Prof. Dr. Reinhold Häb-Umbach

Head - Professor
Wed. 16.00h -17.00h
33098 Paderborn
- Honors and Awards
2020
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Denomination: "for contributions to robustness of automatic speech recognition".
2017
- "Top 10% Paper Award" at IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, Luton, U.K.. Paper title: Multi-Stage Coherence Drift Based Sampling Rate Synchronization for Acoustic Beamforming, by. J. Schmalenstroeer, J. Heymann, L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, and R. Haeb-Umbach
- Co-author of paper winning the best student paper award at Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden. Paper title: Hidden Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery, by J. Ebbers, J. Heymann, L. Drude, T. Glarner, R. Haeb-Umbach, and B. Raj
2015
- Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Denomination: "for contributions to improving robustness of ASR".
2013
- Co-author of paper winning the best student paper award at IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), Olomouc, Czech Republic. Paper title: A Hierarchical System for Word Discovery Exploiting DTW-Based Initialization, by O.Walter, T. Korthals, R. Haeb-Umbach, B. Raj
2012
- Co-author of paper winning the best student paper award at International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany. Paper title: Exploiting Temporal Correlations in Joint Multichannel Speech Separation and Noise Suppression Using Hidden Markov Models, by D.H. Tran Vu and R. Haeb-Umbach
2011
- Co-author of publication nominated for best student paper Award at Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy. Paper title: A Versatile Gaussian Splitting Approach to Non-Linear State Estimation and its Application to Noise-Robust ASR, by V. Leutnant, A. Krueger and R. Haeb-Umbach
- Weierstraß-Prize of the University of Paderborn for excellence in teaching
2010
- Co-author of Paper winning the best student paper award at International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), Tel Aviv. Paper title: An EM Approach to Multichannel Speech Separation and Noise Suppression, by D.H. Tran Vu and R. Haeb-Umbach
2009
- Senior Member, IEEE
1997
Innovation Prize of Philips Research for managing a project, which brought the first name-dialing functionality to Philips moble phones
1994
- Innovation Prize of Philips Research for contributions to Philips' Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition System
1988
- "Borchers Plague" of RWTH Aachen University for dissertation with honours
1983
- "Springorum Plague of RWTH Aachen University for Dipl.-Ing. degree with distinction
1980-1983
- Fellow of "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
- Professional Highlights
- Co-author of Robust Speech Recognition - A Bridge to Practical Applications, Elsevier, 2016
- Published more than 200 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences
- Co-editors of the book Robust Speech Recognition of Uncertain or Missing Data: Theory and Applications, Springer, 2011
- Ten competitive research grants by DFG (German Research Foundation) in last 10 years
- Currently supervising 7 Ph.D. students
- Service to the Scientific Community
- IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee Member, 2015 – 2020
- Regional Publicity Chair, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Athens, Dec. 2018
- Technical Program Chair, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 2017
- Regional Publicity Chair, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, San Diego, Dec. 2016
- General Chair, ITG Conference on Speech Communication, October 2016, Paderborn, Germany
- Exhibition Chair of Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany
- Chairman of ITG (German Engineering Society) Technical Committee Audiotechnology AT4 on Speech Processing; and member of Technical Committee "Signal Processing and Machine Learning"
- Technical Reviewer for journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Elsevier Speech Communication, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, ICASSP, Interspeech, Eusipco, ASRU, SLT
- Reviewer of grant applications to EU, DFG (German Research Foundation) and variousl foreign research organizations
- Guest editor IEEE Selected Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on "Far-Field Speech Processing in the Era of Deep Learning: Speech Enhancement, Separation and Recognition", vol. 13. no. 4, Aug. 2019
- Organizer of Special Session at ICASSP 2018 on "Multi-Microphone Speech Recognition", Calgary, April 2018
- Guest editor IEEE Selected Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on „Natural Interaction with Intelligent Environments”, vol. 4, no. 5, Oct. 2010

04/2001 - today | Full professor of Communications Engineering at University of Paderborn, Germany |
1990 - 2001 | Research Staff Member at Philips Research Laboratories, Aachen, Germany |
02/2000 - 01/2001 | Sabbatical at Philips Natuurkundig Laboartorium, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
1997 | Appointment to Senior Scientist |
08/1988 - 11/1989 | Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA |
1988 | Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Dissertation: Carrier Phase Synchronization on Fading Channels |
1983 - 1988 | Research Staff Member at Department of Control Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
1983 | Dipl.-Ing. RWTH Aachen University Thesis: Open-Loop Phase Synchronization in a Digital Receiver |
1977 - 1983 | Study of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University |
Open list in Research Information System
2021
R. Haeb-Umbach, J. Heymann, L. Drude, S. Watanabe, M. Delcroix, T. Nakatani, Proceedings of the IEEE (2021), 109(2), pp. 124-148
2020
J. Ebbers, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proceedings of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2020 Workshop (DCASE2020), 2020
R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2020, TUDpress, Dresden, 2020, pp. 227-234
K. Kinoshita, T.C. von Neumann, M. Delcroix, T. Nakatani, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. Interspeech 2020, 2020, pp. 2652-2656
T. Nakatani, C. Boeddeker, K. Kinoshita, R. Ikeshita, M. Delcroix, R. Haeb-Umbach, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2020), pp. 1-1
C. Boeddeker, T. Cord-Landwehr, J. Heitkaemper, C. Zorila, D. Hayakawa, M. Li, M. Liu, R. Doddipatla, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. CHiME 2020 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, 2020
T.C. von Neumann, K. Kinoshita, L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, M. Delcroix, T. Nakatani, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020, pp. 7004-7008
J. Heitkaemper, D. Jakobeit, C. Boeddeker, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2020 Virtual Barcelona Spain, 2020
T. Gburrek, J. Schmalenstroeer, A. Brendel, W. Kellermann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2020
J. Heitkaemper, J. Schmalenströer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2020 Virtual Shanghai China, 2020
K.J. Rohlfing, P. Cimiano, I. Scharlau, T. Matzner, H.M. Buhl, H. Buschmeier, E. Esposito, A. Grimminger, B. Hammer, R. Häb-Umbach, I. Horwath, E. Hüllermeier, F. Kern, S. Kopp, K. Thommes, A.N. Ngonga Ngomo, C. Schulte, H. Wachsmuth, P. Wagner, B. Wrede, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (2020), pp. 1-1
T.C. von Neumann, C. Boeddeker, L. Drude, K. Kinoshita, M. Delcroix, T. Nakatani, R. Haeb-Umbach, T. von Neuann, in: Proc. Interspeech 2020, 2020, pp. 3097-3101
2019
J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, K. Kinoshita, T. Nakatani, in: ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK, 2019
N. Kanda, C. Boeddeker, J. Heitkaemper, Y. Fujita, S. Horiguchi, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2019, Graz, Austria, 2019
A. Nelus, J. Ebbers, R. Haeb-Umbach, R. Martin, in: INTERSPEECH 2019, Graz, Austria, 2019
R. Haeb-Umbach, forschung (2019), 44(1), pp. 12-15
L. Drude, J. Heitkaemper, C. Boeddeker, R. Haeb-Umbach, ArXiv e-prints (2019)
G. Kurz, I. Gilitschenski, F. Pfaff, L. Drude, U.D. Hanebeck, R. Haeb-Umbach, R.Y. Siegwart, in: Journal of Statistical Software 89(4), 2019
L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (2019)
J. Heitkaemper, T. Feher, M. Freitag, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019
J. Ebbers, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: DCASE2019 Workshop, New York, USA, 2019
T. Gburrek, T. Glarner, J. Ebbers, R. Haeb-Umbach, P. Wagner, in: Proc. 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2019, pp. 81-86
R. Haeb-Umbach, S. Watanabe, T. Nakatani, M. Bacchiani, B. Hoffmeister, M.L. Seltzer, H. Zen, M. Souden, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2019), 36(6), pp. 111-124
R. Haeb-Umbach, DFG forschung 1/2019 (2019), pp. 12-15
J.M. Martin-Donas, J. Heitkaemper, R. Haeb-Umbach, A.M. Gomez, A.M. Peinado, in: INTERSPEECH 2019, Graz, Austria, 2019
L. Drude, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2019, Graz, Austria, 2019
T. von Neumann, K. Kinoshita, M. Delcroix, S. Araki, T. Nakatani, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK, 2019
L. Drude, D. Hasenklever, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK, 2019
J. Ebbers, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, A. Brendel, W. Kellermann, in: CAMSAP 2019, Guadeloupe, West Indies, 2019
C. Zorila, C. Boeddeker, R. Doddipatla, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ASRU 2019, Sentosa, Singapore, 2019
2018
J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ITG 2018, Oldenburg, Germany, 2018
L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, J. Heymann, K. Kinoshita, M. Delcroix, T. Nakatani, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India, 2018
V. Despotovic, O. Walter, R. Haeb-Umbach, Speech Communication 99 (2018) 242-251 (Elsevier B.V.) (2018)
C. Boeddeker, J. Heitkaemper, J. Schmalenstroeer, L. Drude, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India, 2018
J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, K. Kinoshita, T. Nakatani, in: IWAENC 2018, Tokio, Japan, 2018
J. Ebbers, A. Nelus, R. Martin, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: DAGA 2018, München, 2018
L. Drude, J. Heymann, C. Boeddeker, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ITG 2018, Oldenburg, Germany, 2018
J. Ebbers, J. Heitkaemper, J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ITG 2018, Oldenburg, Germany, 2018
C. Grimm, T. Breddermann, R. Farhoud, T. Fei, E. Warsitz, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM) 2018, 2018
J. Heitkaemper, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ITG 2018, Oldenburg, Germany, 2018
L. Drude, .T.. Higuchi,, K.. Kinoshita, T.. Nakatani, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada, 2018
T. Glarner, P. Hanebrink, J. Ebbers, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India, 2018
H. Afifi, J. Schmalenstroeer, J. Ullmann, R. Haeb-Umbach, H. Karl, in: Speech Communication; 13th ITG-Symposium, 2018, pp. 1-5
J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018), 2018
L. Drude, T. von Neumann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada, 2018
C. Boeddeker, H. Erdogan, T. Yoshioka, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada, 2018
M. Kitza, W. Michel, C. Boeddeker, J. Heitkaemper, T. Menne, R. Schlüter, H. Ney, J. Schmalenstroeer, L. Drude, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India, 2018
2017
J. Heymann, L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017
J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, Computer Speech and Language (2017)
C. Grimm, T. Breddermann, R. Farhoud, T. Fei, E. Warsitz, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: IEEE International conference on microwave, communications, anthenas and electronic systems (COMCAS), 2017
C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, L. Drude, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, 2017
L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden, 2017
J. Ebbers, J. Heymann, L. Drude, T. Glarner, R. Haeb-Umbach, B. Raj, in: INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden, 2017
C. Grimm, R. Farhoud, T. Fei, E. Warsitz, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: IEEE Microwaves, Radar and Remote Sensing Symposium (MRRS), 2017
P. Arora, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2017
C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, L. Drude, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017
A. Chinaev, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017
T. Fei, C. Grimm, R. Farhoud, T. Breddermann, E. Warsitz, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: IEEE International conference on microwave, communications, anthenas and electronic systems, 2017
T. Glarner, B. Boenninghoff, O. Walter, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden, 2017
J. Schmalenstroeer, J. Heymann, L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2017
2016
A. Chinaev, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, USA, 2016
T. Glarner, M. Mahdi Momenzadeh, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016), 2016
J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Computer Speech and Language, 2016
J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016
F. Jacob, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016), 2016
A. Plinge, F. Jacob, R. Haeb-Umbach, G.A. Fink, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2016), 33(4), pp. 14-29
O. Walter, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 38th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2016), 2016
A. Chinaev, J. Heitkaemper, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016), 2016
A. Chinaev, J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016), 2016
L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016
L. Drude, B. Raj, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, USA, 2016
K. Kinoshita, M. Delcroix, S. Gannot, E.A.P. Habets, R. Haeb-Umbach, W. Kellermann, V. Leutnant, R. Maas, T. Nakatani, B. Raj, A. Sehr, T. Yoshioka, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2016)
J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2016), 2016
T. Menne, J. Heymann, A. Alexandridis, K. Irie, A. Zeyer, M. Kitza, P. Golik, I. Kulikov, L. Drude, R. Schlüter, H. Ney, R. Haeb-Umbach, A. Mouchtaris, in: Computer Speech and Language, 2016
2015
J. Heymann, L. Drude, A. Chinaev, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015), 2015
O. Walter, R. Haeb-Umbach, J. Strunk, N.. P. Himmelmann, 2015
F. Jacob, R. Haeb-Umbach, ArXiv e-prints (2015)
A. Chinaev, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Interspeech 2015, 2015, pp. 1785-1789
M.K. Hoang, J. Schmalenstroeer, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), 2015
J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, P. Golik, R. Schlueter, in: Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, 2015, pp. 5053-5057
J. Li, L. Deng, R. Haeb-Umbach, Y. Gong, Elsevier, 2015
V. Despotovic, O. Walter, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2015, 2015
L. Drude, F. Jacob, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 23th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015), 2015
E. Marchi, B. Schuller, S. Baron-Cohen, O. Golan, S. Boelte, P. Arora, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2015, 2015
O. Walter, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), 2015
O. Walter, R. Haeb-Umbach, B. Mokbel, B. Paassen, B. Hammer, KI - Kuenstliche Intelligenz (2015), pp. 1-13
2014
L. Drude, A. Chinaev, D.H. Tran Vu, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), 2014
V. Leutnant, A. Krueger, R. Haeb-Umbach, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2014), 22(1), pp. 95-109
A. Chinaev, M. Puels, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 11. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2014), 2014
L. Drude, A. Chinaev, D.H. Tran Vu, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 14th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2014), 2014, pp. 213-217
J. Schmalenstroeer, P. Jebramcik, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), 2014
F. Jacob, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 11. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2014), 2014
J. Li, L. Deng, Y. Gong, R. Haeb-Umbach, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2014), 22(4), pp. 745-777
J. Schmalenstroeer, P. Jebramcik, R. Haeb-Umbach, Signal Processing (2014), pp. -
O. Walter, V. Despotovic, R. Haeb-Umbach, J. Gemmeke, B. Ons, H. Van hamme, in: INTERSPEECH 2014, 2014
J. Heymann, O. Walter, R. Haeb-Umbach, B. Raj, in: 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), 2014
J. Schmalenstroeer, W. Zhao, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 11. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2014), 2014
2013
A. Chinaev, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2013), 2013, pp. 3352-3356
J. Heymann, O. Walter, R. Haeb-Umbach, B. Raj, in: Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2013), 2013
K. Kinoshita, M. Delcroix, T. Yoshioka, T. Nakatani, E. Habets, R. Haeb-Umbach, V. Leutnant, A. Sehr, W. Kellermann, R. Maas, S. Gannot, B. Raj, in: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics , 2013, pp. 22-23
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