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<Personal Info>

Last Name: Makino
First Name: Shoji


<Office 1>

Professor and Aspect Core Director
Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance
University of Tsukuba
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577 Japan
Tel: +81-29-853-6432
Fax: +81-29-853-7387
E-mail: maki@tara.tsukuba.ac.jp
http://www.tara.tsukuba.ac.jp/~maki/


<Office 2>

Multimedia Laboratory [panphlet]
College of Information Science, School of Informatics
Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Tsukuba

<News>

2012/ 3/27 Plenary Chair at ICASSP2012.



<Profile>

Shoji Makino was born in Nikko, Japan, on June 4, 1956. He received B. E., M. E., and Ph. D. degrees from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1979, 1981, and 1993, respectively.

He joined the Electrical Communication Laboratory of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in 1981. Since then, he has been engaged in research on adaptive filtering technologies and the realization of acoustic echo cancellation. He was a Guest Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan and University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is now a Professor at the University of Tsukuba. His research interests include blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of speech, and acoustic signal processing for speech and audio applications.

He received the ICA Unsupervised Learning Pioneer Award in 2006, the IEEE MLSP Competition Award in 2007, the Paper Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers in 2005 and 2002, the Paper Award of the Acoustical Society of Japan in 2005 and 2002, the TELECOM System Technology Award of the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation in 2004, the Best Paper Award of the International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control in 2003, the Achievement Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers in 1997, and the Outstanding Technological Development Award of the Acoustical Society of Japan in 1995. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings and is responsible for more than 150 patents. He is a Keynote Speaker at ICA2007, a Tutorial speaker at Interspeech2011 and ICASSP2007, and a Panelist at HSCMA2005 and HSCMA2008.

He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2009-10). He is a member of the James L. Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing Award Committee (2008-10), and has served on Awards Board (2006-08) and Conference Board (2002-04) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2002-05) and an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (2005-). He is a Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2005-07), a Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (2008-10), and a Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2006-07). He is the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2011-2013) and the Chair of the Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2009-2010). He is a member of the Technical Committee on Speech, Language, and Audio of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (2010-). He is the Vice President of the Engineering Sciences Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2007-08), and the Chair of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2006-08). He is a member of the International IWAENC Standing committee and a member of the International ICA Steering Committee. He is the General Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, the General Chair of the 2003 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, the Organizing Chair of the 2003 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, the Plenary Chair of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, the Technical Chair of the 2008 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays. He is serving or has served on the Organizing Committee of WASPAA2009, SAPA2008, ASA/ASJ Joint Meeting 2006, WASPAA2005, JCA2002. He is or was the Special Session Organizer at HSCMA2008, ISCAS2007, ASA/ASJ Joint Meeting 2006, Asilomar2006, EUSIPCO2006, ICASSP2006, ICA2006, ICASSP2004, ICA (International Congress on Acoustics) 2004. He is serving or has served on the Program Committee of ICA2006, ICA (International Congress on Acoustics) 2004, WASPAA2003, NNSP2003, NNSP2002, the Technical Committee of HSCMA2011, EUSIPCO2011, APSIPA2010, IWAENC2010, EUSIPCO2009 (Area Chair), IWAENC2008, ASA/ASJ Joint Meeting 2006, EUSIPCO2006, IWAENC2006, IWAENC2005, SAPA2004, IWAENC2001, IWAENC99, and the Review Committee of ISCAS2010 (Track Chair), ISCAS2009 (Track Chair), ISCAS2008, ISCAS2007, ISCAS2006, and ISCAS2005.

Dr. Makino is an IEEE Fellow, an IEICE Fellow, a council member of the Acoustical Society of Japan, and a member of EURASIP.



<Education>

1993: Ph. D., Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
1981: M. E., Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
1979: B. E., Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.



<Career>

2009-Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
2008-2009 Guest Professor at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
2008-2009 Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan.
2006-2007 Part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
2004-2008 Guest Professor at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
2004-2007 Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of Technology, Japan.
2003-2008 Executive Manager at the Media Information Laboratory of the NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan.
2000-2003 Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor, Group Leader at the Speech Open Laboratory of the NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.
1999-2000 Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor, Group Leader at the Multimedia Electronics Laboratory of the NTT Lifestyle and Environmental Technology Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan.
1996-1998 Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor at the Strategic Planning of the NTT Multi-Media System Laboratory Group, Yokosuka, Japan.
1987-1996 Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor at the Speech and Acoustics Laboratory of the NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Musashino, Japan.
1981-1987 Research Engineer at the NTT Electrical Communication Laboratory, Yokosuka, Japan.



<Academic Activities>

  1. Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2009-2010)
  2. IEEE Fellow (2004-)
  3. IEEE Senior Member (1999-2003)
  5. Member of the James L. Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing Award Committee (2008-2010)
  6. Member of the Awards Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006-2008)
  7. Member of the Conference Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2002-2004)
  9. Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2002-2005)
  10. Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (2005-)
  11. Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (2008-2010)
  12. Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2005-2007)
  13. Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2006-2007)
  15. Chair of the Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2009-2010)
  16. Chair-Elect of the Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2007-2008)
  17. Member of the Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2004-2006)
  18. Vice Chair of the Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2011-2012)
  19. Member of the Technical Committee on Audio and Electroacoustics of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1990-2010)
  20. Member of the Technical Committee on Speech, Language, and Audio of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (2010-)
  22. Member of the International IWAENC Standing Committee (1999-)
  23. Member of the International ICA Steering Committee (2003-)
  24. Member of the International Advisory Panel for ICA Research Network (2006-)
  26. Plenary Chair of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
  27. Track Chair of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  28. Area Chair of the 2009 European Signal Processing Conference
  29. Track Chair of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  30. Co-Organizer of the 2008 Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition
  31. Technical Co-Chair of the 2008 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
  32. General Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
  33. General Chair of the 2003 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control
  34. Organizing Chair of the 2003 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
  35. Program Chair of the 2004 Workshop on Communication Scene Analysis
  36. Program Committee Chair of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
  38. Tutorial Speaker at the 2011 Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
  39. Panelist at the 2008 Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
  40. Keynote Speaker at the 2007 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation
  41. Tutorial Speaker at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  42. Panelist at the 2005 Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
  44. Special Session Organizer at the 2008 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
  45. Special Session Organizer at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  46. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
  47. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
  48. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 European Signal Processing Conference
  49. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  50. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
  51. Special Session Organizer at the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  52. Special Session Organizer at the 2004 International Congress on Acoustics
  54. Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
  55. Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
  56. Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2005 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
  57. Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2002 China-Japan Joint Conference on Acoustics
  59. Member of the Review Committee of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  60. Member of the Review Committee of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  61. Member of the Review Committee of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  62. Member of the Review Committee of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  64. Member of the International Program Committee of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
  65. Member of the Program Committee of the 2004 International Congress on Acoustics
  66. Member of the Program Committee of the 2003 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
  67. Member of the Program Committee of the 2003 IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing
  68. Member of the Program Committee of the 2002 IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing
  70. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2011 European Signal Processing Conference
  71. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2011 Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
  72. Member of the Technical Committee of the 2010 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Conference
  73. Member of the Technical Committee of the 2010 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control
  74. Member of the Technical Committee of the 2008 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control
  75. Member of the Technical Committee of the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
  76. Member of the Technical Committee of the 2006 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control
  77. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2006 European Signal Processing Conference
  78. Member of the Technical Committee of the 2005 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control
  79. Member of the Technical Committee of the 2004 Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing
  80. Member of the Technical Committee of the 2001 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control
  81. Member of the Technical Committee of the 1999 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control
  83. IEICE Fellow (2007-)
  84. Vice President of the Engineering Sciences Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2007-2008)
  85. President of the Acoustics and Ultrasonics Subsociety of the Engineering Sciences Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2007-2008)
  87. Chair of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2006-2008)
  88. Vice Chair of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2001-2003)
  89. Secretary of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (1990-1992)
  90. Member of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2003-2005)
  91. Member of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (1992-2001)
  93. Chief Guest Editor of the Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2007-2009)
  94. Chief Guest Editor of the Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2006-2008)
  95. Guest Editor of the Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (2002-2003)
  96. Guest Editor of the Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (1990-1992)
  98. Member of the Board of Directors of the Acoustical Society of Japan (2005-)
  99. Council Member of the Acoustical Society of Japan (2003-)
  100. Member of the Conference Board of the Acoustical Society of Japan (1995-1997)
  101. Associate Editor of the Acoustical Society of Japan (2001-2005)
  103. Member of the IEEE (1989-)
  104. Member of the EURASIP (2000-)
  105. Member of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (1988-)
  106. Member of the Acoustical Society of Japan (1983-)



<Awards>

  1. 2009 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
  2. 2007 IEICE Fellow
  3. 2007 IEEE MLSP Competition Award
  4. 2006 ICA Unsupervised Learning Pioneer Award
  5. 2006 Best Presentation Award at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium
  6. 2005 Paper Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers
  7. 2005 Paper Award of the Acoustical Society of Japan
  8. 2004 TELECOM System Technology Award of the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
  9. 2004 IEEE Fellow
  10. 2003 Best Paper Award of the International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control
  11. 2002 Paper Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers
  12. 2002 Paper Award of the Acoustical Society of Japan
  13. 2002 Patent Award of NTT
  14. 1999 IEEE Senior Member
  15. 1998 Patent Award of NTT
  16. 1997 Achievement Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers
  17. 1995 President's Award of NTT
  18. 1995 Outstanding Technological Development Award of the Acoustical Society of Japan



<Book Editors>

  1. S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Blind Speech Separation, Springer, Sept. 2007.
  2. J. Benesty, S. Makino, and J. Chen, Speech Enhancement, Springer, Mar. 2005.



<Book Chapters>

  1. S. Makino, S. Araki, S. Winter, and H. Sawada, ''Underdetermined blind source separation using acoustic arrays, '' in Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks, S. Haykin and K.J. Ray Liu, Eds., Wiley, pp. 303-341, Jan. 2010.
  2. H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, pp. 47-78, Sept. 2007.
  3. S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''K-means based underdetermined blind speech separation, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, pp. 243-270, Sept. 2007.
  4. S. Winter, W. Kellermann, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined blind source separation of convolutive mixtures by hierarchical clustering and L1-norm minimization, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, pp. 271-304, Sept. 2007.
  5. S. Makino, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Araki, ''Blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of audio signals in frequency domain, '' in Topics in Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, E. Haensler and G. Schmidt, Eds., Springer, pp. 51-89, May 2006.
  6. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Speech Enhancement, J. Benesty, S. Makino, and J. Chen, Eds., Springer, pp. 299-327, Mar. 2005.
  7. S. Araki, S. Makino, ''Subband based blind source separation, '' in Speech Enhancement, J. Benesty, S. Makino, and J. Chen, Eds., Springer, pp. 329-352, Mar. 2005.
  8. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Real-time blind source separation for moving speech signals, '' in Speech Enhancement, J. Benesty, S. Makino, and J. Chen, Eds., Springer, pp. 353-369, Mar. 2005.
  9. S. Makino, ''Blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of speech, '' in Adaptive Signal Processing: Applications to Real-World Problems, J. Benesty and Y. Huang, Eds., Springer, pp. 195-225, Jan. 2003.
  10. S. Makino, ''Teleconferencing equipment,'' in Sound Environment and Control Technology II: Applied Engineering, T. Tokita, Ed., Fiji Technosystem, pp. 593-605, Oct. 1999 (in Japanese).



<Journals and Transactions>

  1. H. Terasawa, J. Berger, and S. Makino, ''In search of a perceptual metric for timbre: Dissimilarity judgements among synthetic sounds with varying spectral envelopes, '' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, printing.
  2. Y. Ansai, S. Araki, S. Makino, T. Nakatani, T. Yamada, A. Nakamura, and N. Kitawaki, ''Cepstral smoothing of separated signals for underdetermined speech separation, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 74-85, Feb. 2012 (in Japanese).
  4. H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined convolutive blind source separation via frequency bin-wise clustering and permutation alignment, '' IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 516-527, Mar. 2011. [PDF]
  5. T. Yoshitome, K. Kamikura, S. Makino, and N. Kitawaki, ''An MPEG-2 to H.264 transcoding preserving DCT types and motion vectors to suppress re-quantization noise for interlace contents, '' IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, vol. J94-D, no. 2, pp. 469-480, Feb. 2011 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  6. S. Makino, A. Cichocki, W. Zheng, and A. Uncini, ''Guest editorial: Special section on blind signal processing and its applications, '' IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-I, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 1401-1403, July 2010 [PDF]
  7. S. Araki, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''DOA estimation for multiple sparse sources with arbitrarily arranged multiple sensors, '' Journal of Signal Processing Systems, doi:10.1007/s11265-009-0413-9, pp. 1-11, 2009. [PDF]
  8. S. Makino, ''Foreword to the special section on blind signal processing and its applications, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. J92-A, no. 5, p. 275, May 2009 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  9. H. Kato, Y. Nagahara, S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Frequency-domain Pearson distribution approach for independent component analysis (FD-Pearson-ICA) in blind source separation, '' IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 639-649, May 2009. [PDF]
  10. S. Makino, ''Foreword to the special section on acoustic scene analysis and reproduction, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E91-A, no. 6, pp. 1301-1302, June 2008. [PDF]
  11. R. Guido, L. Deng, and S. Makino, ''Guest editors' introduction: Special section on emergent systems, algorithms, and architectures for speech-based human-machine interaction, '' IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 56, no. 9, pp. 1153-1155, Sept. 2007. [PDF]
  12. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Grouping separated frequency components by estimating propagation model parameters in frequency-domain blind source separation, '' IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1592-1604, July 2007. [PDF]
  13. S. Douglas, M. Gupta, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Spatio-temporal FastICA algorithms for the blind separation of convolutive mixtures, '' IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1511-1520, July 2007. [PDF]
  14. S. Makino, T. Lee, and G. Brown, ''Introduction to the special section on blind signal processing for speech and audio applications, '' IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1509-1510, July 2007. [PDF]
  15. S. Araki, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined blind sparse source separation for arbitrarily arranged multiple sensors, '' Signal Processing, vol. 87, pp. 1833-1847, Feb. 2007. doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.02.003. [PDF]
  16. M. Knaak, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Geometrically constrained independent component analysis, '' IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 715-726, Feb. 2007. [PDF]
  17. S. Winter, W. Kellermann, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''MAP-based underdetermined blind source separation of convolutive mixtures by hierarchical clustering and L1-norm minimization, '' EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 24717, pp. 1-12, Jan. 2007. [PDF]
  18. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency-domain blind source separation of many speech signals using near-field and far-field models, '' EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 83683, pp. 1-13, Dec. 2006. [PDF]
  19. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Blind extraction of dominant target sources using ICA and time-frequency masking, '' IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 2165-2173, Nov. 2006. [PDF]
  20. S. Emura, Y. Haneda, A. Kataoka, and S. Makino, ''Stereo echo cancellation algorithm using adaptive update on the basis of enhanced input-signal vector, '' Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 6, pp. 1157-1167, June 2006. [PDF]
  21. S. Winter, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Geometrical interpretation of the PCA subspace approach for overdetermined blind source separation, '' EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 71632, pp. 1-11, Mar. 2006. [PDF]
  22. S. Araki, S. Makino, R. Aichner, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Subband-based blind separation for convolutive mixtures of speech, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E88-A, no. 12, pp. 3593-3603, Dec. 2005. [PDF]
  23. A. Blin, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined blind separation of convolutive mixtures of speech using time-frequency mask and mixing matrix estimation, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E88-A, no. 7, pp. 1693-1700, July 2005. [PDF]
  24. S. Douglas, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Natural gradient multichannel blind deconvolution and speech separation using causal FIR filters, '' IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 92-104, Jan. 2005. [PDF]
  25. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''A robust and precise method for solving the permutation problem of frequency-domain blind source separation, '' IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 530-538, Sept. 2004. [PDF] Google Scholar Citation: 178
  26. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, '' Blind source separation for moving speech signals using blockwise ICA and residual crosstalk subtraction, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E87-A, no. 8, pp. 1941-1948, Aug. 2004. [PDF] Award
  27. R. Mukai, S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, '' Evaluation of separation and dereverberation performance in frequency domain blind source separation, '' Journal of Acoustic Science and Technology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 119-126, Mar. 2004. [PDF] Award
  28. S. Makino S. Araki, R. Mukai, and H. Sawada, ''Blind separation of audio signals, '' NTT Technical Journal, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 8-12, Dec. 2003 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  29. S. Araki, S. Makino, Y. Hinamoto, R. Mukai, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Equivalence between frequency domain blind source separation and frequency domain adaptive beamforming for convolutive mixtures, '' EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2003, no. 11, pp. 1157-1166, Nov. 2003. [PDF] Award
  30. S. Araki, R. Mukai, S. Makino, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''The fundamental limitation of frequency domain blind source separation for convolutive mixtures of speech, '' IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 109-116, Mar. 2003. [PDF] Award, Google Scholar Citation: 161
  31. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Polar coordinate based nonlinear function for frequency-domain blind source separation, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E86-A, no. 3, pp. 590-596, Mar. 2003. [PDF]
  32. S. Makino, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Katagiri, ''Separation of speech signal - To realize multiple talker speech recognition -, '' NTT R&D, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 937-944, Dec. 2001 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  33. A. Nakagawa, S. Shimauchi, Y. Haneda, S. Aoki, and S. Makino, ''A design of a hands-free communication unit using loudspeakers and microphones with a flat directional pattern, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 509-516, Aug. 2001 (in Japanese). [PDF] Award
  34. S. Sakauchi, Y. Haneda, S. Makino, M. Tanaka, and Y. Kaneda, ''Subjective assessment of the desired echo return loss for subband acoustic echo cancellers, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E83-A, no. 12, pp. 2633-2639, Dec. 2000. [PDF] Award
  35. Y. Haneda, S. Makino, Y. Kaneda, and N. Kitawaki, ''Common-acoustical-pole and zero modeling of head-related transfer functions, '' IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 188-196, Mar. 1999. [PDF]
  36. M. Tanaka, S. Makino, and J. Kojima, ''A block exact fast affine projection algorithm, '' IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 79-86, Jan. 1999. [PDF]
  37. Y. Haneda, S. Makino, and Y. Kaneda, ''Multiple-point equalization of room transfer functions by using common acoustical poles, '' IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 325-333, July 1997. [PDF]
  38. S. Makino and Y. Haneda, ''Subband echo canceller with an exponentially weighted stepsize NLMS adaptive filter, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. J79-A, no. 6, pp. 1138-1146, June 1996 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  39. M. Tanaka, Y. Kaneda, S. Makino, and J. Kojima, ''A fast projection algorithm for adaptive filtering, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E78-A, no. 10, pp. 1355-1361, Oct. 1995. [PDF]
  40. Y. Haneda, S. Makino, and Y. Kaneda, ''Common acoustical pole and zero modeling of room transfer functions, '' NTT R&D, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 53-58, Jan. 1995 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  41. S. Makino and Y. Kaneda, ''Exponentially weighted step-size projection algorithm for acoustic echo cancellers, '' NTT R&D, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 45-52, Jan. 1995 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  42. J. Kojima, S. Makino, Y. Haneda, and S. Shimauchi, ''High-performance acoustic echo canceller development, '' NTT R&D, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 39-44, Jan. 1995 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  43. Y. Haneda, S. Makino, and Y. Kaneda, ''Common acoustical pole and zero modeling of room transfer functions, '' IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 320-328, Apr. 1994. [PDF]
  44. S. Makino and Y. Kaneda, ''A new RLS adaptive algorithm based on the variation characteristics of a room impulse response, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 32-39, Jan. 1994 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  45. H. Oikawa, M. Nishino, K. Yamamori, and S. Makino, ''A new design for program controlled voice switching circuits using a microprocessor, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. J77-B-I, no. 1, pp. 66-74, Jan. 1994 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  46. S. Makino, Y. Kaneda, and N. Koizumi, ''Exponentially weighted step-size NLMS adaptive filter based on the statistics of a room impulse response, '' IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 101-108, Jan. 1993. [PDF]
  47. S. Makino and Y. Kaneda, ''Exponentially weighted step-size projection algorithm for acoustic echo cancellers, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E75-A, no. 11, pp. 1500-1508, Nov. 1992. [PDF] Award
  48. N. Koizumi, S. Makino, and H. Oikawa, ''Acoustic echo canceller with multiple echo paths, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn. (E), vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 39-45, Jan. 1989. [PDF]
  49. H. Oikawa, N. Koizumi, and S. Makino, ''Audio teleconferencing set with multi-path echo canceller, '' ECL Technical Journal, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 191-197, Feb. 1988 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  50. H. Oikawa, N. Koizumi, and S. Makino, ''Audio teleconferencing set with multipath echo canceller, '' REVIEW of the ECL, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 217-223, Feb. 1988. [PDF]
  51. S. Makino and Y. Ichinose, ''Vibration characteristics of a piezoelectric bimorph diaphragm with a step-shaped edge, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 161-166, Mar. 1987 (in Japanese). [PDF]



<Letters>

  1. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Estimating the number of sources using independent component analysis, '' Journal of Acoustic Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 450-452, Sept. 2005. [PDF]
  2. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Convolutive blind source separation for more than two sources in the frequency domain, '' Journal of Acoustic Science and Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 296-298, July 2004. [PDF]
  3. A. Nakagawa, S. Shimauchi, and S. Makino, ''A study of microphone system for hands-free teleconferencing units, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn. (E), vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 33-35, Jan. 2000. [PDF]
  4. Y. Haneda, S. Makino, Y. Kaneda, and N. Koizumi, ''ARMA modeling of a room transfer function at low frequencies, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn. (E), vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 353-355, Sept. 1994. [PDF]
  5. Y. Haneda, S. Makino, and Y. Kaneda, ''Common acoustical poles independent of sound directions and modeling of head-related transfer functions, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn. (E), vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 277-279, July 1994. [PDF]
  6. S. Makino and N. Koizumi, ''Improvement on adaptation of an echo canceller in a room, '' IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. J71-A, no. 12, pp. 2212-2214, Dec. 1988 (in Japanese). [PDF]



<Reviews>

  1. T. Yamada, S. Makino, and N. Kitawaki, ''Subjective and objective quality evaluation of noise reduced speech, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 476-481, Oct. 2011 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  3. H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Recent advances in audio source separation techniques, '' in Journal of IEICE, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 292-296, Apr. 2008 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  4. S. Makino, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Araki, ''Blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of speech in frequency domain, '' Invited in IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, vol. E88-A, no. 7, pp. 1640-1655, July 2005. [PDF]
  5. S. Makino, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and H. Sawada, ''Blind source separation of convolved mixtures of speech, '' Journal of Systems, Control and Information, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 401-408, Oct. 2004 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  6. S. Makino and S. Shimauchi, ''Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation - An overview and solutions, ''Journal of Systems, Control and Information, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 724-732, Dec. 2002 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  7. S. Makino, ''Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation: An overview and recent solutions, '' Journal of Acoustic Science and Technology, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 325-333, Sept. 2001. [PDF]
  8. S. Makino, ''A first step to the subband processing - For real-time implementation -, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 845-851, Dec. 2000 (in Japanese). [PDF]
  9. M. Kahrs, G. Elko, S. Elliot, S. Makino, J. Kates, M. Bosi, and J. Smith, ''The past, present, and future of audio signal processing, '' IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 30-57, Sept. 1997. [PDF]
  10. S. Makino and S. Shimada, ''Echo control in telecommunications, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn. (E), vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 309-316, Nov. 1990. [PDF]
  11. S. Shimada and S. Makino, ''Recent techniques of circuit and acoustic echo control for telephony, '' Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 222-227, Mar. 1990 (in Japanese). [PDF]



<Short Notes>

  1. S. Makino, ''Blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of audio signals in frequency domain, '' Advances in Circuits and Systems, no. 5, Aug. 2005.
  2. S. Makino, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Katagiri, ''Blind source separation in a real room, '' Journal of IEICE Japan, vol. 84, no. 11, pp. 848, Nov. 2001 (in Japanese).
  3. S. Makino and S. Araki, ''ICASSP2001 conference report, '' Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 736-737, Sept. 2001 (in Japanese).
  4. S. Makino, ''Can echo cancellers cancel howling in PA systems?, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., vol. 51, no. 3, p. 248, Mar. 1995 (in Japanese).
  5. S. Makino, et al., ''Report on the 1994 International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 759-760, Sept. 1994 (in Japanese).
  6. S. Makino, ''Research on the adaptive signal processing for acoustic echo cancellation, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., p. 75, Jan. 1994 (in Japanese).
  7. K. Hirose, S. Nakagawa, T. Taniguchi, and S. Makino, ''Report on the 1990 International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, '' J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 869-870, Oct. 1990 (in Japanese).



<Conferences with Review>

  1. T. Maruyama, S. Araki, T. Nakatani, S. Miyabe, T. Yamada, S. Makino, and A. Nakamura, ''New analytical update rule for TDOA inference for underdetermined BSS in noisy environments, '' in Proc. ICASSP2012, pp. 269-272, Mar. 2012. [PDF]
  2. K. Takeda, H. Kameoka, H. Sawada, S. Araki, S. Miyabe, T. Yamada, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined BSS with multichannel complex NMF assuming w-disjoint orthogonality of source, '' in Proc. IEEE TENCON2011, pp. 806-809, Nov. 2011. [PDF]
  3. S. Miura, H. Nakajima, S. Miyabe, S. Makino T. Yamada, and K. Nakadai, ''Restoration of clipped audio signal using recursive vector projection, '' in Proc. IEEE TENCON2011, pp. 787-790, Nov. 2011. [PDF]
  4. T.M. Rutkowski, Q. Zhao, D.P. Mandic, Z. Cai, A. Cichocki, S. Makino, and A.W. Przybyszewski, ''New EEG components separation method: Data driven Huang-Hilbert transform application to auditory BMI paradigm, '' in Proc. Neuroscience 2011, p. 627.15/AAA32, Nov. 2011.
  5. M. Katoh, Y. Sugimoto, S. Miyabe, S. Makino, T. Yamada, and N. Kitawaki, ''Visualization of conversation flow in meetings by analysis of direction of arrivals and continuousness of utterance, '' in Proc. Tunisian-Japan Symposium on Science, Society & Technology, pp. 1-5, Nov. 2011. [PDF]
  6. T. Takaoka, T. Yamada, S. Makino, and N. Kitawaki, ''Performance estimation of noisy speech recognition considering the accuracy of acoustic models, '' in Proc. Tunisian-Japan Symposium on Science, Society & Technology, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2011. [PDF]
  7. E. Morishita, T. Yamada, S. Makino, and N. Kitawaki, ''Performance estimation of noisy speech recognition based on short-term noise characteristics, '' in Proc. Tunisian-Japan Symposium on Science, Society & Technology, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2011. [PDF]
  8. Z. Cai, H. Terasawa, S. Makino, T. Yamada, and T.M. Rutkowski, ''Spatial location and sound timbre as informative cues in auditory BCI/BMI - electrodes position optimization for brain evoked potential enhancement, '' in Proc. APSIPA2011, Wed-PM.SS4, pp. 1-6, Oct. 2011. [PDF]
  9. S. Amano, T. Yamada, S. Makino, and N. Kitawaki, ''A study on sound image control method for operational support of touch panel display, '' in Proc. APSIPA2011, Thu-PM.PS2, pp. 1-1, Oct. 2011. [PDF]
  10. H. Terasawa, Y. Takahashi, K. Hirota, T. Hamano, T. Yamada, A. Fukamizu, and S. Makino, ''C. elegans meets data sonification: Can we hear its elegant movement?, '' in Proc. Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp. 77-82, July 2011. [PDF]
  11. T. Kaniwa, S. Kim, H. Terasawa, M. Ikeda, T. Yamada, and S. Makino, ''Towards a personalized technical ear training program: An investigation of the effect of adaptive feedback, '' in Proc. Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp. 439-443, July 2011. [PDF]
  12. K. Iso, S. Araki, S. Makino, T. Nakatani, H. Sawada, T. Yamada, and A. Nakamura, ''Blind source separation of mixed speech in a high reverberation environment, '' in Proc. HSCMA2011, pp. 36-39, May 2011. [PDF]
  14. G. Short, K. Hirose, T. Yamada, N. Minematsu, N. Kitawaki, and S. Makino, ''Mora pitch level recognition for the development of a Japanese pitch accent acquisition system, '' in Proc. Oriental COCODSA2010, pp. 1-7, Nov. 2010. [PDF]
  15. Z. Cai, N. Kitawaki, T. Yamada, and S. Makino, ''Comparison of MOS evaluation characteristics for Chinese, Japanese, and English in IP telephony, '' in Proc. International Universal Communication Symposium, pp. 1-4, Oct. 2010. [PDF]
  16. T. Yamada, T. Nakajima, N. Kitawaki, and S. Makino, ''Performance estimation of noisy speech recognition considering recognition task complexity, '' in Proc. INTERSPEECH2010, pp. 2042-2045, Sept. 2010. [PDF]
  17. T. Yoshitome, Y. Nakajima, K. Kamikura, S. Makino and N. Kitawaki, ''A VC-1 to H.264/AVC intra transcoding using encoding information to reduce re-quantization noise, '' in Proc. International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, pp. 170-177, Aug. 2010. [PDF]
  18. T. Yoshitome, K. Kamikura, S. Makino, and N. Kitawaki, ''MPEG-2/H.264 transcoding with vector conversion reducing re-quantization noise, '' in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications, pp. 1-6, Aug. 2010. [PDF]
  19. Y. Ansai, S. Araki, S. Makino, T. Nakatani, T. Yamada, A. Nakamura, and N. Kitawaki, ''Cepstral smoothing of separated signals for underdetermined speech separation, '' in Proc. ISCAS2010, pp. 2506-2509, May 2010. [PDF]
  20. N. Okubo, N. Kitawaki, T. Yamada, and S. Makino, ''Analysis of standardized speech database by considering long-term average spectrum, '' in Proc. Tunisian-Japan Symposium on Science, Society & Technology, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2009.
  21. C. Aoshima, N. Kitawaki, T. Yamada, and S. Makino, ''A study of artificial voices for telephonometry in the IP-based telecommunication networks, '' in Proc. Tunisian-Japan Symposium on Science, Society & Technology, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2009.
  22. S. Araki , T. Nakatani, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Blind sparse source separation for unknown number of sources using Gaussian mixture model fitting with Dirichlet prior, '' in Proc. ICASSP2009, pp. 33-36, Apr. 2009. [PDF]
  23. S. Araki , T. Nakatani, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Stereo source separation and source counting with MAP estimation with Dirichlet prior considering spatial aliasing problem, '' in Proc. ICA2009, pp. 742-750, Mar. 2009. [PDF]
  24. T. Hager, S. Araki , K. Ishizuka, M. Fujimoto, T. Nakatani, and S. Makino, ''Handling speaker position changes in a meeting diarization system by combining DOA clustering and speaker identification, '' in Proc. IWAENC2008, P2 -12, Sept. 2008. [PDF]
  25. D. Kolossa, S. Araki , M. Delcroix, T. Nakatani, R. Orglmeister, and S. Makino, ''Missing feature speech recognition in a meeting situation with maximum SNR beamforming, '' in Proc. ISCAS2008, pp. 3218-3221, May 2008. [PDF]
  26. S. Araki, M. Fujimoto, K. Ishizuka, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''A DOA based speaker diarization system for real meetings, '' Invited in Proc. HSCMA2008, pp. 29-32, May 2008. [PDF]
  27. S. Araki, M. Fujimoto, K. Ishizuka, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Speaker indexing and speech enhancement in real meeting / conversations, '' in Proc. ICASSP2008, pp. 93-96, Apr. 2008. [PDF]
  28. H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''A two-stage frequency-domain blind source separation method for underdetermined convolutive mixtures, '' in Proc. WASPAA2007, pp. 139-142, Oct. 2007. [PDF]
  29. E. Vincent, H. Sawada, P. Bofill, S. Makino, and J. Rosca, ''First stereo audio source separation evaluation campaign: Data, algorithms and results, '' in Proc. ICA2007, pp. 552-559, Sept. 2007. [PDF]
  30. H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''MLSP 2007 data analysis competition: Frequency-domain blind source separation for convolutive mixtures of speech/audio signals, '' in Proc. MLSP2007, pp. 45-50, Aug. 2007. [PDF] Award
  31. H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Measuring dependence of bin-wise separated signals for permutation alignment in frequency-domain BSS, '' in Proc. ISCAS2007, pp. 3247-3250, May 2007. [PDF]
  32. S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Blind speech separation in a meeting situation with maximum SNR beamformers, '' in Proc. ICASSP2007, pp. I-41 - I-44, Apr. 2007.[PDF]
  33. J. Cermak, S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Blind source separation based on beamformer array and time frequency binary masking, '' in Proc. ICASSP2007, pp. I-145 - I-148, Apr. 2007. [PDF]
  34. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency domain blind source separation in a noisy environment, '' Invited in Proc. 2006 Joint meeting of ASA and ASJ, 1pSP1, Nov. 2006.
  35. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Blind separation and localization of speeches in a meeting situation, '' in Proc. Asilomar2006, pp. 1407-1411, Oct. 2006. [PDF]
  36. D. Kolossa, H. Sawada, R. F. Astudillo, R. Orglmeister, and S. Makino, ''Recognition of convolutive speech mixtures by missing feature techniques for ICA, '' in Proc. Asilomar2006, pp. 1397-1401, Oct. 2006. [PDF]
  37. J. Cermak, S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Musical noise reduction in time-frequency-binary-masking-based blind source separation systems, '' in Proc. Czech-German Workshop on Speech Processing, printing, Sept. 2006.
  38. S. Araki, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Performance evaluation of sparse source separation and DOA estimation with observation vector clustering in reverberant environments, '' in Proc. IWAENC2006, Tue.Sep.4, Sept. 2006. [PDF]
  39. S. Araki, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Blind sparse source separation with spatially smoothed time-frequency masking, '' in Proc. IWAENC2006, Wed.Sep.9, Sept. 2006. [PDF]
  40. J. Cermak, S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Blind speech separation by combining beamformers and a time frequency binary mask, '' in Proc. IWAENC2006, Tue.Sep.5, Sept. 2006. [PDF]
  41. S. Winter, W. Kellermann, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined source separation by ICA and homomorphic signal processing, '' in Proc. IWAENC2006, Wed.Sep.8, Sept. 2006. [PDF]
  42. S. Araki, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Normalized observation vector clustering approach for sparse source separation, '' Invited in Proc. EUSIPCO2006, Wed.5.4.4, Sept. 2006. [PDF]
  43. H. Kato, Y. Nagahara, S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Parametric-Pearson-based independent component analysis for frequency-domain blind speech separation, '' in Proc. EUSIPCO2006, Tue.4.2.5, Sept. 2006. [PDF]
  44. S. Winter, W. Kellermann, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined source separation for colored sources, '' in Proc. EUSIPCO2006, Thu.3.1.6, Sept. 2006. [PDF]
  45. S. Araki, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined sparse source separation of convolutive mixtures with observation vector clustering, '' in Proc. ISCAS2006, pp. 3594-3597, May 2006. [PDF]
  46. S. Araki, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''DOA estimation for multiple sparse sources with normalized observation vector clustering, '' in Proc. ICASSP2006, pp. V-33 - V-36, May 2006. [PDF]
  47. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Solving the permutation problem of frequency-domain BSS with spatial aliasing occurs with wide sensor spacing, '' in Proc. ICASSP2006, pp. V-77 - V-80, May 2006. [PDF]
  48. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Blind source separation of many signals in the frequency domain, '' Invited in Proc. ICASSP2006, pp. V-969 - V-972, May 2006. [PDF]
  49. E. Robledo-Arnuncio, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Frequency domain blind source separation of a reduced amount of data using frequency normalization, '' in Proc. ICASSP2006, pp. V-837 - V-840, May 2006. [PDF]
  50. S. Makino, ''Blind sources separations of convolutive mixtures, '' Award Speech on ICA Unsupervised Learning Pioneer Award, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 6247-7, pp. 1-15, Apr. 2006. [PDF]
  51. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''On calculating the inverse of separation matrix in frequency-domain blind source separation, '' Invited in Proc. ICA2006, pp. 691-699, Mar. 2006. [PDF]
  52. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Blind source separation of 3-D located many speech signals, '' in Proc. WASPAA2005, pp. 9-12, Oct. 2005. [PDF]
  53. S. Winter, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''On real and complex valued L1-norm minimization for overcomplete blind source separation, '' in Proc. WASPAA2005, pp. 86-89, Oct. 2005. [PDF]
  54. S. Araki, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''A novel blind source separation method with observation vector clustering, '' in Proc. IWAENC2005, pp. 117-120, Sept. 2005. [PDF]
  55. F. Flego, S. Araki, H. Sawada, T. Nakatani, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined blind separation for speech in real environments with F0 adaptive comb filtering, '' in Proc. IWAENC2005, pp. 93-96, Sept. 2005. [PDF]
  56. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Real-time blind extraction of dominant target sources from many background interference sources, '' in Proc. IWAENC2005, pp. 73-76, Sept. 2005. [PDF]
  57. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Real-time blind source separation and DOA estimation using small 3-D microphone array, '' in Proc. IWAENC2005, pp. 45-48, Sept. 2005. [PDF]
  58. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Multiple source localization using independent component analysis, '' Invited in Proc. 2005 IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, session 131, P3, July 2005. [PDF]
  59. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Blind extraction of a dominant source from mixtures of many sources using ICA and time-frequency masking, '' in Proc. ISCAS2005, pp. 5882-5885, May 2005. [PDF]
  60. S. Araki, S. Makino, H. Sawada, and R. Mukai, ''Source extraction from speech mixtures with null-directivity pattern based mask, '' in Proc. HSCMA2005, pp. d1-d2, Mar. 2005. [PDF]
  61. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency-domain blind source separation without array geometry information, '' in Proc. HSCMA2005, pp. d13-d14, Mar. 2005. [PDF]
  62. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Blind source separation and DOA estimation using small 3-D microphone array, '' in Proc. HSCMA2005 (Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays), pp. d9-d10, Mar. 2005. [PDF]
  63. S. Araki, S. Makino, H. Sawada, and R. Mukai, ''Reducing musical noise by a fine-shift overlap-add method applied to source separation using a time-frequency mask, '' in Proc. ICASSP2005, vol. III, pp. 81-84, Mar. 2005. [PDF]
  64. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Blind extraction of a dominant source signal from mixtures of many sources, '' in Proc. ICASSP2005, vol. III, pp. 61-64, Mar. 2005. [PDF]
  65. S. Douglas, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''A spatio-temporal FastICA algorithm for separating convolutive mixtures, '' in Proc. ICASSP2005, vol. V, pp. 165-168, Mar. 2005. [PDF]
  66. S. Winter, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Hierarchical clustering applied to overcomplete BSS for convolutive mixtures, '' in Proc. SAPA2004 (ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing), S1.3, Oct. 2004. [PDF]
  67. S. Araki, S. Makino, H. Sawada, and R. Mukai, ''Underdetermined blind separation of convolutive mixtures of speech with directivity pattern based mask and ICA, '' in Proc. ICA2004, pp. 898-905, Sept. 2004. [PDF]
  68. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency domain blind source separation for many speech signals, '' in Proc. ICA2004, pp. 461-469, Sept. 2004. [PDF]
  69. H. Sawada, S. Winter, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Estimating the number of sources for frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Proc. ICA2004, pp. 610-617, Sept. 2004. [PDF]
  70. S. Winter, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Overcomplete BSS for convolutive mixtures based on hierarchical clustering, '' in Proc. ICA2004, pp. 652-660, Sept. 2004. [PDF]
  71. S. Douglas, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''On coefficient delay in natural gradient blind deconvolution and source separation algorithms, '' in Proc. ICA2004, pp. 634-642, Sept. 2004. [PDF]
  72. S. Araki, S. Makino, H. Sawada, and R. Mukai, ''Underdetermined blind speech separation with directivity pattern based continuous mask and ICA, '' in Proc. EUSIPCO2004, pp. 1991-1994, Sept. 2004. [PDF]
  73. S. Araki, S. Makino, A. Blin, R. Mukai, and H. Sawada, ''Underdetermined blind separation for speech in real environments with sparseness and ICA, '' Invited in Proc. ICASSP2004, vol. III, pp. 881-884, May 2004. [PDF]
  74. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Convolutive blind source separation for more than two sources in the frequency domain, '' Invited in Proc. ICASSP2004, vol. III, pp. 885-888, May 2004. [PDF]
  75. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Near-field frequency domain blind source separation for convolutive mixtures, '' in Proc. ICASSP2004, vol. IV, pp. 49-52, May 2004. [PDF]
  76. A. Blin, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''A sparseness-mixing matrix estimation (SMME) solving the underdetermined BSS for convolutive mixtures, '' in Proc. ICASSP2004, vol. IV, pp. 85- 88, May 2004. [PDF]
  77. S. Douglas, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Natural gradient multichannel blind deconvolution and source separation using causal FIR filters, '' in Proc. ICASSP2004, vol. V, pp. 477-480, May 2004. [PDF]
  78. S. Makino, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and H. Sawada, ''Audio source separation based on independent component analysis, '' Invited in Proc. ISCAS2004 (International Symposium on Circuits and Systems), vol. V, pp. 668-671, May 2004. [PDF]
  79. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency domain blind source separation using small and large spacing sensor pairs, '' in Proc. ISCAS2004, vol. V, pp. 1-4, May 2004. [PDF]
  80. S. Araki, S. Makino, A. Blin, R. Mukai, and H. Sawada, ''Underdetermined blind separation of convolutive mixtures of speech by combining time-frequency masks and ICA, '' in Proc. ICA2004 (International Congress on Acoustics), vol. I, pp. 321-324, Apr. 2004. [PDF]
  81. A. Blin, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined blind source separation for convolutive mixtures exploiting a sparseness-mixing matrix estimation (SMME), '' in Proc. ICA2004 (International Congress on Acoustics), vol. IV, pp. 3139-3142, Apr. 2004. [PDF]
  82. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Solving the permutation and circularity problems of frequency-domain blind source separation, '' Invited in Proc. ICA2004 (International Congress on Acoustics), vol. I, pp. 89-92, Apr. 2004. [PDF]
  83. S. Douglas, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''A causal frequency-domain implementation of a natural gradient multichannel blind deconvolution and source separation algorithm, '' Invited in Proc. ICA2004 (International Congress on Acoustics), vol. I, pp. 85-88, Apr. 2004. [PDF]
  84. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''A solution for the permutation problem in frequency domain BSS using near- and far-field models, '' in Proc. ICA2004 (International Congress on Acoustics), vol. IV, pp. 3135-3138, Apr. 2004. [PDF]
  85. S. de la Kethulle, R. Mukai, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Algorithmic complexity based blind source separation for convolutive speech mixtures, '' in Proc. ICA2004 (International Congress on Acoustics), vol. IV, pp. 3127-3130, Apr. 2004. [PDF]
  86. S. Araki, S. Makino, H. Sawada, A. Blin, and R. Mukai, ''Underdetermined blind separation of convolutive mixtures of speech with binary masks and ICA, '' in Proc. NIPS2003 Workshop on ICA: Sparse Representations in Signal Processing, S2.7, Dec. 2003.
  87. S. Douglas, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Natural gradient blind deconvolution and equalization using causal FIR filters, '' in Proc. Asilomar2003 (Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers), MP2-3, Nov. 2003. [PDF]
  88. S. Araki, S. Makino, A. Blin, R. Mukai, and H. Sawada, ''Blind separation of more speech than sensors with less distortion by combining sparseness and ICA, '' in Proc. IWAENC2003, pp. 271-274, Sept. 2003. [PDF] Award
  89. A. Blin, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Blind source separation when speech signals outnumber sensors using a sparseness-mixing matrix estimation (SMME), '' in Proc. IWAENC2003, pp. 211-214, Sept. 2003. [PDF]
  90. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. de la Kethulle, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Spectral smoothing for frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Proc. IWAENC2003, pp. 311-314, Sept. 2003. [PDF]
  91. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. de la Kethulle, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Array geometry arrangement for frequency domain blind source separation, '' in Proc. IWAENC2003, pp. 219-222, Sept. 2003. [PDF]
  92. S. Winter, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Geometrical understanding of the PCA subspace method for overdetermined blind source separation, '' in Proc. IWAENC2003, pp. 231-234, Sept. 2003. [PDF]
  93. S. de la Kethulle, R. Mukai, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Blind source separation for convolutive mixtures based on complexity minimization, '' in Proc. IWAENC2003, pp. 303-306, Sept. 2003. [PDF]
  94. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Direction of arrival estimation for multiple source signals using independent component analysis, '' in Proc. ISSPA2003 (International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications), pp. 411-414, July 2003. [PDF]
  95. S. Araki, S. Makino, R. Aichner, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Subband based blind source separation for convolutive mixtures of speech, '' in Proc. ICASSP2003, vol. V, pp. 509-512, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  96. M. Knaak, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Geometrically constraint ICA for convolutive mixtures of sound, '' in Proc. ICASSP2003, vol. II, pp. 725-728, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  97. S. Winter, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Geometrical understanding of the PCA subspace method for overdetermined blind source separation, '' in Proc. ICASSP2003, vol. II, pp. 769 -772, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  98. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, '' A robust approach to the permutation problem of frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Proc. ICASSP2003, vol. V, pp. 381-384, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  99. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Robust real-time blind source separation for moving speakers in a room, '' in Proc. ICASSP2003, vol. V, pp. 469-472, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  100. S. Araki, S. Makino, R. Aichner, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Subband based blind source separation with appropriate processing for each frequency band, '' in Proc. ICA2003, pp. 499-504, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  101. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''A robust and precise method for solving the permutation problem of frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Proc. ICA2003, pp. 505-510, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  102. T. Nishikawa, H. Saruwatari, K. Shikano, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Multistage ICA for blind source separation of real acoustic convolutive mixture, '' in Proc. ICA2003, pp. 523-528, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  103. S. Winter, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Geometrical interpretation of the PCA subspace method for overdetermined blind source separation, '' in Proc. ICA2003, pp. 775-780, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  104. M. Knaak, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Geometrically constrained ICA for robust separation of sound mixtures, '' in Proc. ICA2003, pp. 951-956, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  105. R. Mukai, H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Real-time blind source separation for moving speakers using blockwise ICA and residual crosstalk subtraction, '' in Proc. ICA2003, pp. 975-980, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  106. R. Aichner, H. Buchner, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''On-line time-domain blind source separation of nonstationary convolved signals, '' in Proc. ICA2003, pp. 987-992, Apr. 2003. [PDF]
  107. S. Makino, S. Araki, R. Mukai, H. Sawada, and H. Saruwatari, ''ICA-based blind source separation of sounds, '' in Proc. JCA2002 (China-Japan Joint Conference on Acoustics), pp. 83-86, Nov. 2002. [PDF]
  108. M. Miyoshi and S. Makino, ''Digital technologies for controlling room acoustics, '' in Proc. JCA2002 (China-Japan Joint Conference on Acoustics), pp. 19-24, Nov. 2002. [PDF]
  109. S. Araki, S. Makino, R. Aichner, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Blind source separation for convolutive mixtures of speech using subband processing, '' in Proc. SMMSP2002 (International Workshop on Spectral Methods and Multirate Signal Processing), pp. 195-202, Sept. 2002. [PDF]
  110. R. Mukai, S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Removal of residual cross-talk components in blind source separation using LMS filters, '' in Proc. NNSP2002, pp. 435-444, Sept. 2002. [PDF]
  111. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Blind source separation with different sensor spacing and filter length for each frequency range, '' in Proc. NNSP2002, pp. 465-474, Sept. 2002. [PDF]
  112. R. Aichner, S. Araki, S. Makino, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Time domain blind source separation of non-stationary convolved signals by utilizing geometric beamforming, '' in Proc. NNSP2002 (IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing), pp. 445-454, Sept. 2002. [PDF]
  113. S. Araki, S. Makino, R. Mukai, Y. Hinamoto, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Equivalence between frequency domain blind source separation and frequency domain adaptive beamforming, '' in Proc. ICASSP2002, vol. II, pp. 1785-1788, May 2002. [PDF]
  114. R. Mukai, S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Removal of residual cross-talk components in blind source separation using time-delayed spectral subtraction, '' in Proc. ICASSP2002, vol. II, pp. 1789-1792, May 2002. [PDF]
  115. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Polar coordinate based nonlinear function for frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Proc. ICASSP2002, vol. I, pp. 1001-1004, May 2002. [PDF]
  116. S. Emura, Y. Haneda, and S. Makino, ''Enhanced frequency-domain adaptive algorithm for stereo echo cancellation, '' in Proc. ICASSP2002, vol. II, pp. 1901-1904, May 2002. [PDF]
  117. Y. Hinamoto, T. Nishikawa, H. Saruwatari, S. Araki, S. Makino, and R. Mukai, ''Equivalence between frequency domain blind source separation and adaptive beamforming, '' in Proc. ICFS2002 (International Conference of Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences), pp. 13-18, Mar. 2002.
  118. S. Araki, S. Makino, R. Mukai, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Fundamental limitation of frequency domain blind source separation for convolved mixture of speech, '' in Proc. ICA2001 (International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation), pp. 132-137, Dec. 2001. [PDF]
  119. R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Separation and dereverberation performance of frequency domain blind source separation, '' in Proc. ICA2001, pp. 230-235, Dec. 2001. [PDF]
  120. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''A polar-coordinate based activation function for frequency domain blind source separation, '' in Proc. ICA2001, p. 663-668, Dec. 2001. [PDF]
  121. R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Separation and dereverberation performance of frequency domain blind source separation in a reverberant environment, '' in Proc. IWAENC2001, pp. 127-130, Sept. 2001. [PDF]
  122. S. Emura, Y. Haneda, and S. Makino, '' Adaptive filtering algorithm enhancing decorrelated additive signals for stereo echo cancellation, '' in Proc. IWAENC2001, pp. 67-70, Sept. 2001. [PDF]
  123. S. Araki, S. Makino, R. Mukai, and H. Saruwatari, ''Equivalence between frequency domain blind source separation and frequency domain adaptive null beamformers, '' in Proc. Eurospeech2001, pp. 2595-2598, Sept. 2001. [PDF]
  124. R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Separation and dereverberation performance of frequency domain blind source separation for speech in a reverberant environment, '' in Proc. Eurospeech2001 (European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology), pp. 2599-2602, Sept. 2001. [PDF]
  125. S. Araki, S. Makino, R. Mukai, and H. Saruwatari, ''Equivalence between frequency domain blind source separation and frequency domain adaptive beamformers, '' in Proc. CRAC (A workshop on Consistent and Reliable acoustic cues for sound analysis), S2.4, Sept. 2001. [PDF]
  126. S. Araki, S. Makino, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Fundamental limitation of frequency domain blind source separation for convolutive mixture of speech, '' in Proc. ICASSP2001, pp. 2737-2740, May 2001. [PDF]
  127. S. Araki, S. Makino, T. Nishikawa, and H. Saruwatari, ''Limitation of frequency domain blind source separation for convolutive mixture of speech, '' in Proc. HSC2001 (International Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication), pp. 91-94, Apr. 2001. [PDF]
  128. A. Nakagawa, S. Shimauchi, Y. Haneda, S. Aoki, and S. Makino, ''Channel-number-compressed multi-channel acoustic echo canceller for high-presence teleconferencing system with large display, '' in Proc. ICASSP2000, pp. 813-816, June 2000. [PDF]
  129. S. Makino and S. Shimauchi, ''Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation - an overview and recent solutions -, '' in Proc IWAENC99, pp. 12-19, Sept. 1999. [PDF]
  130. S. Shimauchi, A. Nakagawa, Y. Haneda, and S. Makino, ''Hybrid of acoustic echo cancellers and voice switching control for multi-channel applications, '' in Proc. IWAENC99, pp. 48-51, Sept. 1999. [PDF]
  131. A. Nakagawa, S. Shimauchi, S. Aoki, S. Makino, and Y. Kaneda, ''A study of multi-microphone system for hands-free teleconferencing units, '' in Proc. IWAENC99, pp. 104-107, Sept. 1999. [PDF]
  132. S. Shimauchi, S. Makino, Y. Haneda, A. Nakagawa, and S. Sakauchi, ''A stereo echo canceller implemented using a stereo shaker and a duo-filter control system, '' in Proc. ICASSP99, pp. 857-860, Mar. 1999. [PDF]
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  134. S. Sakauchi, Y. Haneda, and S. Makino, ''Subjective assessment of echo return loss required for subband acoustic echo cancellers, '' in Proc. IWAENC97, pp. 152-155, Sept. 1997. [PDF]
  135. A. Nakagawa, Y. Haneda, and S. Makino, ''Subband acoustic echo canceller using two different analysis filters and 8th order projection algorithm, '' in Proc. IWAENC97, pp. 140-143, Sept. 1997. [PDF]
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<International Patents>

  1. H. Sawada, S. Araki, R. Mukai, and S. Makino, ''Device for blind source separation, '' US Patent, European Patent, Chinese Patent, PCT/JP2006/302092, filing, Feb. 2006.
  2. S. Araki, H. Sawada, S. Makino, and R. Mukai, ''Device for blind source separation, '' US Patent, European Patent, Chinese Patent, PCT/JP2004/12629, filing, Sept. 2004.
  3. H. Sawada, R. Mukai, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Apparatus, method and program for estimation of positional information on signal sources, '' US Patent, European Patent, Chinese Patent, PCT/JP2004/002610, filing, Mar. 2004.
  4. S. Makino, S. Shimauchi, Y. Haneda, A. Nakagawa, and J. Kojima, ''Subband echo cancellation method for multichannel audio teleconference and echo canceller using the same, '' US Patent 6,246,760, June 12, 2001.
  5. K. Kikuchi, S. Shimauchi, Y. Haneda, S. Makino, and J. Kojima, ''Foreground/background echo canceller, '' US Patent Appl. 08/847,044, Nov. 1998.
  6. Y. Haneda, S. Makino, A. Nakagawa, S. Shimauchi, and J. Kojima, ''Subband acoustic echo canceller, '' US Patent 5,721,772, Feb. 24, 1998, European Patent 0,769,867,B1, July 7, 2004, German Patent DE,696,32,851,T2, June 30, 2005.
  7. S. Shimauchi, S. Makino, and J. Kojima, ''Method and apparatus for multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation, '' US Patent 5,761,318, June 2, 1998, Canadian Patent 2,186,416, Apr. 18, 2000.
  8. A. Nakagawa, Y. Haneda, S. Makino, S. Shimauchi, and J. Kojima, ''Subband acoustic echo canceller, '' US Patent 5,774,561, June 30, 1998, Canadian Patent 2,183,118, Sept. 7, 1999.
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  12. M. Tanaka, Y. Kaneda, S. Makino, Y. Haneda, and J. Kojima, ''Adaptive transfer function estimating method and estimating device using the same, '' US patent 5,602,765, Feb. 11, 1997, Canadian Patent 2,128,666, Sept. 5, 2000.
  13. S. Makino and Y. Kaneda, ''Echo cancelling method and echo canceller using the same, '' US Patent 5,408,530, Apr. 18, 1995.
  14. Y. Haneda, S. Makino, and Y. Kaneda, ''Acoustic transfer function simulating method and simulator using the same, '' US Patent 5,187,692, Feb. 16, 1993.
  15. S. Makino, Y. Haneda, and Y. Kaneda, ''Subband echo canceller with adjustable coefficients using a series of step sizes, '' US Patent 5,272,695, Dec. 21, 1993.


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