Tobias May

Postdoctoral researcher

Centre for Applied Hearing Research (CAHR)
Department of Electrical Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
Ørsteds Plads, Building 352
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Denmark

Tel.: +45 45253959
Email: tobmay@elektro.dtu.dk
http://www.hea.elektro.dtu.dk

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Tobias May received the Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in hearing technology and audiology from the Jade University of Applied Science, Oldenburg, Germany, in 2005 and the M.Sc. degree in hearing technology and audiology from the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, in 2007. In 2012, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in collaboration with the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Applied Hearing Research, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. His research interests include computational auditory scene analysis, automatic speaker recognition and speech segregation.


Publications

Journal papers

Georganti, E., May, T., van de Par, S., and Mourjopoulos, J. (2013), “Sound Source Distance Estimation in Rooms based on Statistical Properties of Binaural Signals,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 21(8), pp. 1727–1741.

May, T., van de Par, S., and Kohlrausch, A. (2012), “A binaural scene analyzer for joint localization and recognition of speakers in the presence of interfering noise and reverberation,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 20(7), pp. 2016–2030.

May, T., van de Par, S., and Kohlrausch, A. (2012), “Noise-robust speaker recognition combining missing data techniques and universal background modeling,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 20(1), pp. 108–121.

Georganti, E., May, T., van de Par, S., Härmä, A., and Mourjopoulos, J. (2011), “Speaker distance detection using a single microphone,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 19(7), pp. 1949–1961.

May, T., van de Par, S., and Kohlrausch, A. (2011), “A probabilistic model for robust localization based on a binaural auditory front-end,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 19(1), pp. 1–13.

Book chapters

Georganti, E., May, T., van de Par, S., and Mourjopoulos, J. (2013), “Extracting sound source-distance information from binaural signals,” in The Technology of Binaural Listening, J. Blauert, Ed., Berlin–Heidelberg–New York NY: Springer, 2013, ch. 7, pp. 171–199

May, T., van de Par, S., and Kohlrausch, A. (2013), “Binaural localization and detection of speakers in complex acoustic scenes,” in The Technology of Binaural Listening, J. Blauert, Ed., Berlin–Heidelberg–New York NY: Springer, 2013, ch. 15, pp. 397–425

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

May, T. and Gerkmann, T. (2014), “Generalization of supervised learning for binary mask estimation,” International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Antibes, France.

Käsbach, J., Oskarsdottir, G., May, T., Chang, J. and Jeong, C.-H. (2014), “The effect of interaural-time-difference fluctuations on apparent source width,” Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Kraków, Poland

May, T. and Dau, T. (2013), “Environmental-aware ideal binary mask estimation using monaural cues,” in IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, New York, USA

May, T. and van de Par, S. (2012), “Blind estimation of the number of speech sources in reverberant multisource scenarios based on binaural signals,” International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany.

Georganti, E., May, T., van de Par, S., and Mourjopoulos, J. (2012), “On the Statistics of Binaural Room Transfer Functions,” Proceedings of the 132nd Audio Engineering Society Convention, Budapest, Hungary.

May, T., van de Par, S., and Kohlrausch, A. (2011), “Binaural detection of speech sources in complex acoustic scenes,” in IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, New York, USA, pp. 241–244.

May, T., van de Par, S., and Kohlrausch, A. (2011), “Simultaneous localization and identification of speakers in noisy and reverberant environments,” in Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 2121–2126.

May, T., van de Par, S., and Kohlrausch, A. (2010), “The effect of spectro-temporal integration in a probabilistic model for robust acoustic localization,” in 2nd International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISAAR 2009), Helsingør, Denmark, pp. 125–134.

Georganti, E., May, T., van de Par, S., Härmä, A., and Mourjopoulos, J. (2009), “Single channel sound source distance estimation based on statistical and source specific features,” in Proceedings of the 126th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Munich, Germany.

May, T. and Schobben, D. (2007), “Constant complexity reverberation for any reverberation time,” in Proceedings of the 122nd Audio Engineering Society Convention, Vienna, Austria.

Bitzer, J., May, T., Kurtisi, Z. and Loesch, T. (2006),“Distance Teaching of Chamber Music via Local Area Networks,” in Proceedings of the 120th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Paris, France.

Non-peer-reviewed conference proceedings and abstracts

May, T., and Dau, T. (2014), “Speech segregation based on amplitude modulation spectrogram features,” Proceedings of DAGA, Darmstadt, Germany, pp. 245-246 (A).

Käsbach, J., May, T., Le Goff, N. and Dau, T. (2014), “The importance of binaural cues for the perception of apparent source width at different sound pressure levels,” Proceedings of DAGA, Oldenburg, Germany.

Raake, A, Blauert, J., Braasch, J., Brown, G. J., Danès, P., Dau, T., Gas, B., Argentieri, S., Kohlrausch, A., Kolossa, D., Le Goff, N., May, T., Obermayer, K., and Spors, S. (2014), “TWO!EARS - integral interactive model of auditory perception and experience,” Proceedings of DAGA, Oldenburg, Germany

Kowalski, C., May, T., and van de Par, S. (2012), “Schätzung der idealen binären Maske mittels Bayes’scher Klassifikation unter Einfluss von Störgeräusch und Nachhall,” Proceedings of DAGA, Darmstadt, Germany, pp. 245-246.

May, T., van de Par, S. and Kohlrausch, A. (2011),“Kombinierte Lokalisation und Identifikation von Sprechern in komplexen akustischen Szenen,” DAGA, Düsseldorf 2011, p.181 (A).

May, T., van de Par, S., and Kohlrausch, A. (2009), “A probabilistic model for robust acoustic localization based on an auditory front-end,” in Proceedings of the NAG/DAGA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, p. 254 (A).

Thesis

May, T. (2012), “Binaural scene analysis: Localization, detection and recognition of speakers in complex scenes,” Ph.D. thesis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

May, T. (2007), “Analysis and Improvement of 3D Headphones Sound Reproduction,” M.Sc. thesis, University of Oldenburg, Germany.