ETSI Logo ETSI Workshop on Speech and Noise in Wideband Communication

 22nd & 23rd May 2007, at ETSI Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France
 

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 Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Registration Open 8:30

09:30 - 09:40

Workshop opening
  Welcoming speech
Jean-Yves Monfort - France Telecom

09:40 - 10:40

Keynote I: "WB Speech Telephony: from 1984 to 2007"
Karl Hellwig - Ericsson
Presentation

10:40 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Keynote II:"Quality Comparison of Wideband Coders Including Tandeming and Transcoding"
Catherine Quinquis - France Telecom
Presentation

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:15

Session I: Implementation
Chaired by Jan Holub - Mesaqin
 
Architecture for Dual Narrowband / Wideband Noise Reduction
M. Schönle - Siemens AG, Ch. Beaugeant Nokia Siemens Networks
Presentation

Wideband Speech Access by Wireless Pseudo Analogue-Digital Transmission
C. Hoelper, P. Vary - IND, RWTH Aachen University
Presentation

Systems for Improvement of the Communication in Passenger Compartments
T. Haulick - Harman/Becker Automotive Systems

Presentation

15:15 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:15

Session II: Wideband Coding, Enhancement Technologies
Chaired by Joachim Pomy - Avaya GmbH & Co. KG
 
End to End Wide Band Speech Quality Enhancements
G. Lecucq, M. Fadili, A. Moulehiawy - Alcatel-Lucent
Presentation

Estimation of Bandwidth Extension Parameters in ITU-T G.729.1
B. Geiser, P. Vary - IND, RWTH Aachen University
Presentation

MPEG Low Delay Audio Codecs
M. Lutzky - Fraunhofer IIS
Presentation
 

18:00

 Cocktail 
sponsored by Opticom GmbH

   
 Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Registration Day 2  8:30

09:00 - 10:50

 

Session III: New ETSI Model on Wideband Speech and Noise Transmission Quality
Phase I
Chaired by Vincent Barriac - France Telecom
 
Phase I, goals and Background
V. Barriac - France Telecom
Presentation

Initial Recordings (based on STF 273)
H. W. Gierlich and S. Poschen - Head Acoustics
Presentation

Noise Reduction
C. Marro - France Telecom
Presentation

IP transmission simulation
J. Aguiar - Universidad de Valladolid
I. Ordàs - Telefónica
Presentation

Subjective Test Plan
L. Gros - France Telecom
J. Holub - Mesaqin

Presentation

Phase I Results
V. Barriac - France Telecom
J. Holub - Mesaqin
Presentation
 

10:50 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:15

 

Session III: New ETSI Model on Wideband Speech and Noise Transmission Quality
Phase II

Chaired by Hans W. Gierlich - Head Acoustics

 


Algorithm Design and Results
S. Poschen, H. W. Gierlich, F. Kettler, J. Reimes - Head Acoustics
Presentation

Result Validation
J. Aguiar - Universidad de Valladolid
I. Ordàs - Telefónica
Presentation
 

12:15 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:15

Session IV: Quality Estimation and Prediction
Chaired by: tbd
 
Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment for Noise Reduced Speech
N. Kitawaki, T. Yamada - University of Tsukuba
Presentation

Dimension Analysis of Wideband-transmitted Speech
M. Wältermann, A. Raake, S. Möller - Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Presentation

Predicting Narrow-band and Wideband Speech Quality with WB-PESQ and TOSQA
N. Côté, V. Gautier-Turbin and S. Möller - France Télécom / Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Presentation
 

15:15 - 16:00

Discussion on Future Activities and Trends