Awards

Best Student Paper Award

Relative Transfer Function Estimation Exploiting Spatially Separated Microphones in a Diffuse Noise Field
Nico Gößling and Simon Doclo
University of Oldenburg

Best Paper Award

FastFCA-AS: Joint Diagonalization Based Acceleration of Full-rank Spatial Covariance Analysis for Separating Any Number of Sources
Nobutaka Ito and Tomohiro Nakatani
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation

Towards Complex Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with the Beta-divergence
Paul Magron and Tuomas Virtanen
Tampere University

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Best Student Paper Award finalists

B2	On the Spatial Coherence of Residual Echoes After STFT-domain Multi-microphone Acoustic Echo Cancellation María Luis Valero and Emanuël Habets International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
B3	Relative Transfer Function Estimation Exploiting Spatially Separated Microphones in a Diffuse Noise Field Nico Gößling and Simon Doclo University of Oldenburg

Best Paper Award finalists

B1	BLIND REVERBERATION TIME ESTIMATION USING A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK Hannes Gamper and Ivan Tashev Microsoft Research
B4	FASTFCA-AS: JOINT DIAGONALIZATION BASED ACCELERATION OF FULL-RANK SPATIAL COVARIANCE ANALYSIS FOR SEPARATING ANY NUMBER OF SOURCES Nobutaka Ito and Tomohiro Nakatani NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation
B5	Towards complex nonnegative matrix factorization with the beta-divergence Paul Magron and Tuomas Virtanen Tampere University
B6	Underdetermined source separation with simultaneous DOA estimation without initial value dependency Tomoya Tachikawa, Kohei Yatabe and Yasuhiro Oikawa Waseda University