Doctor Ying Xu

Doctor Ying Xu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Auditory Neuromorphic Engineering,
International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD Western Sydney University

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems

Contact

Email: ying.xu@westernsydney.edu.au
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Location: Penrith (Werrington South)Penrith (Werrington South)

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Publications

Journal Articles

  • Xu, Y., Perera, S., Bethi, Y., Afshar, S. and Schaik, A. (2023), 'Event-driven spectrotemporal feature extraction and classification using a silicon cochlea model', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 17 .
  • Islam, M., Xu, Y., Monk, T., Afshar, S. and Schaik, A. (2022), 'Noise-robust text-dependent speaker identification using cochlear models', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 151, no 1 , pp 500 - 516.
  • Milde, M., Afshar, S., Xu, Y., Marcireau, A., Joubert, D., Ramesh, B., Bethi, Y., Ralph, N., El Arja, S., Dennler, N., Schaik, A. and Cohen, G. (2022), 'Neuromorphic engineering needs closed-loop benchmarks', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 16 .
  • Bethi, Y., Xu, Y., Cohen, G., Van Schaik, A. and Afshar, S. (2022), 'An optimized deep spiking neural network architecture without gradients', IEEE Access, vol 10 , pp 97912 - 97929.
  • Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Wang, R., Cohen, G., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T. and Schaik, A. (2021), 'A biologically inspired sound localisation system using a silicon cochlea pair', Applied Sciences, vol 11, no 4 .
  • Afshar, S., Ralph, N., Xu, Y., Tapson, J., Schaik, A. and Cohen, G. (2020), 'Event-based feature extraction using adaptive selection thresholds', Sensors, vol 20, no 6 .
  • Singh, R., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., Denham, S. and Schaik, A. (2019), 'CAR-Lite : a multi-rate cochlear model on FPGA for spike-based sound encoding', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol 66, no 5 , pp 1805 - 1817.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Singh, R., Hamilton, T., Wang, R. and van Schaik, A. (2018), 'A FPGA implementation of the CAR-FAC cochlear model', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol 12, no APR .

Conference Papers

  • Perera, S., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Schaik, A. and Wang, R. (2021), 'Live demonstration : an FPGA-based emulation of an event-based vision sensor using commercially available camera', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Daegu, Korea.
  • Islam, M., Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Monk, T. and Schaik, A. (2021), 'Investigation of auditory nerve model and conventional approaches in noise-robust speaker identification', International Conference on Frontiers of Signal Processing, online.
  • Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Singh, R., Wang, R., Schaik, A. and Hamilton, T. (2019), 'A binaural sound localization system using deep convolutional neural networks', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Singh, R., Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Wang, R., Hamilton, T., van Schaik, F. and Denham, S. (2018), 'CAR-Lite : a multi-rate cochlea model on FPGA', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Florence, Italy.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Afshar, S., Singh, R., Hamilton, T., Wang, R. and van Schaik, F. (2018), 'A machine hearing system for binaural sound localization based on instantaneous correlation', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Florence, Italy.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Singh, R., Wang, R., Tapson, J. and van Schaik, A. (2016), 'Electronic cochlea : CAR-FAC model on FPGA', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Shanghai, China.
  • Xu, Y., Xu, Y., Thakur, C., Hamilton, T., Tapson, J., Wang, R. and van Schaik, A. (2015), 'A reconfigurable mixed-signal implementation of a neuromorphic ADC', Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Atlanta, Ga..

Current Projects

Title: Develop a novel bio-inspired acoustic sensor for efficiently targeting and recording Koala calls
Funder:
  • Biodiversity Research Pty Ltd
Western Researchers: Saeed Afshar, Ying Xu and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2022-12-23 - 2024-04-15
ID: P00028441
Title: High-speed counting of black soldier flies for optimised waste recovery
Funder:
  • NSW Smart Sensing Network
  • ARC Ento Tech
Western Researchers: Alexandre Marcireau, Gregory Cohen, Ying Xu and Vijay Jayasena
Years: 2023-05-16 - 2024-06-01
ID: P00028777

Previous Projects

Title: Decoding audio-visual honeybee hive signals for waggle dance detection and hive health monitoring
Funder:
  • Eva Crane Trust
Western Researchers: James Makinson, Ying Xu, Saeed Afshar and James Cook
Years: 2021-02-01 - 2021-12-31
ID: P00026952
Title: A feasibility study for the development of a sensor-processor system to detect Koala bellows
Funder:
  • Biodiversity Research Pty Ltd
Western Researchers: Ying Xu, Saeed Afshar and Andre Van Schaik
Years: 2022-01-17 - 2022-03-31
ID: P00027733

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