Dr. Henning Puder

Siemens Audiological Engineering Group
Gebbertstrasse 125
Erlangen, Germany

 mailto:henning.puder@siemens.com
web:  http://www.siemens.com/hearing
phone: +49 9131 308 3527


Biography

Henning Puder was born in Bensheim, Germany in 1970. He received his diploma degrees in electrical engineering from Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany) and Grande Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, Paris (France) in 1997, respectively, and his Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Darmstadt University of Technology in 2003. From 1997 to 2002 he was member of the Signal Theory research group of Professor Hänsler at Darmstadt University of Technology with the focus on digital audio signal processing. Here, he was concerned with hands-free car phones, especially with procedures for echo and noise cancellation. The topic of his PhD. thesis was a model based noise reduction approach for hands-free car phones. His thesis was honored with the German ITG Johann-Philipp-Reis award in 2003, shared with Peter Jax from RWTH Aachen.

Since 2002, Henning Puder is with Siemens Audiology Group, Erlangen, Germany, where his main research area is within audio signal processing applications for hearing aids, such as noise reduction, beamforming, and feedback cancellation. In 2006 he took over the responsibility for the Signal Processing Group within the R&D department of the Siemens Audiology Group where he is currently responsible for a group of 15 people. Siemens Audiology Engineering Group as part of Siemens Healthcare is a leading manufacturer of hearing instruments worldwide with a dedication to hearing aids since 1878.

Selected Publications

Conferences

  • H. Puder: Benchmark of feedback cancellation systems: A fusion of various performance measures, Hearing aid developers forum, University of Oldenburg, 2007
  • H. Puder: Aufwandseffiziente Sprachverbesserungsverfahren für Hörgeräte, 7. ITG-Fachtagung Sprach-Kommunikation , Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, 2006
  • H. Puder: Challenges when integrating BSS methods in hearing aids, Hearing aid developers forum, University of Oldenburg, 2005
  • H. Puder and Bernd Beimel: Controlling the Adaptation of Feedback Cancellation Filters – Problem Analysis and Solution Approaches, In Proc. EUSIPCO-2004, 12th European Conference on Signal Processing, pp. 25-28, Vienna, Austria, 2004
  • V. Hamacher, E. Fischer and H. Puder, Temporal-envelope based related processing in advanced digital hearing aids, pp. 387-388, In Proc. CFA/DAGA-2004”, pp. 387-388, Strasbourg, France, 2004
  • H. Puder: Speech Enhancement for Hands-Free Car Phones by Adaptive Compensation of Harmonic Engine Noise Components, In “Proc. EUROSPEECH, 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology., pp. 1397-1400, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003
  • H. Puder: Evaluation of individual HRTFs measured with a 3-microphone array in a commercially available hearing aid in “Fifth International Workshop on Microphone Array Systems - Theory and Practice", Pommersfelden, Germany, 2003
  • H. Puder and O. Soffke: An Approach to an Optimized Voice-Activity Detector for Noisy Speech Signals, In Proc. EUSIPCO-2002, 11th European Conference on Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 243-246, Toulouse, France, 2002
  • H. Puder: Speech Enhancement with Kalman-Filters in Subbands, In Proc. 7th Int. Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, pp. 203-207, Darmstadt, Germany, 2001

Journals

  • H. Puder: Adaptive signal processing for interference cancellation in hearing aids, Signal Processing, Special Issue “Applied Speech and Audio Processing”, Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 6, pp. 1239 – 1253, June, 2006
  • V. Hamacher, J. Chalupper, J. Eggers, E. Fischer, U. Kornagel, H. Puder, and U. Rass: Signal Processing in High-End Hearing Aids: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Future Trends, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 18, 2005
  • H. Puder: Kalman-Filters in Subbands for Noise Reduction with Pitch-Adaptive Speech Model Estimation, European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT) vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 139 – 148, 2002
  • J. Leibrich and H. Puder: A TF distribution for disturbed and undisturbed speech signals and its application to noise reduction, Signal Processing, vol. 80, no. 9, pp. 1761 – 1776, September, 2000
  • A. Mader, H. Puder, and G.U. Schmidt: Step-size control for acoustic echo cancellation filters – an overview, Signal Processing, vol. 80, no. 9, pp. 1697 – 1719, September, 2000
  • C. Breining, P. Dreiseitel, E. Hänsler, A. Mader, B. Nitsch, H. Puder,

T. Schertler, G. Schmidt, and J. Tilp: Acoustic Echo Control, Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 42 – 69, 1999

Books / Book chapters

  • H. Puder: A Pre-Filter for Hands-Free Car Phone Noise Reduction: Suppression of Harmonic Engine Noise Components, in E. Hänsler, G. Schmidt (Edts.): Topics Acoustic Echo and Noise Control II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008
  • V. Hamacher, U. Kornagel, T. Lotter, H. Puder: Binaural Signal Processing in Hearing aids, in R. Martin et. al.: Advances in Digital Speech Transmission, 401 – 430, Wiley, 2008
  • H. Puder: Noise Reduction with Kalman-Filters for Hands-Free Car Phones Based on Parametric Spectral Speech and Noise Estimates, in E. Hänsler, G. Schmidt (Edts.): Topics Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, 599-636, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006
  • V. Hamacher, E. Fischer, U. Kornagel and H. Puder: Applications of Adaptive Signal Processing Methods in High-End Hearing Aids, in E. Hänsler, G. Schmidt (Edts.): Topics Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, 599-636, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006
  • H. Puder: Geräuschreduktionsverfahren mit modellbasierten Ansätzen für Freisprecheinrichtungen in Kraftfahrzeugen,Düsseldorf, Germany, Fortschritt-Berichte VDI-Reihe 10(721), VDI Verlag, 2003