Jahn Heymann, former doctoral student at the Department of Communications Engineering, will be awarded the prize of the VDE Northrhine-Westfalia (NRW) of the year 2022 for the best dissertation in the field of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. In his thesis with the title "Robust multi-channel speech recognition with neural network supported statistical beamforming" he had developed a novel beamforming technique, whereby the beamformer coefficients are determined with the help of time-frequency masks that are estimated by a neural network. This approach proved to be very successful, leading to top ranks in the international CHiME-3 and CHiME-4 challenges. For those who would like to have a closer look at his dissertation, please click HERE. Jahn will be awarded the prize in a ceremony at Heinz-Nixdorf-Institute (HNI), Paderborn, on Nov. 17, 2022.
Linkadresse zur Diss: https://digital.ub.uni-paderborn.de/hs/content/titleinfo/3545959
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