Kevin W. Wilson

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Member Technical Staff
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

Phone: 617 621 7583
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Kevin Wilson received his S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 1999, 2000, and 2006, respectively. For his doctoral thesis, he incorporated aspects of the psychoacoustics of the precedence effect into an algorithm for computerized audio source localization. He is currently working on applications of signal processing and machine learning to audio processing, video processing, and equipment condition monitoring.

Recent Projects:

Equipment Condition Monitoring
Video Summarization for PVRs

Recent Publications:

Wilson, K.W.; Raj, B.; Smaragdis, P.; Divakaran, A., "Speech Denoising Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Priors", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), ISSN: 1520-6149, pp. 4029-4032, March 2008 (IEEE Xplore, TR2008-012)

Goela, N.; Wilson, K.; Niu, F.; Divakaran, A.; Otsuka, I., "An SVM Framework for Genre-Independent Scene Change Detection", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), ISBN: 1-4244-1017-7, pp. 532-535, July 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2007-033)