Dick Lyon has a long history of research and invention, including the optical mouse, speech and handwriting recognition, computational models of hearing, and color photographic image sensing and rendering.
A Biomimetic, 4.5 µW, 120+dB, Log-domain Cochlea Channel with AGC, Andreas G. Katsiamis, Emmanuel M. Drakakis, Richard F. Lyon, IEEE JSSC (Journal of Solid-State Circuits), vol. 44 (2009), pp. 1006-1022.
Sound Ranking Using Auditory Sparse-Code Representations, Martin Rehn, Richard F. Lyon, Samy Bengio, Thomas C. Walters, Gal Chechik, ICML 2009 Workshop on Sparse Method for Music Audio.
Large Scale Content-Based Audio Retrieval from Text Queries, Gal Chechik, Eugene Ie, Martin Rehn, Samy Bengio, Richard F. Lyon, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), 2008.
Practical Gammatone-Like Filters for Auditory Modeling, Andreas G. Katsiamis, Emmanuel M. Drakakis, Richard F. Lyon, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2007 (2007), pp. 12.