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Registration   (October 21, 16:00-18:00)   Hospitality Room

Dinner   (October 21, 18:00-20:00)   West Dining Room

Open Bar   (October 21, 20:00-22:00)   West Dining Room

Keynote Address1: Simon Haykin (McMaster University)   (October 22, 8:00-9:00)   Conference House

8:00-9:00
[Keynote1]  Coherent ICA: Implications for Auditory Signal Processing
    Simon Haykin, Kevin Kan

Lecture ML1: Microphone Array Signal Processing   (October 22, 9:00-10:00)   Conference House

9:00-9:20
[ML1-1]  Enhanced Microphone-Array Beamforming Based on Frequency-Domain Spatial Analysis-Synthesis
    Michael M. Goodwin
9:20-9:40
[ML1-2]  Real Time Capture of Audio Images and Their Use with Video
    Adam O'Donovan, Ramani Duraiswami, Nail A. Gumerov
9:40-10:00
[ML1-3]  Subband Method for Multichannel Least Squares Equalization of Room Transfer Functions
    Nikolay D. Gaubitch, Mark R. P. Thomas, Patrick A. Naylor

Break   (October 22, 10:00-10:20)   West Dining Room

Poster MP1   (October 22, 10:20-12:20)   West Dining Room

[MP1-01]  Broadband Music: Opportunities and Challenges for Multiple Source Localization
    Jacek P. Dmochowski, Jacob Benesty, Sofiène Affes
[MP1-02]  Energy-Based Position Estimation of Microphones and Speakers for ad hoc Microphone Arrays
    Minghua Chen, Zicheng Liu, Li-Wei He, Phil Chou, Zhengyou Zhang
[MP1-03]  Linear Regression on Sparse Features for Single-Channel Speech Separation
    Mikkel N. Schmidt, Rasmus K. Olsson
[MP1-04]  Sound Source Separation using Null-Beamforming and Spectral Subtraction for Mobile Devices
    Shintaro Takada, Satoshi Kanba, Tetsuji Ogawa, Kenzo Akagiri, Tetsunori Kobayashi
[MP1-05]  On Dealing with Sampling Rate Mismatches in Blind Source Separation and Acoustic Echo Cancellation
    Enrique Robledo-Arnuncio, Ted S. Wada, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang
[MP1-06]  Signal Deflation and Paraunitary Constraints in Spatio-Temporal FastICA-Based Convolutive Blind Source Separation of Speech Mixtures
    Malay Gupta, Scott C. Douglas
[MP1-07]  Fast Convergence Blind Source Separation Based on Frequency Subband Interpolation by Null Beamforming
    Keiichi Osako, Yoshimitsu Mori, Yu Takahashi, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano
[MP1-08]  Electronic Pop Protection for Microphones
    Gary W. Elko, Jens Meyer, Steven Backer, Jürgen Peissig
[MP1-09]  A Practical Multichannel Dereverberation Algorithm using Multichannel DYPSA and Spatiotemporal Averaging
    Mark R. P. Thomas, Nikolay D. Gaubitch, Jon Gudnason, Patrick A. Naylor
[MP1-10]  Isotropic Noise Suppression in the Power Spectrum Domain by Symmetric Microphone Arrays
    Hikaru Shimizu, Nobutaka Ono, Kyosuke Matsumoto, Shigeki Sagayama
[MP1-11]  Acoustic Echo Cancelation for Dynamically Steered Microphone Array Systems
    Matti Hämäläinen, Ville Myllylä
[MP1-12]  A New Approach to Digital Audio Equalization
    S. Cecchi, L. Palestini, E. Moretti, F. Piazza
[MP1-13]  Implementation of Directional Sources in Wave Field Synthesis
    Jens Ahrens, Sascha Spors
[MP1-14]  A Comparsion of Acoustic and Psychoacoustic Measurements of Pass-Through Hearing Protection Devices
    Douglas S. Brungart, Brian W. Hobbs, James T. Hamil
[MP1-15]  Improvement in Detectability of Alarm Signals in Noisy Environments by Utilizing Spatial Cues
    Hideaki Uchiyama, Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi
[MP1-16]  Estimation Model for the Speech-Quality Dimension "Directness / Frequency Content"
    Lu Huo, Marcel Wältermann, Kirstin Scholz, Alexander Raake, Ulrich Heute, Sebastian Möller
[MP1-17]  Probabilistic Model Based Similarity Measures for Audio Query-By-Example
    Tuomas Virtanen, Marko Helén
[MP1-18]  Improving Generalization for Classification-Based Polyphonic Piano Transcription
    Graham E. Poliner, Daniel P. W. Ellis
[MP1-19]  Acoustic Signal Processing for Degradation Analysis of Rotating Machinery to Determine the Remaining Useful Life
    Patricia Scanlon, Alan M. Lyons, Alan O'Loughlin
[MP1-20]  Single-Frame Discrimination of Non-Stationary Sinusoids
    Jeremy J. Wells, Damian T. Murphy

Lunch   (October 22, 12:20-15:40)   West Dining Room

Break   (October 22, 15:40-16:00)   Conference House

Lecture ML2: Source Localization and Blind Source Separation   (October 22, 16:00-18:00)   Conference House

16:00-16:20
[ML2-1]  Modeling of Motion Dynamics and its Influence on the Performance of a Particle Filter for Acoustic Speaker Tracking
    Eric A. Lehmann, Anders M. Johansson, Sven Nordholm
16:20-16:40
[ML2-2]  Multi Target Acoustic Source Tracking using Track Before Detect
    Maurice Fallon, Simon Godsill
16:40-17:00
[ML2-3]  Blind Sparse-Nonnegative (BSN) Channel Identification for Acoustic Time-Difference-Of-Arrival Estimation
    Yuanqing Lin, Jingdong Chen, Youngmoo Kim, Daniel D. Lee
17:00-17:20
[ML2-4]  Blind Criterion and Oracle Bound for Instantaneous Audio Source Separation using Adaptive Time-Frequency Representations
    Emmanuel Vincent, Rémi Gribonval
17:20-17:40
[ML2-5]  Monaural Speech Separation using Source-Adapted Models
    Ron J. Weiss, Daniel P. W. Ellis
17:40-18:00
[ML2-6]  A Soft Masking Strategy Based on Multichannel Speech Probability Estimation for Source Separation and Robust Speech Recognition
    Eugen Hoffmann, Dorothea Kolossa, Reinhold Orglmeister

Dinner   (October 22, 18:00-20:00)   West Dining Room

Demo Session 1   (October 22, 20:00-22:00)   West Dining Room

Keynote Address2: Albert S. Bregman (McGill University)   (October 23, 8:00-9:00)   Conference House

8:00-9:00
[Keynote2]  Progress in the Study of Auditory Scene Analysis
    Albert S. Bregman

Lecture TL1: Signal Enhancement   (October 23, 9:00-10:00)   Conference House

9:00-9:20
[TL1-1]  Single-Channel Impact Noise Suppression with No Auxiliary Information for its Detection
    Akihiko Sugiyama
9:20-9:40
[TL1-2]  Aliasing Reduction for Modified Discrete Cosine Transform Domain Filtering and its Application to Speech Enhancement
    Fabian Kuech, Bernd Edler
9:40-10:00
[TL1-3]  Example-Driven Bandwidth Expansion
    Paris Smaragdis, Bhiksha Raj

Break   (October 23, 10:00-10:20)   West Dining Room

Poster TP1   (October 23, 10:20-12:20)   West Dining Room

[TP1-01]  A Two-Stage Frequency-Domain Blind Source Separation Method for Underdetermined Convolutive Mixtures
    Hiroshi Sawada, Shoko Araki, Shoji Makino
[TP1-02]  Long-Term Gain Estimation in Model-Based Single Channel Speech Separation
    M. H. Radfar, R. M. Dansereau
[TP1-03]  Sparseness-Based 2ch BSS using the EM Algorithm in Reverberant Environment
    Yosuke Izumi, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama
[TP1-04]  Prior Structures for Time-Frequency Energy Distributions
    Ali Taylan Cemgil, Paul Peeling, Onur Dikmen, Simon Godsill
[TP1-05]  Fast Time-Domain Spherical Microphone Array Beamforming
    Zhiyun Li, Ramani Duraiswami
[TP1-06]  Reverberation-Time Prediction Method for Room Impulse Responses Simulated with the Image-Source Model
    Eric A. Lehmann, Anders M. Johansson, Sven Nordholm
[TP1-07]  Overfitting-Resistant Speech Dereverberation
    Takuya Yoshioka, Tomohiro Nakatani, Takafumi Hikichi, Masato Miyoshi
[TP1-08]  Novel and Efficient Download Test for Two Path Echo Canceller
    Mohammad Asif Iqbal, Steven L. Grant
[TP1-09]  An Approach to Massive Multichannel Broadband Feedforward Active Noise Control using Wave-Domain Adaptive Filtering
    Sascha Spors, Herbert Buchner
[TP1-10]  Enhancement of Residual Echo for Improved Frequency-Domain Acoustic Echo Cancellation
    Ted S. Wada, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang
[TP1-11]  Effects of Pre-Processing Filters on a Wavelet Packet-Based Algorithm to Identify Speech Transients
    Daniel M. Rasetshwane, J. Robert Boston, Ching-Chung Li, John D. Durrant
[TP1-12]  Modeling Spot Microphone Signals using the Sinusoidal Plus Noise Approach
    Christos Tzagkarakis, Athanasios Mouchtaris, Panagiotis Tsakalides
[TP1-13]  A Modified Spatio-Temporal Orthogonal Iteration Method for Multichannel Audio Signal Representation
    Scott C. Douglas, Malay Gupta
[TP1-14]  A Low-Delay Audio Coder with Constrained-Entropy Quantization
    Minyue Li, W. Bastiaan Kleijn
[TP1-15]  Extending Fine-Grain Scalable Audio Coding to Very Low Bitrates using Overcomplete Dictionaries
    Emmanuel Ravelli, Gaël Richard, Laurent Daudet
[TP1-16]  Spectral Band Replication Tool for Very Low Delay Audio Coding Applications
    Tobias Friedrich, Gerald Schuller
[TP1-17]  Methods for 2nd Order Spherical Harmonic Spatial Encoding in Digital Waveguide Mesh Virtual Acoustic Simulations
    Alex Southern, Damian Murphy
[TP1-18]  Solo Voice Detection via Optimal Cancellation
    Christine Smit, Daniel P. W. Ellis
[TP1-19]  Fast Sequential LS Estimation for Sinusoidal Modeling and Decomposition of Audio Signals
    Bertrand David, Roland Badeau
[TP1-20]  Speech-To-Singing Synthesis: Converting Speaking Voices to Singing Voices by Controlling Acoustic Features Unique to Singing Voices
    Takeshi Saitou, Masataka Goto, Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi
[TP1-21]  Convolutional Synthesis of Wind Instruments
    Tamara Smyth, Jonathan S. Abel

Lunch   (October 23, 12:20-15:40)   West Dining Room

Break   (October 23, 15:40-16:00)   Conference House

Lecture TL2: Speech and Audio Coding and Hearing Aid   (October 23, 16:00-18:00)   Conference House

16:00-16:20
[TL2-1]  Comparison of Reduced-Bandwidth MWF-Based Noise Reduction Algorithms for Binaural Hearing Aids
    Simon Doclo, Tim van den Bogaert, Jan Wouters, Marc Moonen
16:20-16:40
[TL2-2]  Distributed Spatial Audio Coding in Wireless Hearing Aids
    Olivier Roy, Martin Vetterli
16:40-17:00
[TL2-3]  A Time-Frequency Modulation Model of Speech Quality
    James M. Kates, Kathryn H. Arehart
17:00-17:20
[TL2-4]  Low Delay Filterbanks for Enhanced Low Delay Audio Coding
    Markus Schnell, Ralf Geiger, Markus Schmidt, Markus Multrus, Michael Mellar, Jürgen Herre, Gerald Schuller
17:20-17:40
[TL2-5]  Lossless Audio Coding with Bandwidth Extension Layers
    Stephen Voran
17:40-18:00
[TL2-6]  Rate Distribution between Model and Signal
    W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Alexey Ozerov

Dinner   (October 23, 18:00-20:00)   West Dining Room

Demo Session 2   (October 23, 20:00-22:00)   West Dining Room

Lecture WL1: Music and Signal Analysis and Synthesis   (October 24, 8:00-10:00)   Conference House

8:00-8:20
[WL1-1]  Sinewave Analysis/Synthesis Based on the Fan-Chirp Transform
    Robert Dunn, Thomas F. Quatieri
8:20-8:40
[WL1-2]  Spectral Refinement and its Application to Fundamental Frequency Estimation
    Mohamed Krini, Gerhard Schmidt
8:40-9:00
[WL1-3]  A Novel Method for Decomposition of Multicomponent Nonstationary Signals
    A. Goli, D. M. McNamara, A. K. Ziarani
9:00-9:20
[WL1-4]  Using Stereo Information for Instrument Identification in Polyphonic Mixtures
    David Sodoyer, Pierre Leveau, Laurent Daudet
9:20-9:40
[WL1-5]  Bauer Method of MVDR Spectral Factorization for Pitch Modification in the Source Domain
    M. Ravi Shanker, R. Muralishankar, A. G. Ramakrishnan
9:40-10:00
[WL1-6]  Waveguide Modeling of Lossy Flared Acoustic Pipes: Derivation of a Kelly-Lochbaum Structure for Real-Time Simulations
    Thomas Hélie, Rémi Mignot, Denis Matignon

Break   (October 24, 10:00-10:20)   West Dining Room

Poster WP1   (October 24, 10:20-12:20)   West Dining Room

[WP1-01]  Sound Source Distance Learning Based on Binaural Signals
    Sampo Vesa
[WP1-02]  EM Localization and Separation using Interaural Level and Phase Cues
    Michael I. Mandel, Daniel P. W. Ellis
[WP1-03]  Single Channel Speech and Background Segregation Through Harmonic-Temporal Clustering
    Jonathan Le Roux, Hirokazu Kameoka, Nobutaka Ono, Alain de Cheveigné, Shigeki Sagayama
[WP1-04]  Joint Iterative Multi-Speaker Identification and Source Separation using Expectation Propagation
    John MacLaren Walsh, Youngmoo E. Kim, Travis M. Doll
[WP1-05]  Audio Source Separation with Matching Pursuit and Content-Adaptive Dictionaries (MP-CAD)
    Namgook Cho, Yu Shiu, C.-C. Jay Kuo
[WP1-06]  Post-Filter Design for Superdirective Beamformers with Closely Spaced Microphones
    Heinrich W. Löllmann, Peter Vary
[WP1-07]  A Fast Microphone Array SRP-PHAT Source Location Implementation using Coarse-To-Fine Region Contraction (CFRC)
    Hoang Do, Harvey F. Silverman
[WP1-08]  Importance of Energy and Spectral Features in Gaussian Source Model for Speech Dereverberation
    Tomohiro Nakatani, Biing-Hwang Juang, Takuya Yoshioka, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masato Miyoshi
[WP1-09]  A Variable Step-Size for Frequency-Domain Acoustic Echo Cancellation
    Yin Zhou, Xiaodong Li
[WP1-10]  A Novel Approach to Active Noise Control Based on Wave Domain Adaptive Filtering
    P. Peretti, S. Cecchi, L. Palestini, F. Piazza
[WP1-11]  Semantic Colouration Space Investigation: Controlled Colouration in the Bark-Sone Domain
    Jimi Y. C. Wen, Patrick A. Naylor
[WP1-12]  Robustness Analysis of Binaural Hearing Aid Beamformer Algorithms by Means of Objective Perceptual Quality Measures
    Thomas Rohdenburg, Volker Hohmann, Birger Kollmeier
[WP1-13]  Privacy-Preserving Musical Database Matching
    Madhusudana Shashanka, Paris Smaragdis
[WP1-14]  A Multichannel Linear Prediction Method for the MPEG-4 ALS Compliant Encoder
    Yutaka Kamamoto, Noboru Harada, Takehiro Moriya
[WP1-15]  Enhanced Resampling for Sinusoidal Modeling Parameters
    Martin Raspaud, Sylvain Marchand
[WP1-16]  Compressive Coding of Stereo Audio Signals Extracting Sparseness Among Sound Sources with Independent Component Analysis
    Shigeki Miyabe, Tadashi Mihashi, Tomoya Takatani, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Toshiyuki Nomura
[WP1-17]  Distortion-Aware Query-By-Example for Environmental Sounds
    Gordon Wichern, Jiachen Xue, Harvey Thornburg, Andreas Spanias
[WP1-18]  Multi-Object Tracking of Sinusoidal Components in Audio with the Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density Filter
    Daniel Clark, Ali-Taylan Cemgil, Paul Peeling, Simon Godsill
[WP1-19]  Separation of Harmonic and Speech Signals using Sinusoidal Modeling
    Peter Jančovič, Münevver Köküer
[WP1-20]  An Instrument Timbre Model for Computer Aided Orchestration
    Damien Tardieu, Xavier Rodet

Lunch   (October 24, 12:20-14:00)   West Dining Room