Prof. Dr. Reinhold Häb-Umbach

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Prof. Dr. Reinhold Häb-Umbach

Communications Engineering / Heinz Nixdorf Institute

Head - Professor - Head of Department of Communications Engineering

Phone:
+49 5251 60-3626
Fax (External):
+49 5251 60-3627
E-mail:
Office:
P7.2.05.3
Office hours:

Wed. 16.00h -17.00h

Web:
Web (External):
Visitor:
Pohlweg 47-49
33098 Paderborn

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318

Member - Professor - Project Leader C06

Phone:
+49 5251 60-3626
E-mail (External):
Office:
P7.2.05.3
Web:
Web (External):
Visitor:
Pohlweg 47-49
33098 Paderborn
Research Interests

Statistical signal processing and machine learning for speech and audio applications

Prof. Dr. Reinhold Häb-Umbach
Miscellaneous
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.


TS-SEP: Joint Diarization and Separation Conditioned on Estimated Speaker Embeddings

C. Boeddeker, A.S. Subramanian, G. Wichern, R. Haeb-Umbach, J. Le Roux, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 32 (2024) 1185–1197.


Simultaneous Diarization and Separation of Meetings through the Integration of Statistical Mixture Models

T. Cord-Landwehr, C. Boeddeker, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.


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