Prof. Dr. Reinhold Häb-Umbach

Communications Engineering / Heinz Nixdorf Institute
Head - Professor - Head of Department of Communications Engineering
Wed. 16.00h -17.00h
33098 Paderborn
Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318
Member - Professor - Project Leader C06
33098 Paderborn
- Research Interests
Statistical signal processing and machine learning for speech and audio applications

Miscellaneous |
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Since 04/2001 |
Full professor of Communications Engineering at University of Paderborn, Germany |
1990 - 2001 |
Research Staff Member at Philips Research Laboratories, Aachen, Germany |
02/2000 - 01/2001 |
Sabbatical at Philips Natuurkundig Laboartorium, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
1997 |
Appointment to Senior Scientist |
08/1988 - 11/1989 |
Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA |
1988 |
Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Dissertation: Carrier Phase Synchronization on Fading Channels |
1983 - 1988 |
Research Staff Member at Department of Control Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
1983 |
Dipl.-Ing. RWTH Aachen University Thesis: Open-Loop Phase Synchronization in a Digital Receiver |
1977 - 1983 |
Study of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University |
Since 04/2001 |
Full professor of Communications Engineering at University of Paderborn, Germany |
1990 - 2001 |
Research Staff Member at Philips Research Laboratories, Aachen, Germany |
02/2000 - 01/2001 |
Sabbatical at Philips Natuurkundig Laboartorium, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
1997 |
Appointment to Senior Scientist |
08/1988 - 11/1989 |
Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA |
1988 |
Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Dissertation: Carrier Phase Synchronization on Fading Channels |
1983 - 1988 |
Research Staff Member at Department of Control Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
1983 |
Dipl.-Ing. RWTH Aachen University Thesis: Open-Loop Phase Synchronization in a Digital Receiver |
1977 - 1983 |
Study of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University |
Publications
Latest Publications
Distilling Efficient Audio Models using Data Pruning with CLAP
A. Werning, R. Häb-Umbach, in: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA), Berlin, 2025 (Ed.), Proceedings of DAS|DAGA 2025, Copenhagen, 2025.
Speech Synthesis along Perceptual Voice Quality Dimensions
F. Rautenberg, M. Kuhlmann, F. Seebauer, J. Wiechmann, P. Wagner, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, 2025.
Diminishing Domain Mismatch for DNN-Based Acoustic Distance Estimation via Stochastic Room Reverberation Models
T. Gburrek, A. Meise, J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 2024 18th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), IEEE, 2024.
UPB-NT submission to DCASE24: Dataset pruning for targeted knowledge distillation
A. Werning, R. Haeb-Umbach, UPB-NT Submission to DCASE24: Dataset Pruning for Targeted Knowledge Distillation, 2024.
Target-Specific Dataset Pruning for Compression of Audio Tagging Models
A. Werning, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2024), 2024.
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