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