Anton Jeran Ratnarajah

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I am a 5th PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland-College Park advised by Prof. Dinesh Manocha. I am broadly interested in building machine learning models to create high quality sound experience in interactive applications. My current line of research is learning-based sound synthesis and propogation for AR and VR applications and audio/speech processing applications.



Research

M3-AUDIODEC: MULTI-CHANNEL MULTI-SPEAKER MULTI-SPATIAL AUDIO CODEC
Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Dong Yu
Arxiv
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Listen2Scene: Interactive material-aware binaural sound propagation for reconstructed 3D scenes
Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Dinesh Manocha
Arxiv
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Towards Improved Room Impulse Response Estimation for Speech Recognition
Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Ishwarya Ananthabhotla, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Pablo Hoffmann, Dinesh Manocha, Paul Calamia
ICASSP 2023
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MESH2IR: Neural Acoustic Impulse Response Generator for Complex 3D Scenes
Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Zhenyu Tang,Rohith Aralikatti, Dinesh Manocha
ACM Multimedia 2022 (Oral)
Code |  Paper |  Video |  Webpage

FAST-RIR: FAST NEURAL DIFFUSE ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE GENERATOR
Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Meng Yu, Zhenyu Tang, Dinesh Manocha, Dong Yu
ICASSP 2022
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IR-GAN: Room impulse response generator for far-field speech recognition
Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Zhenyu Tang, Dinesh Manocha
INTERSPEECH 2021
Code |  Video |  Paper  |  Slides

TS-RIR: Translated synthetic room impulse responses for speech augmentation
Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Zhenyu Tang, Dinesh Manocha
Accepted to IEEE ASRU 2021
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IMPROVING REVERBERANT SPEECH SEPARATION WITH MULTI-STAGE TRAINING AND CURRICULUM LEARNING
Rohith Aralikatti, Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Zhenyu Tang, Dinesh Manocha
Accepted to IEEE ASRU 2021
Paper

Moving Object Based Collision-Free Video Synopsis
Anton Jeran Ratnarajah, Sahani Goonetilleke, Dumindu Tissera, Kapilan Balagopalan, Ranga Rodrigo
2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Paper

Education

University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD, USA
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cumulative GPA: 3.86 / 4
Aug. 2019 - Present (2024 expected)

University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
Cumulative GPA: 3.91 / 4.2
Feb. 2014 - Jan. 2018

Work Experience

Research Intern
Tencent America, Bellevue, Washington, United States
May. 2023 - Aug. 2023
Implemented an innovative neural spatial audio codec for efficient compression of multi-channel (binaural) speech in both single and multi-speaker scenarios while retaining the spatial location information of each speaker.

Research Scientist Intern
META Reality Labs, Redmond, Washington, United States
May. 2022 - Nov. 2022
Implemented a blind room impulse response estimation system in the context of far-field speech recognition.

Research Intern
Tencent America, Bellevue, Washington, United States
May. 2021 - Aug. 2021
Implemented a neural-network-based fast diffuse room impulse response generator (FAST-RIR) for generating room impulse responses (RIRs) for a given acoustic environment.

Engineer
Wave Computing, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Feb. 2018 - Jul. 2019
Developed machine learning applications for Wave Computing’s Dataflow Processing Unit (DPU) Architecture using Wave Flow Graph (WFG), a data flow description language developed by Wave Computing. Compiled and simulated the designs in Wave Computing’s complete EDA toolchain. Debugged and proposed suggestions to improve the toolchain and the architecture.

Research Intern
HESL Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Aug. 2016 - Dec. 2016
Successfully completed a project titled “Low complexity techniques for Vehicle Localization and Tracking" under the guidance of Dr. Lam Siew Kei .

Teaching Experience

ENEE 245: Digital Circuits and Systems Laboratory
Teaching Assistant for Professor Manoj Franklin
University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD, USA
Spring 2022


CMSC 742: Algorithms in Machine Learning: Guarantees and Analyses
Teaching Assistant for Professor Furong Huang
University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD, USA
Fall 2021


ENEE 630: Advanced Digital Signal Processing
Teaching Assistant for Professor K. J. Ray Liu
University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD, USA
Fall 2020


ENEE 425: Digital Signal Processing
Teaching Assistant for Professor Behtash Babadi
University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD, USA
Spring 2020


ENEE 425: Digital Signal Processing
Teaching Assistant for Professor Carol Espy-Wilson
University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD, USA
Fall 2019