Eduardo Castillo Guerra, Ph.D., M.Sc.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

 

Journal Papers

•  Mohsen Amiri Farhani, Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, G.B., “Accurate estimation of Brillouin frequency shift in BOTDA sensors using cross correlation,” Optics Letters, vol. 36 No. 21, 2011.

• Mohsen Amiri Farhani, Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, G.B., “Reduction in the Number of Averages Required in BOTDA Sensors Using Wavelet
Denoising Techniques,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 29, No. 20, 2011.

• Castillo-Guerra, E., “Acoustic study of dysarthria,” To appear in Special issue on “Decision Support in Medicine”, International Journal on Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2009.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., *Ruiz, A., “Automatic modeling of acoustic perception of breathiness in pathological voices,” IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, No. 4, April 2009.

• Díaz-Amador R., Castillo-Guerra E., Cárdenas-Barreras J., “Adaptive re-estimation of speaker verification thresholds,” POMA , Vol. 4, 060002, 2008.  

•  Lee, W & Castillo-Guerra E., “Automatic assessment of perturbations produced by audible inspirations in pathological voices,” POMA, Vol. 4, 055002, 2008.

•  Cardenas Barreras, J.L., Castillo-Guerra, E., Kizhanatham, A. & Reynolds, R., "Performance enhancements to TD speaker recognition system using novel speech segmentation techniques,” to appear in: Electronics, Automatics and Computing Engineering, CUAJE, Vol. I (2), 67-71, Cuba, 2007.

•  Scheme E., Castillo-Guerra E., Kevin Englehart, Arvind Kizhanatham, “Practical Considerations for Real-time Implementation of Speech-based Gender Detection”, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 4225, J.F. Martínez-Trinidad et al. (Eds.): CIARP 2006, pp. 426 – 436, 2006.© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.

•  Castillo-Guerra E., Lovely D.F., "Suboptimal classifier for Dysarthria assessment”, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2905 (Progress in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis), IAPR, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, New York, November 2003, ISSN: 0302-9742, ISBN: 3-540-20590-X, pp. 314-321.

• Castillo-Guerra E., "State of the Art and Trends in Dysarthria Classification", Monograph, Feijoo Eds., Santa Clara , Cuba , June 2003, ISBN: 959-250-094-0.

• Castillo-Guerra E. & Ferrer-Riesgo C.A. "Analysis of Monopith in pathological speech", Electronics, Automatics and Computing Engineering Journal, vol. XXII, No.2, p.p. 75-78, de 2001.

Patent Applications

•Amiri Farahani Mohsen, Castillo-Guerra, E., Bruce G. Colpitts, “A Recurrent Adaptive Noise Canceller for Brillouin Signal Enhancement”, US Patent application serial number 61/504879, filled July 2011.

• Amiri Farahani Mohsen, Castillo-Guerra, E., Bruce G. Colpitts, “A Correlation-based Method to Estimate the Position of the Peak in Noisy Lorentzian and Gaussian Curves”, US Patent application serial number 61/504850, filled July 2011.

Conferences and workshops

• Amiri Farahani M., Castillo-Guerra, E., Bruce G. Colpitts, “A New Algorithm for Implementation of Multiple Constant Multiplications”, Accepted to International Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, Proceedings of the DASIP, Tampere, Finland, November 2011.

• Losier T., Meng J. , Castillo-Guerra E. , Abhishek K., Perez Ramos Y., “Distribution Automation: Sensors and Condition Monitoring”, Poster accepted for SmartGrid Canada 2011: Creating Smart Grid Value for Canadian Consumers, October, 2011.

• Amiri Farahani Mohsen, Bruce G. Colpitts, Castillo-Guerra, E., “Reduction of Measurement Time in BOTDA Sensors Using Wavelet Shrinkage”, International Conference in Optical Fiber Sensors, Ottawa, 2011.

• Mohsen Amiri Farahani, Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, B.G. “Efficient Implementation of FIR filters Based on a Novel Common Subexpression Elimination Algorithm”, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Calgary 2010.

•  Díaz-Amador R., Castillo-Guerra E., Cárdenas-Barreras J., “Adaptive threshold estimation for voice authentication systems” 155 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustics’08, Paris, July 2008.

•  Lee, W & Castillo-Guerra E., “Measurement of audible inspirations in pathological voices”, 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustic, Acoustics’08, Paris, June 2008.

•  Díaz-Amador R., Castillo-Guerra E., Cárdenas-Barreras J., “Adaptive management of speaker verification thresholds,” IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara Fall, Ontario, 2008.

•  Weyrich Morris, G. B.,  Castillo-Guerra, E., Sharaf, A. M. & Stevenson, M., " Optimal fault predictors for arc-type faults in radial and meshed alternating current distribution systems,”  IEEE Electrical Power Conference on Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources, Montreal, Canada, 2007.

•  Cárdenas Barreras, J., Castillo-Guerra, E., “Improvements to speaker verification by accurately segmented speech,” XIII Convention of Electrical Engineering, CIE 2007, Santa Clara, Cuba, 2007.

•  Englehart, K., Castillo-Guerra, E., Kizhantham, A., Scheme, E., Reynolds, R., & Briggs K. “UNB Speaker Recognition System”, Speaker Recognition evaluation Workshop, SRE'05, June 7-8, Montreal, 2005.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., “Algorithm for automatic characterization of breathiness in pathological speech,”  IFMBE Proceedings CLAEB 2004, III Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering", Vol. 5, 2004, João Pessoa, Brazil.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E. & Dennis F Lovely, “Contributions to a modern approach to dysarthria classification,”  25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancun, Mexico, August, 2003.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., “Algorithms and programs for pathological dysarthric speech”, II International Congress in Logaoedics and Phoniatry, Havana, 2004.

•  Peres, D.A., Castillo-Guerra, E., “Toward automatic judgments of audible inspirations pathological voices,” International Congress on Telecommunication, TELEC'2004, Santiago de Cuba, 14-16 July 2004.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lovely, D.F. “Suboptimal classifier for dysarthria assessment,” 8th Ibero-American Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP'2003, Havana, November, 2003.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lovely, D.F. “Acoustic analysis of abnormal rate in pathological dysarthric speech,” XI Symposium of Electrical Engineering, SIE'2003, Santa Clara, June, 2003.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lovely, D.F. “Expert system for dysarthria classification,” V Congress of the Cuban Society of Biomedical Engineering, Havana, June, 2003.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lovely, D.F. “Perspective of new techniques for dysarthria classification,” 10th Annual GSA Research Conference, Fredericton, NB, Canada, 2002.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lorenzo Ginori J.V., “Experiences in the quantification of tremor in pathological speech,” Symposium of Electrical Engineering, SIE'2001, June, 2001.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & Hernández-Díaz Huici M.E. “Automatic characterization of pathological speech: monoloudness,” II Latino-American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, Havana’2001, Havana, May, 2001.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & *Ferrer Riesgo, C.A. “Characterization of pitch breaks in pathological speech,” II Latin-American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, Havana, May, 2001.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., &. *Méndez Rodríguez, N.L., “Methodology for obtaining a pathological dysarthric speech database,” VII International Symposium on Social Communication, Santiago de Cuba, January, 2001.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & Hernández-Díaz Huici M.E., “Prosody analysis in dysarthric pathological speech,” Social Communication Symposium, Santiago de Cuba, January 1999.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., & Ferrer Riesgo, C.A., “Studies on pitch-related parameters in pathological voices,” Social Communication Symposium, Santiago de Cuba, January 2001.

•  Castillo-Guerra, E., “Adaptive equalization in telephone channel,” XIII Symposium of Electrical Engineering, SIE'1997, Santa Clara, 1997.