WASPAA'97
Technical Program

Version of 1997aug28 (complete)

Sunday October 19th, 1997

4:00 pm	Cookies
6:00 pm	Dinner
8:00 pm	Plenary address Sounds in space, sounds in your head, and sounds in between William M. Hartmann

Monday October 20th, 1997 - morning

8:00 am	Opening Message from the Organizing Committee
8:05 am	Hearing Aids I - Eric Lindemann, session chair
	A microelectronic core for a programmable digital hearing aid J.A. Hidalgo, J.C. Tejero, A. Daza, O. Oballe, A. Gago Compression circuit of a multiband analog system for hearing aid J. Fernández Ramos, J.C. Tejero, J.A. Hidalgo, M. J. Martin, A. Gago A DSP implementation of a digital hearing aid with recruitment of loudness compensation and acoustic echo cancellation Sigisbert Wyrsch and August Kaeli The continuous frequency dynamic range compressor Eric Lindemann
9:25 am	Hearing Aids II - Jim Kates, session chair
	A method for spectral transposition of speech signal applicable in profound hearing loss A. Czyzewski, R. Krolikowski, B. Kostek, H. Skarzynski, A. Loren Steady-state analysis of continuous adaptation systems in hearing aids M. G. Siqueira, A. Alwan, R. Speece Some notes on feedback suppression with adaptive filters in hearing aids Wolfgang G. Knecht Design of a broadside array for a binaural hearing aid Ivo L.D.M. Merks, Marinus M. Boone, and A. J. Berkhout
10:45 am	coffee break
11:00 am	Audio Coding - Jürgen Herre, session chair
	Fixed-point analysis and simulations of AC-3 algorithm Il-Taek Lim and Junho Bahn Perception-based bit-allocation algorithms for audio coding Stephen Voran Noiseless coding of quantized spectral components in MPEG-2 advanced audio coding S. R. Quackenbush, J. D. Johnston Continuously signal-adaptive filterbank for high-quality perceptual audio coding Jürgen Herre and James D. Johnston
12:20 pm	Lunch

Monday October 20th, 1997 - afternoon

3:20 pm	Speech Processing - Il-Taek Lim, session chair
	On the properties of temporal processing for speech in adverse environments Carlos Avendano and Hynek Hermansky A subband noise-reduction method for enhancing speech in telephony & teleconferencing Eric J. Diethorn Analysis of nonlinear and nonstationary processes in speech production Florin Grigoras, Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Vasile Apopei A linear predictive method using extrapolated samples for modelling of voiced speech Susanna Varho and Paavo Alku
4:40 pm	Room Acoustics Signal Processing - Bill Putnam, session chair
	Interpolation and extrapolation of room transfer functions based on common acoustical poles and their residues Yoichi Haneda and Yutaka Kaneda Modeling of reflections and air absorption in acoustical spaces - a digital filter design approach Jyri Huopaniemi, Lauri Savioja, and Matti Karjalainen Virtual-loudspeakers-based multichannel sound system P. Y. Wang and S. F. Hsieh
5:40 pm	Dinner

Monday October 20th, 1997 - evening

7:30 pm	Special Session
	MPEG and PAC Audio Coders Jürgen Herre & Schuyler Quackenbush
8:40 pm	Spatial Perception and Processing - Doris Kistler, session chair
	An efficient HRTF model for 3-D sound C. Phillip Brown, Richard O. Duda Range-dependence of the HRTF for a spherical head Richard O. Duda, William L. Martens Head tracked 3-D audio using loudspeakers William G. Gardner Single-ended spatial enhancement using a cross-coupled lattice equalizer Robert C. Maher

Tuesday October 21st, 1997 - morning

8:00 am	Signal Modeling - Tom Quatieri, session chair
	Extraction of spectral peak parameters using a short-time Fourier transform modeling and no sidelobe windows Ph. Depalle, T. Hélie Atomic decompositions of audio signals Michael Goodwin, Martin Vetterli Alias-free, multiresolution sinusoidal modeling for polyphonic, wideband audio Scott N. Levine, Tony S. Verma, Julius O. Smith III Phase-Vocoder: About this phasiness business Jean Laroche and Mark Dolson
9:20 am	Noise Reduction - Simon Godsill, session chair
	M-band wavelet packets and filter bank trees as flexible tools in audio signal processing Frank Kurth and Michael Clausen Noise reduction based on spectral change T.F. Quatieri, R.A. Baxter A combined approach for broadband noise reduction Markus Lorber and Robert Hoeldrich
10:20 am	coffee break
10:40 am	Music Restoration and Analysis - Olivier Cappé, session chair
	Removal of low frequency transient noise from old recordings using model-based signal separation techniques S.J. Godsill, C.H. Tan Establishing the tonal context for musical pattern recognition Ilya Shmulevich and Edward J. Coyle Efficient blind separation of convolved sound mixtures Paris Smaragdis Nonlinearity-tolerated active noise control using an artificial neural network C. X. Tan, H. Tachibana
12:00 pm	Lunch

Tuesday October 21st, 1997 - afternoon

3:20 pm	Spectral Envelopes - Mike Goodwin, session chair
	Spectral envelope estimation using a penalized likelihood criterion Olivier Cappé, Marine Oudot and Eric Moulines Spectral transformation for musical tones via time domain filtering Susan Yim, Yinong Ding, Alan McCree
4:00 pm	Digital Filters - Scott Levine, session chair
	Some properties of tail-canceling IIR filters Avery Wang, Julius O. Smith III Warped filters and their audio applications Matti Karjalainen, Aki Härmä, Unto K. Laine, and Jyri Huopaniemi Design of fractional delay filters using convex optimization William Putnam, Julius O. Smith III
5:00 pm	Musical Instruments - Matti Karjalainen, session chair
	Elimination of delay-free loops in discrete-time models of nonlinear acoustic systems Gianpaolo Borin, Giovanni De Poli and Davide Rocchesso The One-Filter Keefe Clarinet Tonehole Julius O. Smith III, Gary P. Scavone
5:40 pm	Dinner

Tuesday October 21st, 1997 - evening

7:30 pm	Auditory Modeling - Deep Sen, session chair
	Spectral noise-shaping in integrate-and-fire neural networks Robert W. Adams A physiological ear model for specific loudness and masking Frank Baumgarte Towards a model of loudness recalibration D. Mapes-Riordan and W. A. Yost Echo suppression in a computational model of the precedence effect Keith D. Martin Pulse tracking with a pitch tracker Eric D. Scheirer
9:10 pm	Auditory Scene Analysis - Dan Ellis, session chair
	Auditory segregation of vowel-like sounds with static and dynamic spectral properties Pierre L. Divenyi, René Carré and Alain P. Algazi Computational auditory scene analysis exploiting speech-recognition knowledge Dan Ellis Modeling binaural auditory scene analysis by a temporal fuzzy cluster analysis approach Karsten H. Lehn Modeling the Haas effect: A first step for solving the CASA problem John K. Bates

Wednesday October 22nd, 1997 - morning

8:00 am	Microphone Arrays - Mike Brandstein, session chair
	Adaptive noise cancellation with directional microphones Gary W. Elko Adaptive beamforming with partitioned frequency-domain filters Marcel Joho, George S. Moschytz Optimum near-field response for microphone arrays James G. Ryan, Rafik A. Goubran Mixed nearfield/farfield beamforming: A new technique for speech acquisition in a reverberant environment Darren B. Ward and Gary W. Elko Superdirective microphone array for a set-top videoconferencing system Peter L. Chu
9:40 am	coffee break
10:00 am	Echo Cancellation - Peter Chu, session chair
	A hybrid mono/stereo acoustic echo canceler Jacob Benesty, Dennis R. Morgan, and M. Mohan Sondhi Filter bank constraints for subband and frequency-domain adaptive filters Koen Eneman, Marc Moonen
10:40 am	Time Delay Estimation for Sound Source Localization - Hong Wang, session chair
	Sound localization of concurrent and continuous speech sources in reverberant environment Jie Huang, Noboru Ohnishi and Noboru Sugie A pitch-based approach to time-delay estimation of reverberant speech Michael S. Brandstein Robust time delay estimation for sound source localization in noisy environments Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Chris Kyriakakis, Panagiotis Tsakalides Voice source localization for automatic camera pointing system in videoconferencing Hong Wang, Peter L. Chu
12:00 pm	Conference Over: Pack, lunch, and checkout by 2pm

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