Ramani Duraiswami

Professor

4244 Iribe Center

(301) 405-6710

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Research Group(s):

Center for Automation Research

University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning

Education:

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (Mechanical Engineering)

Biography:

Ramani Duraiswami is a professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

His research in audio and computational acoustics aims to replicate human spatial sound processing in machines, using insights from physical mechanisms, computing and experiments. In scientific computing, Duraiswami works on solving large-scale problems with approximation algorithms and parallel computing, focusing on improving speed with advanced algorithms and multicore architectures.

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Publications

2003

Seydou F, Duraiswami R, Seppanen T. 2003. Three dimensional acoustic scattering from an M multilayered domain via an integral equation approach. Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE. 1:669-672vol.1-669-672vol.1.

Zotkin DN, Shamma SA, Ru P, Duraiswami R, Davis LS. 2003. AUDIO-P2. 1: PITCH AND TIMBRE MANIPULATIONS USING CORTICAL REPRESENTATION OF SOUND. IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING. 5

Seydou F, Duraiswami R, Seppanen T. 2003. Integral equation solution of electromagnetic scattering from a multilayered cylindrical waveguide. Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE. 3:524-527vol.3-524-527vol.3.

Raykar VC, Duraiswami R, Davis LS, Yegnanarayana B. 2003. Extracting significant features from the hrtf. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Auditory Display.

Seydou F, Duraiswami R, Seppanen T. 2003. A boundary element method for electromagnetic scattering by multiple cylinders. Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE. 3:516-519vol.3-516-519vol.3.

Seydou F, Duraiswami R, Seppanen T. 2003. A 2D profile reconstruction in a multilayered waveguide structure. Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE. 1:531-534vol.1-531-534vol.1.

Gumerov NA, Duraiswami R, Borovikov EA. 2003. Data Structures, Optimal Choice of Parameters, and Complexity Results for Generalized Multilevel Fast Multipole Methods in $d$ Dimensions. Technical Reports from UMIACS UMIACS-TR-2003-28.

Seydou F, Gumerov NA, Duraiswami R. 2003. Two methods for solving a 3D acoustic inverse scattering problem. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113(4):2191-2191.

Seydou F, Duraiswami R, Gumerov NA. 2003. Analysis of particular phononic structures using single integral equations. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113(4):2284-2284.

Raykar VC, Duraiswami R, Yegnanarayana B, Prasanna SRM. 2003. Tracking a moving speaker using excitation source information. Eighth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.

Raykar VC, Duraiswami R, Davis LS, Yegnanarayana B. 2003. Extracting significant features from the HRTF. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Auditory Display.

Mesgarani N, Shamma S, Grant KW, Duraiswami R. 2003. Augmented intelligibility in simultaneous multi-talker environments. Proc. International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD’03). :71-74.

Gumerov NA, Duraiswami R. 2003. Acoustical scattering from N spheres using a multilevel fast multipole method. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113(4):2334-2334.

2002

David P, DeMenthon D, Duraiswami R, Samet H. 2002. Evaluation of the SoftPOSIT Model-to-Image Registration Algorithm. Technical Reports from UMIACS, UMIACS-TR-2002-22.

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Davis LS, Mohan A, Raykar V. 2002. Virtual audio system customization using visual matching of ear parameters. 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2002. Proceedings. 3:1003-1006vol.3-1003-1006vol.3.

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Davis LS. 2002. Creation of virtual auditory spaces. 2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Davis LS. 2002. Customizable auditory displays. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display. :167-176.

Gumerov NA, Duraiswami R. 2002. Multiple scattering from N spheres. Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE. 2:90-93.

Gumerov NA, Duraiswami R. 2002. Computation of scattering from N spheres using multipole reexpansion. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 112:2688-2688.

Gumerov NA, Duraiswami R, Tang Z. 2002. Numerical study of the influence of the torso on the HRTF. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1993. ICASSP-93., 1993 IEEE International Conference on. 2:II–II-II–II.

Algazi VR, Duda RO, Duraiswami R, Gumerov NA, Tang Z. 2002. Approximating the head-related transfer function using simple geometric models of the head and torso. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 112:2053-2053.

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Davis LS. 2002. Joint audio-visual tracking using particle filters. EURASIP J. Appl. Signal Process.. 2002(1):1154-1164.

2001

Gumerov NA, Duraiswami R. 2001. Modeling the effect of a nearby boundary on the HRTF. 2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings. (ICASSP '01). 5:3337-3340vol.5-3337-3340vol.5.

Duraiswami R, Gumerov NA, Zotkin DN, Davis LS. 2001. Efficient evaluation of reverberant sound fields. Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2001 IEEE Workshop on the. :203-206.

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Nanda H, Davis LS. 2001. Multimodal tracking for smart videoconferencing. Second International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Tokyo, Japan.

Ghose K, Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Moss CF. 2001. Multimodal localization of a flying bat. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on. 5:3057-3060.

Duraiswami R, Zotkin DN, Davis LS. 2001. Active speech source localization by a dual coarse-to-fine search. 2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings. (ICASSP '01). 5:3309-3312vol.5-3309-3312vol.5.

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Davis LS. 2001. Multimodal 3-D tracking and event detection via the particle filter. IEEE Workshop on Detection and Recognition of Events in Video, 2001. Proceedings. :20-27.

2000

Duraiswami R, Zotkin DN, Borovikov EA, Davis LS. 2000. Active source location and beamforming. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 107:2790-2790.

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Davis LS, Haritaoglu I. 2000. An audio-video front-end for multimedia applications. 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. 2:786-791vol.2-786-791vol.2.

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Philomin V, Davis LS. 2000. Smart videoconferencing. 2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 3:1597-1600vol.3-1597-1600vol.3.

1999

Zotkin DN, Duraiswami R, Hariatoglu I, Davis LS, Otsuka T. 1999. A real-time audio–video front-end for multimedia applications. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 106:2271-2271.

Duraiswami R, Zotkin DN, Davis LS. 1999. Exact solutions for the problem of source location from measured time differences of arrival. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 106:2277-2277.

1998

Gumerov NA, Duraiswami R. 1998. Modeling of particle motion in viscous swirl flow between two porous cylinders. Proc. ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. :21-25.