SCIENTIFIC CV

  • Major research interests:
  1. Speech Processing,
  2. Speaker Recognition,
  3. Neural Networks.
  • Languages:
  1. Bulgarian - mother,
  2. English - fluent,
  3. Russian - fluent.
  • Education:
  1. 1980 - Technical University of Sofia - M.Sc.
  2. 1982 - Technical University of Sofia - an extra qualification in Speech Recognition Systems in Robotics.
  3. 2014 - Ph.D. candidate in department of "Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition" at IICT.
    • PhD type: independant study
    • Scientific consultant: Assoc. Prof. Georgi Gluhchev
    • Thesis: "Speech Detection in Systems for Speaker Identification"
  • Specialization:
  1. 2001 (2 months) - Visiting researcher in the International Center for Signal Processing in Tampere, Finland.
  • Participation in research projects:
  1. "Multimodal Biometrics: Methods and Algorithms", Contract with the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, 2006 - 2009.
  2. "BioSecure - Biometrics for Secure Authentication", 6th European Framework Programme, 2004 - 2007.
  3. "Image resizing using B-spline based algorithms", Research project in the International Center for Signal Processing in Tampere, Finland, 2001.
  4. "Neural Networks for Classification: Theoretical Researches and Application Aspects", Contract with the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, 1996 - 2000.
  • List of some key publications:
  1. Ouzounov A., Noisy Speech Endpoint Detection using Robust Feature, In: Cantoni, V., D. T. Dimov, and M. Tistarelli (Eds.) Proceedings of First International Workshop on Biometrics, BIOMET'2014, June 23-24, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria, Springer, LNCS, Biometric Authentication, Vol. 8897, pp. 105-117, ISBN (Print): 978-3-319-13385-0, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13386-7_9, http://link.springer.com
  2. Ouzounov A., Telephone Speech Endpoint Detection using Mean-Delta Feature, Cybernetics and Information Technologies, vol.14, No. 2, 2014, pp.127-139.
  3. Ouzounov A., Cepstral Features and Text-Dependent Speaker Identification - A Comparative Study, Cybernetics and Information Technologies, vol. 10, No. 1, 2010, pp.1-12.
  4. Ouzounov A., Robust Features and Neural Network for Noisy Speech Detection, Cybernetics and Information Technologies, vol.6, No. 3, 2006, pp.75-84. (Abstract)
  5. Ouzounov A., Robust Features for Speech Detection - A Comparative Study, International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies, CompSysTech'2005, pp.IIIA.19-1 - IIIA.19-6.
  6. Ouzounov A., A Robust Feature for Speech Detection, Cybernetics and Information Technologies, vol.4, No. 2, 2004, pp.3-14. (Abstract)
  7. Ouzounov A., BG-SRDat: A Corpus in Bulgarian Language for Speaker Recognition over Telephone Channels, Cybernetics and Information Technologies, vol.3, No. 2, 2003, pp.101-108. (Abstract) (Full text PDF) (Demo - some wav files)