FICH Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL  
  sinc(i)  Laboratory for Signals and Computational Intelligence

The SINC laboratory was founded in 2004 by FICH-UNL to research in Computer Sciences and its applications, in the area of machine learning and signal processing. In this page you can found the research staff, the main research areas, projects, publications and contact information.

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Last update: 02-2008 

 People

 Research areas
Research Staff
- Diego Milone (UNL-CONICET) [home]
- Leonardo Giovanini (CONICET-UNL)
- Leonardo Rufiner (UNL-UNER-CONICET) [home]
- María Eugenia Torres (UNER-UNL-CONICET) [home]

Graduate Students
- Carlos Sánchez Reinoso (CONICET)
- Cesar Martínez (UNER-UNL) [home]
- Leandro Di Persia (CONICET-UNL) [home]
- Leandro Vignolo (UNL)
- Marcelo Albornoz (CONICET-UNL)
- Maximiliano Rodríguez (CONICET)
- Monica Larese (CONICET-UNL-UNR)

- Diego Evin (CONICET-UBA-LIS)
- Fabiola Martínez (UAM, México)
- Rubén Acevedo (UNER)
- Analía Cherniz (CONICET-UNER)
- Gastón Schlotthauer (CONICET-UNER)

Undergraduate Students
- Alejandro Dabin
- Alejandro Ronsoni
- Belén Crolla
- Blas Vicco
- Carolina Gómez
- Fernando Guerin
- Joaquin Barreyro
- Juan Barletta
- Juan Pablo Vogt
- Soledad Padron
- Walter Schulte
Machine learning
- Hidden Markov models
- Neural networks
- Independent component analysis
- Statistical natural language modeling

Signal processing
- Time-frequency and Wavelet analysis
- Sparse signal representations
- Blind source separation

Applications
- Speech recognition
- Biomedical signals
- Bioacoustics
- Computer vision

 Present projects
Automatic Speech Recognition: Statistical Models and Wavelet Transforms
- Funding: ANPCyT-UNL
- ID: PICT 2004 #25984

Digital Signal Processing: Statistical Models and Wavelet Applications
 - Funding: UNL
- ID: CAI+D 2005 #012-72

Non-Conventional Techniques Applied to Noise Reduction for Hearing Aids
- Funding: ANPCyT-UNER
- ID: PICT 2002 #12700

Automatic recognition of masticatory sounds in ruminants
- Funding: ANPCyT-UNL
- ID: PICT-O 2005 #11-36214

 Funding grants

 Associated laboratories
Departamento de Informática FICH-UNL
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas (FICH-UNL)
Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL)
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT)
Laboratorio de Cybernetica (cyberlab)
Laboratorio de Señales y Dinámicas no Lineales (LSyDNL)

 Publications
Journal papers (2008-2000)

- K. Ohta, T. Noguchi, K. Yasui, L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida "Frequency domain ICA connecting of frequency bins," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition), vol. J91-D, no. 1, pp. 130-135, 2008.

- C.E. Martínez, A. Juan, A., F. Casacuberta "Iterative Contextual Recurrent Classification of Chromosomes," Neural Processing Letters, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 159-175, 2007.
- D.H. Milone, L.E. Di Persia "An EM Algorithm to Learn Sequences in the Wavelet Domain," Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, vol. 4827, pp. 518-528, 2007.
- A.S. Cherniz, M.E. Torres, H.L. Rufiner, A. Esposito, "Multiresolution Analysis applied toText-Independent Phone Segmentation", Journal of Physics IOP, Vol. 90, 012083, pp. 1-7, 2007.
- H.L. Rufiner, C.E. Martínez, D.H. Milone, J. Goddard, "Auditory cortical representations of speech signals for phoneme classification," Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, vol. 4827, pp. 1004-1014, 2007.
- M.E. Torres, H.L. Rufiner, D.H. Milone, A.S. Cherniz, "Multiresolution Information Measures applied to Speech Recognition," Physica A, Elsevier Science, vol. 385, no. 1, pp. 319-332, 2007.
- L.E. Di Persia, M. Yanagida, H.L. Rufiner, D.H. Milone, "Objective quality evaluation in blind source separation for speech recognition in a real room", Signal Processing, Elsevier Science, no. 87, pp 1951-1965, 2007.
- D.H. Milone, "Adaptive Learning of Polynomial Networks Genetic Programming, Backpropagation and Bayesian Methods", book review: N. Nikolaev and H. Iba, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, W.B. Langdon (Editor), Springer, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 289-291, 2007.
- L. Aronson, P. Estienne, D.H. Milone, C.E. Martínez, D. Tomassi, H.L. Rufiner, M.E. Torres, "Bateria para la Evaluacion de Pacientes con Protesis Auditivas", Revista de la Federación Argentina de Sociedades de Otorrinolaringología, In press 2007.

- M.E. Torres, H.L. Rufiner, D.H. Milone, A.S. Cherniz, "Comparison between Temporal and Time-Scale Information Measures applied to Speech Recognition", WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, Issue 9, Volume 2, pp. 1153-1160, Sep. 2006.
- H.L. Rufiner, J. Goddard, L.F. Rocha, M.E. Torres, "Statistical method for sparse coding of speech including a linear predictive model", Physica A, Elsevier Science, no. 367, pp. 231-25, Jul. 2006.
- L.D. Vignolo, D.H. Milone, "Optimización de paquetes de onditas para la clasificación de señales", IEEE-RATE, vol. 1, no. 2, pp 29-34, Mar. 2006.
- H.M. Torres, J.A. Gurlekian, H.L. Rufiner, M.E. Torres, "Self-organizing maps clustering based on continuous multiresolution entropy", Physica A, Elsevier Science, no. 361, pp. 337-354, Feb. 2006.
- G. Schlotthauer, M.E. Torres, L.G. Gamero and G. Nicolini, "Modeling, Identification and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Type I Diabetic Patient", Medical Engineering & Physics - vol. 28, 2006.

- D.H. Milone, "Reconocimiento automático del habla con redes neuronales artificiales", Revista Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnología, EdUNER, vol. XVI, no. 31, Nov. 2005.
- M. E. Torres, G. Schlotthauer, "Conclusiones Fisiológicas y Estimadores Fractales", Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnología, 2005.

- H.L. Rufiner, J. Goddard, L.F. Rocha, "Representación rala de la señal de voz", Revista Argentina de Bioingeniería, vol. 10, no. 2, pp.3-12, Nov. 2004.
- H.L. Rufiner, D.H. Milone, "Sistema de reconocimiento automático del habla", Revista Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnología , EdUNER, vol. XV, no. 28, pp. 149-178, May. 2004.
- H.L. Rufiner, M.E. Torres, L. Gamero, D.H. Milone, "Introducing complexity measures in nonlinear physiological signals: application to robust speech recognition", Physica A, no. 322, pp. 496-508, Feb. 2004.

- C. Martínez, H. García, A. Juan, F. Casacuberta, "Chromosome Classification using Continuous Hidden Markov Models", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2652, pp. 494-501, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
- José L. Godoy, M. M. Añino, M. E. Torres, "Análisis multifractal de la regulación autonómica del ritmo cardiaco en episodios isquémicos". Revista Argentina de Bioingeniería, Vol.9, No 2, pp 24-29, 2003.
- D.H. Milone, A.J. Rubio, "Prosodic and accentual information for automatic speech recognition," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Proc., vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 321-333, Jul. 2003.
- M.E. Torres, M. M. Añino y G. Schlotthauer, "Automatic Detection of Slight Parameter Changes Associated to Complex Biomedical Signals using Multiresolution q-Entropy", Medical Engineering and Physics, Vol. 25, No 10, pp 859-867, 2003.
- M. M. Añino, M. E. Torres and G. Schlotthauer, "Slight parameter changes detection in biological models: a multiresolution approach", Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 324, Issues 3-4, Pages 645-664, 2003.
- C. Martínez, H. García, A. Juan, F. Casacuberta, "Chromosome Classification using Continuous Hidden Markov Models", In F. J. Perales López, A. C. Campilho, N. Pérez de la Blanca, A. Sanfeliu (Eds.), Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, First Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2003, Proceedings (Paper ID: 215). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 2652, pp. 494–501, Springer-Verlag, 2003.

- D.H. Milone, A. Azar, H.L. Rufiner, "Supercomputadoras basadas en clusters de PCs", Revista Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnología, EdUNER, vol. XIII, no. 25, pp. 173-208, Nov. 2002.
- O. Ferrer-Roca, R. Diaz de Leon, F.J. de Latorre, M. Suárez, L. Di Persia, M. Cordo, "Aviation medicine: challenges for telemedicine", Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, vol. 8, no. 1. Feb. 2002.
- C. Martínez, A. Juan, F. Casacuberta, "Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Automatic Chromosome Classification", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2415, pp. 565-570, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
- M. E. Torres, M. M. Añino, L. G. Gamero and M. A. Gemignani, "Detección automática de cambios en sistemas dinámicos no lineales mediante entropía multirresolución", Ciencia Docencia y Tecnología, No 24, Año XIII, Mayo, pp 161-182, 2002.
- C. Martínez, A. Juan, F. Casacuberta, "Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Automatic Chromosome Classification", In J. R. Dorronsoro (Ed.), Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 2415, pp. 565-570, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

- M. E. Torres, M. M. Añino, G. Schlotthauer "Detección automática de variaciones en parámetros asociados a señales biomédicas complejas usando q-entropía multirresolución", Revista Argentina de Bioingeniería, Vol. 7 No 2 , pp 13-16, 2001
- M. E. Torres, M. M. Añino, L. G. Gamero and M. A. Gemignani, "Automatic Detection of Slight Changes in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems using Multiresolution Entropy Tools", International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (IJBC) in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Vol 11- No 4 - pp. 967-981, 2001.

- R. Lopez-Cózar, A.J. Rubio, M.C. Benitez, D.H. Milone, "Restricciones de funcionamiento en tiempo real de un sistema automático de dialogo", Revista de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, pp. 169-174, Sep. 2000.

Conference papers (2007-2000)

- J. Goddard, F. Martínez, G. Schlotthauer, M.E. Torres, H.L. Rufiner, "Visualization of Normal and Pathological Speech Data", in Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA 2007). Firenze, Italy, 13-15 Dec. 2007.
- T. Noguchi, K. Ohta, L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida, "Effects of Wiener Filter on Blind Source Separation by processing on sequentially connected bins," Montly meeting of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics, published in Technical Reports of IEICE, EA, EA2007-55, vol. 107, Nº 240, pp 1-6, 2007.
- O.V. Müller, S.R. Long, C.E. Martínez, "Verificación biométrica automática de identidad mediante reconocimiento facial," EST, 36 JAIIO, Mar del Plata, Aug. 2007.
- J. Goddard, S.G. de los Cobos Silva, M.A. Gutiérrez Andrade, H.L. Rufiner, D.H. Milone, "Fuzzy Social Norms and Individual Computation", in Proc. of the XIV Congress of International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF 2007), Romania, 1-3 Nov. 2007.
- J. Goddard, A.E. Martínez, F.M. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "Two Sequence Kernels for the Classification of Speech Data", in Proc. of the XII International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2007), Moscow, Rusia, Oct. 2007.
- D.H. Milone, L.E. Di Persia, "Learning Hidden Markov Models with Hidden Markov Trees as Observation Distributions", 9th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Mar del Plata, Argentina, Aug. 2007.

- G. Schlotthauer, M. E. Torres, C. Jackson-Menaldi. "Automatic classification of dysphonic voices". WSEAS Transactions on signal Processing, Issue 9, vol. 2, September 2006, pp.1260- 1267. ISSN 1790-5022.
- T. Noguchi, K. Ohta, L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida, "Frequency-domain independent component analysis by overlap piecewise integration of separation processing", in Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Meeting of the ASA and ASJ, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 120, No. 5, pp 3048-3048, 2006.
- K. Yasui, T. Noguchi, K. Ohta, L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida, "Permutation-free ICA taking frequency characteristics into account", Meeting of Kansai branches of Associations related to Electricity, G16-13, Osaka Institute of Technology, Nov. 2006.
- K. Yasui, T. Noguchi, K. Ohta, L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida, "Source separation by frequency-domain ICA on locally connected frequency bins", Technical Report of IEICE, SP2006-95, pp 59-64, Tokyo, Japón, 2006.
- A. Handa, L. Di Persia, K. Ohta, M. Yanagida, "Separation of mixed signals of short duration using wiener filter as post processing for frequency-domain ICA". Technical Report of SIG-SLP, IPSJ, 2006-SLP-60(1), vol. 2006, no. 12, 2006.
- L. Di Persia, K. Ohta, M. Yanagida, "A method for solving the permutation problem in ICA", Technical report of IEICE, SP2005-193, pp 53-58, 2006.
- M.E. Torres, H.L. Rufiner, D.H. Milone, A.S. Cherniz, "A multiresolution information measure approach to speech recognition", 6th WSEAS International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing, Lisboa, Portugal, Sep. 2006.
- T. Noguchi, K. Ohta, L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida, "Frequency Domain ICA Connecting of Adjacent Frequency Bins", Autumn Meeting of ASJ, Sep. 2006.
- F. Guerin, D.H. Milone, C. Cangiano, J. Galli, C. Martínez, E. Laca, "Registro y clasificación de eventos masticatorios de ovinos en pastoreo", 7th Argentine Symposium on Computing Technology, Mendoza, Argentina, Sep. 2006.
- L.D. Vignolo, D.H. Milone, H.L. Rufiner, E.M. Albornoz, "Parallel implementation for wavelet dictionary optimization applied to pattern recognition", 7th Argentine Symposium on Computing Technology, Mendoza, Argentina, Sep. 2006.
- L.E. Di Persia, D.H. Milone, M. Yanagida, "Convolutive Blind Source Separation with Wiener Post-Filtering for Robust Speech Recognition", 7th Argentine Symposium on Computing Technology, Mendoza, Argentina, Sep. 2006.
- M.E. Torres, H.L. Rufiner, D. H. Milone, A.S. Cherniz, "Multiresolution Information Measures applied to Speech Recognition", 7th Argentine Symposium on Computing Technology, Mendoza, Argentina, Sep. 2006.
- F.M. Martínez, J. C. Goddard, A. M. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "Basis Pursuit Decomposition: An Analysis of Spanish Words", Proceedings of the 11-th International Conference SPEECH AND COMPUTER (SPECOM'2006), St. Petersburg, Russia, Jun. 2006.

- F.M. Martínez, J. C. Goddard, A. M. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "Analysis of spanish synthesized speech signals using spectral and basis pursuit representations", Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, Oct. 2005.
- D. Tomassi, C. Martínez, D. Milone, L. Aronson, M. Torres, H. Rufiner, "Evaluación de técnicas clasicas de reducción de ruido en señales de voz", XV Congreso de Bioingeniería de la Sociedad Argentina de Bioingeniería. Paraná (Entre Ríos), Sep. 2005.
- H. Rufiner, C. Martínez, J. Goddard, "Clasificación de fonemas mediante representaciones corticales auditivas", XV Congreso de Bioingeniería de la Sociedad Argentina de Bioingeniería, Paraná (Entre Ríos), Sep. 2005.
- L.D. Vignolo, D.H. Milone, "Optimización de paquetes de onditas para la clasificación de señales, XI Reunión de Trabajo en Procesamiento de la Información y Control, Anales del XI RPIC, pp 57-61, Sep. 2005.
- M. Larese, C. Martínez, "Combinación de técnicas de información mutua y algoritmos genéticos para el registro y fusión de imagenes médicas", 34 JAIIO, Simposio EST, Rosario (Santa Fe), Argentina, Aug. 2005.
- E.M. Albornoz, D.H. Milone, "Construcción de patrones prosódicos para el reconocimiento automático del habla", VII Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI), Rosario, Argentina, pp. 225-236, Aug. 2005.
- A.J. Dabin, D.H. Milone, H.L. Rufiner, "Onditas perceptualmente diseñadas para el reconocimiento automático del habla", VII Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI), Rosario, Argentina, Aug. 2005.
- K. Ohta, L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida. "Removing Reflected Waves Using Temporal And Spectral Substraction Without A Priori Knowledge", IEEE International Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP2005), Sapporo, Japan, May. 2005.
- J.R. Galli, H. Laforcada, D.H. Milone, C.A. Cangiano, "Evaluación de un programa para la clasificación automática de sonidos masticatorios", Rev. Arg. Prod. Anim, vol. 25, no. 1, pp.190-191, 2005.

- J. Goddard, F.M. Martínez, A.E. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "Noisy speech recognition using string kernels", Proceedings of the 9-th International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2004), pp. 89-94, St. Petersburg, Russia, Sep. 2004.
- D. Beber, D.H. Milone, J. Biurrun, A. Sigura, "Competencias de vida artificial para fomentar la creatividad", IV Congreso Argentino de Enseñanza de Ingeniería (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Sep. 2004.
- A. Handa, K. Tsutsumi, L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida, "Separation of Mixed Speech in Reverberant Environment Using Independent Component Analysis", Spring Meeting of Japanese Society of Information Processing, 3Y-3, Mar. 2004.
- K. Tsutsumi, A. Handa, A., L. Di Persia, M. Yanagida. "Validity studies of Blind Source Separation using Independent Component Analysis in Real Environment", Technical Report of IEICE, EA2003-40, Jan. 2004.

- H. Laforcada, D.H. Milone, C. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "Diseño y desarrollo de un software de analisis y procesamiento de señales de voz", Jornadas de Investigación y Extensión (INEX 2003), UNER, Dic. 2003.
- M.F. De Ieso, L. Di Persia, "Sistema de Telemetría de señales biológicas mediante enlace de radiofrecuencia", I Jornadas de Investigación y Extensión - INEX 2003; Paraná, Nov. 2003.
- H. Laforcada, D.H. Milone, C. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "Diseño y desarrollo de un software para el analisis y procesamiento de señales de voz", Memorias del XIV Congreso Argentino de Bioingeniería, III Jornadas de Ingeniería  Clínica, Paper No. 066, SABI, Córdoba, Argentina, Oct. 2003.
- D.H. Milone, A.J. Rubio Ayuso, "Estimación de estructuras acentuales", Memorias del XIV Congreso Argentino de Bioingeniería, III Jornadas de Ingeniería Clínica, Paper No. 070, SABI, Córdoba, Argentina, Oct. 2003.
- D.H. Milone, J.J. Merelo, "Segmentación evolutiva de la voz", Memorias del XIV Congreso Argentino de Bioingeniería, III Jornadas de Ingeniería Clínica, Paper No. 071, SABI, Córdoba, Argentina, Oct. 2003.
- M.E. Torres, L. Gamero, H.L. Rufiner, C. Martínez, D.H. Milone, G. Schlotthauer, "Segmentación automática de señales de voz mediante el análisis de cambios en la entropía multiresolución continua", Memorias del XIV Congreso Argentino de Bioingeniería, III Jornadas de Ingeniería Clínica, Paper No. 125, SABI, Córdoba, Argentina, Oct. 2003.
- D.H. Milone, D. Beber, J. Biurrun, "Artificial Life Contests: Encouraging Creativity", Proceedings of the International Congress on Computational Bioengineering, M. Doblaré, M. Cerrolaza, H. Rodríguez (Editores), Zaragoza, España, Sep. 2003.
- M.E. Torres, L. Gamero, H.L. Rufiner, C. Martínez, D.H. Milone, G. Schlotthauer, "Study of Complexity in Normal and Pathological Speech Signals", 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 2339-2342, Cancun, Mexico, Sep. 2003.
- J. Goddard, A.E. Martínez, F.M. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "A comparison of String Kernels and discrete Hidden Markov Models on a Spanish Digit Recognition Task", 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 2962-2965, Cancun, Mexico, Sep. 2003.
- D. Tochetto, D.H. Milone, H.L. Rufiner, L. Aronson, "Robust CIS Strategy for Cochlear Implants", World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2003.
- A. Lacentra, T. Molas , D.H. Milone, H.L. Rufiner y A. Azar, "Implementación de un cluster de PCs para experimentación numérica", IX Jornadas Internacionales de Ingeniería Clínica y Tecnología; Médica, Artículo No. 2003Ar17, Paraná, Entre Ríos; Argentina, Aug. 2003.
- L. Aronson, D.H. Milone, "Correlation between the impedance values and behavioral comfortable levels in children with the MED-EL", 4th International Symposium on Electronic Implants in Otology & Conventional Hearing Aids, Toulouse, Jun. 2003.

- J. Goddard, F.M. Martínez, A.E. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "String kernels for the classification of speech data", Proc. of the 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Congress of Acoustics, 9th Mexican Congress of Acoustics. Cancún, México, Dec. 2002.
- H.L. Rufiner, L.F. Rocha, J. Goddard, "Preserving acoustic cues in Speech Denoising", Proc.of the 2nd Joint Meeting of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society And the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS-BMES2002, Houston, Texas, USA, Oct. 2002.
- L. Aronson, D.H. Milone, P. Estienne, "Correlation between the impedance values and behavioral levels of stimulation in children with the MED-EL system," 7th International Cochlear Implant Conference, Manchester UK., Sep. 2002.
- H.L. Rufiner, L.F. Rocha, J. Goddard, "Sparse and Independent Representations of Speech Signals Based on Parametric Models", Proc. of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 2002, Denver Colorado, USA, Sep. 2002.
- L. Rufiner, M.E. Torres, L. Gamero, D. Milone, "Information Measures in Automatic Speech Recognition," 2002 SIAM 50th Anniversaty and Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Jul. 2002.
- D.H. Milone, J.J. Merelo, H.L. Rufiner, "Evolutionary algorithm for speech segmentation," 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu, May. 2002.
- L. Aronson, D.H. Milone, "Correlación entre la Impedancia y Niveles  Máximos de Confort en niños con Implante Coclear Multicanal," 1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Implante Coclear Pediatrico, Sheraton Hotel Buenos Aires, May. 2002.

- D.H. Milone, A.J. Rubio, R.López-Cózar, "Modelos de lenguaje variantes en el tiempo," Memorias del XXIV Congreso Nacional de Ingeniería Biomédica, Oaxtepec, México, Oct. 2001.
- D.H. Milone, A.J. Rubio, "Including prosodic cues in ASR systems", Proceedings 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2001) and the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS 2001), Orlando, Jul. 2001.
- J. Goddard, A. E. Martínez, F. M. Martínez, H.L. Rufiner, "Basis Pursuit applied to Speech Signals", Proceedings of the 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI 2001, pp. 517-520, Orlando, Florida, USA, Paper No. H202., Jul. 2001.
- A.J. Rubio Ayuso, D.H. Milone, "Información prosódica y acentual para el reconocimiento automático del habla", en J. Días García (Ed.): Actas del II Congreso de Fonética Experimental, pp. 56-77, Sevilla, Mar. 2001.
- R. López-Cózar, D.H. Milone, "A new technique based on augmented language models to improve the performance of spoken dialogue systems," EuroSpeech 2001, Scandinavia,  pp. 741-744, 2001.
- G. Schlotthauer, G. A. Nicolini, L.G. Gamero y M. E. Torres,"Modelizacion e Identificacion no Lineal del Metabolismo de la Glucosa en Diabeticos Utilizando la Via Subcutanea". E-Proceedings del "Segundo Congreso Latinoamericano de Ingenieria Biomédica". La Habana, Cuba, May, 2001.

- C. Martínez, H. Rufiner, "Acoustic Analysis of Speech for Detection of Laryngeal Pathologies", CD-ROM Proceedings of World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago (USA), Jul. 2000.

Books
- D.H. Milone, H.L Rufiner, L.E. Di Persia, R. Acevedo, H.M. Torres, Introducción a las señales y los sistemas discretos, Ed. UNER, 2006.
- H. Loyarte, D.H. Milone, Fundamentos de programación, book specially disigned to distance learning in informatics, Ed. UNL, 2001.
- H. Loyarte, D.H. Milone, Programación I, book specially disigned to distance learning in informatics, Ed. UNL, 2001.

 Technology transfer
- Japan Patent Application 2006-074423, International Patent Classification: G10L 03/02; Inventors: L.E. Di Persaia, D.H. Milone and M. Yanagida; Patent Appliers: Doshisha, UNER, UNL; Title: "A method and apparatus for permutation-free blind source separation", 2006.
- Contract for University-Industry Transference with Eccosur-Sirex SA (medical devices), "Research and development of pattern recognition and digital signal processing for ECG signals", 2005.
- Software Registration: H. Laforcada, D.H. Milone, H.L. Rufiner, A. Sigura, "Software for voice analysis in phoniatrics rehabilitation", As result of PID-UNER#6062 "Desarrollo de un laboratorio de voz", 2006. Formulario DNDA No 04785, Expediente DNDA No 540143, Titular: UNER, Autor: Obra Colectiva.
- Scientific Corpus Registration: L. Aronson, P. Estienne, D.H. Milone, C.E. Martinez, H.L. Rufiner, M.E. Torres, "Corpus for the evaluation of patients with auditory prosthesis (BEPPA)", Direccion Nacional de Derecho de Autor Expediente No 347522, 2006.

 Thesis and internal reports
- O.V. Müller and S.R. Long, "Verificación biométrica automática de identidad mediante reconocimiento facial" Graduate Thesis, Computer Engineering, FICH-UNL, Mar. 2007.
- E.M. Albornoz, "Sistema de análisis prosódico y reconocimiento automático del habla" Graduate Thesis, Computer Engineering, FICH-UNL, Mar. 2006.
- L.D. Vignolo, "Diseño e implementación de un optimizador para clasificación de fonemas basado en inteligencia computacional" Graduate Thesis, Computer Engineering, FICH-UNL, Mar. 2006.
- H.L. Rufiner, "Análisis y representación de la voz mediante técnicas no convencionales" Ph.D. Thesis, Buenos Aires University, Aug. 2005.
- E.M. Albornoz,  "Modelado de secuencias de estructuras acentuales con modelos ocultos de Markov y su incorporación a un sistema de reconocimiento  automático del habla". Final report for the research initiation scholarship offered by UNL to undergraduate students. May. 2005.
- A.J. Dabin, "Onditas perceptualmente diseñadas para el reconocimiento automático del habla". Final report for the research initiation scholarship offered by UNL to undergraduate students, May. 2005.
- M. Larese, "Registro y fusión de imagenes médicas mediante técnicas avanzadas de procesamiento digital",  Graduate Thesis, Computer Engineering, FICH-UNL, Nov. 2004.
- D.H. Milone, "Información acentual para el reconocimiento automático del habla", Ph.D. Thesis, Granada University, Mar. 2003.

 Related teaching
Engineering Doctoral Degree
Computational Intelligence, Signals and Systems
Our graduate courses:
- Advanced Signal Analysis and Processing (apasFICH)
- Selected Topics on Machine Learning (tsamFICH)
- Automatic Speech Recognition (rahFICH) 		Computer Engineering
Our undergraduate courses:
- Digital Signal Processing (mpdFICH)
- Computational Intelligence (icFICH)
- Biological Models and Simulation
- Digital Image Processing (cpdsiFICH)

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