
Seminar Program
- The First Seminar of A3 Foresight Program "Ultra-realistic Acoustic Interactive Communication on Next-generation Internet"
December 1-3, 2011, Beijing, China






The first seminar to kich-off this project was held with the following program.
The main purpose of this seminar was to introduce the three teams each other for future collaborations.
Date: December 1-3, 2011
Seminar Venue: Beijing Jade Palace Hotel, Beijing, China
December 1 (Thursday)
09:30-10:00 Opening ceremony
10:00-10:10 Taking photo
Session 1 chairpersons: Qiang Fu & Junfeng Li
10:10-10:40 Yôiti Suzuki(Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Overview of the Advanced Acoustic Information Systems Laboratory, Tohoku University
10:40-11:10 Masato Akagi (JAIST, Japan)
Overview of the Acoustic Information Processing Laboratory, JAIST
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Nam Soo Kim& Kyogu Lee (SNU, Korea)
Overview of the Human Interface Laboratory, the Applied Acoustics Laboratory& the Music and Audio Research Laboratory, SNU
Session 2 chairpersons: Yahui Hu& Shuichi Sakamoto
13:30-14:00 Yonghong Yan (IACAS, China)
Overview of the Key Laboratory of Speech Acoustics and Content Understanding, IACAS
14:00-14:30 Xiang Xie(BIT, China)
Overview of the Research Institute of Communication Technology, BIT
14:30-15:30 Hee-Suk Pang (Sejong Univ., Korea)
Spatial Audio Coding Technology - MPEG Surround and SAOC
15:30-16:00 Yukio Iwaya (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Acoustic systems for high-definition sound space with numerous microphone and loudspeakers in Tohoku University
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
Session 3 chairpersons: Jing Wang & Hee-Suk Pang
16:30-17:00 Junfeng Li (IACAS, China)
On the role of reverberation in sound field analysis and synthesis
17:00-17:30 Takuma Okamoto (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Editable 3D sound field system based on the decomposition of sound field information using microphone array signal processing
17:30-18:00 Dongwen Ying (IACAS, China)
Noise estimation and sound source localization
December 2 (Friday)
Session 4 chairpersons: Qiang Fu & Yukio Iwaya
09:00-09:30 Masashi Unoki (JAIST, Japan)
Effects of spatial cues on detectability of alarm signals In noisy environments
09:30-10:00 Yanmeng Guo (IACAS, China)
A two-microphone based voice activity detection for distant-talking speech in wide range of direction of arrival
10:00-10:30 Jeong-Hun Seo(SNU, Korea)
Computation model of ILD distortion based on the biological process for the objective quality evaluation of multichannel audio codecs
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Jorge Trevino (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Presenting Ambisonic recordings over extended regions using irregular loudspeaker arrays
11:30-12:00 Qingqing Zhang (IACAS, China)
State-based Bilingual Model Modification for Nonnative Speech Recognition
12:00-12:30 Yang Li (IACS, China)
High efficient transport mechanism in content centric network
14:30-17:30 PI meeting
December 3 (Saturday)
Session 5 chairpersons: Dongwen Ying &Masashi Unoki
08:40-09:20 Ji Xu (IACAS, China)
Korean LVCSR using Long Temporal Information
09:00-09:20 Juan Li (IACAS, China)
Synthesis of perceived distance in wave field synthesis
09:20-09:40 Ho-Seok Wey (SNU, Korea)
On the perceptual enhancement of wideband audio signal transmission: An application of Multiple Description Coding
09:40-10:00 Kai Li (IACAS, China)
Two-microphone noise reduction using spatial information-based spectral amplitude estimation
10:00-10:20 ChauDuc Thanh (JAIST, Japan)
Toward an intelligent binaural speech enhancement system by integrating meaningful signal extraction
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
Session 6 chairpersons: Yanmeng Guo & Kyogu Lee
10:40-11:00 Hoon Heo(SNU, Korea)
Development of multiband dynamic range compressor regarding noise characteristics
11:00-11:20 Xuan Ji(BIT, China)
Introduction of ITU-T G.719 low complexity full band audio codec for high-quality conversational applications
11:20-11:40 Myoung woo Nam(SNU, Korea)
Analyzing String Instrument Formant: in case of violin & cello
11:40-12:00 Zihong Wang (IACAS, China)
Network virtualization in Future network research
12:00-12:20 Closing ceremony