2008 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ACOUSTIC ECHO AND
NOISE CONTROL
IWAENC 2008
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
September 14-17, 2008
Organization Committee
CALL FOR PAPERS
Steven L. Grant
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Ivan Tashev The 11 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control will be held in
Michael Seltzer Seattle Washington, USA, September 14-17, 2008. The focus of the workshop is
Les Atlas signal processing for acoustic echo and noise control. Applications include tele-
Bishnu Atal phony, conferencing systems and voice control systems. The three day program
includes poster presentations of recent work and latest results, keynote talks, and
Technical Committee demonstrations.
Jacob Benesty TECHNICAL SCOPE
Univ. of Quebec, Canada The technical scope of the workshop includes signal processing for speech en-
Alberto Carini, hancement through the control of acoustic echo and noise reduction. These areas
Univ. Urbino, Italy of signal processing have been of wide academic interest for many years and have,
Tomas Gaensler, more recently, seen a substantial growth in industrial applications such as hands-
MH Acoustics, USA free mobile telephony and video-conferencing systems. The relevant topics for the
Sharon Gannot workshop include (but are not limited to):
Bar-Llan Univ., Israel
Andre Gilloire, Adaptive filtering algorithms and Systems for stereophonic echo and
FT R&D, France structures for echo and noise con- noise control
Steven Grant, trol Microphone arrays and array signal
Missouri S&T, USA
Noise reduction techniques processing
Yves Grenier,
Active noise control, sound repro- Sound enhancement and sound
Télécom Paris, France
duction and hearing aids separation
Eberhard Haensler,
Darmstadt Univ. of Tech, Germany Transducers and acoustic front- Temporal segmentation of signals
Yoichi Haneda, ends Voice activity detection and
NTT SP Labs, Japan Hardware and real-time issues double-talk detection
Kees Janse, Speech-databases and software Noise and acoustic environments
Philips Research, The Netherlands tools and characteristics
Walter Kellermann, Multirate filter banks and subband
Univ. of Erlangen, Germany systems
Shoji Makino,
NTT CS Labs, Japan DEMONSTRATIONS
Rainer Martin, Authors are strongly encouraged to give relevant demonstrations of their work.
Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Germany
Marc Moonen, PROCEEDURES
Katholieke Univ., Belgium Authors are invited to propose papers in any of the technical areas relevant to the
Patrick Naylor, workshop. The technical committee will select papers for poster-presentation. A
Imperial College, UK copy of each paper will be published on-line and on CD-ROM at the time of the
Sven Nordholm, workshop.
WATRI, Australia
Piet Sommen, To submit a proposal:
Eindhoven Univ., The Netherlands Prepare a 4 page final draft of your paper. The submission should be made on-line.
Ivan Tashev, If a demonstration of the work is planned, include a brief description of the demon-
Microsoft Research, USA stration in the paper summary. Please use our LaTEX and MS-Word style files for
Peter Vary, paper preparation.
RWTH, Germany
SCHEDULE
Submission of 4-page paper (final draft): June 2, 2008
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2008
THE EBERHARD HAENSLER BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
The IWAENC Technical Committee will award the “Eberhard Haensler Best Student
Paper Award” for the best student paper. The selection will be based on originality,
scientific merit, and quality.
CONTACT INFORMATION
http://web.umr.edu/~sgrant/IWAENC08