Dr Bob Lawlor

    Electronic Engineering, ALL Institute, Human Health Institute

    Lecturer
    Assistant Professor

    Engineering Building
    E3.04
    (01) 708 6199

    Biography

    Bob is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University. He spent the early years of his professional career as a research and development engineer with Sony Corp in the UK and Japan. His specific research interests include digital signal processing and problem-based learning (PBL). He currently co-chairs the national enquiry and problem-based learning network, Facilitate.

    Research Interests

    Digital Signal Processing Speech Processing Audio Signal Processing Audio Time-Scale Modification English as a Foreign Language English as a Second Language Language Teaching and Learning Computer Assisted Language Learning Project & Problem Based Learning

    Research Projects

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    Interdisciplinary Communication Skills Training PI 01/09/2013 31/08/2014
    CaraMagic Consultancy PI 23/07/2013 22/09/2013
    Caramagic AIT NUIM Research Agreement PI 20/05/2013 30/06/2013
    Blue Bee Ltd - Fast-track Innovation Voucher PI 01/11/2010 31/01/2011

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2006 Dorran D.; Lawlor R.; Coyle E. (2006) 'A hybrid time-frequency domain approach to audio time-scale modification'. AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 54 (1-2):21-31. [Full-Text]
    1994 Lawlor, R. (1994) 'Digital Filters Simplified'. Electronics World, .
    1999 Lawlor B., Fagan, A.D. (1999) 'A Novel Efficient Algorithm for Music Transposition'. The International Journal of Music and Technology - Organised Sound, 4 :161-167. [Full-Text]
    1993 Ito, S.E., Lawlor, B., Ebihara. N. (1993) 'Development of a Crosstalk Measurement Type Three-Dimensional Digital Color Decoder'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 39 . [Full-Text]
    2005 Ringwood J.; Devitt F.; Doherty S.; Farrell R.; Lawlor B.; McLoone S.; Rogers A.; Villing R.; Ward T. (2005) 'A resource management tool for implementing strategic direction in an academic department'. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 27 (2):273-283. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2010 Lawlor, B; Donnelly, R (2010) 'Using podcasts to support communication skills development: A case study for content format preferences among postgraduate research students'. Computers and Education, 54 :962-971. [DOI] [Full-Text]

    Other Journal

    Year Publication
    1994 Lawlor, R. (1994) 'Digital Filters Simplified' Electronics World and Wireless World, .
    1994 Lawlor, R. (1994) 'Digital Filters Simplified' Electronics World and Wireless World, .

    Conference Publication

    Year Publication
    2002 Jung E.; Schwarzbacher A.; Lawlor R. (2002) International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP Implementation of real-time AMDF pitch-detection for voice gender normalisation [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2003 Dorran D.; Lawlor R. (2003) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Time-scale modification of music using a subband approach based on the bark scale [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2003 Dorran D.; Lawlor R.; Coyle E. (2003) ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings High quality time-scale modification of speech using a peak alignment overlap-add algorithm (PAOLA) [Full-Text]
    2004 Dorran D.; Lawlor R. (2004) ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings Time-scale modification of music using a synchronized subband/time-domain approach [Full-Text]
    2005 Dorran D.; Lawlor R.; Coyle E. (2005) Audio Engineering Society - 119th Convention Fall Preprints 2005 Multi-channel audio time-scale modification [Full-Text]
    2005 Dorran D.; Coyle E.; Lawlor R. (2005) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Audio time-scale modification using a hybrid time-frequency domain approach [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2006 Cahill N.; Cooney R.; Humphreys K.; Lawlor R. (2006) Audio Engineering Society - 121st Convention Papers 2006 Speech source enhancement using a Modified ADRess algorithm for applications in mobile communications
    2006 Cooney R.; Cahill N.; Lawlor R. (2006) Audio Engineering Society - 121st Convention Papers 2006 An enhanced implementation of the ADRess (Azimuth Discrimination and Resynthesis) music source separation algorithm
    2006 Dorran D.; Lawlor R.; Coyle E. (2006) Audio Engineering Society - 120th Convention Spring Preprints 2006 A comparison of time-domain time-scale modification algorithms [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill N.; Lawlor R. (2008) Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2008 An approach to doubletalk detection based on non-negative matrix factorization [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill, N; Lawlor, R (2008) 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-12 A novel approach to mixed phase room impulse response inversion for speech dereverberation [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill, N; Lawlor, R (2008) ISSPIT: 8TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SIGNAL PROCESSING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AN APPROACH TO DOUBLETALK DETECTION BASED ON NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill N.; Lawlor R. (2008) ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings A novel approach to mixed phase room impulse response inversion for speech dereverberation [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill N.; Lawlor R. (2008) European Signal Processing Conference A novel approach to Acoustic Echo cancellation [Full-Text]
    2004 Gainza, M., Lawlor, B. and Coyle, E. (2004) Irish Signals and Systems Conference Onset Detection and Music Transcription for the Irish Tin Whistle [Full-Text]
    2005 Mikel Gainza, Bob Lawlor, Eugene Coyle (2005) 47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005, on Multimedia Systems and Applications Multi pitch estimation by using modified IIR Comb Filters [Full-Text]
    2004 Barry, D. and Lawlor, R. and Coyle E. (2004) Proc. 117th Audio Engineering Society Convention Real-time Sound Source Separation using Azimuth Discrimination and Resynthesis [Full-Text]
    2003 D. FitzGerald, E. Coyle, B. Lawlor. (2003) 114th Audio Engineering Society Conference Prior Subspace Analysis for Drum Transcription [Full-Text]
    2005 Aileen Kelleher, Derry Fitzgerald, Mikel Gainza, Eugene Coyle, Bob Lawlor (2005) Audio Engineering Society, 118th Convention Onset Detection, Music Transcription, and Ornament Detection for the Traditional Irish Fiddle
    2003 FitzGerald, D., Lawlor, B. and Coyle, E. (2003) Proceedings of the DigitalAudio Effects Conference (DAFX03) Independent Subspace Analysis using Locally Linear Embedding [Full-Text]
    2002 K. Humphreys and R. Lawlor (2002) International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Improved performance Speech codec for mobile communications [Full-Text]
    2002 E. Jung, A. Schwarzbacher, R. Lawlor (2002) 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing Implementation of Real-Time AMDF Pitch-Detection for Voice Gender Normalisation [Full-Text]
    2003 David Dorran, Bob Lawlor, Eugene Coyle (2003) International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signals Processing, ICASSP 2003 High Quality Time-Scale Modification of Speech Using a Peak Alignment Overlap-Add Algorithm (PAOLA) [Full-Text]
    1998 B. Lawlor, A. Fagan. (1998) Irish Signals and Systems Conference Time-scale modification of speech by zero-crossing rate overlap-add (ZCR-OLA)
    2004 Lawlor, E., Farrell. R. (2004) Integrated Circuit Test Workshop Embedded Test Engine for Efficient At-Speed Scan Testing and Performance Binning of Microprocessors [Full-Text]
    2003 FitzGerald, D., Lawlor, B. and Coyle, E. (2003) Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for MultimediaInteractive Services Drum Transcription Using Automatic Grouping of Events and Prior Subspace Analysis [Full-Text]
    2004 Gainza, M., Lawlor, B. and Coyle, E. (2004) Proc. 117th Audio Engineering Society Convention Harmonic Sound Source Separation Using FIR Comb Filters [Full-Text]
    2005 Dan Barry, Derry Fitzgerald, Eugene Coyle, Bob Lawlor (2005) Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2005 Drum Source Separation using Percussive Feature Detection and Spectral Modulation [Full-Text]
    2006 Cahill N., Cooney R., Humphreys K., and Lawlor R (2006) IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference Demixing of Speech Mixtures and Enhancement of Noisy Speech Using ADRess Algorithm [Full-Text]
    2005 David Dorran, Eugene Coyle, Robert Lawlor (2005) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Audio Time-Scale Modification Using a Hybrid Time-Domain/Frequency-Domain Approach [Full-Text]
    2002 Kenneth Humphreys and Robert Lawlor (2002) Irish Signals and Systems Conference Application of Voice Gender Normalisation (VGN) to Speech Coding for Mobile Communications
    2002 E. Jung, R. Lawlor (2002) Irish Signals and Systems Conference Application of Real-Time Time-Scale and Frequency-Scale Modification Algorithms to Voice Gender Normalisation
    2002 E. Jung, A. Schwarzbacher, K. Humphreys, R. Lawlor (2002) International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Application of Real-time AMDF Pitch Detection in a Voice Gender Normalisation System [Full-Text]
    2006 Rory Cooney , Niall Cahill , and Robert Lawlor (2006) Audio Engineering Society 121st Convention An Enhanced implementation of the ADRess (Azimuth Discrimination and Resynthesis) Music Source Separation Algorithm
    2004 Dorran D., Lawlor, R. (2004) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Time-scale modification of music using a synchronized subband/time-domain approach [Full-Text]
    1994 R. Lawlor, et. al. (1994) Irish Digital Signal Processing and Control Colloquium (IDSPCC '94) Time-Frequency Signal Analysis
    2002 Derry FitzGerald, Eugene Coyle, Bob Lawlor (2002) Proc. of the 5th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX-02) Sub-band Independent Subspace Analysis for Drum Transcription [Full-Text]
    2004 Barry, D., Lawlor, R. and Coyle E. (2004) Proc. 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFX 04 Sound Source Separation: Azimuth Discrimination and Resynthesis [Full-Text]
    2005 Dan Barry, Derry Fitzgerald, Eugene Coyle and Bob Lawlor (2005) Audio Engineering Society 119th Convention Single Channel Source Separation using Short-time Independent Component Analysis [Full-Text]
    2006 Niall Cahill, Rory Cooney, Kenneth Humphreys and Robert Lawlor (2006) Audio Engineering Society 121st Convention Speech Source Enhancement using a Modified ADRess Algorithm for Applications in Mobile Communications
    2004 Dorran D., Lawlor, R. and Coyle E. (2004) Proc. 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFX An efficient phasiness reduction technique for moderate audio time-scale modification [Full-Text]
    2008 N. Cahill and R. Lawlor (2008) IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (IEEE ISSPIT-08) An approach to Doubletalk Detection based on Non-Negative Matrix Factorisation [Full-Text]
    1999 Lawlor B., Fagan, A.D. (1999) Eurospeech 99, 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology A Novel High Quality Efficient Algorithm for Time-Scale Modification of Speech [Full-Text]
    1999 Lawlor B., Fagan, A.D. (1999) 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS A novel efficient algorithm for voice gender conversion [Full-Text]
    1999 Lawlor B., Fagan, A.D (1999) Irish Signals and Systems Conference A Novel Efficient Algorithm for Audio Time-Scale Modification
    2008 Cahill, N. Lawlor, R. (2008) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) A novel approach to mixed phase room impulse response inversion for speech dereverberation [Full-Text]
    2008 N. Cahill and R. Lawlor (2008) European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO-08) A novel approach to acoustic echo cancellation [Full-Text]
    2006 D. Dorran, B. Lawlor, E. Coyle (2006) Audio Engineering Society A Hybrid Time-Frequency Domain Approach to Audio Time-Scale Modification [Full-Text]
    1996 R. Lawlor, B Murray. (1996) Irish Digital Signal Processing and Control Colloquium (IDSPCC '96) A Joint Time-Frequency approach to time-scale modification of audio signals
    2004 Gainza M.; Lawlor B.; Coyle E. (2004) 2004 7th International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP Onset based audio segmentation for the irish tin whistle [Full-Text]
    2004 Gainza M.; Lawlor B.; Coyle E. (2004) International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP Onset based audio segmentation for the irish tin whistle [Full-Text]
    2005 Barry D.; Fitzgerald D.; Coyle E.; Lawlor B. (2005) IEE Conference Publication Drum source separation using percussive feature detection and spectral modulation [Full-Text]
    2005 Gainza M.; Lawlor B.; Coyle E. (2005) Proceedings Elmar - International Symposium Electronics in Marine Multi pitch estimation by using modified IIR comb filters [Full-Text]
    2005 Barry D.; Lawlor B.; Coyle E. (2005) Audio Engineering Society - 118th Convention Spring Preprints 2005 Comparison of signal reconstruction methods for the azimuth discrimination and resynthesis algorithm [Full-Text]
    2005 Gainza M.; Coyle E.; Lawlor B. (2005) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Onset detection using comb filters [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2005 Barry D.; Fitzgerald D.; Coyle E.; Lawlor B. (2005) Audio Engineering Society - 119th Convention Fall Preprints 2005 Single channel source separation using short-time Independent Component Analysis [Full-Text]
    2005 Kelleher A.; Fitzgerald D.; Gainza M.; Coyle E.; Lawlor B. (2005) Audio Engineering Society - 118th Convention Spring Preprints 2005 Onset detection, music transcription and ornament detection for the traditional Irish fiddle
    2014 McLoone S.; Lawlor B.; Meehan A. (2014) IET Conference Publications On project oriented problem based learning (POPBL) for a first year engineering circuits project [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill N.; Lawlor R. (2008) European Signal Processing Conference A novel approach to Acoustic Echo cancellation [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill, N; Lawlor, R (2008) ISSPIT: 8TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SIGNAL PROCESSING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AN APPROACH TO DOUBLETALK DETECTION BASED ON NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill N.; Lawlor R. (2008) ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings A novel approach to mixed phase room impulse response inversion for speech dereverberation [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill N.; Lawlor R. (2008) Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2008 An approach to doubletalk detection based on non-negative matrix factorization [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill, N; Lawlor, R (2008) 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-12 A novel approach to mixed phase room impulse response inversion for speech dereverberation [Full-Text]
    2006 Dorran D.; Lawlor R.; Coyle E. (2006) Audio Engineering Society - 120th Convention Spring Preprints 2006 A comparison of time-domain time-scale modification algorithms [Full-Text]
    2006 Cahill N.; Cooney R.; Humphreys K.; Lawlor R. (2006) Audio Engineering Society - 121st Convention Papers 2006 Speech source enhancement using a Modified ADRess algorithm for applications in mobile communications
    2006 Cooney R.; Cahill N.; Lawlor R. (2006) Audio Engineering Society - 121st Convention Papers 2006 An enhanced implementation of the ADRess (Azimuth Discrimination and Resynthesis) music source separation algorithm
    2005 Dorran D.; Coyle E.; Lawlor R. (2005) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Audio time-scale modification using a hybrid time-frequency domain approach [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2005 Dorran D.; Lawlor R.; Coyle E. (2005) Audio Engineering Society - 119th Convention Fall Preprints 2005 Multi-channel audio time-scale modification [Full-Text]
    2004 Gainza M.; Lawlor B.; Coyle E. (2004) 2004 7th International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP Onset based audio segmentation for the irish tin whistle [Full-Text]
    2004 Dorran D.; Lawlor R. (2004) ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings Time-scale modification of music using a synchronized subband/time-domain approach [Full-Text]
    2003 Dorran D.; Lawlor R. (2003) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Time-scale modification of music using a subband approach based on the bark scale [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2003 Dorran D.; Lawlor R.; Coyle E. (2003) ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings High quality time-scale modification of speech using a peak alignment overlap-add algorithm (PAOLA) [Full-Text]
    2002 Jung E.; Schwarzbacher A.; Lawlor R. (2002) International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP Implementation of real-time AMDF pitch-detection for voice gender normalisation [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2004 Gainza M.; Lawlor B.; Coyle E. (2004) International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP Onset based audio segmentation for the irish tin whistle [Full-Text]
    2005 Barry D.; Fitzgerald D.; Coyle E.; Lawlor B. (2005) IEE Conference Publication Drum source separation using percussive feature detection and spectral modulation [Full-Text]
    2005 Gainza M.; Lawlor B.; Coyle E. (2005) Proceedings Elmar - International Symposium Electronics in Marine Multi pitch estimation by using modified IIR comb filters [Full-Text]
    2005 Barry D.; Lawlor B.; Coyle E. (2005) Audio Engineering Society - 118th Convention Spring Preprints 2005 Comparison of signal reconstruction methods for the azimuth discrimination and resynthesis algorithm [Full-Text]
    2005 Gainza M.; Coyle E.; Lawlor B. (2005) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Onset detection using comb filters [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2005 Barry D.; Fitzgerald D.; Coyle E.; Lawlor B. (2005) Audio Engineering Society - 119th Convention Fall Preprints 2005 Single channel source separation using short-time Independent Component Analysis [Full-Text]
    2005 Kelleher A.; Fitzgerald D.; Gainza M.; Coyle E.; Lawlor B. (2005) Audio Engineering Society - 118th Convention Spring Preprints 2005 Onset detection, music transcription and ornament detection for the traditional Irish fiddle
    2014 McLoone S.; Lawlor B.; Meehan A. (2014) IET Conference Publications On project oriented problem based learning (POPBL) for a first year engineering circuits project [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2008 N. Cahill and R. Lawlor (2008) European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO-08) A novel approach to acoustic echo cancellation [Full-Text]
    2008 N. Cahill and R. Lawlor (2008) IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (IEEE ISSPIT-08) An approach to Doubletalk Detection based on Non-Negative Matrix Factorisation [Full-Text]
    2008 Cahill, N. Lawlor, R. (2008) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) A novel approach to mixed phase room impulse response inversion for speech dereverberation [Full-Text]
    2006 Rory Cooney , Niall Cahill , and Robert Lawlor (2006) Audio Engineering Society 121st Convention An Enhanced implementation of the ADRess (Azimuth Discrimination and Resynthesis) Music Source Separation Algorithm
    2006 Niall Cahill, Rory Cooney, Kenneth Humphreys and Robert Lawlor (2006) Audio Engineering Society 121st Convention Speech Source Enhancement using a Modified ADRess Algorithm for Applications in Mobile Communications
    2006 Cahill N., Cooney R., Humphreys K., and Lawlor R (2006) IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference Demixing of Speech Mixtures and Enhancement of Noisy Speech Using ADRess Algorithm [Full-Text]
    2006 D. Dorran, B. Lawlor, E. Coyle (2006) Audio Engineering Society A Hybrid Time-Frequency Domain Approach to Audio Time-Scale Modification [Full-Text]
    2005 Aileen Kelleher, Derry Fitzgerald, Mikel Gainza, Eugene Coyle, Bob Lawlor (2005) Audio Engineering Society, 118th Convention Onset Detection, Music Transcription, and Ornament Detection for the Traditional Irish Fiddle
    2005 Dan Barry, Derry Fitzgerald, Eugene Coyle, Bob Lawlor (2005) Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2005 Drum Source Separation using Percussive Feature Detection and Spectral Modulation [Full-Text]
    2005 Mikel Gainza, Bob Lawlor, Eugene Coyle (2005) 47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005, on Multimedia Systems and Applications Multi pitch estimation by using modified IIR Comb Filters [Full-Text]
    2005 Dan Barry, Derry Fitzgerald, Eugene Coyle and Bob Lawlor (2005) Audio Engineering Society 119th Convention Single Channel Source Separation using Short-time Independent Component Analysis [Full-Text]
    2005 David Dorran, Eugene Coyle, Robert Lawlor (2005) IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Audio Time-Scale Modification Using a Hybrid Time-Domain/Frequency-Domain Approach [Full-Text]
    2004 Gainza, M., Lawlor, B. and Coyle, E. (2004) Irish Signals and Systems Conference Onset Detection and Music Transcription for the Irish Tin Whistle [Full-Text]
    2004 Barry, D., Lawlor, R. and Coyle E. (2004) Proc. 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFX 04 Sound Source Separation: Azimuth Discrimination and Resynthesis [Full-Text]
    2004 Barry, D. and Lawlor, R. and Coyle E. (2004) Proc. 117th Audio Engineering Society Convention Real-time Sound Source Separation using Azimuth Discrimination and Resynthesis [Full-Text]
    2004 Gainza, M., Lawlor, B. and Coyle, E. (2004) Proc. 117th Audio Engineering Society Convention Harmonic Sound Source Separation Using FIR Comb Filters [Full-Text]
    2004 Lawlor, E., Farrell. R. (2004) Integrated Circuit Test Workshop Embedded Test Engine for Efficient At-Speed Scan Testing and Performance Binning of Microprocessors [Full-Text]
    2004 Dorran D., Lawlor, R. and Coyle E. (2004) Proc. 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFX An efficient phasiness reduction technique for moderate audio time-scale modification [Full-Text]
    2004 Dorran D., Lawlor, R. (2004) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Time-scale modification of music using a synchronized subband/time-domain approach [Full-Text]
    2003 David Dorran, Bob Lawlor, Eugene Coyle (2003) International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signals Processing, ICASSP 2003 High Quality Time-Scale Modification of Speech Using a Peak Alignment Overlap-Add Algorithm (PAOLA) [Full-Text]
    2003 FitzGerald, D., Lawlor, B. and Coyle, E. (2003) Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for MultimediaInteractive Services Drum Transcription Using Automatic Grouping of Events and Prior Subspace Analysis [Full-Text]
    2003 D. FitzGerald, E. Coyle, B. Lawlor. (2003) 114th Audio Engineering Society Conference Prior Subspace Analysis for Drum Transcription [Full-Text]
    2003 FitzGerald, D., Lawlor, B. and Coyle, E. (2003) Proceedings of the DigitalAudio Effects Conference (DAFX03) Independent Subspace Analysis using Locally Linear Embedding [Full-Text]
    2002 Kenneth Humphreys and Robert Lawlor (2002) Irish Signals and Systems Conference Application of Voice Gender Normalisation (VGN) to Speech Coding for Mobile Communications
    2002 E. Jung, A. Schwarzbacher, R. Lawlor (2002) 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing Implementation of Real-Time AMDF Pitch-Detection for Voice Gender Normalisation [Full-Text]
    2002 Derry FitzGerald, Eugene Coyle, Bob Lawlor (2002) Proc. of the 5th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX-02) Sub-band Independent Subspace Analysis for Drum Transcription [Full-Text]
    2002 E. Jung, R. Lawlor (2002) Irish Signals and Systems Conference Application of Real-Time Time-Scale and Frequency-Scale Modification Algorithms to Voice Gender Normalisation
    2002 K. Humphreys and R. Lawlor (2002) International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Improved performance Speech codec for mobile communications [Full-Text]
    2002 E. Jung, A. Schwarzbacher, K. Humphreys, R. Lawlor (2002) International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Application of Real-time AMDF Pitch Detection in a Voice Gender Normalisation System [Full-Text]
    1999 Lawlor B., Fagan, A.D. (1999) Eurospeech 99, 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology A Novel High Quality Efficient Algorithm for Time-Scale Modification of Speech [Full-Text]
    1999 Lawlor B., Fagan, A.D (1999) Irish Signals and Systems Conference A Novel Efficient Algorithm for Audio Time-Scale Modification
    1999 Lawlor B., Fagan, A.D. (1999) 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS A novel efficient algorithm for voice gender conversion [Full-Text]
    1998 B. Lawlor, A. Fagan. (1998) Irish Signals and Systems Conference Time-scale modification of speech by zero-crossing rate overlap-add (ZCR-OLA)
    1996 R. Lawlor, B Murray. (1996) Irish Digital Signal Processing and Control Colloquium (IDSPCC '96) A Joint Time-Frequency approach to time-scale modification of audio signals
    1994 R. Lawlor, et. al. (1994) Irish Digital Signal Processing and Control Colloquium (IDSPCC '94) Time-Frequency Signal Analysis

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2007 (2007) A Blended-Learning Approach to Engineering Education International Symposium for Engineering Education 19/09/2007-.
    2006 (2006) Linking Research to Classroom Activity Irish Signals and Systems Conference 28/06/2006-30/06/2006.
    2007 (2007) A Blended-Learning Approach to Engineering Education International Symposium for Engineering Education 19/09/2007-.
    2006 (2006) Linking Research to Classroom Activity Irish Signals and Systems Conference 28/06/2006-30/06/2006.

    Technical Publication

    Year Publication
    1989 Ito, S.E. Oba, Y., Ebihara, N., Lawlor, R (1989) Development of improved Three Dimensional Digital Color Decoder for Digital Component Systems conforming to CCIR REC-601. [Technical Publication]
    1989 Ito, S.E. Oba, Y., Ebihara, N., Lawlor, R (1989) Development of improved Three Dimensional Digital Color Decoder for Digital Component Systems conforming to CCIR REC-601. [Technical Publication]
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    Honors and Awards

    Date Title Awarding Body
    01/05/1993 IEEE Chester Sall Award Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Consumer Electronics Society
    01/08/1994 International Design Competition Electronics World and Wireless World in conjunction with Xilinx UK Ltd.
    01/01/2012 Project Oriented and Problem-Based Learning (POPBL) NUI Maynooth Teaching Fellowship Award

    Committees

    Committee Function From / To
    Facilitate Co -Chair -

    Employment

    Employer Position From / To
    Sony Broadcast & Communications Senior Engineer - 31/03/1991
    Sony Broadcast Ltd Graduate Engineer - 31/10/1985
    Sony Corporation PLC Research & Development Engineer - 31/07/1990
    Sony Broadcast Ltd Research & Development Engineer - 31/01/1988
    NUI Maynooth Lecturer, Dept. of Electronic Engineering -

    Education

    Start date Institution Qualification Subject
    Dublin Institute of Technology M.Sc. Applied e-learning
    University College Dublin Ph.D.
    Dublin Institute of Technology B.Sc. Electronic Engineering
    Aalborg University, Denmark Masters Problem Based Learning in Engineering and Science
    Trinity College, University of Dublin M.Sc.