Statistical Signal Processing Research Laboratory

Smartphone-Based Open Research Platform for Hearing Improvement Studies

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–   DOA: Direction of Arrival Estimation and Speech source Localization

–   SE: Speech Enhancement (including the speech classification and clinical testing)

–   SI: Speaker Identification

–   ASDS: Alert Signal Detection and Separation

–   AFC: Acoustic Feedback Cancellation

–   COMP: Compression, Fitting

–   VAD: Voice Activation Detection

–   FMIC: Framework for using Smartphone Microphones

–   NC: Noise Classification

–   GUI: Graphical User Interface

–   SS: Speech Separation

–   WASN: Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network

List of published Research papers

2022-2023

REFEREED Journal Papers Published and Accepted For Publication:

  1. SS: Kovalyov, Anton, Kashyap Patel, and Issa Panahi. “DSENet: Directional Signal Extraction Network for Hearing Improvement on Edge Devices.” IEEE Access (2023).

REFEREED Conference Papers Published and Accepted for Publication:

  1. SS: Patel, Kashyap, Anton Kovalyov, and Issa Panahi. “UX-NET: Filter-and-Process-based Improved U-Net for Real-time Time-domain Audio Separation.” Accepted at ICASSP (2023).

2020-2021

REFEREED Journal Papers Published and Accepted For Publication:

  1. DOA: S. Tokgoz and I. M. S. Panahi, “Robust Three-Microphone Speech Source Localization Using Randomized Singular Value Decomposition,” in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 157800-157811, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3130180.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Robust Three-Microphone Speech Source Localization Using Randomized Singular Value Decomposition.” , (NIHMS1761648).
  2. WASN: A. Kovalyov, K. Patel and I. Panahi, “Joint Calibration and Synchronization of Two Arrays of Microphones and Loudspeakers Using Particle Swarm Optimization,” in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 2, pp. 535-544, 2021, doi: 10.1109/OJSP.2021.3118574.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Joint Calibration and Synchronization of Two Arrays of Microphones and Loudspeakers Using Particle Swarm Optimization.” , (NIHMS1751920).
  3. SE: N. Shankar, G. S. Bhat, I. M. S. Panahi, S. Tittle, and L. M. Thibodeau, “Smartphone-based single-channel speech enhancement application for hearing aids,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 150, no. 3, p. 1663, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1121/10.0006045.
    • The paper is also publicly available on NIH site, Pub-Med, and the NCBI. PMCID: PMC8434896.
  4. COMP: Patel K, Thibodeau L, McCullough D, Freeman E, Panahi I. Development and Pilot Testing of Smartphone-Based Hearing Test Application. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 May 21;18(11):5529. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115529.
    • The paper is also publicly available on NIH site, Pub-Med, and the NCBI. PMID: 34064080; PMCID: PMC8196774.
  5. DOA: Y. Hao, A. Küçük, A. Ganguly and I. M. S. Panahi, “Spectral Flux-Based Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for Speech Source Localization and its Real-Time Implementation,” in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 197047-197058, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3033533.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Spectral Flux-Based Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for Speech Source Localization and its Real-Time Implementation.” , (NIHMS1645213)
  6. G. S. Bhat et al., “Machine Learning-Based Asthma Risk Prediction Using IoT and Smartphone Applications,” in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 118708-118715, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3103897.
  7. GUI: Tokgoz, Serkan, Stephanie Tittle, Linda Thibodeau, and Issa Panahi. “A Hearing Test Simulator GUI for clinical testing of speech recognition.” In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 175ASA, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 050006. Acoustical Society of America, 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001412
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “A Hearing Test Simulator GUI for clinical testing of speech recognition.” , (NIHMS1704961).

REFEREED Conference Papers Published, Accepted for Publication:

  1. DOA: A. Küçük and I. M. S. Panahi, “Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network Based Direction of Arrival Estimation Method Using Two Microphones for Hearing Studies,” 2020 IEEE 30th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Espoo, Finland, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/MLSP49062.2020.9231693.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network Based Direction of Arrival Estimation Method Using Two Microphones for Hearing Studies” , (NIHMS1697266).
  2. DOA: S. Tokgöz, A. Kovalyov and I. Panahi, “Real-Time Estimation of Direction of Arrival of Speech Source using Three Microphones,” 2020 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Coimbra, Portugal, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SiPS50750.2020.9195217.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Real-Time Estimation of Direction of Arrival of Speech Source using Three Microphones” , (NIHMS1698942).

2019-2020

REFEREED Journal Papers Publications:

  1. ASDS: G. S. Bhat, N. Shankar and I. M. S. Panahi, “Design and Integration of Alert Signal Detector and Separator for Hearing Aid Applications,” in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 106296-106309, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2999546 [Published]. – Number of Pages: 14
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Design and Integration of Alert Signal Detector and Separator for Hearing Aid Applications” , (NIHMS1604225).
  2. DOA: A. Küçük, A. Ganguly, Y. Hao and I. M. S. Panahi, “Real-Time Convolutional Neural Network-Based Speech Source Localization on Smartphone,” in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 169969-169978, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2955049. [Published]. – Number of Pages: 10
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Real-Time Convolutional Neural Network-Based Speech Source Localization on Smartphone” , (NIHMS1605963).
  3. DOA: A. Küçük, Issa M. S. Panahi, “Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Deep Neural Network for Hearing Aid Applications Using Smartphone,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 178ASA. Vol. 39. No. 1. ASA, 2019. [Published]. – Number of Pages: 10
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Deep Neural Network for Hearing Aid Applications Using Smartphone” (NIHMS1545928).
  4. COMP: Patel, Kashyap, and Issa MS Panahi. “Frequency-based multi-band adaptive compression for hearing aid application.” In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 178ASA, vol. 39, no. 1, p. 055004. Acoustical Society of America, 2019. [Published]. – Number of Pages: 12
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Frequency-based Multiband Adaptive Compression for Hearing Aid Application” , (NIHMS1605959).
  5. SE: G. S. Bhat, N. Shankar, C. K. A. Reddy and I. M. S. Panahi, “A Real-Time Convolutional Neural Network Based Speech Enhancement for Hearing Impaired Listeners Using Smartphone,” in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 78421-78433, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2922370 [Published]. – Number of Pages: 13
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “A Real-Time Convolutional Neural Network Based Speech Enhancement for Hearing Impaired Listeners Using Smartphone” , (NIHMS1605947).
  6. SE: Shankar, Nikhil, Gautam Shreedhar Bhat, and Issa MS Panahi. “Efficient two-microphone speech enhancement using basic recurrent neural network cell for hearing and hearing aids.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148, no. 1 (2020): 389-400.
  7. SE: Shankar, Nikhil, Gautam Shreedhar Bhat, and Issa Panahi. “Comparison and real-time implementation of fixed and adaptive beamformers for speech enhancement on smartphones for hearing study.” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 178ASA. Vol. 39. No. 1. Acoustical Society of America, 2019.
  8. SE: Bhat, Gautam Shreedhar, Chandan Karadagur Ananda Reddy, Nikhil Shankar, and Issa Panahi. “A computationally efficient blind source separation for hearing aid applications and its real-time implementation on smartphone.” In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 178ASA, vol. 39, no. 1, p. 055008. Acoustical Society of America, 2019.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “A computationally efficient blind source separation for hearing aid applications and its real-time implementation on smartphone” , (NIHMS1630186).
  9. Invited Book Chapters: Thibodeau, L. (2019). Assistive Technology in the Age of Smart Phones and Tablets. In Montano, J.,and Spitzer, J. Third Ed. Aural Rehabilitation for Adults. Plural Publishing. (Please see attached PDF file/Doc)

REFEREED Conference Papers Published, Accepted for Publication:

  1. SE: N. Shankar, G. S. Bhat and I. M. S. Panahi, “Real-time dual-channel speech enhancement by VAD assisted MVDR beamformer for hearing aid applications using smartphone,” 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 952-955, doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175212.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Real-time dual-channel speech enhancement by VAD assisted MVDR beamformer and SGJMAP for hearing aid applications using smartphone” , (NIHMS1605941).
  2. VAD: G. S. Bhat, N. Shankar and I. M. S. Panahi, “Automated machine learning based speech classification for hearing aid applications and its real-time implementation on smartphone,” 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 956-959, doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175693.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Automated machine learning based speech classification for hearing aid applications and its real-time implementation on smartphone” , (NIHMS1605948).
  3. AFC: K. Patel and I. M. S. Panahi, “Efficient Real-Time Acoustic Feedback Cancellation using Adaptive Noise Injection Algorithm,” 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 972-975, doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175686.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Efficient Real-Time Acoustic Feedback Cancellation on Smartphone Devices using Adaptive Noise Injection Algorithm” , (NIHMS1605962).
  4. COMP: K. Patel and I. M. S. Panahi, “Compression Fitting of Hearing Aids and Implementation,” 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 968-971, doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176368.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Compression Fitting on Hearing Aids and Smartphone Implementation” , (NIHMS1605961).
  5. SE: Shankar, N., G. S. Bhat, and I. M. S. Panahi. “Real-time single-channel deep neural network-based speech enhancement on edge devices.” In Interspeech, vol. 2020, pp. 3281-3285. 2020.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Real-time single-channel deep neural network-based speech enhancement on edge devices.” , (NIHMS1632641)
  6. SE: Tittle, L. M. Thibodeau, I. Panahi, S. Tokgoz, N. Shankar, G. S. Bhat, K. Patel, “Behavioral Validation of the Smartphone for Remote Microphone Technology”, SEMINARS IN HEARING/VOLUME 41, No. 4, 2020 Semin Hear 2020;41:291–301.Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., USA. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1718714. ISSN 0734-0451.

REFEREED Invited, Oral, Abstracts, Poster, and Presentations:

  1. SE: Issa Panahi, Linda Thibodeau, “Smartphone and algorithms; A platform for hearing study”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, no. 4 (2019): 2879-2879.
  2. SE: Stephanie Tittle, Linda Thibodeau, Issa M. Panahi, and Preethi Codanda Chengappa. “Benefits of a smartphone as a remote microphone system.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, no. 4 (2019): 3047-3047.
  3. SE: Linda Thibodeau, Issa Panahi, and students, “Smartphone-based Open Source Research Platform to Improve Hearing Study and Hearing Aid Applications”, Acoustical Society of America., vol. 146, no. 4, Acoustical Society of America (ASA2019), San Diego, CA, Dec. 2019.
  1. SE: Nikhil Shankar, Gautam Shreedhar Bhat, and Issa M. Panahi. “Comparison and real-time implementation of fixed and adaptive beamformers for speech enhancement on smartphones for hearing aid study.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, no. 4 (2019): 3058-3058.
  1. DOA: Abdullah Küçük, and Issa M. Panahi. “Deep neural network based direction of arrival estimation for hearing aid applications using smartphone.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, no. 4 (2019): 2960-2960.
  2. SI: Serkan Tokgoz , and Issa M. Panahi. “Speaker identification using convolutional-long short-term memory neural networks.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, no. 4 (2019): 2960-2960.
  3. COMP: Kashyap Patel, Nikhil Shankar, and Issa M. Panahi. “Frequency-based multiband adaptive compression for hearing aid application.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, no. 4 (2019): 2959-2959.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Frequency-based Multiband Adaptive Compression for Hearing Aid Application” , (NIHMS1605959).
  4. SE: Gautam Shreedhar Bhat, Nikhil Shankar, and Issa Panahi. “A computationally efficient blind source separation for hearing aid applications and its real-time implementation on smartphone.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, no. 4 (2019): 2959-2959.
  5. SE: Kao, T., and Thibodeau. (2019), “Electroacoustic Evaluation of Hearing Assistive Devices/Systems with three Roger Transmission Methods”, Poster Presented at the American Academy of Audiology, Columbus, OH.
  6. SE: Taylor, A., Land, V., and Thibodeau (2019), “Technology Transmission Ranges for Assistive Listening Devices”, Poster Presented at the American Academy of Audiology, Columbus, OH.
  7. SE: Havens, L. and Thibodeau, L. (2019), “Features of MFi and MFA Hearing aids”, Poster presentation at  the Texas Academy of Audiology, Frisco, TX.
  8. SE: Kao, T & Thibodeau, L. (2019), “Electroacoustic Transparency of Pediatric-Focused Hearing Assistive Devices/Systems in Different Digital Signal Transmission Arrangements”. Poster presentation at the Texas Academy of Audiology, Frisco, TX.
  9. SE: Thibodeau, S. Title, C.M.Q. Tran, I. Panahi, “Benefits of Using the Remote Microphone Feature on the Smartphone for Persons with Hearing Challenges”, Acoustical Society of America, ASA 2020, Chicago, IL.
  10. SE: Tz-Ching, K. and Thibodeau, L. (2019), “Electroacoustic evaluation of pediatric-focused hearing assistive device /systems in different digital signal transmission arrangements”, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 146, 2917.
  11. SE: Havens, L. & Thibodeau, L. (2019).  Electroacoustic Verification of Hearing Aids with Smartphone Connectivity. Poster presented at the American Academy of Audiology, New Orleans, LA.
  12. SE: McCullough, D., Freeman, E.,  Patel, K., Panahi, I., & Thibodeau, L. (2020). Testing Hearing Thresholds using Smartphone-Based App. Poster presented at STAR: Specialized Topics in Acoustic Research, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.

2018

  1. DOA: Ganguly, Anshuman, and Issa Panahi. “Non-Uniform Microphone Arrays for Robust Speech Source Localization for Smartphone-Assisted Hearing Aid Devices.” Journal of signal processing systems vol. 90,10 (2018): 1415-1435. doi:10.1007/s11265-017-1297-8
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Non-Uniform Microphone Arrays for Robust Speech Source Localization for Smartphone-Assisted Hearing Aid Devices” , (NIHMS919057).
  2. DOA: Küçük, Abdullah, Anshuman Ganguly, and Issa M. Panahi, “Improved pre-filtering stages for GCC-based direction of arrival estimation using smartphone,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143.3 (2018): 1956-1956.
  3. DOA: A. Ganguly, A. Küçük and I. Panahi, “Real-time Smartphone application for improving spatial awareness of Hearing Assistive Devices,” 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2018, pp. 433-436.
  4. SE: N. Shankar, A. Küçük, C. K. A. Reddy, G. S. Bhat and I. M. S. Panahi, “Influence of MVDR beamformer on a Speech Enhancement based Smartphone application for Hearing Aids,” 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2018, pp. 417-420.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Influence of MVDR beamformer on a Speech Enhancement based Smartphone application for Hearing Aids” , (NIHMS1605940).
  5. SE: Nikhil Shankar, Gautam Bhat, Chandan K. A. Reddy and Issa Panahi, “Noise dependent Super Gaussian-Coherence based dual microphone Speech Enhancement for hearing aid application using smartphone,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143.3 (2018): 1806-1807.
  6. SE: G. S. Bhat, C. K. A. Reddy, Nikhil Shankar and I. M.S Panahi, “Smartphone based real-time super Gaussian single microphone Speech Enhancement to improve intelligibility for hearing aid users using formant information,” 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2018, pp. 5503-5506.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Smartphone based real-time super Gaussian single microphone Speech Enhancement to improve intelligibility for hearing aid users using formant information” , (NIHMS1605951).
  7. AFC: P. Mishra, S. Tokgöz and I. M. S. Panahi, “Efficient Modeling of Acoustic Feedback Path in Hearing Aids by Voice Activity Detector-Supervised Multiple Noise Injections,” 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2018, pp. 3549-3552.
  8. AFC: Mishra, Parth, Serkan Tokgoz, and Issa MS Panahi, “Robust real-time implementation of adaptive feedback cancellation using noise injection algorithm on smartphone,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 175ASA. Vol. 33. No. 1. ASA, 2018.
  9. COMP: Z. Zou, Y. Hao and I Panahi, “Design of Compensated Multi-Channel Dynamic-Range Compressor for Hearing Aid Devices using Polyphase Implementation,” 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2018, pp. 429-432.
  10. COMP: Hao, Yiya, Ziyan Zou, and Issa M. Panahi, “A robust smartphone based multi-channel dynamic-range audio compressor for hearing aids,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143.3 (2018): 1961-1961.
  11. GUI: Tokgoz, Serkan, Yiya Hao, and Issa M. Panahi, “A hearing test simulator GUI for clinical testing,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143.3 (2018): 1815-1815.
  12. FMIC: Panahi, Issa MS, Nasser Kehtarnavaz, and Linda Thibodeau, “Smartphone as a research platform for hearing study and hearing aid applications,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143.3 (2018): 1738-1738.
  13. FMIC: Abdullah Kucuk, Yiya Hao, Anshuman Ganguly, Issa Panahi, “Stereo I/O framework for audio signal processing on android platforms,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143.3 (2018): 1955-1956.

2017

  1. SE: Reddy, Chandan Karadagur Ananda, Nikhil Shankar, Gautam Shreedhar Bhat, Ram Charan, and Issa Panahi. “An individualized super-Gaussian single microphone speech enhancement for hearing aid users with smartphone as an assistive device.” IEEE signal processing letters 24, no. 11 (2017): 1601-1605.
    • Also on the NIH – NIHMS system:”An Individualized Super-Gaussian Single Microphone Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aid Users with Smartphone as an Assistive Device”, (NIHMS909214, Publ.ID: 8031044).
  2. SE: S. Bhat, N. Shankar, C. K. A. Reddy and I. M. S. Panahi, “Formant frequency-based speech enhancement technique to improve intelligibility for hearing aid users with smartphone as an assistive device”, 2017 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT), Bethesda, MD, USA, Nov 2017, pp. 32-35.
    • Also on the NIH-NIHMS system: “Formant frequency-based speech enhancement technique to improve intelligibility for hearing aid users with smartphone as an assistive device” , (NIHMS1605949).
  3. SE: I. Panahi, C. K. A Reddy, L. Thibodeau, “Noise suppression and speech enhancement for hearing aid applications using smartphones”, Invited paper, IEEE, AsilomarOct 2017: pp.1890-1894.
  4. SE: Chandan K.A. Reddy, Anshuman Ganguly, Issa Panahi, “ICA-based Single microphone Speech Separation technique using Non-Linear Estimation of Speech”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 2017, pp. 5570-5574.
  5. SE: Audrey Taylor B.A., Linda Thibodeau Ph.D., Issa Panahi Ph.D., Nasser Kehtarnavaz Ph.D., Tyler Caldwell B.S., “Benefits of Smartphone and Hearing Aid Technology to Enhance Speech Recognition in Noise”, American Academy of Audiology (AAA), April 18-21, 2017, Nashville, TN.
  6. DOA: Ganguly, Anshuman, and Issa Panahi. “Non-uniform microphone arrays for robust speech source localization for smartphone-assisted hearing aid devices.” Journal of signal processing systems 90, no. 10 (2018): 1415-1435.
    • Also on the NIH – NIHMS system:”Non-Uniform Microphone Arrays for Robust Speech Source Localization for Smartphone-Assisted Hearing Aid Devices”, (NIHMS919057, Publ.ID: 2017-11- 09_0004).
  7. DOA: Ganguly, Anshuman, Abdullah Kucuk, and Issa Panahi. “Real-time Smartphone implementation of noise-robust Speech source localization algorithm for hearing aid users.” In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 173EAA, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 055002. Acoustical Society of America, 2017.
  8. DOA: Panahi, Issa M., Nasser Kehtarnavaz, and Linda Thibodeau. “Estimation of speech source direction for hearing aid application using smartphone.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141, no. 5 (2017): 3913-3913.
  9. AFC: Parth Mishra, Anshuman Ganguly, Abdullah Kucuk, Issa Panahi, “Unsupervised Noise-aware Adaptive Feedback Cancellation for Hearing Aid Devices under noisy speech framework”, IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium(SPMB), 2017, pp.1-5.
  10. COMP: Yiya Hao, Ram Charan Chandra Shekhar, Gautam Shreedhar-Bhat, Issa Panahi, “Robust Real-time Sound Pressure level stabilizer for multi-channel Hearing  Aids Compression for Dynamically changing acoustic environment”, IEEE, Asilomar, Oct. 2017, pp. 1952-1955.

2016

  1. NC: F. Saki, A. Sehgal, I. Panahi and N. Kehtarnavaz, “Smartphone-based real-time classification of noise signals using subband features and random forest classifier,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016, pp. 2204-2208, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472068.
  2. SE: I. Panahi, N. Kehtarnavaz and L. Thibodeau, “Smartphone-based noise adaptive speech enhancement for hearing aid applications,” 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016, pp. 85-88, doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7590646.
  3. SE: Linda Thibodeau, Issa Panahi, Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Tyler Caldwell, ‘Benefits of Using Speech Enhancement Processing on a Smartphone for Persons with Hearing Loss’, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Orlando, FL, August 2016.
  4. SE: Y. Rao, Y. Hao, I. M. S. Panahi and N. Kehtarnavaz, “Smartphone-based real-time speech enhancement for improving hearing aids speech perception,” 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016, pp. 5885-5888, doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7592067.
  5. SE: C. Vahanesa, C. K. A. Reddy and I. M. S. Panahi, “Improving quality and intelligibility of speech using single microphone for the broadband fMRI noise at low SNR,” 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016, pp. 3674-3678, doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591525.
  6. SE: C. K. A. Reddy, Y. Hao and I. Panahi, “Two microphones spectral-coherence based speech enhancement for hearing aids using smartphone as an assistive device,” 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016, pp. 3670-3673, doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591524.
  7. DOA: A. Ganguly, C. Reddy, Y. Hao and I. Panahi, “Improving Sound Localization for Hearing Aid Devices Using Smartphone Assisted Technology,” 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), 2016, pp. 165-170, doi: 10.1109/SiPS.2016.37.

    • * Paper received the “Bob Owens Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SiPS 2016 and Springer US”.

2015

  1. AFC: Khoubrouy S.A., Panahi I., Hansen J., “Howling detection in hearing aids based on Generalized Teager-Kaiser operator,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, VOL. 23, Issue 1, 2015, pp: 154-161.
  2. AFC: Khoubrouy, S. A., & Panahi, I. M. (2016). An efficient delayless sub-band filtering for adaptive feedback compensation in hearing aid. Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 83(3), 401-409.
  3. AFC: Khoubrouy S.A., Panahi I., “Criteria for estimating an FIR filter for cancelling the feedback path signal in hearing aid system,” EURASIP/Elsevier, European Journal of Signal Processing, Vol. 100, ISSN 0165-1684, July 2014, pages: 101-111.
  4. FMIC: R. Pourreza-Shahri, S. Parris, F. Saki, I. Panahi and N. Kehtarnavaz, “From Simulink to smartphone: Signal processing application examples,” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015, pp. 1861-1865, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178293.
  5. SE: Y. Rao, C. Vahanesa, C. K. A. Reddy and I. M. S. Panahi, “Two-stage data-driven single channel speech enhancement with cepstral analysis pre-processing,” 2015 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2015, pp. 702-706, doi: 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2015.7418287.
  6. SE: C. K. A. Reddy, V. Montazeri, Y. Rao and I. M. S. Panahi, “Single channel speech enhancement technique for low SNR quasi-periodic noise based on reduced order linear prediction,” 2015 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2015, pp. 712-716, doi: 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2015.7418289.
  7. SE: A. Ganguly, I. Panahi and F. Dufour, “Exploring feedback active noise control with ambisonics,” 2015 IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS), 2015, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/DCAS.2015.7356601.
  8. SE: A. Ganguly, C. K. A. Reddy and I. Panahi, “Improved Parallel Feedback Active noise control using linear prediction for adaptive noise decomposition,” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015, pp. 664-668, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178052.

2014

  1. AFC: S. A. Khoubrouy, I. Panahi, N. Kehtarnavaz, “Howling Detection in Hearing Aids using Discrete Energy Separation Algorithm-2 and Generalized Teager-Kaiser Operator”,  Proceeding of the  IEEE Conference,  Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), 2014,  pp: 8202-8206.

2010

  1. SE: V. Gopalakrishna, N. Kehtarnavaz, P. Loizou, and I. Panahi, “Real-time automatic switching between noise suppression algorithms for deployment in cochlear implants,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Buenos Aires, Sept. 2010.