Nicholas EVANS

Name: Nicholas EVANS Service: Eurecom - Multimedia Communications  Function: Assistant-Professor Email: Nick.Evans at eurecom.fr Phone: 04 93 00 81 14 Fax: 04 93 00 82 00 Office: 419

Teaching

• From 2002-06 Nicholas Evans was a lecturer at the University of Wales Swansea (UWS), where he taught courses in Communications, and remained an honorary lecturer until 2009.
• In 2006 he moved to the Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon at the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse where he taught courses in Image Processing and Digital Communications.
• He moved to EURECOM in October 2007 where he teaches courses in Mathematical Methods for Engineers, and in Speech and Audio Processing.

Current research topics

• Speaker diarization, speaker recognition, biometric spoofing countermeasures, multimodal biometrics, acoustic echo cancellation and speech enhancement.

Selected publications

• 2010 - System output combination for improved speaker diarization
• 2010 - The LIA-Eurecom RT'09 speaker diarization system : enhancements in speaker modelling and cluster purification
• 2010 - New models for characterizing mobile terminal loudspeaker distortions
• 2010 - Low delay filtering for joint noise reduction and residual echo suppression