Emeritus professor of Computer Science, University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Stephen trained firstly as a physicist and then as an electronic engineer, and began his career at the UK Government Communications Centre developing signal-processing algorithms. In 1984, he joined British Telecoms's research laboratories to work on speech recognition, and spent two years at the speech research unit of the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (now Qinetiq) at Malvern, where he researched into adaptation of speech recognition algorithms to new speakers. He returned to BT to lead a team of researchers developing speech recognition algorithms for use on the UK telephone network.
He joined the School of Computing Sciences at UEA as a lecturer in 1991 and was appointed full professor in 2003. His research interests include speech recognition, music processing, sign language, audio identification and automatic lip-reading, and he is author or co-author of over 100 publications in these fields. He has been an invited consultant at AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey, a visiting scientist at Nuance Communications Inc., CA, and an invited researcher at Apple Inc., CA. He has also acted as a consultant and reviewer for several national governments as well as the European Commission, and also consulted for industry. He is an ex-committee member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee.
Since 2017, Stephen has been working on the CAVA project, https://sites.uea.ac.uk/cava-project. This is a collaboration with an ENT surgeon, Mr John Phillips. The goal is to develop a 24/7 dizziness monitor which functions by monitoring patients' eye movements. So far, the project has attracted funding of over £2M from the UK Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research and the device is currently undergoing clinical trials
Automatic Detection of Torsional Nystagmus Using the CAVA System
Sunday, September 29, 2024
3:00 PM – 3:06 PM EDT
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Sleep Nystagmus in Asymptomatic Healthy Individuals: A Novel Finding
Sunday, September 29, 2024
3:06 PM – 3:12 PM EDT
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