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School of Electrical & Computer Engineering 
ZIGEL, YANIV

Born: 1970, Israel 

B.Sc.: 1992, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 

M.Sc.: 1998, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Ph.D.: 2004, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Research Interests: Signal processing; Speech and Audio signal processing, Biomedical signal processing. Statistical Pattern Recognition; Speaker recognition, Speech recognition. Compression and Coding of digital signals. Algorithm development. 

E-mail: Yaniv.zigel@gmail.com, yaniv@bgu.ac.il

Recent Publications:

Textbooks

1. Yaniv Zigel, Digital Systems: exercise textbook, Ben-Gurion University, 1998 (in Hebrew)

 

Journals/Transactions

1. A. Cohen and Y. Zigel, "Compression of Multichannel ECG Through Multichannel Long Term Prediction," IEEE BME magazine, Vol. 17, pp. 109-115, 1998.

2. Zigel, Y., Cohen, A. and Kats, A., "ECG Signal Compression Using Analysis by Synthesis Coding," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Eng., vol. 47, pp. 1308-1316, Oct. 2000.

3. Zigel, Y., Cohen, A. and Kats, A., "The Weighted Diagnostic Distortion (WDD) Measure for ECG Signal Compression," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Eng., vol. 47, pp. 1422-1430, Nov. 2000.

4. Zigel, Y and Cohen, A. “Feature Selection for Speaker Verification,” submitted to IEEE Trans. on speech and audio processing, 2006.

 

Full-Length Refereed Conference Papers

1. Y. Zigel , A. Cohen and A. Katz, "A diagnostic meaningful distortion measure for ECG compression," Proc. 19th Conv. Of Electrical & Electronic Eng. In Israel, pp. 117-120, 1996.

2. Y. Zigel, A. Cohen, A. Abu-Ful, A. Wagshal, and A. Katz, "Analysis by Synthesis ECG Signal Compression," Computers in Cardiology 1997, Vol. 24, pp. 279-282, 1997.

3. Zigel Y. and Cohen A., "On the optimal distortion measure for ECG
compression," EMBEC'99, Vienna, pp. 1618-1619, Nov. 1999.

4. A. Cohen and Y. Zigel, “On Feature Selection for Speaker Verification,” Proceedings of COST 275 workshop on The Advent of Biometrics on the Internet, Nov. 2002.

5. Y. Zigel and A. Cohen, “On Cohort Selection for Speaker Verification,” Proc. of Eurospeech 2003, pp. 2977-2980, Geneva, 2003.

6. Y. Zigel and A. Cohen, “Text-Dependent Speaker Verification Using Feature Selection with Recognition Related Criterion,” Proc. Odyssey 2004 The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, pp. 329-336, Toledo, 2004.

7. Y. Zigel and M. Wasserblat, “How to Deal with Multiple Targets in Speaker Identification systems?,” Odyssey 2006 The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, San Juan, 2006.

 

Conference Proceedings, Abstract and Technical Reports

1. Yaniv Zigel, Arnon Cohen, and Amos Katz, “ECG Signal Compression using Analysis by Synthesis Coding,” Annual meeting, Israeli Society for Medical and Biological Eng., Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1999.

2. Yaniv Zigel and Arnon Cohen, “Feature Selection for Speaker Recognition in Audio Browsing,” Models for Unified Multimedia Information Retrieval (MOUMIR) meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 2001.

3. Arnon Cohen and Yaniv Zigel, “Feature Selection in Speaker Verification Systems,” IBM’s Speech Technology Seminar 2003, Haifa, Israel, 2003.

 

Other papers

1.       Zigel, Y., Cohen, A. and Kats, A., "The Weighted Diagnostic Distortion (WDD) Measure for ECG Signal Compression," Yearbook of Medical Informatics, pp. 465-468, 2002.

 

Patents

1. M. Wasserblat, Y. Zigel, and O. Pereg, “Method and Apparatus for Speaker Spotting,” patent pending, Filed Nov. 2004.

2. Y. Zigel and M. Wasserblat, “Method and Apparatus for Large-Population Speaker Identification System in Telephone-Interactions,” 2006.

 

M.Sc. Thesis - ECG Signal Compression, 1998

Ph.D. Thesis –Feature Selection for Speaker Recognition, 2004

 

REVIEWER:

Journals:

·         IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

·         Journal Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC)

·         EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

·         BioMedical Engineering OnLine

Conferences:

  • 5th International Conference on Technology and Automation (ICTA’05) (http://icta05.teithe.gr/reviewers.htm)

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