IWAENC2003 Program

Poster Session

The size of a poster board is 120 cm (height) x 180 cm (width).
120-min. poster presentation.
You can use AC100V for your demonstration.
Coffee is available during poster sessions.
"*" indicate the papers which were highly eveluated by the reviewers.

Internet access point

We will provide free Internet access point near the conference room.
We will prepare 10/100Base-T Ethernet cables and equipment for 802.11b/g wireless access.
We will NOT prepare PCs nor interface cards for wireless access. Please bring your own PC.

Monday, September 8

Registration (September 8, 16:00-18:00) 3F Nile-B

Reception (September 8, 18:00-21:00) 2F La Seine

Tuesday, September 9

Breakfast (September 9, 7:00-9:00) 2F La Seine

Opening Session (September 9, 9:00-9:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Shoji Makino (NTT CS Labs.)

Poster 1: Acoustic Echo Control and Adaptive Filtering Algorithm (September 9, 9:30-11:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Futoshi Asano (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

* [P1-01] An Outlier-Robust Extended Multidelay Filter with Application to Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Herbert Buchner (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Jacob Benesty (Universite du Quebec), Tomas Gänsler (Agere Systems), Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
* [P1-02] Double-Talk Robust Frequency Domain Echo Cancellation Algorithm with Scalable Nonlinear Reference and Error Functions
Suehiro Shimauchi, Yoichi Haneda, Akitoshi Kataoka (NTT SP Labs.)
* [P1-03] On the Application of the Unscented Kalman Filter to Speech Processing
Sharon Gannot (Technion - IIT), Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
   [P1-04] On Data-Reuse Adaptive Algorithms
Jacob Benesty (Universite du Quebec), Tomas Gänsler (Agere Systems)
   [P1-05] An Echo Canceller based on the Structure of Dual-Auxiliary Filters
Xiongbing Ou, Zhe Chen, Fuliang Yin (Dalian Univ. of Tech.)
   [P1-06] Acoustic Echo Canceling in the Double-Talk Condition
Mohammad Reza Asharif, Rui Chen, Hayato Nakamura, Katsumi Yamashita (University of the Ryukyus)
   [P1-07] Robust and Elegant, Purely Statistical Adaptation of Acoustic Echo Canceler and Postfilter
Gerald Enzner, Peter Vary (Aachen University)
   [P1-08] Post-Filtering for Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Markus Kallinger (University of Bremen), Jörg Bitzer (Houpert Digital Audio), Karl-Dirk Kammeyer (University of Bremen)
   [P1-09] Multichannel Teleconferencing System with Multi Spatial Region Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Kong-Aik Lee, Woon-Seng Gan, Jun Yang, Farook Sattar (Nanyang Technological University)
   [P1-10] Adaptive Parallel Subgradient Projection Techniques with Input Sliding Technique for Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Masahiro Yukawa, Isao Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
   [P1-11] The Use of Partial Update Schemes to Reduce Inter-Channel Coherence in Adaptive Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Andy Wai Hoong Khong, Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London)
   [P1-12] Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Canceller with Pre-Processing - Second-Order Pre-Processing Filter and its Convergence -
Akihiro Hirano, Kenji Nakayama, Kazue Takebe (Kanazawa University)
   [P1-13] Room Impulse Response Variation Due to Thermal Fluctuation and its Impact on Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Gary Elko, Eric Diethorn (Avaya Communications), Tomas Gänsler (Agere Systems)
   [P1-14] A Method for Detecting Echo Path Variation
Jiaquan Huo, Sven Nordholm, Zhuquan Zang (WATRI)
   [P1-15] Proportionate NLMS Algorithm for Second-Order Volterra Filters and its Application to Nonlinear Echo Cancellation
Fabian Kuech, Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
   [P1-16] On Performance of Linear Adaptive Filtering Algorithms in Acoustic Echo Control in Presence of Distorting Loudspeakers
Riitta Niemistö, Tuomo Mäkelä (Tampere University of Technology)

Lunch (September 9, 11:30-13:30) 3F Nile-A

Plenary Talk 1: Rainer Martin (September 9, 13:30-14:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Masato Miyoshi (NTT CS Labs.)

[T-1] Statistical Methods for the Enhancement of Noisy Speech
Rainer Martin (Technical University of Braunschweig)

Poster 2: Sound Enhancement and Noise Reduction (September 9, 14:30-16:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Masato Miyoshi (NTT CS Labs.)

* [P2-01] Noise Reduction by Maximum a Posteriori Spectral Amplitude Estimation with Supergaussian Speech Modeling
Thomas Lotter, Peter Vary (Aachen University)
   [P2-02] Speech Enhancement in the DFT Domain using Laplacian Speech Priors
Rainer Martin, Colin Breithaupt (Technical University of Braunschweig)
   [P2-03] Implementation and Effects of Single Channel Dereverberation based on the Harmonic Structure of Speech
Tomohiro Nakatani, Masato Miyoshi, Keisuke Kinoshita (NTT CS Labs.)
   [P2-04] Speech Dereverberation via Subband Implementation of Subspace Methods
Sharon Gannot (Technion - IIT), Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
   [P2-05] On the Use of Linear Prediction for Dereverberation of Speech
Nikolay Gaubitch, Patrick Naylor, Darren Ward (Imperial College London)
   [P2-06] Limitations of FIR Multi-Microphone Speech Dereverberation in the Low-Delay Case
Markus Hofbauer, Hans-Andrea Loeliger (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
   [P2-07] Improved Artificial Low-Pass Extension of Telephone Speech
Ulrich Kornagel (Darmstadt University of Technology)
   [P2-08] Kalman Filter-based Single Microphone Noise Canceller
Marcel Gabrea (Ecole de technologie superieure Montreal)
   [P2-09] Regularized Optimization with Spectral Smoothing for Speech Spectral Estimation
Karsten Vandborg Sørensen, Søren Vang Andersen (Aalborg University)
   [P2-10] Speech Enhancement of Noisy Speech using Log-Spectral Amplitude Estimator and Harmonic Tunneling
Hyoung-Gook Kim, Markus Schwab, Nicolas Moreau, Thomas Sikora (TU Berlin)
   [P2-11] Speech Enhancement based on Linear Prediction Error Signals and Spectral Subtraction
Agustín Álvarez-Marquina, Víctor Nieto-Lluis, Pedro Gómez-Vilda, Rafael Martínez-Olalla (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
   [P2-12] Spectral Subtraction based on Speech/noise-Dominant Classification
Yukihiro Nomura, Jianming Lu, Hiroo Sekiya, Takashi Yahagi (Chiba University)
   [P2-13] Methodology for the Design of a Robust Voice Activity Detector for Speech Enhancement
Virginie Gilg, Christophe Beaugeant, Martin Schönle, Bernt Andrassy (Siemens AG)
   [P2-14] Noise Suppression based on Teager Energy Operator for Improving the Robustness of ASR Front-End
Junhui Zhao, Jingming Kuang, Xiang Xie, Huang Shilei (Beijing Institute of Technology)
   [P2-15] Effects of Harmonic Components Generated by Polynomial Preprocessor in Acoustic Echo Control
Tuomo Mäkelä, Riitta Niemistö (Tampere University of Technology)

Plenary Talk 2: Piet Sommen (September 9, 16:30-17:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Patrik Naylor (Imperial College London)

[T-2] The Automatic DJ: An Appealing and Instructive Signal Processing Education Project
Piet Sommen, Harrie van Meer, Leo Vogten, Jean Ritzerfeld (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Dinner (September 9, 18:00-21:00) 3F Nile-A

Wednesday, September 10

Breakfast (September 10, 7:00-9:00) 2F La Seine

Poster 3: Active Noise Control, Hearing Aids, and Hardware (September 10, 9:30-11:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Tomas Gänsler (Agere Systems)

* [P3-01] Crosstalk-Resistant Three-Channel Noise Canceller
Akihiro Hirano, Kenji Nakayama, Shin'ya Arai (Kanazawa University)
* [P3-02] Spatially Pre-Processed Speech Distortion Weighted Multi-Channel Wiener Filtering for Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids
Ann Spriet, Marc Moonen, Jan Wouters (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
   [P3-03] Analysis of a Feedback-Type Active Noise Control System with Online Secondary Path Modeling and its Application to Hearing Aids
Hideaki Sakai, Shotaro Inoue, Yoichi Hinamoto (Kyoto University)
   [P3-04] A New Structure for Feedforward Active Noise Control Systems with Online Secondary-Path Modeling
Muhammad Tahir Akhtar, Masahide Abe, Masayuki Kawamata (Tohoku University)
   [P3-05] Multi-Channel Active Noise Control for All Uncertain Primary and Secondary Paths
Yuhsuke Ohta, Akira Sano (Keio University)
   [P3-06] Functional Link Artificial Neural Network for Active Control of Nonlinear Noise Processes
Ganapati Panda, Debi Prasad Das (National Institute of Technology, India)
   [P3-07] A Theoretical Analysis for Feedforward ANC System with State Equation Model
Iwao Nagashiro, Toichi Machida (Tokai University)
   [P3-08] Comparison of Adaptive Noise Reduction Algorithms in Dual Microphone Hearing Aids
Jean Baptiste Maj, Liesbeth Royackers, Marc Moonen, Jan Wouters (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
   [P3-09] Active Noise Control using the Perturbation Method -Verification in Actual Multi-Channel Systems-
Tasuku Ainoya, Takashi Mori, Yoshinobu Kajikawa, Yasuo Nomura (Kansai University)
   [P3-10] An Algorithm for Cancellation of Sidetone Oscillations
Martin Schönle, Virginie Gilg (Siemens AG)
   [P3-11] Real-Time TF-GSC in Nonstationary Noise Environments
Israel Cohen, Sharon Gannot (Technion - IIT), Baruch Berdugo (Lamar Signal Processing)
   [P3-12] Algorithm of a Single Chip Acoustic Echo Canceller using Cascaded Cross Spectral Estimation
Marco Liem, Hyoung-Gook Kim, Otto Manck (Technische Universität Berlin)
   [P3-13] Implementing and Evaluating an Audio Teleconferencing Terminal with Noise and Echo Reduction
Sumitaka Sakauchi, Akira Nakagawa, Yoichi Haneda, Akitoshi Kataoka (NTT SP Labs.)
   [P3-14] A PC based Platform for Multichannel Real-Time Audio Processing
Hauke Krüeger, Thomas Lotter, Gerald Enzner, Peter Vary (Aachen University)
   [P3-15] Perception Oriented, Delay-Controlled Echo Cancellation in IP based Telephone Networks
Wolfgang Brandstätter (Vienna University of Technology), Frank Kettler (HEAD acoustics)
   [P3-16] Improvement of Noise Source Identification by Phase Redundant Acoustical Holography
Haruo Uchiyama (Hachinohe Institute of Technology)

Lunch (September 10, 11:30-13:30) 3F Nile-A

Excursion (Horyuji Temple) (September 10, 13:30-18:00)

We will take a group photo at the Entrance. Bus will leave at 13:30 from the Entrance.

Banquet (September 10, 18:00-22:00)

at a Chinese restaurant with ancient view.

Thursday, September 11

Breakfast (September 11, 7:00-9:00) 2F La Seine

Poster 4: Microphone Array and Sound Separation 1 (September 11, 9:30-11:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Jacob Benesty (Universite du Quebec)

* [P4-01] Time Delay Estimation using Spatial Correlation Techniques
Jingdong Chen (Bell Laboratories), Jacob Benesty (Universite du Quebec), Yiteng (Arden) Huang (Bell Laboratories)
* [P4-02] Blind Source Separation When Speech Signals Outnumber Sensors using a Sparseness-Mixing Matrix Estimation (SMME)
Audrey Blin, Shoko Araki, Shoji Makino (NTT CS Labs.)
* [P4-03] Approaches for Time Difference of Arrival Estimation in a Noisy and Reverberant Environment
Tsvi Gregory Dvorkind, Sharon Gannot (Technion - IIT)
   [P4-04] Array Geometry Arrangement for Frequency Domain Blind Source Separation
Ryo Mukai, Hiroshi Sawada, Sebastien de la Kethulle de Ryhove, Shoko Araki, Shoji Makino (NTT CS Labs.)
   [P4-05] Least-Squares Error Beamforming using Minimum Statistics and Multichannel Frequency-Domain Adaptive Filtering
Robert Aichner, Wolfgang Herbordt, Herbert Buchner, Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
   [P4-06] DOA Estimation of Speech Signal with a Small Number of Microphone Array in Real Acoustical Environment
Yusuke Hioka, Nozomu Hamada (Keio University)
   [P4-07] Geometrical Understanding of the PCA Subspace Method for Overdetermined Blind Source Separation
Stefan Winter, Hiroshi Sawada, Shoji Makino (NTT CS Labs.)
   [P4-08] Estimation of Direction of Arrival using Matching Pursuit and its Application to Source Separation
Yasuhiro Oikawa, Yoshio Yamasaki (Waseda Univ.)
   [P4-09] A New Adaptive Blocking Matrix with Exact FIR Structure for Robust Generalized Sidelobe Canceller
Zhaorong Hou, Ying Jia (Intel China Research Center)
   [P4-10] Adaptive Beamformer based on Average Vowel / Consonant Spectrum with Phoneme Identification
Masato Nakayama, Takanobu Nishiura, Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University)
   [P4-11] Robust Spatial Estimation of the Signal-to-Interference Ratio for Non-Stationary Mixtures
Wolfgang Herbordt, Tim Trini, Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
   [P4-12] High-Fidelity Blind Separation of Acoustic Signals using SIMO-Model-based ICA with Information-Geometric Learning
Tomoya Takatani, Tsuyoki Nishikawa, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
   [P4-13] Concurrent Speech Signal Separation based on Frequency Domain Binaural Model
Yoshifumi Chisaki, Takashi Nakanishi (Kumamoto University), Hidetoshi Nakashima (Kumamoto National College of Technology), Tsuyoshi Usagawa (Kumamoto University)
   [P4-14] Differential Microphone Arrays for Spectral Subtraction
Marc Ihle (Muehlstr. 11)
   [P4-15] Sound Source Localization using a Pinna-based Profile Fitting Method
Osamu Ichikawa, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Masafumi Nishimura (IBM Japan)

Lunch (September 11, 11:30-13:30) 3F Nile-A

Plenary Talk 3: Kiyotoshi Matsuoka (September 11, 13:30-14:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Eberhard Hänsler (TU Darmstadt)

[T-3] Independent Component Analysis and its Applications to Sound Signal Separation
Kiyotoshi Matsuoka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)

Poster 5: Microphone Array and Sound Separation 2 (September 11, 14:30-16:30) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Eberhard Hänsler (TU Darmstadt)

* [P5-01] Design of Broadband Beamformers Robust Against Microphone Position Errors
Simon Doclo, Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
* [P5-02] Blind Separation of More Speech than Sensors with Less Distortion by Combining Sparseness and ICA
Shoko Araki, Shoji Makino, Audrey Blin, Ryo Mukai, Hiroshi Sawada (NTT CS Labs.)
* [P5-03] Blind Source Separation for Convolutive Mixtures Exploiting Nongaussianity, Nonwhiteness, and Nonstationarity
Herbert Buchner, Robert Aichner, Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
   [P5-04] Blind Separation for Convolutive Mixture of Many Voices
Kiyotoshi Matsuoka, Yoshihisa Ohba, Yasunobu Toyota, Satoshi Nakashima (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
   [P5-05] Identification and Tracking of Active Speaker's Position in Noisy Environments
Tomasz Maciej Rutkowski, Masahiro Yokoo (Kyoto University), Danilo P. Mandic (Imperial College of Science)
   [P5-06] Problems in Blind Separation of Convolutive Speech Mixtures by Negentropy Maximization
Raj Kishore Prasad, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
   [P5-07] Introducing New Mechanism in the Learning Process of FDICA-based Speech Separation
Masahiro Furukawa, Yusuke Hioka, Takuro Ema, Nozomu Hamada (Keio University)
   [P5-08] Speaker Localization Exploiting Spatial-Temporal Information
Tsvi Gregory Dvorkind, Sharon Gannot (Technion - IIT)
   [P5-09] Evaluation of Blind Separation and Deconvolution for Convolutive Speech Mixture using SIMO-Model-based ICA
Hiroaki Yamajo, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Tomoya Takatani, Tsuyoki Nishikawa, Kiyohiro Shikano (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
   [P5-10] Blind Source Separation for Convolutive Mixtures based on Complexity Minimization
Sebastien de la Kethulle de Ryhove, Ryo Mukai, Hiroshi Sawada, Shoji Makino (NTT CS Labs.)
   [P5-11] Speech Enhancement Employing Adaptive Beamformer with Recursively Updated Soft Constraints
Hai Q. Dam, Sven Nordholm (Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute), Nedelko Grbic (Blekinge Institute of Technology), Hai Huyen Dam (Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute)
   [P5-12] Spectral Smoothing for Frequency-Domain Blind Source Separation
Hiroshi Sawada, Ryo Mukai, Sebastien de la Kethulle de Ryhove, Shoko Araki, Shoji Makino (NTT CS Labs.)
   [P5-13] Considering the Second Peak in the GCC Function for Multi-Source TDOA Estimation with a Microphone Array
Dirk Bechler, Kristian Kroschel (Universität Karlsruhe)
   [P5-14] Detection of Speech Events in Real Environments Through Fusion of Audio and Video Information using Bayesian Networks
Takashi Yoshimura, Futoshi Asano, Youichi Motomura, Hideki Asoh, Naoyuki Ichimura (AIST), Kiyoshi Yamamoto (AIST / University of Tsukuba), Satoshi Nakamura (ATR)

Closing Session (September 11, 16:30-17:00) 3F Nile-B

Chair: Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Friday, September 12

Labo Tour (NTT CS Labs.) (September 12, 10:00-12:00)

IWAENC2003 program version 2003/08/28 11:20:08