CURRICULUM VITA
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`Richard M. Stern, Jr.
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`Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
`Carnegie Mellon University
`Pittsburgh, PA 15213
`Phone: (412) 268-2535
`FAX: (412) 268-3890
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`513 Emerson Street
`Pittsburgh, PA 15206
`Cell phone: (412) 916-7386
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`www.ece.cmu.edu/~rms
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`Email: rms@cs.cmu.edu
`Citizenship: U.S.A.
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`PROFESSIONAL
`INTERESTS
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`EDUCATION
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`Ph.D. (1977)
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`M.S. (1972)
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`S.B. (1970)
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`EXPERIENCE
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`1995 - present
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`1988 - present
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`Automatic speech recognition, auditory perception, acoustics,
`signal processing, biomedical instrumentation
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`Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
`Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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`Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
`University of California, Berkeley, CA
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`Electrical Engineering
`Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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`Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
`Carnegie Mellon University.
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`Associate Professor and Professor by Courtesy, Language
`Technologies Institute, Computer Science Department, Biomedical
`Engineering Department
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`2009 - present
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`Lecturer, School of Music
`Carnegie Mellon University
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`1995 - 2003
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`1982 - 1995
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`1985
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`1977 - 1982
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`Associate Director of the Information Networking Institute
`Carnegie Mellon University
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`Associate Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
`Carnegie Mellon University
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`Visiting Professor in Speech and Communication Sciences, Nippon
`Telegraph and Telephone Electrical Communications Laboratory,
`Tokyo, Japan
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`Assistant Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
`Carnegie Mellon University
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`1979 - 1981
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`1973 - 1976
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`Adjunct Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
`University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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`Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Electrical
`Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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`PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (partial listing)
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`Distinguished Lecturer, International Speech Communication Association, 2008-2009.
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`General Chair, INTERSPEECH International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
`September, 2006.
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`Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Under-
`standing, December 2005.
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`Technical Program Chair, 141st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2002.
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`General Chair, DARPA Spoken Language Technologies Workshop, March, 1994.
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`Publications Chair, ARPA Spoken Language Technology and Applications Day, April, 1993.
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`Publications Chair, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acous-
`tics, October, 1993.
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`Chair, standing DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop Organizing Committee, 1991 -
`1992.
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`Secretary, ARPA Spoken Language Coordinating Committee, 1990 - 1995.
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`General Chair, DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, June, 1990.
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`International Advisory Board, International Speech Communication Association, 2006 - present.
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`International Advisory Board, Center for Speech and Language Technologies, Tsinghua Univer-
`sity, Beijing, China, 2007 - 2010.
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`Chair, Selection Committee for IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing Award,
`2006 - 2008.
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`IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Audio and Electroacoustics, 1991 -
`1995.
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`IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Speech, 1993 - 1997.
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`Editorial board, Journal of Computer Speech and Language, 1994 - present.
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`Editorial board, Free Speech Journal, 1996 - 1998.
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`Ongoing collaborative research in binaural hearing with the Department of Otolaryngology at the
`University of Connecticut Medical School, Farmington, CT.
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`Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Acoustical Society of America,
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`International Speech Communication Association, Association for Research in Otolaryngology,
`Audio Engineering Society
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`Reviewer for National Science Foundation, International Speech Communication Association,
`IEEE, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., Hearing Research, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE
`Transactions on Speech and Language, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
`and Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery.
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`HONORS AND AWARDS
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`Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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`Fellow, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
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`Fellow, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
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`Distinguished Lecturer of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008 to 2009
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`Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Com-
`puter Science, 1992
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`Lutron Award for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and
`Computer Engineering, 2018
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`IEEE Student Branch Award for Teacher of the Year, Carnegie Mellon University Department of
`Electrical Engineering, 1979
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`PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
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`Papers in Archival Journals
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`STERN, R. M., COLBURN, H. S., BERNSTEIN, L. R., AND TRAHIOTIS, C. (2019). “The fMRI
`data of Thompson et al. (2006) do not constrain how the human midbrain represents interaural
`time delay,” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology 20:305-311.
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`DIETZ, M., LESTANG, J.-H., MAJDAK, P., STERN, R. M., MARQUARDT, T., EWERT, S. D.,
`HARTMANN, W. M., and GOODMAN, D. F. M. (2017). “A Framework for Testing and Comparing
`Binaural Models,” Hearing Research 360:92-106.
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`DE LA CALLE SILOS, F., and STERN, R. M. (2017). “Synchrony-based feature extraction for
`robust automatic speech recognition,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters 24:1158-1162.
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`FREDES, J., NOVOA, J., KING, S., STERN, R. M., and BECERRA YOMA, N. (2017). “Locally-
`normalized filter banks applied to deep neural network-based robust speech recognition,” IEEE
`Signal Processing Letters 24:377-381.
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`KIM, C., and STERN, R. M. (2016). “Power-normalized cepstral coefficients (PNCC) for robust
`speech recognition,” IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 24:1315-1329.
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`CHO, B. J., KWON,H. Cho, J.-W., KIM, C., STERN, R. M. and PARK, H.-M. (2016). “A subband-
`based stationary-component suppression method using harmonics and power ratio for reverber-
`ant speech recognition, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 23:780-784.
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`ROMIGH, G. D., BRUNGART, D. S., STERN, R. M., and SIMPSON, B. D. (2015). “Efficient real
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`spherical harmonic representation of head-related transfer functions,” IEEE Journal of Selected
`Topics in Signal Processing, 9: 921-930, August 2015.
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`POBLETE, V., ESPIC, F., KING, S., STERN, R. M., HUENEPAN, F., and BECERRA YOMA, N.
`(2015). “A perceptually-motivated low-complexity channel normalization technique applied to
`speaker verification.” Computer Speech and Language, 311-27, 2015.
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`POBLETE, V., BECERRA YOMA, N., and STERN, R. M. (2014). “Optimizing the parameters
`characterizing sigmoidal rate-level functions based on acoustic features,” Speech Communica-
`tion, 56:19-34, January 2014.
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`HERMANSKY, H., COHEN, J. R., and STERN, R. M. (2013). “Perceptual properties of current
`speech recognition technology,” Proc. IEEE 101:1968-1985, September 2013.
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`STERN, R. M., and MORGAN, N. (2012). “Hearing is believing: biologically-inspred methods for
`robust speech recognition,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 29:34-43, November, 2012.
`CHIU, Y.-H. B., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (2012). “Learning-based auditory encoding for
`robust speech recognition,” IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 20:900-
`914, March 2012.
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`KIM, W., and STERN, R. M. (2011). “Mask classification for missing-feature reconstruction for
`robust speech recognition,” Speech Communication, 53:1-11, January 2011.
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`PARK, H.-M., and STERN, R. M. (2009). “Spatial Separation of Speech Signals using Continuo-
`sly-Variable Weighting Factors Estimated from Comparisons of Zero Crossings, Speech Com-
`munication Journal, 51(1):15-25, January 2009.
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`SELTZER, M. L., and STERN, R. M. (2006). “Subband Likelihood-Maximizing Beamforming for
`Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments,” IEEE Transactions of Speech, Language,
`and Audio Processing 14(6): 2109-2121, November 2006.
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`RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (2005). “Missing-Feature Methods for Robust Automatic Speech
`Recognition,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, September 2005.
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`KIM, N. S., LIM, W., and STERN, R. M. (2005). “Feature compensation based on switching lin-
`ear dynamic model,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 12(6): 473-476.
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`SELTZER, M. L., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (2004). “Likelihood-Maximizing Beamforming for
`Robust Hands-Free Speech Recognition,” IEEE Transactions of Speech and Audio Processing,
`12(5): 489-498, September 2004.
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`OBUCHI, Y., HATAOKA, N., and STERN, R. M. (2004), “Normalization of Time-Derivative
`Parameters for Robust Speech Recognition in Small Devices,” IEICE Trans. on Information and
`Systems, 87-D(4): 1004:1011, April 2004.
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`RAJ, B., SELTZER, M. L., and STERN, R. M. (2004), “Reconstruction of Missing Features for
`Robust Speech Recognition,” Speech Communication Journal, 43(4): 275-296, September
`2004.
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`SELTZER, M. L., RAJ, B,, and STERN, R. M. (2004). “A Bayesian Framework for Spectro-
`graphic Mask Estimation for Missing Feature Speech Recognition,” Speech Communication
`Journal, 43(4): 379-393, September 2004.
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`SINGH, R., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (2001), “Automatic Generation of Sub-Word Units for
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`Speech Recognition Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Proc. 10(2):89-99.
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`HUERTA, J. M., and STERN, R. M. (2001). “Distortion-Class Modeling for Robust Speech Rec-
`ognition under GSM RPE-LTP Coding,” Speech Communication Journal, 34:213-225 (invited
`paper).
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`MORENO, P. J., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (1998). “Data-Driven Environmental Compensation
`for Speech Recognition: A Unified Approach,” Speech Communication Journal, 24: 267-85.
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`STERN, R. M., and SHEAR, G. D. (1996a) “Lateralization and Detection of Low- Frequency Bin-
`aural Stimuli: Effects of Distribution of Internal Delay,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 100: 2278-2288.
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`STERN, R. M., and SHEAR, G. D. (1996b) “Lateralization and Detection of Low- Frequency Bin-
`aural Stimuli: Specification of the Extended Position-Variable Model,” Physics Auxiliary Publica-
`tion Service, AIP document E-JASMA-100-2278- 0.175MB via http://www.aip.org/epaps/
`epaps.html.
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`TRAHIOTIS, C., and STERN, R. M. (1994) “Across-Frequency Interaction in Lateralization of
`Complex Binaural Stimuli,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 96: 3804- 3806 (L).
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`STERN, R. M., ZEPPENFELD, T., and SHEAR, G. D. (1991). “Lateralization of Rectangularly-
`Modulated Noise: An Explanation for Counterintuitive Reversals,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 90:
`1901-1907.
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`COAST, D. A., STERN, R. M., CANO, G. G., and BRILLER, S. A. (1990). “An Approach to Car-
`diac Arrhythmia Analysis Using Hidden Markov Models,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 37: 826-
`836.
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`TRAHIOTIS, C., and STERN, R. M. (1989). “Lateralization of Bands of Noise: Effects of Band-
`width and Differences of Interaural Time and Phase,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 86: 1285-1293.
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`RUDNICKY, A. I., and STERN, R.M. (1989). “Spoken Language Research at Carnegie Mellon,”
`Speech Technology Magazine 4: 38-43.
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`STERN, R. M., ZEIBERG, A. S., and TRAHIOTIS, C. (1988). “Lateralization of Complex Binaural
`Stimuli: A Weighted Image Model,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 84, 156-165.
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`STERN, R. M., and LASRY, M. J. (1987). “Dynamic Speaker Adaptation for Feature-Based Iso-
`lated Letter Recognition,” IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 35: 751-
`763.
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`STERN, R. M., and COLBURN, H. S. (1985). “Lateral-Position Models of Interaural Discrimina-
`tion,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 77: 753-755.
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`STERN, R. M., and COLBURN, H. S. (1985). “Subjective Lateral Position and Interaural Dis-
`crimination,” Physics Auxiliary Publication Service, AIP document no. PAPS JASMA-77-753-29.
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`LASRY, M. J., and STERN, R. M. (1984). “A Posteriori Estimation of Correlated Jointly Gauss-
`ian Mean Vectors,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Anal. and Mach. Intel. 6: 530-535.
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`CROWLEY, J. L., and STERN, R. M., Jr. (1984). “Fast Computation of the Difference of Low
`Pass (DOLP) Transform,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 6:
`212-222.
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`STERN, R. M., Jr., SLOCUM, J. E., and PHILLIPS, M. S. (1983). “Interaural Time and Amplitude
`Discrimination in Noise”, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 73:1714-1722.
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`YOST, W. A., GRANTHAM, D. W., LUFTI, R. A., and STERN, R. M., Jr. (1982). “The Phase
`Angle of Addition in Temporal Masking for Diotic and Dichotic Listening Conditions,” Hearing
`Res. 7: 247-259.
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`MURTI, K. G., STERN, R. M., CANTEKIN, E. I. and BLUESTONE, C. D. (1982). “Classification
`of Spectral Patterns Obtained from Eustacian Tube Sonometry,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 29:
`473-477.
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`MURTI, K. G., STERN, R. M., Jr., CANTEKIN, E. I. and BLUESTONE, C. D. (1980). “Sonometric
`Evaluation of Eustachian Tube Function Using Broadband Stimuli”, Annals of Otology, Rhinol-
`ogy, and Laryngology, (Suppl. 68) 89, 178-189.
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`RUOTOLO, B. R., STERN, R. M., Jr., and COLBURN, H. S. (1979). “Discrimination of Symmet-
`ric, Time- Intensity Traded Binaural Stimuli,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 66: 1733-1737.
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`STERN, R. M., Jr. and COLBURN, H. S. (1978). “Theory of Binaural Interaction Based on Audi-
`tory-Nerve Data. IV. A Model for Subjective Lateral Position,” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 64: 127-
`140.
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`Critically-Reviewed Books, Book Chapters, and Theses
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`STERN, R. M. and MENON, A. (2019). “Binaural Technology for Machine Speech Recognition
`and Understanding,” Chapter in The Technology of Binaural Understanding, J. Blauert and J.
`Braasch, Eds., Springer Nature.
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`MITRA, V., FRANCO, H., STERN, R. M., VAN HOUT, J., FERRER, L.,GRACIARENA, M.,
`WANG, W., VERGYRI, D., ALWAN, A., and HANSEN, J.H.L. (2017). “Robust features in Deep
`Learning based Speech Recognition,” Chapter in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition:
`Exploiting Deep Learning, S. Watanabe, M. Delcroix, F.Metze, & J. R. Hershey (eds.), pp. 165-
`196, Springer International Publishing.
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`STERN, R. M. and MORGAN, N. (2013). “Features Based on Auditory Physiology and Percep-
`tion,” Chapter in Noise-Robust Techniques for Automatic Speech Recognition, T. Virtanen, R.
`Singh, and B. Raj, Eds., Wiley Press.
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`STERN, R. M., WANG, D., and BROWN, G. (2006). “Binaural Sound Localization,” Chapter in
`Computational Auditory Scene Analysis: Principles, Algorithms and Applications, D. Wang and
`G. Brown, Eds., Wiley and IEEE Press.
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`STERN, R. M., TRAHIOTIS, C., and RIPEPI, A. M. (2006). “Fluctuations in Amplitude and Fre-
`quency Enable Interaural Delays to Foster the Identification of Speech-like Stimuli,” Chapter in
`Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception, P. Divenyi, Ed., IOS Press.
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`TRAHIOTIS, C., BERNSTEIN, L. R., STERN, R. M., and BUELL, T. N. (2005). “Interaural Corre-
`lation as the Basis of a Working Model of Binaural Processing: An Introduction,” Chapter in
`Springer Handbook of Auditory Research: Sound Source Localization, R. Fay and T. Popper,
`Eds., Springer-Verlag.
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`STERN, R. M. (2004). “Signal Separation Motivated by Human Auditory Perception: Applica-
`tions to Automatic Speech Recognition,” Chapter in Speech Separation by Humans and
`Machines, P. Divenyi, Ed., Springer-Verlag.
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`SINGH, R., STERN, R. M., and RAJ, B. (2002). “Signal and Feature Compensation Methods for
`Robust Speech Recognition,” Chapter in CRC Handbook on Noise Reduction in Speech Appli-
`cations, Gillian Davis, Ed., Boca Raton: CRC Press.
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`SINGH, R., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (2002). “Model Compensation and Matched Condition
`Methods for Robust Speech Recognition,” Chapter in CRC Handbook on Noise Reduction in
`Speech Applications, Gillian Davis, Ed., Boca Raton: CRC Press.
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`STERN, R. M., ACERO, A., LIU, F.-H., and OHSHIMA, Y. (1996). “Signal Processing for Robust
`Speech Recognition,” Invited chapter in Speech Recognition, pp. 351-378, C.-H. Lee and F.
`Soong, Eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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`STERN, R. M., and TRAHIOTIS, C. (1996). “Models of Binaural Perception,” Invited chapter in
`Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments, pp. 499-531, R. Gilkey and T. R.
`Anderson, Eds. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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`STERN, R. M. (1995). “Robust Speech Recognition,” Invited chapter in Survey on the State of
`the Art in Speech and Natural Language Processing, R. A. Cole et al., Ed.
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`STERN, R. M., and TRAHIOTIS, C. (1995). “Models of Binaural Interaction,” Invited chapter in
`Handbook of Perception and Cognition, Volume 6: Hearing, pp. 347-386, B. C. J. Moore., Ed.
`New York: Academic Press.
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`STERN, R. M., Jr. (1976b). Lateralization, Discrimination, and Detection of Binaural Pure
`Tones, Ph.D. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, MIT, December, 1976.
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`Invited Conference Presentations
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`STERN, R. M. (2017). “Predicting Binaural Lateralization, Interaural Discrimination, and Binau-
`ral Detection Using the Position-Variable Model,” invited talk at the Macquarie University ARC
`Laureate Workshop: Creating a Sense of Auditory Space, October 2017, Sydney, Australia.
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`STERN, R. M, KIM, C., MOGHIMI, A.R., and MENON, A. (2016). “Binaural technology and auto-
`matic speech recognition,” invited talk at the International Congress on Acoustics, September
`2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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`STERN, R. M. (2016). “Applying Models of Auditory Processing to Automatic Speech Recogni-
`tion: Progress and Promise,” invited keynote talk at the 2015 Meeting of the Information Pro-
`cessing Sociaty of Japan: Special Interest Group in Spoken Language Processing, Toyama,
`Japan, February, 2016.
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`STERN, R. M. (2014). “Applying Models of Auditory Processing to Automatic Speech Recogni-
`tion: Progress and Promise,” invited talk at the Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop on Mean-
`ing Representations in Language and Speech Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, July, 2014.
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`STERN, R. M. (2014). “Robust Automatic Speech Recognition in the 21st Century,” invited key-
`note talk at the 2014 AFEKA Conference for Speech Processing, Tel Aviv, Israel, July, 2014.
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`STERN, R. M. (2014). “Applying Models of Auditory Processing to Automatic Speech Recogni-
`tion: Promise and Progress,” International Symposium on Speech Recognition, University of
`Zaragoza, Spain, May, 2014.
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`STERN, R. M. (2011). “Applying Physiologically-Motivated Models of Auditory Processing to
`Automatic Speech Recognition,” invited talk at the Third International Symposium on Auditory
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`and Audiological Research, Nyborg, Denmark, August, 2011.
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`STERN, R. M. (2010). “The impact of the distribution of internal delays in binaural models on
`predictions for psychoacoustical data,” invited talk at the 161th Meeting of the Acoustical Soci-
`ety of America, Cancun, Mexico, November, 2010.
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`STERN, R. M. (2009). “New Directions in Robust Speech Recognition: What We Can Learn from
`Auditory Models,” invited keynote address at the Symposium on Frontiers of Research in
`Speech and Music, Gwalior, India, December, 2009.
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`STERN, R. M. (2009). “New Directions in Robust Automatic Speech Recognition,” invited key-
`note address at the Workshop on Image and Speech Processing, Hyderabad, India, December,
`2009.
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`STERN, R. M. (2008). “Applying Physiologically-Motivated Models of Auditory Processing to
`Automatic Speech Recognition: Promises, Progress, and Problems,” Invited keynote address at
`the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition, Brisbane,
`Australia, September, 2008.
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`STERN, R. M, GOUVEA, E., KIM, C., KUMAR, K., and PARK, H.-M. (2008). “Binaural and Multi-
`ple-Microphone Processing for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition,” Invited keynote address
`at the IEEE Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Trento,
`Italy, May, 2008.
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`STERN, R. M. (2004). “Signal Processing for Sound Separation and Robust Representation,”
`Invited keynote address at AFOSR/NSF Symposium on Speech Separation and Comprehension
`in Complex Acoustic Environments, Montreal, Quebec, November 2004.
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`STERN, R. M. (2003). “Signal Separation Motivated by Auditory Processing: Applications to
`Speech Recognition,” invited review talk at the NSF Symposium on Signal Separation, Mon-
`treal, Quebec, November, 2003.
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`STERN, R. M. (2003). “Signal Processing for Robust Recognition,” invited talk at the NAIST
`International Center of Excellence Symposium, Nara, Japan, March, 2003.
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`STERN, R. M. (2002). “Using Computational Models of Binaural Hearing to Improve Automatic
`Speech Recognition Accuracy: Promise, Progress, and Problems,” AFOSR Workshop on Com-
`putational Audition, Columbus, Ohio, August, 2002.
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`STERN, R. M. (2000). “Robust Signal Representations for Automatic Speech Recognition,”
`Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications Workshop on the Mathematical Foundations of
`Speech Processing and Recognition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September, 2000.
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`STERN, R. M. (2000). “The Language of Music,” invited keynote talk presented at the Third
`International Symposium on Text, Speech, and Dialog, Brno, Czech Republic, September, 2000.
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`STERN, R. M. (2000). “Tendencias Actuales en el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Hablado y Siste-
`mas Conversacionales (Current Trends in Spoken Language Processing and Conversational
`Systems)”, invited keynote talk at the XV Simposium Internacional de Electrónica y Comuni-
`cación, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Mexico, February, 2000.
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`STERN, R. M. (1999). “Tendencias Actuales en el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Hablado y Siste-
`mas Conversacionales (Current Trends in Spoken Language Processing and Conversational
`Systems)”, invited keynote talk at the XXIV Simposium Internacional de Sistemas Computacio-
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`nales, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, March,
`1999.
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`STERN, R. M., and TRAHIOTIS, C. (1997). “Binaural Mechanisms that Emphasize Consistent
`Interaural Timing Information over Frequency,” invited keynote talk in Psychophysical and Phys-
`iological Advances in Hearing, Proceedings of the XI International Symposium on Hearing,
`August, 1997, Grantham, United Kingdom. A. R. Palmer, A. Rees, A. Q. Summerfield, and R.
`Meddis, Eds., Whurr Publishers, London, 1998.
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`STERN, R. M., RAJ, B., and MORENO, P. J. (1997). “Compensation for Environmental Degra-
`dation in Automatic Speech Recognition,” invited keynote talk presented at the Proc. of the
`ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Robust Speech Recognition for Unknown Communi-
`cation Channels, April, 1997, Pont-au-Mousson, France, pp. 33-42.
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`STERN, R. M. (1996). “The Current State of the Art of in Speech Recognition (Estado-da-Arte
`em Reconhecimento de Voz),” invited keynote talk presented at VOICETECH’96, the First Bra-
`zilian Workshop in Automatic Speech Recognition Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil, September,
`1996.
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`STERN, R. M. (1996). “New Directions in Spoken Language Processing,” invited talk at the Sec-
`ond Joint NSF/CONACyT Workshop on Bilateral Collaboration, Jalapa, Mexico, March, 1996.
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`STERN, R. M. (1996). “Tendencias Actuales en el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Hablado (Cur-
`rent Trends in Spoken Language Processing)”, invited talk at the Universidad Veracruzana,
`Jalapa, Mexico, March, 1996.
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`STERN, R. M., and SULLIVAN, T. M. (1996). “Robust Speech Recognition Using Signal Pro-
`cessing Based On Binaural Perception,” invited talk presented at the First Forum Acusticum,
`Antwerp, Belgium, April, 1996.
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`STERN, R. M., MORENO, P.J., and RAJ, B. (1996). “Compensation for Speech Recognition in
`Degraded Acoustical Environments,” invited talk at the 132th meeting of the Acoustical Society
`of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, December, 1996.
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`STERN, R. M. (1995). “Nuevos Enfoques en Procesamiento de Lenguaje Hablado (New Direc-
`tions in Spoken Language Processing),” invited talk at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
`Barcelona, Spain, September, 1995.
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`STERN, R. M. (1995). “New Directions in Spoken Language Processing,” invited talk presented
`at the Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo Laboratory Symposium on Spoken Language Pro-
`cessing, Madrid, Spain, September 1995.
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`STERN, R. M. (1995). “Automatic Speech Recognition using Signal Processing based on Audi-
`tory Physiology and Perception,” invited paper presented at the 129th meeting of the Acoustical
`Society of America, Washington, D.C., June, 1995.
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`MORENO, P. J., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (1995). “Approaches to Environmment Compensa-
`tion in Automatic Speech Recognition,” invited paper presented at the 15th International Confer-
`ence on Acoustics, Trondheim, Norway, Vol. III, pp. 109-112, June, 1995.
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`STERN, R. M., and SULLIVAN, T. M. (1994). “Robust Speech Recognition Based on Human
`Binaural Perception,” invited paper presented at the ATR workshop on A Biological Framework
`for Speech Perception and Production, Kansai Science City, September, 1994. Reprinted in
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`ATR technical report TR-H-121: Proceedings of the ATR workshop on A Biological Framework
`for Speech Perception and Production, 122 pages, (1995).
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`STERN, R. M. LIU, F.-H., SULLIVAN, T. M., MORENO, P. J., and ACERO, A. (1994). “Multiple
`Approaches to Robust Speech Recognition,” invited keynote paper at the Fifth Western Pacific
`Regional Acoustical Conference, Seoul, Korea, August, 1994.
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`STERN, R. M. (1993). “Models of Binaural Interaction,” invited keynote paper at the AFOSR
`Conference on Binaural and Spatial Hearing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, September,
`1993.
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`STERN, R. M. (1993). “Psychoacoustical Basis of Machine Speech Recognition,” invited talk at
`the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February,
`1993.
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`STERN, R. M. (1989). “Recent Progress in Spoken-Language Systems,” invited lecture at the
`Second International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Monterrey, Mexico, October, 1989.
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`STERN, R. M. (1988). “Overview of Models of Binaural Perception,” invited review paper at the
`1988 National Research Council CHABA Symposium, Washington, D.C., October, 1988.
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`STERN, R. M. (1988). “Estado Actual de la Tecnología de Entradas/Salidas de Canales de Voz
`(Overview of Current Voice Input/Output Technologies),” invited keynote lecture at the XIII Sim-
`posium Internacional de Sistemas Computacionales, Monterrey, Mexico, March, 1988.
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`COLE, R. A., STERN, R. M., and LASRY, M. J. (1986). “Performing Fine Phonetic Distinctions:
`Templates vs. Features,” invited talk, reprinted in Invariance and Variability of Features in Spo-
`ken English Letters, J. Perkell et al., eds., Lawrence Erlbaum, New York.
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`Critically-Reviewed Conference Presentations
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`MENON, A., Kim, C., and STERN, R. M. (2019), “Robust recognition of reverberant and noisy
`speech using coherence-based processing,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
`Speech, and Signal Processing, May 2019, Brighton, United Kingdom.
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`XIA, Y. and STERN, R. M. (2018). A Priori SNR Estimation Based on a Recurrent Neural Net-
`work for Robust Speech Enhancement, Interspeech 2018, September 2018, Hyderabad, India.
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`MICHELSON, J., STERN, R. M., and SULLIVAN, T. M. (2018), “Automatic guitar tablature tran-
`scription from audio using inharmonicity regression and bayesian classification,” 145 th COnven-
`tion of the Audio Engineering Society, October 2018, New York City.
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`KIM, C., MENON, A., BACCHIANI, M., and STERN, R. M. (2018), “Source separation using
`phase difference and reliable mask selection,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
`Speech, and Signal Processing, April 2018, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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`MENON, A., KIM, C., KUROKAWA, U., and STERN, R. M. (2017), “Binaural Processing for
`Robust Recognition of Degraded Speech,” IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Under-
`standing Workshop, December 2017, Naha, Okinawa, Japan.
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`MENON, A., KIM, C., and STERN, R. M. “Robust Speech Recognition Based on Binaural Audi-
`tory Processing,” Interspeech 2017, September 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
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`NOVOA, J., WUTH, J., ESCUDERO, J. P., FREDES, J., MAHU, R., STERN, R. M., and
`BECERRA YOMA, N., “Robustness over time-varying channels in DNN-HMM ASR-Based
`human-robot interaction,” Interspeech 2017, September 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
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`FREDES, J., NOVOA, J., POBLETE, V., KING, S., STERN, R. M., and YOMA, N. B. (2015),
`“Robustness to additive noise of locally-normalized cepstral coefficients in speaker verification,”
`Interspeech 2015, September 2015, Dresden, Germany.
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`HARVILLA, M. H., and STERN, R. M. (2014). “Least squares declipping for robust speech rec-
`ognition,” Interspeech 2014, September 2014, Singapore.
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`MOGHIMI, A. R., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (2014), “Post-masking: A hybrid approach to array
`processing for speech recognition,” Interspeech 2014, September 2014, Singapore.
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`KIM, C., CHIN, K. K., BACCHIANI, M., and STERN, R. M. (2014), “Robust speech recognition
`using temporal masking and threshold algorithm,” Interspeech 2014, September 2014, Singa-
`pore.
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`PARK, H.-M., MACIEJEWSKI, M., KIM, C., and STERN, R. M. (2014). “Robust speech recogni-
`tion in reverberant environments using subband-based steady-state monaural and binaural sup-
`pression,” Interspeech 2014, September 2014, Singapore.
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`MOGHIMI, A. R.,and STERN, R. M. (2014), “An analysis of binaural spectro-temporal masking
`as nonlinear beamforming,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
`Processing, May 2014, Florence, Italy.
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`HARVILLA, M., and STERN, R. M. (2012). “Histogram-based subband power warping and spec-
`tral averaging for robust speech recognition under matched and multistyle training,” IEEE Inter-
`national Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 2012, Kyoto, Japan.
`
`KIM, C. and STERN, R. M. (2012). “Power-normalized cepstral coefficients (PNCC) for robust
`speech recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Process-
`ing, March 2012, Kyoto, Japan.
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`KIM, C., KHAWAND, C, and STERN, R. M. (2012). “Two-microphone source separation algo-
`rithm based on statistical modeling of angle distributions,” IEEE International Conference on
`Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 2012, Kyoto, Japan.
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`KIM, C., KUMAR, K., and STERN, R. M. (2011). “Binaural sound source separation motivated
`by auditory processing”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Pro-
`cessing, May 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
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`KUMAR, K., KIM, C., and STERN, R. M. (2011). “Delta-spectral cepstral coefficients for robust
`speech recognition, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Process-
`ing, May 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
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`KUMAR, K., RAJ, B., SINGH, R., and STERN, R. M. (2011).”An iterative least-squares techique
`for dereverberation,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Process-
`ing, May 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
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`KUMAR, K., SINGH, R., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (2011). “Gammatone sub-band magnitude-
`domain dereverberation, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Pro-
`cessing, May 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
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`KIM, C., STERN, EOM, K., and Lee, J. (2010). “Automatic selection of thresholds for signal sep-
`aration algorithms based on interaural delay,” Interspeech 2010, September 2010, Makuhari,
`Japan.
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`KIM, C., and STERN, R. M. (2010). “Nonlinear enhancement of onset for robust speech recogni-
`tion,” Interspeech 2010, September 2010, Makuhari, Japan.
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`AL BAWAB, Z., RAJ, B, and STERN, R. M. (2010). “A hybrid physical and statistical dynamic
`articulatory framework incorporating analysis-by-synthesis for improved phone classification,”
`IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 2010, Dal-
`las, Texas.
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`CHIU, Y.-H., RAJ, B., and STERN, R. M. (2010). “Learning Based Auditory Encoding For
`Robust Speech Recognition,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
`Processing, March 2010, Dallas, Texas.
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`KIM, C., and STERN, R. M. (2010). “Feature Extraction For Robust Speech Recognition Based
`On Maximizing The Sharpness Of The Power Distribution And On Power Flooring,” IEEE Inter-
`national Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 2010, Dallas, Texas.
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`KUMAR, K., and STERN, R. M. (2010). “Maximum-Likelihood-Based Cepstral Inverse Filtering
`For Blind Speech Dereverberation,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
`Signal Processing, March 2010, Dallas, Texas.
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`CHIU, Y.-H. B, and STERN, R. M. (2009). “Minimum variance m