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    • Feature based classification for classroom speech intelligibility prediction 

      M. Ridhwan, Tamjis; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Pandian, Paulraj Murugesa, Prof. Dr.; Ahmad Nazri, Abdullah; Boon, Raymond Whee Heng,Prof. Dr. (IEEE Conference Publications, 2011-09)
      Education is one of the most important aspects in human life. Nowadays, a quality education not only rely on the teaching itself, but also the environment. One of the important aspects in providing an educative environment ...
    • 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 ...
    • Feature space reduction in ethnically diverse Malaysian English accents classification 

      Yusnita, Mohd Ali; Pandiyan, Paulraj Murugesa , Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Shahriman, Abu Bakar, Dr. (IEEE Conference Publications, 2013)
      In this paper we propose a reduced dimensional space of statistical descriptors of mel-bands spectral energy (MBSE) vectors for accent classification of Malaysian English (MalE) speakers caused by diverse ethnics. Principle ...
    • Functional link PSO neural network based classification of EEG mental task signals 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom; Nagarajan, Ramachandran (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2008-08-26)
      Classification of EEG mental task signals is a technique in the design of Brain machine interface [BMI]. A BMI can provide a digital channel for communication in the absence of the biological channels and are used to ...
    • Fuzzy based classification of EEG mental tasks for a brain machine interface 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007-11-28)
      Patients with neurodegenerative diseases loose all motor movements including impairment of speech, leaving the patients totally locked-in. One possible option for rehabilitation of such patients is using a brain machine ...
    • 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 ...
    • Highways Traffic Surveillance System (HTSS) using OpenCV 

      Zainab Nazar, Khalil Wafi; R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Madya, Dr.; Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Prof. Madya Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-06-22)
      Due to the traffic accidents over the last few years; the development of surveillance systems with multifunctional techniques has received increasing attention. The use of the smart camera is one solution to solve the ...
    • 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- ...
    • Identification of vocal fold pathology based on Mel Frequency Band Energy Coefficients and singular value decomposition 

      Hariharan, Muthusamy; Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Assoc. Prof.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Elctronics Engineering (IEEE), 2009-11-18)
      Many approaches have been developed to detect the vocal fold pathology. Among the approaches, analysis of speech has proved to be an excellent tool for vocal fold pathology detection. This paper presents the Mel Frequency ...
    • Image quality assessment using Elman neural network model 

      Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; Palaniappan, Rajkumar; Mohd Shuhanaz, Zanar Azalan (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)
      Measurement of visual quality is of fundamental importance for numerous image and video processing applications, where the goal of quality assessment algorithms is to automatically assess the quality of images or videos ...
    • Implementing eigen features methods/neural network for EEG signal analysis 

      Saidatul Ardeenawatie, Awang; Pandiyan, Paulraj Murugesa, Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-01)
      This paper presented the possibility of implementing eigenvector methods to represent the features of electroencephalogram signal. In this study, three eigenvector methods were investigated namely Pisarenko, Multiple Signal ...
    • 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 ...
    • Improving classification of EEG signals for a four-state brain machine interface 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
      Neural network classifiers are one among the popular modes in the design of classifiers for electroencephalograph based brain machine interfaces. This study presents algorithms to improve the classification performance of ...
    • An Intelligent Gesture to Voice Communication System for Hearing Impaired 

      Paulraj, M. P. , Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Hazry, Desa, Prof. Madya Dr.; Wan Mohd Ridzuan; Sathees, Kumar; Raj, Kumar; Norasmadi, Abd Rahim (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2010-01-07)
      The designed system is accessible and user friendly. This system is primarily designed for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people to solve their communication problems and gives them the same whole life experience to ...
    • Intelligent Sensor for Reversing Vehicles 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Assoc. Prof.; Nagarajan, Ramachandran, Prof.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. (Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi Malaysia (KPTM), 2007-08-10)
      The Intelligent Sensor for Reversing Vehicles comprises of a stereo camera (placed on the rear bumper of the car), a processing unit, a display unit and speaker (placed near the dashboard of the car). The cameras are ...
    • An Intelligent System for Engine Fault Detection 

      Paulraj, M.P., Assoc. Prof Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Nor Shaifudin, Abd Hamid (Malaysian Invention & Design Society (MINDS), 2007-05-18)
      Condition monitoring and machinery fault diagnosis are central to the implementation of efficient maintenance management strategies. In real time vehicle servicing environment engine fault diagnosis is being done manually ...
    • Intelligent vehicle fault diagnosis system using Neural Networks 

      Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Nor Shaifudin, Abd Hamid; Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy (Universiti Teknologi MaraFaculty of Electrical Engineering, 2007-03-09)
      Diagnosis has become a very complex and critical task in determining the condition of vehicle engine. Sound emitted by the engine is always considered to be an annoying noise but a detaiedl analysis of the sound signal ...
    • 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 English accents identification using LPC and formant analysis 

      Yusnita, Mohd Ali; Pandiyan, Paulraj Murugesa, Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Shahriman, Abu Bakar, Dr.; Saidatul, A. (IEEE Conference Publications, 2011-11)
      In Malaysia, most people speak several varieties of English known as Malaysian English (MalE) and there is no uniform version because of the existence of multi-ethnic population. It is a common scenario that Malaysians ...
    • 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 ...