How To Read Scientific DSP Publications and Turn Them Into Code
Making Sense of Academic Papers and Patents for People Who Are Not Academics or Patent Lawyers
Academic research papers contain exciting new ideas but typically no ready-to-use source code. Papers are not written for the layperson and are often filled with jargon and inscrutable equations. It's up to the reader to decipher the math and wrestle through dense theory to transform these ideas into C++ code. This can be a daunting task, especially for developers who do not have an academic or mathematics background. Patents, in particular expired ones, are also a great source of ideas and are even harder to untangle! Fortunately, with a little effort you can learn to read these perplexing documents and extract their secrets. This talk aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice and will show useful techniques for quickly making sense of scientific publications and patents, so that you can finally start turning them into code.
Matthijs Hollemans
Freelance developer
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Matthijs is an independent audio developer working on freelance projects as well as his own portfolio of plug-ins. He is also the author of the books The Complete Beginner's Guide to Audio Plug-in Development and Creating Synthesizer Plug-Ins with C++ and JUCE, both published by The Audio Programmer. Matthijs also writes about audio development on his blog. Previously, Matthijs worked as a game developer, iOS developer and machine learning engineer. He has written books on all these topics. Matthijs spends too much of his spare time chatting about audio development online and has no time left to practice playing the piano.