New papers at ICASSP 2013

April 11, 2013 in Papers by Daniel Jarrett | Permalink

We are looking forward to ICASSP 2013 in Vancouver, Canada, where we will be presenting:

  1. S. Braun, D. P. Jarrett, J. Fischer, E. A. P. Habets: "An informed spatial filter for dereverberation in the spherical harmonic domain" to appear in the Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada.
  2. J. Eaton, N. D. Gaubitch, P. A. Naylor: "Noise-robust reverberation time estimation using spectral decay distributions with reduced computational cost" to appear in the Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada.
  3. S. Gonzalez, M. Brookes: "Speech active level estimation in noisy conditions" to appear in the Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada.
  4. D. P. Jarrett, E. A. P. Habets, P. A. Naylor: "Spherical harmonic domain noise reduction using an MVDR beamformer and DOA-based second-order statistics estimation" to appear in the Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada.
  5. F. Lim, P. A. Naylor: "Robust low-complexity multichannel equalization for dereverberation" to appear in the Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada.
  6. Y. Wang, M. Brookes: "Speech enhancement using a robust Kalman filter post-processor in the modulation domain" to appear in the Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada.

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We welcome Alastair Moore

December 12, 2012 in Announcements by Patrick Naylor | Permalink

Alastair Moore photoWe are delighted to welcome Dr Alastair Moore who joins the SAP team in December 2012. Alastair will be researching aspects of law enforcement audio signal processing.

Another successful Christmas dinner

December 7, 2012 in Announcements by Jason Filos | Permalink

Workshop on Enhancement of Degraded Speech: Processing, Modelling, Evaluation

November 1, 2012 in Talks by Daniel Jarrett | Permalink

Details of the keynote talks and posters presented at the UKSpeech workshop Enhancement of Degraded Speech: Processing, Modelling, Evaluation on 31 October 2012 are now available.

New colleague

October 23, 2012 in Announcements by Patrick Naylor | Permalink

Having been working at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, we are now joined in London by Benjamin Cauchi – welcome to Benjamin!

New co-workers

October 23, 2012 in Announcements by Patrick Naylor | Permalink

We are delighted to welcome Hamza Javed and Richard Stanton to the Speech and Audio Processing Team.

Farewell to Dushyant Sharma

October 5, 2012 in Announcements by Daniel Jarrett | Permalink

Dushyant Sharma, who has been at Imperial since 2002 (first as an undergraduate, then as a PhD student), has moved on to Nuance Communications in Marlow, UK. We wish him continued success in the years to come.

Farewell to Nikolay Gaubitch

June 25, 2012 in Announcements by Sira Gonzalez | Permalink

Nikolay Gaubitch
Nikolay Gaubitch, who has been at Imperial since 2002, most recently as a Research Associate at the Centre for Law Enforcement Audio Research (CLEAR), has moved to Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. We wish him all the best in his future career.

New papers

June 20, 2012 in Announcements, Papers by Daniel Jarrett | Permalink

We are looking forward to IWAENC 2012 in Aachen, Germany, EUSIPCO 2012 in Bucharest, Romania and INTERSPEECH 2012 in Portland, Oregon, where we will be presenting:

  1. D. P. Jarrett, E. A. P. Habets, J. Benesty, P. A. Naylor: "A tradeoff beamformer for noise reduction in the spherical harmonic domain" Proc. Intl. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany.
  2. F. Lim, P. A. Naylor: "Relaxed Multichannel Least Squares with Constrained Initial Taps for Multichannel Dereverberation" Proc. Intl. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany.
  3. A. Canclini, F. Antonacci, J. Filos, A. Sarti, P. A. Naylor: "Exact localization of planar acoustic reflectors in three-dimensional geometries" Proc. Intl. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany.
  4. N. D. Gaubitch, H. Löllmann, M. Jeub, T. Falk, P. A. Naylor, P. Vary, M. Brookes: "Performance Comparison of Algorithms for Blind Reverberation Time Estimation from Speech" Proc. Intl. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany.
  5. J. Filos, A. Canclini, F. Antonacci, A. Sarti, P. A. Naylor: "Localization of Planar Acoustic Reflectors From the Combination of Linear Estimates" Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Bucharest, Romania.
  6. D. Sharma, G. Hilkhuysen, P. A. Naylor, N. D. Gaubitch, M. Huckvale, M. Brookes: "Descriptive Vocabulary Development for Degraded Speech" Proc. Interspeech Conf. , Portland, USA.
  7. S. Gonzalez, M. Brookes: "Sibilant Speech Detection in Noise" Proc. Interspeech Conf. , Portland, USA.

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Ron Schafer’s Visit

April 24, 2012 in Announcements, Talks by Patrick Naylor | Permalink

We were delighted to welcome Ron Schafer for his 23 April visit to the group. Dr Schafer presented a fascinating and stimulating talk on ‘DSP Technology: How did it become so powerful, and what can we expect in the future?’ as part of a Speech and Audio Processing Seminar.

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