1999 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics

 Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, New York
October 17-20, 1999

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Below you'll find the final workshop program as of September 8, 1999.  A list of accepted papers sorted out by workshop sessions can be found here.

Workshop Sessions


Sunday, October 17, 1999

Monday, October 18, 1999
  • Session 1: Array Processing (8:30am - 10:10am)
  • Session 2: Audio Coding (10:30am - 12:30pm)
  • Plenary Lecture (3:50pm - 4:20pm)
  • Session 3: Filters and Filterbanks Design (4:20pm - 6:00pm)
  • Session 4: Music Processing and Synthesis (7:30pm - 9:50pm)
  • Tuesday, October 19, 1999
  • Session 5: Audio Segmentation (8:10am - 9:10am)
  • Session 6: Pitch Detection and Signal Separation (9:10am - 10:10am)
  • Session 7: Speech Enhancement (10:30am - 12:30pm)
  • Session 8: Signal Enhancement and Restoration (4:20pm - 6:00pm)
  • Session 9: 3D Audio and Room Acoustics I (7:30pm - 9:50pm)
  • Wednesday, October 20, 1999
  • Session 10: 3D Audio and Room Acoustics II (8:10am - 8:50am)
  • Session 11: Echo Cancellation (8:50am - 10:10am)
  • Session 12: Auditory Modeling (10:30am - 11:30am)
  • Session 13: Hearing Aids (11:30am - 12:30pm)
  • Workshop Program


    Sunday, October 17, 1999

    Keynote Address
    08:00pm - 09:00pm
    Perry Cook
    Computer Science Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
    TOWARD PHYSICALLY-INFORMED PARAMETRIC SYNTHESIS OF SOUND EFFECTS


    Monday, October 18, 1999

    Session 1: Array Processing
    Chairman: Michael S. Brandstein, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Paper 1-1
    08:30am - 08:50am
    Joerg Bitzer, Karl-Dirk Kammeyer, Klaus Uwe Simmer AN ALTERNATIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUPERDIRECTIVE BEAMFORMER
    Paper 1-2
    08:50am - 09:10am
    Thushara D. Abhayapala, Rodney A. Kennedy, Robert C. Williamson ISOTROPIC NOISE MODELLING FOR NEARFIELD ARRAY PROCESSING
    Paper 1-3
    09:10am - 09:30am
    Diemer de Vries, Marinus M.Boone WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS USING ARRAY TECHNOLOGY
    Paper 1-4
    09:30am - 09:50am
    Matti Kajala, Matti Hämäläinen BROADBAND BEAMFORMING OPTIMIZATION FOR SPEECH ENHANCEMENT IN NOISY ENVIRONMENTS
    Paper 1-5
    09:50am - 10:10am
    Darren B. Ward, Michael S. Brandstein GRID-BASED BEAMFORMER DESIGN FOR ROOM-ENVIRONMENT MICROPHONE ARRAYS
    Coffee Break
    10:10am - 10:30am
    Session 2: Audio Coding
    Chairman: Bernd Edler, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany
    Paper 2-1
    10:30am - 10:50am
    Jürgen Herre, Eric Allamanche COMPATIBLE SCRAMBLING OF COMPRESSED AUDIO
    Paper 2-2
    10:50am - 11:10am
    Heiko Purnhagen ADVANCES IN PARAMETRIC AUDIO CODING
    Paper 2-3
    11:10am - 11:30am
    Richard Barron, Alan Oppenheim A SYSTEMATIC HYBRID ANALOG/DIGITAL AUDIO CODER
    Paper 2-4
    11:30am - 11:50am
    Antony Rix, Richard Reynolds, Mike Hollier ROBUST PERCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT OF END-TO-END AUDIO QUALITY
    Paper 2-5
    11:50am - 12:10am
    Scott N. Levine, Julius O. Smith III IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SWITCHED PARAMETRIC & TRANSFORM AUDIO CODER
    Paper 2-6
    12:10am - 12:30am
    Youngmoo E. Kim STRUCTURED ENCODING OF THE SINGING VOICE USING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE MUSICAL SCORE
    Lunch & Afternoon Break
    12:30pm - 03:50pm
    Plenary Lecture
    03:50pm - 04:20pm
    Jont B. Allen
    AT&T Labs-Research, Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, NJ, USA
    A HISTORY OF TELEPHONE PSYCHOPHYSICS: AUDIO APPLICATIONS
    Session 3: Filters and Filterbanks Design
    Chairman: Julius O. Smith, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
    Paper 3-1
    04:20pm - 04:40pm
    Gerald Schuller, Wim Sweldens FILTER BANK DESIGN USING NILPOTENT MATRICES
    Paper 3-2
    04:40pm - 05:00pm
    Chalee Asavathiratham, Paul E. Beckmann, Alan V. Oppenheim FREQUENCY WARPING IN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FIXED-POINT AUDIO EQUALIZERS
    Paper 3-3
    05:00pm - 05:20pm
    Stephan Weiss, Robert W. Stewart ON THE OPTIMALITY OF SUBBAND ADAPTIVE FILTERS
    Paper 3-4
    05:20pm - 05:40pm
    Matti Hämäläinen OPTIMIZATION OF MULTIRATE CROSSOVER FILTERS
    Paper 3-5
    05:40pm - 06:00pm
    Unto K. Laine LINEAR TRANSFORMS AND FILTERBANKS BASED ON VECTOR ARMA MODELS
    Dinner
    06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
    Session 4: Music Processing and Synthesis
    Chairman: Davide Rocchesso, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
    Paper 4-1
    07:30pm - 07:50pm
    Matti Karjalainen IMMERSION AND CONTENT -A FRAMEWORK FOR AUDIO RESEARCH
    Paper 4-2
    07:50pm - 08:10pm
    Rob Sussman, Jean Laroche APPLICATION OF THE PHASE VOCODER TO PITCH-PRESERVING SYNCHRONIZATION OF AN AUDIO STREAM TO AN EXTERNAL CLOCK
    Paper 4-3
    08:10pm - 08:30pm
    Hui-Ling Lu, Julius O. Smith III JOINT ESTIMATION OF VOCAL TRACT FILTER AND GLOTTAL SOURCE WAVEFORM VIA CONVEX OPTIMIZATION
    Paper 4-4
    08:30pm - 08:50pm
    Lutz Trautmann, Rudolf Rabenstein DIGITAL SOUND SYNTHESIS BASED ON TRANSFER FUNCTION MODELS
    Paper 4-5
    08:50pm - 09:10pm
    Stefania Serafin, Julius O. Smith III, Jim Woodhouse AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF TORSION WAVES AND FRICTION CHARACTERISTICS ON THE PLAYABILITY OF VIRTUAL BOWED STRINGS
    Paper 4-6
    09:10pm - 09:30pm
    Jean Laroche, Mark Dolson NEW PHASE-VOCODER TECHNIQUES FOR PITCH-SHIFTING, HARMONIZING AND OTHER EXOTIC EFFECTS
    Paper 4-7
    09:30pm - 09:50pm
    Cort Lippe, Zack Settel LOW-DIMENSIONAL AUDIO-RATE CONTROL OF FFT-BASED PROCESSING


    Tuesday, October 19, 1999

    Session 5: Audio Segmentation
    Chairman: Michael Goodwin, Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA, USA
    Paper 5-1
    08:10am - 08:30am
    Eric D. Scheirer TOWARDS MUSIC UNDERSTANDING WITHOUT SEPARATION: SEGMENTING MUSIC WITH CORRELOGRAM COMODULATION
    Paper 5-2
    08:30am - 08:50am
    George Tzanetakis, Perry Cook MULTIFEATURE AUDIO SEGMENTATION FOR BROWSING AND ANNOTATION
    Paper 5-3
    08:50am - 09:10am
    Mark Kahrs VOCAL INTERFACES TO MUSICAL MATERIAL
    Session 6: Pitch Detection and Signal Separation
    Chairman: Perry Cook, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
    Paper 6-1
    09:10am - 09:30am
    Alijah Ahmed, Peter J.W. Rayner, Simon J. Godsill CONSIDERING NON-STATIONARITY FOR BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION
    Paper 6-2
    09:30am - 09:50am
    Anssi Klapuri PITCH ESTIMATION USING MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT TIME-FREQUENCY WINDOWS
    Paper 6-3
    09:50am - 10:10am
    Paul J. Walmsley, Simon J. Godsill, Peter J. W. Rayner POLYPHONIC PITCH TRACKING USING JOINT BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF MULTIPLE FRAME PARAMETERS
    Coffee Break
    10:10am - 10:30am
    Session 7: Speech Enhancement
    Chairman: Thierry Dutoit, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Mons, Belgium
    Paper 7-1
    10:30am - 10:50am
    Stanley J. Wenndt, Andrew J. Noga NARROW-BAND INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR ENHANCED SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION
    Paper 7-2
    10:50am - 11:10am
    Mark A. Tuffy, D. I. Laurenson ESTIMATING CLEAN SPEECH THRESHOLDS FOR PERCEPTUAL BASED SPEECH ENHANCEMENT.
    Paper 7-3
    11:10am - 11:30am
    Yoon Kim, Julius O. Smith III A SPEECH FEATURE BASED ON BARK FREQUENCY WARPING - THE NON-UNIFORM LINEAR PREDICTION (NLP) CEPSTRUM
    Paper 7-4
    11:30am - 11:50am
    Eric Grivel, Marcel Gabrea, Mohamed Najim ON SOME DERIVATIONS OF GIBSON'S APPROACH FOR SPEECH ENHANCEMENT
    Paper 7-5
    11:50am - 12:10pm
    Jarno Seppänen, Sami Kananoja, Jari Yli-Hietanen, Konsta Koppinen, Jari Sjöberg MAXIMIZATION OF THE SUBJECTIVE LOUDNESS OF SPEECH WITH CONSTRAINED AMPLITUDE
    Paper 7-6
    12:10pm - 12:30pm
    Simon Doclo, Marc Moonen SVD-BASED OPTIMAL FILTERING WITH APPLICATIONS TO NOISE REDUCTION IN SPEECH SIGNALS
    Lunch & Afternoon Break
    12:30pm - 04:20pm
    Session 8: Signal Enhancement and Restoration
    Chairman: Yinong Ding, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA
    Paper 8-1
    04:20pm - 04:40pm
    Andrzej Czyzewski, Rafal Krolikowski NOISE REDUCTION IN AUDIO SIGNALS BASED ON THE PERCEPTUAL CODING APPROACH
    Paper 8-2
    04:40pm - 05:00pm
    James R. Hopgood, Peter J. W. Rayner BAYESIAN SINGLE CHANNEL BLIND DECONVOLUTION USING PARAMETRIC SIGNAL AND CHANNEL MODELS
    Paper 8-3
    05:00pm - 05:20pm
    Ole Kirkeby, Per Rubak, Angelo Farina ANALYSIS OF ILL-CONDITIONING OF MULTI-CHANNEL DECONVOLUTION PROBLEMS
    Paper 8-4
    05:20pm - 05:40pm
    Paul T. Troughton BAYESIAN RESTORATION OF QUANTISED AUDIO SIGNALS USING A SINUSOIDAL MODEL WITH AUTOREGRESSIVE RESIDUALS
    Paper 8-5
    05:40pm - 06:00pm
    Stéphanie Dubost, Olivier Cappé ANALYSIS AND ENHANCEMENT OF LOCALLY HARMONIC SIGNALS USING ADAPTIVE MULTI-KERNEL METHODS
    Dinner
    06:00pm - 07:30pm
    Session 9: 3D Audio and Room Acoustics I
    Chairman: Jyri Huopaniemi, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
    Paper 9-1
    07:30pm - 07:50pm
    Takanori Nishino, Kazuya Takeda, Shoji Kajita, Fumitada Itakura INTERPOLATING HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS IN THE MEDIAN PLANE
    Paper 9-2
    07:50pm - 08:10pm
    Douglas S. Brungart AUDITORY PARALLAX EFFECTS IN THE HRTF FOR NEARBY SOURCES
    Paper 9-3
    08:10pm - 08:30pm
    William G. Gardner REDUCED-RANK MODELING OF HEAD-RELATED IMPULSE RESPONSES USING SUBSET SELECTION
    Paper 9-4
    08:30pm - 08:50pm
    Carlos Avendano, V. Ralph Algazi, Richard O. Duda A HEAD-AND-TORSO MODEL FOR LOW-FREQUENCY BINAURAL ELEVATION EFFECTS
    Paper 9-5
    08:50pm - 09:10pm
    Jyri Huopaniemi, Kaisa Kettunen, Jussi Rahkonen MEASUREMENT AND MODELING TECHNIQUES FOR DIRECTIONAL SOUND RADIATION FROM THE MOUTH
    Paper 9-6
    09:10pm - 09:30pm
    Ville Pulkki UNIFORM SPREADING OF AMPLITUDE PANNED VIRTUAL SOURCES
    Paper 9-7
    09:30pm - 09:50pm
    Darren B. Ward, Gary W. Elko A ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS OF 3D AUDIO USING LOUDSPEAKERS


    Wednesday, October 20, 1999

    Session 10: 3D Audio and Room Acoustics II
    Chairman: William G. Gardner, Wave Arts, Inc. Arlington, MA, USA
    Paper 10-1
    08:10am - 08:30am
    Federico Fontana, Luca Gibin, Davide Rocchesso, Oscar Ballan COMMON POLE EQUALIZATION OF SMALL ROOMS USING A TWO-STEP REAL-TIME DIGITAL EQUALIZER
    Paper 10-2
    08:30am - 08:50am
    Ivo Mateljan SIGNAL SELECTION FOR THE ROOM ACOUSTICS MEASUREMENT
    Session 11: Echo Cancellation
    Chairman: Mohan Sondhi, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
    Paper 11-1
    08:50am - 09:10am
    Stephen Weiss, Garrey W. Rice and Robert W. Steward MULTICHANNEL EQUALIZATION IN SUBBANDS
    Paper 11-2
    09:10am - 09:30am
    Peter Eneroth, Tomas Gänsler, Steven Gay, Jacob Benesty STUDIES OF A WIDEBAND STEREOPHONIC ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELER
    Paper 11-3
    09:30am - 09:50am
    Mike Peters PSYCHOACOUSTICAL EXCITATION OF THE (N)LMS ALGORITHM FOR ACOUSTICAL SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
    Paper 11-4
    09:50am - 10:10am
    Tomas Gänsler, Steven L. Gay, M. Mohan Sondhi, Jacob Benesty DOUBLE-TALK ROBUST FAST CONVERGING ALGORITHMS FOR NETWORK ECHO CANCELLATION
    Coffee Break
    10:10am - 10:30am
    Session 12: Auditory Modeling
    Chairman: Matti Karjalainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
    Paper 12-1
    10:30am - 10:50am
    Lisa C. Gresham, Leslie Collins THE EFFECT OF A POISSON "INTERNAL NOISE" PROCESS ON THEORETICAL ACOUSTIC SIGNAL DETECTABILITY
    Paper 12-2
    10:50am - 11:10am
    Eric Lindemann, James M. Kates PHASE RELATIONSHIPS AND AMPLITUDE ENVELOPES IN AUDITORY PERCEPTION
    Paper 12-3
    11:10am - 11:30am
    Robert A. Baxter, Thomas F. Quatieri SHUNTING NETWORKS FOR MULTI-BAND AM-FM DECOMPOSITION
    Session 13: Hearing Aids
    Chairman: James Kates, AudioLogic, Boulder, CO, USA
    Paper 13-1
    11:30am - 11:50am
    James M. Kates FEEDBACK CANCELLATION IN HEARING AIDS USING CONSTRAINED ADAPTATION
    Paper 13-2
    11:50am - 12:10pm
    William S. Woods, Rachael A. Frush, Dianne J. Van Tasell "PREFERENCE SPACE" FOR PARAMETERS OF TWO-CHANNEL SPEECH COMPRESSION
    Paper 13-3
    12:10pm - 12:30pm
    H. Skarzynski, A. Czyzewski, B. Kostek PREDICTION OF POST-OPERATIVE PROFITS IN COCHLEAR IMPLANTED PATIENTS USING THE ELECTRICOSTIMULATION PROCEDURE


    Last modification: September 8, 1999
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