Dr Beth Jelfs MEng, PhD

Dr Beth Jelfs

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
b.jelfs@bham.ac.uk
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Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
School of Engineering
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Beth Jelfs is an Assistant Professor in Signal Processing and Data Analysis within the Microwave Integrated System Laboratory.

Dr Jelfs’s research interests are in adaptive signal processing. In particular, the intersection of signal processing and machine learning and how signal processing techniques can be used to inform machine learning algorithms.

Biography

Dr Beth Jelfs is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering. She gained her PhD from Imperial College London before going on to hold postdoctoral positions at the University of Oxford, University College London and City University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining the Univeristy of Birmingham, Beth worked at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia where she was the recipient of a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Engineering. 

Postgraduate supervision

Beth is taking applications from students who are interested in pursuing projects in signal and image processing.

Research

Beth's research interests are in adaptive signal processing especially statistical signal processing and signal characterisation. In particular, she is interested in the intersection of signal processing and machine learning and how signal processing techniques can be used to inform machine learning algorithms. 

Beth also has a specific interest in how these techniques can be applied to multichannel and multimodal data, particularly with reference to biomedical and neural applications.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Wu, K, Jelfs, B, Mahmoud, SS, Neville, K & Fang, JQ 2023, 'Tracking functional network connectivity dynamics in the elderly', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 17, 1146264. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1146264

Choy, CS, Fang, Q, Neville, K, Ding, B, Kumar, A, Mahmoud, SS, Gu, X, Fu, J & Jelfs, B 2023, 'Virtual reality and motor imagery for early post-stroke rehabilitation', BioMedical Engineering Online, vol. 22, no. 1, 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12938-023-01124-9

Jelfs, B, Sun, S, Ghorbani, K & Gilliam, C 2021, 'An adaptive all-pass filter for time-varying delay estimation', IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, 9380457, pp. 628-632. https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2021.3065889

She, Q, Wu, X, Jelfs, B, Charles, AS & Chan, RHM 2021, 'An efficient and flexible spike train model via empirical Bayes', IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 69, pp. 3236-3251. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2021.3076885

Li, W, Jelfs, B, Kealy, A, Wang, X & Moran, B 2021, 'Cooperative localization using distance measurements for mobile nodes', Sensors, vol. 21, no. 4, 1507. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21041507

Wang, X, Kealy, A, Li, W, Jelfs, B, Gilliam, C, May, SL & Moran, B 2021, 'Toward autonomous uav localization via aerial image registration', Electronics (Switzerland), vol. 10, no. 4, 435. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040435

Wu, K, Jelfs, B, Ma, X, Ke, R, Tan, X & Fang, Q 2021, 'Weakly-supervised lesion analysis with a CNN-based framework for COVID-19', Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 66, no. 24, 245027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ac4316

Viswanathan, R, Arjunan, SP, Bingham, A, Jelfs, B, Kempster, P, Raghav, S & Kumar, DK 2020, 'Complexity measures of voice recordings as a discriminative tool for Parkinson’s disease', Biosensors, vol. 10, no. 1, 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios10010001

Conference contribution

Sun, S, Jelfs, B, Ghorbani, K, Matthews, G & Gilliam, C 2022, Landmark Management in the Application of Radar SLAM. in Proceedings of 2022 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2022. Proceedings Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference APSIPA ASC, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 903-910, 2022 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2022, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 7/11/22. https://doi.org/10.23919/APSIPAASC55919.2022.9980051

Jelfs, B & Gilliam, C 2020, Application of Image Processing and Circular Statistics to 3D Cellular Alignment. in 2020 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2020 - Proceedings., 9306340, 2020 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2020 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 992-1000, 2020 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2020, Virtual, Auckland, New Zealand, 7/12/20.

Gilliam, C & Jelfs, B 2019, Estimating Muscle Fibre Conduction Velocity in the Presence of Array Misalignment. in 2018 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2018 - Proceedings., 8659741, 2018 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2018 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 853-860, 10th Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2018, Honolulu, United States, 12/11/18. https://doi.org/10.23919/APSIPA.2018.8659741

Jelfs, B & Gilliam, C 2019, Fast and efficient delay estimation using local all-pass and kalman filters. in 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2019., 9023238, 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1533-1539, 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2019, Lanzhou, China, 18/11/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/APSIPAASC47483.2019.9023238

Viswanathan, R, Bingham, A, Raghav, S, Arjunan, SP, Jelfs, B, Kempster, P & Kumar, DK 2019, Normalized Mutual Information of phonetic sound to distinguish the speech of Parkinson's disease. in 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019., 8857112, Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 3523-3526, 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019, Berlin, Germany, 23/07/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857112

Preprint

Sun, S, Jelfs, B, Ghorbani, K, Matthews, G & Gilliam, C 2022 'Landmark Management in the Application of Radar SLAM'.

Sun, S, Gilliam, C, Ghorbani, K, Matthews, G & Jelfs, B 2022 'Mapping extended landmarks for radar SLAM' arXiv, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.17207

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