@article{52958, author = {{Boeddeker, Christoph and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and Wichern, Gordon and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and Le Roux, Jonathan}}, issn = {{2329-9290}}, journal = {{IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing}}, keywords = {{Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Computer Science (miscellaneous), Computational Mathematics}}, pages = {{1185--1197}}, publisher = {{Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}}, title = {{{TS-SEP: Joint Diarization and Separation Conditioned on Estimated Speaker Embeddings}}}, doi = {{10.1109/taslp.2024.3350887}}, volume = {{32}}, year = {{2024}}, } @article{34647, author = {{Brögelmann, T and Bobzin, K and Grundmeier, Guido and de los Arcos, T and Kruppe, N C and Schwiderek, S and Carlet, M}}, issn = {{0022-3727}}, journal = {{Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics}}, keywords = {{Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials}}, number = {{3}}, publisher = {{IOP Publishing}}, title = {{{Durability of nanolayer Ti–Al–O–N hard coatings under simulated polycarbonate melt processing conditions}}}, doi = {{10.1088/1361-6463/ac2e31}}, volume = {{55}}, year = {{2021}}, } @article{9878, abstract = {{(K,Na)NbO3 ceramics have attracted much attention as lead-free piezoelectric materials with high piezoelectric properties. High-quality (K,Na)NbO3 ceramics can be sintered using KNbO3 and NaNbO3 powders synthesized by a hydrothermal method. In this study, to enhance the quality factor of the ceramics, high-power ultrasonic irradiation was employed during the hydrothermal method, which led to a reduction in the particle size of the resultant powders.}}, author = {{Isobe, G. and Maeda, Takafumi and Bornmann, Peter and Hemsel, Tobias and Morita, Takeshi}}, issn = {{0885-3010}}, journal = {{Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, IEEE Transactions on}}, keywords = {{Q-factor, ceramics, crystal growth from solution, particle size, piezoelectric materials, potassium compounds, powders, sintering, sodium compounds, ultrasonic effects, (K0.48Na0.52)NbO3, KNbO3 powders, NaNbO3 powders, high-power ultrasonic irradiation, lead-free piezoelectric materials, lead-free piezoelectric powders, particle size reduction, piezoelectric properties, quality factor, sintered (K0.48Na0.52)NbO3 ceramics, sintering, ultrasonic-assisted hydrothermal method, Acoustics, Ceramics, Lead, Piezoelectric materials, Powders, Radiation effects, Transducers}}, number = {{2}}, pages = {{225--230}}, title = {{{Synthesis of lead-free piezoelectric powders by ultrasonic-assisted hydrothermal method and properties of sintered (K0.48Na0.52)NBO3 ceramics}}}, doi = {{10.1109/TUFFC.2014.6722608}}, volume = {{61}}, year = {{2014}}, } @inproceedings{11753, abstract = {{This contribution describes a step-wise source counting algorithm to determine the number of speakers in an offline scenario. Each speaker is identified by a variational expectation maximization (VEM) algorithm for complex Watson mixture models and therefore directly yields beamforming vectors for a subsequent speech separation process. An observation selection criterion is proposed which improves the robustness of the source counting in noise. The algorithm is compared to an alternative VEM approach with Gaussian mixture models based on directions of arrival and shown to deliver improved source counting accuracy. The article concludes by extending the offline algorithm towards a low-latency online estimation of the number of active sources from the streaming input data.}}, author = {{Drude, Lukas and Chinaev, Aleksej and Tran Vu, Dang Hai and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}}, booktitle = {{14th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2014)}}, keywords = {{Accuracy, Acoustics, Estimation, Mathematical model, Soruce separation, Speech, Vectors, Bayes methods, Blind source separation, Directional statistics, Number of speakers, Speaker diarization}}, pages = {{213--217}}, title = {{{Towards Online Source Counting in Speech Mixtures Applying a Variational EM for Complex Watson Mixture Models}}}, year = {{2014}}, } @inproceedings{9783, abstract = {{To optimize the ultrasound irradiation for cavitation based ultrasound applications like sonochemistry or ultrasound cleaning, the correlation between cavitation intensity and the resulting effect on the process is of interest. Furthermore, changing conditions like temperature and pressure result in varying acoustic properties of the liquid. That might necessitate an adaption of the ultrasound irradiation. To detect such changes during operation, process monitoring is desired. Labor intensive processes, that might be carried out for several hours, also require process monitoring to increase their reliability by detection of changes or malfunctions during operation. In some applications cavitation detection and monitoring can be achieved by the application of sensors in the sound field. Though the application of sensors is possible, this necessitates modifications on the system and the sensor might disturb the sound field. In other applications harsh, process conditions prohibit the application of sensors in the sound field. Therefore alternative techniques for cavitation detection and monitoring are desired. The applicability of an external microphone and a self-sensing ultrasound transducer for cavitation detection were experimentally investigated. Both methods were found to be suitable and easily applicable.}}, author = {{Bornmann, Peter and Hemsel, Tobias and Sextro, Walter and Maeda, Takafumi and Morita, Takeshi}}, booktitle = {{Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2012 IEEE International}}, issn = {{1948-5719}}, keywords = {{cavitation, chemical reactors, microphones, process monitoring, reliability, ultrasonic applications, ultrasonic waves, acoustic properties, cavitation based ultrasound applications, cavitation intensity, change detection reliability, external microphone, malfunction detection reliability, nonperturbing cavitation detection, nonperturbing cavitation monitoring, process monitoring, self-sensing ultrasound transducer, sonochemical reactors, sonochemistry, ultrasound cleaning, ultrasound irradiation, Acoustics, Liquids, Monitoring, Sensors, Sonar equipment, Transducers, Ultrasonic imaging}}, pages = {{1141--1144}}, title = {{{Non-perturbing cavitation detection / monitoring in sonochemical reactors}}}, doi = {{10.1109/ULTSYM.2012.0284}}, year = {{2012}}, } @inproceedings{9784, abstract = {{Piezoelectric inertia motors use the inertia of a body to drive it by means of a friction contact in a series of small steps. These motors can operate in ``stick-slip'' or ``slip-slip'' mode, with the fundamental frequency of the driving signal ranging from several Hertz to more than 100 kHz. To predict the motor characteristics, a Coulomb friction model is sufficient in many cases, but numerical simulation requires microscopic time steps. This contribution proposes a much faster simulation technique using one evaluation per period of the excitation signal. The proposed technique produces results very close to those of timestep simulation for ultrasonics inertia motors and allows direct determination of the steady-state velocity of an inertia motor from the motion profile of the driving part. Thus it is a useful simulation technique which can be applied in both analysis and design of inertia motors, especially for parameter studies and optimisation.}}, author = {{Hunstig, Matthias and Hemsel, Tobias and Sextro, Walter}}, booktitle = {{Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2012 IEEE International}}, issn = {{1948-5719}}, keywords = {{friction, ultrasonic motors, Coulomb friction model, efficient simulation technique, friction contact, high-frequency piezoelectric inertia motor, motor characteristics prediction, numerical simulation, slip-slip mode, stick-slip mode, time-step simulation, ultrasonic inertia motor, Acceleration, Acoustics, Actuators, Computational modeling, Friction, Numerical models, Steady-state}}, pages = {{277--280}}, title = {{{An efficient simulation technique for high-frequency piezoelectric inertia motors}}}, doi = {{10.1109/ULTSYM.2012.0068}}, year = {{2012}}, } @inproceedings{11930, abstract = {{For human-machine interfaces in distant-talking environments multichannel signal processing is often employed to obtain an enhanced signal for subsequent processing. In this paper we propose a novel adaptation algorithm for a filter-and-sum beamformer to adjust the coefficients of FIR filters to changing acoustic room impulses, e.g. due to speaker movement. A deterministic and a stochastic gradient ascent algorithm are derived from a constrained optimization problem, which iteratively estimates the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue of the cross power spectral density of the microphone signals. The method does not require an explicit estimation of the speaker location. The experimental results show fast adaptation and excellent robustness of the proposed algorithm.}}, author = {{Warsitz, Ernst and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}}, booktitle = {{IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005)}}, keywords = {{acoustic filter-and-sum beamforming, acoustic room impulses, acoustic signal processing, adaptive principal component analysis, adaptive signal processing, architectural acoustics, constrained optimization problem, cross power spectral density, deterministic algorithm, deterministic algorithms, distant-talking environments, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, eigenvector, enhanced signal, filter-and-sum beamformer, FIR filter coefficients, FIR filter coefficients, FIR filters, gradient methods, human-machine interfaces, iterative estimation, iterative methods, largest eigenvalue, microphone signals, multichannel signal processing, optimisation, principal component analysis, spectral analysis, stochastic gradient ascent algorithm, stochastic processes}}, pages = {{iv/797--iv/800 Vol. 4}}, title = {{{Acoustic filter-and-sum beamforming by adaptive principal component analysis}}}, doi = {{10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1416129}}, volume = {{4}}, year = {{2005}}, }