Thursday, September 6th
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote Talk: Richard Heusdens |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Poster Session F |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Keynote Talk: Henning Puder |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Poster Session G |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Keynote Talk: Sharon Gannot |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Poster Session H |
| Demonstrator Session | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Best Paper Award Closing Ceremonies |
Detailed Program
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote Talk |
| Distributed Signal Processing: Application to MVDR Beam-Forming Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Poster Session F |
| F-01 | Optimized Preprocessing for Spatially Robust Room Impulse Response Reshaping University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany |
| F-02 | Scalable, Perceptual Based Echo Assessment Method for Aurally Adequate Evaluation of Residual Single Talk Echoes HEAD acoustics, Herzogenrath, Germany |
| F-03 | MMSE-Based Blind Source Extraction in Diffuse Noise Fields Using a Complex Coherence-Based a Priori SAP Estimator International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany |
| F-04 | Blind Audio Source Separation Exploiting Periodicity and Spectral Envelopes EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France |
| F-05 | Adaption of a Prediction Model for Noisy Speech Quality Assessment HEAD acoustics, Herzogenrath, Germany |
| F-06 | Estimation of Direct-to-Reverberation Energy Ratio Based On Isotropic and Homogeneous Propagation Model NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan |
| F-07 | Discriminability Measure for Microphone Array Source Localization 1Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, United States |
| F-08 | On Phase Importance in Parameter Estimation for Single-Channel Source Separation Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany |
| F-09 | Blind Matched Filtering for Speech Recording in Uncorrelated Noise University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany |
| F-10 | Blind Estimation of the Number of Speech Sources in Reverberant Multisource Scenarios Based on Binaural Signals University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Keynote Talk |
| Optimized Directional Processing in Hearing Aids with Integrated Spatial Noise Reduction Siemens Audiologische Technik, Erlangen, Germany |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Poster Session G |
| G-01 | An Update Algorithm for Frequency-Domain Correlation Model in a Nonlinear Echo Suppressor NEC Corporation, Saitama, Japan |
| G-02 | Optimized Spherical Sound Source for Room Reflection Analysis RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany |
| G-03 | A Tradeoff Beamformer for Noise Reduction in the Spherical Harmonic Domain 1Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, 3INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada |
| G-04 | Multi-Channel Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids with Wireless Access to an External Reference Signal 1KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2IBBT Future Health Department, Leuven, Belgium |
| G-05 | STFT Phase Improvement for Single Channel Speech Enhancement University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany |
| G-06 | A Psychoacoustic-Based Analysis of the Impact of Pre-Echoes and Post-Echoes in Soundfield Rendering Applications Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy |
| G-07 | Underdetermined Source Detection and Separation Using a Normalized Multichannel Spatial Dictionary Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy |
| G-08 | Relaxed Multichannel Least Squares with Constrained Initial Taps for Multichannel Dereverberation Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom |
| G-09 | ViSQOL: The Virtual Speech Quality Objective Listener 1Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Irland, 2Google, Mountain View, United States |
| G-10 | Evaluation of a Speech Bandwidth Extension Algorithm Based on Vocal Tract Shape Estimation Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Keynote Talk |
| Multi-Microphone Speech Enhancement Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Poster Session H |
| H-01 | Posterior Residual Echo Canceling and its Complexity Reduction in the Wave Domain NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan |
| H-02 | Connections Between Parallel and Serial Combinations of Comb Filters and Feedback Delay Networks International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany |
| H-03 | Robustness Analysis of Speech Enhancement Using a Bone Conduction Microphone – Preliminary Results Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| H-04 | Theoretical Performance Analysis of ANC-Motivated Noise Reduction Algorithms for Open-Fitting Hearing Aids University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany |
| H-05 | Distortionless-Response vs. Matched-Filter-Array Processing for Adaptive Binaural Noise Reduction Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany |
| H-06 | 3D Spatial Soundfield Recording over Large Regions 1Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| H-07 | Distributed MVDR Beamforming for (Wireless) Microphone Networks Using Message Passing Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands |
| H-08 | A Multiple Hypothesis Gaussian Mixture Filter for Acoustic Source Localization and Tracking 1Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland |
| H-09 | Blind Separation of Infinitely Many Sparse Sources 1University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, 3National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan |
| H-10 | Crosstalk Cancellation System Using a Head Tracker Based on Interaural Time Differences International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany |
| H-11 | Performance Comparison of Algorithms for Blind Reverberation Time Estimation from Speech 1Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 3Institute National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Demonstrator Session |
| DH-01 | Demonstrator: Microphone Array Position Self-Calibration from Reverberant Speech Input University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany |
| DH-02 | Connected Visual Reality – High Quality Audio Visual Communication in Heterogeneous Networks 1Ericsson, Aachen, Germany, 2Rovi MainConcept, Aachen, Germany, 3RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany |
| DH-03 | The Software Defined Terminal RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Best Paper Award Closing Ceremonies |
