Advanced
Processor Technology (APT) Research Group
Dr.
Barry M.G.Cheetham B.Sc., PhD., C.Eng.,
MIET, MIEEE
barry@man.ac.uk
Senior
Lecturer in Signal Processing and Telecommunications for
Appointed to current post in
February 1998.
From October 1979 until January 1998,
Barry was a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering &
Electronics,
Current research interests:
I have held about 25
research grants, including 5 EPSRC and 2 EU grants including a European
"concerted action”.
I supervised 29 successful
Ph.D. projects, and had long term involvement with a number of communications
companies including BT.
I have published 1 book, 2
book chapters, 27 journal papers, 40 international conference papers, 20
colloquium papers, 9 abstracts, 3 articles and have been responsible for four
patents held by BT.
I have extensive teaching
and administrational experience including that of being instigator and Director
of an M.Sc.(
I have been a member and
chairman of the IEE E10 "Circuits & Systems" professional group
committee, a member of IEE Divisional Board, Premiums Committees, and other
professional groups.
I have been external
examiner for 21 Ph.D. and two M.Phil projects, and
have served on the organising committee for major international conferences:
including ECCTD’89 , IEEE ISCAS’94 and ILSA’97 and
ICLSP’98.
Current research projects:
Recently completed Research Projects:
Recent research contracts:
1998 "Techniques for the short term spectral analysis
of speech as required for low bit rate coding" British Telecom
(ML770603/MH183 GG272NEY)
1993-96 "Efficient
Techniques for speech synthesis using an articulatory
model" (GR/H79013 /RGEEFD)
1995-98 "Variable
bit-rate speech coding for mobile radio networks" (DTI/EPSRC LINK project
with BT Laboratories & Ensigma Ltd)
1994-97 European research
grant under "Biomed III": Concerted Action: "CORSA"
2000-01 (with David Tait) ESPICO: Implementation of speech processing
algorithms on DSP cores.
2000-03
1996-2000 Fazakerley
Hospital: ‘DSP applied to pulmonary
sounds’
2003-2006 WINDECT : EU
‘Framework 6’ Specific targetted research &
Innovation Project in collaboration with Ascom
(Switzerland), Winfinity (Berlin), IHP
(Frankfurt-Oder), ETH (Zurich), Josef Stefan Institute (Ljubjana Slovenia) & Manchester University (UK)
WINDECT aims to merge wireless networks by integrating professional quality
telephony into WLANs to achieve high quality voice
over WLAN. This will lead to an innovative application in the field of wireless
and mobile communications in converged enterprise networks. (
www.windect.ethz.ch )
Barry’s Teaching and
Administration
Lecture courses:
CS3291: Year 3: ‘Digital
Signal Processing’: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/CS3291
CS3282: Year 3: ‘Digital
Communications’: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/CS3282
COMP30291 Year 3 ‘Digital
media processing’ http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/COMP30291
Final Year
& MSc Computer Science Projects (2009-10): http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/Projects
COMP18112:
Year 1: ‘Foundations of Distributed Computing’: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/MyCOMP18112
COMP28512: Year 2: ‘Mobile Systems’: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/MyCOMP28512
COMP61232:
M.Sc.: ‘Mobile Communications’ given by Dr. Barry Cheetham
and Dr. Nick Filer:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/MyCOMP61232
COMP80131: PhD Scientific Methods 1: ‘Scientific Evaluation, Experimental Design & Statistical Methods’ (Barry & Goran)
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/MyCOMP80131
Administration:
PGR-Postgraduate Research
Student Admissions & CS-CDT Acting Manager
Organizer: Final Year Projects.
Chairman: Siemens medal
award committee for Computer Science.
Member: Computer Science
‘Mathematics’ committee
Other interests:
Father http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~barry/mydocs/Father
Some recent
publications (compiled Mar’06)
(1) A Nenadic, N Zhang, BMG Cheetham,
CA Goble, 'RSA based certified delivery of E-goods using verifiable and
recoverable signature encryption',
Journal of Universal Computer Science,
Springer-Verlag, , ISSN 094869x,
pp 175-192, vol 11(1), 1 Jan 2005
(2) He LR & Cheetham
BMG, "Real time multi-media facilities for distance learning over a
network link", Proc. IEE Seventeenth UK Teletraffic
Symposium, Dublin, 16-18 May 2001, pp.
3/1-3/5,
(3) MS Ho, DY Molyneux,
BMG Cheetham, "A hybrid sub-band sinusoidal
coding scheme", Proc Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg,
Denmark, vol 3,
pp
1985-1988, Sept
2001. (ISBN 87-90834-09-7 & ISBN 87-90834-10-0)
(4) A. Earis, BMG Cheetham, "Analysing
expression in musical performance", Institute of Acoustics (IOA)
‘Acoustics Bulletin’ 29 (4), 2004, pp29-33,
ISSN 0308-437X, www.ioa.org.uk/bulletin.asp
(5) A Earis & BMG Cheetham " Extraction of expressive performance parameters from
recordings of piano music",
Proc Institute of Acoustics Spring
Conference 2004,
(6) A. Earis, BMG Cheetham & DJ Tait,
"Extraction of performance parameters from acoustic recordings of piano
music", Proc Institute of Acoustics
Spring Conference, 2002, ISBN
1901656454, ISSN 03098117, volume 24 (2),
(7) A. Earis BMG Cheetham & DJ Tait "Quantative analysis of expressive timing and dynamics of
musical performance", Investigating Music performance:
Fourth International meeting of Society
for Education, Music & Psychology Research (SEMPRE), Royal College of
Music,
(8) Hiew Y. H., Smith
J.A., Earis J.E., Cheetham
B.M.G., Woodcock A.A. "DSP Algorithms for Cough identification and
counting",
Proc.IEEE International Conference of Acoustic,
Speech & Signal Processing 2002 (ICASSP),
pp.3888-3891 (ISBN 0-7803-7403-7)
(9) N.
Li & BMG Cheetham, 'A variable frame-rate scheme
for sinusoidal transform coding' Proc IEEE ICASSP2002, 1 May 2002, 4163-4167,
vol. 4,
(ISBN 0-7803-7403-7)
(10) BMG Cheetham, "Real time multimedia communications for
distance learning networks" Invited paper, Proc International Conference
on e-Education,
(ICEE2001),
(11) LR He,
I Rogers, LS He, BMG Cheetham, W Suntiamorntut 'A New Transport Control Protocol Applied to
Real-Time Multimedia Distance Learning',Proc ICICS Dec 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, http://www.icics.org/2005
(12) Kuhn
M., Ettefagh A., Lunn, A., Cheetham B., Spegel M,
"Professional quality voice over WLAN",
Proc 60th IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference, (VTC2004-Fall),
.(ISBN
0-7803-8521-7, ISSN 1090-3038)
(13) A. Lunn, Marc Kuhn, Michael Kuhn, A Ettefagh,
BMG Cheetham, M Spegel, "High quality
telephony over WLAN"
ECWT 2004,
(14) BMG. Cheetham, T Becker, FM Krause, K Tittelbach-Helmrich,
M Methfessel, A Lunn,
" DECT over WLAN with seamless hand-over and load
balancing", First International Symposium on Broadband
Communications, (ISBC'04), 12-15 December, 2004, Harrogate (Leeds), UK
(15) A Lunn, M Kuhn, BMG Cheetham, "Providing professional quality voice over
WLAN using DECT", ‘WIFI VOICE’ Conference 2005:
Achieving VoIP over WLAN,
(16) Ettafagh A., Kuhn
M., Cheetham B.M.G., Wittneben
A.,
“ Comparison of
distributed and co-located antenna diversity schemes for the coverage
improvement of VoWLAN systems”,
Proc 16th IEEE Int Symposium on Personal & Indoor Radio
Communications, PIMRC 2005, vol 1, 11-14 Sept 2005,
pp77-81
(17) Tramanzas
A., Cheetham BMG, van Harmelen
M.,& . Walker A.C.,
‘Peer-to-peer networks based on hierarchies of trust’, Proc 5th
IEEE Conference on Peer-to-peer Computing 2005 (P2P 2005), pp160-161,
0-7695-5/05 $20.00, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/P2P.2005.26
, 2005
(18) BMG Cheetham , A Ettafagh, M Spegel, KM Nasr, E Ravnikar “
Voice over WLAN for Converged Enterprise Networks”,
15th IST Mobile & Wireless
Communications Summit 2006, Mykonos
accepted, (paper id. MS2006-880), 4-8 June, 2006
(19) BMG Cheetham & K. Nasr “Error concealment for Voice over
WLAN in Converged Enterprise Networks”,
15th IST Mobile & Wireless
Communications Summit 2006,
(20) Hiew Y. H.,
Smith J.A., Tait D.J., Cheetham
B.M.G., Earis J.E., Woodcock A.A."Long-term
Objective Cough Recognition And Quantification",
IEE Medical Application of Signal Processing,
(21) Lizzie's PREP conf. paper and
(22) BMG Cheetham & A.I Eshhubi,
"Voice over an OFDM based wireless LAN", Proc IEE Colloquium on DSP
Enabled Radio, 22-23 September 2003,
ILSI,
(23) X. Ni,
"Design of an asynchronous
function unit and software development tools for a low power DSP"
Proc. IEE Colloquium on DSP enabled
radio, 22-23 September 2003, ILSI,
(24) BMG Cheetham & A.I Eshhubi,
"Voice over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN", COST273 Technical Document TD(03)146,
May22-23, presented at the COST273
meeting
(25) BMG Cheetham & A.I Eshhubi,
"Voice over OFDM based Wireless LAN", COST273 Technical Document TD(03) 068,
.
(26 )M Spegel & BMG Cheetham, ‘WINDECT: DECT over WLAN’, Presented at EU
IST-Framework 6 (Communication Technologies)
‘Broadband Air
Interface (BAI) Cluster’ meeting in
(27) BMG Cheetham ‘VoWLAN in converged enterprise networks (WINDECT)’, Workshop on ‘Voice
over WLAN’, IBBT Broadband Europe conference
(BBEurope) held in Palais des Congres de Bordeaux, France, 12-14 Dec 2005, www.bbeurope.org
contribution WE-WS03.
Some less recent publications
1. Wong, W. T. K., Mack, R.
M., Cheetham, B. M. G. & Sun, X. Q., "Low
rate speech coding for telecommunications", BT Technology Journal, Vol.
14, No.1, January 1996, pp28-44.
2. Spence D.P.S., Graham
D.R., Jamieson G., Cheetham B.M.G., Calverly, P.M.A. & Earis J.E.
, "The relationship between wheezing and lung mechanics during methacholine induced broncho-constriction
in asthmatic subjects", American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care
Medicine, vol 154 , Sept 1996, pp. 290-294.
3. Pollard M.P , Cheetham B.M.G., Goodyear
C.C., M.D. Edgington (BT) " Enhanced shape -
invariant pitch and time-scale modification for concatenative
speech synthesis", Proc. Int. Conf. for Spoken Language Processing,
ICLSP’96, Vol 3, pp 1429-1433. Oct ‘96,
4. Pollard M.P., Cheetham B.M.G, Goodyear C.C.& Edgington
M.D. " Phase interpolation methods for pitch and time-scale modification
of voiced speech" Proc. Institute of Acoustics, vol
18 part 9 (1996), pp91-98, Nov 1996
5. Plante
F., Kessler H, Cheetham B.M.G. & Earis J.E. " Speech Monitoring of infective
laryngitis", Proc. Int. Conf. for Spoken Language Processing, ICLSP’96, Vol 1, pp 700-704. Oct ‘96,
6. Pollard M.P , Cheetham B.M.G., Goodyear C.C. & M.D. Edgington (BT), "Shape-invariant pitch and time-scale
modification of speech by variable order phase interpolation" Proc. IEEE
Int. Conf. ICASSP’97, Munich, April 1997 (Vol 2 pp.919-923)
7. Sun X.Q., Plante F, Cheetham BMG & Wong
WTK, "Phase modelling of speech excitation for low bit-rate
sinusoidal transform coding", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. ICASSP’97,
Munich, April 1997 (Vol 3, pp.1691-1694).
8. Cheetham
B.M.G., Choi H.B., Sun X.Q., Goodyear C.C.,Plante F., Wong WTK, "All-pass excitation phase
modelling for low bit-rate speech coding", IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits
& Systems, ISCAS’97 Hong Kong, 9-12 June 1997, (paper TH1K15), vol. 4,
pp2633-2636
9.. Plante
F., Salian S., Scholder J.,
Cheetham BMG, Earis J.
"Inverse filtering of voiced sounds for the study of laryngeal
disease" Proc. Int. Conf. Larynx 97, Marseille France, June 16-18, 1997,
pp51-54.
10. Watson S.D., Cheetham BMG, Wong WTK, Barrett PA & Lewis AV,
"Voice activity detector for ITU-T 8kbit/s speech coding standard
G729", Proc Eurospeech’97, Vol 3, pp 1571-1574,
Rhodes, Greece, Sept 1997
11. Jones D., Watson, Evans
KG Cheetham BMG, "A network speech echo
canceller with comfort noise" Proc. Eurospeech
’97, Vol 5, pp. 2607-2610, Rhodes, Greece, Sept, 1997
12. Sun X.Q. & Cheetham BMG, "Speech excitation modelling for low
bit-rate speech coding", IEEE Speech Coding Workshop, Philadelphia, USA,
7-10 Sept 1997
13. Doherty, M. J., Spence,
D. P., Graham, D., Cheetham, B. M. G., Sun, X. Q. and
Earis, J. E., " A vibrating trachea",
Thorax, 1997 ; 53: 230-231.
14. Sun XQ and Cheetham BMG, "Chapter 13: Advanced Speech Coding
Techniques", In "Insights into Mobile Multimedia Communications"
edited by D. Bull et al., pp 207-220, Academic Press Ltd, 1998, ISBN
0-12-140310-6,.
15. Sun X.Q., Cheetham BMG, Earis, JE,
"Real time analysis of lung sounds", "Technology and Health
Care", Volume 6, no. 1, June 1998, pp. 3-10
16. Plante,
F., Kessler, H., Sun, XQ, Cheetham, BMG & Earis, J.E., "Inverse filtering applied to upper
airway sounds", "Technology and Health Care", Volume 6, No. 1,
June 1998, pp. 23-32.
17. Pollard M.P., Cheetham B.M.G , Goodyear C.C., Edgington
M. "Voiced Speech Excitation Synthesis using a sinusoidal model", IEE
Electronics Letters,. Vol 34 no 6, 19 March 1998,
pp531-532
18. Wong W.T.K., Mak R. M., Cheetham B.M.G. &
Sun X.Q. "Chapter 3 : Low bit-rate speech
coding", In "Speech Technology for Telecommunications", ed. FA Westall, RD Johnson & AV Lewis, Chapman & Hall 1998,
isbn 0 412 79080 7. pp73-103.
19. Sun, XQ, Cheetham, BMG, Evans, KG & Earis
JE, "Estimation of analogue prefiltering charactersistics for CORSA standardisation",
Technology and Health Care, vol.6, no.4, Nov. 1998, pp.275-283
20. Plante
F., Cheetham BMG, et Al "Variable bit-rate
speech coding", Proc ICSLP’98, Sydney, Australia, Dec 1998, pp.
21 . Molyneux
D, Cheetham BMG, Paris C & Sun, XQ "
Discrete all-pole modelling applied to speech coding", Proc ICSLP ’98,
Sydney, Australia, Dec 1998, pp.
22. D.J. Molyneux, M.S. Ho, B.M.G. Cheetham,
"Application of discrete all-pole modelling to sinusoidal transform
coding", Proc. International Conference of Acoust.,
Speech & Signal Proc., Istanbul, Jun 2000.
23. M.S. Ho, D.J. Molyneux, B.M.G. Cheetham,
"Voicing detection in DAP-STC", Proc. IEEE Speech Coding Workshop
2000,
24. N. Li, D.J. Molyneux, M.S. Ho, B.M.G. Cheetham,
"Variable bit-rate sinusoidal transform coding using variable order
spectral estimation", Proc. International Conference of Speech and
Language Processing, Beijing, Oct 2000,.
25 .T.M Jones, M.Trabold, F Plante, BMG Cheetham, J.E Earis,
"Objective assessment of hoarseness by measuring jitter".Clinical
Otolaryngology 2000, 25, pp.1-4
26. J.E. Earis & BMG Cheetham
"Future perspectives for respiratory sound research", European
Respiratory Review 2000, (ISSN 0905-9180), 10:77, pp.641-646
27. BMG Cheetham G Charbonneau. A
Giordano P Helisto J. Vanderschoot ,
"Digitisation of Data for Respiratory Sound Recording", European Respiratory
Review 2000 10:77, pp.621-624
28. G. Charbonneau, A Edemovic B Cheetham
LP Malmberg, J. Vanderschoot
, ARA Sovijarvi, "Basic Techniques for
Respiratory Sound Analysis" European Respiratory Review 2000: 10:77,
pp.625-635
29. J.E.Earis & BMG Cheetham
"Current Methods used for computerised respiratory sound analysis"
European Respiratory Review, 2000: (ISSN 0905-9180), 10:77 ,
pp.586-590
30. L Vannuccinni, J Earis,
P Helisto B Cheetham M
Rossi, ARA Sovijarvi J Vanderschoot,
"Capturing and preprocessing of respiratory
sounds", European Respiratory Review, (ISSN 0905-9180), 2000: 10:77,
pp.616-620
Article:
BMG Cheetham,
PA Barratt & Dave Marston, "Variable bit-rate speech coding for mobile
radio", EPSRC "Impact", Sept 1999
Selection from refereed International
Conference papers:
(1) T.M. Jones, M.S. Ho, S. Donohugue, B.M.G. Cheetham,
P.M.A. Calverley, A.C.S. Swift, J.E. Earis, "Measurements before and after palatoplasty", accepted for publication in American
Thoracic Society, San Francisco, USA, May 2001.
(2) T.M. Jones, M.S. Ho,
B.M.G. Cheetham, A.C. Swift, J.E. Earis,
"Outcome of snoring surgery 1993-1998", accepted for publication in American
Thoracic Society, San Francisco, USA, May 2001.
Colloquium papers:
(1). Plante
F., Kessler H., Sun X.Q., Cheetham B.M.G. And Earis J.E., "Inverse filtering
applied to upper airway sounds", Proc. Second CORSA WPIII Symposium
on Signal Processing in Lung Sound Analysis, Sjolulla,
Finland,7-8 June 1996.
(2). Sun X.Q., Cheetham B.M.G., Evans K.G. And Earis J.E. "Estimation of analogue pre-filtering
characteristics for CORSA standardisation", Proc. Second CORSA WP
III Symposium on Signal Processing in Lung Sound Analysis, Sjolulla,
Finland, 7-8 June 1996.
(3) D.J. Molyneux, M.S. Ho, B.M.G. Cheetham,
P.A. Barrett, "Modified approach to spectral estimation for sinusoidal
transform coding", IEE Colloq. On Speech Coding
Algorithms for Radio Channels, April 2000.
(4) B.M.G. Cheetham, X.Q. Sun, "All-pass model", in IEE
Colloq. On Speech Coding Algorithm for Radio Channels, April 2000.
(5) N. Li & BMG Cheetham paper in Keele, April
2001
(6) LR He & BMG Cheetham paper in Keele, April
2001
Conference papers
(abstracts only published):
(1). Sun X.Q., Cheetham B M G, Evans K G & Earis
JE, "Characterisation of pre-filter response for lung sounds measurements
", Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on Lung Sounds, Chester, UK, Sept 1996
(2). Plante
F, Kessler H, Sun X Q, Cheetham BMG, & Earis JE "The analysis of upper airway sounds by
inverse filtering", Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on Lung Sounds,
Chester, UK, Sept. 1996
(3). Cheetham
BMG, Molyneux D, Sun XQ Earis
JE " Discrete All-Pole Modeling applied to upper
airways sounds" Proc 23rd INT Conf on Lung Sounds, Boston Oct
1998
(4). Earis
JE, Plante, Cheetham Bmg Et Al " Inverse filtering applied to the analysis
of hoarse voice", Proc 23rd INT Conf on Lung Sounds, Boston,
Oct 1998
(5) T. Jones, M.S. Ho,
B.M.G. Cheetham, J.E. Earis,
"Measurements before and after palatoplasty",
Proc. 25th International Lung Sounds Conference, Chicago, IL,
Sep 2000.
(6) T. Jones, M.S. Ho,
B.M.G. Cheetham, J.E. Earis,
"Acoustic analysis of patients undergoing palatoplasty",
Proc. 24th International Lung Sounds Conference, Marburg,
Germany, Oct 1999.
Patents:
1.
CHEETHAM B.M.G., HOLT C. and MUNDAY E. "Polyphonic coding" U.K.
Patent no. 891378.2, 1989. Extended world-wide.
2. CROZIER P., CHEETHAM
B.M.G. HOLT C.E. & MUNDAY E. "Noise Reduction" 1993,
3. As
above,
4. CHEETHAM SUN and CHOI
"All pass model"’ 1998