Eleftheria Georganti
Postdoctoral researcher
University Hospital/University of Zurich
Frauenklinikstrasse 24
CH-8091, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 779664708
Email: eleftheria.georganti@usz.ch
CV
I was born in Athens, Greece in 1982. I received my engineering diploma (2007) and my PhD (2013) from the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, University of Patras. From 2007 to 2013, I was working on my PhD on "Modelling, analysis and processing of room transfer functions under reverberant conditions" under the supervision of professor John Mourjopoulos, the head of the Audio & Acoustic Technology Group part of the Wire Communications Laboratory.
I have carried out nine months of research at the Engineering Acoustics group of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) supervised by Professor Dr. Finn Jacobsen under the framework of Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Research Training (EST). Then, I carried out another ten months of research as a visitor PhD student at Philips Research (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) working on ambient telephony technologies under the supervision of Dr. Aki Harma and Dr. Steven van de Par. I spent three months (October - December 2011) at the Institute of Physics of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg under the supervision of Dr. Steven van de Par working on the extraction of room/position information from binaural signals.
Since October 2013, I am working at the University of Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher, within the framework of the ICanHear project in the group of Prof. Norbert Dillier.
Apart from science and engineering, in my free time i enjoy listening/playing/trying to compose music. I have taken guitar (jazz/classical) and traditional greek instruments classes for several years.
Memberships: Audio Engineering society (AES), IEEE society, the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics, Young Acoustician Network, Technical Chamber of Greece.
Research
Research interests and specialties: Digital signal processing, statistical properties of anechoic/reverberant signals, auditory signal processing, psychoacoustics, auditory localization, room acoustics, ambient telephony technologies, room acoustics perception, hearing aid technologies, common evaluation schemes for DSP algorithms
Publications
Theses
[T1] E. Georganti, "Modelling, analysis and processing of room responses and reverberant signals", PhD Thesis, University of Patras, 2013. [document]
[T2] E. Georganti, "System of measurement and analysis of three dimensional impulse responses of acoustical spaces", Diploma (MsC equivalent) Thesis (in Greek), University of Patras, 2007.
Journal papers
[J1] E. Georganti, T. May, S. van de Par and J. Mourjopoulos, "Sound Source Distance Estimation in Rooms based on Statistical Properties of Binaural Signals", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 21, Issue 8, August 2013.
[J2] E. Georganti, T. May, S. van de Par, A. Harma and J. Mourjopoulos, "Speaker Distance Detection using a Single Microphone", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 19, Issue 7, September 2011. [document]
[J3] A. Tsilfidis, T. Vovolis, E. Georganti, J. Mourjopoulos, “Function and acoustic properties of ancient greek theatre masks”, Acta Acustica united with Acustica, Vol. 99, N. 1, January/February 2013.
Book chapters
[B1] E. Georganti, T. May, S. van de Par, and J. Mourjopoulos. Extracting sound-source-distance information from binaural signals. In J. Blauert, editor, The technology of binaural listening, chapter 7. Springer, Berlin–Heidelberg–New York NY, 2013.
[B2] A. Tsilfidis, A. Westerman, J. Buchholz, E. Georganti, and J. Mourjopoulos. Binaural dereverberation. In J. Blauert, editor, The technology of binaural listening, chapter 14. Springer, Berlin–Heidelberg–New York NY, 2013.
Conference papers
([RP1-RP2] refereed proceedings, [IP1-3] invited papers, [P1-12, GP1-12] abstract / précis refereed proceedings)
[RP1] E. Georganti, J. Mourjopoulos, S. van de Par, “Room statistics and direct-to-reverberant ratio estimation from dual-channel signals", in Proc. of the IEEE ICASSP, Florence, Italy, 2014 (to be published).
[RP2] A. Tsilfidis, E. Georganti and J. Mourjopoulos, “Binaural extension and performance of single-channel spectral subtraction dereverberation algorithms", in Proc. of the IEEE ICASSP, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011.
[IP1] V. Kostakis, E. Georganti and J. Mourjopoulos, “Exploiting phase coherence in the analysis of binaurally recorded signals", Forum Acusticum, Krakow, Poland, 2014 (to be published).
[IP2] E. Georganti, N. Dillier and J. Mourjopoulos, “Measuring perception of coloration due to early reflections on binaural room impulse responses", Forum Acusticum, Krakow, Poland, 2014 (to be published).
[IP3] A. Tsilfidis, E. Georganti and J. Mourjopoulos, “A binaural framework for spectral subtraction dereverberation”, in Proc. of the Forum Acusticum (invited paper), Aalborg, Denmark, 2011.
[P1] E. Georganti, N. Dillier and J. Mourjopoulos, “Spectral effects of the early reflections in single-channel and binaural room impulse responses for speech communication systems”, in 17th DGA Jahrestagung, Oldenburg, Germany, 2014.
[P2] E. Georganti, A. Tsilfidis and J. Mourjopoulos, “Statistical Analysis of Binaural Room Impulse Responses”, in Proc. of the 130th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, London, UK, 2011.
[P3] E. Georganti, J. Mourjopoulos, "Analysis of the Acoustical environment based on signals’ statistics", in Proc. of the Audio Mostly 2012 (7th conference on Interaction with Sound), Corfu, Greece, September 2012.
[P4] E. Georganti, T. May, S. van de Par, J. Mourjopoulos, “On the statistics of binaural room transfer functions”, in Proc. of the 132th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Budapest, Hungary, 2012.
[P5] E. K. Kokkinis, E. Georganti, J. Mourjopoulos, “Statistical properties of the close-microphone responses”, in Proc. of the 132th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Budapest, Hungary, 2012.
[P6] A. Tsilfidis, T. Vovolis, E. Georganti, P. Teubner, J. Mourjopoulos, “Acoustic radiation properties of ancient greek theatre masks", in Proc. of the Acoustics of Ancient Theatres Conference, Patras, Greece, 2011.
[P7] E. Georganti and J. Mourjopoulos, “Statistical relationships of Room Transfer Functions and Signals”, in Proc. of the Forum Acusticum, Aalborg, Denmark, 2011.
[P8] E. K. Kokkinis, A. Tsilfidis, E. Georganti and J. Mourjopoulos, “Joint noise and reverberation suppression for speech applications”, in Proc. of the 130th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, London, UK, 2011.
[P9] A. Tsilfidis, E. Georganti, E. K. Kokkinis and J Mourjopoulos, “Speech dereverberation based on a recorded handclap”, in Proc. of the Digital Signal Processing Conference (DSP), Corfu, Greece, 2011.
[P10] E. Georganti, T. Zarouchas and J. Mourjopoulos, “Reverberation Analysis via Response and Signal Statistics”, in Proc. of the Audio Engineering Society 128th Convention, London, May 2010.
[P11] E. Georganti, T. May, S. van de Par, A. Harma and J. Mourjopoulos, “Single channel sound source distance estimation based on statistical and source-specific features”, in Proc. of the 126th Convention Audio Engineering Society , Munich, Germany, May 2009.
[P12] E. Georganti, J. Mourjopoulos and F. Jacobsen, “Analysis of room transfer function and reverberant signal statistics”, in Proc. of the Acoustics ’08 Convention (in English), Paris, June-July 2008.
Greek conference proceedings papers
[GP1] E. Georganti, J. Mourjopoulos, “Analysis and Estimation of the properties of Acoustical environments from reverberant signals”, in Proc. of the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics 2012 conference (in Greek), Corfu, Greece, 2012.
[GP2] E. Georganti, A. Krasoulis, J. Mourjopoulos, “Statistical analysis of room transfer functions and signals", in Proc. of the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics 2012 conference (in Greek), Athens, Greece, 2010.
