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ITG-Fb. 282: Speech Communication
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ITG – Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE (ITG) (Ed.)

ITG-Fb. 282: Speech Communication

13. ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation 10. – 12. Oktober 2018 in Oldenburg

ITG-Fachberichte

2018, 352 pages, 140 x 124 mm, Slimlinebox, CD-Rom
ISBN 978-3-8007-4767-2
Personal VDE Members are entitled to a 10% discount on this title

Content Foreword

The 13th ITG conference on Speech Communication solicits contributions on theory, algorithms, and applications in the following areas of speech, audio, and spoken language processing:
• Speech Enhancement and Separation
• Source Localization and Tracking
• Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition
• Spoken Dialogue, Diarization, and Spoken Document Retrieval Systems
• Speech Synthesis
• Speech Modeling, Coding, and Transmission
• Speech Production and Perception
• Speech and Audio Quality Assessment
• Speech Intelligibility Assessment
• Paralinguistics, speech diagnostics and speech-related biosignals
• Speech in Automotive, Mobile, and Multimodal Applications
• Acoustic Interfaces, Assistive Devices, and Hearing Aids
• Hardware and Software Tools
• Emerging Topics and Applications
Die ITG ist die nationale Vereinigung aller auf dem Gebiet der Informationstechnik Tätigen in Wirtschaft, Verwaltung, Lehre und Forschung und Wissenschaft. Ihre Ziele sind die Förderung der wissenschaftlichen und technischen Weiterentwicklung und Bewertung der Informationstechnik in Theorie und Praxis. 1954 als Nachrichtentechnische Gesellschaft gegründet, ist sie die älteste Fachgesellschaft im VDE.
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1

Signal Processing Challenges for Active Noise Cancellation Headphones

Authors:
Liebich, Stefan; Fabry, Johannes; Jax, Peter; Vary, Peter
2

Hybrid Active Noise Control Structures: A Short Overview

Authors:
Rivera Benois, Piero; Nowak, Patrick; Zoelzer, Udo
3

Active control of noise and vibration for time-varying transfer paths

Authors:
Berkhoff, Arthur
4

The Occlusion Effect - Measurements, Simulations and Countermeasures

Authors:
Zurbruegg, Thomas
5

A Relative-Transfer-Function-based Post-Filter for Speech Enhancement in Hearing Aids using a Nearby External Microphone

Authors:
Yee, Dianna; Kamkar-Parsi, Homayoun; Martin, Rainer; Puder, Henning
6

Multi-loudspeaker equalization for acoustic transparency in a custom hearing device

Authors:
Schepker, Henning; Denk, Florian; Kollmeier, Birger; Doclo, Simon
7

On the Benefit of a Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation in an In-Car Communication System

Authors:
Franzen, Jan; Meyer zum Alten Borgloh, Inka; Fingscheidt, Tim
8

Acoustic Tube Interpolation for Spectral Envelope Estimation in Artificial Bandwidth Extension

Authors:
Schlien, Thomas; Jax, Peter; Vary, Peter
9

Automatic Screening for Transition into Dementia using Speech

Authors:
Weiner, Jochen; Schultz, Tanja
10

Evaluation of the Pain Level from Speech: Introducing a Novel Pain Database and Benchmarks

Authors:
Ren, Zhao; Cummins, Nicholas; Han, Jing; Schnieder, Sebastian; Krajewski, Jarek; Bjoern Schuller
11

On the Effects of Speaker Gender in Emotion Recognition Training Data

Authors:
Xu, Ziyi; Meyer, Patrick; Fingscheidt, Tim
12

A comparison of EMG-to-Speech Conversion for Isolated and Continuous Speech

Authors:
Diener, Lorenz; Bredehoeft, Sebastian; Schultz, Tanja
13

DNN/CNN Acoustic Model Turbo Fusion for Phoneme Recognition

Authors:
Lohrenz, Timo; Li, Wei; Fingscheidt, Tim
14

Sequence Modeling and Alignment for LVCSR-Systems

Authors:
Beck, Eugen; Zeyer, Albert; Doetsch, Patrick; Merboldt, Andre; Schlueter, Ralf; Ney, Hermann
15

Accurately Capturing Speech Feature Distributions by Extending Supervectors for Robust Speaker Recognition

Authors:
Wilkinghoff, Kevin
16

Objective Assessment of a Speech Enhancement Scheme with an Automatic Speech Recognition-Based System

Authors:
Huber, Rainer; Pusch, Arne; Moritz, Niko; Rennies, Jan; Schepker, Henning; Meyer, Bernd T.
17

Resource Allocation for Distributed Blind Source Separation

Authors:
Bachmann, Markus; Brendel, Andreas; Kellermann, Walter
18

Fast and Accurate Audio Resampling for Acoustic Sensor Networks by Polyphase-Farrow Filters with FFT Realization

Authors:
Chinaev, Aleksej; Enzner, Gerald; Schmalenstroeer, Joerg
19

Gender Discrimination Versus Speaker Identification Through Privacy-Aware Adversarial Feature Extraction

Authors:
Nelus, Alexandru; Martin, Rainer
20

RTF-Based Binaural MVDR Beamformer Exploiting an External Microphone in a Diffuse Noise Field

Authors:
Goessling, Nico; Doclo, Simon
21

Auditory Assessment of Multichannel Audio Systems

Authors:
Schaefer, Magnus
22

Signal-based Root Cause Analysis of Quality Impairments in Speech Communication Networks

Authors:
Huebschen, Tobias; Mittag, Gabriel; Moeller, Sebastian; Schmidt, Gerhard
23

Perceived Listening Effort for In-car Communication systems

Authors:
Reimes, Jan; Lueke, Christian
24

Robust DNN-Based Speech Enhancement with Limited Training Data

Authors:
Rehr, Robert; Gerkmann, Timo
25

Smoothing along Frequency in Online Neural Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming

Authors:
Heitkaemper, Jens; Heymann, Jahn; Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
26

Multichannel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Ego-Noise Suppression

Authors:
Haubner, Thomas; Schmidt, Alexander; Kellermann, Walter
27

Online Adaptation for Jointly Optimized Blind Source Separation and Dereverberation of Speech Mixtures

Authors:
Schuster, Timo; Feldes, Stefan
28

Subband Based Room Impulse Response Reshaping

Authors:
Mazur, Radoslaw; Katzberg, Fabrice; Böhme, Martina; Mertins, Alfred
29

Good Noise Power Estimators Are Not Always Good

Authors:
Meyer, Patrick; Elshamy, Samy
30

Evaluation of Robust Constrained MFMVDR Filtering for Single-Channel Speech Enhancement

Authors:
Fischer, Doerte; Doclo, Simon
31

Evaluation of binaural Own Voice Detection (OVD) algorithms

Authors:
Bitzer, Joerg; Bilert, Sascha; Holube, Inga
32

Distributed MAP Estimators for Noise Reduction in Fully Connected Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks

Authors:
Ranjbaryan, Raziyeh; Doclo, Simon; Abutalebi, Hamid Reza
33

Benchmarking Neural Network Architectures for Acoustic Sensor Networks

Authors:
Ebbers, Janek; Heitkaemper, Jens; Schmalenstroeer, Joerg; Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
34

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation by Adversarial Learning for Robust Speech Recognition

Authors:
Denisov, Pavel; Vu, Ngoc Thang; Ferras Font, Marc
35

Parameter Optimization for CTC Acoustic Models in a Less-resourced Scenario: An Empirical Study

Authors:
Mueller, Markus; Stueker, Sebastian; Waibel, Alex
36

Keyword Detection for the Activation of Speech Assistants

Authors:
Hirsch, Hans-Guenter; Gref, Michael
37

Utilizing Slow Feature Analysis for Lipreading

Authors:
Freiwald, Jan; Karbasi, Mahdie; Zeiler, Steffen; Melchior, Jan; Kompella, Varun; Wiskott, Laurenz; Kolossa, Dorothea
38

Diagnostic and Summative Approach for Predicting Speech Communication Quality in a Super-Wideband Context

Authors:
Moeller, Sebastian; Huebschen, Tobias; Mittag, Gabriel; Schmidt, Gerhard
39

Observations from a Simple Vocal-Tract-Model's Behaviour for PD-Dysarthric Speech: Applicability

Authors:
Heute, Ulrich; Schmidt, Gerhard
40

The Articulatory Code and Related OVC-Gestures

Authors:
Hoege, Harald
41

Enhancement of G.711-Coded Speech Providing Quality Higher Than Uncoded

Authors:
Zhao, Ziyue; Liu, Huijun; Fingscheidt, Tim
42

NARA-WPE: A Python package for weighted prediction error dereverberation in Numpy and Tensorflow for online and offline processing

Authors:
Drude, Lukas; Heymann, Jahn; Boeddeker, Christoph; Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
43

Iterative Alternating Least-Squares Approach to Jointly Estimate the RETFs and the Diffuse PSD

Authors:
Tammen, Marvin; Kodrasi, Ina; Doclo, Simon
44

Equalization filter design for achieving acoustic transparency in a semi-open fit hearing device

Authors:
Denk, Florian; Schepker, Henning; Doclo, Simon; Kollmeier, Birger
45

A gaze-based attention model for spatially-aware hearing aids

Authors:
Grimm, Giso; Kayser, Hendrik; Hendrikse, Maartje; Volker Hohmann,
46

Evaluation of Signal-Dependent Partial Noise Estimation Algorithms for Binaural Hearing Aids

Authors:
Klug, Jonas; Marquardt, Daniel; Goessling, Nico; Doclo, Simon
47

Maximum-Likelihood and Maximum-A-Posteriori Perspectives for Blind Channel Identification on Acoustic Sensor Network Data

Authors:
Thuene, Philipp; Enzner, Gerald
48

Insights into the Interplay of Sampling Rate Offsets and MVDR Beamforming

Authors:
Schmalenstroeer, Joerg; Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
49

Open Source Automatic Speech Recognition for German

Authors:
Milde, Benjamin; Koehn, Arne
50

Improving Robust Speech Recognition for German Oral History Interviews Using Multi-Condition Training

Authors:
Gref, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph; Koehler, Joachim
51

Robust Speaker Identification by Fusing Classification Scores with a Neural Network

Authors:
Wilkinghoff, Kevin; Baggenstoss, Paul M.; Cornaggia-Urrigshardt, Alessia; Kurth, Frank
52

Super-Wideband Extension of a Perceptual Based Echo Assessment Method for Aurally Adequate Evaluation of Residual Single Talk Echoes

Authors:
Bleiholder, Stefan; Reimes, Jan; Kettler, Frank
53

Statistical Modeling of Speech Spectral Coefficients in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Authors:
Kodrasi, Ina; Bourlard, Herve
54

Session-Independent Array-Based EMG-to-Speech Conversion using Convolutional Neural Networks

Authors:
Diener, Lorenz; Felsch, Gerrit; Angrick, Miguel; Schultz, Tanja
55

Optimal temporal dynamics of MFCCs for low-complexity VAD systems – a case study

Authors:
Craciun, Alexandra; Baeckstroem, Tom
56

Overcoming Covariance Matrix Phase Sensitivity in Single-Channel Speech Enhancement with Correlated Spectral Components

Authors:
Stahl, Johannes; Wood, Sean U. N.; Mowlaee, Pejman
57

Acoustic Howling Detection and Suppression for IP-Based Teleconference Systems

Authors:
Kuehl, Stefan; Anemueller, Carlotta; Antweiler, Christiane; Jax, Peter; Heese, Florian; Vicinus, Patrick
58

A Synchronized Binaural N-of-M Sound Coding Strategy for Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users

Authors:
Gajecki, Tom; Nogueira, Waldo
59

Performance Prediction of the BinauralMVDR Beamformer with Partial Noise Estimation using a Binaural Speech IntelligibilityModel

Authors:
Hauth, Christopher F.; Goessling, Nico; Brand, Thomas
60

Extension of the Framework for auditory discrimination experiments (FADE) to predict the Göttingen (everyday) sentence speech test

Authors:
Huelsmeier, David; Warzybok, Anna; Schaedler, Marc Rene
61

MARVELO – A Framework for Signal Processing in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks

Authors:
Afifi, Haitam; Schmalenstroeer, Joerg; Ullmann, Joerg; Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold; Karl, Holger
62

Source separation by fuzzy-membership value aware beamforming and masking in ad hoc arrays

Authors:
Gergen, Sebastian; Martin, Rainer; Madhu, Nilesh
63

Densely Connected Convolutional Networks for Speech Recognition

Authors:
Li, Chia Yu; Vu, Ngoc Thang
64

"Gap after the next two vehicles": A Spatio-temporally Situated Dialog for a Cooperative Driving Assistant

Authors:
Heckmann, Martin; Orth, Dennis; Kolossa, Dorothea
65

Deep Learning of Articulatory-Based Representations and Applications for Improving Dysarthric Speech Recognition

Authors:
Xiong, Feifei; Barker, Jon; Christensen, Heidi
66

Automatic Estimation of the Triangular Vowel Space Area from i-Vectors

Authors:
Tanuadji, Maureen; Stadtschnitzer, Michael; Bardeli, Rolf; Jaeger, Hagen
67

ANN-based Alzheimer’s disease classification from bag of words

Authors:
Klumpp, Philipp; Fritsch, Julian; Noeth, Elmar
68

Optical force and distance sensing in intraoral devices for stroke rehabilitation: a distance calibration and force classification approach

Authors:
Wagner, Christoph; Stone, Simon; Birkholz, Peter