WASPAA 2011

Congratulations to the best paper nominees and to the winners of the best paper and best student paper awards.

Best paper

• A Time-Domain Widely Linear MVDR Filter for Binaural Noise Reduction
  Jingdong Chen, Jacob Benesty

Best student paper

• Simulation of the Violin Section Sound based on the analysis of orchestra performance
  Jukka Pätynen, Sakari Tervo, Tapio Lokki

Best paper nominees

• Upscaling Ambisonic Sound Scenes Using Compressed Sensing Techniques
  Andrew Wabnitz, Nicolas Epain, Alistair McEwan, Craig Jin
• Cascaded Long Term Prediction for Coding Polyphonic Audio Signals
  Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Kenneth Rose
• Efficient Realization of Model-Based Rendering for 2.5-dimensional Near-Field Compensated Higher Order Ambisonics
  Sascha Spors, Jens Ahrens, Vincent Kuscher
• Learning Emotion-Based Acoustic Features With Deep Belief Networks
  Erik Schmidt, Youngmoo Kim
• Spectral vs. Spectro-Temporal Features For Acoustic Event Detection
  Courtenay Cotton, Daniel Ellis
• Large-Scale Cover Song Recognition Using Hashed Chroma Landmarks
  Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Daniel Ellis
• Binaural Analysis/Synthesis of Interior Aircraft Sounds
  Charles Verron, Philippe-Aubert Gautier, Jennifer Langlois, Catherine Guastavino
• Combined Feedforward-Feedback Noise Reduction Schemes for Open-Fitting Hearing Aids< br />
  Derya Dalga, Simon Doclo
• Fast Update Rules for Independent Vector Analysis Based on Auxiliary Function Technique
  Nobutaka Ono
• Diffuseness Estimation With High Temporal Resolution Via Spatial Coherence Between Virtual First-Order Microphones
  Oliver Thiergart, Giovanni Del Galdo, Emanuel Habets

We’ve posted information for presenters including the lecture time (20 minutes total, including questions), and poster size (4′ x 4′).

The schedule for WASPAA 2011 has been posted. It includes the day, time, and location of each session and also lists which papers are to be presented as lectures, and which as posters. Guidelines for both lecture and poster presentations will be posted shortly.

Registration for WASPAA 2011 is now closed because the workshop and the waitlist have filled to capacity.

Registration for WASPAA 2011 is now open to everyone through our registration system. It will probably fill up quickly, so don’t delay. If you already have a username and password for the paper submission system, you can use it to log in for registration as well.

Due to some technical difficulties, we are extending the deadline for camera-ready papers to next Wednesday, August 3. Note that we will still be opening up conference registration for non-authors on August 1, so if you are an author and have not registered for the conference, remember to do so before it fills up.

Note that if you require a Visa letter to travel to WASPAA, you will have the opportunity to request it during the registration process. If approved, the letter will be sent out on the Friday after you register, so don’t worry when you don’t get it immediately upon registering.

Decisions on all papers have been emailed to all corresponding authors.  If you haven’t gotten yours, please let us know.  Camera-ready versions of all accepted papers (which must pass the PDF Express Compliance Check) are due by July 29.

The WAASPAA 2011 submission deadline remains Friday, May 13th. However, in order to ensure the best possible submissions and to make things a little easier for authors, we have added a “revision window”: Papers submitted by the deadline can be modified/revised through the submission site for an additional week, until Friday May 20th. At 5pm EDT on Friday, May 20th, the submission site will close, and the submitted papers will be frozen.

The WASPAA 2011 paper submission site is now open. When you are ready to submit a paper, go to the site and register for an account. For each paper you are submitting, you will fill out a form with metadata describing the paper, upload the PDF file, and optionally upload any supporting multimedia files. The submission deadline is May 13, 2011.