S. Makino

Shoji Makino received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1979, 1981, and 1993, respectively. He is an Executive Manager at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories. He is also a Guest Professor at the Hokkaido University. His research interests include blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of speech, adaptive filtering technologies, and realization of acoustic echo cancellation. He is the Author or Coauthor of more than 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings and has been responsible for more than 150 patents. He is a Member of both the Awards Board and the Conference Board of the IEEE SP Society. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He is a Member of the Technical Committee on Audio and Electroacoustics of the IEEE SP Society as well as the Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing of the IEEE CAS Society. He is also the General Chair of the WASPAA 2007 in Mohonk, the Organizing Chair of the ICA 2003 in Nara, and the General Chair of the IWAENC 2003 in Kyoto. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Council Member of the ASJ, and the Chair of the Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics of the IEICE.

Biography Updated on 11 June 2006

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Underdetermined blind sparse source separation for arbitrarily arranged multiple sensors
    Signal Processing, vol. 87, no. 8, pp. 1833–1847, 2007
  2. MAP-Based Underdetermined Blind Source Separation of Convolutive Mixtures by Hierarchical Clustering and l1-Norm Minimization
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 24717, 12 pages, 2007
  3. Geometrical Interpretation of the PCA Subspace Approach for Overdetermined Blind Source Separation
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 71632, 11 pages, 2006
  4. Frequency-Domain Blind Source Separation of Many Speech Signals Using Near-Field and Far-Field Models
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 83683, 13 pages, 2006
  5. Stereo echo cancellation algorithm using adaptive update on the basis of enhanced input-signal vector
    Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 6, pp. 1157–1167, 2006
  6. Estimating the number of sources using independent component analysis
    Acoustical Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 450–452, 2005
  7. Blind Source Separation of Convolutive Mixtures of Speech in Frequency Domain
    IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E88-A, no. 7, pp. 1640–1655, 2005
  8. Natural Gradient Multichannel Blind Deconvolution and Speech Separation Using Causal FIR Filters
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 92–104, 2005
  9. A Robust and Precise Method for Solving the Permutation Problem of Frequency-Domain Blind Source Separation
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 530–538, 2004
  10. Evaluation of separation and dereverberation performance in frequency domain blind source separation
    Acoustical Science and Technology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 119–126, 2004
  11. Convolutive blind source separation for more than two sources in the frequency domain
    Acoustical Science and Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 296–298, 2004
  12. Equivalence between Frequency-Domain Blind Source Separation and Frequency-Domain Adaptive Beamforming for Convolutive Mixtures
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2003, no. 11, pp. 1157–1166, 2003
  13. The fundamental limitation of frequency domain blind source separation for convolutive mixtures of speech
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 109–116, 2003
  14. Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation: An overview and recent solutions.
    Acoustical Science and Technology, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 325–333, 2001
  15. Subband echo canceler with an exponentially weighted stepsize NLMS adaptive filter
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part III: Fundamental Electronic Science), vol. 82, no. 3, pp. 49–57, 1999
  16. A block exact fast affine projection algorithm
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 79–86, 1999
  17. Common-acoustical-pole and zero modeling of head-related transfer functions
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 188–196, 1999
  18. Multiple-point equalization of room transfer functions by using common acoustical poles
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 325–333, 1997
  19. Common acoustical pole and zero modeling of room transfer functions
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 320–328, 1994