| May 04, 2026 | Three Papers at ICASSP 2026: From Missing Samples to Personalized 3D Audio |
| Apr 01, 2026 | I am grateful to receive a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) – Scientific Research (C) (No. 26K14896) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for the project “Semantics-Driven Multimodal Control of Spatio-Spectral Filtering for Real-World Augmented Listening with Smart Glasses”. 🎉 |
| Apr 01, 2026 | A New Chapter at RIKEN-AIP: From Sound Scene Understanding to Music Information Intelligence |
| Jun 13, 2025 | AV-SUARA Goes Live: Augmented Listening at the IPSJ Otogaku Symposium 2025 |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Our paper "Time-Domain Audio Source Separation Based on Gaussian Processes with Deep Kernel Learning" was presented at IEEE WASPAA 2023. |
| Aug 20, 2023 | Our team provided a tutorial entitled "Foundations, Extensions and Applications of Statistical Multichannel Speech Separation Models" at Interspeech 2023. |
| Jun 08, 2023 | Our paper "Exploiting Sparse Recovery Algorithms for Semi-Supervised Training of Deep Neural Networks for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation" was presented at IEEE ICASSP 2023. |
| Oct 26, 2022 | Our paper "Direction-Aware Adaptive Online Neural Speech Enhancement with an Augmented Reality Headset in Real Noisy Conversational Environments" was presented at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2022. |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Our paper "Direction-Aware Joint Adaptation of Neural Speech Enhancement and Recognition in Real Multiparty Conversational Environments" was presented at Interspeech 2022. |
| Sep 07, 2022 | We presented two papers at IWAENC 2022: ① “DNN-free Low-Latency Adaptive Speech Enhancement Based on Frame-Online Beamforming Powered by Block-Online FastMNMF” and ② “Joint Localization and Synchronization of Distributed Camera-Attached Microphone Arrays for Indoor Scene Analysis”. |
| May 07, 2022 | Our Sound Scene Understanding Team presented two papers at IEEE ICASSP 2022: ① “Flow-Based Fast Multichannel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Blind Source Separation” and ② “Neural Full-Rank Spatial Covariance Analysis for Blind Source Separation”. |
| Apr 28, 2022 | Our article “Generalized Fast Multichannel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Based on Gaussian Scale Mixtures for Blind Source Separation” has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. It is now available on IEEE Xplore. |
| Apr 01, 2022 | I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Research Scientist (研究員) at RIKEN! |
| Jan 22, 2022 | Our paper “Flow-Based Fast Multichannel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Blind Source Separation” has been accepted to IEEE ICASSP 2022. |
| Dec 28, 2021 | Our article “Multichannel Audio Source Separation With Deep Neural Networks” received the 6th IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan Young Author Best Paper Award. 🥳 |
| Dec 28, 2021 | Our article “Fast Multichannel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization With Directivity-Aware Jointly-Diagonalizable Spatial Covariance Matrices for Blind Source Separation” received the 15th IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan Student Journal Paper Award. 🥳 |
| Sep 04, 2021 | Our article "An analysis of environment, microphone and data simulation mismatches in robust speech recognition" received ISCA Award for the Best Review Paper published in Computer Speech and Language (2016-2020). 🥳 |
| Sep 01, 2021 | The final published version of our article “Neural Full-Rank Spatial Covariance Analysis for Blind Source Separation” is now available on IEEE Xplore. |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Our Sound Scene Understanding Team hosted the 39th RIKEN AIP Center Open Seminar. A video archive will be available soon on the webpage of AIP Open Seminar Series. |
| Aug 06, 2021 | Our article “Neural Full-Rank Spatial Covariance Analysis for Blind Source Separation” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing Letters. It is now available on IEEE Xplore. |