Publications and Conference Proceedings

Welcome to the publications and conference proceedings page. This provides a list of my publications and conference submissions/proceedings.

Peer-reviewed publications

A neurally-inspired musical instrument classification system based upon the sound onset.
M. J. Newton and L. S. Smith.
Accepted for publication in J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (2012).

Microelectromechanical systems for biomimetical applications.
R. Latif, E. Mastropaolo, A. Bunting, R. Cheung, T. Koickal, A. Hamilton, M. J. Newton & L. S. Smith
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures 28(6), 2010.

Trombone bore optimization based on input impedance targets.
A. Braden, M. J. Newton and D. M. Campbell.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125(4), pp. 2404-2412, 2009.

Mechanical response measurements of real and artificial brass player's lips.
M. J. Newton, D. M. Campbell, and J. Gilbert.
J. Acous. Soc. Am. 123(1), pp. EL14-EL20, 2008.

Conference submissions

Using spiking onset neurons and a recurrent neural network for sound identification.
M. J. Newton & L. S. Smith
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, USA, 2011.
[J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129, pp. 2486.]

Biologically-inspired neural coding of sound onset for a musical sound classification task.
M. J. Newton & L. S. Smith
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE), San Jose, CA, 2011.

Design of a Spike Event Coded RGT Microphone for Neuromorphic Auditory Systems.
T. Koickal, R. Latif, L. Gouveia, E. Mastropaolo, S. Wang, A. Hamilton, R. Cheung, M. J. Newton & L. S. Smith
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE), 2011.

Spiking onset neurons for sound identification.
M. J. Newton and L. S. Smith.
Machine Listening Workshop, QMU London, 2010.

Mechanical Response Studies of Real and Artificial Brass Player's Lips.
M. J. Newton, J. Gilbert and D. Campbell.
ISMA 2007, Barcelona, 2007.

Applications of particle image velocimetry to musical acoustics research.
M. J. Newton and R. Macdonald.
Scottish Fluid Mechanics Conference, St Andrews, 2007.

An experimental study of the airflow through an in vitro model of self-oscillating vocal folds using particle image velocimetry.
M. J. Newton and D. M. Campbell.
In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Southampton, UK, 2006.