Publications | Innovation in Augmented Listening Technology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2025

(Paper) Austin Lu, Kanad Sarkar, Yongjie Zhuang, Leo Lin, Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Accelerating Audio Research with Robotic Dummy Heads,” arXiv, May 2025
(Paper) Austin Lu, Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Ryan M Corey, Paris Smaragdis, Andrew C Singer, “Denoising bandwidth extension via fusion of air and bone microphones,” Proceedings of Meetings of Acoustics, May 2025.

2024

(Poster) Austin Lu, Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Mechatronic Acoustic Generation and Interactive Collaboratorium”, Discovery Partners Institute, August 2024
(Poster) Stuti Bhatia, Abhi Kadiam, Austin Lu, “Pulley Driven Spider-Bot for Acoustic Datasets,” PURE Symposium, April 2024
(Poster) Leo Lin, Austin Lu, “Quiet motorized turrets for automated acoustic experiments,” PURE Symposium, April 2024
(Poster) Austin Lu, Yongjie Zhuang, Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Delay-constrained hearing aid speech enhancement using a wireless remote microphone,” Acoustic Society of America Meeting, March 2024

2023

(Poster) Manan Mittal, Yongjie Zhuang, Paris Smaragdis, Ryan Corey, Andrew Singer, “Estimating Virtual Microphones for Active Noise Control,” Speech and Audio in the Northeast, October 2023
(Demo) Austin Lu, Ethaniel Moore, Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Ryan M Corey, Andrew Singer, Paris Smaragdis, “Acoustic experiments with 3D printed heads,” IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), October 2023.
(Paper) Manan Mittal, Kanad Sarkar, Austin Lu, Ryan Corey, Andrew Singer, “Frame-by-frame mixture of beamformers for source separation,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 2023
(Paper) Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Immersive Enhancement and Removal of Loudspeaker Sound Using Wireless Assistive Listening Systems and Binaural Hearing Devices,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023. (PDF*)
(Talk) Arya Nallanthighall, Austin Lu, Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Andrew C Singer, “Mechanized acoustic panels for variable reverb control,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, May 2023.
(Talk) Xinran Yue, Arya Nallanthighall, Manan Mittal, Austin Lu, Kanad Sarkar, Ryan M Corey, Paris Smaragdis, Andrew C Singer, “3D-printed acoustic head simulators that talk and move,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, May 2023. (Blog Post)
(Poster) Austin Lu, Manan Mittal, Kanad Sarkar, Ryan M Corey, Paris Smaragdis, Andrew C Singer, “Bandwidth extension with air and body-conduction microphones for speech enhancement,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, May 2023. (Blog Post)
(Talk) Manan Mittal, Kanad Sarkar, Austin Lu, Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Source separation using bandlimited external microphones and a microphone array,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, May 2023.
(Talk) Kanad Sarkar, Jae Won Choi, Manan Mittal, Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Tracking array deformations using segmented least squares,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, May 2023.
(Poster) Ryan M Corey, “Multiple-source dynamic range compression in hearing devices: What can we learn from music mixing?” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, May 2023.
(Talk) Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Spatial sigma-delta modulation for coarsely quantized linear, circular, and spherical arrays,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, May 2023.

2022

(Paper) Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Ryan Corey, Andrew Singer, “Measuring and Exploiting the Locally Linear Mapping between Relative Transfer Functions and Array deformations,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA), December 2022 (Best Student Paper Award Winner)
(Talk) Manan Mittal, Kanad Sarkar, Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Group conversation enhancement using distributed microphone arrays with adaptive binauralization,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, December 2022.
(Talk) Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Ryan M Corey, Andrew C Singer, “Manifold learning for dynamic array geometries,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, December 2022.
(Talk) Austin Lu, Ethaniel Moore, Arya Nallanthighall, Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Ryan M Corey, Paris Smaragdis, Andrew C Singer, “Mechatronic acoustic research system for generating real large-scale dynamic datasets,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, December 2022.
(Abstract) Ryan M. Corey, Manan Mittal, and Andrew C. Singer, “Immersive conversation enhancement using binaural hearing aids and external microphone arrays,” International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), August 2022. (Blog Post)
(Abstract) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Group conversation enhancement using wireless microphones and the Tympan open-source hearing platform,” International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), August 2022. (Blog Post)
(Abstract) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Turn the music down! Repurposing assistive listening broadcast systems to remove nuisance sounds,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, May 2022. (Blog Post)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey, Manan Mittal, Kanad Sarkar, and Andrew C. Singer, “Cooperative speech separation with a microphone array and asynchronous wearable devices,” Interspeech, September 2022.
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey, Manan Mittal, Kanad Sarkar, and Andrew C. Singer, “Adaptive crosstalk cancellation and spatialization for dynamic group conversation enhancement using mobile and wearable devices,” International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2022. (Blog Post – PDF*)
(Demo) Austin Lu, Ethaniel Moore, Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Ryan M Corey, Paris Smaragdis, Andrew Singer, “Open-access robotic acoustic experiments using the MAGIC room,” International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2022.
(Paper) Austin Lu, Ethaniel Moore, Arya Nallanthighall, Kanad Sarkar, Manan Mittal, Ryan M. Corey, Paris Smaragdis, and Andrew C. Singer, “Mechatronic generation of datasets for acoustics research,” International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2022. (Blog Post)

2021

(Paper) Kanad Sarkar, Ryan M. Corey, and Andrew C. Singer, “Utilizing Time-of-Flight LIDARs For Spatial Audio Processing,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 2021.
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Adaptive binaural filtering for a multiple-talker listening system using remote and on-ear microphones,” IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), October 2021. (Blog Post – Video – PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “High/low model for scalable multimicrophone enhancement of speech mixtures,” European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), August 2021. (Video – PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Modeling the effects of dynamic range compression on signals in noise,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 150, no. 1, pp. 159-170, July 2021. (Best paper award – Blog Post – Video – PDF**)
(Abstract) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Immersive multitalker remote microphone system,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, December 2021. (Blog Post)
(Abstract) Kanad Sarkar, Ryan M. Corey, and Andrew C. Singer, “Spatial acoustic processing with a laser distance sensor using a Tympan device,” Acoustical Society of America Meeting, December 2021.

2020

(Paper) Ryan M. Corey, Uriah Jones, and Andrew C. Singer, “Acoustic effects of medical, cloth, and transparent face masks on speech signals,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 148, no. 4, pp. 2371-5, October 2020. (Blog Post – Video – PDF**)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey, Evan M. Widloski, David Null, Brian Ricconi, Mark Johnson, Karen White, Jennifer R. Amos, Alex Pagano, Michael Oelze, Rachel Switzky, Matthew B. Wheeler, Eliot Bethke, Clifford Shipley, and Andrew C. Singer, “Low-Complexity System and Algorithm for an Emergency Ventilator Sensor and Alarm,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1088-1096, October 2020. (Blog Post – Website – Video – PDF)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Binaural Audio Source Remixing with Microphone Array Listening Devices“, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2020. (Blog Post – Video – PDF*)

2019

(Paper) Ryan M. Corey, “Microphone Array Processing for Augmented Listening,” PhD Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 2020.
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey, Matthew D. Skarha, and Andrew C. Singer, “Cooperative audio source separation and enhancement using distributed microphone arrays and wearable devices“, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multisensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), December 2019. (Blog Post – Data Set – Demo – PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Motion-Tolerant Beamforming with Deformable Microphone Arrays“, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), October 2019. (Best paper award – Blog Post – Demo – PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey, Naoki Tsuda, and Andrew C. Singer, “Acoustic Impulse Responses for Wearable Audio Devices“, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2019. (Blog Post – Data Set – PDF*)

2018

(Paper) Ryan M. Corey, Naoki Tsuda, and Andrew C. Singer, “Delay-Performance Tradeoffs in Causal Microphone Array Processing“, International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2018. (PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Speech Separation Using Partially Asynchronous Microphone Arrays Without Resampling“, International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2018. (Demo – PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Relative Transfer Function Estimation From Speech Keywords“, International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA ICA), July 2018. (PDF – Related patent)

2017

(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Wideband Source Localization Using One-Bit Quantized Arrays”, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), December 2017. (PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Real-World Evaluation of Multichannel Audio Enhancement Using Acoustic Pilot Signals“, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, October 2017. (PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Underdetermined Methods for Multichannel Audio Enhancement With Partial Preservation of Background Sources“, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), October 2017. (PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Dynamic Range Compression for Noisy Mixtures Using Source Separation and Beamforming“, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), October 2017. (PDF*)

2016

(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Nonstationary Source Separation for Underdetermined Speech Mixtures“, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 2016. (PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “A Hypothesis Testing Framework for Real-Time Multichannel Speech Separation Using Time-Frequency Masks“, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), September 2016. (PDF*)
(Paper) Ryan M. Corey and Andrew C. Singer, “Spatial Sigma-Delta Signal Acquisition for Wideband Beamforming Arrays“, ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), March 2016. (PDF*)

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