Awards
Paper Awards
- Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) of the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC) for his paper "Neural directional filtering: Far-field directivity control with a small microphone array" by Julian Wechsler, Srikanth Ray Chetupalli, Mhd Modar Halimeh, Oliver Thiergart and Emanuël Habets, 2024.
- Best Paper Award of the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) for the paper "Pupillary Light Reflex Correction for Robust Pupillometry in Virtual Reality" by Marie Eckert, Thomas Robotham, Olli Rummukainen and Emanuël Habets, 2022.
- Best Student Paper Award of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) for the paper “Signal-dependent mixing for direction-preserving multichannel noise reduction” by Adrian Herzog and Emanuël Habets, 2021.
- Best Paper Award of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) for the paper "Dense reverberation with delay feedback matrices" by Sebastian Schlecht and Emanuël Habets, 2019.
- Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) for the paper "Optimized velvet-noise decorrelator", by Sebastian Schlecht and Benoit Alary, Vesa Välimäki and Emanuël Habets, 2018.
- Best Peer-Reviewed Paper Award of the AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality for the paper "Audio quality evaluation in virtual reality: Multiple stimulus ranking with behavior tracking", by Olli Rummukainen, Thomas Robotham, Axel Plinge, Sebastian Schlecht, Jürgen Herre and Emanuël Habets, 2018.
- Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) for the paper "Broadband DOA estimation using convolutional neural networks trained with noise signals", by Soumitro Chakrabarty and Emanuël Habets, 2017.
- Best Paper Award of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) for the paper "Blind microphone geometry calibration using one reverberant speech event" by Offer Schwartz, Axel Plinge, Emanuël Habets and Sharon Gannot, 2017.
- 2014 SPS Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award for the paper “Late reverberant spectral variance estimation based on a statistical model” by Emanuël Habets, Sharon Gannot and Israel Cohen, 2014.
- Best Student Paper Award of the ITG Conference on Speech Communication for the paper “A subspace-based perspective on spatial filtering performance with distributed and co-located microphone arrays” by Maja Taseska and Emanuël Habets, 2014.
- Best Student Paper Award of the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC) for the paper “Multichannel dereverberation for hearing aids with interaural coherence preservation” by Sebastian Braun, Matteo Torcoli, Daniel Marquardt, Emanuël Habets and Simon Doclo, 2014.
- Best Student Paper Award of the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC) for the paper “An acoustical zoom based on informed spatial filtering” by Oliver Thiergart, Konrad Kowalczyk and Emanuël Habets, 2014.
- Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) for the paper “Spotforming using distributed circular microphone arrays” by Maja Taseska and Emanuël Habets, 2013.
Thesis Awards
- Marie Eckert received the Fritz-und Maria-Hofmann-Preis for her M.Sc. Thesis "Compensation of Confounding Factors in Pupillometry in Virtual Reality for Cognitive Load Assessment", 2022.
- Maja Taseska received the 2022 EURASIP Best PhD Award, 2022.
- Oliver Thiergart received the 2019 EURASIP Best PhD Award, 2019.
- Maja Taseska received the 2018 doctoral thesis award from the Alumni Technische Fakultät Erlangen, 2018.
- Maja Taseska received the Luise Prell Award for her M.Sc. Thesis “Informed MMSE-based Spatial Filtering”, 2014.
Other Awards
- The "Speech Enhancement" lecture by Prof. Habets was rated as the 3rd best elective course of the Faculty of Engineering at the FAU, Winter Semester 2016/2017.