Fellows
/Senior Distinguished
Researchers
/Distinguished
Researchers

Awards

• Knowledge Innovation Award from Knowledge Capital (2015)
• Awaya Prize Young Researcher from Acoustic Society of Japan (2010)

Academic Activities

• Associate Editor of Acoustic Society of Japan (2015-2016）

Visiting Professor

• Victoria University of Wellington, Visiting Researcher (2017-2018)

Journal（main achievements）

1. Kenta Niwa, Hironobu Chiba, Noboru Harada, Guoqiang Zhang, and W. Bastiaan
   Kleijn, "Microphone Array Wiener Post Filtering Using Monotone Operator Splitting",
   IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 28, pp.
   2036-2046, 2020.
2. Yuma Koizumi, Kenta Niwa, Yusuke Hioka, Kazunori Kobayashi, and Yoichi Haneda,
   "DNN-based Source Enhancement to Increase Objective Sound Quality Assessment
   Score", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 26, 10, pp.
   1780-1792, 2018.
3. Kenta Niwa, Yusuke Hioka, and Hisashi Uematsu, "Efficient Audio Rendering Using
   Angular Region-Wise Source Enhancement for 360° Video", IEEE Transactions on
   Multimedia, 20, 11, pp. 2871-2881, 2018.
4. Kenta Niwa, Yusuke Hioka, and Kazunori Kobayashi, "Optimal Microphone Array
   Observation for Clear Recording of Distant Sound Sources", IEEE/ACM Transactions on
   Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 24, 10, pp. 1785-1795, 2016.
5. Kenta Niwa, Yusuke Hioka, Ken'ichi Furuya, and Yoichi Haneda, "Diffused Sensing for
   Sharp Directive Beamforming", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language
   Processing, 21, 11, pp. 2346-2355, 2013.
6. Yusuke Hioka, Ken'ichi Furuya, Kazunori Kobayashi, Kenta Niwa, and Yoichi Haneda,
   "Underdetermined Sound Source Separation Using Power Spectrum Density Estimated
   by Combination of Directivity Gain", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language
   Processing, 21, 6, pp. 1240-1250, 2013.

Peer-reviewed conference Proceedings（recent main achievements）

1. Kenta Niwa, Noboru Harada, Guoqiang Zhang, and W. Bastiaan Kleijn,
   "Edge-consensus Learning: Deep Learning on P2P Networks with Nonhomogeneous
   Data", In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
   Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020), pp.
   668-678, 2020.
2. Kenta Niwa, Guoqiang Zhang, and W. Bastiaan Kleijn, "Fast Edge-consensus
   Computing Based on Bregman Monotone Operator Splitting", In Proceeding of IEEE
   International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019),
   pp. 4609-4613, 2019.
3. Kenta Niwa, Guoqiang Zhang, and W. Bastiaan Kleijn, "Edge Consensus Computing
   for Heterogeneous Data Sets", In Proceeding of IEEE Statistical Signal Processing
   Workshop (SSP 2018), pp. 80-84, 2018.

Keywords

• Machine learning, media signal processing, distributed system, mathematical optimization algorithms