For other recent output, see my VBN page.

Journal Publications

2011

B. L. Sturm and L. Daudet, "Recursive Nearest Neighbor Search in a Sparse and Multiscale Domain for Comparing Audio Signals," Signal Processing, vol. 91, no. 12, pp. 2836-2851, Dec. 2011 (10.1016/j.sigpro.2011.03.002).

2010

B. L. Sturm and J. J. Shynk, "Sparse approximation and the pursuit of meaningful signal models with interference adaptation," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 461-472, Mar. 2010.

M. Morvidone, B. L. Sturm, and L. Daudet, "Incorporating scale information with cepstral features: Experiments on musical instrument recogntion," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 1489-1497, Sep. 2010.

2009

D. Overholt, J. Thompson, L. Putnam, B. Bell, J. Kleban, B. L. Sturm, and J. Kuchera-Morin, "A multimodal system for gesture recognition in interactive music performance," Computer Music Journal, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 69-82, Winter 2009.

B. L. Sturm, C. Roads, A. McLeran, and J. J. Shynk, "Analysis, visualization, and transformation of audio signals using dictionary-based methods," Journal of New Music Research, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 325-341, Winter 2009 (invited) (Sound examples here).

2008

B. L. Sturm, J. J. Shynk, L. Daudet, and C. Roads, "Dark energy in sparse atomic estimations," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 671-676, Mar. 2008.

2006

B. L. Sturm, "Adaptive concatenative sound synthesis and its application to micromontage composition," Computer Music Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 44-66, Winter 2006.

B. L. Sturm, "Concatenative sound synthesis and intellectual property: An analysis of the legal issues surrounding the synthesis of novel sounds from copyright-protected work," Journal of New Music Research, vol. 35, no 1, pp. 23-33, Aug. 2006 (invited).

2005

B. L. Sturm, "Pulse of an ocean: Sonification of ocean buoy data," Leonardo, vol. 32, no 2, pp. 143-149, Aug. 2005.

2001

B. L. Sturm, "Composing for an Ensemble of Atoms: The Metamorphosis of Scientific Experiment into Music," Organised Sound, vol 6. no 2, pp. 131-145, Aug. 2001 (invited).

Conference Publications

2012

P. Noorzad and B. L. Sturm, "Regression with sparse approximations of data," EUSIPCO 2012, Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 2012.

B. L. Sturm, "When 'exact recovery' is exact recovery in compressed sensing simulation," EUSIPCO 2012, Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 2012.

B. L. Sturm and M. G. Christensen, "Comparison of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Implementations, EUSIPCO 2012, Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 2012.

B. L. Sturm and P. Noorzad, "On Automatic Music Genre Recognition by Sparse Representation Classification using Auditory Temporal Modulations, CMMR 2012, Queen Mary, University of London, June. 2012.

2011

B. L. Sturm, M. G. Christensen and Rémi Gribonval, "Cyclic Pure Greedy Algorithms for Recovering Compressively Sampled Sparse Signals", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2011.

M. G. Christensen and B. L. Sturm, "A Perceptually Re-Weighted Mixed-Norm Method for Sparse Approximation of Audio Signals", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2011.

Nick Collins and B. L. Sturm "Sound Cross-synthesis and Morphing Using Dictionary-based Methods," Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf., Huddersfield, U.K., Aug. 2011.

2010

B. L. Sturm and M. G. Christensen, "Cyclic Matching Pursuit with Multiscale Time-frequency Dictionaries", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2010.

B. L. Sturm and G. Defrance, "Detection and Estimation of Arrivals in Room Impulse Responses by Greedy Sparse Approximation", Proc. European Signal Process. Conf., Aalborg, Denmark, Aug. 2010.

B. L. Sturm, M. Morvidone, and L. Daudet, "Musical Instrument Identification using Multiscale Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients", Proc. European Signal Process. Conf., Aalborg, Denmark, Aug. 2010.

2009

B. L. Sturm and L. Daudet, "On similarity search in audio signals using adaptive sparse approximations", Proc. Int. Workshop Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, Sep. 2009.

B. L. Sturm, J. J. Shynk, and D. H. Kim, "Pruning sparse signal models using interference", Proc. Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2009.

A. McLeran, C. Roads, and B. L. Sturm, "Scatter: A software tool for visualizing, transforming, and performing atomic decompositions of sound", Proc. The Future of Interactive Media: Workshop on Media Arts, Science, and Technology, Santa Barabra, CA, Jan. 2009.

2008

B. L. Sturm and J. J. Shynk, "Interference-driven adaptation in sparse approximations", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 2008 (invited).

B. L. Sturm, C. Roads, A. McLeran, and J. J. Shynk, "Analysis, visualization, and transformation of audio signals using dictionary-based methods", Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf., Belfast, Ireland, Aug. 2008 (best paper award) (Sound examples here).

A. McLeran, C. Roads, B. L. Sturm, and J. J. Shynk, "Granular methods of sound spatialization using overcomplete representations", Proc. Sound and Music Computing Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 2008.

B. L. Sturm, J. J. Shynk, A. McLeran, C. Roads, and L. Daudet, "A comparison of molecular approaches for generating sparse and structured multiresolution representations of audio and music signals", Proc. Acoustics, pp. 5775-5780, Paris, France, June 2008.

B. L. Sturm, J. J. Shynk, and S. Gauglitz, "Agglomerative clustering in sparse atomic decompositions of audio signals", Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 97-100, Las Vegas, NV, Apr. 2008.

B. L. Sturm, J. J. Shynk, and L. Daudet, "Measuring interference in overcomplete signal representations", Proc. Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 961-966, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2008.

2007

B. L. Sturm, J. J. Shynk, and L. Daudet, "A short-term measure of dark energy in sparse atomic estimations", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1126-1129, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2007.

2006

B. L. Sturm, L. Daudet, and C. Roads, "Pitch-shifting audio signals using sparse atomic approximations", Proc. ACM Workshop on Audio and Music Computation in Multimedia, pp. 45-52, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 2006 (Sound examples here).

B. L. Sturm and J. Gibson "Matching pursuit decompositions of non-noisy speech signals using several dictionaries", Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 456-459, Toulouse, France, Apr. 2006.

2005

B. L. Sturm and J. Gibson "Signals and systems using MATLAB: A suite of applications for exploring and teaching media signal processing", Proc. Frontiers in Education Conf., pp. 21-26, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 2005.

2004

B. L. Sturm "Matconcat: An application for exploring concatenative sound synthesis using MATLAB" Proc. 7th Int. Conf. Digital Audio Effects, Naples, Italy, Oct. 2004.

B. L. Sturm and J. Gibson "Signals and Systems Using MATLAB: An Effective Application for Exploring and Teaching Media Signal Processing", Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf., Miami, FL, Nov. 2004.

B. L. Sturm and S. T. Pope, "Spectral Characteristics of the Musical Iced Tea Can", Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf., Miami, FL, Nov. 2004.

2003

B. L. Sturm "Music from the Ocean': A Cross-Discipline Multimedia CD", Proc. 9th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium, New London, CT, Feb. 2003.

2002

B. L. Sturm "Water music: Sonification of ocean buoy spectral data", Proc. Int. Computer Music Conf., Gothenburg, Sweden, Aug. 2002.

B. L. Sturm "Surf music: Sonification of ocean buoy spectral data", Proc. Int. Conf. Auditory Display, Kyoto, Japan, July 2002.

2001

B. L. Sturm "Composing for an Ensemble of Atoms: The Metamorphosis of Scientific Experiment into Music", Proc. Music without Walls? Music Without Instruments? Conf., Leicester, UK, June 2001.

B. L. Sturm "Synthesis and Algorithmic Composition Techniques Derived from Particle Physics", Proc. 8th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium, New London, CT, Mar. 2001.

2000

B. L. Sturm "Sonification of Particle Systems via deBroglie's Hypothesis", Proc. Int. Conf. Auditory Display, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 2000.

Technical Reports

B. L. Sturm, "A Study on Sparse Vector Distributions and Recovery from Compressed Sensing", arXiv version, July 2011.

B. L. Sturm, G. Defrance, and L. Daudet, "A Signal Processing Perspective of the eXtensible Fourier Transform (XFT)", Technical Report of the Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Equipe Lutherie, Acoustique, Musique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, Nov. 2009.

Ph.D. Dissertation

B. L. Sturm, "Sparse Approximation and Atomic Decomposition: Considering Atom Interactions in Evaluating and Building Signal Representations", PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar. 2009. (slides)

Tutorials

B. L. Sturm, "Dictionary-based Methods for Audio Data," Sound and Music Computing, Porto, Portugal, July 2009. (slides, 95MB)

M.S. Thesis

B. L. Sturm, "SSUM: Signals and Systems Using MATLAB. An Effective Application for Teaching Media Signal Processing to Artists and Engineers", MS thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, June 2004.

Other

B. L. Sturm, Book review, "A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing, 2nd Edition, by Stéphane Mallat," Computer Music Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 83-85, Fall 2007.

B. L. Sturm, Book review, "Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards by Marina Bosi and Richard Goldberg", Computer Music Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 97-99, Spring 2006.

B. L. Sturm, Book review, "Digital Sound Synthesis by Physical Modeling Using the Functional Transformation Method by Lutz Trautmann and Rudolf Rabenstein", Computer Music Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 91-93, Summer 2005.

B. L. Sturm, Conference review, "2002 International Computer Music Conference", Computer Music Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 103-105, Summer 2003.

B. L. Sturm, Conference review, "2002 International Conference on Auditory Display", Computer Music Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 84-86, Spring 2003.