Staff profile

Dr David B Tay

Associate Professor

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Electronic Engineering
Centre for Technology Infusion

Beth Gleeson Building, Room 440, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BE Hons, BSc Hons UMELB., PhD Cambridge.

Membership of professional Associations

MIEEE.

Area of study

Electronic Engineering

Brief Profile

David B. H. TAY received the BEng (Electrical & Electronic) and BSc (Mathematics) degrees from the University of Melbourne and the PhD (Signal Processing) degree from Cambridge University. He was a lecturer and then assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University from 1995 till 1999. 

Since July 1999 he is with the Department of Electronic Engineering, LaTrobe University where he is currently a Reader and Associate Professor. Presently he is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing. He also serves as a member of DSP Technical Committee in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

His main research interest is in the area of wavelets and filter banks and he also has interest in the areas biomedical engineering and machine learning.

Research interests

Digital signal Processing

- wavelets and filter banks

Teaching Units

ELE1CCT - Basic Electronic Circuits

ELE3CMN - Communication Systems

ELE5BDC - Broadband Digital Communications

Recent Publications

1. D.B.H. Tay, N.G. Kingsbury, M. Palaniswami. Orthonormal Hilbert Pair of Wavelets with (Almost) Maximum Vanishing Moments. IEEE Signal Processing Letters,  Vol. 13,  No. 19,  Sep. 2006, . Pg. 533-536

2. D.B.H. Tay. On the Regularity of Orthonormal Wavelets Designed via the Zero-Pinning Technique. Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems 2006, Kos, Greece.

3. D.B.H. Tay. ETHFB: A New Class of Even-Length Wavelet Filters for Hilbert Pair Design. Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems 2006, Kos, Greece.

4. D.B.H. Tay. Least Squares Design of Orthonormal Wavelets via the Zero-Pinning Technique. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2006, Toulouse, France.

5. Cong-Van Nguyen, David B. H. Tay, Guang Deng, “A Fast Watermarking System for H.264/AVC Video,” in Special Session on Smart Multi-Media Systems, 2006 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS 2006), Singapore, December 2006.

6. Sarah A. Hope, Ian T. Meredith, David B. Tay, James D. Cameron. “`Generalizability' of a radial-aortic transfer function for the derivation of central aortic waveform parameters.” Journal of Hypertension, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2007, Pages 1812-1820.

7. S. Wang, J. H. Manton, D.B.H. Tay, C. Zhang, J. C. Devlin. “An FFT Based Method for Blind Identification of FIR SIMO Channels.” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 14, No. 7, July 2007, Pg. 437-440.

8. Guang Deng, David B. H. Tay and Slaven Marusic, “A signal denoising algorithm based on overcomplete wavelet representations and Gaussian models,” Signal Processing, Volume 87, Issue 5, May 2007, Pages 866-876.

9. David B. H. Tay, “Designing Hilbert-Pair of Wavelets: Recent Progress and Future Trends.” invited paper in Sixth International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS 2007), Singapore, December 2007.

10. D.B.H. Tay. “Daubechies Wavelets as Approximate Hilbert-Pairs?” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 15, 2008, Pg. 57-60.

11. C.V. Nguyen, D.B.H. Tay. “Regression Using Multikernel and Semiparametric Support Vector Algorithm.” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 15, 2008, Pg. 481-484.

12. D.B.H. Tay. “Hilbert Pair of Orthogonal Wavelet Bases: Revisiting the Condition IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,” Vol. 56, No. 4, April 2008, Pg. 1716-1721.

13. D.B.H. Tay. “ETHFB: A New Class of Even-Length Biorthogonal Wavelet Filters for Hilbert Pair Design”. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part-I, Vol. 55, No. 6, June 2008, Pg. 1580-1588.

14. N.G. Kingsbury and D.B.H. Tay. “1-D Multirate Filter Banks.” The Circuits and Filter Handbook - third edition, CRC Press, April 2009.

15. D.B.H. Tay. Comments on ``Design of Halfband Filters for Orthogonal Wavelets via Sum of Squares Decomposition". IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 16, No. 2, February 2009, Pg. 109-111.

16. D.B.H. Tay. “Design of Orthonormal Hilbert-Pair of Wavelets using Zero-Pinning. Signal Processing,” Vol. 90, No. 3, March 2010, Pg. 866-873.

17. D.B.H. Tay, J. Zhang. “On Hilbert-Pairs from non-minimum phase Daubechies filters.” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems 2010, Paris, France.

18. D.B.H. Tay. “A New Approach to the Common-Factor Design Technique for Hilbert-Pair of Wavelets", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 17, No. 11, 2010, Pg. 969-972.

19. D.B.H. Tay. "Design of halfband filters for orthonormal wavelets using ripple-pinning," IET Signal Processing, Vol. 5, No. 1, February 2011, Pg. 40-48.

20. D.B.H. Tay. "Direct Design of Phase Factor in the Common-Factor Technique for Hilbert-Pairs," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

21. David B. H. Tay, "Symmetric Self-Hilbertian Filters via Extended Zero-Pinning Signal Processing," Signal Processing, Feb. 2012, Pg. 392-400.

22. Selvaraaju Murugesan, David B. H. Tay. "New Techniques for Rationalizing Orthogonal and Biorthogonal Wavelet Filter Coefficients," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part-I, March 2012, Pg. 628-637.

23. Selvaraaju Murugesan, David B. H. Tay, "On the Aliasing Effect of the Finer Directional Wavelet Transform," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems 2012, Seoul, South Korea.

24.  Selvaraaju Murugesan, David B. H. Tay. "Design of Almost Symmetric Orthogonal Wavelet Filter Bank via Direct Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, May 2012, Pg. 2474-2480.

25. David B. H. Tay, "Symmetric Self-Hilbertian Wavelets via Orthogonal Lattice Optimization," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, to appear.

Older Publications

1. D.B.H. Tay and N.G. Kingsbury. ``Flexible Design of Multidimensional Perfect Reconstruction FIR 2-Band Filters using Transformations of Variables'.  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,  Vol. 2, No. 4, Pg. 466-480, October 1993.

2. D.B.H. Tay and N.G. Kingsbury. ``Design of 2-D Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks  using Transformation of Variables: IIR Case'. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II, Vol. 43, No. 3, March 1996.

3. D.B.H. Tay and N.G. Kingsbury. ``Design of Nonseparable 3-D Filter Banks / Wavelet Bases using Transformation of Variables'. IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 143, No. 1, February 1996.

4. D.B.H Tay, ``Improved Design of Causal Stable IIR Perfect Reconstruction of Filter Banks using Transformation of Variables'.  Electronic Letters, Vol. 33, No. 7, March 1997

5. D.B.H. Tay. `` Design of Filter Banks / Wavelets using TROV: A Survey '. Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal. Vol. 4, No. 7, October 1997

6. D.B.H. Tay. ``Design of Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks using Transformation of Variables and Re-Factorization'.  International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. Vol. 26,  Pg. 103-107, 1998.

7. D.B.H. Tay, ``Design of Filter Banks using Transformation of Variables:  New Results'. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Vol. 46, No. 1, January 1998.

8. D.B.H. Tay, ``Design of Causal Stable IIR Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks Using Transformation of Variables”. IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 145, No. 4, August 1998.

9. D.B.H. Tay, “On the McClellan Transformation of 1-D Even-Length Linear Phase Filter Banks”. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 6, No. 7, July 1999.

10. F. Sattar and D. B. H. Tay. “On the Multiresolution Enhancement of Document Images using Fuzzy Logic Approach’’. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 6, No. 10, October 1999.

11. D. B. H. Tay. "Analytical Design of 3-D Wavelet Filter Banks Using the Multivariate Bernstein Polynomial". IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 147, No. 2, April 2000.

12.  Y. Zheng, D.B.H. Tay, L. Li, "Signal extraction and power spectrum estimation using wavelet transform scale space filtering and Bayes shrinkage". Signal Processing, Vol. 8, No. 8, August 2000.

13.  D. B. H. Tay. "Families of Binary Coefficient Biorthogonal Wavelet Filters". Electronic Letters, Vol. 36, No. 14, July 2000.

14. D. B. H. Tay. "Rationalizing the Coefficients of Popular Biorthogonal Wavelet Filters". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, No. 6, September 2000.

15. Y. Zheng, X. Tang,  D. B. H. Tay, "Decode to channel binary block codes based on neural networks and genetic algorithm". Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 15, No 2, February 2001, pp.141-159.

16. Y. Zheng, Zhiping Lin, and D. B. H. Tay, "Time varying parametric system multiresolution identification by wavelets." International Journal of System Science, UK, Vol. 32, no. 6, June 2001, pp. 775-793.

17.  Y. Zheng, D.B.H. Tay, Zhiping Lin, "Modeling general distributed nonstationary process and identifying time-varying autoregressive system by wavelets: theory and application". Signal Processing, Vol. 81, No. 9, September 2001, Pg. 1823-1848.

18.  Y. Zheng, Zhiping Lin, D.B.H. Tay, "State-dependent vector hybrid linear and nonlinear ARMA modeling: theory," Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 20, No. 5, Sep-Oct 2001, Pg. 551-574.

19.  Y. Zheng, Zhiping Lin, D.B.H. Tay, "State-dependent vector hybrid linear and nonlinear ARMA modeling: applications," Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 20, No. 5, Sep-Oct 2001, Pg. 575-597.

20.  D.B.H. Tay, "Parametric Bernstein Polynomial for Least Squares Design of 3-D Wavelet Filter Banks," Special issue on Multidimensional Signals and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems,  Part-I, Vol. 49, No. 6, June 2002, Pg. 887-891.

21. Sarah A. Hope, David B. Tay, Ian T. Meredith, James D. Cameron, "Comparison of generalized and gender-specific transfer functions for the derivation of aortic  waveforms," AJP (American Journal of Physiology): Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol. 283, Issue 3, H1150-H1156, September 2002

22. D.B.H. Tay, "Two-Stage, Least Squares Design of Biorthogonal Filter Banks," IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 149, No. 6, December 2002.

23. Sarah A. Hope, David B. Tay, Ian T. Meredith, James D. Cameron, “Use of Arterial Transfer Functions for the Derivation of Aortic Waveform Characterictics,” Journal of Hypertension, Vol. 21, No. 1, Pg. 1299-1305 July 2003.

24. Sarah A. Hope, David B. Tay, Ian T. Meredith, James D. Cameron, “Use of Arterial Transfer Functions for the Derivation of Aortic Waveform Characterictics in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus,” Diabetic Care , Vol. 27, No. 3, Mar. 2004, Pg. 746-751.

25. D.B.H. Tay, “Balanced-Uncertainty Optimized Wavelet Filters with Prescribed Vanishing Moments,” Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2004, Pg. 105-121.

26. D.B.H. Tay and M. Palaniswami, “A Novel Approach to the Design of the Class of Triplet Halfband Filter Banks,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part-II, Vol. 51, No. 7, July 2004, Pg. 378-383.

27. D.B.H. Tay, “EBFB: A New Class of Wavelet Filters,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters,  Vol. 12, No. 3, March 2005, pg. 206-209.

28. Sarah A. Hope, David B. Tay, Ian T. Meredith, James D. Cameron. Waveform Dispersion, Not Reflection May Be The Major Determinant Of Aortic Pressure Wave Morphology. AJP (American Journal of Physiology): Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 289(6):H2497-5022, Dec. 2005.

29. D.B.H. Tay. Zero-Pinning the Bernstein Polynomial: A Simple Design Technique for Orthonormal Wavelets. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 12, No. 12, Dec., 2005. Pg. 835-838.