AES 60th Conference: Technical Program

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Wednesday Feb. 3, 2016, 10:00 – 11:00 (Auditorium)

More Than Fifty Years of Artificial Reverberation
Vesa Välimäki (Aalto University, Finland)

Thursday Feb. 4, 2016, 09:00 – 10:00 (Auditorium)

How do humans benefit from binaural listening when recognizing speech in noisy and reverberant conditions?
Thomas Brand (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Friday Feb. 5, 2016, 09:00 – 10:00 (Auditorium)

Fifty Years of Reverberation Reduction: From analog signal processing to machine learning
Emanuël Habets (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany; Fraunhofer IIS, Germany)

Wednesday Feb. 3, 2016, 11:30 – 12:30 (Auditorium)

Blind estimation of room acoustic parameters using kernel regression
Arthur Belhomme (Télécom ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France), Yves Grenier (Télécom ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France), Roland Badeau (Télécom ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France), Eric Humbert (Invoxia, France)

On the relation between data-dependent beamforming and multichannel linear prediction for dereverberation
Thomas Dietzen (NXP Software, Belgium; KU Leuven, Belgium), Ann Spriet (NXP Software, Belgium), Wouter Tirry (NXP Software, Belgium), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium)

A study on the preferred level of late reverberation in speech and music
Jouni Paulus (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany), Christian Uhle (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany), Jürgen Herre (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany), Marc Hoepfel (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany)

Wednesday Feb. 3, 2016, 13:30 – 15:10 (Auditorium)

Finite volume time domain simulations of frequency-dependent boundary conditions and absorbing layer
Pierre Chobeau (Aalto University, Finland), Sebastian Prepelita (Aalto University, Finland), Jukka Saarelma (Aalto University, Finland), Jonathan Botts (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA), Lauri Savioja (Aalto University, Finland)

Multichannel Wiener filter for speech dereverberation in hearing aids – sensitivity to DoA errors
Adam Kuklasinski (Oticon A/S, Denmark), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Søren H. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Jesper Jensen (Oticon A/S, Denmark)

On object-based audio with reverberation
Philip Coleman (University of Surrey, UK), Andreas Franck (University of Southampton, UK), Philip Jackson (University of Surrey, UK), Richard Hughes (University of Salford, UK), Luca Remaggi (University of Surrey, UK), Frank Melchior (BBC Research and Development, UK)

Separation of direct sounds from early reflections using the entropy rate bound minimization algorithm
Mathieu Baqué (Orange Labs, France), Alexandre Guérin (Orange Labs, France), Manuel Melon (CNRS - Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Maine (LAUM), France)

Large-scale auralized sound localization experiment
Enzo De Sena (KU Leuven, Belgium), Neofytos Kaplanis (Aalborg University, Denmark), Patrick A. Naylor (Imperial College London, UK), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Wednesday Feb. 3, 2016, 15:40 – 17:00 (Auditorium)

Blind room acoustics characterization using recurrent neural networks and modulation spectrum dynamics
João Felipe Santos (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada), Tiago Henrique Falk (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada)

Acoustic environment control: implementation of a reverberation enhancement system
Clement S. J. Doire (Imperial College London, UK), Mike Brookes (Imperial College London, UK), Patrick A. Naylor (Imperial College London, UK), Enzo De Sena (KU Leuven, Belgium), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium), Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Loudness-weighting of reverberation using electronic room enhancement
Winfried Lachenmayr (Müller-BBM, Germany)

Implementation and assessment of joint source separation and dereverberation
David Moffat (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Joshua D. Reiss (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Thursday Feb. 4, 2016, 10:00 – 10:40 (Auditorium)

Spectrally and spatially informed noise suppression using beamforming and convolutive NMF
Benjamin Cauchi (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany), Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Patrick A. Naylor (Imperial College London, UK), Stefan Goetze (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany)

The perception of hyper-compression by untrained listeners
Malachy Ronan (University of Limerick, Ireland), Nicholas Ward (University of Limerick, Ireland), Robert Sazdov (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Thursday Feb. 4, 2016, 11:10 – 12:30 (Auditorium)

Incorporating the noise statistics in acoustic multichannel equalization
Ina Kodrasi (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Analysis of prediction intervals for non-intrusive estimation of speech clarity index
Pablo Peso Parada (Nuance Communications, Inc., UK), Dushyant Sharma (Nuance Communications, Inc., UK), Patrick A. Naylor (Imperial College London, UK), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Finite volume modeling of viscothermal losses and frequency-dependent boundaries in room acoustics simulations
Stefan Bilbao (University of Edinburgh, UK), Brian Hamilton (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Dereverberation using a model for the spatial coherence of decaying reverberant sound fields in rectangular rooms
Sam Nees (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Andreas Schwarz (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Walter Kellermann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

Thursday Feb. 4, 2016, 13:30 – 14:30 (Auditorium)

Robust estimation of reverberation time using polynomial roots
Ian J. Kelly (Google, Inc., USA), Francis M. Boland (Google, Inc., USA; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Jan Skoglund (Google, Inc., USA)

Blind adaptive SIMO acoustic system identification using a locally optimal step-size
Mathieu Hu (Imperial College London, UK), Dushyant Sharma (Nuance Communications Inc., UK), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Mike Brookes (Imperial College London, UK), Patrick A. Naylor (Imperial College London, UK)

A method for perceptual assessment of automotive audio systems and cabin acoustics
Neofytos Kaplanis (Bang & Olufsen, Denmark), Søren Bech (Bang & Olufsen, Denmark), Sakari Tervo (Aalto University, Finland), Jukka Pätynen (Aalto University, Finland), Tapio Lokki (Aalto University, Finland), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium), Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Thursday Feb. 4, 2016, 17:00 – 18:00 (Auditorium)

Blind dereverberation of speech using complex adaptive kurtosis maximization in the subband domain
Elias Nemer (DTS, USA)

Non-monotonic impact of occupancy level on reverberation indicators: case of a public confined eating establishment
Yosra Mzah (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia), Seddik Maarfi (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia), Raja Ghozi (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia), Meriem Jaidane (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia)

Room acoustic system identification using orthonormal basis function models
Giacomo Vairetti (KU Leuven, Belgium), Enzo De Sena (KU Leuven, Belgium), Michael Catrysse (Televic N.V., Belgium), Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Friday Feb. 5, 2016, 10:00 – 10:40 (Auditorium)

On determining optimal reverberation parameters for late residual echo suppression
Naveen Kumar Desiraju (Nuance Communications Deutschland GmbH, Germany), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Markus Buck (Nuance Communications Deutschland GmbH, Germany), Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Tobias Wolff (Nuance Communications Deutschland GmbH, Germany)

Sound field control in a reverberant room using the finite difference time domain method
Niccolò Antonello (KU Leuven, Belgium), Enzo De Sena (KU Leuven, Belgium), Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium), Patrick A. Naylor (Imperial College London, UK), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Friday Feb. 5, 2016, 11:40 – 12:20 (Auditorium)

A general framework for multi-channel speech dereverberation exploiting sparsity
Ante Jukic (University of Oldenburg, Belgium), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium), Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Belgium), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Belgium)

Automatic control of a digital reverberation effect using hybrid models
Emmanouil Theofanis Chourdakis (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Joshua D. Reiss (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Thursday Feb. 4, 2016, 14:30 – 17:00 (Conference Room 1)

Demo 1: Separation of direct sounds from early reflections using the entropy rate bound minimization algorithm
Mathieu Baqué (Orange Labs, France), Alexandre Guérin (Orange Labs, France), Manuel Melon (CNRS - Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Maine (LAUM), France)

Demo 2: Multi-channel robust sound source localizer and tracker for ambient and reverberant environments with an angular accuracy of 5 deg (in azimuth, elevation)
Seo Jong Gak (Hanyang University, South Korea), Muhammad Imran (Hanyang University, South Korea), Jin Yong Jeon (Hanyang University, South Korea)

Demo 3: Blind room acoustics characterization using recurrent neural networks and modulation spectrum dynamics
João Felipe Santos (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada), Tiago Henrique Falk (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada)

Demo 4: In-situ recordings in concert halls
Winfried Lachenmayr (Müller-BBM, Germany)

Demo 5: Multichannel Wiener filter for speech dereverberation in hearing aids – sensitivity to DoA errors
Adam Kuklasinski (Oticon A/S, Denmark), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Søren H. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Jesper Jensen (Oticon A/S, Denmark)

Demo 6: Reverberation using an object-based renderer
Philip Coleman (University of Surrey, UK), Luca Remaggi (University of Surrey, UK), Philip Jackson (University of Surrey, UK)

Demo 7: The perception of hyper-compression by untrained listeners
Malachy Ronan (University of Limerick, Ireland), Nicholas Ward (University of Limerick, Ireland), Robert Sazdov (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Demo 8: Joint noise reduction and dereverberation for speech enhancement in real-time applications
Benjamin Cauchi (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany), Ina Kodrasi (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Robert Rehr (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Stephan Gerlach (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany), Ante Jukic (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Jan Wellmann (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany), Timo Gerkmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Simon Doclo (University of Oldenburg, Germany; Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany), Stefan Goetze (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany)

Demo 9: An experimental paradigm for investigating room acoustics by means of virtual reality
Neofytos Kaplanis (Bang & Olufsen, Denmark), Søren Bech (Bang & Olufsen, Denmark), Clement S. J. Doire (Imperial College London, UK), Patrick A. Naylor (Imperial College London, UK)

Demo 10: The Sound Hunter – a platform for large-scale auralized sound localization experiments
Enzo De Sena (KU Leuven, Belgium), Neofytos Kaplanis (Bang & Olufsen, Denmark), Patrick A. Naylor (Imperial College London, UK), Toon van Waterschoot (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Demo 11: Perceptual evaluation of reverb in music production
Brecht De Man (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Joshua D. Reiss (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Friday Feb. 5, 2016, 11:10 – 11:40 (Auditorium)

Demo 11: Perceptual evaluation of reverb in music production
Brecht De Man (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Joshua D. Reiss (Queen Mary University of London, UK)