Digital Signal Processing for Hearing Instruments
Call for Papers
Hearing, as a prerequisite of listening, presumably represents the most important pillar of men's ability to communicate with each other. Hence, engineers of all denominations, physicists, and physicians have always been creative both to improve the environmental conditions of hearing and to ameliorate the individual hearing capability.
Digital signal processing for hearing instruments has been an active field of research and industrial development for more than 25 years. As a result, these efforts have eventually paid off and, thus, opened big markets for digital hearing aids and cochlear implants which, in turn, promote and accelerate related research and development. Certainly, the present state-of-the-art of hearing instruments has highly profited from efficient small size technology with very low power consumption mainly developed for portable communication equipment, advanced multirate algorithms for digital filtering and filter banks, and speech processing and enhancement devised for modern speech transmission and recognition. Moreover, these examples of cross-fertilisation exploiting synergies are continuing and expanding on a large scale.
To further promote the aforementioned cross-fertilisation, the goal of this special issue is to collect and present actual research in (preferably digital) signal processing methods and algorithms used in or suitable for hearing instruments.Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Source localisation/tracking/separation
- Acoustic feedback cancellation
- Noise and interference reduction
- Dereverberation
- Signal detection and classification
- Auditory scene analysis
- Psycho-acoustically motivated procedures and algorithms
- Binaural signal processing
- Filter banks
- Optimisation of DSP architectures
- Wireless techniques applicable to hearing instruments
- Interfacing hearing instruments with communication equipment
- Test beds, evaluations, and campaigns
- Related surveys (tutorials) are solicited
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | December 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | March 1, 2009 |
| Publication Date | June 1, 2009 |
Guest Editors
- Heinz G. Göckler, Digital Signal Processing Group (DISPO), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
- Torsten Dau, Centre for Applied Hearing Research, Acoustic Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
- Hugo Fastl, Institute for Human-Machine Communication, Technische Universität München, 80333 München, Germany
- Walter Kellermann, Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
- Sven Erik Nordholm, Signal Processing Laboratory, Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute (WATRI), Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
- Henning Puder, Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
