Shikha Baghel

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Friday, December 1, 2023

Professional Experience: 

Assistant Professor, ECE Department, NITK Surathkal Dec. 2023-Present

Contact Details

Personal Website: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shikha-baghel-7aa96432/

E-mail: 

shikhabaghel@nitk.edu.in
Academic Background

Ph.D. (Signal Processing) (2022), Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
M. Tech. (Wireless Communication and Computing) (2015) ,Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
B. Tech. (Electronics and Communication Engineering) (2012), Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow

Areas of Interest

Speech and Signal processing, Speaker and Language Diarization, Overlapped Speech Detection, Dialect Identification, Speech Type Classification, Deep Learning and Machine Learning

Significant Publications
Journals 
 
  1. S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna, and P. Guha, “Exploration of Excitation Source Information for Shouted and Normal Speech Classification”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), vol. 147, no. 2, pp. 1250-1261, 2020.
  2. S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna, and P. Guha, “Overlapped speech detection using phase features”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), vol. 150, no. 4, pp. 2770-2781, 2021.
  3. M. Tzudir, S. Baghel, P. Sarmah, and S. R. M. Prasanna, “Exploration of an Under-Resourced Dialect Identification in Ao using Source Information”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), vol. 152, no. 3, pp. 1755–1766, 2022.
Conferences
 
  1. M. Bhattacharjee, S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna, “Driver Speech Detection in Real Driving Scenario”, in Proc. International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Nov. 2023.
  2. S. Baghel, S. Ramoji, Sidharth, Ranjana H, P. Singh, S. Jain, P. Roy Chowdhuri, K. Kulkarni, S. Padhi, D. Vijayasenan, S. Ganapathy, “DISPLACE Challenge: DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments”, INTERSPEECH, Aug. 2023, pp. 3562–3566.
  3. S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna, and P. Guha, “Overlapped Speech Detection Using AM-FM based Representations”, in Proc. International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Nov. 2022, pp. 33–43.
  4. M. Tzudir, S. Baghel, P. Sarmah, and S. R. M. Prasanna, “Analyzing RMFCC Feature for Dialect Identification in Ao, an Under-Resourced Language”, in Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), May 2022, pp. 308–313.
  5. S. Baghel, M. Bhattacharjee, S. R. M. Prasanna and P. Guha, “Automatic Detection of Shouted Speech Segments in Indian News Debates”, in Proc. INTERSPEECH, Sept. 2021, pp. 4179-4183.
  6. M. Tzudir, S. Baghel, P. Sarmah, and S. R. M. Prasanna, “Excitation Source Feature Based Dialect Identification in Ao - a Low Resource Language”, in Proc. INTERSPEECH, Sept. 2021, pp. 1524-1528.
  7. S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna, and P. Guha, “Effect of High-Energy Voiced Speech Segments and Speaker Gender on Shouted Speech Detection”, in Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Kanpur and IIT Roorkee, July 2021, pp. 1-6.
  8. S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna, and P. Guha, “Overlapped/Non-Overlapped Speech Transition Point Detection Using Bag-of-Audio-Words”, in Proc. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), IISc-Bengaluru, India, July 2020, pp. 1-5.
  9. S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna, and P. Guha, “Analysis of Excitation Source Characteristics for Shouted and Normal Speech Classification”, in Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT-Kharagpur, India, Feb 2020, pp. 1-6.
  10. S. Baghel, M. Bhattacharjee, S. R. M. Prasanna and P. Guha, “Shouted and Normal Speech Classification using 1D CNN”, in Proc. Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), Tezpur University, India, Dec 2019, pp. 472-480.
  11. S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna and P. Guha, “Excitation Source Feature for Discriminating Shouted and Normal Speech”, in Proc. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), IISc-Bengaluru, India, July 2018, pp. 167-171.
  12. S. Baghel, S. R. M. Prasanna and P. Guha, “Classification of Multi Speaker Shouted Speech and Single Speaker Normal Speech”, in Proc. IEEE Region 10 Conference, (TENCON), Penang, Malaysia, Nov. 2017, pp. 2388-2392.
  13. S. Baghel, B. K. Khonglah, S. R. M. Prasanna and P. Guha, “Shouted / Normal Speech Classification using Speech-Specific Features”, in Proc. IEEE Region 10 Conference, (TENCON), Singapore, Nov. 2016, pp. 1655-1659.

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