Tom's research focuses on computational models of the human auditory system. Tom received an MSci in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2004 and a PhD from the Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing at the University of Cambridge.
“Modelling the Distortion Produced by Cochlear Compression”, Roy D. Patterson, Timothy Ives, Thomas C. Walters, Richard F. Lyon, 16th International Symposium on Hearing, 2012 (to appear).
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“The intervalgram: An audio feature for large-scale melody recognition”, Thomas C. Walters, David Ross, Richard F. Lyon, 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, 2012 (to appear).
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“Auditory Sparse Coding”, Steven R. Ness, Thomas Walters, Richard F. Lyon, Music Data Mining, 2011.
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“Sound Retrieval and Ranking Using Sparse Auditory Representations”, Richard F Lyon, Martin Rehn, Samy Bengio, Thomas C. Walters, Gal Chechik, Neural Computation, vol. 22 (2010), pp. 2390-2416.
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“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.
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“Auditory Speech Processing for Scale-Shift Covariance and its Evaluation in Automatic Speech Recognition”, Roy D. Patterson, Thomas C. Walters, Jessica Monaghan, Christian Feldbauer, Toshio Irino, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010.
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“Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds”, Roy D. Patterson, Thomas C Walters, Jessica Monaghan, Etienne Gaudrain, The neurophysiological bases of auditory perception, 2010, pp. 223-233.
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“The perception of family and register in musical tones”, Roy D. Patterson, Etienne Gaudrain, Thomas C. Walters, Music Perception, 2010.
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“A statistical formant-pattern model for segregating vowel type and vocal-tract length in developmental formant data”, Richard E. Turner, Thomas C. Walters, Jessica J. M. Monaghan, Roy D. Patterson, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 125 (2009), pp. 2374-2386.
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“Comparison of relative and absolute judgments of speaker size based on vowel sounds”, Thomas C. Walters, Phil A. Gomersall, Richard E. Turner, Roy D. Patterson, Proceedings of meetings on Acoustics, 2008.
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“Low-Dimensional, Auditory Feature Vectors that Improve VTL Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition”, Jessica J. M. Monaghan, Christian Feldbauer, Thomas C. Walters, Roy D. Patterson, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008, pp. 3066.
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“A computational auditory model with a nonlinear cochlea and acoustic scale normalization”, Toshio Irino, Thomas C. Walters, Roy D. Patterson, 19th International Congress on Acoustics, 2007.
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“Discrimination of speaker sex and size when glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length are controlled”, David R. R. Smith, Thomas C. Walters, Roy D. Patterson, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 122 (2007), pp. 3628-3639.
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“Judging sex and age: Effect of glottal-pulse rate, vocal-tract length and original talker”, David R. R. Smith, Thomas C. Walters, Roy D. Patterson, 19th International Congress on Acoustics, 2007.
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“Size Information in the Production and Perception of Communication Sounds”, Roy D. Patterson, David R. R. Smith, Ralph van Dinther, Thomas C. Walters, Auditory Perception of Sound Sources, 2007.
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“Extracting a carrier-independent version of the syllabic message: The principles”, Roy D. Patterson, Thomas C. Walters, Toshio Irino, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005, pp. 2373.
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