Now showing items 1-20 of 24

    • Automatic detection of voice disorders using self loop architecture in back propagation network 

      Murugesa Pandiyan, Paulraj, Prof. Madya Dr,; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Sivanandam, S. N.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr. (Anna University, 2008-01-04)
      Acoustic analysis is a non-invasive technique to detect the voice disorders and diagnose the vocal and voice disease. In the recent years, voice disease are increasing dramatically due to unhealthy social habits and voice ...
    • Classification of vehicle noise comfort level using feedforward neural network 

      Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Siti Marhainis; Andrew, Allan Melvin (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)
    • Classroom speech intelligibility prediction using backpropagation Neural Network 

      Paularaj, M. P.; Sazali, Yaacob; Ahmad Nazri; Thagirarani, M. (Coimbatore Institute of Technology, 2007-08-27)
      In terms of individual communication, speech is the most important and efficient means, even in today's multi-media society. Thus, classrooms are mainly used for delivering speech between lecturers and students, it is ...
    • Classroom speech intelligibility prediction using Elman neural network 

      Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Prof. Madya; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Ahmad Nazri, Abdullah; M., Thagirarani; M. Ridhwan, Tamjis (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-05-21)
      A study was conducted to develop a simple system for classrooms speech intelligibility prediction. In this study, several classrooms properties such as size, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and Speech Transmission Index ...
    • Comparison of classifying the material mechanical properties by using k-Nearest Neighbor and Neural Network Backpropagation 

      Intan Maisarah, Abd Rahim; Fauziah, Mat; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Science Academy, 2011-03)
      This paper present a development of a system with non-destructive testing on the material to define the mechanical properties of material. The experimental and testing of the material mechanical properties using vibration ...
    • Diagnosis of voice disorders using band energy spectrum in wavelet domain 

      Murugesa Pandiyan, Paulraj, Prof. Madya Dr,; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr. (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2008-03-08)
      In the evolution of quality of speech, acoustic analyses of normal and pathological voices have become increasingly interesting to researchers in laryngology and speech pathologies. Vocal signal information plays an important ...
    • Discrimination of pathological voices using systole activated neural network 

      Murugesa Pandiyan, Paulraj, Prof. Madya Dr,; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr. (Noise, Vibration and Comfort Research Group, 2007-11-27)
      The discrimination of normal and pathological voices using noninvasive acoustical analysis features helps speech specialits to perform accurate diagnoses of vocal and voices disease. Acoustic analysis is a non-invasive ...
    • EEG based detection of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss using artificial neural networks 

      Pandiyan, Paulraj Murugesa , Prof. Dr.; Subramaniam, Kamalraj; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Prof. Dr.; Hema, C. R. (Advanced Institute of Convergence IT, 2013-05)
      In this paper, a simple method has been proposed to distinguish the normal and abnormal hearing subjects (conductive or sensorineural hearing loss) using acoustically stimulated EEG signals. Auditory Evoked Potential (AEP) ...
    • Face Emotion Recognition - A survey 

      Kartigayan, M.; Mohamed Rizon, Mohamed Juhari; Sazali, Yaacob; Nagarajan, R. (Oita University, 2006-01-23)
      The facial emotion is playing a vital role in visual communication system. The vision system is being integrated to the robot to recognize the facial gestures or emotion. The integration of the vision system and EMG sensors ...
    • Feature extraction based on mel-scaled wavelet packet transform for the diagnosis of voice disorders 

      Murugesa Pandian, Paulraj, Prof. Madya Dr,; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr. (SpringerLink, 2008-06-25)
      Feature extraction from the vocal signal plays very important role in the area of automatic detection of voice disorders. Many feature extraction algorithms have been developed in the last three decades based on acoustic ...
    • Gesture recognition system for Kod Tangan Bahasa Melayu (KTBM) using neural network 

      Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Prof. Madya; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Hazry, Desa, Prof. Madya Dr.; Majid, W. M. R. W. A. (Institute of Electrical and Elctronics Engineering (IEEE), 2009-03-06)
      This paper presents simple methods for translating Kod Tangan Bahasa Melayu (KTBM) into voice signal based on subject head and two hand gestures. Different gesture signs made by different subjects are captured using a USB ...
    • Identification of vocal and voice disorders 

      Murugesa Pandiyan, Paulraj, Prof. Madya Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Mohd Rizon, Mohammed Juhari, Prof. Dr.; Sivanandam, S. N.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr. (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2007-10-25)
      The discrimination of normal and pathological voices using noninvasive acoustic analysis helps to perform accurate identification of voice disorders and diagnoses of vocal and voice disease. Acoustic analysis is a non- ...
    • Improved back propagation neural network for the diagnosis of pathological voices 

      Paulraj, M.P.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Sivanandam, S. N.; Hariharan, Muthusamy (Association for Advancedment of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Entreprises (A.M.S.E), 2008)
      Most of vocal and voice diseases cause changes in the voice. ENT clinicians use acoustic voice analysis to characterize the pathological voices. Nowadays, voice diseases are increasing dramatically due to unhealthy social ...
    • An investigation on visual and audiovisual stimulus based emotion recognition using EEG 

      Murugappan, M.; Mohd Rizon, Mohammed Juhari; Nagarajan, Ramachandran, Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2009-01)
      In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using visual and audio visual stimulus for detecting the human emotion by measuring electroencephalogram (EEG). Visual and audiovisual stimulus based protocols is designed ...
    • Loudspeaker fault detection using artificial neural network 

      Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Prof. Madya; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Saad, M. R. (Institute of Electrical and Elctronics Engineering (IEEE), 2009-03-06)
      Traditionally, loudspeaker's quality control has been done manually and inspection of loudspeaker faults is time consuming and causes error in the quality evaluation. In order to reduce the time consumption and errors in ...
    • Malaysian vowel recognition based on spectral envelope using bandwidth approach 

      Fadzilah, Siraj; Shahrul Azmi, M. Y.; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2009-05-25)
      Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made great strides with the development of digital signal processing hardware and software especially using English as the language of choice. In this paper, a new feature extraction ...
    • Model reference adaptive neuro-controller based on HMLP network 

      Siti Maryam, Sharun; Mohd Yusoff, Mashor, Prof. Dr.; Norhayati, Mohd Nazid; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)
      In this paper, an Adaptive Neuro-Controller (ANC) based on HMLP Network is proposed as an alternative to a conventional adaptive controller. The ANC will be adapted such that the plant should follow a desired output, ...
    • A phoneme based sign language recognition system using skin color segmentation 

      Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Prof. Madya; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Mohd Shuhanaz, Zanar Azalan; Palaniappan, Rajkumar (Institute of Electrical and Elctronics Engineering (IEEE), 2010-05-21)
      A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns. Sign languages are commonly developed for deaf communities, which can include interpreters, ...
    • Prediction of psychoacoustic parameters using radial basic functions neural network 

      Paulraj, M.P.; Sazali, Yaacob; Ahmad Nazri; M., Thagirarani (Karpagam College of Engineering, 2008-02-01)
      The ability of human listeners to estimate psychoacoustic parameters from the speakers speech levels at different listener's positions in a classroom is an interesting and not yet thoroughly examined phenomenon. The goal ...
    • Prediction of Reverberation time in university classrooms using Neural Network 

      Paularaj, M. P.; Mohd Shukry, Abdul Majid; Sazali, Yaacob; Hariharan, M.; Wan Mohd Ridzuan, Wan Ab Majid (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2007)
      Reverberation time is fundamental to the study of the acoustics of an enclosed space. An important objective of architectural acoustics is to predict the reverberation time in an enclosed space. Reverberation time is also ...