Re: I need help in my masters thesis -- please read

["Keith N. Darrow" <kdarrow@xxxxxxx>]

Would you like someone to actually just go ahead and WRITE the thesis for you?




Quoting gehan kamel <gehan84@xxxxxxxxx>:

>  Dear List,
>  My Name is Gehan Mustafa, I am a masters student and a teacher 
> assistant in Cairo University (Egypt), Faculty of Computers and 
> Information, IT Department. My Masters Thesis is a about Cocktail 
> Party Speech Segregation( CASA and BSS models). If you don?t mind I 
> have some questions concerning the topic:
>  1.      The TDOA (Time Delay Of Arrival) of each time/ frequency 
> region : how is it calculated ? What is TDOA, i.e. what does it 
> represent when calculated for each time/ frequency region?
>  2.      How is the local relative level or SNR calculated a priori 
> for each time frequency regions?
>  3.      If we use in CASA models the relationship between TDOA and 
> the local relative level (RL, which is known a priori), this means we 
> need to have the 2 sources unmixed to calculate the local relative 
> level. Does this mean that such an algorithm is non-realistic to be 
> tried out since in real world applications, no one has a priori the 
> unmixed sources?
>  4.      In my masters thesis, is it more realistic to work on the 
> ST-Numbers Database or should I use a database which takes into 
> account the echoing and reverberation effects, for the sake of being 
> more realistic and more applicable to real world situations which 
> normally does contain echo and reverberation.
>  5.      Do you advise me to work with CASA models or with BSS (Blind 
> Source Separation) models? Which is more realistic for real-world 
> applications? I think that BSS models are more realistic and more 
> appropriate for me to use in my masters thesis. Do you agree with me 
> or do you have another opinion?
>
>  I would really appreciate it if you could help me out in the 
> formerly stated points. Thank you very much.
>  Yours,
>      Gehan Mustafa
>
>
>
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