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

Research

Current research topics

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

Current research interests

• His current research interests include speaker diarization, speaker recognition, biometric spoofing countermeasures, multimodal biometrics, acoustic echo cancellation and speech enhancement.
• Over recent years he has participated, with notable success, in the internationally competitive Rich Transcription Evaluations in speaker diarization that are administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST) in the US.
• He participates in the EU FP7 «TABULA RASA» project and the joint-national «Adaptable Ambient Living Assistant» (ALIAS) project, co-funded by the EU and the national French Research Agency (ANR) through the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme (ref: AAL-2009-2-049)

Current research memberships

• He is a member of ISCA, EURASIP, IEEE and its signal processing society
• He serves regularly as a committee member and reviewer for several international conferences, workshops, and journals and currently serves as an associate editor for the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing

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