PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

IEEE Signal Processing Society

1995 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics

Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, New York

October 15-18, 1995

Sunday, October 15, 1995

Invited Keynote Address

• "Use of Psychological Data in Building ASA Models"
  by Albert S. Bregman, Dept. of Psychology, McGill University
  bregman@hebb.psych.mcgill.ca

Monday, October 16, 1995

Session 1 "Hearing Aids" (6 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: Jont B. Allen, AT&T Bell Laboratories

1. "Separation of Multiple Signals in Hearing Aids by Output Decorrelation and Time-Delay Estimation"
   by Pascal Bamford, Nishan Canagarajah
   Nishan.Canagarajah@bristol.ac.uk

2. "Microphone Array Calibration for Robust Adaptive Processing"
   by Michael W. Hoffman
   hoffman@unlinfo.unl.edu

3. "An Evaluation of Hearing-Aid Array Processing"
   by James M. Kates
   jmk@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu

4. "Wavelet Transform and Frequency Domain Kurtosis: Application to Assessment of Hearing Hazard from Noise Exposure"
   by Sheau-Fang Lei, Roger P. Hamernik
   leis@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu

5. "Fixed Filter Implementation of Feedback Cancellation for In-the-Ear Hearing Aids"
   by Brian D. Woodruff, David A. Preeves
   sysop@homesrch.com

6. "Two Microphone Nonlinear Frequency Domain Beamformer for Hearing Aid Noise Reduction"
   by Eric Lindemann
   elind@csn.org

Monday, October 16, 1995

Session 2 "Auditory Scene Analysis" (5 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: Richard Duda, Dept. Elect. Eng., San Jose State University
duda@ai.sri.com

1. "Binaural Modeling and Auditory Scene Analysis"
   by Markus Bodden
   bodden@aea.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

2. "A Neural Oscillator Model of Primitive Audio Grouping"
   by Guy J. Brown, Martin Cooke
   guy@dcs.shef.ac.uk

3. "Auditory Segregation of Concurrent Signals: An Operational Definition"
   by Pierre L. Divenyi
   PDivenyi@ucdavis.edu

4. "Underconstrained Stochastic Representations for Top-Down Computational Auditory Scene Analysis"
   by Daniel P. W. Ellis
   dpwe@media.mit.edu

5. "Instantaneous and Frequency-Warped Techniques for Source Separation and Signal Parameterization"
   by Avery L. Wang
   avery@chromatic.com

Monday, October 16, 1995

Session 3 "Active Noise Control" (3 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: TBD

1. "Adaptive Minimisation of the Maximum Error Signal in an Active Control System"
   by A. Gonzalez, S. J. Elliott
   agonzal@dcom.upv.es

2. "A Multidimensional Householder QR Algorithm for Transducer Placement in Active Noise Control Systems"
   by Larry P. Heck
   heck@andre.sri.com

3. "Using A Fast-Recursive-Least-Squared Algorithm In a Feedback- Controller"
   by Thomas Auspitzer, D. Guicking, S. J. Elliott
   ta@isvr.soton.ac.uk

Monday, October 16, 1995

Session 1 "Spatial Perception and Processing" (8 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: Frederic L. Wightman, Waisman Center, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison
wightman@waisman.wisc.edu

1. "Some Research Issues in Spatial Hearing"
   by Jack M. Loomis
   loomis@psych.ucsb.edu

2. "Some Considerations for the Design of Auditory Displays"
   by Robert H. Gilkey
   gilk@desire.wright.edu

3. "On the Discriminability of Virtual and Real Sound Sources"
   by Pavel Zahorik, Fred Wightman, Doris Kistler
   zahorik@waisman.wisc.edu

4. "The Relative Contribution of Interaural Time and Magnitude Cues to Dynamic Sound Localization"
   by Elizabeth M. Wenzel
   beth@eos.arc.nasa.gov

5. "On the Minimum-Phase Approximation of Head-Related Transfer Functions"
   by A. Kulkarni, S. K. Isabelle, H. S. Colburn
   abhijit@enga.bu.edu

6. "A Comparison of Head Related Transfer Function Interpolation Methods"
   by Paul R. Runkle, Michael A. Blommer, Gregory H. Wakefield
   paulr@eecs.umich.edu

7. "A Spherical Basis Function Neural Network for Pole-Zero Modeling of Head-Related Transfer Functions"
   by Rick L. Jenison
   jenison@wavelet.psych.wisc.edu

8. "Estimating Azimuth and Elevation from Interaural Difference"
   by Keith D. Martin
   kdm@media.mit.edu

Tuesday, October 17, 1995

Session 5 "Acoustic Echo Cancellation" (8 papers, 20 min.)
Chair: Steve Gay, AT&T Bell Laboratories

1. "Limitations of Handsfree Acoustic Echo Cancellers Due to Nonlinear Loudspeaker Distortion and Enclosure Vibration Effects"
   by A.N. Birkett, R.A. Boubran
   birkett@sce.carleton.ca

2. "Mean-Square Error Calculations for the Subband Adaptive Filter System"
   by Phillip De Leon, Delores M. Etter
   deleon@colorado.edu

3. "Perceptually Optimum Adaptive Filter Tap Profiles for Subband Acoustic Echo Cancellers"
   by Eric J. Diethorn
   dthorn@hogpa.ho.att.com

4. "Parallel Processing of the Matched-Filter Array for Sound Capture"
   by Ea-Ee Jan, James L. Flanagan
   ejan@caip.rutgers.edu

5. "Image Model for Computer Simulation of Sound Wave Behavior in an Enclosure"
   by Ea-Ee Jan, James L. Flanagan
   ejan@caip.rutgers.edu

6. "Two Variants of the FxLMS Algorithm"
   by Markus Rupp, Ali H. Sayed
   markus@agni.ece.ucsb.edu

7. "Exponentially Decaying Time-Recursive Blind Deconvolution Algorithm for Speech Dereverberation"
   by Ping-Ya Zhao, James P. Reilly
   zhaopin@McMaster.CA jim@reilly.CRL.McMaster.CA

8. "Simulation of Teleconferencing Environments"
   by C. Thompson, K. Chandra, V. Mehta
   mehtav@woods.uml.edu

Tuesday, October 17, 1995

Session 6 "Music Restoration and Analysis" (5 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: Peter J.W. Rayner, University of Cambridge
asrayner@v9001.ntu.ac.sg

1. "Some Methods for Detection and Interpolation of Impulsive Distortions in Old Audio Recordings"
   by Andrzej Czyzewski
   zid@next.elka.pg.gda.pl

2. "Robust Noise Modelling With Application to Audio Restoration"
   by Simon J. Godsill, Peter J.W. Rayner
   sjg@eng.cam.ac.uk

3. "Removing Preechos from Audio Recordings"
   by Jean Laroche
   laroche@sig.enst.fr

4. "A Multiresolution Audio Restoration Algorithm"
   by Hugh R R Scott, Roland Wilson
   Hugh.Scott@dcs.warwick.ac.uk rgw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk

5. "Multi-channel Blind Signal Separation by Decorrelation"
   by Dominic C. B. Chan, Peter J. W. Rayner, Simon J. Godsill
   dcbc1@eng.cam.ac.uk

Tuesday, October 17, 1995

Session 7 "Transducers" (5 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: Gary Elko, AT&T Bell Laboratories

1. "Predicting the Quality of Sound Pickup Using Microphone Arrays"
   by James G. Ryan
   James.G.Ryan@nrc.ca

2. "Second Order Volterra Inverses for Compensation of Loudspeaker Nonlinearity"
   by Hans Schurer, Cornelius H. Slump, Otto E. Herrmann
   H.Schurer@el.utwente.nl

3. "A Simple Adaptive First-Order Differential Microphone"
   by Gary W. Elko, Anh-Tho Nguyen Pong
   gwe@research.att.com

4. "Multiple Beam Broadband Beamforming: Filter Design and Real-Time Implementation"
   by Stefaan Van Gerven, D. Van Compernolle, P.W., W.V., K.E., & K.D.
   Stefaan.VanGerven@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

5. "A New Method of Tracking Talker Location for Microphone Arrays in Near Field"
   by Ming Zhang, M. H. Er
   emzhang@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg

Tuesday, October 17, 1995

Session 8 "High-Quality Audio Coding"; "Audio Perception" (7 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: Marina Bosi, Dolby Labs, San Francisco
mab@dolby.com

1. "Optimizing the Synthesis Filter Bank in Audio Coding for Minimum Distortion Using a Frequency Weighted Psychoacoustic"
   by Karine Gosse, Olivier Pothier, Pierre Duhamel
   gosse@sig.enst.fr

2. "A New Orthonormal Wavelet Packet Decomposition for Audio Coding Using Frequency-Varying Modulated Lapped Transforms"
   by Marcus Purat, Peter Noll
   purat@ftsu00.ee.tu-berlin.de

3. "The Bark Bilinear Transform"
   by Julius O. Smith III, Jonathan S. Abel
   jos@ccrma.stanford.edu

4. "Evaluating a Model of Auditory Masking for Applications in Audio Coding"
   by Blas Espinoza-Varas, Surendra V. Cherukuri
   blas-espinoza-varas@uokhsc.edu

5. "An Optimal Auditory Filter"
   by Irino Toshio
   irino@nttlab.brl.ntt.jp

6. "Subband Coding of Audio Using a Recursively Indexed Quantizer"
   by Yang-Jeng Chen, Robert C. Maher
   rmaher@unl.edu

7. "Observations on Auditory Excitation and Masking Patterns"
   by Stephen Voran
   sv@bldrdoc.gov

Wednesday, October 18, 1995

Session 9a "Computer Music/Processing" (8 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: Jean Laroche, ENST, Paris
laroche@sig.enst.fr

1. "The recreation of a castrato voice, Farinelli's Voice"
   by Ph. Depalle, G. Garcia, X. Rodet
   {phd, garcia, rod}@ircam.fr

2. "Regularized Estimation of Cepstrum Envelope from Discrete Frequency Points"
   by Olivier Cappe, Jean Laroche, Eric Moulines
   laroche@sig.enst.fr

3. "Filter Morphing of Parametric Equalizers and Shelving Filters for Audio Signal Processing"
   by Yinong Ding, Dave Rossum
   yinong@emu.com

4. "Phase-locked Vocodor"
   by Miller Puckette
   msp@ucsd.edu

5. "Overview of the Commuted Piano Synthesis Technique"
   by Julius O. Smith III, Scott A. Van Duyne
   jos@ccrma.stanford.edu

6. "Real-time Musical Applications using Frequency Domain Signal Processing"
   by Zack Settel, Cort Lippe
   settel@ircam.fr

7. "The Tetrahedral Digital Waveguide Mesh"
   by Scott A. Van Duyne, Julius O. Smith III
   jos@ccrma.stanford.edu

8. "Automated Analysis and Computationally Efficient Synthesis of Acoustic Guitar Strings and Body"
   by Kevin Bradley, Mu-huo Cheng, Virginia L. Stonick
   kb@ece.cmu.edu

Wednesday, October 18, 1995

Session 9b "Room Acoustics for Music Processing" (2 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: Jean Laroche, ENST, Paris
laroche@sig.enst.fr

1. "A Numerical Investigation of the Invertibility of Room Transfer Functions"
   by William Putnam, Davide Rocchesso, Julius O. Smith III
   putnam@ccrma.stanford.edu

2. "Simulation of Room Transmission Functions Using a Triangular Beam Tracing Computer Model"
   by Emmanuel De Geest, Ralph Garcea
   RMG@lms-um.mhs.compuserve.com

Wednesday, October 18, 1995

Session 10 "Time and Frequency Analysis" (3 papers, 20 min each)
Chair: John Princen, Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA
princen@engr.sgi.com

1. "Time Frequency Analysis with Low Numerical Complexity Using a t- f-Mapping of the DFT Magnitude"
   by Robert R. Hoeldrich
   hoeldric@wm.mhsg.ac.at

2. "Time-Scale Modification with Inconsistent Constraints"
   by T. F. Quatieri, T. E. Hanna
   tfq@sst.ll.mit.edu

3. "Adaptive Filters Based on the Best Matched Wavelet Tree"
   by Z. Chen, N. Erdol, F. Bao
   z_chen@acc.fau.edu