Dr. Ian Burnett is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Wollongong. His research interests extend from speech and audio compression and processing through to multimedia delivery and perception. He currently chairs the Multimedia Description Schemes subgroup at MPEG, and has been extensively involved in the standardisation of MPEG-21. For further information refer to Dr. Burnett's faculty page.
Articles
Linear predictive perceptual filtering for acoustic vector sensors: exploiting directional recordings for high quality speech enhancement (with Christian H. Ritz and Muawiyath Shujau), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2011)
This paper investigates the performance of a new technique for speech enhancement which combines Linear...
Separation of speech sources using an acoustic vector sensor (with Christian H. Ritz and Muawiyath Shujau), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
This paper investigates how the directional characteristics of an Acoustic Vector Sensor (AVS) can be...
Efficient multimedia query-by-content from mobile devices (with Kevin Adistambha, Stephen J. Davis, and Christian H. Ritz), Computers & Electrical Engineering (2010)
The phenomenal growth in multimedia content has lead to the development of a variety of...
Spatial audio coding by squeezing: analysis and application to compressing multiple soundfields (with Christian H. Ritz and Bin Cheng), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2009)
The effect of microphone directivity patterns on spatial cues for reverberant multichannel meeting speech analysis (with Christian H. Ritz and Eva Cheng), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2009)
Contributions to Books
Enhancing multimedia search using human motion (with Kevin Adistambha, Stephen Davis, Christian Ritz, and David Stirling), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2012)
Over the last few years, there has been an increase in the number of multimedia-enabled...
What are you trying to say? Format-independent semantic-aware streaming and delivery (with Joseph Thomas-Kerr and Christian Ritz), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
Presentations
An anechoic configurable hemispheric environment for spatialised sound (with Christian H. Ritz, Gregory M. Schiemer, Eva Cheng, Damien Lock, Terumi Narushima, Stephen F. Ingham, and Diana Wood Conroy), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2008)
Encoding higher order ambisonics with AAC (with Erik Hellerud, Audun Solvang, and U Peter Svensson), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)
In this work we explore a simple method for reducing the bit rate needed for...
Intelligent Multimedia Delivery? It’s a question of semantics (with J. Thomas-Kerr and C. Ritz), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
Intelligent multimedia delivery uses semantic information about content to enhance the delivery process. This paper...
Format-independent multimedia streaming (with Joseph Thomas-Kerr and Christian H. Ritz), IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2006)
The Bitstream Binding Language (BBL) is a new technology developed by the authors and being...
Other
Convolutional Interleaver for Unequal Error Protection of Turbo Codes (with Sina Vafi and Tadeusz A. Wysocki), Computer & Electronics Engineering Faculty Publications (2003)
This paper describes construction of a convolutional interleaver as a block interleaver and discusses its...