Department of Microelectronics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

dr.ir. A. Koutrouvelis

Postdoc
Signal Processing Systems (SPS), Department of Microelectronics

PhD thesis (Dec 2018): Multi-Microphone Noise Reduction for Hearing Assistive Devices
Promotor: Richard Heusdens, Richard Hendriks

Expertise: Audio processing

Themes: Health and Wellbeing

Biography

Andreas Koutrouvelis was a postdoc at CAS until end of 2019. He was a PhD student at TU Delft, starting January 2015, and obtained his PhD in December 2018. Prior to this, he obtained his MSc diploma from TU Delft (CAS) in August 2014, on the topic of speech production modelling and analysis.

Projects history

Spatially Correct Multi-Microphone Noise Reduction Strategies suitable for Hearing Aids

multichannel signal processing algorithms to help hearing aid users

Acoustic Parameter Estimation

Robust Joint Estimation of Multimicrophone Signal Model Parameters

MATLAB software for jointly estimating RTFs, source PSDs, late reverberation PSD and noise PSD for a multiple source scenario, using SCFA

Software, Apr 2019

Multi-Microphone Speech Enhancement

Distributed block-diagonal linearly constrained beamformer

Software, Apr 2019

relaxed binaural linearly constrained minimum variance (RJBLCMV) binaural beamformer using semi-definite convex relaxation (SDCR)

Software, Apr 2019

Relaxed Binaural LCMV Beamforming

MATLAB software for RJBLCMV, a binaural beamformer with relaxed binaural cue preservation

Software, Nov 2016

Improved Multi-Microphone Noise Reduction Preserving Binaural Cues

MATLAB software for JBLCMV, a binaural beamformer with binaural cue preservation

Software, May 2016

Speech & Intelligibility Modelling

A Fast Method for High-Resolution Voiced/Unvoiced Detection and GCI/GOI Estimation of Speech

MATLAB software for detecting voiced/unvoiced speech and estimating glottal closure and opening instants

Software, Dec 2015

  1. A Convex Approximation of the Relaxed Binaural Beamforming Optimization Problem
    Andreas I. Koutrouvelis; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 27, Issue 2, pp. 321-331, February 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2878618
    document • software

  2. Distributed Rate-Constrained LCMV Beamforming
    Jie Zhang; Andreas Koutrouvelis; Richard Heusdens; Richard C. Hendriks;
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
    Volume 26, Issue 5, pp. 675-697, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2019.2905161
    document • software

  3. Robust Joint Estimation of Multimicrophone Signal Model Parameters
    Andreas I. Koutrouvelis; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;;
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.,
    Volume 27, Issue 7, pp. 1136–1150, Jul. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2019.2911167
    document • software

  4. A novel binaural beamforming scheme with low complexity minimizing binaural-cue distortions
    Andreas Koutrouvelis; Richard Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen; Meng Guo;
    In IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP),
    Brighton, UK, pp. 8013-8017, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682886
    document

  5. Binaural beamforming based on automatic interferer selection
    Costas Kokke; Richard Hendriks; Andreas Koutrouvelis;
    In IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP),
    Brighton, UK, pp. 6850-6854, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683417
    document

  6. Estimation of Sensor Array Signal Model Parameters Using Factor Analysis
    Andreas I. Koutrouvelis; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen;
    In 2019 27th Eur. Signal Process. Conf. (EUSIPCO),
    A Coruna, Spain, 2019. DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8902967
    document • software

  7. A Low-Cost Robust Distributed Linearly Constrained Beamformer for Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks with Arbitrary Topology
    A.I. Koutrouvelis; T.W. Sherson; R. Heusdens; R.C. Hendriks;
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing,
    Volume 26, Issue 8, pp. 1434-1448, August 2018. ISSN: 2329-9290. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2018.2829405
    document • software

  8. Evaluation of Binaural Noise Reduction Methods in Terms of Intelligibility and Perceived Localization
    A. I. Koutrouvelis; R. C. Hendriks; R. Heusdens; S. van de Par; J. Jensen; Meng Guo;
    In 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018),
    2018.
    document

  9. Multi-Microphone Noise Reduction for Hearing Assistive Devices
    A. Koutrouvelis;
    PhD thesis, TU Delft, Fac. EEMCS, December 2018. ISBN: 978-94-6186-999-9. DOI: 10.4233/uuid:cdb32aa2-9ca4-448c-a8a0-63f458c375ff
    document

  10. Relaxed Binaural LCMV Beamforming
    A. I. Koutrouvelis; R. C. Hendriks; R. Heusdens; J. Jensen;
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing,
    Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 137-152, Jan. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2016.2628642
    document • software • software

  11. Binaural Beamforming Using Pre-Determined Relative Acoustic Transfer Functions
    A. Koutrouvelis; R.C. Hendriks; R. Heusdens; J. Jensen; Meng Guo;
    In 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2017),
    Kos (Greece), EURASIP, pp. 1-5, August 2017. ISBN 978-0-9928626-7-1, ISSN: ISSN: 2076-1465. DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2017.8081277
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  12. Binaural Speech Enhancement with Spatial Cue Preservation Utilising Simultaneous Masking
    A. Koutrouvelis; J. Jensen; Meng Guo; R.C. Hendriks; R. Heusdens;
    In 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2017),
    Kos (Greece), EURASIP, pp. 628-632, August 2017. ISBN 978-0-9928626-7-1. DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2017.8081277
    document

  13. A Fast Method for High-Resolution Voiced/Unvoiced Detection and Glottal Closure/Opening Instant Estimation of Speech
    A.I. Koutrouvelis; G.P. Kafentzis; N.D. Gaubitch; R. Heusdens;
    IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
    Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 316-328, February 2016. Matlab code available from Xplore. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2506263
    document • software

  14. Improved multi-microphone noise reduction preserving binaural cues
    A. Koutrouvelis; R. C. Hendriks; J. Jensen; R. Heusdens;
    In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, Signal Proc. (ICASSP),
    Shanghai, China, March 2016.
    document • software

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