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Advanced Speech Processing (Ph.D. Course), Spring 2007

Organizer:  Zheng-Hua Tan, Associate Professor, e-mail: zt@es.aau.dk, Tel +45 9635 8686, Office: NJ12, A6-319

Lecturers:  Søren Holdt Jensen, Professor, Aalborg University, shj@es.aau.dk

                   Zheng-Hua Tan, Associate Professor, Aalborg University, zt@es.aau.dk 

                   Mads Græsbøll Christensen, Postdoc, Aalborg University, mgc@es.aau.dk 

ECTS:        2.5
Time:          May 7-10, 2007 (each day 09:15-15:15)
Place:          Niels Jernes Vej 12, A6-308, Aalborg University 

Information: This course consists of four-day lectures and a mini project. Mini project ideas will be presented and discussed during the course. Students are highly encouraged to propose projects that are related to their own PhD research as well. By the end of June, students should hand in short reports to document their conducted projects. Coffee and bread will be served at 9:30 in the morning; coffee and cake at 13:30 in the afternoon.   

Lectures:

• Lecture 1: Introduction, AR Parameter Estimation 

  • Lecturer: MGC

  • Readings:

  • Time and place:

        Monday, 07 May 2007

        Lecture, 9:15 to 11:30 in Room A6-308

• Lecture 2: Pitch Estimation

  • Lecturer: MGC

  • Readings:

  • Time and place:

        Monday, 07 May 2007

        Lecture, 12:30 to 15:15 in Room A6-308

• Lecture 3: Analysis-by-Synthesis Modeling and Coding  

  • Lecturer: MGC

  • Readings:

  • Time and place:

        Tuesday, 08 May 2007

        Lecture, 9:15 to 11:30 in Room A6-308

• Lecture 4: Speech recognition

  • Lecturer: ZT

  • Readings: 

  • Time and place:

        Tuesday, 08 May 2007

        Lecture, 12:30 to 15:15 in Room A6-308

• Lecture 5: Speech recognition, robustness

  • Lecturer: ZT

  • Readings:

  • Time and place:

        Wednesday, 09 May 2007

        Lecture, 9:15 to 11:30 in Room A6-308

• Lecture 6: Speech enhancement

  • Lecturer: SHJ

  • Readings: Subspace-Based Noise Reduction for Speech Signals via Diagonal and Triangular Matrix Decompositions

  • Time and place:

        Wednesday, 09 May 2007

        Lecture, 12:30 to 15:15 in Room A5-006 (DIFFERENT ROOM!!!)

• Lecture 7: Speech recognition over communication networks and on mobile devices 

  • Lecturer: ZT

  • Readings:

  • Time and place:

        Thursday, 10 May 2007

        Lecture, 9:15 to 11:30 in Room A6-308

• Lecture 8: Speaker recognition and diarization; speech data mining and spoken document retrieval

  • Lecturer: ZT

  • Readings:

  • Time and place:

        Thursday, 10 May 2007

        Lecture, 12:30 to 15:15 in Room A6-308