Lebenslauf – Kellermann, Walter, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Walter Kellermann – Curriculum Vitae
| 2024- | Member of Scientific Staff at the Chair for Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing |
| 1999-2024 | Professor at the Chair for Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing |
| 1999- | Cofounder and Chief Scientist of DSPSolutions |
| 1997-1998 | Managing director and project leader at the Institute for Applied Research of the Fachhochschule Regensburg |
| 1993-1999 | Professor for Communications at the Electrical Engineering department of the Fachhochschule Regensburg teaching courses on signals and systems, signal processing, and digital communications |
| 1990-1993 | Member of technical staff and project leader at the basic development department of Philips Kommunikations Industrie (PKI), Nuremberg |
| 1989-1990 | Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at the Center for Information Principles Research, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Research on intelligent microphone arrays |
| 1988 | Dr.-Ing. degree (‚Mit Auszeichnung‘). Thesis on frequency-subband adaptive digital filters for use in hands-free communications |
| 1983-1988 | Research and teaching assistant at the Institut für Netzwerk- und Signaltheorie, Technical University Darmstadt |
| 1983 | Dipl.-Ing. (univ.) degree from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Electrical Engineering. Dipl.-Ing. thesis in speech coding |
Selected Honors
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award 2024
- Fellow Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) (2024)
- Fraunhofer IIS Research Fellow (2023)
- IEEE Life Fellow (2023)
- EURASIP Fellow 2021
- EURASIP Group Technical Achievement Award 2015
- Julius von Haast Fellowship Award 2012
- Fellow of the IEEE (2008)
- Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2008 – 2009)
- Best PhD Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, 1990
Publications
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Selected Professional Activities
Functions
Conference Organisation
- General Chair of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2022), Bamberg, Germany, 2022
- General Chair of 11th ITG Conference on Speech Communication 2014, Erlangen, Germany, 2014
- Co-Chair of REVERB Challenge Workshop, Florence, Italy, 2014
- Co-Chair of 10th ITG Conference on Speech Communication 2012, Braunschweig, Germany, 2012
- Co-Chair of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2012), Aachen, Germany, 2012
- Co-Chair of International Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2011), Edinburgh, Scotland, 2011
- Co-Chair of International Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2008), Trento, Italy, 2008
- General Chair of IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2005
- General Chair of 5th International Workshop on Microphone Arrays, Schloss Weissenstein, Germany, 2003
- Member of Standing Committee for International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, since 1993
Editor
- Member of Overview Article Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2009-2011
- Book series ‚Springer Topics in Signal Processing‘ (with J. Benesty, INRS Montreal), Springer, Heidelberg, 2007-
Associate Editor
- IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2001-2005
- EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, 2004-2006
- EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing, 2005-2007
- EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2007-2025
Guest Editor
- Special Issue on Model-based and Data-Driven Audio Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2023
- Special Issue on Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Speech and Audio in Acoustic Sensor Networks, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2022
- Special issue on Acoustic Source Localization and Tracking in Dynamic Real-Life Scenes, IEEE Journal Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2019
- Special Issue on Advances in adaptive filtering theory and applications to acoustic and speech signal processing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Springer, 2016
- Article Collection on ‚Silencing the echoes‘ – Processing of Reverberant Speech, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Springer, 2015
- Special Issue on Signal Processing for Assisted Listening, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2014
- Special Issue on Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2010
- Special Issue on Digital Signal Processing for Hearing Instruments, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishers, 2009
- Special Issue on Multi-channel Signal Processing for Audio and Acoustics Applications, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2004
- Special Issue on Signal Processing for Acoustic Communication Systems, EURASIP Journal for Applied Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishers, 2003
- Special Issue on Recent Topics in Hands-free Acoustic Communication, Signal Processing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2000
- Special issue Annales de Telecommunication, 1994