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Professor Paul White BSc(Hons), PhD

Professor of Statistical Signal Processing

Professor Paul White is Professor of Statistical Signal Processing within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.

Sound plays a vital role in the lives of marine mammals; understanding how they use acoustics provides inspiration for man-made systems, whilst monitoring the impact of man-made noise is important for their conservation.

Paul is Professor of Statistical Signal Processing in the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) and is currently the Director of that Institute.

Having obtained a BSc in Mathematics in 1985, Paul moved along the south coast to Southampton to undertake his PhD at the University of Southampton, becoming a lecturer in ISVR in 1988 and was awarded his Chair in 2004.

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Research interests

Paul has research interests which include signal processing, underwater acoustics and bioacoustics (the way animals, especially marine mammals, use sound). He is primarily concerned with developing tools to assist in the computer-aided analysis of underwater sounds and understanding the role of those sounds in the marine environment.

Acoustics, in the form of sonar, is an important tool for the exploration of the marine environment. It is used by the seismic industry to locate oil and gas reserves, by the military to detect objects, by oceanographers to make measurements and by marine mammals to survive.

Man-made underwater acoustic systems rely upon computers to process the data coming from sensors to interpret the environment. The processing methods within the computer systems are a critical component often defining the overall success of the instrument.

Examples of current research

The processing of calls of marine mammals
Underwater noise
Fish acoustics
Acoustics of birds

Research group

Signal Processing and Control Group

Articles

Leighton, T. G., Coles, D. G. H., Srokosz, M., Srokozs, M., White, P., & Woolf, D. K. (2018). Asymmetric transfer of CO₂ across a broken sea surface. Scientific Reports, 8, 1-9. [8301]. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25818-6
Fletcher, M., Lloyd Jones, S., White, P., Dolder, C., Leighton, T., & Lineton, B. (2018). Effects of very high-frequency sound and ultrasound on humans part I: adverse symptoms after exposure to audible very-high frequency sound. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Fletcher, M., Lloyd Jones, S., White, P., Dolder, C., Leighton, T., & Lineton, B. (2018). Effects of very high-frequency sound and ultrasound on humans part II: a double-blind randomized provocation study of inaudible 20-kHz ultrasound. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Dolder, C., Fletcher, M., Lloyd Jones, S., Lineton, B., Dennison, S., Symmonds, M., ... Leighton, T. (2018). Measurements of ultrasonic pest deterrents and an acoustically branded hairdryer: Ambiguities in guideline compliance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Fletcher, M., Lloyd Jones, S., White, P., Dolder, C., Lineton, B., & Leighton, T. (2018). Public exposure to ultrasound and very-high frequency sound in air. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
White, P., & Zhang, Z. (2017). A blind source separation approach for humpback whale song separation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(4), 2705-2714. DOI: 10.1121/1.4980856
Dogan, H., White, P., & Leighton, T. (2017). Acoustic wave propagation in gassy porous marine sediments: the rheological and the elastic effects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(3), 2277-2288. DOI: 10.1121/1.4978926
Damien, J., Adam, O., Cazau, D., White, P., Laitman, J. T., & Reidenberg, J. (2017). Anatomy and functional morphology of the mysticete rorqual whale larynx: Phonation positions of the U-fold. The Anatomical Record.
Tharimena, S., Rychert, C., Harmon, N., & White, P. (2017). Imaging Pacific lithosphere seismic discontinuities – Insights from SS Precursor modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(3), 2131–2152. DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013526
Neenan, S. T. V., White, P., Leighton, T., & Shaw, P. (2017). Modeling vessel noise emissions through the accumulation and propagation of Automatic Identification System data. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 27(070017), 1-10. DOI: 10.1121/2.0000338
Hannis, S., Chadwick, A., Connelly, D., Blackford, J., Leighton, T., Jones, D., ... Dixon, T. (2017). Review of offshore CO2 storage monitoring: operational and research experiences of meeting regulatory and technical requirements. Energy Procedia, 114, 5967-5980. DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1732
Solan, M., Hauton, C., Godbold, J. A., Wood, C. L., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. (2016). Anthropogenic sources of underwater sound can modify how sediment-dwelling invertebrates mediate ecosystem properties. Scientific Reports, 6, [20540]. DOI: 10.1038/srep20540
Gruden, P., & White, P. R. (2016). Automated tracking of dolphin whistles using Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density (GM-PHD) filters. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1-47. DOI: 10.1121/1.4962980
Leighton, T., Banda, N., Berges, B., Joseph, P., & White, P. (2016). Extraterrestrial sound for planetaria: a pedagogical study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(2), 1469-1480. DOI: 10.1121/1.4960785
Mantouka, A., Dogan, H., White, P., & Leighton, T. (2016). Modelling acoustic scattering, sound speed, and attenuation in gassy soft marine sediments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(1), 274-282. DOI: 10.1121/1.4954753
Gruden, P., White, P., Oswald, J., Barkley, Y., Cerchio, S., Lammers, M., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2015). Differences in oscillatory whistles produced by spinner (Stenella longirostris) and pantropical spotted (Stenella attenuata) dolphins. Marine Mammal Science, 1-15. DOI: 10.1111/mms.12280
Berges, B. J. P., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2015). Passive acoustic quantification of gas fluxes during controlled gas release experiments. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 38, 64-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.02.008
Blackford, J., Stahl, H., Bull, J. M., Bergès, B. J. P., Cevatoglu, M., Lichtschlag, A., ... Widdicombe, S. (2014). Detection and impacts of leakage from sub-seafloor deep geological carbon dioxide storage. Nature Climate Change, 4, 1011-1016. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2381
Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2014). Dolphin-inspired target detection for sonar and radar. Archives of Acoustics, 39(3), 319-332. DOI: 10.2478/aos-2014-0037
Motamedi Fakhr, S., Moshrefi-Torbati, M., Hill, M., Hill, C. M., & White, P. R. (2014). Signal processing techniques applied to human sleep EEG signals - a review. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 10, 21-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2013.12.003
Guoji, S., McLaughlin, S., Yongchen, X., & White, P. R. (2014). Theoretical and experimental analysis of bispectrum of vibration signals for fault diagnosis of gears. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 43(1-2), 76-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2013.08.023
Gillespie, D., Caillat, M., Gordon, J., & White, P. R. (2013). Automatic detection and classification of odontocete whistles. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(3), 2427-2437. DOI: 10.1121/1.4816555
Leighton, T. G., Turangan, C. K., Jamaluddin, A. R., Ball, G. J., & White, P. R. (2013). Prediction of far-field acoustic emissions from cavitation clouds during shock wave lithotripsy for development of a clinical device. Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 469(2150), 20120538-[21pp]. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0538
Leighton, T. G., Chua, G. H., White, P. R., Tong, K. F., Griffiths, H. D., & Daniels, D. J. (2013). Radar clutter suppression and target discrimination using twin inverted pulses. Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 469(2160), 1-14. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2013.0512
Leighton, T. G., Chua, G. H., & White, P. R. (2012). Do dolphins benefit from nonlinear mathematics when processing their sonar returns? Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 468, 3517-3532. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0247
White, P. R., & Locke, J. D. (2012). Performance of methods based on the fractional Fourier transform for the detection of linear frequency modulated signals. IET Signal Processing, 6(5), 478-483. DOI: 10.1049/iet-spr.2011.0189
Lui, J., Jie, M., Kang, Z., & White, P. R. (2012). Pulsar navigation for interplanetary missions using CV model and ASUKF. Aerospace Science and Technology, 22(1), 19-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2011.04.010
Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2012). Quantification of undersea gas leaks from carbon capture and storage facilities, from pipelines and from methane seeps, by their acoustic emissions. Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 468, 485-510. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0221
Finfer, D. C., White, P. R., Chua, G. H., & Leighton, T. G. (2012). Review of the occurrence of multiple pulse echolocation clicks in recordings from small odontocetes. IET Radar Sonar & Navigation, 6(6), 545-555. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2011.0348
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Finfer, D. C. (2012). The opportunities and challenges in the use of extra-terrestrial acoustics in the exploration of the oceans of icy planetary bodies. Earth Moon and Planets, 109(1-4), 91-116. DOI: 10.1007/s11038-012-9399-6
Chua, G. H., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2012). Use of clicks resembling those of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) to improve target discrimination in bubbly water with biased pulse summation sonar. IET Radar Sonar & Navigation, 6(6), 510-515. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2011.0199
Johansson, A. T., & White, P. R. (2011). An adaptive filter-based method for robust, automatic detection and frequency estimation of whistles. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(2), 893-903. DOI: 10.1121/1.3609117
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., Chua, G. H., White, P. R., & Dix, J. K. (2011). Clutter suppression and classification using twin inverted pulse sonar in ship wakes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(5), 3431-3437. DOI: 10.1121/1.3626131
Jing, L., Zhi-wei, K., White, P. R., Jie, M., & Jin-wen, T. (2011). Doppler/XNAV–integrated navigation system using small-area X-ray sensor. IET Radar Sonar & Navigation, 5(9), 1010-1017. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2011.0021
Locke, J. D., & White, P. R. (2011). The performance of methods based on the fractional Fourier transform for detecting marine mammal vocalizations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(4), 1974-1984. DOI: 10.1121/1.3631664
Ryue, J., Thompson, D. J., White, P. R., & Thompson, D. R. (2011). Wave reflection and transmission due to defects in infinite structural waveguides at high frequencies. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 330(8), 1737-1753. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2010.10.034
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., White, P. R., Chua, G. H., & Dix, J. K. (2010). Clutter suppression and classification using twin inverted pulse sonar (TWIPS). Proceedings of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 466(2124), 3453-3478. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0154
Pace, F., Benard, F., Glotin, H., Adam, O., & White, P. (2010). Subunit definition and analysis for humpback whale call classification. Applied Acoustics. DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.05.016
Liu, J., Jia, M., Tian, J., Kang, Z., & White, P. R. (2010). X-ray pulsar navigation method for spacecraft with pulsar direction error. Advances in Space Research, 46(11), 1409-1417. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.08.019
Andrianakis, Y., & White, P. R. (2009). A speech enhancement algorithm based on a Chi MRF model of the speech STFT amplitudes. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 17(8), 1508-1517. DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2022199
Ryue, J., Thompson, D. J., White, P. R., & Thompson, D. R. (2009). Decay rates of propagating waves in railway tracks at high frequencies. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 320(4-5), 955-976. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2008.09.025
Andrianakis, L., & White, P. R. (2009). Speech spectral amplitude estimators using optimally shaped Gamma and Chi priors. Speech Communication, 51(1), 1-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.05.018
Gutowski, M., Bull, J. M., Dix, J. K., Henstock, T. J., Hogarth, P., Hillier, T., ... White, P. R. (2008). 3D high-resolution acoustic imaging of the sub-seabed. Applied Acoustics, 69(3), 262-272. DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.08.010
Leighton, T. G., Fedele, F., Coleman, A. J., McCarthy, C., Ryves, S., Hurrell, A. M., ... White, P. R. (2008). A passive acoustic device for real-time monitoring the efficacy of shockwave lithotripsy treatment. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 34(10), 1651-1665. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.03.011
Leighton, T. G., Coles, D. C., Ainslie, M. A., & White, P. R. (2008). Bubbles at the top and bottom of the water column: the acoustical effects, and the use of acoustics to measure them. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3085. DOI: 10.1121/1.2932907
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., & White, P. R. (2008). Experimental evidence for enhanced target detection by sonar in bubbly water. Hydroacoustics, 11, 181-202.
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Finfer, D. C. (2008). Hypotheses regarding exploitation of bubble acoustics by cetaceans. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3104. DOI: 10.1121/1.2932973
Johansson, A. T., & White, P. R. (2008). Instantaneous frequency estimation at low signal-to-noise ratios using time-varying notch filters. Signal Processing, 88(5), 1271-1288. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.11.014
White, P. R., & Hadley, M. L. (2008). Introduction to particle filters for tracking applications in the passive acoustic monitoring of cetaceans. Canadian Acoustics, 36(1), 146-152.
Deeks, J. L., & White, P. R. (2008). Investigation of a novel nonlinear detector of weak acoustic signals in noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3431. DOI: 10.1121/1.2934204
Ryue, J., Thompson, D. J., White, P. R., & Thompson, D. R. (2008). Investigations of propagating wave types in railway tracks at high frequencies. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 315(1-2), 157-175. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2008.01.054
Finfer, D. C., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2008). Issues relating to the use of a 61.5 db conversion factor when comparing airborne and underwater anthropogenic noise levels. (In special issue on: the detection of buried marine targets). Applied Acoustics, 69(5), 464-471. DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2007.05.008
Yan, Q., Vaseghi, S., Zavarehei, E., Milner, B., Darch, J., & White, P. R. (2008). Kalman tracking of linear predictor and harmonic noise models for noisy speech enhancement. Computer Speech & Language, 22(1), 69-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2007.06.002
Leighton, T., Fedele, F., Coleman, A., McCarthy, C., Jamaluddin, A., Turangan, C., ... White, P. (2008). The development of a passive acoustic device for monitoring the effectiveness of shockwave lithotripsy in real time. Hydroacoustics, 11, 159-180.
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., & White, P. R. (2008). The problems with acoustics on a small planet. Icarus, 193(2), 649-652. DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.10.008
Gutowski, M., Bull, J. M., Dix, J. K., Henstock, T. J., Hogarth, P., Hillier, T., ... White, P. R. (2008). Three dimensional high-resolution acoustic imaging of the sub-seabed. Applied Acoustics, 69(5), 412-421. DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.08.013
Leighton, T. G., Mantouka, A., White, P. R., & Klusek, Z. (2008). Towards field measurements of populations of methane gas bubbles in marine sediment: an inversion method required for interpreting two-frequency isonification data from sediment containing gas bubbles. Hydroacoustics, 11, 203-224.
Mantouka, A., Leighton, T. G., Robb, G. B., Best, A. I., Dix, J. K., Klusek, Z., & White, P. R. (2008). Use of dual methods to infer methane bubble populations in gassy sediments: inversion of combination-frequency data. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3350. DOI: 10.1121/1.2933912
Robb, G. B. N., Leighton, T. G., Mantouka, A., Best, A. I., Dix, J. K., Humphrey, V. F., ... White, P. R. (2008). Use of dual methods to infer methane bubble populations in gassy sediments: Inversion of propagation data. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3442. DOI: 10.1121/1.2934244
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Finfer, D. C. (2008). Waterfalls in space, and other problems of "underwater" acoustics on a small planet. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3401. DOI: 10.1121/1.2934098
Leighton, T., Finfer, D., Grover, E., & White, P. (2007). An acoustical hypothesis for the spiral bubble nets of humpback whales and the implications for whale feeding. Acoustics Bulletin, 22(1), 17-21.
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., & White, P. R. (2007). Cavitación y cetáceos. [Cavitation and cetacean]. Revista de acustica, 38(3-4), 37-74.
Yan, Q., Vaseghi, S., Zavarehei, E., Milner, B., Darch, J., White, P., & Andrianakis, I. (2007). Formant-tracking linear prediction model using HMMs and Kalman filters for noisy speech processing. Computer Speech & Language, 21(3), 543-561. DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2006.11.001
Leighton, T., Finfer, D., & White, P. (2007). Hypotheses on the exploitation of bubble acoustics by cetaceans. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(5), p.3039. DOI: 10.1121/1.4781711
Hughes, E. R., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Petley, G. W. (2007). Investigation of an anisotropic tortuosity in a Biot model of ultrasonic propagation in cancellous bone. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(1), 568-574. DOI: 10.1121/1.2387132
White, P. R. (2007). Non-parametric techniques for the estimation of spatial spectra in non-stationary environments. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 1(3), 184-190. DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn:20050073
Ryue, J., & White, P. R. (2007). The detection of cracks in beams using chaotic excitations. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 307(3-5), 627-638. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2007.06.043
Robb, G. B. N., Best, A. I., Dix, J. K., White, P. R., Leighton, T. G., Bull, J. M., & Harris, A. (2007). The measurement of the in situ compressional wave properties of marine sediments. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 32(2), 484-496.
Fedele, F., Coleman, A. J., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., Humphrey, V. F., Ryves, S., ... Finfer, D. C. (2006). An ultrasound based passive monitoring system for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (eswl). Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 28(1), 770-773.
White, P. R., Tan, M. H., & Hammond, J. K. (2006). Analysis of the maximum likelihood, total least squares and principal component approaches for frequency response function estimation. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 290(3-5), 676-689. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2005.04.029
Leighton, T., Finfer, D., & White, P. (2006). Letter: Not sonar. Independent on Sunday. 2 April, 2006.
White, P. R., Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., Powles, C., & Baumann, O. N. (2006). Localisation of sperm whales using bottom-mounted sensors. (In special issue: Detection and localization of marine mammals using passive acoustics). Applied Acoustics, 67(11-12), 1074-1090. DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.05.002
DeStefano, A., Collis, W., & White, P. R. (2006). Synthesising and reducing film grain. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 17(1), 163-182. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2005.06.002
Robb, G. B. N., Best, A. I., Dix, J. K., Bull, J. M., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2006). The frequency dependence of compressional wave velocity and attenuation coefficient of intertidal marine sediments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(5), 2526-2537. DOI: 10.1121/1.2345908
Bull, J. M., Gutowski, M., Dix, J. K., Henstock, T. J., Hogarth, P., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2005). Design of a 3D Chirp sub-bottom imaging system. Marine Geophysical Researches, 26(2-4), 157-169. DOI: 10.1007/s11001-005-3715-8
Gelman, L., White, P. R., & Hammond, J. K. (2005). Fatigue crack diagnostics: A comparison of the use of the complex bicoherence and its magnitude. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 19(4), 913-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2004.07.009
Boltryk, P. J., Hill, M., & White, P. R. (2005). Improving the resolution of peak estimation on a sparsely sampled surface with high variance using Gaussian processes and radial basis functions. Measurement Science and Technology, 16(4), 955-965. DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/16/4/007
Camillacci, R., Ferguson, N. S., & White, P. R. (2005). Simulation and experimental validation of modal analysis for non-linear symmetric systems. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 19(1), 21-41. DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2004.05.002
Dix, J. K., Bull, J. M., Henstock, T. J., Gutowski, M., Hogarth, P., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2005). True 3D high resolution imagery of a buried shipwreck: the Invincible (1758). Eos Transactions AGU, 85(52).
Boltryk, P., Hill, M., Keary, A., Phillips, B., Robinson, H., & White, P. (2004). An ultrasonic transducer array for velocity measurement in underwater vehicles. Ultrasonics, 42(1-9), 473-478. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2003.12.036
Johansson, A. T., & White, P. R. (2004). Detection and characterization of marine mammal calls by parametric modelling. Canadian Acoustics, 32(2), 83-92.
Fedele, F., Coleman, A. J., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Hurrell, A. M. (2004). Development of a new diagnostic sensor for extra-corporeal shock-wave lithotripsy. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1, 134-139. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1/1/031
De Stefano, A., White, P. R., & Collis, W. B. (2004). Film grain reduction on colour images using undecimated wavelet transform. Image and Vision Computing, 22(11), 873-882. DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2004.04.002
DeStefano, A., Allen, R., & White, P. R. (2004). Noise reduction in spine videofluoroscopic images using the undecimated wavelet transform. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 28(8), 453-459. DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2004.07.003
Leighton, T. G., Meers, S. D., & White, P. R. (2004). Propagation through nonlinear time-dependent bubble clouds and the estimation of bubble populations from measured acoustic characteristics. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 460(2049), 2521-2550. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2004.1298
De Stefano, A., White, P. R., & Collis, W. B. (2004). Selection of thresholding scheme for image noise reduction on wavelet components using Bayesian estimation. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 21(3), 225-33. DOI: 10.1023/B:JMIV.0000043738.05389.74
Boltryk, P. J., Hill, M., Keary, A. C., & White, P. R. (2004). Surface-fitting for improving the resolution of peak estimation on a sparsely sampled two-dimensional surface with high levels of variance, for an acoustic velocity log. Measurement Science and Technology, 15(3), 581-591. DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/15/3/010
Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2004). The sound of Titan: a role for acoustics in space exploration. Acoustics Bulletin, 29(4), 16-23.
De Stefano, A., White, P. R., & Collis, W. B. (2004). Training methods for image noise level estimation on wavelet components (in Special issue on Non-Linear Signal and Image Processing—Part II). EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2004(16), 2400-2407. DOI: 10.1155/S1110865704401218
Leighton, T. G., Richards, S. D., & White, P. R. (2004). Trapped within a 'wall of sound': a possible mechanism for the bubble nets of the humpback whales. Acoustics Bulletin, 29(1), 24-29.
Gutowski, M., Bull, J. M., Dix, J. K., Henstock, T., Hogarth, P., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2003). Chirp sub-bottom profiler source signature design and field testing. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 5, EAE03A-01556.
Hughes, E. R., Leighton, T. G., Petley, G. W., White, P. R., & Chivers, R. C. (2003). Estimation of critical and viscous frequencies for Biot theory in cancellous bone. Ultrasonics, 41(5), 365-368. DOI: 10.1016/S0041-624X(03)00107-0
Gutowski, M., Bull, J., Henstock, T., Dix, J., Hogarth, P., Leighton, T., & White, P. (2002). Chirp sub-bottom profiler source signature design and field testing. Marine Geophysical Researches, 23(5-6), 481-492. DOI: 10.1023/B:MARI.0000018247.57117.0e
Romero-Vivas, E., & White, P. R. (2002). Heart sound segmentation by hidden Markov models. IEE Seminar Digest: Medical Applications of Signal Processing, 110, 19. DOI: 10.1049/ic:20020297
Richards, S. D., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2002). High frequency sonar variability in littoral environments: Absorption by irregular particles and bubbles. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(5), p. 2309.
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., Morfey, C. L., Clarke, J. W. L., Heald, G. J., Dumbrell, H. A., & Holland, K. R. (2002). The effect of reverberation on the damping of bubbles. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(4), 1366-1376. DOI: 10.1121/1.1501895
Cunningham, K. B., Coleman, A., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2001). Characterising in vivo acoustic cavitation during lithotripsy with time-frequency methods. Acoustics Bulletin, 26(5), 10-16.
Yim, G. T., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2001). Estimation of the time, location and natural frequency of entrained bubbles, through identification of individual bubble signatures in a severely overlapping, noisy surf zone environment (presented at Acoustical Oceanography 2001, Southampton). Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 23(2), 250-256.
Leighton, T. G., Meers, S. D., Simpson, M. D., Clarke, J. W. L., Yim, G. T., Birkin, P. B., ... Richards, S. D. (2001). The Hurst Spit Experiment: the characterisation of bubbles in the surf zone using multiple acoustic techniques (paper presented at Acoustical oceanography 2001). Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 23(2), 227-234.
Meers, S. D., Leighton, T. G., Clarke, J. W. L., Heald, G. J., Dumbrell, H. A., White, P. R., ... Griffiths, G. (Ed.) (2001). The importance of bubble ring-up and pulse length in estimating the bubble distribution from propagation measurements. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 23(2), 6pp.
Lee, S. K., & White, P. R. (2001). The L-Wigner distribution and its use as a tool for condition monitoring. International Journal of COMADEM, 4(1), 5-11.
Hughes, E. R., Leighton, T. G., Petley, G. W., & White, P. R. (2001). Ultrasonic assessment of bone health. Acoustics Bulletin, 26(5), 17-23.
Hughes, E. R., Petley, G. W., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2000). A stratified model for ultrasonic wavesin bone. Osteoporosis International, 11(Supplement 3), p.S34.
Hughes, E. R., White, P. R., Leighton, T. G., & Petley, G. W. (2000). Recent advances in the understanding of ultrasonic propagation in cancellous bone. Osteoporosis International, 11(Supplement 1), S33-S34.
Hughes, E. R., Leighton, T. G., Petley, G. W., & White, P. R. (1999). Ultrasonic propagation in cancellous bone: a new stratified model. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 25(5), 811-821. DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00034-4
Leighton, T. G., White, P., & Schneider, M. F. (1998). The detection and dimension of bubble entrainment and comminution. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103(4), 1825-1835. DOI: 10.1121/1.421374
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Marsden, M. A. (1995). Applications of one-dimensional bubbles to lithotripsy, and to diver response to low frequency sound. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 3, 517-529.
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Marsden, M. A. (1995). The one-dimensional bubble: an unusual oscillator, with applications to human bioeffects of underwater sound. European Journal of Physics, 16(6), 275-281. DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/16/6/006

Book Chapters

Neenan, S., Piper, R., White, P., Kemp, P., Leighton, T., & Shaw, P. (2016). Does masking matter? Shipping noise and fish vocalizations. In A. Popper, & A. Hawkins (Eds.), The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II (pp. 747-753). (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Vol. 875). New York, NY: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_91
White, P. R. (2009). Higher order statistical signal processing. In C. Boller, F-K. Chang, & Y. Fujino (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Structural Health Monitoring (pp. 567-578). Chichester: UK: Wiley.
White, P. R. (2004). Modelling of sound propagation in the ocean. In F. Fahy, & J. Walker (Eds.), Advanced Applications in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration (pp. 154-180). UK: Taylor & Francis.
White, P. R., & Hammond, J. K. (2004). Signal processing techniques. In F. Fahy, & J. Walker (Eds.), Advanced Applications in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration (pp. 1-50). UK: Taylor & Francis.
White, P. R. (2002). Time-frequency methods. In S. G. Braun, D. J. Ewins, & S. S. Rao (Eds.), Encyclopedia of vibrartion (pp. 1360-1369). London: Academic Press. DOI: 10.1006/rwvb.2001.0056
White, P. R. (2002). Transforms, wavelets. In S. G. Braun, D. J. Ewins, & S. S. Rao (Eds.), Encyclopedia of vibrartion (pp. 1419-1435). London: Academic Press. DOI: 10.1006/rwvb.2001.0157

Conferences

Fletcher, M. D., Lloyd Jones, S., Dolder, C. N., White, P., Leighton, T., & Lineton, B. (2018). Adverse effects of very high-frequency sound and ultrasound on humans. The Journal of The Acoustical Society of America, 143(3), 1. [1864]. DOI: 10.1121/1.5036113
Fletcher, M., Dolder, C., White, P., Leighton, T., & Lineton, B. (2018). High levels of very high-frequency sound and ultrasound in public and work places. In British Society of Audiology Basic Auditory Science 2018 Seafield: British Society of Audiology.
Fletcher, M., Lloyd Jones, S., Dolder, C., White, P., Leighton, T., & Lineton, B. (2017). Effects of very high-frequency sound and ultrasound on humans. In British Society of Audiology Basic Auditory Science Meeting British Society of Audiology.
Mistry, N., White, P., & Leighton, T. (2017). Efficacy of up and down-chirps for two-pulse sonar techniques. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(5), 3608. DOI: 10.1121/1.4987725
Chen, L., Norwood, C., White, P., & Leighton, T. (2017). Study of bubble formation dynamics based on associated acoustic radiation. Paper presented at 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, London, United Kingdom.
Mistry, N., White, P., & Leighton, T. (2016). Enhanced target detection and classification using two-pulse sonar methods. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(4), 2968. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4969181
Deleau, M., Leighton, T., White, P., & Kemp, P. (2016). Understanding the impact of human sounds on eel behaviour, a way to develop behavioural guidance techniques.
Dogan, H., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2015). Acoustic inversion for gas bubble distributions in marine sediments: mercury results. Paper presented at Seabed and Sediment Acoustics: Measurements and Modelling, United Kingdom.
Dogan, H., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2014). Comparison of theories for acoustic wave propagation in gassy marine sediments. Paper presented at 2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Underwater Acoustics (UA2014), Greece.
Berges, B. J. P., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Tomczyk, M. (2014). Passive acoustic quantification of gas releases. Paper presented at 2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Underwater Acoustics (UA2014), Greece.
Dachasilaruk, S., Bleeck, S., & White, P. R. (2013). Noise reduction in wavelet domain for cochlear implants. Poster session presented at British Society of Audiology Short Papers Meeting, United Kingdom.
Leighton, T. G., Chua, G-H., & White, P. (2013). Use of dolphin-like pulses to enhance target discrimination and reduce clutter. 075045-075045. Paper presented at International Congress on Acoustics, Canada.DOI: 10.1121/1.4798771
Berges, B. J. P., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., Tomczk, M., & Wright, I. C. (2012). Acoustic detection of seabed gas leaks, with application to carbon capture and storage (CCS), and leak prevention for the oil and gas industry: preliminary assessment of use of active and passive acoustic inversion for the quantification of underwater gas releases. In Proceedings of 11th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (pp. 146-152). Heraklion, Greece: Secretariat, European Conference on Underwater Acoustics.
Tomczk, M., Bohrmann, G., Berges, B. J. P., White, P. R., Leighton, T. G., & Wright, I. C. (2012). Detection, localization and quantification of the emissions of gas from the seabed in fieldwork and experimental studies using active sonar systems. 605-612. Paper presented at 11th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA2012), United Kingdom.
Chua, G. H., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2012). Use of clicks resembling those of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) with biased pulse summation sonar (BiaPSS) to improve target discrimination in bubbly water. 1903-1908. Paper presented at 11th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA2012), United Kingdom.
White, P. R., & Locke, J. (2010). The performance of a fractional fourier transform based detector for frequency modulated signals. Paper presented at Sensor Signal Processing for Defence, United Kingdom.
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., White, P. R., Chua, G. H., & Dix, J. K. (2010). Wake penetrating sonar. Paper presented at 1st EAA Congress on Sound and Vibration (EuroRegio 2010), Slovenia.
Papadopoulos, T., Christensen, J. E. N., Fox, P., Allen, R., Dorney, S., & White, P. (2009). Beat the dolphin - a multimedia demonstration of dolphin echolocation. Paper presented at EDULearn 09 International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, .
Pace, F., White, P. R., & Adam, O. (2009). Characterization of sound subunits for humpback whale song analysis. 4th International Workshop on Detection, Classification and Localization of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics, Italy.
Locke, J. D., & White, P. R. (2009). Detection performance of the fractional Fourier transform (chirp FFT) for frequency modulated signals. In J. S. Papdakis, & L. Bjorno (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements, Technologies and Results Heraklion, Greece: Foundation for Research and Technology.
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Finfer, D. C. (2009). Hypotheses on the acoustics of whales, dolphins and porpoises in bubbly water. In J. S. Papdakis, & L. Bjorno (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements, Technologies and Results (pp. 3-14). Heraklion, Greece: IACM.
Mantouka, A., Leighton, T. G., Best, A. I., Dix, J. K., & White, P. R. (2009). Inferring bubble populations in intertidal sediments from attenuation and scattering measurements. In J. S. Papdakis, & L. Bjorno (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements, Technologies and Results (pp. 733-738). Heraklion, Greece: Institute of Applied & Computational Mathematics (IACM).
Estupiñan, E. A., White, P. R., & San Martin, C. (2008). A cyclostationary analysis applied to detection and diagnosis of faults in helicopter gearboxes. In L. Rueda, D. Mery, & J. Kittler (Eds.), Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications. Proceedings of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2007, Valpariso, Chile 13-16 November 2007 (pp. 61-70). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4756). Berlin: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76725-1_7
Bleeck, S., Fox, P. D., White, P. R., & O'Meara, N. (2008). Auditory models and nonlinear filter banks in underwater auralization. Paper presented at 2nd ASA-EAA Joint Conference, Acoustics '08, .
Bleeck, S., Fox, P. D., White, P. R., & O'Meara, N. (2008). Auditory models and nonlinear filterbanks in underwater auralization. 3344-3344. DOI: 10.1121/1.2933893
Leighton, T. G., Fedele, F., Coleman, A. J., McCarthy, C., Ryves, S., Hurrell, A. M., ... White, P. R. (2008). Clinical studies of real-time monitoring of lithotripter performance using passive acoustic sensors. In A. P. Evan, J. E. Lingeman, J. A. McAteer, & J. C. Williams Jr (Eds.), Renal Stone Disease 2: 2nd International Urolithiasis Research Symposium (pp. 256-277). (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 1049, No. (1)). Melville, USA: American Institue of Physics. DOI: 10.1063/1.2998033
Marques, A., Bruton, A., Barney, A., & White, P. (2008). Computer aided lung sound analysis before and after physiotherapy for mucociliary clearance. Poster session presented at European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, .
Zheng, H., White, P. R., & Pei, C. (2008). Estimation of frequency trajectories using parsimonious time-varying auto-regressive models with particle filters. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing (pp. 46-50). Southend-on-Sea: Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., Finfer, D. C., Zakharia, M. E. (Ed.), Cassereau, D. (Ed.), & Luppe, F. (Ed.) (2008). Hypotheses regarding exploitation of bubble acoustics by cetaceans. 77-82. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, .
Saunders, K. J., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2008). Models for predicting nitrogen tensions and decompression sickness risk in diving beaked whales. 82-89. Paper presented at Institute of Acoustics: Underwater Noise Measurement, Impact and Mitigation 2008 Conference, .
Saunders, K. J., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2008). Models for predicting nitrogen tensions in diving odontocetes. 88. Poster session presented at 22nd Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society - Marine Mammals in Time: Past, Present And Future, .
Saunders, K., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2008). Models for prediction nitrogen tissue tensions in diving odontocetes. 88. Paper presented at 22nd Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 'Marine Mammals in Time: Past, Present and Future', .
Gelman, L., White, P. R., Bateup, L., Cooper, I., Drabych, O., Hill, G., ... Tyrer, J. R. (2008). Novel high order spectral time-frequency nonlinear technologies for early damage detection. p.6. Paper presented at 9th International Conference ART-2008 - Non-destructive investigations and microanalysis for the diagnostics and conservation of cultural and environmental heritage, .
Marques, A., Bruton, A., Barney, A., & White, P. (2008). Reliability of computer aided lung sound analysis detecting crackles in bronchiectasis patients: a potential outcome measure for respiratory physiotherapy. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, .
Hadley, M., & White, P. R. (2008). Sperm whale tracking using particle filters. 83pp. Paper presented at ECS Conference 2008. "Marine Mammals in Time: Past, Present and Future", .
Ryue, J., Thompson, D. J., White, P. R., & Thompson, D. R. (2008). Wave propagation in railway tracks at high frequencies. In B. Schulte-Werning, D. J. Thompson, P-E. Gautier, C. Hanson, B. Hemsworth, J. Nelson, T. Maeda, ... P. de Vos (Eds.), Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Railway Noise, Munich Germany 4-8 September 2007 (pp. 440-446). (Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design; Vol. 99). Berlin, DE: Springer-Verlag. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74893-9
Ryue, J., Thompson, D. J., & White, P. R. (2008). Wave reflection and transmission due to defects in railway tracks at high frequencies. 1251-1258. Paper presented at 15th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV15), Korea, Republic of.
Finfer, D. C., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2007). Biological sources of ambient noise in the North East Atlantic Ocean. In J. S. Papadakis, & L. Bjorno (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements, Technologies and Results (pp. 1223-1228). Southampton, UK: Institute of Sound and Vibration Research.
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., & White, P. R. (2007). Cavitation and cetacean. 1-31. Paper presented at 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2007MADRID), .
Estupinan, E., & White, P. R. (2007). Cyclostationary analysis of a tool for the detection of incipient faults in helicopter gearboxes. 607-614. Paper presented at 2nd World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (EAM) and the 4th InternationalConference on Condition Monitoring, .
Fox, P. D., Bleeck, S., White, P. R., Leighton, T. G., & Humphrey, V. F. (2007). Initial results on size discrimination of similar underwater objects using a human hearing model. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics (pp. 233-239). St Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics.
Finfer, D. C., White, P. R., Leighton, T. G., Hadley, M., & Harland, E. (2007). On clicking sounds in UK waters and a preliminary study of their possible biological origin. In 4th International Conference on Bio-Acoustics (pp. 209-216). (Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics; Vol. 29, pt.3). St Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics.
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., & White, P. R. (2007). Sonar which penetrates bubble clouds. In J. S. Papadakis, & L. Bjorno (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements, Technologies and Results (pp. 555-562). Southampton, UK: Institute of Sound and Vibration Research.
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., Grover, E., & White, P. R. (2007). Spiral bubble nets of humpback whales: an acoustic mechanism. In J. S. Papadakis, & L. Bjorno (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements, Technologies and Results (pp. 583-588). Southampton, UK: Institute of Sound and Vibration Research.
Romero-Vivas, E., & White, P. R. (2007). Time evolved cepstral coefficients for phonocardiogram signal representation. 523-533. Paper presented at 14th Mexican International Congress on Acoustics/14 Congreso Internacional Mexicano De Acústica, .
Fedele, F., Coleman, A. J., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., Humphrey, V. F., Ryves, S., ... Finfer, D. C. (2006). An ultrasound based passive monitoring system for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference (pp. 770-773). St Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics.
Fedele, F., Coleman, A. J., Ryves, S., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., Humphrey, V. F., ... Hurrell, A. M. (2006). An ultrasound-based passive monitoring system for extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL). Paper presented at Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2006: Futures in Acoustics: Today's Research - Tomorrow's Careers, .
Karatsovis, C., White, P. R., & Hammond, J. K. (2006). Cepstral analysis of piano notes. 623-632. Paper presented at Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2006: Futures in Acoustics: Today's Research - Tomorrow's Careers, .
Becker, T., & White, P. R. (2006). Independent component analysis using Gaussian mixture models. Paper presented at Seventh International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, .
White, P. R., Finfer, D. C., Leighton, T. G., Powles, C., & Baumann, O. N. (2006). Localisation of whales using acoustics. 48-59. Paper presented at Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2006: Futures in Acoustics: Today's Research - Tomorrow's Careers, .
Finfer, D. C., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2006). Marine mammals, noise and sonar in shallow coastal bubbly waters. 69-74. Paper presented at Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2006: Futures in Acoustics: Today's Research - Tomorrow's Careers, .
Finfer, D. C., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2006). Marine mammals, noise, and sonar in shallow coastal bubbly waters. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference (pp. 69-74). St Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics.
Robb, G. B. N., Leighton, T. G., Dix, J. K., Best, A. I., Humphrey, V. H., & White, P. R. (2006). Measuring bubble populations in gassy marine sediments: a review. In Futures in Acoustics: Today's Research - Tomorrow's Careers. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference. 2006 (pp. 60-68). St. Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics.
Andrianakis, I., & White, P. R. (2006). On the application of Markov Random Fields to speech enhancement. 198-201. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 7th IMA International Conference in Signal Processing, .
Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., Finfer, D. C., & Grover, E. J. (2006). The sound of seas in space: the 'waterfalls' of Titan and the ice seas of Europa. 75-97. Paper presented at Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2006: Futures in Acoustics: Today's Research - Tomorrow's Careers, .
Ryue, J., Thompson, D. J., & White, P. R. (2006). Wave propagation in railway tracks at high frequencies. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics (RASD2006) (pp. 11pp). Southampton, UK: University of Southampton.
Bull, J. M., Gutowski, M., Dix, J. K., Henstock, T. J., Hogarth, P., Leighton, T. G., ... Bjorno, L. (Ed.) (2005). 3D chirp sub-bottom imaging system: design and first 3D volume. 777-782. Paper presented at International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies & Results, .
James, C. J., & White, P. R. (2005). Computational intelligence techniques in tracking and decomposing recordings of normal and abnormal heart sounds. Paper presented at Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (CIMED 2005), .
White, P. R., Collis, W. B., Robinson, S., & Kokaram, A. (2005). Inference matting. 167-171. Paper presented at 2nd European Conference on Visual Media Production, .
Robb, G. B. N., Dix, J. K., Best, A. I., Bull, J. M., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Seal, A. (2005). The compressional wave and physical properties of inter-tidal marine sediments. 1087-1092. Paper presented at 1st International Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies and Results, .
Johansson, A. T., & White, P. R. (2004). A comparison of two methods for cetacean tonal detection and characterisation, with emphasis on performance at crossing frequencies. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Symposium on Bio-Sonar Systems and Bio-Acoustics St. Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics.
Baumann, O. N., & White, P. R. (2004). A new metric for objective segmentation evaluation. 35-38. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Cirencester, UK, 14-16 December 2004, .
Fedele, F., Coleman, A. J., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Hurrell, A. M. (2004). A new sensor for detecting and characterising acoustic cavitation in vivo during ESWL. 422-432. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference, Southampton, UK, 29-30 March 2004, .
Andrianakis, I., & White, P. R. (2004). Adaptive bandwidth selection for mitigating the permutation problem in frequency domain ICA. 27-31. Poster session presented at Sixth Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, .
Fedele, F., Coleman, A. J., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Hurrell, A. M. (2004). Development of a new diagnostic device for extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy. 4pp. Paper presented at Proceedings of MEDICON 2004: X Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering 'Health in the Information Society', Ischia, Italy, 31 Jul-5 Aug 2004, .
White, P. R., Leighton, T. G., & Yim, G. T. (2004). Exploitation of higher order statistics to compute bubble cloud densities: evading Olber's paradox. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (pp. 223-228). European Conference on Underwater Acoustics.
Leighton, T. G., Richards, S. D., & White, P. R. (2004). Marine mammal signals in bubble water. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Symposium on Bio-sonar and Bioacoustics Systems, Loughborough, UK, 16 Sep 2004, .
Leighton, T. G., Richards, S. D., & White, P. R. (2004). Marine mammal signals in bubbly water. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Symposium on Bio-sonar and Bioacoustics Systems Institute of Acoustics.
White, P. R., Baumann, O., & DeStefano, A. (2004). On improving the noise reduction algorithms using image segmentation. 501-504. Paper presented at Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), .
White, P. R. (2004). On the performance of phase based processing schemes. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Symposium on Sonar Signal Processing (pp. 35-40). St. Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics.
Boltryk, P., Hill, M., & White, P. R. (2004). Peak-finding methods for improving the resolution of a sonar-based correlation velocity log. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Symposium on Sonar Signal Processing (pp. 206-213). St. Albans, UK: Instititue of Acoustics.
Collis, W. B., Robinson, S., & White, P. R. (2004). Synthesising film grain. 231-234. Paper presented at 1st European Conference on Visual Media Production, .
Leighton, T. G., Dumbrell, H. A., Heald, G. J., & White, P. R. (2004). The possibility and exploitation of nonlinear effects in the near-surface oceanic bubble layer. 205-210. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Delft, Holland, 5-8 July 2004, .
De Stefano, A., Allen, R., & White, P. R. (2004). Undecimated wavelet transform for enhancement of videofluoroscopic images. Paper presented at MEDICON 2004, .
Brothers, R. J., Robb, G., Leighton, T. G., Heald, G. J., White, P. R., & Dix, J. K. (2004). Very high frequency backscatter from a rough sediment. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (pp. 613-618). Delft, The Netherlands: Delft University of Technology.
Richards, S. D., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2004). Volume absorption and volume reverberation due to microbubbles and suspended particles in a ray-based sonar performance model. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (pp. 173-178). European Conference on Underwater Acoustics.
Collis, W. B., Robinson, S., & White, P. R. (2004). Wire removal. 133-138. Poster session presented at 1st European Conference on Visual Media Production, .
White, P. R., & McInerny, S. (2003). A use of the trispectrum in the monitoring of rotating machinery. 4672-4678. Paper presented at Internoise 2003, .
Johansson, A. T., & White, P. R. (2003). Characterisation of cetacean whistles by parametric modelling. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Cetacean Society (pp. 71-72). European Cetacean Society.
White, P. R., & McInerny, S. (2003). Fourth order statistics and their use for vibration monitoring. COMADIT 2003, .
White, P. R., McInerny, S., & Notley, S. (2003). Nonlinear dynamical measures for the detection of faults in machine condition monitoring. Paper presented at Bifurcations: The Use and Control of Chaos, .
White, P. R., & Hammond, J. K. (2003). Non-stationary and non-linear signal processing. 35-44. Paper presented at Internoise 2003, .
Leighton, T. G., Birkin, P. R., Maksimov, A. O., Watson, Y. E., & White, P. R. (2003). Study of the growth of surface waves from instabilities on the walls of gas bubbles. Paper presented at Bifurcations 2003: The Use and Control of Chaos, .
White, P. R. (2002). Estimation of spatial spectra in a non-stationary environment. In Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2002: XIth European Signal Processing Conference (pp. 229-232). European Signal Processing Conference.
Robb, G., Best, A. I., Dix, J. K., Leighton, T. G., Harris, A., Riggs, J. S., ... Partyka, A. (Ed.) (2002). Frequency dependence of acoustic waves in marine sediments. 43-49. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, .
White, P. R. (2002). High resolution spatial spectrum estimation in a non-stationary environment. 425-431. Paper presented at 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Greece.
Boltryk, P., Hill, M., Keary, A., Philips, B., Robinson, H., & White, P. (2002). Improvement of velocity estimate resolution for a correlation velocity log using surface fitting methods. In Proceedings of Oceans '02 MTS/IEEE (pp. 1840-1848). (IEEE Conference Proceedings; Vol. 3). Biloxi, USA: IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
White, P. R. (2002). Non-linear techniques for estimating non-stationary spatial spectra. Paper presented at IEE Workshop on Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian Signal Processing (N2SP), .
Abrard, F., Deville, Y., & White, P. R. (2001). A new source separation approach for instantaneous mixtures based on time-frequency analysis. 259-267. Paper presented at 5th Workshop on Electronics, Control, Modelling, Measurement and Signals, .
Yim, G. T., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2001). Estimation of the time, location and natural frequency of entrained bubbles, through identification of individual bubble signatures in a severely overlapping, noisy surf zone environment. In Acoustical Oceanography. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics (pp. 250-256). St Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics.
Giani, A., White, P. R., Collis, W. B., & Weston, M. (2001). Exploiting input space symmetries in video deinterlacing using radial basis function networks. 536-539. Paper presented at Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, .
Abrard, F., Deville, Y., & White, P. R. (2001). From blind source separation to blind source cancellation in the underdetermine case: A new approach based on time-frequency analysis. Paper presented at Proceedings of the ICA 2001: 3rd International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation, .
McWilliams, P. J., McLaughlin, S., Laurenson, D. I., Collis, W. B., Weston, M., & White, P. R. (2001). Non-linear filtering for broadcast television: a real-time FPGA implementation. In 2001 International Conference on Image Processing: proceedings (pp. 354-357). International Conference on Image Processing. DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2001.958404
White, P. R. (2001). The characterisation of bio-acoustic signals through time-frequency methods. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 2nd Symposium on Underwater Bio-Sonar and Bioacoustic Systems (pp. 165-174). Institute of Acoustics.
Ewe, C., Parker, K., White, P., & Henry, J. A. (2001). The pulse oximeter as a non-invasive measure of cardiovascular response to lower body negative pressure. A8. Paper presented at Scientific Meeting of the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine, .
Petley, G. W., Hughes, E. R., Leighton, T. G., & White, P. R. (2000). A stratified model of ultrasonic propagation in bone: implications for osteoporosis. Paper presented at 6th Annual National Conference of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, .
De Stefano, A., White, P. R., & Collis, W. B. (2000). An innovative approach for spatial video noise reduction using wavelet based frequency decomposition. In Proceedings. 2000 International Conference on Image Processing, 2000 (pp. 281-284). Washington DC, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2000.899350
Keary, A., Hill, M., White, P., & Robinson, H. (1999). Simulation of the correlation velocity log using a computer based acoustic model. 446-454. Paper presented at 11th International Symposium Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, .

Patent

Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Finfer, D. C. (2007). Contrast enhancement between linear and nonlinear scatterers Contrast enhancement between linear and nonlinear scatterers (Patent No. PCT/GB2006/002335.)

Reports

Hannis, S., Chadwick, A., Pearce, J., Jones, D., White, J., Wright, I., ... Leighton, T. (2015). Review of offshore monitoring for CCS Projects, 2015/02, July, 2015. Cheltenham, GB: IEA Environmental Projects Ltd.
Saunders, K. J., White, P. R., & Leighton, T. G. (2010). Could bubble growth by rectified diffusion produce macroscopic bubbles in the tissues of beaked whales? (ISVR Technical Report; No. 331). Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.
Leighton, T. G., Finfer, D. C., & White, P. R. (2007). Ocean acoustic circumpropagation in the ice seas of Europa. (ISVR Technical Reports; No. 319). Southampton, UK: University of Southampton.
White, P. R., Leighton, T. G., Saunders, K., & Jepson, P. (2007). Review of the mechanisms by which anthropogenic noise may cause cetacean strandings. (ISVR Technical Report; No. 316). Southampton, UK: University of Southampton.
Andrianakis, I., & White, P. R. (2006). Bayesian algorithms for speech enhancement. (ISVR Technical Reports; No. 305). Southampton, UK: University of Southampton.
Robb, G. B. N., White, P. R., Bull, J. M., Best, A. I., Leighton, T. G., & Dix, J. K. (2002). The estimation of geoacoustic properties from broadband acoustic data, focusing on instantaneous frequency techniques. (ISVR Technical Report; No. 298). Southampton, UK: University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research.
Hughes, E. R., Leighton, T. G., Petley, G. W., & White, P. R. (2001). A review of scattering models for ultrasonic propagation in the trabecular bone. (ISVR Technical Report; No. 293). Southampton, UK: University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research.
Hubbock, E., Leighton, T. G., White, P. R., & Petley, G. (1998). A theoretical study of factors affecting the Biot slow wave in cancellous bone. (ISVR Technical Report; No. 271). Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.

Working Paper

Camillacci, R., Ferguson, N. S., & White, P. R. (2002). Identification of nonlinear normal modes and coupled nonlinear modes. (ISVR Technical Memorandum; No. 884). Southampton, GB: University of Southampton.

Module co-ordinator for Signal Processing (ISVR6130) Contributes to the teaching of: Underwater Acoustics (ISVR3065), Control and Instrumentation (SESM3003) and Avionics (SESA6069)

Professor Paul White
Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton. SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

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Professor Paul White BSc(Hons), PhD

Professor of Statistical Signal Processing

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Detecting leaks from undersea gas pipelines, seabed methane reserves, and carbon capture and storage facilities

Do dolphins think nonlinearly?

The sounds of voices and waterfalls on other planets

Whales hunt with wall of sound

Dolphin-inspired radar for finding bombs, bugs and catastrophe victims

World's first experiment tests for leaks from carbon capture and storage seabed facilities

Are some people suffering as a result of increasing mass exposure of the public to ultrasound in air?

Man-made underwater sound may have wider ecosystem effects than previously thought

Signal Processing for Whale and Dolphin Vocalisations

Humpback whale song analysis