Awards
Contact
Dept. of Medical Physics and Acoustics
Signal Processing Division
D-26111 Oldenburg
Germany
Tel: +49-441-798 5470
Fax: +49-441-798 3902
E-mail: [email protected]
Awards
International Challenges
- Clarity Enhancement Challenge (2021): First place in listening test evaluation with hearing-impaired listeners
- REVERB Challenge (2014): First place in overall quality score for single-channel speech enhancement (paper)
Paper Awards
- Best Student Paper Award, Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2021, for the paper "Active Learning for Sound Event Classification using Monte-Carlo Dropout and PANN Embeddings" (Stepan Shishkin, Danilo Hollosi, Simon Doclo, Stefan Goetze)
- Best Student Paper Award, ITG Conference on Speech Communication 2021, for the paper "Speaker-conditioned target speaker extraction based on customized LSTM cells" (Ragini Sinha, Marvin Tammen, Christian Rollwage, Simon Doclo)
- Preis der ITG 2019, for the paper "Analysis of Eigenvalue Decomposition-Based Late Reverberation Power Spectral Density Estimation" (Ina Kodrasi, Simon Doclo)
- ISCA Best Student Paper Award, Interspeech 2019, for the paper "Evaluating near end listening enhancement algorithms in realistic environments" (Carol Chermaz, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Henning Schepker, Simon King)
- Best Student Paper Award, AES Conference on Headphone Technology 2019, for the paper "A one-size-fits-all earpiece with multiple microphones and drivers for hearing device research" (Florian Denk, Miriam Lettau, Henning Schepker, Simon Doclo, Reinhild Roden, Matthias Blau, Jörg-Hendrik Bach, Jan Wellmann, Birger Kollmeier)
- Best Poster Award, German Conference on Acoustics (DAGA) 2019, for the poster "Performance Comparison of Single-Channel Speech Enhancement using Speech-Distortion Weighted Inter-Frame Wiener Filters" (Klaus Brümann, Dörte Fischer, Simon Doclo)
- Best Student Paper Award, International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement 2018, for the paper "Relative Transfer Function Estimation Exploiting Spatially Separated Microphones in a Diffuse Noise Field" (Nico Gößling, Simon Doclo)
- Best Paper Award (First Prize), International Conference on Digital Audio Effects 2017, for the paper "Iterative structured shrinkage algorithms for stationary/transient audio decomposition" (Kai Siedenburg, Simon Doclo)
- Best Student Paper Award, International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement 2014, for the paper "Multichannel dereverberation for hearing aids with interaural coherence preservation" (Sebastian Braun, Matteo Torcoli, Daniel Marquardt, Emanuel Habets, Simon Doclo)
- IEEE Signal Processing Society 2008 Best Paper Award, for the paper "New Insights Into the Noise Reduction Wiener Filter", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1218-1234, Jul. 2006 (Jingdong Chen, Jacob Benesty, Arden Huang, Simon Doclo)
- EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper Award 2003, for the paper "Design of far-field and near-field broadband beamformers using eigenfilters", Signal Processing, vol. 83, no. 12, pp. 2641-2673, Dec. 2003 (Simon Doclo, Marc Moonen)
- Best Student Paper Award, International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control 2001, for the paper "Combined frequency-domain dereverberation and noise reduction technique for multi-microphone speech enhancement" (Simon Doclo, Marc Moonen)
Thesis Awards
- ARD/ZDF award "Women + Media Technology" 2022 (3rd place), for the MSc thesis "GSC-Based Noise and Interferer Reduction for Binaural Hearing Aids Exploiting External Microphones" (Wiebke Middelberg)
- DEGA Student Award 2022, for the MSc thesis "GSC-Based Noise and Interferer Reduction for Binaural Hearing Aids Exploiting External Microphones" (Wiebke Middelberg)
- EURASIP 2020 Best PhD Award, for the thesis "Dereverberation and noise reduction techniques based on acoustic multi-channel equalization" (Ina Kodrasi)
- PhD Supervision Award 2019, Fakultät VI - University of Oldenburg (Simon Doclo)
- PhD Thesis Award 2017, Fakultät VI - University of Oldenburg, for the thesis "Sparse multi-channel linear prediction for blind speech dereverberation" (Ante Jukić)
- PhD Thesis Award 2015, Fakultät VI - University of Oldenburg, for the thesis "Synthetic reproduction of head-related transfer functions by using microphone arrays" (Eugen Rasumow)
- MSc Thesis Award 2014, Fakultät V - University of Oldenburg, for the thesis "Development and evaluation of pre-processing algorithms for speech intelligibility enhancement in noise" (Henning Schepker)