The University of Southampton

Professor Robert Damper 

Publications

Subari, K.S., Shadle, C.H., Barney, A. and Damper, R.I. (2004) Comparison of fricative vocal tract transfer functions derived using two different segmentation techniques. International Conference on Signal Processing 2004, Istanbul, Turkey. 17 - 19 Dec 2004. 4 pp .

Damper, R.I., Tranchant, M.A. and Lewis, S.M. (1996) Speech versus keying in command and control: effect of concurrent tasking. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 45 (3), 337-348. (doi:10.1006/ijhc.1996.0055).

Chen, Y.Q., Damper, R.I. and Nixon, M.S. (1997) On neural network implementations of k-nearest neighbour pattern classifiers. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 44 (7), 622--629.

Damper, R. I., Gore, M. O. and Harnad, S. (1996) Acoustic and auditory representations of the voicing contrast. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100 (4/2), 2682.

Adamson, M. J. and Damper, R. I. (1996) Recurrent networks for English text-to-phoneme conversion. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 18 (9), 27-34.

Damper, R. I., Garner, D., Jordan, G., Rahman, A. and Saunders, C. (1996) A barcode-scanner aid for visually-impaired people. 18th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. pp. 397-398 .

Middleton, I. and Damper, R. I. (1996) Identification of the lung boundary in MR images using neural networks. 18th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. pp. 1085-1086 .

Adamson, M. J. and Damper, R. I . (1996) A recurrent network that learns to pronounce English text. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'96). pp. 1704-1707 .

Damper, R. I., Tranchant, M. A. and Lewis, S. M. (1996) Speech versus keying in command and control: effect of concurrent tasking. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 45 (3), 337--348.

Chen, Y. Q., Nixon, M. S. and Damper, R. I. (1995) Implementing the k-nearest neighbour rule via a neural network. International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'95). 136--140 .

Middleton, I. and Damper, R. I. (1995) Segmentation of magnetic resonance images of the thorax by back-propagation. International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'95). pp. 2490-2494 .

Finan, R. A., Sapeluk, A. T. and Damper, R. I. (1996) Comparison of multilayer and radial basis function neural networks for text-dependent speaker recognition. International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'96). 1992--1997 .

Damper, R. I. and Eastmond., J. F. G. (1996) Pronouncing text by analogy. 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'96). 268--273 .

Luk, R. W. P. and Damper, R. I. (1996) Stochastic phonographic transduction for English. Computer Speech and Language, 10 (2), 133--153.

Damper, R. I., Harnad, S. and Gore, M. O. (1996) The auditory basis of the perception of voicing. ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on the Auditory Basis of Speech Perception. 69--74 .

Pont, M.J. and Damper, R.I. (1991) A computational model of afferent neural activity from the cochlea to the dorsal acoustic stria. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 89, 1213--1228.

Emmerson, M.D. and Damper, R.I. (1993) Determining and improving the fault tolerance of multi-layer perceptrons in a pattern-recognition application. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 4, 788-793.

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1990) Syntactic neural networks. Connection Science, 2, 195-221.

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1990) Signature verification with a syntactic neural net. Proc. Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks. pp. 373-378 .

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1990) Text-phonetics translation using syntactic neural nets. Proc. 1st Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis. pp. 87-90 .

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Syntactic neural networks. Sharkey, N.E. (ed.) Connectionist Natural Language Processing: Readings from Connection Science. pp. 56-82 .

Emmerson, M. D., Damper, R. I., Hey, A. J. G. and Upstill, C. (1991) Fault tolerance and redundancy of a neural net for the classification of acoustic data. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP '91), Toronto, Canada. pp. 1061-1064 .

Emmerson, M. D. and Damper, R. I. (1992) Relations between fault tolerance and internal representations for multi-layer perceptrons. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'92). 281--284 .

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1992) A connectionist approach to text-phonemics translation using syntactic neural networks. Proc. Symposium on Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputing. pp. 25-36 .

Luk, R. W. P. and Damper, R. I. (1994) A review of stochastic transduction. 2nd ESCA /IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis. 248--251 .

Sullivan, K.P.H. and Damper, R.I. (1993) Novel-word pronunciation: a cross-language study. Speech Communication, 13, 441--452.

Turnbull, J.M., Sapeluk, A.T. and Damper, R.I. (1990) A new computer-based speech therapy tutor offering immediate and deferred visual feedback. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 12 (10), 63.

Damper, R.I. and Burgess, N. (1990) Path algebras for CMOS circuit testing. Facta Universitatis, Series: Electronics and Energetics, University of Nis, Yugoslavia, 3, 47-54.

Damper, R. I., Pont, M. J. and Elenius, K. (1990) Representation of initial stop consonants in a computational model of the dorsal cochlear nucleus. Speech Transmission Laboratory, Quarterly Progress and Status Report, (STL-QP), 7-41.

Damper, R.I. and Leedham, C.G. (1992) Human factors. Rowden, C.G. (ed.) Speech Processing. 360--393 .

Scutt, T.W. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Object-oriented modelling of small neuronal systems. Quarterly Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 80, 24--33.

Luk, R.W.P. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Inference of letter-phoneme correspondences using generalised stochastic transducers. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 14 (6), 519--522.

Damper, R. I., Hall, W. and Richards, J. W. , Damper, R. I., Hall, W. and Richards, J. W. (eds.) (1994) Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications , Pentech Press

Damper, R. I. (1995) Introduction to Discrete-Time Signals and Systems , Chapman and Hall

Damper, R.I. (1990) Speech aids for the handicapped. Ainsworth, W.A. (ed.) Advances in Speech, Hearing and Language Processing. 297--331 .

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Syntactic neural networks in VLSI. Moore, W.R. and Delgado-Frias, J.G. (eds.) Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks. 305--314 .

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Syntactic neural networks for bidirectional text-phonetics translation. Bailly, G. and Benoit, C. (eds.) Talking Machines: Theories, Models and Applications. 127--141 .

Sullivan, K.P.H. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Novel-word pronunciation within a text-to-speech system. Bailly, G. and Benoit, C. (eds.) Talking Machines: Theories, Models and Applications. 183--195 .

Pont, M.J. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Exploring the role of the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the perception of voice-onset time. Ainsworth, W.A. (ed.) Advances in Speech, Hearing and Language Processing. 135--166 .

Damper, R. I. (1993) Speech as an interface medium: how can it best be used? In, Baber, C. and Noyes, J. M. (eds.) Interactive Speech Technology: Human Factors Issues in the Application of Speech Input/Output to Computers. Interactive Speech Technology: Human Factors Issues in the Application of Speech Input/Output to Computers (01/01/93) Taylor and Francis, pp. 59-71.

Sullivan, K.P.H. and Damper, R.I. (1990) A psychologically-governed approach to novel-word pronunciation within a text-to-speech system. Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 341--344 .

Turnbull, J.M., Sapeluk, A.T. and Damper, R.I. (1990) Pole tracking in a vowel trainer for speech therapy. Int. Conf. Control. 117--120 .

Sullivan, K.P.H. and Damper, R.I. (1990) Novel-word pronunciation within a text-to-speech system. Proc. Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis. 97--100 .

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1991) Application of syntactic neural nets to text-phonetics conversion. Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 509--512 .

Luk, R.W.P. and Damper, R.I. (1991) A novel approach to inferring letter-phoneme correspondences. Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 741--744 .

Sullivan, K.P.H. and Damper, R.I. (1991) Speech synthesis by analogy: recent advances and results. Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 761--764 .

Scutt, T.W. and Damper, R.I. (1991) Computational modelling of small neuronal systems. Proc. Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks. 430--435 .

Luk, R.W.P. and Damper, R.I. (1991) Stochastic transduction for English text-to-phoneme conversion. Proc. Eurospeech '91. 779--782 .

Luk, R.W.P. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Inferencing of letter-phoneme correspondences by delimiting and dynamic time warping techniques. Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 61--64 .

Sullivan, K.P.H. and Damper, R.I. (1992) Synthesis-by-analogy: A bi-lingual investigation using German and English. Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing. 113--116 .

Luk, R.W.P. and Damper, R.I. (1992) A modification of the Viterbi algorithm for stochastic phonographic transduction. Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing. 855--858 .

Luk, R. W. P. and Damper, R. I. (1993) Inference of letter-phoneme correspondences with pre-defined consonant and vowel patterns. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'93), Minneapolis, MN. pp. 203-206 .

Damper, R.I. and Wood, S.D. (1993) Speech versus keying: a human factors study. Proc. of Joint Workshop on Speech Technology Applications. 203--206 .

Luk, R. W. P. and Damper, R. I. (1993) Experiments with silent-e and affix correspondences in stochastic phonographic transduction. Eurospeech '93, Berlin, Germany. pp. 917-920 .

Hannah, M. I., Sapeluk, A. T. and Damper, R. I. (1993) The effect of utterance content and length on speaker-verifier performance. European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech '93). 2299--2302 .

Luk, R. W. P. and Damper, R. I. (1993) Inference of letter-phoneme correspondences using generalised stochastic transducers. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Beijing, China. pp. 650-653 .

Hannah, M. I., Sapeluk, A. T., Damper, R. I. and Roger, I. M. (1993) Using genetic algorithms to improve speaker-verifier performance. Joint IEEE/IEE Workshop on Natural Algorithms in Signal Processing. 24/1--24/9 .

Chan, P. A. and Damper, R. I. (1994) Voice conversion by whole-spectrum scaling. ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Automatic Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification. 165--168 .

Hannah, M. I., Sapeluk, A. T. and Damper, R. I. (1994) The role of the reference template in speaker verification. ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Automatic Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification. 181--184 .

Damper, R. I. (1994) Connectionist models of categorical perception of speech. IEEE International Symposium on Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks. 101--104 .

Lucas, S. M. and Damper, R. I. (1990) Self-organising temporal networks. Workshop on Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing and Neural Networks Applied to Problems in Signal/Image Processing and Communications.

Damper, R. I. (1995) Self-learning and connectionist approaches to text-phoneme conversion. Levy, J., Bairaktaris, D., Bullinaria, J. and Cairns, J. (eds.) In Connectionist Models of Memory and Language. UCL Press. 117--144 .

Damper, R. I. and Wood, S. D. (1995) Speech versus keying in command and control applications. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 42 (3), 289--305.

Damper, R. I. and Evans, M. D. (1995) A multi-function domestic alert system for the deaf-blind. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, 3 (4), 354--359.

Damper, R. I. (1995) Automatic discovery of features underlying the perception of voicing. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'95). 3459--3463 .

Damper, R. I., Tranchant, M. A. and Wood, S. D. (1995) Speech versus keying in the human-computer interface. Tutorial and Research Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. 229--232 .

Damper, R. I., Thorpe, J. R. and Shadle, C. H. (1995) Separation of speech from simultaneous talkers. XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 282--285 .

Adamson, M. J. and Damper, R. I. (1999) B-RAAM: A connectionist model which develops holistic internal representations of symbolic structures. Connection Science, 11 (1), 41-71.

Luk, R.W.P. and Damper, R.I. (1998) Computational complexity of a fast Viterbi decoding algorithm for stochastic letter-phoneme transduction. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 6 (3), 217-225.

Scutt, T.W. and Damper, R.I. (1997) Designing a nervous system for an adaptive mobile robot. Browne, A. (ed.) In Neural Network Perspectives on Cognition and Adaptive Robotics. Institute of Physics Press. pp. 220-250 .

Damper, R. I. and Eastmond, J. F. G. (1997) Pronunciation by analogy: Impact of implementational choices on performance. Language and Speech, 40 (1), 1-23.

Gilson, S.J. and Damper, R.I. (1997) An empirical comparison of neural techniques for edge linking of images. Neural Computing and Applications, 6, 64-78.

Finan, R. A., Sapeluk, A. T. and Damper, R. I. (1997) Impostor cohort selection for score normalisation in speaker verification. Pattern Recognition Letters, 18 (9), 881-888.

Damper, R.I., Marchand, Y., Adamson, M.J. and Gustafson, K. (1998) A comparison of letter-to-sound conversion techniques for English text-to-speech synthesis. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 20 (6), 245-254.

Sim, H. C. and Damper, R. I. (1999) A neural network approach to planar-object recognition in 3D space. Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2 (2), 143-163.

Damper, R. I., Gunn, S. R. and Gore, M. O. (2000) Extracting phonetic knowledge from learning systems: Perceptrons, support vector machines and linear discriminants. Applied Intelligence, 12 (1-2), 43-62.

Damper, R. I. and Harnad, S. R. (2000) Neural network modeling of categorical perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 62 (4), 843-867.

Channon, A. D. and Damper, R. I. (2000) Towards the evolutionary emergence of increasingly complex advantageous behaviours. International Journal of Systems Science, 31 (7), 843-860.

Adams, L. J., Damper, R. I., Harnad, S. and Hall, W. (1999) A system design for human factors studies of speech-enabled Web browsing. ESCA Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems, Kloster Irsee, Germany. pp. 137-140 .

Higgins, J. E., Damper, R. I. and Harris, C. J. (1999) A multi-spectral data-fusion approach to speaker recognition. Fusion'99, 2nd International Conference on Information Fusion, Sunnyvale, CA. pp. 1136-1143 .

Damper, R. I. and Gunn, S. R. (1999) Learning phonetic distinctions from speech signals. Eurospeech'99, Budapest, Hungary. pp. 2675-2678 .

Middleton, I. and Damper, R. I. (1996) Identification of boundaries in MRI medical images using artificial neural networks. IEE Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence Methods for Biomedical Data Processing. 6/1-6/6 .

Finan, R.A., Sapeluk, A.T. and Damper, R.I. (1997) VQ score normalisation for text-dependent and text-independent speaker recognition. Bigun, J., Chollet, G. and Borgefors, G. (eds.) 1st International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Person Authentication (AVBPA), Crans-Montana, Switzerland. pp. 211-218 .

Channon, A.D. and Damper, R.I. (1997) The artificial evolution of real intelligence. 4th European Conference on Artificial Life.

Damper, R.I. and Gustafson, K. (1997) Evaluating the pronunciation component of a text-to-speech system. Speech and Language Technology (SALT) Club Workshop on Evaluation in Speech and Language Technology, Sheffield, UK. pp. 72-79 .

Damper, R. I. (1997) Parity is not a generalisation problem. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20 (1), 69-70.

Gilson, S.J., Middleton, I. and Damper, R.I. (1997) A localised elastic net technique for lung boundary extraction from magnetic resonance images. 5th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Cambridge, UK. pp. 199-204 .

Finan, R.A., Sapeluk, A.T. and Damper, R.I. (1997) Text-independent speaker verification using predictive neural networks. 5th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Cambridge, UK. pp. 274-279 .

Scutt, T.W. and Damper, R.I. (1997) Biologically-motivated learning in adaptive mobile robots. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Orlando, FL. pp. 475-480 .

Sim, H.C. and Damper, R.I. (1997) Two-dimensional object matching using Kohonen maps. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Orlando, FL. pp. 620-625 .

Damper, R.I. (1997) A biocybernetic simulation of speech perception by humans and animals. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Orlando, FL. pp. 1638-1643 .

Damper, R.I. (1997) Connecting perception to cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 744-745.

Gilson, S.J., Middleton, I. and Damper, R.I. (1998) Neural techniques for outlining the lungs in MR images of the lungs. International Symposium on Soft Computing, World Automation Congress, Anchorage, AK. 072.1-072.6 .

Damper, R.I. (1998) Auditory representations of speech sounds in a neural model: The role of peripheral processing. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'98), Anchorage, AK. pp. 2196-2201 .

Damper, R.I. and Scutt, T.W. (1998) Biologically-based learning in the ARBIB autonomous robot. IEEE International Symposia on Intelligence and Systems, Washington, DC. pp. 49-56 .

Damper, R.I. and Scutt, T.W. (1998) Biologically-motivated neural learning in situated systems. IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'98), Monterey, CA. pp. 115-118 .

Damper, R. I. (1998) Self-learning and self-organisation as tools for speech research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (2), 262-263.

Damper, R. I. (1998) Parity still isn't a generalisation problem. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (2), 307-308.

Damper, R.I. (1998) The role of the auditory periphery in the categorization of stop consonants. 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. pp. 1973-1974 .

Channon, A. D. and Damper, R. I. (1998) Evolving novel behaviors via natural selection. Adami, C., Belew, R. K., Kitano, H. and Taylor, C. E. (eds.) In ALife VI: Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life - Life and Computation, Los Angeles, CA. Bradford Books/MIT Press. pp. 384-388 .

Sim, H.C. and Damper, R.I. (1998) Recognition of planar objects in 3D space using a modified dynamic link architecture. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'98), Chicago, IL. pp. 571-575 .

Sim, H.C. and Damper, R.I. (1998) Dynamic link architecture for matching flat objects in three-dimensional space. 5th International Conference on Automation, Robotics, Control and Vision, Singapore. pp. 906-910 .

Sim, H.C. and Damper, R.I. (1998) Dynamic link architecture for matching planar objects in three-dimensional space. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC'98), San Diego, CA. pp. 4405-4410 .

Sim, H.C. and Damper, R.I. (1998) Matching flat objects in 3D space using dynamic link architecture. 1st International Workshop on Comuter Vision, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (CVPRIP'98), Research Triangle, NC. pp. 457-460 .

Sim, H.C. and Damper, R.I. (1998) Recognition of planar objects in 3D space. 9th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'98), Southampton, UK. pp. 894-903 .

Damper, R.I. and Gilson, S.J. (1998) Neural techniques for path linking, with application to image processing. International ICSC/IFAC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC'98), Vienna, Austria. pp. 488-494 .

Damper, R.I., Marchand, Y., Adamson, M.J. and Gustafson, K. (1998) Comparative evaluation of letter-to-sound conversion techniques for English text-to-speech synthesis. 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA International Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Jenolan Caves, Australia. pp. 53-58 .

Damper, R.I. and Marchand, Y. (1998) Improving pronunciation by analogy for text-to-speech applications. 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA International Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Jenolan Caves, Australia. pp. 65-70 .

Damper, R.I. and Gunn, S.R. (1998) On the learnability of the voicing contrast for initial stops. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia. pp. 2143-2146 .

Damper, R. I., Marchand, Y., Adamson, M. J. and Gustafson, K. (1999) Evaluating the pronunciation component of text-to-speech systems for English: A performance comparison of different approaches. Computer Speech and Language, 13 (2), 155-176.

Channon, A. D. and Damper, R. I. (1998) Perpetuating evolutionary emergence. Pfeifer, R., Blumberg, B., Meyer, J.-A. and Wilson, S. (eds.) In From Animals to Animats 5: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB98), Zurich. MIT Press. pp. 534-539 .

Damper, R. I., French, R. L. B. and Scutt, T. W. (2000) ARBIB: An autonomous robot based on inspiration from biology. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 31 (4), 247-274.

Marchand, Y. and Damper, R. I. (2000) A multi-strategy approach to improving pronunciation by analogy. Computational Linguistics, 26 (2), 195-219.

Damper, R. I. (2000) Emergence and levels of description. International Journal of Systems Science, 31 (7), 811-818.

Emmerson, M.D., Damper, R.I., Hey, A.J.G. and Upstill, C. (1991) Fault tolerance and redundancy of neural nets for the classification of acoustic data.

Damper, R. I. (2000) Ontogenetic versus phylogenetic learning in the emergence of phonetic categories. 3rd International Workshop on the Evolution of Language, Paris, France. pp. 55-58 .

Shi, D., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Shu, W. (2000) Recognition rule acquisition by an advanced extension matrix algorithm. Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications, 8 (2), 97-101.

Finan, R. A., Damper, R. I. and Sapeluk, A. T. (2001) Improved data modeling for text-dependent speaker recognition using sub-band processing. International Journal of Speech Technology, 4 (1), 45-62.

Damper, R. I. and Marchand, Y. (2000) Pronunciation by analogy in normal and impaired readers. 4th Conference on Natural Language Learning and 2nd Learning Language in Logic Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 13-18 .

Damper, R. I., French, R. L. B. and Scutt, T. W. (2000) The Hi-NOON neural simulator and its applications. Small Systems Simulation Symposium, SSSS2000, Nis, Yugoslavia. pp. 31-36 .

Ilic, T. R., Zarkovic, K. M., Litovski, V. B. and Damper, R. I. (2000) ANN application in modelling of dynamic linear circuits. Small Systems Simulation Symposium, SSSS2000, Nis, Yugoslavia. pp. 43-47 .

Marino, A. and Damper, R. I. (2000) Breaking the symmetry of the graph colouring problem with genetic algorithms. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000), Late Breaking Papers, Las Vegas, NV. pp. 240-245 .

French, R. L. B. and Damper, R. I. (2000) Stability of learning in the ARBIB autonomous robot. Supplement - Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats (SAB 2000), Paris, France. pp. 150-159 .

Shi, D., Damper, R. I. and Shu, W. (2000) Chinese character recognition using genetic algorithms and extension matrix algorithms. Communications of the Chinese and Oriental Language Processing Society (COLIPS), 9 (2), 137-154.

French, R.L.B., Damper, R.I. and Scutt, T.W. (2000) The Hi-NOON neural simulator and its applications to animal, animat and humanoid studies. First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, , Boston, United States.

Wilmer, A. I., Stathaki, T., Gunn, S. R. and Damper, R. I. (2001) Texture analysis with the Volterra model using conjugate gradient optimisation. 9th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belgium. pp. 211-216 .

Damper, R. I. and French, R. L. B. (2001) Scaling intelligent behaviour in the ARBIB autonomous robot. 3rd British Conference on Autonomous Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Systems: TIMR01-Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Damper, R. I. (2001) Analogical reasoning, analog computation and the computational hypothesis of cognitive science. Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values, MBR'01, Pavia, Italy.

Damper, R. I. (2001) Thought experiments can be harmful. Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values, MBR'01, Pavia, Italy.

Damper, R. I. and Gunn, S. R. (2001) Modeling the acoustic-to-auditory transformation for stop consonant-vowel syllables. Fifth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA. #23 .

Damper, R. I. and French, R. L. B. (2001) Studying links between neurophysiology and behavior with the ARBIB autonomous robot. Fifth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA. #35 .

Higgins, J. E and Damper, R. I. (2001) An HMM-based subband processing approach to speaker identification. Bigun, J. and Smeraldi, F. (eds.) 3rd International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), Halmstad, Sweden. p. 169 .

Lappas, P., Carter, J. N. and Damper, R. I. (2002) Robust evidence-based object tracking. Pattern Recognition Letters, 23 (1-3), 253-260.

French, R. L. B. and Damper, R. I. (2001) Evolving a nervous system of spiking neurons for a behaving robot. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2001), San Francisco, CA. pp. 1099-1106 .

Damper, R. I. , Damper, R. I. (ed.) (2001) Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis , Kluwer

Damper, R. I. (2001) Learning about speech from data: Beyond NETtalk. In, Damper, R. I. (ed.) Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis. Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis (01/01/01) Kluwer, pp. 1-25.

Luk, R. W. P. and Damper, R. I. (2001) English letter-phoneme conversion by stochastic transducers. In, Damper, R. I. (ed.) Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis. Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis (01/01/01) Kluwer, pp. 91-123.

Higgins, J. E., Dodd, T. J. and Damper, R. I. (2001) Information fusion for subband-HMM speaker recognition. INNS-IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN'01, Washington DC. pp. 1504-1509 .

Shi, D., Gunn, S. R. and Damper, R. I. (2001) Active radical modeling for handwritten Chinese characters. Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR'01, Seattle, WA. pp. 236-240 .

Damper, R. I. (2002) Learning is not just identification. Contemporary Psychology, 47 (5), 513-515.

Damper, R. I., Stanbridge, C. Z. and Marchand, Y. (2002) A pronunciation-by-analogy module for the Festival text-to-speech synthesiser. 4th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, August/September 2001, Pitlochry, United Kingdom. pp. 97-102 .

Shadle, C. H. and Damper, R. I. (2002) Prospects for articulatory synthesis: A position paper. 4th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, August/September 2001, Pitlochry, United Kingdom. pp. 121-126 .

Lappas, P., Carter, J. N. and Damper, R. I. (2001) Object tracking via the dynamic velocity Hough transform. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece. pp. 371-374 .

Shi, D., Gunn, S. R. and Damper, R. I. (2001) A radical approach to handwritten Chinese character recognition using active handwriting models. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Kauai, Hawaii. pp. 670-675 .

Damper, R. I., French, R. L. B. and Scutt, T. W. (2001) The Hi-NOON neural simulator and its applications. Microelectronics Reliability, 41 (12), 2051-2065.

Shi, D., Gunn, S. R. and Damper, R. I. (2001) A comparison among radical approaches to handwritten Chinese character recognition. International Conference on Chinese Computing, Singapore. pp. 213-219 .

Damper, R.I. (1982) Speech technology: Implications for biomedical engineering. Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 6, 135-149.

Burgess, N. and Damper, R. I. (1984) The inadequacy of the stuck-at model for testing MOS LSI circuits. Software and Microsystems, 3, 30-36.

Damper, R.I. (1976) Lateralisation of binaural images in a computer-controlled experiment. British Journal of Audiology, 10, 21-30.

Damper, R.I. (1976) Tracking of complex binaural images. Audiology, 15, 135-149.

Damper, R.I. and MacDonald, S.L. (1984) Statistical clustering procedures applied to low-cost speech recognition. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 6, 265-271.

Damper, R.I. (1984) Text composition by the physically disabled: A rate prediction model for scanning input. Applied Ergonomics, 15, 289-296.

Damper, R.I. (1984) Voice-input aids for the physically disabled. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 21, 541-553.

Dabbagh, H.H. and Damper, R.I. (1985) Text composition by voice: Design issues and implementations. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 1, 84-93.

Burgess, N., Damper, R.I., Shaw, S.J. and Wilkins, D.R.J. (1985) Faults and fault effects in NMOS circuits - impact on design for testability. IEE Proceedings G - Electronic Circuits and Systems, 132 (3), 82-89. (doi:10.1049/ip-g-1.1985.0019).

Baker, R.G., Downton, A.C., King, R.W. and Damper, R.I. (1986) Television and video technology in the education of deaf children. British Journal of Audiology, 20, 101-113.

Moore, W.R. and Damper, R.I. (1986) Applications of built-in test equipment within large systems. IEE Proceedings G - Electronic Circuits and Systems, 133, 221-226.

Damper, R.I. (1986) Message composition by word abbreviation. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2, 82(abstract).

Baker, R.G. and Damper, R.I. (1986) Educational aspects of television subtitling in deaf education. Behaviour & Information Technology, 5, 227-236.

Dabbagh, H.H. and Damper, R.I. (1986) 'Transparent' interfacing of speech recognisers to computers. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 10, 371-376.

Damper, R.I. (1986) Rapid message composition for large vocabulary speech output aids: A review of the possibilities. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2, 152-159. (doi:10.1080/07434618612331273970).

Damper, R.I. and Burgess, N. (1987) MOS test pattern generation using path algebras. IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-36, 1123-1128.

Damper, R.I., Burnett, J.W., Gray, P.W., Straus, L.P. and Symes, R.A. (1987) A hand-held text-to-speech device for the non-vocal disabled. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 9, 332-340.

Burgess, N., Damper, R.I., Totton, K.A.E. and Shaw, S.J. (1988) Physical faults in MOS circuits and their coverage by different fault models. IEE Proceedings, Part E (Computers and Digital Techniques), 135, 1-9.

Pont, M.J. and Damper, R.I. (1989) The representation of synthetic stop consonants in a computational model of the dorsal cochlear nucleus. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 86, S45-S36 (abstract).

Turnbull, J.M., Sapeluk, A.T., Damper, R.I., Brodie, J.K. and Hood, H.E. (1990) A new computer-based speech therapy tutor for vowel production. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 6, 113 (abstract).

Damper, R. I. and Sayers, B. McA. (1981) Two-dimensional signal analysis of binaural time/intensity trading data. Proceedings of Fifth Nordic Meeting on Medical and Biological Engineering. pp. 341-344 .

Damper, R. I. and Purswani, V. N. (1982) Voice-input environmental control for the physically disabled. Proceedings of First World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. 6.05 .

Damper, R. I. (1984) Speech technology and the disabled. Proceedings of First International Conference on Speech Technology. pp. 135-143 .

Burgess, N., Wilkins, D. R. J., Damper, R. I. and Shaw, S. J. (1985) Faults effects in MOS circuits and their implications for digital circuit testing. IEE Conference Publication No. 232, Electronic Design Automation (EDA'84). pp. 83-91 .

Damper, R. I., Baker, R. G., Lambourne, A. D., Downton, A. C., King, R. W. and Newell, A. F. (1984) Educational subtitling for deaf children. Proceedings of Second International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering. pp. 304-305 .

Damper, R. I. (1984) Speech as a medium for interfacing disabled people to aids. Proceedings of Second International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering. pp. 450-451 .

Downton, A.C., Baker, R.G., Dudley, R.P., King, R.W., Damper, R.I. and Lambourne, A.D. (1984) Television subtitling for impaired linguistic skills. In Proceedings of 10th International Broadcasting Convention. pp. 170-174 .

Dabbagh, H. H. and Damper, R. I. (1984) Average selection length and time as predictors of communication rate. Proceedings of 8th Annual Conference on Rehabilitation Technology. pp. 404-406 .

Damper, R. I. (1986) Speech control of assistive devices for the physically disabled. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'86). pp. 653-656 .

Dabbagh, H. H., Damper, R. I. and Guy, D. P. (1986) 'Transparent' interfacing of speech recognisers to microcomputers. IEE Conference Publication No. 258, Speech Input/Output Techniques and Applications. pp. 138-143 .

Damper, R. I., Bladon, R. A. W., Hukin, R. W. and Irvine, G. N. A. (1987) Resynthesis and matching experiments on an auditory theory of speaker normalisation. Proceedings of XIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pp. 78-81 .

Damper, R. I. and Sheppard, J. A. (1987) Speech recognition and computer access for paralysed users: A case study. Proceedings of European Conference on Speech Technology. pp. 266-267 .

Pont, M. J. and Damper, R. I. (1988) A neural model of infant speech perception. Proceedings of 7th FASE Symposium, Speech'88. pp. 515-522 .

Bowles, R. L., Damper, R. I. and Lucas, S. M. (1988) Combining evidence from separate speech recognition processes. Proceedings of 7th FASE Symposium, Speech'88. pp. 669-674 .

Turnbull, J. M., Sapeluk, A. T. and Damper, R. I. (1989) A new method of pole-tracking with application to vowel and semivowel recognition. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'89). pp. 568-571 .

Pont, M. J. and Damper, R. I. (1989) A possible neural basis for the categorical perception of the voiced/voiceless contrast. Proceedings of Eurospeech'89. pp. 239-242 .

Hukin, R. W. and Damper, R. I. (1989) Testing an auditory model by resynthesis. Proceedings of Eurospeech'89. pp. 243-246 .

Bowles, R. L. and Damper, R. I. (1989) Application of Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to improved-accuracy, isolated word recognition. Proceedings of Eurospeech'89. pp. 384-387 .

Lucas, S. M. and Damper, R. I. (1989) A new learning paradigm for neural networks. IEE Conference Publication No. 313, 1st IEE International Conference on Neural Networks. pp. 346-350 .

Damper, R.I., Burnett, J.W., Gray, P.W., Straus, L.P. and Symes, R.A. (1985) PSYTALK: A portable text-to-speech device. European Conference on Technology and Communication Impairment. pp. 332-340 .

Baker, R.G. and Damper, R.I. (1985) Television subtitling in the education of deaf children: I. Educational aspects. Proceedings of 27th International Congress on Education of the Deaf, , Manchester, United Kingdom.

Damper, R. I. (1991) Statistical inferencing of text-phonemics correspondences. Phonetics Experimental Research at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, PERILUS XIII, Papers from the 5th National Phonetics Conference.. pp. 109-112 .

Damper, R. I. (1984) Current research in the UK into speech synthesis and recognition to aid the disabled. Pedotti, A. and Andrich, R. (eds.) Evaluation of Assistive Devices for Paralyzed Persons. pp. 175-177 .

Damper, R. I., Lambourne, A. D. and Guy, D. P. (1985) Speech input as an adjunct to keyboard entry in television subtitling. Shackel, B. (ed.) Human-Computer Interaction---INTERACT'84. pp. 203-208 .

Damper, R. I. (1988) Practical experiences with speech data entry. McGaw, E. D. (ed.) Contemporary Ergonomics 1988. pp. 92-97 .

Damper, R. I. and Burgess, N. (1989) Path testing of MOS circuits. Massara, R. E. (ed.) Design and Test Techniques for VLSI and WSI Circuits. pp. 158-183 .

Damper, R. I. (1985) Failure mechanisms and fault models for MOS testing. Silicon Design, (May), 4-5.

Damper, R. I. (1985) Principles of speech synthesis. Physics Bulletin, 36, 336-338.

Damper, R.I. and MacDonald, S.L. (1984) Template adaptation in speech recognition. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 64 (4), 293-299.

Damper, R. I. (1985) Environmental control for the physically-disabled: Current trends in the UK. Cochrane, G. M. and Hamonet, A. C. (eds.) Proceedings of 1st EEC Topical Workshop on Communication, Manipulation and Environmental Control for Paralyzed Persons. pp. 1-14 .

Damper, R. I. (1985) Voice-input aids for the physically-disabled. Research in Medical Engineering, 67-68.

Damper, R. I. and Burgess, N. (1985) Path testing of MOS circuits. IEE Colloquium on Design for Testability. 11.1-11.5 .

Damper, R. I. and Borer, T. (1985) Comparison of vocoder systems by computer simulation. IEE Colloquium on Digital Signal Processing. 6.1-6.5 .

Damper, R. I. (1987) Interfacing disabled users to assistive aids. IEE Colloquium on Systems for the Disabled. 61/1-1/5 .

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1989) Using stochastic grammars for modelling and recognising cursive script. IEE Colloquium on Character Recognition and Applications. 3/1-3/4 .

Lucas, S.M. and Damper, R.I. (1990) Syntactic neural networks for speech technology. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 12 (10), 299-306.

Damper, R.I. (1975) Basic electricity. Hinchcliffe, R. and Harrison, D. F. N. (eds.) Scientific Foundations of Otolaryngology. pp. 51-68 .

Damper, R.I. (1975) Electronics. Hinchcliffe, R. and Harrison, D. F. N. (eds.) Scientific Foundations of Otolaryngology. pp. 69-87 .

Laxmi, V., Carter, J. N. and Damper, R. I. (2002) Biologically-motivated human gait classifiers. Third IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, AutoID'02, Tarrytown, NY. pp. 17-22 .

Higgins, J. E., Damper, R. I. and Dodd, T. J. (2002) Improving speaker identification by trainable data fusion and subband processing techniques. Third IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, AutoID'02, Tarrytown, NY. pp. 109-114 .

Laxmi, V., Carter, J. N. and Damper, R. I. (2002) Biologically-inspired human motion detection. 10th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belgium. pp. 95-100 .

Higgins, J. E., Dodd, T. J. and Damper, R. I. (2001) Application of multiple classifier techniques to subband speaker identification with an HMM/ANN system. Kittler, J. and Roli, F. (eds.) Multiple Classifier Systems, Second International Workshop (MCS 2001), Cambridge, UK. pp. 369-377 .

Damper, R. I., Gilson, S. J. and Middleton, I. (2002) A semi-localized elastic net for surface reconstruction of objects from multislice images. International Journal of Neural Systems, 12 (2), 95-108.

Power, G., Damper, R. I., Hall, W. and Wills, G. B. (2002) Realism and naturalness in a conversational multi-modal interface. ISCA Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Mobile Environments, Kloster Irsee, Germany. CD-ROM .

French, R. L. B. and Damper, R. I. (2002) Evolution of a circuit of spiking neurons for phototaxis in a Braitenberg vehicle. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2002 -- From Animals to Animats 7, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. pp. 335-344 .

Shi, D., Gunn, S. R. and Damper, R. I. (2003) Handwritten Chinese radical recognition using nonlinear active shape models. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25 (2), 277-280.

Shi, D., Gunn, S. R. and Damper, R. I. (2002) Handwritten Chinese character recognition using nonlinear active shape models and the Viterbi algorithm. Pattern Recognition Letters, 23 (14), 1853-1862.

Damper, R. I. (2001) Programs, models, theories and reality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24 (6), 1055-1056.

Damper, R. I. (2003) Obituary: W.A. ('Bill') Ainsworth 1939-2002. International Journal of Speech Technology, 6 (1), 7-9.

Damper, R. I. (2003) Obituary: W.A. ('Bill') Ainsworth 1939-2002. Computer Speech and Language, 17 (1), 105-106.

Dominguez-Lopez, J. A., Damper, R. I., Crowder, R. M. and Harris, C. J. (2003) Optimal object grasping using fuzzy logic. International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Information and Signal Processing (ROVISP'2004), Penang, Malaysia. pp. 367-372 .

Damper, R. I. and French, R. L. B. (2003) Evolving spiking neuron controllers for phototaxis and phonotaxis. Raidl, G. (ed.) Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoWorkshops 2003, Colchester, United Kingdom. pp. 616-625 .

Damper, R. I. and Higgins, J. E. (2003) Improving speaker identification in noise by subband processing and decision fusion. Pattern Recognition Letters, 24 (13), 2167-2173.

Litovski, V. B., Anderejevic, M., Petkovic, P. M. and Damper, R. I. (2004) ANN application to modelling of the D/A and A/D interface for mixed-mode behavioural simulation. Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, 13 (1), 181-192.

Ng, G. S., Shi, D., Gunn, S. R. and Damper, R. I. (2003) Nonlinear active handwriting models and their applications to handwritten Chinese radical recognition. Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'03), Edinburgh., United Kingdom.

Middleton, I. and Damper, R. I. (2004) Segmentation of magnetic resonance images using a combination of neural networks and active contour models. Medical Engineering and Physics, 26 (1), 71-86.

Shi, D., Damper, R. I. and Gunn, S. R. (2003) Off-line handwritten Chinese character recognition by radical decomposition. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing, 2 (1), 27-48.

Carter, J. N., Lappas, P. and Damper, R. I. (2003) Evidence-based object tracking via global energy maximization. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2003), Baltimore, MD. pp. 185-188 .

Damper, R. I. (2003) Preface (to Theme Issue on Biologically Inspired Robotics). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 361 (1811), 2081-2083.

Lappas, P., Damper, R. I. and Carter, J. N. (2003) Feature tracking in an energy maximization framework. IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Xi'an, China. pp. 3109-3114 .

Dominguez-Lopez, J. A., Damper, R. I., Crowder, R. M. and Harris, C. J. (2003) Hybrid neurofuzzy online learning for optimal grasping. IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Xi'an, China. pp. 803-808 .

Damper, R. I., Marchand, Y., Marsters, J-D. S. and Bazin, A. I. (2004) Aligning letters and phonemes for speech synthesis. 5th International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Pittsburgh, PA. pp. 209-214 .

Sunderland, R. M., Crowder, R. M. and Damper, R. I. (2004) An approach to the simulation of robotic systems using XML-based configuration files. DETC'04, Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Salt Lake City, UT. 31 Aug - 30 Sep 2004. no pagination-CD-ROM .

Dominguez-Lopez, J. A., Damper, R. I., Crowder, R. M. and Harris, C. J. (2004) Adaptive neurofuzzy control of a robotic gripper with online machine learning. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 48 (2-3), 93-110. (doi:10.1016/j.robot.2004.06.001).

Dominguez-Lopez, J. A., Crowder, R. M., Damper, R. I. and Harris, C. J. (2004) Adaptive neurofuzzy control of a robotic gripper with external disturbances. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Hague, The, Netherlands. pp. 3193-3198 .

Damper, R. I. (2004) The Chinese room argument: Dead but not yet buried. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11 (5-6), 159-169.

Damper, R. I. and Marchand, Y. (2006) Information fusion approaches to the automatic pronunciation of print by analogy. Information Fusion, 7 (2), 207-220.

Damper, R. I. (2004) The Chinese room thought experiment: Far out? Thought Experiments Rethought, Ghent, Belgium. pp. 22-23 .

Litovski, V. B., Andrejevic, M. V. and Damper, R. I. (2003) Modeling the D/A interface for mixed-mode behavioral simulation. International Conference on the Computer as a Tool, IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2003, Ljubljana, Slovenia. pp. 130-133 .

Damper, R. I., Marchand, Y., Marsters, J-D. S. and Bazin, A. I. (2005) Aligning text and phonemes for speech technology applications using an EM-like algorithm. International Journal of Speech Technology, 8 (2), 149-162.

Marchand, Y. and Damper, R. I. (2007) Can syllabification improve pronunciation by analogy? Natural Language Engineering, 13 (1), 1-24.

Dominguez-Lopez, J. A., Damper, R. I., Crowder, R. M. and Harris, C. J. (2006) Intelligent neurofuzzy control of a robotic gripper. In, Patnaik, S., Jain, L. C., Tzafestas, S. G., Resconi, G. and Konar, A. (eds.) Innovations in Robot Mobility and Control. Springer-Verlag, pp. 155-199.

Subari, K., Shadle, C. H., Barney, A. and Damper, R. I. (2004) Comparison of fricative vocal tract transfer functions derived using two different segmentation techniques. International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP 2004), Istanbul, Turkey. pp. 164-168 .

Avila-Garcia, M. S., Carter, J. N. and Damper, R. I. (2004) Extracting tongue shape dynamics from magnetic resonance image sequences. International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP 2004), Istanbul, Turkey. pp. 288-291 .

Lappas, P., Damper, R. I. and Carter, J. N. (2006) Object tracking by energy maximization. Soft Computing, 10 (1), 20-26.

Shi, D., Ng, G. S., Damper, R. I. and Gunn, S. R. (2005) Radical recognition of handwritten Chinese characters using GA-based kernel active shape modelling. IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, 152 (5), 634-638.

Damper, R. I. and Gladstone, K. (2005) IMAGINE: towards universal mobile access to e-services by speech interaction. HCI International 2005, Las Vegas, NV. no pagination-CD-ROM .

Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. (2005) Adaptive band selection for hyperspectral image fusion using mutual information. 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, PA. pp. 630-637 .

Hu, R. and Damper, R. I. (2005) Fusion of two classifiers for speaker identification: removing and not removing silence. 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, PA. pp. 429-436 .

Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. (2005) Hyperspectral image fusion using spectrally weighted kernels. 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, PA. pp. 402-408 .

Soonklang, T., Damper, R. I. and Marchand, Y. (2005) Comparative objective and subjective evaluation of three data-driven techniques for proper name pronunciation. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 1905-1908 .

Sunderland, R. M., Damper, R. I. and Crowder, R. M. (2005) A framework for biologically-inspired control of reaching motions. 3rd International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines (AMAM 2005), Ilmenau, Germany. no pagination-CD-ROM .

Marchand, Y., Damper, R. I. and Adsett, C. (2005) Computational models of reading aloud: Where are the polysyllabic letter strings? 9th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Havana, Cuba. p. 386 .

Avila-Garcia, M. S., Carter, J. N. and Damper, R. I. (2005) Automatic extraction of tongue shape dynamics from magnetic resonance image sequences. 10th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM2005), Patras, Greece. pp. 119-122 .

Damper, R. I., Marchand, Y., Adsett, C. R., Soonklang, T. and Marsters, J-D. S. (2005) Multilingual data-driven pronunciation. 10th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM2005), Patras, Greece. pp. 167-170 .

Luk, R. W.-P. and Damper, R. I. (2006) Non-parametric linear time-invariant system identification by discrete wavelet transforms. Digital Signal Processing, 16 (3), 303-319.

Laxmi, V., Damper, R. I. and Carter, J. N. (2006) Human and machine perception of biological motion. Cognitive Systems Research, 7 (4), 339-356.

Zhou, Z., Prugel-Bennett, A. and Damper, R. I. (2006) A Bayesian framework for extracting human gait using strong prior knowledge. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 28 (11), 1738-1752.

Damper, R. I. (2006) Thought experiments can be harmful. The Pantaneto Forum, 22.

Channon, A. D. and Damper, R. I. (1998) The evolutionary emergence of socially intelligent agents. Edmonds, B. and Dautenhahn, K. (eds.) Socially Situated Intelligence: a workshop held at SAB'98, Zurich. pp. 41-49 .

Marchand, Y. and Damper, R. I. (2006) Pronunciation by analogy and naming latency. 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, Trieste, Italy. pp. 202-207 .

Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2006) Band selection for hyperspectral image classification using mutual information. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 3 (4), 522-526.

Hu, R. and Damper, R. I. (2006) A 'no panacea theorem' for multiple classifier combination. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2006, Hong Kong, China. no pagination-(CDROM) .

Damper, R. I. and Gladstone, K. (2006) Experiences of usability evaluation of the IMAGINE speech-based interaction system. International Journal of Speech Technology, 9 (1-2), 41-50.

Nelson, J. D. B., Damper, R. I., Gunn, S. R. and Guo, B. (2006) Signal theory for SVM kernel parameter estimation. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Maynooth, Ireland. pp. 149-154 .

Damper, R I (2006) The logic of Searle's Chinese room argument. Minds and Machines, 16 (2), 163-183.

Damper, R I (2006) Can machines think? An update and reappraisal. Proceedings from Computers and Philosophy: an International Conference, i-C&P 2006, Laval, France. pp. 555-565 .

Zhou, Z, Damper, R I and Prugel-Bennett, A (2006) Model selection within a Bayesian approach to extraction of walker motion. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW'06), New York, NY. pp. 44-51 .

Worgan, S F and Damper, R I (2006) Grounding symbols in the physics of speech communication. External Symbol Grounding Workshop 2006, Plymouth, United Kingdom. pp. 33-34 .

Worgan, S F and Damper, R I (2007) Grounding symbols in the physics of speech communication. Interaction Studies, 8 (1), 7-30.

Damper, R. I. and Soonklang, T. (2007) Subjective evaluation of techniques for proper name pronunciation. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 15 (8), 2213-2221.

Hu, R. and Damper, R.I. (2009) Optimal weighting of bimodal biometric information with specific application to audio-visual person identification. Information Fusion, 10 (2), 172-182. (doi:10.1016/j.inffus.2008.08.003).

Hu, R. and Damper, R. I. (2007) Optimal weighting of audio-visual speaker identification on the XM2VTS database. International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, AVSP 2007, Hilvarenbeek, The, Netherlands. pp. 152-157 .

Marchand, Y., Adsett, C. R. and Damper, R. I. (2007) Evaluating automatic syllabification algorithms for English. 6th International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Bonn, Germany. pp. 316-321 .

Claussen, H., Rosca, J. and Damper, R. (2007) Mutual interdependence analysis (MIA). Davis, M. E., James, C. C., Abdallah, S. A. and Plumbley, M. D. (eds.) Independent Component Analysis 2007, London, United Kingdom. pp. 446-453 .

Soonklang, T., Damper, R. I. and Marchand, Y. (2007) Effect of lexicon composition in pronunciation by analogy. 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic. pp. 464-471 .

Worgan, S F and Damper, R I (2008) Removing 'mind-reading' from the iterated learning model. The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain. pp. 378-385 .

Worgan, S F and Damper, R I (2007) Speech perception as non-symbolic pattern recognition. Symposium on Language and Robotics, Aveiro, Portugal. pp. 99-100 .

Guo, B., Damper, R. I., Gunn, S. R. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2008) A fast separability-based feature selection method for high-dimensional remotely-sensed image classification. Pattern Recognition, 41 (5), 1670-1679. (doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2007.11.007).

Guo, B., Gunn, S. R., Damper, R. I. and Nelson, J. D. B. (2008) Customizing kernel functions for SVM-based hyperspectral image classification. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 17 (4), 622-629. (doi:10.1109/TIP.2008.918955).

Claussen, H., Rosca, J. and Damper, R. (2008) Mutual features for robust identification and verification. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'08, Las Vegas, NV. pp. 1849-1852 . (In Press)

Nelson, J. D. B., Damper, R. I., Gunn, S. R. and Guo, B. (2008) Signal theory for SVM kernel design with applications to parameter estimation and sequence kernels. Neurocomputing, 72 (1-3), 15-22. (doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2008.01.034).

Hu, R. and Damper, R. I. (2008) A 'no panacea theorem' for classifier combination. Pattern Recognition, 41 (8), 2665-2673. (doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2008.01.022).

Soonklang, T., Damper, R. I. and Marchand, Y. (2008) Multilingual pronunciation by analogy. Natural Language Engineering, 14 (4), 527-546.

Worgan, S. F. and Damper, R. I. (2009) Symbolism and enactivism: An experimental test of conflicting approaches to artificial intelligence. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI, 21 (1), 1-18.

Marchand, Y., Adsett, C. R. and Damper, R. I. (2009) Automatic syllabification in English: A comparison of different algorithms. Language and Speech, 52 (1), 1-27.

Nelso, James D.B., Damper, Robert I., Gunn, Steve R. and Guo, Baofeng (2009) A signal theory approach to support vector classification: the sinc kernel. Neural Networks, 22 (1), 49-57. (doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2008.09.016). (PMID:19118976)

Claussen, H., Rosca, J. and Damper, R. I. (2009) Generalized mutual interdependence analysis. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan. pp. 3317-3320 . (In Press)

Casey, M. C. and Damper, R. I. (2010) Editorial: Special Issue on Biologically-Inspired Information Fusion. Information Fusion, 11 (1), 2-3.

Almohimeed, Abdulaziz, Wald, Mike and Damper, R. (2009) A New Evaluation Approach for Sign Language Machine Translation. In Assistive Technology from Adapted Equipment to Inclusive Environments - AAATE 2009. IOS Press. pp. 498-502 .

Almohimeed, Abdulaziz, Wald, Mike and Damper, Robert (2010) An Arabic Sign Language Corpus for Instructional Language in School. LREC 2010: 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, Malta. 16 - 21 May 2010. pp. 81-82 .

Damper, R. I. (2011) Can dependent sources be suppressed in electrical circuit theory? International Journal of Electronics, 98 (4), 543-553.

Hassan, A. and Damper, R. I. (2009) Emotion recognition from speech using extended feature selection and a simple classifier. Interspeech 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom. pp. 2403-2406 .

Hassan, A. and Damper, R. I. (2010) Multi-class and hierarchical SVMs for emotion recognition. Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan. pp. 2354-2357 .

Claussen, H, Rosca, J and Damper, R (2010) Signature extraction using mutual interdependencies. Pattern Recognition, 44 (3), 650-661.

Marchand, Y. and Damper, R. I. (2011) Computational simulations of surface and phonological dyslexias. 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, San Sebastian, Spain.

Almohimeed, Abdulaziz, Wald, M. and Damper, R.I. (2011) Arabic Text to Arabic Sign Language Translation System for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Community. EMNLP 2011: The Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Edinburgh, UK, United Kingdom. pp. 101-109 .

Hassan, Ali and Damper, R.I. (2012) Classification of emotional speech using 3DEC hierarchical classifier. Speech Communication, 54 (7), 903-916.

Hassan, A., Damper, R.I. and Niranjan, M. (2013) On acoustic emotion recognition: compensating for covariate shift. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 21 (7), 1458-1468. (doi:10.1109/TASL.2013.2255278).

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