Christoph Benedikt Josef Boeddeker

Christoph Benedikt Josef Boeddeker
  • Biography

    Christoph's research interests include multichannel speech separation, beamforming, dereverberation, and automatic speech recognition for meetings, with a focus on combining statistical models and neural networks. He studied Electrical Engineering at Paderborn University, Germany, and held research internships at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA (2017), and at MERL in Cambridge, USA (2022) before joining MERL as a Visiting Research Scientist.

  • MERL Publications

    •  Cornell, S., Boeddeker, C., Park, T., Huang, H., Raj, D., Wiesner, M., Masuyama, Y., Chang, X., Wang, Z.-Q., Squartini, S., Garcia, P., Watanabe, S., "Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges", arXiv, July 2025.
      BibTeX arXiv
      • @article{Cornell2025jul,
      • author = {Cornell, Samuele and Boeddeker, Christoph and Park, Taejin and Huang, He and Raj, Desh and Wiesner, Matthew and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chang, Xuankai and Wang, Zhong-Qiu and Squartini, Stefano and Garcia, Paola and Watanabe, Shinji},
      • title = {{Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges}},
      • journal = {arXiv},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = jul,
      • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18161}
      • }
    •  Boeddeker, C., Subramanian, A.S., Wichern, G., Haeb-Umbach, R., Le Roux, J., "TS-SEP: Joint Diarization and Separation Conditioned on Estimated Speaker Embeddings", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​TASLP.2024.3350887, Vol. 32, pp. 1185-1197, February 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-006 PDF Software
      • @article{Boeddeker2024feb,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and Wichern, Gordon and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{TS-SEP: Joint Diarization and Separation Conditioned on Estimated Speaker Embeddings}},
      • journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
      • year = 2024,
      • volume = 32,
      • pages = {1185--1197},
      • month = feb,
      • doi = {10.1109/TASLP.2024.3350887},
      • issn = {2329-9304},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-006}
      • }
    •  Aralikatti, R., Boeddeker, C., Wichern, G., Subramanian, A.S., Le Roux, J., "Reverberation as Supervision for Speech Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10095022, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
      BibTeX TR2023-016 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Aralikatti2023may,
      • author = {Aralikatti, Rohith and Boeddeker, Christoph and Wichern, Gordon and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{Reverberation as Supervision for Speech Separation}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {1--5},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095022},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-016}
      • }
  • Other Publications

    •  Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Christoph Boeddeker and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Simultaneous Diarization and Separation of Meetings through the Integration of Statistical Mixture Models", ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025, pp. 1-5.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Cord2024simultaneous,
      • author = {Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Simultaneous Diarization and Separation of Meetings through the Integration of Statistical Mixture Models},
      • booktitle = {ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2025,
      • pages = {1--5},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Samuele Cornell, Christoph Boeddeker, Taejin Park, He Huang, Desh Raj, Matthew Wiesner, Yoshiki Masuyama, Xuankai Chang, Zhong-Qiu Wang, Stefano Squartini, Paola Garcia and Shinji Watanabe, "Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges", arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18161, 2025.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{Cornell2025recent,
      • author = {Cornell, Samuele and Boeddeker, Christoph and Park, Taejin and Huang, He and Raj, Desh and Wiesner, Matthew and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chang, Xuankai and Wang, Zhong-Qiu and Squartini, Stefano and Garcia, Paola and Watanabe, Shinji},
      • title = {Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges},
      • journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18161},
      • year = 2025
      • }
    •  Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Tomohiro Nakatani, Marc Delcroix, Christoph Boeddeker and Tsubasa Ochiai, "Microphone Array Signal Processing and Deep Learning for Speech Enhancement: Combining model-based and data-driven approaches to parameter estimation and filtering", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 12-23, 2025.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{Haeb2025microphone,
      • author = {Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and Nakatani, Tomohiro and Delcroix, Marc and Boeddeker, Christoph and Ochiai, Tsubasa},
      • title = {Microphone Array Signal Processing and Deep Learning for Speech Enhancement: Combining model-based and data-driven approaches to parameter estimation and filtering},
      • journal = {IEEE Signal Processing Magazine},
      • year = 2025,
      • volume = 41,
      • number = 6,
      • pages = {12--23},
      • publisher = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Peter Vieting, Simon Berger, Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker, Ralf Schlüter and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Error Analysis in a Modular Meeting Transcription System", Speech Communication; 14th ITG-Symposium, 2025.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Vieting2025ErrorAnalysis,
      • author = {Vieting, Peter and Berger, Simon and von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Schlüter, Ralf and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Error Analysis in a Modular Meeting Transcription System},
      • booktitle = {Speech Communication; 14th ITG-Symposium},
      • year = 2025,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Word Error Rate Definitions and Algorithms for Long-Form Multi-talker Speech Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, pp. 1-16, 2025.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{vonNeumann2025WER,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Word Error Rate Definitions and Algorithms for Long-Form Multi-talker Speech Recognition},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing},
      • year = 2025,
      • pages = {1--16}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Tobias Cord-Landwehr and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Once more Diarization: Improving meeting transcription systems through segment-level speaker reassignment", Interspeech, 2024, pp. 1615-1619.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker2024OnceMoreDia,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Once more Diarization: Improving meeting transcription systems through segment-level speaker reassignment},
      • booktitle = {Interspeech},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {1615--1619}
      • }
    •  Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Christoph Boeddeker, Cătălin Zorilă, Rama Doddipatla and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Geodesic interpolation of frame-wise speaker embeddings for the diarization of meeting scenarios", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024, pp. 11886-11890.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Cord2024geodesic,
      • author = {Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Boeddeker, Christoph and Zorilă, Cătălin and Doddipatla, Rama and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Geodesic interpolation of frame-wise speaker embeddings for the diarization of meeting scenarios},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {11886--11890},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Samuele Cornell, Tae Jin Park, He Huang, Christoph Boeddeker, Xuankai Chang, Matthew Maciejewski, Matthew S Wiesner, Paola Garcia and Shinji Watanabe, "The CHiME-8 DASR Challenge for Generalizable and Array Agnostic Distant Automatic Speech Recognition and Diarization", 8th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2024), 2024, pp. 1-6.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Cornell2024Chime8,
      • author = {Cornell, Samuele and Park, Tae Jin and Huang, He and Boeddeker, Christoph and Chang, Xuankai and Maciejewski, Matthew and Wiesner, Matthew S and Garcia, Paola and Watanabe, Shinji},
      • title = {The CHiME-8 DASR Challenge for Generalizable and Array Agnostic Distant Automatic Speech Recognition and Diarization},
      • booktitle = {8th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2024)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {1--6}
      • }
    •  Peter Vieting, Simon Berger, Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker, Ralf Schlüter and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Combining TF-GridNet And Mixture Encoder For Continuous Speech Separation For Meeting Transcription", 2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2024, pp. 155-162.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Vieting2024combining,
      • author = {Vieting, Peter and Berger, Simon and von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Schlüter, Ralf and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Combining TF-GridNet And Mixture Encoder For Continuous Speech Separation For Meeting Transcription},
      • booktitle = {2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {155--162},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker, Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Meeting recognition with continuous speech separation and transcription-supported diarization", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), 2024, pp. 775-779.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{vonNeumann2024meeting,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Meeting recognition with continuous speech separation and transcription-supported diarization},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {775--779},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Simon Berger, Peter Vieting, Christoph Boeddeker, Ralf Schlüter and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Mixture Encoder for Joint Speech Separation and Recognition", Proc. Interspeech, 2023, pp. 3527-3531.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Berger23MixtureEnc,
      • author = {Berger, Simon and Vieting, Peter and Boeddeker, Christoph and Schlüter, Ralf and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Mixture Encoder for Joint Speech Separation and Recognition},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {3527--3531}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Thilo von Neumann and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Multi-stage diarization refinement for the CHiME-7 DASR scenario", Proc. CHiME 2023, 2023, pp. 51-56.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker2023chime7,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Neumann, Thilo von and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Multi-stage diarization refinement for the CHiME-7 DASR scenario},
      • booktitle = {Proc. CHiME 2023},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {51--56}
      • }
    •  Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Christoph Boeddeker, Cătălin Zorilă, Rama Doddipatla and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Frame-wise and overlap-robust speaker embeddings for meeting diarization", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Cord2023framewise,
      • author = {Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Boeddeker, Christoph and Zorilă, Cătălin and Doddipatla, Rama and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Frame-wise and overlap-robust speaker embeddings for meeting diarization},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2023,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Christoph Boeddeker, Cătălin Zorilă, Rama Doddipatla and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "A Teacher-Student Approach for Extracting Informative Speaker Embeddings From Speech Mixtures", Proc. Interspeech, 2023, pp. 4703-4707.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Cord23TeacherStudent,
      • author = {Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Boeddeker, Christoph and Zorilă, Cătălin and Doddipatla, Rama and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {A Teacher-Student Approach for Extracting Informative Speaker Embeddings From Speech Mixtures},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {4703--4707}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "On Word Error Rate Definitions and their Efficient Computation for Multi-Speaker Speech Recognition Systems", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{vonNeumann2023word,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {On Word Error Rate Definitions and their Efficient Computation for Multi-Speaker Speech Recognition Systems},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2023,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "MeetEval: A Toolkit for Computation of Word Error Rates for Meeting Transcription Systems", 7th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2023), 2023, pp. 27-32.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{vonNeumann23Meeteval,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {MeetEval: A Toolkit for Computation of Word Error Rates for Meeting Transcription Systems},
      • booktitle = {7th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2023)},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {27--32}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Thilo von Neumann and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "An Initialization Scheme for Meeting Separation with Spatial Mixture Models", Proc. Interspeech, 2022, pp. 271-275.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker22MMM,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and von Neumann, Thilo and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {An Initialization Scheme for Meeting Separation with Spatial Mixture Models},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
      • year = 2022,
      • pages = {271--275}
      • }
    •  Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "MMS-MSG: A Multi-Purpose Multi-Speaker Mixture Signal Generator", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Cord2022mmsmsg,
      • author = {Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {MMS-MSG: A Multi-Purpose Multi-Speaker Mixture Signal Generator},
      • booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
      • year = 2022,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Christoph Boeddeker, Thilo von Neumann, Cătălin Zorilă, Rama Doddipatla and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Monaural source separation: From anechoic to reverberant environments", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Cord2022monaural,
      • author = {Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Boeddeker, Christoph and von Neumann, Thilo and Zorilă, Cătălin and Doddipatla, Rama and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Monaural source separation: From anechoic to reverberant environments},
      • booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
      • year = 2022,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Tobias Gburrek, Christoph Boeddeker, Thilo von Neumann, Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Joerg Schmalenstroeer and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "A Meeting Transcription System for an Ad-Hoc Acoustic Sensor Network", arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.00944, 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{Gburrek2022meeting,
      • author = {Gburrek, Tobias and Boeddeker, Christoph and von Neumann, Thilo and Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Schmalenstroeer, Joerg and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {A Meeting Transcription System for an Ad-Hoc Acoustic Sensor Network},
      • journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.00944},
      • year = 2022
      • }
    •  Keisuke Kinoshita, Thilo von Neumann, Marc Delcroix, Christoph Boeddeker and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Utterance-by-utterance overlap-aware neural diarization with Graph-PIT", Proc. Interspeech, 2022, pp. 1486-1490.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Kinoshita22DiaGraphPIT,
      • author = {Kinoshita, Keisuke and von Neumann, Thilo and Delcroix, Marc and Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {{Utterance-by-utterance overlap-aware neural diarization with Graph-PIT}},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
      • year = 2022,
      • pages = {1486--1490}
      • }
    •  Wangyou Zhang, Xuankai Chang, Christoph Boeddeker, Tomohiro Nakatani, Shinji Watanabe and Yanmin Qian, "End-to-end dereverberation, beamforming, and speech recognition in a cocktail party", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 30, pp. 3173-3188, 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{Zhang2022end,
      • author = {Zhang, Wangyou and Chang, Xuankai and Boeddeker, Christoph and Nakatani, Tomohiro and Watanabe, Shinji and Qian, Yanmin},
      • title = {End-to-end dereverberation, beamforming, and speech recognition in a cocktail party},
      • journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
      • year = 2022,
      • volume = 30,
      • pages = {3173--3188},
      • publisher = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Keisuke Kinoshita, Christoph Boeddeker, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "SA-SDR: A novel loss function for separation of meeting style data", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022, pp. 6022-6026.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{vonNeumann2022SASDR,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Boeddeker, Christoph and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {SA-SDR: A novel loss function for separation of meeting style data},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2022,
      • pages = {6022--6026},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Keisuke Kinoshita, Christoph Boeddeker, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Segment-Less Continuous Speech Separation of Meetings: Training and Evaluation Criteria", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 31, pp. 576-589, 2022.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{vonNeumann2022segment,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Boeddeker, Christoph and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Segment-Less Continuous Speech Separation of Meetings: Training and Evaluation Criteria},
      • journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
      • year = 2022,
      • volume = 31,
      • pages = {576--589},
      • publisher = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Frederik Rautenberg and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "A Comparison and Combination of Unsupervised Blind Source Separation Techniques", Speech Communication; 14th ITG-Symposium, 2021.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker2021SMMIVA,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Rautenberg, Frederik and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {A Comparison and Combination of Unsupervised Blind Source Separation Techniques},
      • booktitle = {Speech Communication; 14th ITG-Symposium},
      • year = 2021,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Chenda Li, Yi Luo, Cong Han, Jinyu Li, Takuya Yoshioka, Tianyan Zhou, Marc Delcroix, Keisuke Kinoshita, Christoph Boeddeker, Yanmin Qian, Shinji Watanabe and Zhuo Chen, "Dual-path RNN for long recording speech separation", Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2021, pp. 865-872.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Li2021dual,
      • author = {Li, Chenda and Luo, Yi and Han, Cong and Li, Jinyu and Yoshioka, Takuya and Zhou, Tianyan and Delcroix, Marc and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Boeddeker, Christoph and Qian, Yanmin and Watanabe, Shinji and Chen, Zhuo},
      • title = {Dual-path RNN for long recording speech separation},
      • booktitle = {Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {865--872},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Chenda Li, Jing Shi, Wangyou Zhang, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, Xuankai Chang, Naoyuki Kamo, Moto Hira, Tomoki Hayashi, Christoph Boeddeker, Zhuo Chen and Shinji Watanabe, "ESPnet-SE: end-to-end speech enhancement and separation toolkit designed for ASR integration", Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2021, pp. 785-792.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Li2021espnet,
      • author = {Li, Chenda and Shi, Jing and Zhang, Wangyou and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and Chang, Xuankai and Kamo, Naoyuki and Hira, Moto and Hayashi, Tomoki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Chen, Zhuo and Watanabe, Shinji},
      • title = {ESPnet-SE: end-to-end speech enhancement and separation toolkit designed for ASR integration},
      • booktitle = {Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {785--792},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Wangyou Zhang, Christoph Boeddeker, Shinji Watanabe, Tomohiro Nakatani, Marc Delcroix, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tsubasa Ochiai, Naoyuki Kamo, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach and Yanmin Qian, "End-to-end dereverberation, beamforming, and speech recognition with improved numerical stability and advanced frontend", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021, pp. 6898-6902.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Zhang2021end,
      • author = {Zhang, Wangyou and Boeddeker, Christoph and Watanabe, Shinji and Nakatani, Tomohiro and Delcroix, Marc and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Ochiai, Tsubasa and Kamo, Naoyuki and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and Qian, Yanmin},
      • title = {End-to-end dereverberation, beamforming, and speech recognition with improved numerical stability and advanced frontend},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {6898--6902},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Wangyou Zhang, Tomohiro Nakatani, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tsubasa Ochiai, Marc Delcroix, Naoyuki Kamo, Yanmin Qian and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Convolutive Transfer Function Invariant SDR Training Criteria for Multi-Channel Reverberant Speech Separation", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021, pp. 8428-8432.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{boeddeker2021convolutive,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Zhang, Wangyou and Nakatani, Tomohiro and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Ochiai, Tsubasa and Delcroix, Marc and Kamo, Naoyuki and Qian, Yanmin and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Convolutive Transfer Function Invariant SDR Training Criteria for Multi-Channel Reverberant Speech Separation},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {8428--8432},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Keisuke Kinoshita, Christoph Boeddeker, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Graph-PIT: Generalized Permutation Invariant Training for Continuous Separation of Arbitrary Numbers of Speakers", Proc. Interspeech, 2021, pp. 3490-3494.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{vonNeumann2021graphpit,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Boeddeker, Christoph and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {{Graph-PIT}: Generalized Permutation Invariant Training for Continuous Separation of Arbitrary Numbers of Speakers},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {3490--3494}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Speeding Up Permutation Invariant Training for Source Separation", Speech Communication; 14th ITG-Symposium, 2021.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{vonNeumann2021speedup,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Speeding Up Permutation Invariant Training for Source Separation},
      • booktitle = {Speech Communication; 14th ITG-Symposium},
      • year = 2021,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Jens Heitkaemper, Cătălin Zorilă, Daichi Hayakawa, Mohan Li, Min Liu, Rama Doddipatla and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Towards a speaker diarization system for the CHiME 2020 dinner party transcription", Proc. The 6th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2020), 2020, pp. 42-47.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker2020CHiME6,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Cord-Landwehr, Tobias and Heitkaemper, Jens and Zorilă, Cătălin and Hayakawa, Daichi and Li, Mohan and Liu, Min and Doddipatla, Rama and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Towards a speaker diarization system for the {CHiME} 2020 dinner party transcription},
      • booktitle = {Proc. The 6th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2020)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {42--47}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Tomohiro Nakatani, Keisuke Kinoshita and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Jointly optimal dereverberation and beamforming", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020, pp. 216-220.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker2020convBF,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Nakatani, Tomohiro and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Jointly optimal dereverberation and beamforming},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {216--220},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Jens Heitkaemper, Darius Jakobeit, Christoph Boeddeker, Lukas Drude and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Demystifying TasNet: A dissecting approach", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020, pp. 6359-6363.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Heitkaemper2020demystifying,
      • author = {Heitkaemper, Jens and Jakobeit, Darius and Boeddeker, Christoph and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Demystifying TasNet: A dissecting approach},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {6359--6363},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Shinji Watanabe, Michael Mandel, Jon Barker, Emmanuel Vincent, Ashish Arora, Xuankai Chang, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Vimal Manohar, Daniel Povey, Desh Raj, David Snyder, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, Jan Trmal, Bar Ben Yair, Christoph Boeddeker, Zhaoheng Ni, Yusuke Fujita, Shota Horiguchi, Naoyuki Kanda, Takuya Yoshioka and Neville Ryant, "CHiME-6 challenge: Tackling multispeaker speech recognition for unsegmented recordings", Proc. CHiME-6 Workshop, 2020.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Watanabe2020CHiME6,
      • author = {Watanabe, Shinji and Mandel, Michael and Barker, Jon and Vincent, Emmanuel and Arora, Ashish and Chang, Xuankai and Khudanpur, Sanjeev and Manohar, Vimal and Povey, Daniel and Raj, Desh and Snyder, David and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and Trmal, Jan and Yair, Bar Ben and Boeddeker, Christoph and Ni, Zhaoheng and Fujita, Yusuke and Horiguchi, Shota and Kanda, Naoyuki and Yoshioka, Takuya and Ryant, Neville},
      • title = {{CHiME}-6 challenge: Tackling multispeaker speech recognition for unsegmented recordings},
      • booktitle = {Proc. CHiME-6 Workshop},
      • year = 2020
      • }
    •  Tomohiro Nakatani, Christoph Boeddeker, Keisuke Kinoshita, Rintaro Ikeshita, Marc Delcroix and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Jointly optimal denoising, dereverberation, and source separation", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 28, pp. 2267-2282, 2020.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{nakatani2020jointly,
      • author = {Nakatani, Tomohiro and Boeddeker, Christoph and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Ikeshita, Rintaro and Delcroix, Marc and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Jointly optimal denoising, dereverberation, and source separation},
      • journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
      • year = 2020,
      • volume = 28,
      • pages = {2267--2282},
      • publisher = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Keisuke Kinoshita, Lukas Drude, Christoph Boeddeker, Marc Delcroix, Tomohiro Nakatani and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "End-to-end training of time domain audio separation and recognition", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020, pp. 7004-7008.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{vonNeumann2020end,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Drude, Lukas and Boeddeker, Christoph and Delcroix, Marc and Nakatani, Tomohiro and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {End-to-end training of time domain audio separation and recognition},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {7004--7008},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Thilo von Neumann, Christoph Boeddeker, Lukas Drude, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix, Tomohiro Nakatani and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Multi-Talker ASR for an Unknown Number of Sources: Joint Training of Source Counting, Separation and ASR", Proc. Interspeech, 2020, pp. 3097-3101.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{vonNeumann2020mltitalker,
      • author = {von Neumann, Thilo and Boeddeker, Christoph and Drude, Lukas and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Delcroix, Marc and Nakatani, Tomohiro and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Multi-Talker {ASR} for an Unknown Number of Sources: Joint Training of Source Counting, Separation and ASR},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
      • year = 2020,
      • pages = {3097--3101}
      • }
    •  Lukas Drude, Jens Heitkaemper, Christoph Boeddeker and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "SMS-WSJ: Database, performance measures, and baseline recipe for multi-channel source separation and recognition", arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13934, 2019.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{Drude2019smswsj,
      • author = {Drude, Lukas and Heitkaemper, Jens and Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {{SMS-WSJ}: Database, performance measures, and baseline recipe for multi-channel source separation and recognition},
      • journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13934},
      • year = 2019
      • }
    •  Naoyuki Kanda, Christoph Boeddeker, Jens Heitkaemper, Yusuke Fujita, Shota Horiguchi, Kenji Nagamatsu and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Guided Source Separation Meets a Strong ASR Backend: Hitachi/Paderborn University Joint Investigation for Dinner Party ASR", Proc. Interspeech, pp. 1248-1252, 2019.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{Kanda2019guided,
      • author = {Kanda, Naoyuki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Heitkaemper, Jens and Fujita, Yusuke and Horiguchi, Shota and Nagamatsu, Kenji and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Guided Source Separation Meets a Strong ASR Backend: Hitachi/Paderborn University Joint Investigation for Dinner Party ASR},
      • journal = {Proc. Interspeech},
      • year = 2019,
      • pages = {1248--1252}
      • }
    •  Cătălin Zorilă, Christoph Boeddeker, Rama Doddipatla and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "An Investigation Into the Effectiveness of Enhancement in ASR Training and Test for CHiME-5 Dinner Party Transcription", Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2019, pp. 47-53.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Zorila2019,
      • author = {Zorilă, Cătălin and Boeddeker, Christoph and Doddipatla, Rama and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {An Investigation Into the Effectiveness of Enhancement in ASR Training and Test for {CHiME}-5 Dinner Party Transcription},
      • booktitle = {Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)},
      • year = 2019,
      • pages = {47--53},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Jens Heitkaemper, Joerg Schmalenstroeer, Lukas Drude, Jahn Heymann and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Front-end processing for the CHiME-5 dinner party scenario", The 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2018), Interspeech, 2018.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker2018GSS,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Heitkaemper, Jens and Schmalenstroeer, Joerg and Drude, Lukas and Heymann, Jahn and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Front-end processing for the CHiME-5 dinner party scenario},
      • booktitle = {The 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2018), Interspeech},
      • year = 2018
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Lukas Drude and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Optimization of multi-channel dereverberation techniques for noisy reverberant speech recognition", 2018.
      BibTeX
      • @Other{Boeddeker2018Master,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Optimization of multi-channel dereverberation techniques for noisy reverberant speech recognition},
      • year = 2018
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Hakan Erdogan, Takuya Yoshioka and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Exploring practical aspects of neural mask-based beamforming for far-field speech recognition", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018, pp. 6697-6701.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker2018exploring,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Erdogan, Hakan and Yoshioka, Takuya and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Exploring practical aspects of neural mask-based beamforming for far-field speech recognition},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2018,
      • pages = {6697--6701},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Lukas Drude, Christoph Boeddeker, Jahn Heymann, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix and Tomohiro Nakatani, "Integrating Neural Network Based Beamforming and Weighted Prediction Error Dereverberation.", Proc. Interspeech, 2018, pp. 3043-3047.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Drude2018integrating,
      • author = {Drude, Lukas and Boeddeker, Christoph and Heymann, Jahn and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and Kinoshita, Keisuke and Delcroix, Marc and Nakatani, Tomohiro},
      • title = {Integrating Neural Network Based Beamforming and Weighted Prediction Error Dereverberation.},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Interspeech},
      • year = 2018,
      • pages = {3043--3047}
      • }
    •  Lukas Drude, Jahn Heymann, Christoph Boeddeker and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "NARA-WPE: A Python package for weighted prediction error dereverberation in Numpy and Tensorflow for online and offline processing", Speech Communication; 13th ITG-Symposium, 2018.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Drude2018narawpe,
      • author = {Drude, Lukas and Heymann, Jahn and Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {NARA-WPE: A Python package for weighted prediction error dereverberation in Numpy and Tensorflow for online and offline processing},
      • booktitle = {Speech Communication; 13th ITG-Symposium},
      • year = 2018,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Markus Kitza, Wilfried Michel, Christoph Boeddeker, Jens Heitkaemper, Tobias Menne, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney, Joerg Schmalenstroeer, Lukas Drude, Jahn Heymann and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "The RWTH/UPB system combination for the CHiME 2018 workshop", The 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2018), Interspeech, 2018, pp. 53-57.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Kitza2018rwth,
      • author = {Kitza, Markus and Michel, Wilfried and Boeddeker, Christoph and Heitkaemper, Jens and Menne, Tobias and Schlüter, Ralf and Ney, Hermann and Schmalenstroeer, Joerg and Drude, Lukas and Heymann, Jahn and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {The RWTH/UPB system combination for the CHiME 2018 workshop},
      • booktitle = {The 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2018), Interspeech},
      • year = 2018,
      • pages = {53--57}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Patrick Hanebrink, Lukas Drude, Jahn Heymann and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "On the computation of complex-valued gradients with application to statistically optimum beamforming", arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00392, 2017.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{Boeddeker2017computation,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Hanebrink, Patrick and Drude, Lukas and Heymann, Jahn and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {On the computation of complex-valued gradients with application to statistically optimum beamforming},
      • journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00392},
      • year = 2017
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Patrick Hanebrink, Lukas Drude, Jahn Heymann and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Optimizing Neural-Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming by Algorithmic Differentiation", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017, pp. 171-175.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Boeddeker2017cvnnBeam,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Hanebrink, Patrick and Drude, Lukas and Heymann, Jahn and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Optimizing Neural-Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming by Algorithmic Differentiation},
      • booktitle = {{International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}},
      • year = 2017,
      • pages = {171--175},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Jahn Heymann, Lukas Drude, Christoph Boeddeker, Patrick Hanebrink and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "BEAMNET: End-to-End Training of a Beamformer-Supported Multi-Channel ASR System", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017, pp. 5325-5329.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Heymann2017ASR_EndToEnd,
      • author = {Heymann, Jahn and Drude, Lukas and Boeddeker, Christoph and Hanebrink, Patrick and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {{BEAMNET}: End-to-End Training of a Beamformer-Supported Multi-Channel {ASR} System},
      • booktitle = {{International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}},
      • year = 2017,
      • pages = {5325--5329},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Joerg Schmalenstroeer, Jahn Heymann, Lukas Drude, Christoph Boeddeker and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Multi-stage coherence drift based sampling rate synchronization for acoustic beamforming", 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2017.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Schmalenstroeer2017multi,
      • author = {Schmalenstroeer, Joerg and Heymann, Jahn and Drude, Lukas and Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Multi-stage coherence drift based sampling rate synchronization for acoustic beamforming},
      • booktitle = {19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)},
      • year = 2017,
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Lukas Drude, Christoph Boeddeker and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Blind speech separation based on complex spherical k-mode clustering", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016, pp. 141-145.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Drude2016kmode,
      • author = {Drude, Lukas and Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Blind speech separation based on complex spherical k-mode clustering},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2016,
      • pages = {141--145},
      • organization = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Lukas Drude and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, "Untersuchungen zur permutationsfreien blinden Quellentrennung", 2015.
      BibTeX
      • @Other{Boeddeker2015Bachelor,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold},
      • title = {Untersuchungen zur permutationsfreien blinden Quellentrennung},
      • year = 2015
      • }
    •  Christoph Boeddeker, Mahmoud Mohamed and Baerbel Mertsching, "Detection and Tracking of Construction Workers and Equipment", Bildverarbeitung in der Automation , 2014 .
      BibTeX
      • @Article{BVAu2014detection,
      • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Mohamed, Mahmoud and Mertsching, Baerbel},
      • title = {Detection and Tracking of Construction Workers and Equipment},
      • journal = {Bildverarbeitung in der Automation},
      • year = 2014
      • }
    •  Mahmoud Mohamed, Christoph Boeddeker and Baerbel Mertsching, "Real-Time Moving Objects Tracking for Mobile-Robots Using Motion Information", IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics , 2014 .
      BibTeX
      • @Article{ssrr2014realTime,
      • author = {Mohamed, Mahmoud and Boeddeker, Christoph and Mertsching, Baerbel},
      • title = {Real-Time Moving Objects Tracking for Mobile-Robots Using Motion Information},
      • journal = {IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics},
      • year = 2014
      • }