John H. L. Hansen
University of Texas at Dallas , USA

John H. L. Hansen received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1988 and 1983, and the B.S.E.E. degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1982. He is the Department Chairman and Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, where he holds the Distinguished Chair in telecommunications engineering, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor in speech and hearing, School of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas. At UTD, he established the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS) which is part of the Human Language Technology Institute. Previously, he served as Department Chairman and Professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS), and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, where he cofounded the Center for Spoken Language Research. In 1988, he established the Robust Speech Processing Laboratory (RSPL) and continues to direct research activities in CRSS at UTD. He is serving as the IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2005, and Member of the IEEE Speech Technical Committee, and has served as Technical Advisor to US Delegate for NATO (IST/TG-01), Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Speech & Audio Processing(1992–1999), and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (1998–2000). His research interests span the areas of digital speech processing, analysis and modeling of speech and speaker traits, speech enhancement, feature estimation in noise, robust speech recognition with emphasis on spoken document retrieval, and in-vehicle interactive systems for hands-free human-computer interaction. In 2005, he was the recipient of the University of Colorado Teacher Recognition Award.

Biography Updated on 11 July 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Feature compensation in the cepstral domain employing model combination
    Speech Communication, 2008
  2. A new perceptually motivated MVDR-based acoustic front-end (PMVDR) for robust automatic speech recognition☆
    Speech Communication, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 142–152, 2008
  3. Towards an Intelligent Acoustic Front End for Automatic Speech Recognition: Built-in Speaker Normalization
    EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2008, Article ID 148967, 13 pages, 2008
  4. Intelligent Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Applications
    EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2008, Article ID 854716, 2 pages, 2008
  5. The Effect of Listener Accent Background on Accent Perception and Comprehension
    EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 76030, 8 pages, 2007
  6. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 70–73, 2007
  7. Advances in Phone-Based Modeling for Automatic Accent Classification
    IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 634–646, 2006
  8. Advances in Unsupervised Audio Classification and Segmentation for the Broadcast News and NGSW Corpora
    IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 907–919, 2006
  9. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 467–474, 2005
  10. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 554–564, 2005
  11. An Auditory-Masking-Threshold-Based Noise Suppression Algorithm GMMSE-AMT[ERB] for Listeners with Sensorineural Hearing Loss
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2005, no. 18, pp. 2938–2953, 2005
  12. CSA-BF: a constrained switched adaptive beamformer for speech enhancement and recognition in real car environments
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 733–745, 2003
  13. Evaluation of an auditory masked threshold noise suppression algorithm in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners
    Speech Communication, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 575–592, 2003
  14. A comparison of spectral smoothing methods for segment concatenation based speech synthesis
    Speech Communication, vol. 36, no. 3-4, pp. 343–373, 2002
  15. Nonlinear feature based classification of speech under stress
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 201–216, 2001
  16. Speech enhancement using a constrained iterative sinusoidal model
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 731–740, 2001
  17. Fast likelihood computation techniques in nearest-neighbor based search for continuous speech recognition
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 221–224, 2001
  18. A comparative study of traditional and newly proposed features for recognition of speech under stress
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 429–442, 2000
  19. High resolution speech feature parametrization for monophone-based stressed speech recognition
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 182–185, 2000
  20. Selective training for hidden Markov models with applications to speech classification
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 46–54, 1999
  21. The DSP Learning environment - modern DSP education: The Story of Three Greek Philosophers
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 48–56, 1999
  22. An improved (Auto:I, LSP:T) constrained iterative speech enhancement for colored noise environments
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 573–579, 1998
  23. An efficient scoring algorithm for Gaussian mixture model based speaker identification
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 281–284, 1998
  24. A nonlinear operator-based speech feature analysis method with application to vocal fold pathology assessment
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 300–313, 1998
  25. Likelihood decision boundary estimation between HMM pairs in speech recognition
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 410–414, 1998
  26. An auditory-based distortion measure with application to concatenative speech synthesis
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 489–495, 1998
  27. HMM-based stressed speech modeling with application to improved synthesis and recognition of isolated speech under stress
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 201–216, 1998
  28. Automatic segmentation of speech recorded in unknown noisy channel characteristics
    Speech Communication, vol. 25, no. 1-3, pp. 97–116, 1998
  29. Text-directed speech enhancement employing phone class parsing and feature map constrained vector quantization
    Speech Communication, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 169–189, 1997
  30. Speech enhancement for crosstalk interference
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 92–95, 1997
  31. A study of temporal features and frequency characteristics in American English foreign accent
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 102, no. 1, p. 28, 1997
  32. Analysis and compensation of speech under stress and noise for environmental robustness in speech recognition
    Speech Communication, vol. 20, no. 1-2, pp. 151–173, 1996
  33. Classification of speech under stress using target driven features
    Speech Communication, vol. 20, no. 1-2, pp. 131–150, 1996
  34. Generating stressed speech from neutral speech using a modified CELP vocoder
    Speech Communication, vol. 20, no. 1-2, pp. 93–110, 1996
  35. Feature analysis and neural network-based classification of speech under stress
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 307–313, 1996
  36. Direct speech feature estimation using an iterative EM algorithm for vocal fold pathology detection
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 373–383, 1996
  37. A noninvasive technique for detecting hypernasal speech using a nonlinear operator
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 43, no. 1, p. 35, 1996
  38. Language accent classification in American English
    Speech Communication, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 353–367, 1996
  39. ICARUS: Source generator based real-time recognition of speech in noisy stressful and Lombard effect environments ⋆
    Speech Communication, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 391–422, 1995
  40. Source generator equalization and enhancement of spectral properties for robust speech recognition in noise and stress
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 407–415, 1995
  41. Robust speech recognition training via duration and spectral-based stress token generation
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 415–421, 1995
  42. Dual-channel iterative speech enhancement with constraints on an auditory-based spectrum
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 22–34, 1995
  43. Markov model-based phoneme class partitioning for improved constrained iterative speech enhancement
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 98–104, 1995
  44. Objective speech quality assessment and the RPE-LTP coding algorithm in different noise and language conditions
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 97, no. 1, p. 609, 1995
  45. Robust estimation of speech in noisy backgrounds based on aspects of the auditory process
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 97, no. 6, p. 3833, 1995
  46. Nonlinear analysis and classification of speech under stressed conditions
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 96, no. 6, p. 3392, 1994
  47. Morphological constrained feature enhancement with adaptive cepstral compensation (MCE-ACC) for speech recognition in noise and Lombard effect
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 598–614, 1994
  48. Boundary-constrained morphological skeleton minimization and skeleton reconstruction
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 201–208, 1994
  49. Constrained iterative speech enhancement with application to speech recognition
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 795–805, 1991
  50. Analysis and compensation of stressed and noisy speech with application to robust automatic recognition
    Signal Processing, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 282, 1989