTICULATORY FEATURE FUSION FOR DYSARTHRIC SPEECH RECOGNITION. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 2022-May (pp 7372-7376) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker E, Barker J, Gaizauskas R, Ma N & Paramita ML (2022) SNuC: The Sheffield Numbers Spoken Language Corpus. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 (pp 1978-1984) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Akeroyd MA, Firth J, Griffiths H, Naylor G, Porter E, Barker J, Cox TJ, Graetzer S, Harris L, Podwinska Z , Culling JF et al (2022) Predicting Speech Intelligibility for People with Hearing Loss: The Clarity Challenges. Internoise 2022 - 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J (2021) Optimising hearing aid fittings for speech in noise with a differentiable hearing loss model. Interspeech 2021 (pp 691-695). Brno, Czechia, 30 August 2021 - 3 September 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J (2021) Time-Domain Speech Extraction with Spatial Information and Multi Speaker Conditioning Mechanism. ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J (2021) DHASP: Differentiable Hearing Aid Speech Processing, Vol. 00 (pp 296-300) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR & Barker J (2021) The use of Voice Source Features for Sung Speech Recognition. ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Falconer L, Coy A & Barker J (2021) Modelling the Effects of Hearing Aid Algorithms on Speech and Speaker Intelligibility as Perceived by Listeners with Simulated Sensorineural Hearing Impairment. SoutheastCon 2021, 10 March 2021 - 13 March 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J (2020) On End-to-end Multi-channel Time Domain Speech Separation in Reverberant Environments. ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xiong F, Barker J & Christensen H (2020) Deep learning of articulatory-based representations and applications for improving dysarthric speech recognition. Speech Communication - 13th ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (pp 331-335) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xiong F, Barker J, Yue Z & Christensen H (2020) Source Domain Data Selection for Improved Transfer Learning Targeting Dysarthric Speech Recognition. ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Xiong F, Christensen H & Barker J (2020) Exploring Appropriate Acoustic and Language Modelling Choices for Continuous Dysarthric Speech Recognition. ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xiong F, Barker J & Christensen H (2019) Phonetic Analysis of Dysarthric Speech Tempo and Applications to Robust Personalised Dysarthric Speech Recognition. ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker JP & Hain T (2018) Exploring the use of group delay for generalised VTS based noise compensation. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, 15 April 2018 - 20 April 2018. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker , Saz Torralba O & Hain (2017) Robust Source-Filter Separation of Speech Signal in the Phase Domain. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2017) Statistical normalisation of phase-based feature representation for robust speech recognition. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 5 March 2017 - 9 March 2017. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abel A, Marxer R, Barker J, Watt R, Whitmer B, Derleth P & Hussain A (2016) A Data Driven Approach to Audiovisual Speech Mapping (pp 331-342) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2015) Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 598-602) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Marxer R, Barker J & Brown GJ (2015) Exploiting synchrony spectra and deep neural networks for noise-robust automatic speech recognition. 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 13 December 2015 - 17 December 2015. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Foster P, Sigtia S, Krstulovic S, Barker J & Plumbley MD (2015) Chime-home: A dataset for sound source recognition in a domestic environment. 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 18 October 2015 - 21 October 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alghamdi N, Maddock SC, Brown GJ & Barker J (2015) Investigating the Impact of Artificial Enhancement of Lip Visibility on the Intelligibility of Spectrally-Distorted Speech. FAAVSP-2015 (pp 93-98), 11 September 2015 - 13 September 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2015) The third ‘CHiME’ speech separation and recognition challenge: Dataset, task and baselines. 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 13 December 2015 - 17 December 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marxer R, Cooke M & Barker J (2015) A framework for the evaluation of microscopic intelligibility models. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 2558-2562) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lin L, Barker J & Brown GJ (2015) The effect of cochlear implant processing on speaker intelligibility: A perceptual study and computer model. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 1566-1570) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Doulaty M, Barker J & Hain T (2015) Long-Term Statistical Feature Extraction from Speech Signal and Its Application in Emotion Recognition (pp 173-184) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Al Dabel M & Barker J (2014) Speech pre-enhancement using a discriminative microscopic intelligibility model. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2068-2072) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N & Barker J (2013) A fragment-decoding plus missing-data imputation system evaluated on the 2nd CHiME challenge. Proceedings of the 2nd CHiME Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (pp 53-58) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vincent E, Barker J, Watanabe S, Roux JL, Nesta F & Matassoni M (2013) The second ‘CHiME’ Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Datasets, tasks and baselines. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N & Barker J (2012) Coupling identification and reconstruction of missing features for noise-robust automatic speech recognition. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Vol. 3 (pp 2637-2640) RIS download Bibtex download
  • González JA, Peinado AM, Gómez AM, Ma N & Barker J (2012) Combining missing-data reconstruction and uncertainty decoding for robust speech recognition. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings (pp 4693-4696) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Recent advances in fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments.. Proceedings of ISCA Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (pp 68-73) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Binaural cues for fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2011 (pp 1657-1660) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Incorporating localisation cues in a fragment decoding framework for distant binaural speech recognition.. IEEE Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA’11) (pp 207-212) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, Barker J, Garcia Lecumberri ML, Wasilewski K & Assoc ISC (2011) Crowdsourcing for word recognition in noise. 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5 (pp 3056-+) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Binaural cues for fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1657-1660) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Morales-Cordovilla JA, Ma N, Sánchez V, Carmona JL, Peinado AM & Barker J (2011) A pitch based noise estimation technique for robust speech recognition with missing data. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings (pp 4808-4811) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2010) Distant microphone speech recognition in a noisy indoor environment: combining soft missing data and speech fragment decoding.. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical And Perceptual Audition RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) Robust Formant Estimation: Increasing the Reliability by Comparison among three Methods. Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuits, Systems and Signals, (Recent Advances in Circuits, Sistems and Signals) (pp 341-344) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) An Approach to Vocal Tract Length Normalization by Robust Formant Estimation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuits, Systems and Signals, (Recent Advances in Circuits, Sistems and Signals) (pp 345-348) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2010) Speaker turn tracking with mobile microphones: Combining location and pitch information. European Signal Processing Conference (pp 954-958) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kabir A, Giurgiu M & Barker J (2010) Robust automatic transcription of english speech corpora. 2010 8th International Conference on Communications, COMM 2010 (pp 79-82) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Barker J, Ma N & Green P (2010) The CHiME corpus: A resource and a challenge for computational hearing in multisource environments. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010 (pp 1918-1921) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) Integrating Hidden Markov Model and PRAAT: A toolbox for robust automatic speech transcription. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 7745 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2009) Using location cues to track speaker changes from mobile, binaural microphones. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 124-127) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2009) A SPEECH FRAGMENT APPROACH TO LOCALISING MULTIPLE SPEAKERS IN REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENTS. 2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1- 8, PROCEEDINGS (pp 4593-4596) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Arnaud E, Christensen H, Lu Y-C, Barker J, Khalidov V, Hansard ME, Holveck B, Mathieu H, Narasimha R, Taillant E , Forbes F et al (2008) The CAVA corpus: synchronised stereoscopic and binaural datasets with head movements.. ICMI (pp 109-116) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Shao X (2007) Audio-visual speech fragment decoding. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2007) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J & Green P (2007) Applying word duration constraints by using unrolled HMMs. INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 (pp 353-356) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2007) Integrating pitch and localisation cues at a speech fragment level. INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 (pp 2752-2755) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 5 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomäki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 1 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shao X & Barker J (2006) Audio-Visual Speech Recognition in the Presence of a Competing Speaker. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1292-1295) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coy A & Barker J (2006) A Multipitch Tracker for Monaural Speech Segmentation. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1678-1681) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Coy A, Ma N & Cooke M (2006) Recent advances in speech fragment decoding techniques. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 85-88) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13 (pp 289-292) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13 (pp 5807-5810) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol I, Proceedings (pp 289-292). Toulouse, FRANCE, 14 May 2006 - 19 May 2006. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol V, Proceedings (pp 949-952) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coy A & Barker J (2005) Soft harmonic masks for recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 2641-2644) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harding S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2005) Binaural feature selection for missing data speech recognition. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 1269-1272) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coy A & Barker J (2005) Recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker using a 'speech fragment decoder'. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 425-428) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J (2005) Tracking facial markers with an adaptive marker collocation model. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 665-668) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harding S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2005) Mask estimation based on sound localisation for missing data speech recognition. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 537-540) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Kalle Palomäki K & Barker J (2004) A Missing Data Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition in the Presence of Reverberation. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) (pp 449-452) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis D (2002) Temporal integration as a consequence of multi-source decoding. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on the Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech (TIPS) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker J (2002) Missing data speech recognition in reverberant conditions. 2002 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS I-IV, PROCEEDINGS (pp 65-68) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis D (2001) Combining bottom-up and top-down constraints for robust ASR: The multisource decoder. Proceedings of Workshop on consistent and reliable acoustic cues for sound analysis (CRAC-01) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Morris AC, Barker J & Bourlard H (2001) From Missing Data to Maybe Useful Data: Soft Data Modelling for Noise Robust ASR. Proceedings of the Worshop on Innovation in Speech Processing (WISP 2001) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green P, Barker J, Cooke M & Josifovski L (2001) Handling Missing and Unreliable Information in Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS-2001) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Green P & Cooke M (2001) Linking Auditory Scene Analysis and Robust ASR by Missing Data Techniques. Proceedings of the Worshop on Innovation in Speech Processing (WISP 2001) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Green PD (2001) Robust ASR based on clean speech models: an evaluation of missing data techniques for connected digit recognition in noise.. INTERSPEECH (pp 213-217) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Barker J & Wang DL (2001) A neural oscillator sound separator for missing data speech recognition. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. 4 (pp 2907-2912) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Barker J & Wang DL (2001) A neural oscillator sound separator for missing data speech recognition. IJCNN'01: INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS, VOLS 1-4, PROCEEDINGS (pp 2907-2912) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Josifovski L, Cooke M & Green PD (2000) Soft decisions in missing data techniques for robust automatic speech recognition.. INTERSPEECH (pp 373-376) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis DPW (2000) Decoding speech in the presence of other sound sources.. INTERSPEECH (pp 270-273) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP & Berthommier F (1999) Evidence of correlation between acoustic and visual features of speech. Proc. ICPhS ’99 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP & Berthommier F (1999) Estimation of speech acoustics from visual speech features: A comparison of linear and non-linear models. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) ’99 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP, Berthommier F & Schwartz JL (1998) Is primitive AV coherence an aid to segment the scene?. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) ’98 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Williams G & Renals S (1998) Acoustic confidence measures for segmenting broadcast news.. ICSLP RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1997) Modelling the recognition of spectrally reduced speech.. EUROSPEECH RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mogridge R, Close G, Sutherland R, Hain T, Barker J, Goetze S & Ragni A () Non-intrusive speech intelligibility prediction for hearing-impaired users using intermediate ASR features and human memory models. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2024). Seoul, Korea, 14 April 2024 - 14 April 2024. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J () On monoaural speech enhancement for automatic recognition of real noisy speech using mixture invariant training. Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Christensen H, Barker J & Cvetkovic Z () Dysarthric Speech Recognition From Raw Waveform with Parametric CNNs. Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Deadman J & Barker J () Modelling Turn-taking in Multispeaker Parties for Realistic Data Simulation. Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J () Unsupervised Uncertainty Measures of Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction. Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J () Exploiting Hidden Representations from a DNN-based Speech Recogniser for Speech Intelligibility Prediction in Hearing-impaired Listeners. Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Akeroyd M, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Firth J, Graetzer S, Griffiths H, Harris L, Naylor G, Podwinska Z , Porter E et al () The 1st Clarity Prediction Challenge: A machine learning challenge for hearing aid intelligibility prediction. Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang J, Zorilă C, Doddipatla R & Barker J () Teacher-Student MixIT for Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Speech Separation. Interspeech 2021 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Barker J, Christensen H, McKean C, Ashton E, Wren Y, Gadgil S & Bright R () Parental Spoken Scaffolding and Narrative Skills in Crowd-Sourced Storytelling Samples of Young Children. Interspeech 2021 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Graetzer S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Akeroyd M, Culling JF, Naylor G, Porter E & Muñoz RV () Clarity-2021 Challenges: Machine Learning Challenges for Advancing Hearing Aid Processing. Interspeech 2021 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Deadman J & Barker J () Simulating Realistically-Spatialised Simultaneous Speech Using Video-Driven Speaker Detection and the CHiME-5 Dataset. Interspeech 2020 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR & Barker J () Automatic Lyric Transcription from Karaoke Vocal Tracks: Resources and a Baseline System. Interspeech 2019 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Watanabe S, Vincent E & Trmal J () The Fifth 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Dataset, Task and Baselines. Interspeech 2018 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gogate M, Adeel A, Marxer R, Barker J & Hussain A () DNN Driven Speaker Independent Audio-Visual Mask Estimation for Speech Separation. Interspeech 2018 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T () On the Usefulness of the Speech Phase Spectrum for Pitch Extraction. Interspeech 2018 View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T () Channel Compensation in the Generalised Vector Taylor Series Approach to Robust ASR. Interspeech 2017 View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marxer R & Barker J () Binary Mask Estimation Strategies for Constrained Imputation-Based Speech Enhancement. Interspeech 2017 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T () Use of Generalised Nonlinearity in Vector Taylor Series Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition. Interspeech 2016 View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mandel MI & Barker J () Multichannel Spatial Clustering for Robust Far-Field Automatic Speech Recognition in Mismatched Conditions. Interspeech 2016 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lecumberri MLG, Barker J, Marxer R & Cooke M () Language Effects in Noise-Induced Word Misperceptions. Interspeech 2016 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tóth AM, Cooke M & Barker J () Misperceptions Arising from Speech-in-Babble Interactions. Interspeech 2016 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rajaravivarma V, Lord E & Barker J () Data compression techniques in image compression for multimedia systems. Southcon/96 Conference Record RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Christensen H & Barker J () Autoencoder bottleneck features with multi-task optimisation for improved continuous dysarthric speech recognition. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Coy A () Towards Solving the Cocktail Party Problem through Primitive Grouping and Model Combination. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum RIS download Bibtex download

Posters

  • Alghamdi N, Maddock S, Brown GJ & Barker J (2015) A comparison of audiovisual and auditory-only training on the perception of spectrally-distorted speech. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. RIS download Bibtex download

Theses / Dissertations

  • Barker J (1998) The relationship between auditory organisation and speech perception: Studies with spectrally reduced speech. RIS download Bibtex download

Other

  • Christensen H, Barker J, Lu Y-C, Xavier J, Caseiro R & Araújo H (2009) POPeye: Real-time, binaural sound source localisation on an audio-visual robot-head. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2009) Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data. RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2024) The first Cadenza challenges: using machine learning competitions to improve music for listeners with a hearing loss, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Leglaive S, Fraticelli M, ElGhazaly H, Borne L, Sadeghi M, Wisdom S, Pariente M, Hershey JR, Pressnitzer D & Barker JP (2024) Objective and subjective evaluation of speech enhancement methods in the UDASE task of the 7th CHiME challenge, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cox TJ, Barker J, Bailey W, Graetzer S, Akeroyd MA, Culling JF & Naylor G (2023) Overview Of The 2023 Icassp Sp Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement For Hearing Aids, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Bannister S, Firth J, Graetzer S, Vos R, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Greasley A & Whitmer W (2023) The First Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge: Improving Music for Those With a Hearing Loss, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos R & Whitmer W (2023) The Cadenza ICASSP 2024 Grand Challenge, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Deadman J, Ma N & Barker J (2022) Auditory-Based Data Augmentation for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Watanabe S, Mandel M, Barker J, Vincent E, Arora A, Chang X, Khudanpur S, Manohar V, Povey D, Raj D , Snyder D et al (2020) CHiME-6 Challenge:Tackling Multispeaker Speech Recognition for Unsegmented Recordings, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gogate M, Adeel A, Marxer R, Barker J & Hussain A (2018) DNN driven Speaker Independent Audio-Visual Mask Estimation for Speech Separation, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Watanabe S, Vincent E & Trmal J (2018) The fifth 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Dataset, task and baselines, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
Grants

Current grants

Previous grants

Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of the Speech and Hearing research group
  • Co-founder of the CHiME series of International Workshops and Robust Speech Recognition Evaluations, 2011 onwards.
  • EURASIP Best Paper Award, 2009; for best paper in Speech Communication during 2005.
  • ISCA Best Paper Award, 2008; for best paper in Speech Communication 2005-2007.