Bob Lawlor

Dr Bob Lawlor

Electronic Engineering, ALL Institute, Human Health Institute

Lecturer

Assistant Professor

Location Engineering Building

Room E3.04

Phone (01) 708 6199

Email bob.lawlor@mu.ie

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

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	Start date	End date
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

Publications

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]

Professional

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

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.