Dr Ning Ma

All publications

Journal articles

• Hughes A, Aletras N & Ma N (2024) How Private are Language Models in Abstractive Summarization?. CoRR, abs/2412.12040.
• Romero HE, Ma N, Brown G & Hill EA (2022) Acoustic screening for obstructive sleep apnea in home environments based on deep neural networks. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(7), 2941-2950. View this article in WRRO
• Tu Z, Deadman J, Ma N & Barker J (2022) Auditory-Based Data Augmentation for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition.. CoRR, abs/2204.04284.
• Vecchiotti P, Ma N, Squartini S & Brown GJ (2019) End-to-end Binaural Sound Localisation from the Raw Waveform.. CoRR, abs/1904.01916.
• Ma N, Gonzalez J & Brown GJ (2018) Robust Binaural Localization of a Target Sound Source by Combining Spectral Source Models and Deep Neural Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 26(11), 2122-2131. View this article in WRRO
• Gonzalez JA, Gómez AM, Peinado AM, Ma N & Barker J (2017) Spectral Reconstruction and Noise Model Estimation Based on a Masking Model for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. View this article in WRRO
• Ma N, Morris S & Kitterick PT (2016) Benefits to Speech Perception in Noise From the Binaural Integration of Electric and Acoustic Signals in Simulated Unilateral Deafness. Ear and Hearing, 37(3), 248-259. View this article in WRRO
• Carmona JL, Barker J, Gomez AM & Ma N (2013) Speech spectral envelope enhancement by HMM-based analysis/resynthesis. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 20(6), 563-566.
• González JA, Peinado AM, Ma N, Gómez AM & Barker J (2013) MMSE-based missing-feature reconstruction with temporal modeling for robust speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 21(3), 624-635.
• Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2012) A hearing-inspired approach for distant-microphone speech recognition in the presence of multiple sources.. Computer Speech and Language.
• Barker J, Vincent E, Ma N, Christensen H & Green P (2012) The PASCAL CHiME speech separation and recognition challenge. Computer Speech and Language.
• Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2012) Combining speech fragment decoding and adaptive noise floor modelling.. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 20, 818-827.
• Barker J, Ma N, Coy A & Cooke M (2010) Speech fragment decoding techniques for simultaneous speaker identification and speech recognition. COMPUT SPEECH LANG, 24(1), 94-111.
• Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2008) Improving source localisation in multi‐source, reverberant conditions: exploiting local spectro‐temporal location cues. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3294-3294.
• Ma N, Green P, Barker J & Coy A (2007) Exploiting correlogram structure for robust speech recognition with multiple speech sources. SPEECH COMMUN, 49(12), 874-891. View this article in WRRO
• Ma N, May T & Brown GJ () Exploiting Deep Neural Networks and Head Movements for Robust Binaural Localisation of Multiple Sources in Reverberant Environments . IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. View this article in WRRO

Conference proceedings papers

• Hu Q, Ma N & Brown GJ (2023) Robust binaural sound localisation with temporal attention. ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Proceedings. Rhodes Island, Greece, 4 June 2023 - 4 June 2023. View this article in WRRO
• 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.
• 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)
• 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 - 30 August 2021. View this article in WRRO
• Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J (2021) DHASP: Differentiable Hearing Aid Speech Processing, Vol. 00 (pp 296-300)
• Ornolfsson I, Dau T, Ma N & May T (2021) Exploiting Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Binaural Sound Localization in the Presence of Directional Interference. ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
• Ma N, Brown GJ & Vecchiotti P (2021) AMI – Creating musical compositions with a coherent long-term structure. AISB Convention 2021: Communication and Conversations
• Ma N, Brown GJ & Vecchiotti P (2021) AMI – Creating Coherent Musical Composition with Attention. ICMC 2021 - Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2021 (pp 414-418)
• Romero HE, Ma N, Hill EA & Brown GJ (2020) 0573 Screening for obstructive sleep apnea at home based on deep learning features derived from respiration sounds. Sleep, Vol. 43(Supplement_1) (pp a219-a220). Philadelphia, PA, USA (online conference), 27 August 2020 - 27 August 2020. View this article in WRRO
• Romero HE, Ma N & Brown GJ (2020) Snorer diarisation based on deep neural network embeddings. ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Barcelona, Spain (virtual conference), 4 May 2020 - 4 May 2020. View this article in WRRO
• Romero HE, Ma N, Hill EA & Brown GF (2020) SCREENING FOR OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA AT HOME BASED ON DEEP LEARNING FEATURES DERIVED FROM RESPIRATION SOUNDS. SLEEP, Vol. 43 (pp A219-A220)
• Romero H, Ma N, Brown G, Beeston A & Hasan M (2019) Deep learning features for robust detection of acoustic events in sleep-disordered breathing. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2019). Brighton, UK, 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019. View this article in WRRO
• Vecchiotti P, Ma N, Squartini S & Brown G (2019) End-to-end binaural sound localisation from the raw waveform. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2019). Brighton, UK, 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019. View this article in WRRO
• Romero HE, Ma N, Brown GJ, Beeston AV & Hasan M (2019) Deep Learning Features for Robust Detection of Acoustic Events in Sleep-disordered Breathing.. ICASSP (pp 810-814)
• Vecchiotti P, Ma N, Squartini S & Brown GJ (2019) End-to-end Binaural Sound Localisation from the Raw Waveform.. ICASSP (pp 451-455)
• Meutzner H, Ma N, Nickel R, Schymura C & Kolossa D (2017) Improving audio-visual speech recognition using deep neural networks with dynamic stream reliability estimates. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 5 March 2017 - 9 March 2017. View this article in WRRO
• Guo Y, Wang X, Wu C, Fu Q, Ma N & Brown G (2016) A robust dual-microphone speech source localization algorithm for reverberant environments. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2016 View this article in WRRO
• Zeiler S, Nicheli R, Ma N, Brown GJ & Kolossa D (2016) Robust audiovisual speech recognition using noise-adaptive linear discriminant analysis. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 2016-May (pp 2797-2801) View this article in WRRO
• 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
• Ma N, Brown GJ & Gonzalez JA (2015) Exploiting top-down source models to improve binaural localisation of multiple sources in reverberant environments. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 160-164) View this article in WRRO
• Ma N, Brown G & May T (2015) Exploiting deep neural networks and head movements for binaural localisation of multiple speakers in reverberant conditions. Proceedings of Interspeech 2015 (pp 160-164). Dresden, Germany, 6 September 2015 - 10 September 2015. View this article in WRRO
• May T, Ma N & Brown GJ (2015) Robust localisation of multiple speakers exploiting head movements and multi-conditional training of binaural cues. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Brisbane, 19 April 2015 - 24 April 2015. View this article in WRRO
• Ma N, May T, Wierstorf H & Brown GJ (2015) A machine-hearing system exploiting head movements for binaural sound localisation in reverberant conditions. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 19 April 2015 - 24 April 2015. View this article in WRRO
• Ma N, May T, Wierstorf H, Brown GJ & IEEE (2015) A MACHINE-HEARING SYSTEM EXPLOITING HEAD MOVEMENTS FOR BINAURAL SOUND LOCALISATION IN REVERBERANT CONDITIONS. 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP) (pp 2699-2703)
• May T, Ma N, Brown GJ & IEEE (2015) ROBUST LOCALISATION OF MULTIPLE SPEAKERS EXPLOITING HEAD MOVEMENTS AND MULTI-CONDITIONAL TRAINING OF BINAURAL CUES. 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP) (pp 2679-2683)
• Schymura C, Walther T, Kolossa D, Ma N & Brown GJ (2014) Binaural sound source localisation using a Bayesian-network-based blackboard system and hypothesis-driven feedback. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Vol. 2014-January View this article in WRRO
• 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)
• González JA, Peinado AM, Gómez AM & Ma N (2012) Log-spectral feature reconstruction based on an occlusion model for noise robust speech recognition. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Vol. 3 (pp 2629-2632)
• González JA, Peinado AM, Gómez AM, Ma N & Barker J (2012) Combining missing-data reconstruction and uncertainty decoding for robust speech recognition. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on (pp 4693-4696). IEEE
• 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)
• Gonzalez JA, Peinado AM, Gomez AM, Ma N & Barker J (2012) Combining missing-data reconstruction and uncertainty decoding for robust speech recognition. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 25 March 2012 - 30 March 2012.
• 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)
• 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)
• Ning Ma , Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Incorporating localisation cues in a fragment decoding framework for distant binaural speech recognition. 2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, 30 May 2011 - 1 June 2011.
• Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H, Green P & Assoc ISC (2011) Binaural cues for fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments. 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5 (pp 1668-1671)
• Morales-Cordovilla JA, Ma N, Sanchez V, Carmona JL, Peinado AM & Barker J (2011) A pitch based noise estimation technique for robust speech recognition with Missing Data. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 22 May 2011 - 27 May 2011.
• 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
• 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)
• Ma N, Bartels C, Bilmes J & Green P (2009) Modelling the prepausal lengthening effect for speech recognition: A dynamic Bayesian network approach. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Taipei
• Ma N, Bartels CD, Bilmes JA & Green PD (2009) Modelling the prepausal lengthening effect for speech recognition: a dynamic Bayesian network approach. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 19 April 2009 - 24 April 2009.
• 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)
• Ma N & Green P (2008) A 'speechiness' measure to improve speech decoding in the presence of other sound sources. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1285-1288)
• Ma N & Green P (2008) A 'speechiness' measure to improve speech decoding in the presence of other sound sources. INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1285-1288)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Ma N, Green P & Coy A (2006) Exploiting dendritic autocorrelogram structure to identify spectro-temporal regions dominated by a single sound source. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 669-672)
• Ma N & Green P (2005) Context-dependent word duration modelling for robust speech recognition. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 2609-2612)
• Xu X, Brown GJ & Ma N () Sound-based sleep staging using pretrained speech foundation models. Proceedings of the 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Copenhagen, Denmark, 14 July 2025 - 14 July 2025. View this article in WRRO
• Hughes C, Brown G, Ma N & Dibben N () Acoustic effects of facial feminisation surgery on speech and singing: A case study. Processings of Interspeech 2024. Kos island, Greece, 1 September 2024 - 1 September 2024. View this article in WRRO
• Romero H, Ma N, Brown G & Johnson S () SLUMBR: SLeep statUs estiMation from aBdominal Respiratory effort. Proceedings of the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society. Orlando, Florida, 15 July 2024 - 15 July 2024. View this article in WRRO
• Romero HE, Ma N, Brown GJ & Johnson S () Obstructive sleep apnea screening with breathing sounds and respiratory effort: a multimodal deep learning approach. INTERSPEECH 2023
• Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J () Unsupervised Uncertainty Measures of Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction. Interspeech 2022
• 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
• Ma N & Brown GJ () Speech Localisation in a Multitalker Mixture by Humans and Machines. Interspeech 2016 View this article in WRRO
• Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J () Integrating pitch and localisation cues at a speech fragment level. Interspeech 2007
• Ma N & Green P () Context-dependent word duration modelling for robust speech recognition. INTERSPEECH. Lisbon

Preprints

• Hughes A, Aletras N & Ma N (2024) How Private are Language Models in Abstractive Summarization?, arXiv.
• Tu Z, Deadman J, Ma N & Barker J (2022) Auditory-Based Data Augmentation for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition, arXiv.
• Romero HE, Ma N, Brown GJ, Beeston AV & Hasan M (2019) Deep Learning Features for Robust Detection of Acoustic Events in Sleep-Disordered Breathing, arXiv.
• Ma N, May T & Brown GJ (2019) Exploiting Deep Neural Networks and Head Movements for Robust Binaural Localisation of Multiple Sources in Reverberant Environments, arXiv.
• Ma N, Gonzalez JA & Brown GJ (2019) Robust Binaural Localization of a Target Sound Source by Combining Spectral Source Models and Deep Neural Networks, arXiv.
• Vecchiotti P, Ma N, Squartini S & Brown GJ (2019) End-to-end Binaural Sound Localisation from the Raw Waveform, arXiv.