Technical Programme
Monday, September 8, 2014
| 18.30 - 21.00 | Registration |
| 19.00 - 21.00 | Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
| 8.30 - 9.00 | Registration |
| 9.00 - 9.15 | Welcome Address |
| 9.15 - 10.00 | |
| 10.00 - 10.45 | |
| Coffee Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Poster Session 1 |
| 12.30 - 14.30 | Lunch Break |
| 14.30 - 15.15 | |
| 15.15 - 16.00 | Speech and Sensing at NXP Software - Edwin Zuidema |
| Coffee Break | |
| 16.15 - 17.30 | Poster Session 2 |
| 17.30 - 17.45 | Group Photo |
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
| 9.00 - 10.20 | Selected Papers |
| Coffee Break | |
| 10.40 - 12.00 | Poster Session 3 |
| 12.00 - 14.00 | Lunch Break |
| 14.00 - 18.00 | Social Event |
| 19.00 - 23.00 | Banquet |
Thursday, September 11, 2014
| 9.00 - 9.45 | |
| 9.45 - 11.00 | |
| Coffee Break | |
| 11.15 - 12.30 | Poster Session 5 |
| 12.30 - 14.30 | Lunch Break |
| 14.30 - 15.15 | |
| 15.15 - 16.45 | Poster Session 6 / Coffee Break |
| 16.45 - 17.00 | Closing Address / Best paper Award |
Poster Session 1
Tuesday, September 9, 2014, 11.00 - 12.30
HMM-Based Artificial Bandwidth Extension Supported by Neural Networks
Patrick Bauer (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Johannes Abel (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Tim Fingscheidt (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Unbiased Coherent-to-Diffuse Ratio Estimation for Dereverberation
Andreas Schwarz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
A Posteriori Speech Presence Probability Estimation Based on Averaged Observations and a Super-Gaussian Speech Model
Balazs Fodor (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
An Adaptive Microphone Array Topology For Target Signal Extraction With Humanoid Robots
Hendrik Barfuss (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
On the Statistics and the Detection of Multichannel Common Zeros
Gerald Enzner (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany); Philipp Thüne (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
The ABCIT Research Platform
Kamil Adiloğlu (HörTech gGmbH, Germany); Tobias Herzke (HoerTech Oldenburg, Germany); Volker Hohmann (Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, Germany); Matthieu Recugnat (Oticon Medical, France); Martin Besnard (Oticon Medical, France); Teng Huang (Oticon Medical, France); Bradford Backus (Oticon Medical, France)
LPC-based speech dereverberation using Kalman-EM algorithm
Boaz Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Emanuël Habets (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany)
Post-filter design for speech enhancement in various noisy environments
Kenta Niwa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Japan); Yusuke Hioka (University of Canterbury, New Zealand); Kazunori Kobayashi (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Japan)
The Single- and Multichannel Audio Recordings Database (SMARD)
Jesper Kjær Nielsen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Jesper Rindom Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Græsbøll Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Estimation of the Common Part of Acoustic Feedback Paths in Hearing Aids using Iterative Quadratic Programming
Henning Schepker (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Speech dereverberation with convolutive transfer function approximation using MAP and variational deconvolution approaches
Ante Jukić (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium); Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Poster Session 2
Tuesday, September 9, 2014, 16.15 - 17.30
An improved non-intrusive intelligibility metric for noisy and reverberant speech
João Felipe Santos (INRS-EMT, Canada); Mohammed Senoussaoui (INRS, Canada); Tiago Falk (INRS-EMT, Canada)
Wave-domain canceling of residual echo with subspace tracking
Satoru Emura (NTT, Japan)
A robust howling detection algorithm based on a statistical approach
Joachim Flocon-Cholet (Orange Labs, France); Julien Faure (Orange Labs, France); Alexandre Guérin (Orange Labs, France); Pascal Scalart (University of Rennes, France)
Sinusoidal Interpolation Across Missing Data
W. Bastiaan Kleijn (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Turaj Shabestary (Google, USA); Jan Skoglund (Google, Inc., USA)
Optimal Beamforming as a Time Domain Equalization Problem with Application to Room Acoustics
Mark R. P. Thomas (Microsoft Research, USA); Felicia Lim (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Ivan J. Tashev (Microsoft Research, USA); Patrick A Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Speaker Dependent Speech Enhancement Using Sinusoidal Model Pejman Mowlaee (Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria); Christian Nachbar (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
PSD estimation in beamspace for source separation in a diffuse noise field
Yusuke Hioka (University of Canterbury, New Zealand); Kenta Niwa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Japan)
Speech Reinforcement with a Globally Optimized Perceptual Distortion Measure for Noisy Reverberant Channels
João Crespo (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Richard Hendriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
On near-field beamforming with smartphone based ad-hoc microphone arrays
Nikolay D. Gaubitch (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Jorge Martinez (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); W. Bastiaan Kleijn (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Richard Heusdens (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
A discriminative learning approach to probabilistic acoustic source localization
Hendrik Kayser (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Joern Anemueller (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Estimation of Time-variant Acoustic Feedback Paths in In-Car Communication Systems
Jochen Withopf (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany); Gerhard Schmidt (CAU Kiel, Germany)
Selected Papers
Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 9.00 - 10.20
An Acoustical Zoom Based on Informed Spatial Filtering
Oliver Thiergart (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Konrad Kowalczyk (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany); Emanuël Habets (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany)
Identification of Surface Acoustic Impedances in a Reverberant Room Using the FDTD Method
Niccolò Antonello (KU Leuven, Belgium); Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium); Patrick A Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Statistical Modelling of Multichannel Blind System Identification Errors
Felicia Lim (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick A Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Multichannel dereverberation for hearing aids with interaural coherence preservation
Sebastian Braun (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Matteo Torcoli (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Daniel Marquardt (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Emanuël Habets (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Poster Session 3
Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 10.40 - 12.00
Spatial Perception of Virtual X-Y Recordings
Konrad Kowalczyk (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany); Alexandra Craciun (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Christian Dachmann (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany); Emanuël Habets (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany)
Characterisation and modelling of non-linear loudspeakers
Leela Gudupudi (EURECOM, France); Christophe Beaugeant (Intel, France); Nicholas Evans (EURECOM, France)
Joint Dereverberation and Noise Reduction Based on Acoustic Multichannel Equalization
Ina Kodrasi (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
A Wind-Noise Suppressor Based on Wind-Onset Detection and Spectral Gain Modification
Masanori Kato (NEC Corporation, Japan); Akihiko K. Sugiyama (NEC Corporation, Japan)
Generalized amplitude interpolation by beta-divergence for virtual microphone array
Hiroki Katahira (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Nobutaka Ono (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Shigeki Miyabe (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Takeshi Yamada (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Shoji Makino (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
On the generalization of supervised binary mask estimation
Tobias May (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
A Computationally Constrained Optimization Framework for Implementation and Tuning of Speech Enhancement Systems
Daniele Giacobello (Beats Electronics, USA); Jason Wung (Beats Electronics, LLC, USA); Ramin Pichevar (Beats Electronics LLC, USA); Joshua Atkins (Beats Electronics, USA)
Spectral tilt modelling with extrapolated GMMs for intelligibility enhancement of narrowband telephone speech
Emma Jokinen (Aalto University, Finland); Ulpu Remes (Aalto University, Finland); Marko Takanen (Aalto University, Finland); Kalle Palomäki (Aalto University, Finland); Mikko Kurimo (Aalto University, Denmark); Paavo Alku (Aalto University, Finland)
Near-field Source Extraction Using Speech Presence Probabilities for Ad hoc Microphone Arrays
Maja Taseska (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Shmulik Markovich-Golan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Emanuël Habets (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Multichannel Adaptive Filtering in Compressive Domains
Karim Helwani (Huawei European Research Center, Germany); Herbert Buchner (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Numerical Formulae for TOA-based Microphone and Source Localization
Trung-Kien Le (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Nobutaka Ono (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Poster Session 4
Thursday, September 11, 2014, 9.45 - 11.00
Blind Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks with Application to Speech Enhancement
Dani Cherkassky (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Validation of Realistic Acoustic Environments for Listening Tests Using Directional Hearing Aids
Chris Oreinos (National Acoustic Laboratories, Australia); Jörg Buchholz (National Acoustic Laboratories, Australia)
Noise Coloration Filter Design By Pole-Zero Placement
Alexis Favrot (Illusonic GmbH, Switzerland)
On Semi-Blind Estimation of Echo Paths During Double-Talk Based on Nonstationarity
Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic); Jiri Malek (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic); Michael Müller (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic); Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)
Amplitude-based speech enhancement with nonnegative matrix factorization for asynchronous distributed recording
Hironobu Chiba (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Nobutaka Ono (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Shigeki Miyabe (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Yu Takahashi (Yamaha Corporation, Japan); Takeshi Yamada (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Shoji Makino (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Alternative Formulation and Robustness Analysis of the Multichannel Wiener Filter for Spatially Distributed Microphones
Toby Christian Lawin-Ore (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Sebastian Stenzel (University of Applied Sciences Constance, Germany); Juergen Freudenberger (University of Applied Sciences, Konstanz, Germany); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Towards Online Source Counting in Speech Mixtures Applying a Variational EM for Complex Watson Mixture Models
Lukas Drude (Universität Paderborn, Germany); Aleksej Chinaev (University of Paderborn, Germany); Dang Hai Tran Vu (University of Paderborn, Germany); Reinhold Haeb-Umbach (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Low-Complexity Noise Power Spectral Density Estimation For Harsh Automobile Environments
Christin Baasch (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany); Vasudev Kandade Rajan (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany); Mohamed Krini (Paragon AG, Germany); Gerhard Schmidt (CAU Kiel, Germany)
Fast Noise PSD Estimation Based on Blind Channel Identification
Masoumeh Azarpour (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany); Gerald Enzner (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
Online Unsupervised Overlapping Speaker Detection Using Enhanced Classification History-based Features
Youssef Oualil (Saarland University, Germany); Rahil Mahdian Toroghi (Saarland University, Germany); Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University, Germany)
A Study on Speech Quality and Speech Intelligibility Measures for Quality Assessment of Single-Channel Dereverberation Algorithms
Stefan Goetze (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany); Anna Warzybok (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Ina Kodrasi (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Jan Ole Jungmann (University of Luebeck, Germany); Benjamin Cauchi (Fraunhofer IDMT-HSA, Germany); Jan Rennies (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany); Emanuël Habets (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Alfred Mertins (Institute for Signal and Image Processing, University of Luebeck, Germany); Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Birger Kollmeier (Medizinische Physik, Universit¨at Oldenburg, Germany)
Poster Session 5
Thursday, September 11, 2014, 11.15 - 12.30
Voice activity detection in transient noise environment using laplacian pyramid algorithm
Nurit Spingarn (Technion, Israel); Saman Mousazadeh (Shiraz University, Iran); Israel Cohen (Technion, Israel)
Geometry Calibration of Multiple Microphone Arrays in Highly Reverberant Environments
Axel Plinge (TU Dortmund University, Germany); Gernot Fink (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
An automatic model-building algorithm for sparse approximation of room impulse responses with orthonormal basis functions
Giacomo Vairetti (KU Leuven, Belgium); Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium); Michael Catrysse (Televic N. V., Belgium); Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
A new structure for acoustic echo cancellation in double-talk scenario using auxiliary filter
Mahfoud Hamidia (University of Science and Technology Bab Ezzouar, Algeria); Abderrahmane Amrouche (USTHB, Algeria)
Multiple source localisation in the spherical harmonic domain
Christine Evers (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Alastair Moore (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick A Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Acoustic modeling based on Early-to-Late Reverberation Ratio for robust ASR
Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy); Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy); Piergiorgio Svaizer (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Relaxed disjointness based clustering for joint blind source separation and dereverberation
Ito Nobutaka (NTT, Japan); Shoko Araki (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Takuya Yoshioka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT Corporation, Japan)
Reverberant Audio Source Separation using Partially Pre-trained Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Mahmoud Fakhry (University of Trento, Italy); Piergiorgio Svaizer (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy); Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - irst, Italy)
Investigation of Self-Masking Effects for the Evaluation of In-Car Communication Systems
Anne Theiß (Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel, Germany); Gerhard Schmidt (CAU Kiel, Germany)
Single Channel Noise Reduction based on an Auditory Filterbank
Steffen Kortlang (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Stephan Ewert (Medizinische Physik, Universit¨at Oldenburg, Germany); Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Optimal Binaural LCMV Beamformers for Combined Noise Reduction and Binaural Cue Preservation
Daniel Marquardt (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Elior Hadad (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Poster Session 6
Thursday, September 11, 2014, 15.15 - 16.45
A Reduced-Rank Approach to Single-Channel Noise Reduction
Wei Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Jingdong Chen (Northwestern Polytechnical University, USA); Jacob Benesty (INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Canada)
A quantitative comparison of blind C50 estimators
Pablo Peso Parada (Nuance Communications, United Kingdom); Dushyant Sharma (Nuance Communications, United Kingdom); Jose Lainez (Nuance Communications, United Kingdom); Daniel Barreda (Nuance Communications, United Kingdom); Patrick A Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium)
On the Performance of Widely Linear Quaternion based MVDR Beamformer for An Acoustic Vector Sensor
Jiuwen Cao (Hangzhou Dianzi University, P.R. China); Andy W. H. Khong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
STSP: Space-Time Stretched Pulse For Measuring Spatio-Temporal Impulse Response
Shoichi Koyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Prakhar Srivastava (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Ken'ichi Furuya (Oita University, Japan); Suehiro Shimauchi (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan); Hitoshi Ohmuro (NTT, Japan)
Multichannel Audio Database in Various Acoustic Environments
Elior Hadad (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Florian Heese (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Traffic monitoring with ad-hoc microphone array
Toyoda Takuya (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Nobutaka Ono (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Shigeki Miyabe (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Takeshi Yamada (University of Tsukuba, Japan); Shoji Makino (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
The Acoustic Echo Cancelation Using Blind Source Separation to Reduce Double-Talk Interference
Yoshihiro Sakai (Tsuyama National College of Tecnology, Japan); Muhammad T Akhtar (Tokyo Insititute of Technology, Japan)
Measurement, Analysis and Simulation of Wind Noise Signals for Mobile Communication Devices
Christoph M. Nelke (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Subjective Speech Quality and Speech Intelligibility Evaluation of Single-Channel Dereverberation Algorithms
Anna Warzybok (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Ina Kodrasi (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Jan Ole Jungmann (University of Luebeck, Germany); Emanuël Habets (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany); Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Alfred Mertins (Institute for Signal and Image Processing, University of Luebeck, Germany); Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Birger Kollmeier (Medizinische Physik, Universit¨at Oldenburg, Germany); Stefan Goetze (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany)
Time-Frequency Constraints for Phase Estimation in Single-Channel Speech Enhancement
Pejman Mowlaee (Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria); Rahim Saeidi (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
2.5D Sound Field Reproduction in Higher Order Ambisonics
Wen Zhang (Australian National University, Australia); Thushara D. Abhayapala (Australian National University, Australia)
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