Publications

2025
  • Y. Mai and S. Goetze: MetricGAN+KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Metric-Driven Speech Enhancement Systems, Submitted to 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP25), Hyderabad, India, Apr. 2025. Download PDF

  • J. Clarke, Y. Gotoh, and S. Goetze: Improving Target Speaker Audiovisual Active Speaker Detection for Egocentric Recordings, Submitted to 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP25), Hyderabad, India, Apr. 2025.

  • Y. Xiao, H. Christensen, and S. Goetze: A Dual Approach: Alzheimer's Dementia Detection and Data Augmentation Using Paired Language Models, Submitted to 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP25), Hyderabad, India, Apr. 2025.

2024
  • W.-Z. Leung, M. Cross, A. Ragni, and S. Goetze: Training Data Augmentation for Dysarthric Automatic Speech Recognition by Text-to-Dysarthric-Speech Synthesis, Proc. Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1645, Sep. 2024. Download PDF

  • W. Ravenscroft, G.L. Close, T. Hain, S. Goetze, M. Soleymanpour, A. Chowdhury, M. Fuhs: Transcription-Free Fine-Tuning of Speech Separation Models for Noisy and Reverberant Multi-Speaker Automatic Speech Recognition, Proc. Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1264, Sep. 2024. Download PDF

  • G.L. Close, T. Hain, and S. Goetze: Hallucination in Perceptual Metric-Driven Speech Enhancement Networks, Proc. 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO24), Lyon, France, Aug. 2024. Download PDF

  • R. Sutherland, G. Close, T. Hain, S. Goetze, and J. Barker: Using Speech Foundational Models in Loss Functions for Hearing Aid Speech Enhancement, Proc. 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO24), Lyon, France, Aug. 2024. Download PDF

  • G.L. Close, W. Ravenscroft, T. Hain, and S. Goetze: Multi-CMGAN+/+: Leveraging Multi-Objective Speech Quality Metric Prediction for Speech Enhancement, Proc. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP24), Seoul, South Korea, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10448343, Apr. 2024. Download PDF

  • H. Yusufali, R.K. Moore, and S. Goetze: Refining Text Input for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices: Analysing Language Model Layers for Optimisation, Proc. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP24), Seoul, South Korea, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446094, Apr. 2024. Download PDF

  • R. Mogridge, G. Close, R. Sutherland, T. Hain, J. Barker, S. Goetze, and A. Ragni: Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing-Impaired Users using Intermediate ASR Features and Human Memory Models, Proc. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP24), Seoul, South Korea, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447597, Apr. 2024. Download PDF

  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze, and T. Hain: Combining Conformer and Dual-Path-Transformer Networks for Single Channel Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation, Proc. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP24), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447644, Seoul, South Korea, Apr. 2024.

  • S. Shishkin, D. Hollosi, S. Goetze, and S. Doclo: Active Learning for Sound Event Classification using Bayesian Neural Networks with Gaussian Variational Posterior, Proc. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP24), Seoul, South Korea, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446970, Apr. 2024.

2023
  • H. Zhang, T. Tang, T. Loakman, C. Lin, and S. Goetze: CADGE: Context-Aware Dialogue Generation Enhanced with Graph-Structured Knowledge Aggregation, Submitted to Knowledge-based Systems, 2023. Download PDF

  • J. Clarke, Y. Gotoh, and S. Goetze: Improving Audiovisual Active Speaker Detection in Egocentric Recordings with the Data-efficient Image Transformer, In Proc. Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, DOI: 10.1109/ASRU57964.2023.10389764, Dec. 2023. Download PDF

  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze, and T. Hain: On Time Domain Conformer Models for Monaural Speech Separation in Noisy Reverberant Acoustic Environments, In Proc. Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, DOI: 10.1109/ASRU57964.2023.10389669 Dec. 2023. Download PDF

  • G. Close, T. Hain and S. Goetze: Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing Impaired Individuals using Self-Supervised Speech Representations, In Proc. Workshop on Speech Foundation Models and their Performance Benchmarks, satellite event of Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2023. Download PDF

  • L. Hao, S.Goetze, T. Alessa, M. Hawley: Effectiveness of computer tailored health communication on physical activity promotion for people with or at risk of long-term conditions: systematic review and meta-analysis, In J Medical Internet Research (JMIR), vol. 5, DOI: 10.2196/46622, Oct. 2023.    
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      author = {Longdan Hao and Stefan Goetze and Tourkiah Alessa and Mark Hawley},
      howpublished = {Submitted to J. Medical Internet Research (JMIR)},
      note = {\url{https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/46622}},
      title = {Effectiveness of computer tailored health communication on physical activity promotion for people with or at risk of long-term conditions: systematic review and meta-analysis},
      year = {2023},
    }

  • G. Close, T. Hain and S. Goetze: The Effect of Spoken Language on Speech Enhancement using Self-Supervised Speech Representation Loss Functions, In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1109/WASPAA58266.2023.10248166, Oct. 2023. Download PDF

  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze, and T. Hain: On Data Sampling Strategies for Training Neural Network Speech Separation Models. In Proc. 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2023), Helsinki, Finland, DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289800, Sep. 2023. Download PDF

  • G. Close, W. Ravenscroft, T. Hain, and S. Goetze: The University of Sheffield CHiME-7 UDASE Challenge Speech Enhancement System In Proc. CHiME-2023 Workshop, Sattelite Workshop at Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 33-38, Aug. 2023. Download PDF

  • R. Mogridge, G. Close, R. Sutherland, S. Goetze, A. Ragni: Pre-Trained Intermediate ASR Features and Human Memory Simulation for Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction in the Clarity Prediction Challenge 2 In Proc. 4th Clarity Workshop on Machine Learning Challenges for Hearing Aids (Clarity-2023), Sattelite Workshop at Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 2023. Download PDF

  • L. Hao, S. Goetze, and M. Hawley: Message Recommendation Strategies for Tailoring Health Information to Promote Physical Activities. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J., Duffy, V.G., Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14055, Proc. 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-48041-6_36, Springer, pp. 536–555, 2023. Download PDF

  • H. Yusufali, S. Goetze and R.K. Moore: Bridging the Communication Rate Gap: Enhancing Text Input for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J., Duffy, V.G., Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14055, Proc. 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-48041-6_29, Springer, pp. 434–452, 2023. Download PDF

  • S. Ellis, S. Goetze and H. Christensen: Moving Towards Non-Binary Gender Identification Via Analysis of System Errors in Binary Gender Classification In Proc. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095997, Jun. 2023. Download PDF

  • G. Close, W. Ravenscroft, T. Hain and S. Goetze: Perceive and predict: self-supervised speech representation based loss functions for speech enhancement In Proc. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095666, Jun. 2023. Download PDF

  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze, and T. Hain: Deformable Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation In Proc. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095230, Jun. 2023. Download PDF

  • G. Close, T. Hain and S. Goetze: PAMGAN+/-: Improving Phase-Aware Speech Enhancement Performance via Expanded Discriminator Training In Proc. AES 154th Convention, Espoo, Helsinki, Finland, May 2023. Download PDF

  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze and T. Hain: Att-TasNet: Attending to Encodings in Time-Domain Audio Speech Separation of Noisy, Reverberant Speech Mixtures In Front. Signal Process, vol. 2, DOI: 10.3389/frsip.2022.856968, May. 2022. Download PDF

  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze, and T. Hain: Utterance Weighted Multi-Dilation Temporal Convolution Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation In Proc. International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement IWAENC 2022, Bamberg, Germany, DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC53105.2022.9914752, Sep. 2022. Download PDF

  • G.L. Close, S. Hollands, T. Hain, and S. Goetze: Non-intrusive Speech Intelligibility Estimated By Metric Prediction for Hearing Impaired Individuals for the Clarity Prediction Challenge 1 In Proc. Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10182, Sep. 2022. Download PDF

  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze, and T. Hain: Receptive Field Analysis of Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation In Proc. 30th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2022, Belgrade, Serbia, DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO55093.2022.9909855, Aug. 2022. Download PDF

  • G. L. Close, T. Hain, and S. Goetze: MetricGAN+/-: Increasing Robustness of Noise Reduction on Unseen Data In Proc. 30th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2022, Belgrade, Serbia, DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO55093.2022.9909682, Aug. 2022. Download PDF

  • S. Shishkin, D. Hollosi, S.Doclo, and S. Goetze: Active Learning for Sound Event Classification using Monte-Carlo Dropout and PANN Embeddings In Proc. 6th Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, DCASE 2021, Barcelona, Spain (Online), Nov. 2021. Download PDF

  • R. Huber, H. Baumgartner, S. Goetze, and J. Rennies-Hochmuth: ASR-Based, Single-Ended Modeling of Listening Effort – A Tool for TV Sound Engineers In Proc. Forum Acusticum (FA2020), Lyon, France (Online), DOI: 10.48465/fa.2020.0317 Dec. 2020. Download PDF

  • B. Cauchi, K. Siedenburg, J.F. Santos, T.H. Falk, S. Doclo and S. Goetze: Non-intrusive speech quality prediction using modulation energies and LSTM-network In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 1151 – 1163, DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2019.2912123, Jul. 2019. Download PDF

  • M. Meis, J.-H. Bach, A. Becker, K. Bilda, A. Erem, T. Feith, S. Goetze, J. Jürs, A. Radeloff, L. Tuschen, B. Tschuschke:
    Context and user requirement analyses of a new digital speech therapy system (THERESIAH)
    In Proc. Conf. on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis (CIAP), Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, p. 157, Jul. 2019. Download PDF

  • S. Goetze: Intelligent Recognition Systems in Care (In German: Intelligente Erkennersysteme für die Pflege) Pflegezeitschrift, vol. 27, no. 1-2, pp. 17-19, DOI: 10.1007/s41906-018-0021-z, Jan. 2019.

  • F. Xiong, S. Goetze, B. Kollmeier, B.T. Meyer: Joint Estimation of Reverberation Time and Early-To-Late Reverberation Ratio From Single-Channel Speech Signals In IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 255 – 267, DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2877894, Oct. 2018. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, S. Goetze, B. Kollmeier, B.T. Meyer: Exploring Auditory-Inspired Acoustic Features for Room Acoustic Parameter Estimation from Monaural Speech In IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 1809 - 1820, DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2843537, Jun. 2018. Download PDF

  • N. Moritz, K. Adiloglu, J. Anemüller , S. Goetze, and B. Kollmeier: Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement and Amplitude Modulation Analysis for Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition In J. Computer Speech and Language, vol. 46, pp. 558-573, DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2016.11.004, Nov. 2017. Download PDF

  • J. Schröder, N. Moritz, J. Anemüller, S. Goetze, and B. Kollmeier: Classifier Architectures for Acoustic Scenes and Events: Implications for DNNs, TDNNs, and Perceptual Features from DCASE 2016 In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1304-1314, DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2017.2690569, Jun. 2017. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, B.T. Meyer, B. Cauchi, A. Jukić, S. Doclo, and S. Goetze:
    Performance Comparison of Real-Time Single-Channel Speech Dereverberation Algorithms
    In Proc. 5th Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2017), San Francisco, USA, pp. 126-130, DOI: 10.1109/HSCMA.2017.7895575, Mar. 2017.
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  • H. A. Javed, B. Cauchi, S. Doclo, P. A. Naylor and S. Goetze:
    Measuring, Modelling and Predicting Perceived Reverberation
    In Proc. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA, pp. 381-385, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952182, Mar. 2017. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, S. Goetze, B.T. Meyer:
    On DNN Posterior Probability Combination in Multi-Stream Speech Recognition for Reverberant Environments
    In Proc. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA, pp. 5250-5254, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953158, Mar. 2017. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, S. Goetze, B.T. Meyer:
    Combination Strategy based on Relative Performance Monitoring for Multi-Stream Reverberant Speech Recognition
    In Proc. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA, pp. 4870-4874, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953082, Mar. 2017. Download PDF

  • I. Kodrasi, B. Cauchi, S. Goetze, and S. Doclo: Instrumental and Perceptual Evaluation of Robust Acoustic Multi-Channel Equalization Techniques In J. Audio Engineering Society, vol. 65, no. 1/2, pp. 2198 – 2208, DOI: 10.17743/jaes.2016.0047, Jan. 2017. Download PDF

  • J. Schröder, S. Goetze, and J. Anemüller: Spectro-temporal Gabor filterbank features for acoustic event detection In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 2198 – 2208, DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2467964, Dec. 2016. Download PDF

  • J. Wellmann, N. Moritz, M. Neumann, S. Goetze: Sound-based Control of Security and Building Technology (in German language: Lautbasierte Steuerung von Sicherheits- und Gebäudetechnik) in Neue Technologien in der Sprachtherapie (in German language: New Technologies in Speech Therapy), K. Bilda, J. Mühlhaus, and U. Ritterfeld, Eds., Thieme Verlag, ISBN: 978-3132016811, 2016.

  • B.Cauchi, J.F. Santos, K. Siedenburg, T.H. Falk, P.A. Naylor, S. Doclo, and S. Goetze:
    Predicting the quality of processed speech by combining modulation based features and model-trees
    In Proc. ITG Conference on Speech Communication, Paderborn, Germany, Oct. 2016. Download PDF

  • A. Avila, B. Cauchi, S. Goetze, S. Doclo, T. Falk:
    Performance Comparison of intrusive and Non-Intrusive Instrumental Quality Measures for Microphone-Array Processed Speech
    In Proc. International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2016), Xi'an, China, DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC.2016.7602907, Sep. 2016. Download PDF

  • N. Moritz, J. Schröder, S. Goetze J. Anemüller, B. Kollmeier:
    Acoustic Scene Classification using Time-Delay Neural Networks and Amplitude Modulation Filter Bank Features
    In Proc. Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE2016), Budapest, Hungary, pp.70-74, Sep. 2016. Download PDF

  • J. Schröder, J. Anemüller, S. Goetze:
    Performance comparison of GMM, HMM and DNN based approaches for acoustic event detection within Task 3 of the DCASE 2016 challenge
    In Proc. Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE2016), Budapest, Hungary, pp.70-74, Sep. 2016. Download PDF

  • A. Winneke, M. Meis, J. Wellmann, T. Bruns, S. Rahner, J. Rennies, F. Wallhoff, and Stefan Goetze:
    Messung der Höranstrengung älterer Mitarbeiter eines Callcenters mittels neuroergonomischer Messmethoden / Engl.: Neuroergonomic assessment of listening effort in older call center employees
    In Proc. Zukunft Lebensräume Kongress 2016, Frankfurt, Germany, pp.327-332, ISBN 978-3-8007-4212-7, Apr. 2016.

  • K.I. Wolf, S. Goetze, and F. Wallhoff:
    Computer-based adaption of cooking recipes integrated in a speech dialogue assistance system
    In Wichert, R., Mand, B. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change, Frankfurt, Germany, pp.163–172, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52322-4_11, Apr. 2016.

  • B. Cauchi, H. Javed, T. Gerkmann, S. Doclo, S. Goetze and P.A. Naylor:
    Perceptual and Instrumental Evaluation of the Perceived Level of Reverberation
    In Proc. 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, pp. 629-633, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471751, Mar. 2016. Download PDF

  • J. Schröder, J. Anemüller, and S. Goetze:
    Classification of Human Cough Signals using Spectro-Temporal Gabor Filterbank Feature
    In Proc. 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, pp. 629-633, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472920, Mar. 2016.

  • K.I. Wolf, R. Thalappully, S. Goetze, F. Wallhoff:
    Concept for automated usability evaluation of graphical user interfaces
    In Proc. Kognitive Systeme: Mensch, Teams, Systeme und Automaten, Bochum, Germany, Mar. 2016. Download PDF

  • B. Cauchi, T. Gerkmann, S. Doclo, P.A. Naylor, S. Goetze:
    Spectrally and spatially informed noise suppression using beamforming and convolutive NMFs
    In Proc. AES 60th Conference on Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech, Leuven, Belgium, Feb. 2016. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, B.T. Meyer, N. Moritz, R. Rehr, J. Anemüller, T. Gerkmann, S. Doclo and S. Goetze: Front-End Technologies for Robust ASR in Reverberant Environments - Spectral Enhancement-based Dereverberation and Auditory Modulation Filterbank Features In EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2015, Art. no. 70, DOI: 10.1186/s13634-015-0256-4, 2015. Download PDF

  • B. Cauchi, I. Kodrasi, R. Rehr, S. Gerlach, A. Jukic, T. Gerkmann, S. Doclo and S. Goetze: Combination of MVDR beamforming and single-channel spectral processing for enhancing noisy and reverberant speech In EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2015, Art. no. 61, DOI: 10.1186/s13634-015-0242-x, 2015. Download PDF

  • N. Moritz, S. Gerlach, K. Adiloğlu, J. Anemüller, B. Kollmeier, S. Goetze:
    A CHiME-3 Challenge System: Long-Term Acoustic Features for Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
    In Proc. 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (Workshop at 2015 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015)), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2015.7404832, Dec. 2015.

  • M. Ruhland, M. Brandt, J. Bitzer and S. Goetze: Reduction of Gaussian, Supergassian and Impulsive noise by Interpolation of the Binary Mask Residual In In IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 1680-1691, DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2444664, Oct. 2015. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, S. Goetze, and B. T. Meyer:
    Joint estimation of reverberation time and direct-to-reverberation ratio from speech using auditory inspired features
    In Proc. Acoustic Characterisation of Environments (ACE) Challenge Workshop, a satellite event of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, USA, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1510.04620, Oct. 2015. Download PDF

  • B. Cauchi, P. A. Naylor, T. Gerkmann, S. Doclo, S. Goetze:
    Late Reverberant Spectral Variance Estimation Using Acoustic Channel Equalization
    In Proc. European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2015, Nice, France, pp. 2526-2530, DOI: 10.1109/EUSIPCO.2015.7362831, Sep. 2015. Download PDF

  • K.I. Wolf, S. Goetze and F. Wallhoff:
    CooCo, what can I cook today? Surprise me.
    In Proc. Computer Cooking Contest 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, Sep. 2015. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, B.T. Meyer, S. Goetze:
    A Study on Joint Beamforming and Spectral Enhancement for Robust Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments
    In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 5043-5047, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178931, Apr. 2015. Download PDF

  • K. I. Wolf, S. Goetze, J. Wellmann, A. Winneke, F. Wallhoff:
    Concept of a Nutrition Consultant Application with Context Based Speech Recognition
    In Proc. 4. Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kognitive Systeme 2015, Mensch, Teams, Systeme und Automaten, Bielefeld, Germany, Mar. 2015.

  • S. Gerlach, J. Bitzer, S. Goetze, S. Doclo: Joint Estimation of Pitch and Direction of Arrival: Improving Robustness and Accuracy for Multi-Speaker Scenarios In EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2014, Art. no. 31, DOI: 10.1186/s13636-014-0031-8, 2014. Download PDF

  • A. Warzybok, I. Kodrasi, J.O. Jungmann, E. Habets, T. Gerkmann, A. Mertins, S. Doclo, B. Kollmeier, S. Goetze:
    Subjective Speech Quality and Speech Intelligibility Evaluation of Single-Channel Dereverberation Algorithms
    In Proc. International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement IWAENC 2014, Antibes, France, pp. 333–337, DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC.2014.6954313, Sep. 2014. Download PDF

  • S. Goetze, A. Warzybok, I. Kodrasi, J.O. Jungmann, B. Cauchi, J. Rennies, E. Habets, A. Mertins, T. Gerkmann, S. Doclo, B. Kollmeier:
    A Study on Speech Quality and Speech Intelligibility Measures for Quality Assessment of Single-Channel Dereverberation Algorithms
    In Proc. International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement IWAENC 2014, Antibes, France, pp. 234–238, DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC.2014.6954293, Sep. 2014. Download PDF

  • R. Haux, A. Hein, G. Kolb, H. Künemund, M. Eichelberg, J.-E. Appell, H.-J. Appelrath, C. Bartsch, J.M. Bauer, M. Becker, P. Bente, J. Bitzer, S. Boll, F. Büsching, L. Dasenbrock, R. Deparade, D. Depner, K. Elbers, U. Fachinger, J. Felber, F. Feldwieder, A. Forberg, M. Gietzelt, S. Goetze, M. Gövercin,, A. Helmer, T. Herzke, T. Hesselmann, W. Heuten, R. Huber, M. Hülsken-Giesler, G. Jacobs, E. Kalbe, A. Kerling, T. Klingeberg, Y. Költzsch, C. Lammel-Polchau, W. Ludwig, M. Marschollek, B. Martens, M. Meis, E.M. Meyer, J. Meyer, H. Meyer zu Schwabedissen, N. Moritz, H. Müller, W. Nebel, F.J. Neyer, P.K. Okken, J. Rahe, H. Remmers, L. Rölker-Denker, M. Schilling, B. Schöpke, J. Schröder, G.C. Schulze, M. Schulze, S. Siltmann, B. Song, J. Spehr, E.-E. Steen, E. Steinhagen-Thiessen, N.-M. Tanschus, U. Tegtbur, A. Thiel, W. Thoben, P. van Hengel, S. Wabnik, S. Wegel, O. Wilken, S. Winkelbach, T. Wist, K.-H. Wolf, L. Wolf, M. Zokoll-van der Laan: Information and Communication Technologies for Promoting and Sustaining Quality of Life, Health and Self-sufficiency in Ageing Societies Outcomes of the Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environments for Ageing (GAL) In Informatics for Health and Social Care, vol. 39, no. 3-4, pp. 166-187, DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2014.931849, Aug. 2014. Download PDF

  • S. Goetze, E. Albertin, J. Rennies, E.A.P Habets and K.-D. Kammeyer: Speech Quality Assessment for Listening-Room Compensation Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 386-399, DOI: 10.17743/jaes.2014.0025, Jun. 2014. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, N. Moritz, R. Rehr, J. Anemüller, B. Meyer, T. Gerkmann, S. Doclo, S. Goetze:
    Robust ASR in reverberant environments using temporal cepstrum smoothing for speech enhancement and an amplitude modulation filterbank for feature extraction
    In Proc. REVERB (REverberant Voice Enhancement and Recognition Benchmark) challenge, Florence, Italy, May 2014. Download PDF

  • B. Cauchi, I. Kodrasi, R. Rehr, S. Gerlach, A. Jukić, T. Gerkmann, S. Doclo, S. Goetze:
    Joint Dereverberation and Noise Reduction Using Beamforming and a Single-Channel Speech Enhancement Scheme
    In Proc. REVERB (REverberant Voice Enhancement and Recognition Benchmark) challenge, Florence, Italy, May 2014. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, S. Goetze, B. Meyer:
    Estimating room acoustic parameters for speech recognizer adaptation and combination in reverberant environments
    In Proc. 39th Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, pp. 5559–5563, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854659, May 2014. Download PDF

  • S. Goetze: On the Combination of Systems for Listening-Room Compensation and Acoustic Echo Cancellation in Hands-Free Teleconference Systems in Shaker Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-8440-2777-8, 2013. Download PDF

  • J. Schröder, D. Hollosi, S. Goetze, and J. Bitzer: Notrufsysteme mit automatischer akustischer Gefahrendetektion In Science^2 - Safety and Security, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 12 - 18, 2013.

  • J. Schröder, B. Cauchi, M.R. Schädler, N. Moritz, K. Adiloğlu, J. Anemüller, S. Doclo, B. Kollmeier and S. Goetze:
    Acoustic Event Detection Using Signal Enhancement and Spectro-temporal Feature Extraction
    In Proc. IEEE AASP Challenge: Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, New Paltz, NY, USA, Oct. 2013. Download PDF

  • J. Schröder, N. Moritz, M.R. Schädler, B. Cauchi, K. Adiloğlu, J. Anemüller, S. Doclo, B. Kollmeier and S. Goetze:
    On the Use of Spectro-Temporal Features for the IEEE AASP Challenge 'Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events'
    In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1109/WASPAA.2013.6701868, Oct. 2013. Download PDF

  • S. Uziel, T. Elste, W. Kattanek, D. Hollosi, S. Gerlach and S. Goetze:
    Networked Embedded Acoustic Processing System for Smart Building Applications
    In Proc. Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP), Cagliari, Italy, Oct. 2013. Download PDF

  • J. Rennies, S. Goetze, T. Rohdenburg und J.-E. Appell: Innovative Hearing Support in Communication Systems (in German language: Innovative Hörunterstützung in Kommunikationssystemen) In C. Nocke and M. Meis: Beiträge zur psychologischen Akustik, Akustik in Büro und Objekt, Fraunhofer IRB Verlag., Stuttgart, ISBN: 978-3-642-18166-5, pp. 127-148, Oct. 2013. Download PDF

  • I. Kodrasi, S. Goetze and S. Doclo: Regularization for Partial Multichannel Equalization for Speech Dereverberation IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1879 - 1890, DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2260743, Sep. 2013. Download PDF

  • D. Hollosi, G. Nagy, R. Rodigast, S. Goetze and P. Cousin:
    Enhancing Wireless Sensor Networks with Acoustic Sensing Technology: Use Cases, Applications & Experiments
    In Proc. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, Beijing, China, DOI: 10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.75, Aug. 2013. Download PDF

  • N. Moritz, M.R. Schädler, K. Adiloğlu, B.T. Meyer, T. Jürgens, T. Gerkmann, B. Kollmeier, S. Doclo, S. Goetze:
    Noise robust distant automatic speech recognition utilizing NMF based source separation and auditory feature extraction
    In Proc. 2nd CHiME workshop on machine listening in multitalker environments, Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 2013. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, S. Goetze und B.T. Meyer:
    Blind Estimation of Reverberation Time based on Spectro-Temporal Modulation Filtering
    In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 443-447, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6637686, May. 2013. Download PDF

  • J. Schröder, S. Goetze, V. Grützmacher und J. Anemüller:
    Automatic Acoustic Siren Detection in Traffic noise by Parts_Based Models
    In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 493-497, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6637696, May. 2013. Download PDF

  • I. Kodrasi, S. Goetze und S. Doclo:
    A Perceptually Constrained Channel Shortening Technique for Speech Dereverberation
    In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 151-155, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6637627, May. 2013. Download PDF

  • I. Kodrasi, S. Goetze und S. Doclo:
    Non-intrusive Regularization for Least-Squares Multichannel Equalization for Speech Dereverberation
    In Proc. IEEE 27-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI 2012), Eilat, Israel DOI: 10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376964, Nov. 2012. Download PDF

  • S. Gerlach, S. Goetze und S. Doclo:
    2D Audio-Visual Localization in Home Environments using a Particle Filter
    In Proc. 10. ITG Symposium Speech Communication), Braunschweig, Germany, Sep. 2012. Download PDF

  • M. Ruhland, S. Goetze, M. Brandt, J. Bitzer und S. Doclo:
    A New Approach for Reduction of Supergaussian Noise using Autoregressive Interpolation and Time-Frequency Masking
    In Proc. International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2012), Aachen, Germany, Sep. 2012. Download PDF

  • I. Kodrasi, S. Goetze und S. Doclo:
    Increasing the Robustness of Acoustic Multichannel Equalization by Means of Regularization
    In Proc. International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2012), Aachen, Germany, Sep. 2012. Download PDF

  • S. Goetze, S. Fischer, N. Moritz, J.-E. Appell and F. Wallhoff:
    Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction for Service Robots in Home-Care Environments
    In Proc. Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments, Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2012), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Jul. 2012. Download PDF

  • B. Cauchi, S. Goetze, and S. Doclo:
    Reduction of Non-stationary Noise for a Robotic Living Assistant using Sparse Non-negative Matrix Factorization
    In Proc. Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments, Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2012), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Jul. 2012. Download PDF

  • F. Xiong, J.-E. Appell and S. Goetze:
    System Identification for Listening-Room Compensation by means of Acoustic Echo Cancellation and Acoustic Echo Suppression Filters
    In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6287932 Mar. 2012. Download PDF

  • S. Goetze, J. Schröder, S. Gerlach, D. Hollosi, J.-E. Appell and F. Wallhoff: Acoustic Monitoring and Localization for Social Care Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE), SI on Ubiquitous Health-Care, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 40-50, DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2010.520419, Feb. 2012. Download PDF

  • R. Haux, A. Hein, M. Eichelberg, J.-E. Appell, H.-J. Appelrath, C. Bartsch, T. Bisitz, J. Bitzer, M. Blau, S. Boll, M. Buschermöhle, F. Büsching, B. Erdmann, U. Fachinger, J. Felber, T. Fleuren, M. Gietzelt, S. Goetze, M. Gövercin, A. Helmer, W. Heuten, V. Hohmann, R. Huber, M. Hülsken-Giesler, G. Jacobs, R. Kayser, A. Kerling, T. Klingeberg, Y. Költzsch, H. Künemund, J. Kunze, W. Ludwig, M. Marschollek, B. Martens, M. Meis, E.M. Meyer, J. Meyer, W. Nebel, F.J. Neyer, P.K. Okken, H. Remmers, L. Rölker-Denker, T. Rohdenburg, M. Schilling, G.C. Schulze, B. Song, J. Spehr, E. Steinhagen-Thiessen, U. Tegtbur, W. Thoben, P. van Hengel, S. Wabnik, F. Wahl, S. Wegel, O. Wilken, S. Winkelbach, T. Wist, M. Wittrock, K.-H. Wolf, L. Wolf, M. Zokoll-van der Laan: The Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environments for Ageing (GAL) – Towards Interdisciplinary Research on ICT in Ageing Societies Informatics for Health and Social Care, SI Ageing & Technology, vol. 35, no. 4, DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2010.520419, Dec. 2010. Download

  • S. Goetze, N. Moritz, J.-E. Appell, M. Meis, C. Bartsch and J. Bitzer: Acoustic User Interfaces for Ambient Assisted Living Technologies Informatics for Health and Social Care, SI Ageing & Technology, vol. 35, no. 4, DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2010.528655, Dec. 2010. Download

  • S. Goetze, J. Rennies and J.-E. Appell: Intelligent Conference Systems for Natural Hands-Free Communication (in German language: Intelligente Konferenzsysteme für natürliche Freisprechkommunikation) In A. Schick, M. Meis and C. Nocke: Beiträge zur psychologischen Akustik, Akustik in Büro und Objekt, Isensee Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-89995-710-5, Oldenburg, 2010
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  • J. Rennies, E. Albertin, S. Goetze and J.-E. Appell: Automatic live monitoring of communication quality for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners in K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus, W. Zagler, A. Karshmer (Eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Part II, LNCS 6180, pp. 568–575, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-642-14099-0, 2010

  • D. Hollosi, J. Schröder, S. Goetze, and J.-E. Appell: Voice Activity Detection Driven Acoustic Event Classification for Monitoring in Smart Homes In Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, Rome, Italy, DOI: 10.1109/ISABEL.2010.5702763, Nov. 2010. Download PDF

  • S. Goetze, F. Xiong, J. Rennies, T. Rohdenburg and J.-E. Appell: Hands-Free Telecommunication for Elderly Persons Suffering from Hearing Deficiencies In Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services (Healthcom’10), Lyon, Frankreich, pp. 209-214, DOI: 10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556568, Jul. 2010. Download PDF

  • S. Goetze, E. Albertin, J. Rennies, E.A.P Habets and K.-D. Kammeyer: Speech Quality Assessment for Listening-Room Compensation Proc. 38th AES Conference, Piteå, Schweden, 13. – 15. Jun. 2010. Download PDF. Audio files and correlation patterns are available here.

  • J. Clarke, Y. Gotoh, S. Goetze: An Exploration into Social Attention for Visual Context Modelling in Active Speaker Detection To be presented at Annual meeting of the UK and Irish Speech Technology Research Communities (UK Speech 2023), Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023

  • H. Yusufali, S. Goetze and R.K. Moore: Analysis of the Communication Rate Gap for Users of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Systems To be presented at Annual meeting of the UK and Irish Speech Technology Research Communities (UK Speech 2023), Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • G.L. Close, T. Hain, and S. Goetze: PAMGAN+/-: Improving Phase-Aware Speech Enhancement Performance via Expanded Discriminator Training To be presented at Annual meeting of the UK and Irish Speech Technology Research Communities (UK Speech 2023), Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023

  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze, and T. Hain: On Data Sampling Strategies for Training Neural Network Speech Separation Models To be presented at Annual meeting of the UK and Irish Speech Technology Research Communities (UK Speech 2023), Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023

  • R. Sutherland, S. Goetze, and J. Barker: Analysis of the Communication Rate Gap for Users of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Systems To be presented at Annual meeting of the UK and Irish Speech Technology Research Communities (UK Speech 2023), Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • S. Cao, S. Goetze, and J. Barker: A Study on Microphone Array Position Calibration for Hearing Aids To be presented at Annual meeting of the UK and Irish Speech Technology Research Communities (UK Speech 2023), Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • W. Leung, and S. Goetze: Speech analysis and training methods for atypical speech To be presented at Annual Conference of CDT for Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • H. Yusufali, S. Goetze and R.K. Moore: Bridging the Communication Rate Gap: Enhancing Text Input for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) To be presented at Annual Conference of CDT for Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • G. L. Close, T. Hain, and S. Goetze: Perceive and predict: self-supervised speech representation based loss functions for speech enhancement To be presented at Annual Conference of CDT for Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • J. Clarke, Y. Gotoh, and S. Goetze: Leveraging Ambient and Latent Information for Active Speaker Detection in Egocentric Video To be presented at Annual Conference of CDT for Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • W. Ravenscroft, S. Goetze, and T. Hain: Deformable Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation To be presented at Annual Conference of CDT for Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • R. Sutherland, J. Barker, and S. Goetze: Detecting Communication Situations in AI Enabled Hearing Aids To be presented at Annual Conference of CDT for Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, Sheffield, UK, Jul. 2023
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  • S. Ellis, H. Christensen and S. Goetze: Speech Technology and Dysphoria: Investigating Transgender Community Needs and New and Existing Speech Technologies Conf. of the European Professional Association for Transgender Health, Dublin, Ireland, Apr. 2023.

  • G. L. Close, S. Hollands, S. Goetze and T. Hain: Clarity Prediction Challenge 1 Entry: Non-intrusive Speech Intelligibility Metric Prediction - Technical Report 2nd Clarity Workshop on Machine Learning Challenges for Hearing Aids (Clarity-2022) Workshop, virtual, Jun. 2022. Download PDF

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  • S. Goetze, E. Albertin, M. Kallinger, A. Mertins and K.-D. Kammeyer: Quality Assessment for Listening-Room Compensation Algorithms Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’10), Dallas, USA, 14. – 19. Mar. 2010
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  • E. Albertin, J. Rennies and S. Goetze: Objective Quality Measures for Dereverberation Methods based on Room Impulse Response Equalization Proc. 36th German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAGA 10), Berlin, Deutschland, 15. - 18. Mar. 2010
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  • R. Haux, J.-E. Appell, H.-J. Appelrath, C. Bartsch, T. Bisitz, J. Bitzer, M. Blau, S. Boll, M. Buschermöhle, F. Büsching, M. Eichelberg, B. Erdmann, U. Fachinger, J. Felber, T. Fleuren, M. Gietzelt, S. Goetze, M. Gövercin, A. Hein, A. Helmer, W. Heuten, V. Hohmann, R. Huber, M. Hülsken-Giesler, G. Jacobs, R. Kayser, A. Kerling, M. Kiy, T. Klingeberg, Y. Költzsch, H. Künemund, J. Kunze, W. Ludwig, M. Marschollek, B. Martens, M. Meis, E.M. Meyer, J. Meyer, W. Nebel, F.J. Neyer, P.-K. Okken, H. Remmers, L. Rölker-Denker, T. Rohdenburg, M. Schilling, G.C. Schulze, B. Song, J. Spehr, E. Steinhagen-Thiessen, U. Tegtbur, W. Thoben, P. v.Hengel, S. Wabnik, F. Wahl, S. Wegel, O. Wilken, S. Winkelbach, M. Wittrock, K.-H. Wolf, L. Wolf, M. Zokoll-van der Laan: The Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environments for Ageing (GAL), A Brief Introduction In Proc. 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Cape Town, South Africa, 12.-15. September 2010