Dr Wai Lok Woo
Senior Lecturer
- Email: w.l.woo@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 6682
- Fax: +44 (0)191 222 8180
- Address: E2.17
Merz Court
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
Research Interests
• Mathematical Theory and Methods of Signal Processing
• Neural Networks Learning and Algorithms
• Signal Processing for Communications
Current Work
• Nonlinear and Non-stationary Blind Source Separation
• Nonlinear Independent Component Analysis
• Bayesian Statistics for Non-Gaussian Filtering
• Higher Order Statistics
• Seismic Signal Processing
• Speech Recognition and Synthesis
• Biometrics Identification and Authentication
• Multiuser Detection in Wireless Communications
Selected Publications
- Zhang JY; Woo WL; Dlay SS. Blind source separation of postnonlinear convolutive mixture. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 2007, 15(8), 2311-2330.
- Gao P; Woo WL; Dlay SS. Nonlinear signal separation for multinonlinearity constrained mixing model. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 2006, 17(3), 796-802.
- Woo WL; Dlay SS. Neural network approach to blind signal separation of mono-nonlinearly mixed sources. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I:Regular Papers 2005, 52(6), 1236-1247.
- Zhang J; Woo WL; Dlay SS. Expectation-maximisation approach to blind source separation of nonlinear convolutive mixture. IET Signal Processing 2007, 1(2), 51-65.
- Wei C; Woo WL; Dlay SS; Khor LC. Maximum a posteriori-based approach to blind nonlinear underdetermined mixture. IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing 2006, 153(4), 419-430.
- L.C. Khor, W.L. Woo and S.S. Dlay. Nonlinear Blind Signal Separation with Intelligent Controlled Learning. IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing 2005, 152(3), 297-306.
Projects
- Biometric Smart Cards
Project Leaders: Dr. S. Dlay, Dr. W.L. Woo - Blind Deconvolution of Noisy Seismic Trace Using Independent Component Analysis
Project Leaders: Dr. S.S. Dlay, Dr. W.L. Woo - Component Analysis
Project Leaders: Dr S. Sali, Dr W.L. Woo, Dr S. Dlay - DATES - Interoperable Smart Card/USB Stick
- Statistical Blind Source Separation
Project Leaders: Dr S.S. Dlay, Dr W.L. Woo
Esteem Indicators
• Editorial Board of IET Signal Processing
• Editorial Board of Journal of Computers
• Editorial Board of WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing
• Guest Editor for special issue on “Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian Multi-dimensional Signal Processing”
• Guest Editor for special issue for the Mediterranean Journal of
Computers and Networks on “Advances in Biometrics: Theory, Security
and Applications”
• Co-chairman and local organiser of the 4th IEE/IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing(CSNDSP 2004)
• Technical Committee on Signal Processing for International
Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)
• International Programme Committee for the 11th International
Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information &
Engineering Systems (KES2007), Vietri sul Mare, Italy 12-14th
September 2007.
• International Advisory Committee for the 8th International
Conference on Acoustics and Music: Theory and Applications (AMTA
2007), Vancouver, Canada, June 19-21, 2007.
• Technical Programme Committee for the 2nd International Conference
on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT 2007), July 1-6, 2007, Silicon
Valley, USA.
• International Programme Committee for the 4th International
Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and
Applications (SPPRA 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, 14th-16th Feb 2007.
• Scientific Committee for the 5th International Conference on E-ACTIVITIES, Venice, Italy, November 20-22, 2006.
• Scientific Committee for the 6th International Conference on
Signal, Speech and Image Processing Technologies (SSIP 2006), Lisbon, Portugal, September 22-24, 2006.
• Technical Programme Committee for the 1st International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT 2006), August 29 - 31, 2006, Cap Esterel, Côte d’Azur, France.
• Scientific Committee for the 6th International Conference on Signal Processing, Computational Geometry and Artificial Vision, Crete, Greece, August 18-20, 2006.
• International Advisory Committee for the 7th International Conference on Acoustics and Music: Theory and Applications (AMTA 2006), Cavtat, Croatia, June 13-15, 2006.
• Scientific Committee for the 5th International Conference on Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, 27th – 29th May 2006.
• International Programme Committee for the 1st International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (IMCL 2006), Amman, Jordan, 19th - 24th April 2006.
• International Programme Committee for the 4th International Conference on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, United Kingdom, 20th - 22nd July 2004.
Funding
• Blind Deconvolution of Noisy Seismic Trace using Independent
Component Analysis
• Independent Component Analysis for Blind Signal Deconvolution of
Multiuser Channels
• Statistical Analysis of Finite Length Effects on Blind Source
Separation Cost Functions Learning Algorithms
• Smart Card - DATES
Roles and Responsibilities
Stage 1 Year Tutor
Undergraduate Admission and UCAS Clearing Selector
IET Student Counsellor
Undergraduate Teaching
EEE3004: Digital Signal Processing
EEE8101: Mobile and Cellular Communications
Postgraduate Teaching
EEE8001: Signal Processing and Estimation
EEE8002: Mobile and Cellular Communications
EEE8064: Biometrics and Recognition
