Gewenxin Yu
About
- Co-founder of the nonprofit initiative Mountaineering Acoustics Network (MAN network).
- A dedicated field recordist with a deep passion for mountaineering and hiking: Have conducted several field recording experiments in China, the UK, France, and Switzerland since 2023.
- An ardent Linux user (Artix, Alpine and Manjaro Linux), developer and distributor of Free/Libre and Open-source softwares and decentralized network architectures; A philosophy-driven contributor with expertise in distributing and using various anonymity network technologies.
Research Interests
- Sound and Music Computing Research (digital signal processing, MIR, sonification, ML/DL for music)
- Speech Research (speech signal processing, ASR, ASV, neural speech/audio synthesis, speech/audio security and privacy)
Research
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Enhancing McAdams Coefficient-Based Speaker Anonymisation with Cross-Gender Timbre Transfer (2023) [pdf] [presentation] [url]
(Supervised by Dr. Charalampos Saitis, Communication Acoustics Lab at QMUL)
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Mountaineering Acoustics Network (MAN) (2025 -) [url]
(Co-founded with Cui Han)
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MAN Wiki (2025 -) [url]
(A collaborative free wiki for the Mountaineering Acoustics Network)
Code
Talks
- Brief Auditory Storage: Take the “Darwin1972” and “Treisman1972” as examples (Nov, 2022) [pdf]
- Source Mixing and Separation Robust Audio Stegenography (March, 2023) [pdf]
- Mantle IRM System Design Meeting (April, 2025) [pdf]
Files
Since I learn this field,
- Music information retrieval (MIR): Beat Tracking System (2023) [pdf]; Audio Identification (2023) [pdf];
Contact
- For academic purposes, please use the address g.yu at se22.qmul.ac.uk.
- For general topics, you can reach me at gewenxin.yu at proton.me.
