Ph.D. candidate, Research Assistant
Speech Analysis and Interpretation Lab. (SAIL)
USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
3710 McClintock Ave., RTH320, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564
Homepage: http://sail.usc.edu/
Resume: [resume]

Education

Research Areas

  • Multimedia information retreival
    • General audio signal; acoustic topics
    • Music information retrieval (MIR); acoustic metadata and music fingerprint
    • Multimodal approach; sentiments analysis (social tags), video/audio cues
  • Speech signal processing
    • Speaker, speech and emotion recognition
    • Speaker diarization and segmentation

Skills

  • Programming languages; C/C++, PHP, HTML, XML, MySQL, Latex, Fortran
  • Tools; MATLAB, Subversion (SVN), Microsoft Visual Studio, KDevelop, Xcode, CMAKE
  • Operating Systems; Windows, OS X, and Linux

Projects

  • Speech interface system - DARPA funded
  • Mircophone array system - SMARTROOM project
  • Music information retrieval - NSF funded
  • Speaker recognition system - BERC funded

Publications [sort by year][sort by type] [+]

    2010
    1. Samuel Kim, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Supervised acoustic topic model for unstructured audio information retrieval," Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) annual summit and conference, in press, Dec. 2010.

    2. Samuel Kim, Shiva Sundaram, Panayiotis Georgious, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "An N-gram model for unstructured audio signals toward information retrieval," IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), in press, Oct. 2010.

    3. Daniel Bone, Samuel Kim, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "A Study of Intra-Speaker and Inter-Speaker Affective Variability using Electroglottograph and Inverse Filtered Glottal Waveforms," INTERSPEECH, in press, Sep. 2010.

    4. Samuel Kim, Shiva Sundaram, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Acoustic stopwords for unstructured audio information retrieval," European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aug. 2010.

    5. Samuel Kim, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Shiva Sundaram, "Using naive text queries for robust audio information retrieval system," IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Mar. 2010.

    6. Samuel Kim, Shiva Sundaram, Panayiotis Georgious, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Information retrieval from unstructured audio signals using latent topic models," IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, in review, 2010.

    2009
    1. Samuel Kim, Shiva Sundaram, Panayiotis Georgious, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Audio Scene Understanding using Topic Models," Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) Workshop, Dec. 2009.

    2. Samuel Kim, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Shiva Sundaram, "Acoustic Topic Model for Audio Information Retrieval," IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustic (WASPAA), 37-40, Oct. 2009.

    3. Samuel Kim, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "A robust harmony structure modeling scheme for Classical music opus identification," IEEE International conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 1961-1964, Apr. 2009.

    2008
    1. Carlos Busso, Mutaza Bulut, Chi-Chun Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Emily Mower, Samuel Kim, Jeannette Chang, Sungbok Lee and S. Narayanan, "IEMOCAP: Interactive emotional dyadic motion capture database," Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation, Nov. 2008.

    2. Kyu Jeong Han, Samuel Kim, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Strategies to Improve the Robustness of Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering under Data Source Variation for Speaker Diarization," IEEE transaction of speech, audio, and language processing, 1590-1601, Nov. 2008.

    3. Samuel Kim and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Dynamic chroma feature vectors with applications to cover song identification," IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Workshop, Oct. 2008.

    4. Samuel Kim, Erdem Unal, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Music fingerprint extraction for classical music cover song identification," International Conference of Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 1261-1264, May. 2008.

    2007
    1. Kyu Jeong Han, Samuel Kim, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Robust speaker clustering strategies to data source variation for improved speaker diariation," Automatic Speech Reocognition and Understanding (ASRU), Dec. 2007.

    2. Samuel Kim, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "On voicing activity under the control of emotion and loudness," 154th Meeting of the Acoustic Society of America (ASA), Nov. 2007.

    3. Samuel Kim, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan, "Real-time Emotion Detection System using Speech: Multi-modal Fusion of Different Timescale Features," Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Workshop, Oct. 2007.

    2005
    1. Samuel Kim, Sungwan Yoon, Thomas Eriksson, Hong-Goo Kang, and Dae Hee Youn, "A noise-robust pitch synchronous feature extraction algorithm for speaker recognition systems," Proc. INTERSPEECH, 2029-2032, Sep. 2005.

    2. Thomas Eriksson, Samuel Kim, Hong-Goo Kang, and Chungyoung Lee, "An information-theoretic perspective on feature selection in speaker recognition," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 500-503, Jul. 2005.

    3. Samuel Kim, Jeong-Tae Seo, and Hong-Goo Kang, "Quantitative measure of speaker specific information in human voice: from the perspective of information theoretic approach," Journals of Acoustical Society of Korea, Mar. 2005.

    4. Samuel Kim, "On feature extraction algorithms for GMM-based text independent speaker recognition systems," Master thesis, Yonsei University, Feb. 2005.

    2004
    1. Sungwan Yoon, Samuel Kim, Hong-Goo Kang, and Dae Hee Youn, "An experiment of supplementary feature for speaker verification in constrained environment," Proc. Korean Institute of Communication Sciences, 206, Nov. 2004.

    2. Bongjin Lee, Samuel Kim, and Hong-Goo Kang, "Speaker recognition based on transformed line spectral frequencies," Proc. International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication System, 177-180, Nov. 2004.

    3. Samuel Kim, Thomas Eriksson, and Hong-Goo Kang, "On the time variability of vocal tract for speaker recognition," Proc. Internat. Conf. Spoken Language Process. INTERSPEECH, 2377-2380, Oct. 2004.

    4. Thomas Eriksson, Samuel Kim, Hong-Goo Kang, and Chungyoung Lee, "Theory for speaker recognition over IP," Proc. Internat. Conf. Spoken Language Process. INTERSPEECH, 625-628, Oct. 2004.

    5. Sungwan Yoon, Samuel Kim, and Hong-Goo Kang, "Preliminary experiment searching for the supplementary feature in speaker verification," Proc. ISISP, 189-192, Jul. 2004.

    6. Thomas Eriksson, Samuel Kim, and Hong-Goo Kang, "On feature extraction in speaker recognition," Technical Report 485L, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, Apr. 2004.

    7. Samuel Kim, Thomas Eriksson, Hong-Goo Kang, and Dae Hee Youn, "A pitch synchronous feature extraction method for speaker recognition," IEEE International conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 405-408, Mar. 2004.

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