Shigeki MIYABE, Ph.D.

Research Interests

• Blind Source Separation

• Speech Enhancement

• Spatial Audio

• Signal Processing for Electroencephalogram

Publications

Journal Papers

• Yuuki Fujihara, Yu takahashi, Kentaro Tachibana, Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Akira Tanaka, ``Real-time blind source extraction with learning period detection based on closed-form second-order ICA and kurtosis,'' IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (Japanese Edition), vol.J92-A, no.5, pp.314--326, 2009 (in Japanese).
• Yuki Yai, Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Yosuke Tatekura, ``Rapid compensation of temperature fluctuation effect for multichannel sound field reproduction system,'' IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol.E91-A, no.6, pp.1329--1336, 2008.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Yoichi Hinamoto, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Yosuke Tatekura, ``Interface for barge-in free spoken dialogue system based on sound field reproduction and microphone array,'' EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol.2007, Article ID 57470, 13 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/57470
• Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Yosuke Tatekura, ``Interface for barge-in free spoken dialogue system using nullspace based sound field control and beamforming,'' IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol.E89-A, no.3, pp.716--726, 2006.

Conference Proceedings

• Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Miyabe, ``Auxiliary-function-based Independent Component Analysis for Super-Gaussian Sources,'' Proc. International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA), pp.165-172, September 2010.
• Keisuke Hasegawa, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Miyabe, Shigeki Sagayama, ``Blind Estimation of Locations and Time Offsets for Distributed Recording Devices,'' Proc. International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA), pp.57-64, September 2010.
• Jun Wu, Yu Kitano, Stanislaw Andrzej Raczynski, Shigeki Miyabe, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, ``Musical Instrumental Identification Based on Harmonic Temporal Timbre Features,'' Proc. Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (SAPA), pp.7-12, September 2010.
• Takuma Ono, Shigeki Miyabe, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, ``Blind Source Separation with Distributed Microphone Pairs Using Permutation Correction by Intra-pair TDOA Clustering,'' Proc. 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), August 2010.
• Halfdan Rump, Shigeki Miyabe, Emiru Tsunoo, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, ``Autoregressive MFCC Models for Genre Classification Improved by Harmonic-percussion Separation,'' Proc. International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010), pp.87-92, August 2010.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Keisuke Masatoki, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Toshiyuki Nomura, ``Temporal quantization of spatial information using directional clustering for multichannel audio coding,'' Proc. 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA2009), pp.261--264, October 2009.
• Francesco Nesta, Ted Wada, Shigeki Miyabe, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, ``On the non-uniqueness problem and the semi-blind source separation,'' Proc. 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA2009), pp.101-104, October 2009.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Kernel-based nonlinear independent component analysis for underdetermined blind source separation,'' Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2009), pp.1641--1644, April, 2009.
• Jason Wung, Shigeki Miyabe, Biing-Hwang Juang, ``Speech enhancement using minimum mean-square error estimation and a post-filter derived from vector quantization of clean speech,'' Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2009), pp.3657--3660, April, 2009.
• Yu Takahashi, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Yuki Fujihara, Kentaro Tachibana, Yoshimitsu Mori, Shigeki Miyabe, Kiyohiro Shikano, Akira Tanaka, ``Source adaptive blind signal extraction using closed-form ICA for hands-free robot spoken dialogue system,'' Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2009), pp.3681--3684, April, 2009.
• Keisuke Masatoki, Shigeki Miyabe, Yu Takahashi, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Toshiyuki Nomura, ``Timing optimization of filter replacement in compressive coding for stereo audio signals using independent component analysis,'' Proc. International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'08), pp.510--513, October 2008.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Analytical solution of nonlinear microphone array based on complementary beamforming,'' Proc. International Workshop for Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC'08), September 2008 (#9084 in Online Proceedings or CD-ROM).
• Ted S. Wada, Shigeki Miyabe, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, ``Use of decorrelation procedure for source and echo suppression,'' Proc. International Workshop for Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC'08), September 2008 (#9086 in Online Proceedings or CD-ROM).
• Yuuki Fujihara, Yu Takahashi, Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Akira Tanaka, ``Performance improvement of higher-order ICA using lerning period detection based on closed-form second-order ICA and kurtosis,'' Proc. International Workshop for Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC'08), September 2008 (#9077 in Online Proceedings or CD-ROM).
• Yuuki Haraguchi, Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Toshiyuki Nomura, ``Source-oriented localization control of stereo audio signals based on blind source separation,'' Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2008), pp.177--180, April 2008.
• Yuuta Yuyama, Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Hybrid structure of inverse filtering and DOA-parameterized wavefront synthesis,'' Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2008), pp.401--404, April 2008.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Tadashi Mihashi, Tomoya Takatani, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Toshiyuki Nomura, ``Compressive coding of stereo audio signals extracting sparseness among sound sources with independent component analysis,'' Proc. 2007 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA2007), pp.331--334, October 2007.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Tomoya Takatani, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Yosuke Tatekura, ``Barge-in- and Noise-Free Spoken Dialogue Interface Based on Sound Field Control and Semi-Blind Source Separation,'' Proc. 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2007), pp.232--236, September 2007.
• Yoshimitsu Mori, Keiichi Osako, Shigeki Miyabe, Yu Takahashi, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, ``MLSP 2007 data analysis competition: Two-stage blind source separation combining SIMO-model-based ICA and binary masking,'' Proc. 2007 IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP2007), pp.51--56, August 2007 (invited paper).
• Kentaro Tachibana, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Yoshimitsu Mori, Shigeki Miyabe, Kiyohiro Shikano, Akira Tanaka, ``Efficient blind source separation combining closed-form second-order ICA and nonclosed-form higher-order ICA,'' Proc. 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2007), vol. 1, pp.45--48, April 2007.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Masayuki Shimada, Tomoya Takatani, Hiroshi Saruwatari, and Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Multi-Channel Inverse Filtering with Loudspeaker Selection and Enhancement for Robust Sound Field Reproduction,'' Proc. 10th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC2006), September 2006 (CD-ROM).
• Hiroshi Saruwatari, Masayuki Shimada, Shigeki Miyabe, Tomoya Takatani, and Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Robust sound field reproduction using multi-channel inverse filtering with secondary source selection and enhancement,'' Proc. 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (WESPAC IX 2006), 2006 (invited paper).
• Shigeki Miyabe, Tomoya Takatani, Yoshimitsu Mori, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Yosuke Tatekura, ``Double-talk free spoken dialogue interface combining sound field control with semi-blind source separation,'' Proc. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006), vol.I, pp.809--812, May 2006.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Yosuke Tatekura, ``Barge-in free spoken dialogue interface using nullspace-based sound field control and beamforming,'' Proc. 13th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2005), September 2005 (CD-ROM).
• Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Yosuke Tatekura, ``Nullspace-based sound field control for barge-in-free spoken dialogue interface,'' Proc. the 33th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (InterNoise 2005), August 2005 (CD-ROM).
• Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Yosuke Tatekura, ``Speech enhancement using nullspace-based sound field control for barge-in free spoken dialogue interface,'' Proc. the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP '05), #447, July 2005 (CD-ROM).
• Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, and Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Barge-in free spoken dialogue interface based on response sound cancellation using sound field control and microphone array,'' Proc. Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA2005), pp.a-7--a-8, March 2005.
• Tatsunori Asai, Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, and Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Interface for barge-in free spoken dialogue system using adaptive sound field control,'' Proc. 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP2004), FrA1502p-9, vol.IV, pp.2665--2668, October 2004.

Domestic Workshops (English Papers Only)

• Yuuki Haraguchi, Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Toshiyuki Nomura, ``Evaluation of Sound-Localization Control of Audio Objects Based on Blind Source Separation,'' IEICE Technical Rport, EA2007-56, vol.107, no.240, pp. 7--12, Sep. 2007.
• Masayuki Shimada, Shigeki Miyabe, Tomoya Takatani, Hiroshi Saruwatari, and Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Subjective evaluation of multi-channel inverse filter with secondary source selection and enhancement,'' IEICE Technical report, no.EA2006-4, pp.19--24, April 2006.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Tomoya Takatani, Yoshimitsu Mori, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, and Yosuke Tatekura, ``Spoken dialogue interface using sound field control and source separation,'' IEICE Technical report, no.EA2006-5, pp.25--30, April 2006.
• Shigeki Miyabe, Hiroshi Saruwatari, and Kiyohiro Shikano, ``Speech recognition using barge-in free spoken dialogue interfacebased on multi-channel sound field control,'' IEICE Technical report, no.EA2004-117, pp.1--6, January 2005.

Contact

Multimedia Laboratory
Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance
University of Tsukuba
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