Prof. Rainer Martin
AUDIS coordinator
Institute of Communication Acoustics
room ID 2-233
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Bochum, Germany
 mailto:rainer.martin@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
web:  http://www.rub.de/ika
phone: +49 234 32-22495


Biography

Prof. Rainer Martin received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees from RWTH Aachen University of Technology, in 1988 and 1995, respectively, and the MSEE degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1989. From 1995 to 2002 he has been a Senior Research Engineer with the Institute of Communication Systems and Data Processing, Aachen University of Technology. From April 1998 to March 1999 he was on leave to the AT\&T Speech and Image Processing Services Research Lab, Florham Park, N.J. From April 2002 until October 2003 he was a professor of Digital Signal Processing at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. Since October 2003 he has been a professor of Information Technology and Communication Acoustics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

His research interests are signal processing for voice communication systems, hearing aids, and human-machine interfaces. He has worked on algorithms for noise reduction, acoustic echo cancellation, microphone arrays, speech quality assessment, and speech recognition. The results of his research work were published in numerous scientific papers and have led to nine German, European, and US patents. Rainer Martin has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing and is subproject leader and member of the board in the FP6 IP HEARCOM. He is a reviewer for all major international journals and conferences related to speech, audio and signal processing. He is coauthor with P. Vary of Digital Speech Transmission - Enhancement, Coding and Error Concealment (Wiley, 2006) and coeditor with U. Heute and C. Antweiler of Advances in Digital Speech Transmission (Wiley, 2008).

Selected Publications

  • Martin, R. (2001). "Noise Power Spectral Density Estimation Based on Optimal Smoothing and Minimum Statistics", IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 9, No. 5, July 2001, pp. 504-512.
  • Martin, R. (2001). "Small Microphone Arrays with Postfilters for Noise and Acoustic Echo Reduction", in: Microphone Arrays (M. Brandstein and D. Ward eds.), Springer-Verlag.
  • Martin, R., Breithaupt,C. (2003). “Speech Enhancement in the DFT Domain Using Laplacian Speech Priors”, Proc. Int. Workshop Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), 2003, pp.87-90.
  • Martin, R., Malah, D., Cox, R.V., Accardi, A.J. (2004). "A Noise Reduction Preprocessor for Mobile Voice Communication", J. of Advances in Signal Processing, No.8, pp. 1046-1058.
  • Martin, R. (2005). "Statistical Methods for the Enhancement of Noisy Speech", in Speech Enhancement, J. Benesty et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag.
  • Martin, R. (2005). "Speech Enhancement Based on Minimum Square Error Estimation and Supergaussian Priors", IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 13, No.5, pp. 845 – 856.
  • Vary, P.; Martin, R. (2006). Digital Speech Transmission - Enhancement, Coding and Error Concealment, John Wiley.
  • Hendriks, R.C.; Martin R. (2007). "MAP Estimators for Speech Enhancement Under Normal and Rayleigh Inverse Gaussian Distributions", IEEE Trans. on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, Vol. 15, no 3, pp. 918-927.
  • Breithaupt, C.; Gerkmann, T.; Martin, R. (2007): "Cepstral Smoothing of Spectral Filter Gains for Speech Enhancement without Musical Noise," IEEE Signal Proc. Letters, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 1036 – 1039.
  • Gerkmann, T, Breithaupt, C., Martin, R. (2008). "Improved A Posteriori Speech Presence Probability Estimation Based on a Likelihood Ratio With Fixed Priors", IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 910 - 919 .
  • Madhu, N., Breithaupt, C., Martin, R. (2008). "Temporal Smoothing of Spectral Masks in the Cepstral Domain for Speech Separation", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , Las Vegas.
  • Martin, R., Heute, U., Antweiler, C. (eds., 2008). Advances in Digital Speech Transmission, John Wiley.
  • Breithaupt, C., Krawczyk, M., Martin, R. (2008). "Parameterized MMSE Spectral Magnitude Estimation for the Enhancement of Noisy Speech", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas.