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One aspect of this work is the development and testing of spike detection and sorting techniques, jointly with Dr Quian Quiroga at Leicester University. As part of this project we have a developed a set of MATLAB routines for generation of noisy spike trains. We are also very interested in ways of representing neurophysiology datasets, and have developed Neural Data Format (NDF). This work is closely related to the work of the International neuroinformatics Co-ordinating Forum (INCF).
We designed a new type of MEMS/CMOS microphone, and this project was funded by EPSRC. The aim of the project is to develop and test and new type of MEMS/CMOS microphone.
Moving on from that there is a new project (which doesn't fund me, but which I'm still working on) at Edinburgh University, aiming to build a MEMS/CMOS microphone with a graphene membrane.
We have a nice lab with a variety of equipment for the generation and recording of sound, as well as a Silicon Cochlea from iniLabs, Zurich. And we can adjust the reverberance of the room as well. We have worked on a comparison between some spike based techniques for ITD estimation and some cross-correlations based techniques, where both are applied at the onseet of sound in a noisy reverberant environment. In addition, I'm interested in developing ideas of spike-based features which might be invariant under reverberation, detectable in noise, and composable to enable interpretation over time.
There is a really basic Neural Networks introduction (really little more than HTML-ised lecture notes from a 1 hour NSYN presentation).
In addition, there are six lectures (from 1996!) that I gave on back-propagation available.
I helped organise a number of meetings within the Neuroinformatics area.
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