Anthony Lombard

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing
Cauerstraße 7
91058 Erlangen
Germany

Tel: +49 9131 85 27781
Fax: +49 9131 85 28849
Email: lombard@LNT.de

A Short Biography:

Anthony Lombard received his M.Sc. level postgraduate degree in engineering (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille (now, Ecole Centrale de Marseille), France in 2004. In 2004 he was with the speech research group at the University of Wales, Swansea (UK) working on automatic speaker recognition.

Since 2005, Anthony Lombard is a member of the research staff at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His current research interests include multichannel adaptive algorithms for audio signal processing, and their applications to acoustic source localization, blind source separation of convolutive mixtures, adaptive interference cancellation and feedback cancellation in hearing-aids.

In 2006, he received the Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI).

Publications:

2009

A. Lombard, K. Reindl, W. Kellermann
Combination of Adaptive Feedback Cancellation and Binaural Adaptive Filtering in Hearing Aids
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2009, Article ID 968345, 15 pages, 2009.
doi:10.1155/2009/968345.

A. Lombard, T. Rosenkranz, H. Buchner, W. Kellermann
Multidimensional localization of multiple sound sources using averaged directivity patterns of blind source separation systems
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 233-236, Apr. 2009.

2008

A. Lombard, T. Rosenkranz, H. Buchner, W. Kellermann
Exploiting the Self-Steering Capability of Blind Source Separation to Localize Two or More Sound Sources in Adverse Environments
Proc. ITG Conference on Speech Communication, Aachen, Germany, Oct. 2008.

A. Lombard, W. Kellermann
Multichannel cross-talk cancellation in a call-center scenario using frequency-domain adaptive filtering
Proc. Int. Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), Seattle, Washington, USA, Sep. 2008.

K. Eneman, H. Luts, J. Wouters, M. Büchler, N. Dillier, W. Dreschler, M. Froehlich, G. Grimm, V. Hohmann, R. Houben, A. Leijon, A. Lombard, D. Mauler, M. Moonen, H. Puder, M. Schulte, A. Spriet, M. Vormann
Evaluation of Signal Enhancement Algorithms for Hearing Instruments
Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 2008.

H. Luts, K. Eneman, J. Wouters, M. Büchler, N. Dillier, W. Dreschler, M. Froehlich, G. Grimm, N. Harlander, V. Hohmann, R. Houben, S. Jansen, A. Leijon, A. Lombard, D. Mauler, M. Moonen, H. Puder, M. Schulte, A. Spriet, M. Vormann
Evaluation of signal enhancement strategies for hearing aids: a multicenter study (presentation)
Int. Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), Lake Tahoe, California, Aug. 2008.

J. Wouters, H. Luts, K. Eneman, A. Spriet, M. Moonen, M. Büchler, N. Dillier, W. Dreschler, M. Froehlich, G. Grimm, V. Hohmann, R. Houben, A. Leijon, A. Lombard, D. Mauler, H. Puder, M. Schulte, M. Vormann
Signal processing in hearing aids: results of the HEARCOM project (presentation)
Acoustics'08, Paris, France, Jul. 2008.

A. Lombard, H. Buchner, W. Kellermann
A real-time demonstrator for the 2D localization of two sound sources using blind adaptive MIMO system identification
Proc. Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), Trento, Italy, pp. 41-44, May 2008.

W. Kellermann, A. Lombard, R. Aichner, J. Wouters and K. Eneman
New multichannel algorithms for signal enhancement in hearing aids (presentation)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Audiologie (DGA'08), Kiel, Germany, Mar. 2008.

2007

S. Wehr, A. Lombard, H. Buchner, W. Kellermann
"Shadow BSS" for Blind Source Separation in Rapidly Time-Varying Acoustic Scenes
Int. Conf. on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA), Vol. LNCS 4666, Mike E. Davis, Christopher J. James, Samer A. Abdallah, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 560-568, Sep. 2007.

A. Lombard, H. Buchner, W. Kellermann
Improved Wideband Blind Adaptive System Identification Using Decorrelation Filters for the Localization of Multiple Speakers
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, USA, pp. 2974-2977, May 2007.

2006

A. Lombard, H. Buchner, W. Kellermann
Multidimensional Localization of Multiple Sound Sources Using Blind Adaptive MIMO System Identification
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 7-12, Sep. 2006 (Best Paper Award).