Some recent publications: (a more inclusive list of publications can be found from scholar.google.com, ieeexplore.ieee.org, www.harzing.com, www.engineeringvillage2.org, etc.) 

 

Binaural speech enhancement (PSD estimators and signal de-noising)

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, H. Najaf-Zadeh, R. Pichevar, L. Thibault, and H. Saruwatari, "Multichannel speech spectral components estimators preserving spatial cues", submitted for publication in Signal Processing  (demos) 

H.Saruwatari, R. Wakisaka, K. Shikano, F. Mustiere, L. Thibault, H. Najaf-Zadeh, M. Bouchard, "Sound-Localization-Preserved Binaural MMSE STSA Estimator with Explicit and Implicit Binaural Cues", submitted for publication in the Proceedings of the 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2012, Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 2012

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, H. Najaf-Zadeh, and L. Thibault, “Efficient time-frequency methods for multichannel enhancement of real-world speech signals”, 10th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation  (LVA/ICA 2012), demo session for 2011 Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC2011), Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2012 (poster) (demos) 

A.H. Kamkar-Parsi, and M. Bouchard, "An instantaneous binaural target PSD estimator for hearing aids and its use for noise reduction in complex acoustic environments", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, vol. 60, pp.1141 - 1154, April 2011 (demos)

A.H. Kamkar-Parsi, and M. Bouchard, "Improved noise power spectrum density estimation for binaural hearing aids operating in a diffuse noise field environment", IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 17, n.4, pp. 521-533, May 2009

 

Single channel speech enhancement (signal de-noising)

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, and M. Bolic, "Efficient SNR-based subband post-processing for residual noise reduction in speech enhancement algorithms", Proceedings of EUSIPCO-2010, Aalborg, Denmark, Aug. 2010 (poster) (demos)

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, and M. Bolic, "Real-world particle filtering-based speech enhancement", Proceedings of CIP 2010, Elba Island, Italy, June 2010 (poster) (compilation of demos) (demos)

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, and M. Bolic, "Bandwidth extension for speech enhancement", Proceedings of IEEE CCECE 2010, Calgary, Canada, May 2010 (presentation with demos)

F. Mustière, M. Bolic, and M. Bouchard, "Speech enhancement based on nonlinear models using particle filters", IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, vol. 20, n.12, pp.1923 – 1937, Dec. 2009

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, and M. Bolic, "Low-cost modifications of Rao-Blackwellized particle filters for improved speech denoising", Signal Processing, vol. 88, n. 11, pp. 2678-2692, Nov. 2008

 F. Mustière, M. Bolic and M. Bouchard, "Improved colored noise handling in Kalman filter based speech enhancement algorithms", Proceedings of IEEE CCECE 2008, pp. 497-500, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2008 (presentation)

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, and M. Bolic, "Quality assessment of speech enhanced using particle filters", Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP 2007, Vol. III, pp.1197-1200 , Honolulu, Hawai'i, May 2007 (poster)

 

Sparse audio coding

C. Srinivasa, R. Pichevar, H. Najaf-Zadeh, and M. Bouchard, "Integration of auditory masks into a locally competitive algorithm for sparse representation of audio signals", Proceeding of the 2012 International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2012), Montreal, Qc, July 2012

C. Srinivasa, M. Bouchard, R. Pichevar, and H. Najaf-Zadeh, "Graph theory for the discovery of non-parametric audio objects", Proceeding of the 2012 International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2012), Montreal, Qc, July 2012

F. Mustière, H. Najaf-Zadeh, R. Pishehvar, H. Lahdili, L. Thibault, and M. Bouchard, "Sparse audio coding via targeted dithering and combinatorial decoding", Proceedings of EUSIPCO-2010, Aalborg, Denmark, Aug. 2010 (presentation)

 

Beamforming for directional sources (i.e. non point sources)

C. Bouchard, D.I. Havelock, and M. Bouchard, "Beamforming for directional sources: an additional estimator and evaluation of performance under different acoustic scenarios", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 129, pp. 2042-2051, April 2011

C. Bouchard, D.I. Havelock, and M. Bouchard, "Beamforming for directional sources using source decomposition into spatial modes", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol.125, n.4, pp.2098-2104, April 2009

C. Bouchard, D.I. Havelock and M. Bouchard, "Directional sources and beamforming", Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 5, 8 p., (from 156th Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Miami, Florida, Nov. 2008) (presentation)

 

Others (AR modeling, speech recognition, adaptive filtering)

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, and M. Bolic "All-pole modelling of discrete spectral powers: a unified approach", IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 20, n. 2, pp.705-708, Feb. 2012

F. Mustière, M. Bouchard, and M. Bolic, "A fast convergence two-step procedure for AR modeling of power spectral densities", Proceedings of IEEE SiPS 2010, San Francisco, Oct. 2010 (poster)

J. Deng, M. Bouchard and T.H. Yeap, "Feature enhancement for noisy speech recognition with a time-variant linear predictive HMM structure", IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 16, n. 5, pp. 891-899, July 2008

J. Gordy, T. Aboulnasr, and M. Bouchard, "Reduced-complexity proportionate NLMS employing block-based selective coefficient updates", Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP 2008, pp. 233-236, Nevada, USA, March 30-April 04 2008 (presentation)