Venkatesh Kulkarni

Description: 1. The aim of the thesis is to musically distinguish a typical main piece of a Carnatic music concert using the tempo and chroma musical aspects. 2. Designed and implemented few tempo and chroma salience features based on the musical aspects to aim towards the segmentation task. 3. Employed programming skills: MATLAB, Sonic Visualiser, Audacity 4. Paper on Carnatic music signal processing is accepted for ICASSP conference.

Description: 1. Designed and implemented a robust voiced/unvoiced speech detection in IPP, C and MATLAB . 2. Integrated the existing speech/visual features on the real-time internal DTBOS framework. 3. Employed programming skills: MATLAB, C, IPP C, DTBOS framework

Description: 1. Developed a two stage approach to localize sound sources in reverberant environments based on parameters obtained from directional audio coding. 2. Employed programming skills: MATLAB, C

Description: 1. Optimized code and fixed bugs on multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation. 2. Employed programming skills: C/CUDA C

Description: 1. Designed and implemented CppUnitLite, JUnit frameworks for Sony face recognition engine and video mining libraries. 2. Developed automation tools to run these frameworks on Linux and Windows platform. 3. Employed programming skills: C/C++, Core Java, Design patterns, Shell and Perl scripting.

Description: 1. Bug fixing and maintenance of the internal web tool. 2. Employed programming skills: JDBC, SQl, HTML and JavaScript

Description: 1. Undergone 3 months of professional training for Embedded C, C++, Linux internals and performance tools such as Gdb, Gcov, Gprof and Valgrind.

Speech, Audio and Music Signal processing

Digital Signal processing, Analog Signal processin and Communication