IWAENC 2018

The 16th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC) will be held at Hitotsubashi Hall in Tokyo, Japan, on September 17 – 20, 2018. IWAENC was established in 1993, originally as the International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (this is how the abbreviation IWAENC came into use). It is the leading workshop in the signal processing community addressing theoretical and technical issues related to acoustic and speech signal acquisition and processing. The four-day program consists of oral and poster presentations, keynote talks, and demonstrations.

Scope

This workshop will focus on the enhancement and processing of speech and audio signals. Applications include mobile communications, audio-visual conferencing systems, voice control systems, hearing aids, interactive TV, robot audition, and emerging applications in audio and acoustic signal processing.

Topics

• Acoustic echo control
• Noise reduction
• Microphone arrays
• Source localization
• Source separation
• Dereverberation
• Active noise control
• Multirate systems
• Robot audition
• Auditory scene analysis and classification
• Acoustic environment simulation
• Adaptive filtering algorithms &  structures
• Binaural signal processing
• Speech and audio databases
• Speech intelligibility  enhancement
• Quality assessment
• New and emerging topics in speech and audio processing

Special sessions

The Organizing Committee solicits proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the conference. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, titles and abstracts of 6 invited papers, short biography of special session organizer(s) that includes complete  affiliation, address, and email.

Demonstrations

Besides the regular paper presentations, a separate demonstration session is planned. For a contribution to this session, a brief description of the demonstration should be submitted online via the workshop website. The description will not be included in the workshop proceedings.

Important dates

Special session proposals: Feb 28, 2018
Submission of regular paper: April 20, 2018
Submission of demonstrator description: Apr. 20, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 22, 2018
Submission of camera-ready papers: July 20, 2018
Early registration deadline: July 20, 2018

Organizing committee

General Chairs

Hiroshi Saruwatari, Univ. Tokyo, Japan
Shoji Makino, Univ. Tsukuba, Japan

Technical Program Chairs

Nobutaka Ono, NII, Japan
Zbynek Koldovsky, TU Liberec, Czech

Industry Liaison Chairs

Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Research, USA
Tao Zhang, Starkey Hearing Tech., USA
Jan Skoglund, Google, USA

Awards Chairs

Dorothea Kolossa, Ruhr Univ., Germany
Christine Evers, Imperial College, UK

For updated information, please visit www.iwaenc2018.org