ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Head of Department

Dr. Prabir Kumar Saha
Ph.D(IIEST)

E-mail:
hod.ec@nitm.ac.in

Faculty

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Research Interest

Statistical signal processing, analysis and modeling of acoustic signals, speech enhancement, noise estimation, microphone arrays, source localization, blind source separation, system identification and adaptive filtering.

Education Qualification

PhD.

ACADEMIC DEGREES

1998 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel
1993 M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel
1990 B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude (Rank in class: 1st out of 241 students)
  • ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS


    2013-Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel
    2014-2017Visiting Professor, School of Marine Science and Technology, NorthwesternPolytechnical University, Xi’an, China
    2006-2012Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Technion – IIT, Haifa,Israel
    2001-2006 Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel
    1998-2000Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale Univ., NewHaven, Connecticut


    TEACHING EXPERIENCE


    Introduction to Digital Signal Processing(044198)Undergraduate Spring 2004, Winter 2005-6,Winter 2006-7, Winter 2007-8, Winter 2008-9
    Spatial Signal Processing (046743) Graduate &UndergraduateSpring 2016
    Image Processing and Analysis (046200) Graduate &UndergraduateWinter 2001-2, Spring 2002,Winter 2002-3, Spring 2003,Winter 2003-4, Winter 2004-5, Spring 2005, Spring 2006,Spring 2007, Spring 2008,Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Winter 2010-11, Spring 2011,Winter 2011-12, Winter2013-14, Winter 2014-15,Winter 2015-16, Winter2016-17, Winter 2017-18
    Image Processing and Analysis (04620083i)InternationalSchool of theTechnionSummer 2013, Summer 2014,Summer 2015, Summer 2016,Summer 2017
    Digital Speech Processing in NoisyEnvironments (049035)GraduateSpring 2005, Spring 2006,Spring 2007, Spring 2008,Spring 2009, Spring 2010,Spring 2011, Spring 2012,Spring 2013, Spring 2014,Spring 2015, Winter 2015-16
    Selected Topics in Signal Processing1(048831)GraduateSpring 2003, Spring 2004
    Selected Topics in Signal Processing 2(048865)GraduateWinter 2016-17
    Selected Topics in Signal Processing 3(048939)Graduate Winter 2017-18


    DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES


    2001-2003 Undergraduate studies committee
    2001-2004Consultant for students under discussion
    2006-2009 Consultant for exchange students
    2005-2009Consultant for undergraduate students in the field of Signal Processing
    2005-2009 Coordinator of graduate courses in the field of Signal Processing
    2006-2008Committee for departmental computerization
    2007-2009 Committee for outstanding employees
    2001-2004,2009-2014Committee for students under discussion
    2009-2014Committee for faculty and students
    2007-2014Committee for acceptance of students
    2011-2014Committee for academic development
    2009-2014Associate Dean for undergraduate student affairs
    2014-2016 Graduate studies committee
    2014-Committee for development, resources and finances
    2014-Academic supervisor of the departmental labs and projects
    2014-Committee for refreshing teaching experiments in departmental labs
    2014- Chair of the award committee for students projects
    2014-- Chair of the committee for development of teaching labs
    2017-Chair of the Appeal Court for Students

    PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

    Editor

    2004-2005 Guest Editor of a Special Issue of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in SignalProcessing on Advances in Multi-Microphone Speech Processing (Vol. 2006)
    2005-2006Guest Editor of a Special Issue of the EURASIP Speech Communication Journalon Speech Enhancement (Vol. 49, Issues 7-8, July-August 2007)
    2005-2007 Co-Editor of the Multichannel Speech Processing section of the Springer Handbookof Speech Processing
    2004-2007Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGEPROCESSING (before 2006 the journal title was: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECHAND AUDIO PROCESSING)
    2004-2008 Associate Editor of the IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
    Professional Committees


    2008 Professional Committee Member of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
    2009Professional Committee Member of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
    2013-2015Member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee(SLTC)
    2012-Member of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee(AASP TC)
    Technical Committees


    2008 International Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference onSignal and Image Processing, SIP-2008, Hawaii, USA.
    2009 International Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference onSignal and Image Processing, SIP-2009, Hawaii, USA.
    2010International Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference onSignal and Image Processing, SIP-2010, Hawaii, USA.
    2011International Technical Committee Member, the first annual “Speech ProcessingDay,” June 22, 2011, Afeka College, Tel Aviv, Israel.
    2011 International Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference onSignal and Image Processing and Applications, SIPA-2011, Crete, Greece.
    2011Technical Program Committee Member, 3rd Joint Workshop on Hands-free SpeechCommunication and Microphone Arrays, HSCMA-2011, Edinburgh, Scotland.
    2011International Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference onSignal and Image Processing, SIP-2011, Dallas, USA.
    2011International Program Committee Member, IEEE Workshop on Applications ofSignal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA-2011, New York, USA.
    2012International Technical and Steering Committee Member, 13th InternationalWorkshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2012, Aachen,Germany.
    2012 International Technical Committee Member, the 2012 Speech ProcessingConference, Afeka College, Tel Aviv, Israel.
    2012 International Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference onSignal and Image Processing, SIP-2011, Honolulu, Hawaii.
    2013 International Technical Committee Member, the 2013 Speech ProcessingConference, Afeka College, Tel Aviv, Israel.
    2014International Technical and Steering Committee Member, 14th InternationalWorkshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2014, Juan les Pins, FrenchRiviera.
    2014 International Technical Committee Member, the 2014 Speech ProcessingConference, Afeka College, Tel Aviv, Israel.
    2015International Technical Committee Member, the 2015 Speech ProcessingConference, Afeka College, Tel Aviv, Israel
    2016 International Technical and Steering Committee Member, 15th InternationalWorkshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2016, Xi’an, China
    2017 Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Workshop on Applications of SignalProcessing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA-2017, New York, USA.
    2018Tutorials Committee Member, Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India.
    2018 Technical Advisory Committee Member, International Conference onInstrumentation, Control and Biomedical Signal Processing - ICICS’18, Coimbatore,TamilNadu, India.
    2018 Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensor Array and MultichannelSignal Processing Workshop, SAM-2018, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
    2018 International Technical and Steering Committee Member, 16th InternationalWorkshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2018, Tokyo, Japan.
    OtherReviewer for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEESignal Processing Letters, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,EURASIP Signal Processing Journal, and EURASIP Speech CommunicationJournal.
    Reviewer of proposals for the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).


    MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

    IEEE Fellow

    FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS


    1987, 1988, 1989President of the Technion Honor List
    1988I. Kidron award at the Technion - IIT for excellent student at the faculty ofelectrical engineering
    1988The Israeli parliament honor for academic excellence
    1990Graduated 1st in class out of 241 students in the faculty of electrical engineering
    1993Rafael excellence award for a remarkable individual contribution and outstandingsolution
    1997Rafael excellence award for outstanding professional analysis of an importantproject
    1997Eliahu I. and Joyce Jury award at the Technion - IIT for outstanding achievement insystems, communication and signal processing
    1998Fulbright Israeli post-doctoral award (declined)
    2002, 2003Louis and Miriam Benjamin Lectureship - USA
    2003Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 15%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis
    2004 Best student paper award (23rd IEEE Convention of the Electrical and ElectronicEngineers in Israel, paper co-authored by Amir Noiboar and Israel Cohen)
    2005 Technion Excellent Lecturer award (top 5%) – course “Image Processing andAnalysis”
    2006Best student paper award (10th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo andNoise Control, IWAENC-2006, Paris, France, paper co-authored by Ari Abramsonand Israel Cohen)
    2006 Technion Excellent Lecturer award (top 5%) – course “Image Processing andAnalysis”
    2007Best student paper finalist (32nd IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech SignalProcess., ICASSP-2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, paper co-authored by Ari Abramson andIsrael Cohen)
    2007 Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Introduction toDigital Signal Processing”
    2007Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis”
    2008Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Introduction toDigital Signal Processing”
    2008 Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis”
    2009Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Introduction toDigital Signal Processing”
    2009 Muriel & David Jacknow award for Excellence in Teaching
    2009Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis”
    2010Best student paper award (12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo andNoise Control, IWAENC-2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Paper co-authored by S.Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen).
    2010 Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis”
    2010 Alexander Goldberg Prize for Excellence in Research
    2011 Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis” (winter semester)
    2011Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis” (spring semester)
    2012Best student paper award (27th IEEE Convention of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers in Israel, IEEEI-2012, Eilat, Israel. Paper co-authored by S. MarkovichGolan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen)
    2014Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis”
    2014 The 2014 SPS Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal ProcessingSociety, for the paper: E. A. P. Habets, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Late ReverberantSpectral Variance Estimation Based on a Statistical Model,” IEEE Signal ProcessingLetters, Vol. 16, Issue 9, Sep. 2009, pp. 770-773.
    2015 Qualcomm Research Award
    2015
    2015 Technion award for Excellence in Teaching (top 12%) – course “Image Processingand Analysis”
    2016Best student paper award (IEEE International Conference on the Science ofElectrical Engineering, ICSEE-2016, Eilat, Israel, Nov. 16-18, 2016. Paper coauthored by Y. Zonis, Y. Buchris and I. Cohen).
    2017Norman Seiden Prize for Academic Excellence



    GRADUATE STUDENTS

      Completed PhD Theses

    1.  Ari Abramson, Ph.D. (direct track), (2008), “Markov-Switching GARCH Models andApplications to Digital Speech Processing”.
    2.  Yekutiel Avargel, Ph.D. (direct track), (2008), “System Identification and Adaptive Filtering inthe Short-Time Fourier Transform Domain”.
    3. Ronen Talmon, Ph.D. (direct track) (2011), “Supervised Speech Processing Based onGeometric Analysis” (Sharon Gannot - Co-supervisor).
    4. Shmuel Markovich, Ph.D. (2013), “Distributed Speech Processing for Microphone Networks”(Sharon Gannot - Principal supervisor).
    5.  Idan Ram, Ph.D. (2014), “Wavelets for Graphs and Their Deployment to Image Processing”(Michael Elad - Co-supervisor).
    6. Saman Mousazadeh, Ph.D. (direct track) (2015), “Speech and Audio Processing Based onHarmonic Analysis and Statistical Models”.
    7. Gal Mishne, Ph.D. (direct track) (2017), “Diffusion Nets and Manifold Learning for HighDimensional Data Analysis in the Presence of Outliers”
      Completed MSc Theses
    8. Arnon Goldman, M.Sc. (2004), “Multi-Scale Anomaly Detection in Multi-DimensionalCluttered Data”.
    9. Gal Reuven, M.Sc. (2006), “Dual Transfer Function Generalized Sidelobe Canceller andApplication to Joint Noise Reduction and Echo Cancellation” (Sharon Gannot - Principalsupervisor).
    10. Lior Shadhan, M.Sc. (2007), “Detection of Anomalies in Texture Images Using MultiResolution Features”.
    11. Amir Noiboar, M.Sc. (2007), “Anomaly Detection Based on Wavelet Domain GARCHRandom Field Modeling”.
    12.  Alon Heimer, M.Sc. (2008), “Multichannel Deconvolution of Sparse Reflectivity Images UsingLayered Medium Models”.
    13. Shmuel Markovich, M.Sc. (2008), “Multichannel Eigenspace Beamforming in a ReverberantNoisy Environment with Multiple Interfering Speech Signals” (Sharon Gannot - Principalsupervisor).
    14. Maria Zontak, M.Sc. (2008), “Defect Detection in Patterned Wafers Using AnisotropicKernels”.
    15. Erez Cohen, M.Sc. (2009), “Wavelet Based Image Restoration Using Cross-Band Operators”.
    16. Amos Schreibman, M.Sc. (2009), “Adaptive Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation in ReverberantEnvironments”.
    17. Idan Ram, M.Sc. (2009), “Multichannel Deconvolution of Layered Media Using Markov ChainMonte Carlo methods” (Shalom Raz - Co-supervisor).
    18.  Yevgeni Litvin, M.Sc. (2010), “Single-Channel Blind Source Separation of Audio Signals” (DanChazan - Co-supervisor).
    19. Yaakov Buchris, M.Sc. (2010), “A Bayesian approach to coherent wideband array processing”(Miriam Doron - Co-supervisor).
    20.  Michal Genussov, M.Sc. (2011), “Transcription and classification of audio data by sparserepresentations and geometric methods”.
    21. Guy Rapaport, M.Sc. (2011), “Codebook-based Single Channel Blind Source Separation ofAudio Signals”.
    22. Ilana Volfin, M.Sc. (2011), “Dominant Speaker Identification for MultipointVideoconferencing”.
    23.  Itai Katsir, M.Sc. (2012), “Speech Bandwidth Extension Based on Speech Content and SpeakerInformation” (David Malah - Principal supervisor).
    24. Anna Oyzerman, M.Sc. (2012), “Speech Dereverberation in the Time-Frequency Domain”.
    25. Evgeny Kupershtein, M.Sc. (2013), “Indoor Localization based on Multipath Fingerprinting”(Mati Wax – Co-supervisor).
    26. Mingzi Li, M.Sc. (2013), “Multisensory Speech Enhancement in Noisy Environments UsingBone-Conducted and Air-Conducted Microphones”.
    27. Eliav Benisty, M.Sc. (2014), “Dereverberation and Noise Suppression of Multichannel SpeechSignals” (Jacob Benesty – Co-supervisor).
    28. Uri Okun, M.Sc. (2014), “Image Registration by Probabilistic Multi-Assignment GraphMatching” (Yosi Keller - Co-supervisor).
    29. David Dov, M.Sc. (2014), “Audio Visual Speech Processing using Diffusion Maps and theScattering Transform”.
    30. Reuven Berkun, M.Sc. (2015), “Quality Analysis and Enhancement of Reverberated SpeechUsing Microphone Arrays” (Jacob Benesty – Co-supervisor).
    31. Yaron Doweck, M.Sc. (2015), “Frequency Analysis of Non-Stationary Signals with HarmonicComponents” (Alon Amar - Co-supervisor).
    32. Nurit Spingarm, M.Sc. (2015), “Speaker Diarization Using GMM Mean Supervector andAdvanced Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms”.
    33. Oren Rosen, M.Sc. (2016), “Design and Analysis of a Constant Beamwidth Beamformer”.
    34. Deborah Pereg, M.Sc. (2017), “Sparse Seismic Inversion”.
    35. PhD Theses in Progress
    36.  David Dov, Ph.D., “Multimodal Signal Processing on Manifolds” (Ronen Talmon - Cosupervisor).
    37. Yaakov Buchris, Ph.D., “Study and Design of Differential Microphone Arrays” (Jacob Benesty- Co-supervisor).
    38.  Deborah Pereg, Ph.D, “Canonical Correlation Analysis of Speech Signals” (Jacob Benesty - Cosupervisor).
    39. MSc Theses in Progress
    40. Daniel Wolff, M.Sc., “Design and Analysis of Robust Concentric Circular DifferentialMicrophone Arrays”.
    41. Mirel Merabi, M.Sc., “Multichannel Semi-Blind Deconvolution (MSBD) of Seismic Signals”.
    42.  Gilad Avrashi, M.Sc., “Time Varying Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation in MulticarrierUnderwater Acoustic Communication” (Alon Amar- Co-supervisor).
    43.  Aviva Atkins, M.Sc., “Non-Stationary Harmonic Noise Reduction for Single-Channel Speech Enhancement”.

    RESEARCH GRANTS

    2005-6, Applied Materials Israel, 144,000 NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “Anomaly Detection in ThreeDimensional Data Based On Gauss Markov Random Field Modeling”.

    2005-9, ISF - Israel Science Foundation, 1,040,000 NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “Statistical Modeling andMultichannel Processing of Speech Signals for Hands-Free Speech Communication Applications”.

    2006-7, MAFAAT - Israel Ministry of Defense, 47,000NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “Blind Speakerseparation in Adverse Conditions”.

    2006-8, European Community, Sixth Framework Program, 156,000 €, PI: Israel Cohen,MEMORIES project, “Design of an Audio Semantic Indexation System Allowing InformationRetrieval for the Access to Archive Content”.

    2008, MAFAAT - Israel Ministry of Defense, 47,000NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “Blind Speakerseparation in Adverse Conditions”.

    2008-9, MAFAAT - Israel Ministry of Defense, 75,000NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “Source Localizationin Reverberant Noisy Environments”.

    2011-15, ISF - Israel Science Foundation, 842,400 NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “Supervised Speech andAudio Processing Based on Harmonic Analysis and Diffusion Maps”.

    2013, Robert H. Hillman Foundation for Global Security - Collaboration Technion and UniversityNortheastern, $ 45,000, PI: Israel Cohen, “Self-Learning Engine for Anomaly Detection in CrowdBehavior (SLEAD)”.

    2015, Qualcomm Research Award, $ 50,000, PI: Israel Cohen, “Array Processing with Applicationto Audio and Cellular Networks”.

    2016-8, MAFAAT - Israel Ministry of Defense, 200,000NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “WidebandUnderwater Acoustic Differential Sensors Arrays”.

    2016-20, ISF - Israel Science Foundation, 1,120,000 NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “Anomaly and TargetDetection with a Geometry-Based Manifold Learning Approach”.

    2017-20, ISF-NSFC, Israel Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina joint research program, 1,110,000 NIS, PI: Israel Cohen, “Frequency-Invariant MicrophoneArray Design and Beamforming for Immersive Voice Communication”

    PUBLICATIONS

    Theses

    1.  Electromagnetic properties of periodic structures in HPM sources, M.Sc. thesis, Dept. of ElectricalEngineering, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel, May 1993 (Supervisors: Prof. Amiram Ron, Prof.Haim Cory and Dr. Moti Botton).
    2. Shift-Invariant Adaptive Wavelet Decompositions and Applications, Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of ElectricalEngineering, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel, June 1998 (Supervisors: Prof. Shalom Raz and Prof.David Malah).
    Refereed papers in professional journals
    Published papers
     
    1. I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Orthonormal shift-invariant adaptive local trigonometricdecomposition,” Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 1, Feb. 1997, pp. 43-64.
    2.  I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Orthonormal shift-invariant wavelet packet decompositionand representation,” Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 3, Mar. 1997, pp. 251-270.
    3.  I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Adaptive suppression of Wigner interference using shiftinvariant wavelet packet decompositions,” Signal Processing, Vol. 73, No. 3, Jan. 1999, pp.203-223.
    4.  I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Translation-invariant denoising using the minimumdescription length criterion,” Signal Processing, Vol. 75, No. 3, June 1999, pp. 201-223.
    5. I. Cohen and B. Berdugo, “Speech Enhancement for Non-Stationary Noise Environments,”Signal Processing, Vol. 81, No. 11, Nov. 2001, pp. 2403-2418.
    6.  I. Cohen and B. Berdugo, “Noise Estimation by Minima Controlled Recursive Averaging forRobust Speech Enhancement,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 9, No. 1, Jan. 2002, pp.12-15.
    7. I. Cohen, “Optimal Speech Enhancement Under Signal Presence Uncertainty Using LogSpectral Amplitude Estimator,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 9, No. 4, Apr. 2002, pp.113-116.
    8.  I. Cohen and R. R. Coifman, “Local Discontinuity Measures for 3-D Seismic Data,”Geophysics, Vol. 67, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2002, pp. 1933-1945.
    9.  H. A. Schmitt, J. G. Riddle, T. M. Brucks, R. R. Coifman and I. Cohen, “An Object DetectionStrategy for Uncooled Infrared Imagery,” Journal of Modern Optics, Vol. 50, No. 9, June2003, pp. 1373-1382.
    10.  I. Cohen, “Noise Spectrum Estimation in Adverse Environments: Improved MinimaControlled Recursive Averaging,” IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 11, No. 5,Sep. 2003, pp. 466-475.
    11. I. Cohen and B. Berdugo, “Multichannel Signal Detection Based on the Transient Beam-toReference Ratio,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 10, No. 9, Sep. 2003, pp. 259-262.
    12.  I. Cohen, S. Gannot and B. Berdugo, “An Integrated Real-Time Beamforming and PostfilteringSystem for Non-Stationary Noise Environments,” Special Issue of the EURASIP Journal onApplied Signal Processing: Signal Processing for Acoustic Communication System, Vol. 2003,No. 11, Oct. 2003, pp. 1064-1073.
    13.  I. Cohen, “Analysis of Two-Channel Generalized Sidelobe Canceller (GSC) with PostFiltering,” IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 11, No. 6, Nov. 2003, pp. 684-699.
    14. I. Cohen, “Multichannel Post-Filtering in Nonstationary Noise Environments,” IEEE Trans.Signal Processing, Vol. 52, No. 5, May 2004, pp. 1149-1160.
    15.  A. Goldman and I. Cohen, “Anomaly Detection Based on an Iterative Local StatisticsApproach,” Signal Processing, Vol. 84, No. 7, July 2004, pp. 1225-1229.
    16. I. Cohen, “Identification of Speech Source Coupling Between Sensors in Reverberant NoisyEnvironments,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 11, No. 7, July 2004, pp. 613-616.
    17.  I. Cohen, “Relative Transfer Function Identification Using Speech Signals,” Special Issue of theIEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing on Multi-channel Signal Processing for Audio andAcoustics Applications, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep. 2004, pp. 451-459.
    18.  I. Cohen, “Speech Enhancement Using a Noncausal A Priori SNR Estimator,” IEEE SignalProcessing Letters, Vol. 11, No. 9, Sep. 2004, pp. 725-728.
    19. I. Cohen, “Modeling Speech Signals in the Time-Frequency Domain Using GARCH,” SignalProcessing, Vol. 84, No. 12, Dec. 2004, pp. 2453-2459.
    20. . S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Speech Enhancement Based on the General Transfer Function GSCand Postfiltering,” IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 12, No. 6, Nov. 2004, pp.561-571.
    21. A. Goldman and I. Cohen, “Anomaly Subspace Detection Based on a Multi-Scale MarkovRandom Field Model,” Signal Processing, Vol. 85, No. 3, Mar. 2005, pp. 463-479.
    22. I. Cohen, “Relaxed Statistical Model for Speech Enhancement and A Priori SNR Estimation,”IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 13, No. 5, Sep. 2005, pp. 870-881.
    23. I. Cohen, “Speech Enhancement Using Super-Gaussian Speech Models and Noncausal APriori SNR Estimation,” Speech Communication, Vol. 47, No. 3, Nov. 2005, pp. 336-350.
    24.  I. Cohen, “Speech Spectral Modeling and Enhancement Based on Autoregressive ConditionalHeteroscedasticity Models,” Signal Processing, Vol. 86, No. 4, Apr. 2006, pp. 698-709.
    25. A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “State Smoothing in Markov-Switching Time-Frequency GARCHModels,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 13, No. 6, June 2006, pp. 377-380.
    26.  I. Cohen, N. Coult and A. Vassiliou, “Detection and Extraction of Fault Surfaces in 3-DSeismic Data,” Geophysics, Vol. 71, No. 4, July-August 2006, pp. 21-27.
    27. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “On Multiplicative Transfer Function Approximation in the ShortTime Fourier Transform Domain,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 14, No. 5, May 2007,pp. 337-340.
    28. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “System Identification in the Short-Time Fourier Transform Domainwith Crossband Filtering,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 15, No.4, May 2007, pp. 1305-1319.
    29.  A. Noiboar and I. Cohen, “Anomaly Detection Based on Wavelet Domain GARCH RandomField Modeling,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, No. 5, May 2007, pp.1361-1373.
    30. A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “On the Stationarity of Markov-Switching GARCH Processes,”Econometric Theory, Vol. 23, No. 3, June 2007, pp. 485-500.
    31. A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “Recursive Supervised Estimation of a Markov-Switching GARCHProcess in the Short-Time Fourier Transform Domain,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol.55, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 3227-3238.
    32. G. Reuven, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Performance Analysis of Dual Source Transfer-FunctionGeneralized Sidelobe Canceller,” Special Issue of Speech Communication on SpeechEnhancement, Vol. 49, Issues 7-8, July-August 2007, pp. 602-622.
    33.  G. Reuven, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Joint Noise Reduction and Acoustic Echo Cancellationusing the Transfer-Function Generalized Sidelobe Canceller,” Special Issue of SpeechCommunication on Speech Enhancement, Vol. 49, Issues 7-8, July-August 2007, pp. 623-635.
    34.  A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “Simultaneous Detection and Estimation Approach for SpeechEnhancement,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 15, No. 8,November 2007, pp. 2348-2359.
    35. L. Shadhan and I. Cohen, “Detection of Anomalies in Texture Images Using Multi-ResolutionRandom Field Models,” Signal Processing, Vol. 87, No. 12, December 2007, pp. 3045-3062.
    36. H. Ofir, D. Malah and I. Cohen, “Audio Packet Loss Concealment in a combined MDCTMDST Domain,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 14, No. 12, December 2007, pp. 1032-1035.
    37.  Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Adaptive System Identification in the Short-Time Fourier TransformDomain Using Cross-Multiplicative Transfer Function Approximation,” IEEE Trans. Audio,Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 2008, pp. 162-173.
    38.  G. Reuven, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Dual Source Transfer-Function Generalized SidelobeCanceller,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 16, Issue 4, May 2008,pp. 711-727.
    39.  A. Heimer and I. Cohen, “Multichannel Blind Seismic Deconvolution Using DynamicProgramming,” Signal Processing, Vol. 88, Issue 7, July 2008, pp. 1839-1851.
    40. E. A. P. Habets, S. Gannot, I. Cohen and P. C. W. Sommen, “Joint Dereverberation andResidual Echo Suppression of Speech Signals in Noisy Environments,” IEEE Trans. Audio,Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 16, Issue 8, Nov. 2008, pp. 1433-1451.
    41.  A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “Single-Sensor Audio Source Separation Using Classification andEstimation Approach and GARCH Modeling,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and LanguageProcessing, Vol. 16, Issue 8, Nov. 2008, pp. 1528-1540.
    42.  E. A. P. Habets, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Generating Non-Stationary Multi-Sensor Signalsunder a Spatial Coherence Constraint,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 124,Issue 5, Nov. 2008, pp. 2911-2917.
    43. R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Relative Transfer Function Identification UsingConvolutive Transfer Function Approximation,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and LanguageProcessing, Vol. 17, Issue 4, May 2009, pp. 546-555.
    44.  A. Heimer and I. Cohen, “Multichannel Seismic Deconvolution Using Markov-BernoulliRandom Field Modeling,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 47, Issue 7, July2009, pp. 2047-2058.
    45.  M. Zontak and I. Cohen, “Defect Detection in Patterned Wafers Using Multichannel ScanningElectron Microscope,” Signal Processing, Vol. 89, Issue 8, Aug. 2009, pp. 1511-1520.
    46. S. Markovich, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Multichannel Eigenspace Beamforming in a Reverberant Noisy Environment with Multiple Interfering Speech Signals,” IEEE Trans.Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, Issue 6, Aug. 2009, pp. 1071-1086.
    47. E. A. P. Habets, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Late Reverberant Spectral Variance EstimationBased on a Statistical Model,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 9, Sep. 2009, pp.770-773 (Best Paper Award).
    48.  R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Convolutive Transfer Function Generalized SidelobeCanceler,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, Issue 7, Sep. 2009,pp. 1420-1434.
    49.  Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Adaptive Nonlinear System Identification in the Short-Time FourierTransform Domain,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 57, Issue 10, Oct. 2009, pp. 3891-3904.
    50.  E. A. P. Habets, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, S. Gannot and J. Dmochowski, “New Insights into theMVDR Beamformer in Room Acoustics,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and LanguageProcessing, Vol. 18, Issue 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 158-170.
    51.  Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Modeling and Identification of Nonlinear Systems in the Short-TimeFourier Transform Domain,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 58, Issue 1, Jan. 2010, pp.291-304.
    52. M. Zontak and I. Cohen, “Defect Detection in Patterned Wafers using Anisotropic Kernels,”Machine Vision and Applications, Vol. 21, Issue 2, Feb. 2010, pp. 129-141.
    53.  I. Ram, I. Cohen and S. Raz, “Multichannel Deconvolution of Seismic Signals Using StatisticalMCMC Methods,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 58, Issue 5, May 2010, pp. 2757-2770.
    54. S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “Simultaneous Parameter Estimation and State Smoothing ofComplex GARCH Process in the Presence of Additive Noise,” Signal Processing, Vol. 90,Issue 11, Nov. 2010, pp. 2947-2953.
    55. Y. Litvin, I. Cohen, and D. Chazan, “Monaural Speech/Music Source Separation UsingDiscrete Energy Separation Algorithm,” Signal Processing, Vol. 90, Issue 12, Dec. 2010, pp.3147-3163.
    56.  Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Undermodeling-Error Quantification for Quadratically NonlinearSystem Identification in the Short-Time Fourier Transform Domain,” IEEE Trans. SignalProcessing, Vol. 58, Issue 12, Dec. 2010, pp. 6052-6065.
    57.  S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “AR-GARCH in Presence of Noise: Parameter Estimation andits Application to Voice Activity Detection,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and LanguageProcessing, Vol. 19, Issue 4, May 2011, pp. 916-926.
    58. R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Transient Noise Reduction Using Nonlocal DiffusionFilters,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 19, Issue 6, Aug. 2011, pp.1584-1599.
    59. I. Ram, M. Elad and I. Cohen, “Generalized Tree-Based Wavelet Transform,” IEEE Trans.Signal Processing, Vol. 59, Issue 9, Sep. 2011, pp. 4199-4209.
    60.  Y. Litvin and I. Cohen, “Single-Channel Source Separation of Audio Signals Using Bark ScaleWavelet Packet Decomposition,” Special Issue of Journal of Signal Processing Systems onMachine Learning for Signal Processing, Vol. 65, Number 3, Dec. 2011, pp. 339-350.
    61.  R. Talmon, D. Kushnir, R. Coifman, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Parametrization of LinearSystems Using Diffusion Kernels,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 60, Number 3, March2012, pp. 1159-1173.
    62. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Low-Complexity Addition or Removal ofSensors/Constraints in LCMV Beamformers,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 60,Number 3, March 2012, pp. 1205-1214.
    63.  I. Ram, M. Elad and I. Cohen, “Redundant Wavelets on Graphs and High Dimensional DataClouds,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 19, Number 5, May 2012, pp. 291-294.
    64.  Y. Buchris, I. Cohen, and M. A. Doron, “Bayesian Focusing for Coherent Adaptive WidebandBeamforming,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 20, Number 4,May 2012, pp. 1282-1296.
    65. R. Talmon, I. Cohen, S. Gannot and R. R. Coifman, “Supervised Graph-based Processing forSequential Transient Interference Suppression,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and LanguageProcessing, Vol. 20, Number 9, November 2012, pp. 2528-2538.
    66. R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Single-Channel Transient Interference Suppression withDiffusion Maps,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 21, Number 1,January 2013, pp. 132-144.
    67.  M. Genussov and I. Cohen, “Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation Based on SparseRepresentations in a Structured Dictionary,” Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 23, Number 1,January 2013, pp. 390-400.
    68. E. Kupershtein, M. Wax and I. Cohen, “Single-Site Emitter Localization via MultipathFingerprinting,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 61, Number 1, January 2013, pp. 10-21.
    69. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Distributed Multiple Constraints GeneralizedSidelobe Canceler for Fully Connected Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks,” IEEE Trans.Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 21, Number 2, February 2013, pp. 343-356.
    70. 70. G. Mishne and I. Cohen, “Multiscale Anomaly Detection Using Diffusion Maps”, Special Issueof IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing on Anomalous Pattern Discovery forSpatial, Temporal, Networked, and High-Dimensional Signals, Vol. 7, Number 1, February2013, pp. 111-123.
    71.  I. Volfin and I. Cohen, “Dominant Speaker Identification for Multipoint Videoconferencing,”Special Issue of Computer Speech and Language on Multisource Environments, Vol. 27,Number 4, June 2013, pp. 895-910.
    72.  S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “Voice Activity Detection in Presence of Transient Noise UsingSpectral Clustering,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 21, Number6, June 2013, pp. 1261-1271.
    73.  R. Talmon, I. Cohen, S. Gannot and R. R. Coifman, “Diffusion Maps for Signal Processing: ADeeper Look at Manifold-Learning Techniques Based on Kernels and Graphs,” Special Issueof IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on Advances in Kernel-based Learning for SignalProcessing, Vol. 30, Number 4, July 2013, pp. 75-86 (invited review paper).
    74. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Performance of the SDW-MWF withRandomly Located Microphones in a Reverberant Enclosure,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speechand Language Processing, Vol. 21, Number 7, July 2013, pp. 1513-1523.
    75.  I. Ram, M. Elad and I. Cohen, “Image Processing using Smooth Ordering of its Patches,”IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 22, Number 7, July 2013, pp. 2764-2774.
    76.  S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “Two dimensional noncausal AR-ARCH model: stationary conditions, parameter estimation and its application to anomaly detection,” Signal Processing,Vol. 98, May 2014, pp. 322-336.
    77. I. Ram, I. Cohen and M. Elad, “Patch-Ordering-Based Wavelet Frame and Its Use in InverseProblems,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 23, Number 7, July 2014, pp. 2779-2792.
    78. I. Ram, I. Cohen and M. Elad “Facial Image Compression using Patch-Ordering-BasedAdaptive Wavelet Transform,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 21, Number 10, Oct.2014, pp. 1270-1274.
    79. S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “Out-of-Sample Extension of Band-Limited Functions onHomogenous Manifolds Using Diffusion Maps,” Signal Processing, Vol. 108, March 2015, pp.521-529.
    80. Y. Doweck, A. Amar, and I. Cohen, “Joint Model Order Selection and Parameter Estimationof Chirps with Harmonic Components,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 63, Number 7,April 2015, pp. 1765-1778.
    81. D. Dov, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Audio-Visual Voice Activity Detection Using DiffusionMaps,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 23, Number 4, April 2015,pp. 732-745.
    82.  G. Mishne, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Graph-Based Supervised Automatic Target Detection,”IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 53, Number 5, May 2015, pp. 2738-2754.
    83. R. Berkun, I. Cohen and J. Benesty, “Combined Beamformers for Robust BroadbandRegularized Superdirective Beamforming,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and LanguageProcessing, Vol. 23, Number 5, May 2015, pp. 877-886.
    84. S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “Embedding and Function Extension on Directed Graph,”Signal Processing, Vol. 111, June 2015, pp. 137-149.
    85.  R. Berkun and I. Cohen, “Microphone Array Power Ratio for Quality Assessment ofReverberated Speech,” Special Issue of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processingon 'Silencing the Echoes' - Processing of Reverberant Speech, Vol. 2015, Number 1, June2015, pp. 1-11.
    86.  O. Lindenbaum, A. Yeredor and I. Cohen, “Musical Key Extraction Using Diffusion Maps,”Signal Processing, Vol. 117, December 2015, pp. 198-207.
    87.  Y. Doweck, A. Amar, and I. Cohen, “Fundamental Initial Frequency and Frequency RateEstimation of Random Amplitude Harmonic Chirps,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 63,Number 23, December 2015, pp. 6213-6228.
    88. D. Dov, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Kernel Method for Voice Activity Detection in thePresence of Transients,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 24,Number 12, December 2016, pp. 2313-2326.
    89. D. Dov, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Kernel-based Sensor Fusion with Application to AudioVisual Voice Activity Detection,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 64, Number 24,December 2016, pp. 6406-6416.
    90. O. Rosen, I. Cohen and D. Malah, “FIR-Based Symmetrical Acoustic Beamformer with aConstant Beamwidth,” Signal Processing, Vol. 130, January 2017, pp. 365-376.
    91. M. Mirel and I. Cohen, “Multichannel Semi-blind Deconvolution of Seismic Signals,” SignalProcessing, Vol. 135, June 2017, pp. 253-262.
    92. D. Pereg and I. Cohen, “Seismic Signal Recovery Based on Earth Q Model,” Signal Processing,Vol. 137, August 2017, pp. 373-386.
    93. D. Dov, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Multimodal Kernel Method for Activity Detection ofSound Sources,” special issue of IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processingon Sound Scene and Event Analysis, Vol. 25, Number 6, June 2017, pp. 1322-1334.
    94.  D. Pereg, I. Cohen, and A. Vassiliou, “Multichannel Sparse Spike Inversion,” Journal ofGeophysics and Engineering, Vol. 14, Number 5, October 2017, pp. 1290-1299.
    95.  I. Ariav, D. Dov, and I. Cohen, “A Deep Architecture for Audio-Visual Voice ActivityDetection in the Presence of Transients,” Signal Processing, Vol. 142, January 2018, pp. 69-74.
    96. Accepted papers

    97. G. Mishne, R. Talmon, I. Cohen, R. R. Coifman and Y. Kluger, “Data-Driven Tree Transformsand Metrics,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing overNetworks.
    98. G. Mishne, U. Shaham, A. Cloninger and I. Cohen, “Diffusion Nets,” to appear in Applied andComputational Harmonic Analysis.
    99. Y. Buchris, I. Cohen and J. Benesty, “Frequency-Domain Design of Asymmetric CircularDifferential Microphone Arrays,” to appear in IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and LanguageProcessing.
    100. D. Dov, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Sequential Audio-Visual Correspondence with AlternatingDiffusion Maps,” to appear in IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.
    Books
    1. J. Benesty, J. Chen, Y. Huang and I. Cohen, Noise Reduction in Speech Processing, Springer, 2009(ISBN: 978-3-642-00295-3).
    2. I. Cohen, J. Benesty and S. Gannot (Eds.), Speech Processing in Modern Communication:Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2010 (ISBN: 978-3-642-11129-7).
    3. J. Benesty, J. Chen, and I. Cohen, Design of Circular Differential Microphone Arrays, Springer, 2015(ISBN: 978-3-319-14842-7).
    4. J. Benesty, I. Cohen, and J. Chen, Fundamentals of Signal Enhancement and Array Signal Processing,Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017 (ISBN: 978-1-119-29312-5).
    5. J. Benesty and I. Cohen, Canonical Correlation Analysis in Speech Enhancement, Springer, 2018(ISBN: 978-3-319-67019-5).
    Chapters in Handbooks
    1.  Y. Ephraim and I. Cohen, “Recent Advancements in Speech Enhancement,” in Richard C.Dorf (Ed.), The Electrical Engineering Handbook, Circuits, Signals, and Speech and ImageProcessing, Third Edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2006, Ch. 15, Sec. 2, pp. 15-12 – 15-26.
    2. S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Adaptive Beamforming and Postfiltering,” in Jacob Benesty, M.Mohan Sondhi and Yiteng (Arden) Huang (Eds.), Springer Handbook of Speech Processing,Springer, 2008, Part H, Ch. 47, pp. 945-978.
    3. I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Spectral Enhancement Methods,” in Jacob Benesty, M. Mohan Sondhi and Yiteng (Arden) Huang (Eds.), Springer Handbook of Speech Processing, Springer,2008, Part H, Ch. 44, pp. 873-901.
    Book chapters
    1. 1. I. Cohen, “From Volatility Modeling of Financial Time-Series to Stochastic Modeling andEnhancement of Speech Signals,” in Jacob Benesty, Shoji Makino, and Jingdong Chen (Eds.),Speech Enhancement, Springer, Berlin, 2005, Ch. 5, pp. 97-114.
    2. E. A. P. Habets, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Dereverberation and Residual Echo Suppression inNoisy Environments,” in E. Haensler and G. Schmidt (Eds.), Speech and Audio Processing inAdverse Environments, Springer, 2008, Ch. 6, pp. 186-228.
    3. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Linear System Identification in the Short-Time Fourier TransformDomain,” in I. Cohen, J. Benesty and S. Gannot (Eds.), Speech Processing in ModernCommunication: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2010, Ch. 1, pp. 1-32.
    4. R. Talmon, I. Cohen, and S. Gannot, “Identification of the Relative Transfer Function betweenSensors in the Short-Time Fourier Transform Domain,” in I. Cohen, J. Benesty and S. Gannot(Eds.), Speech Processing in Modern Communication: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer,2010, Ch. 2, pp. 33-48.
    5. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Representation and Identification Nonlinear System in the ShortTime Fourier Transform Domain,” in I. Cohen, J. Benesty and S. Gannot (Eds.), SpeechProcessing in Modern Communication: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2010, Ch. 3, pp.49-88.
    6. A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “Simultaneous Detection and Estimation Approach for SpeechEnhancement and Interference Suppression,” in I. Cohen, J. Benesty and S. Gannot (Eds.),Speech Processing in Modern Communication: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2010,Ch. 5, pp. 127-150.
    7. R. Blouet and I. Cohen, “Codebook Approaches for Single Sensor Speech/Music Separation,”in I. Cohen, J. Benesty and S. Gannot (Eds.), Speech Processing in Modern Communication:Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2010, Ch. 7, pp. 183-198.
    8. E. A. P. Habets, J. Benesty, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “The MVDR Beamformer for SpeechEnhancement,” in I. Cohen, J. Benesty and S. Gannot (Eds.), Speech Processing in ModernCommunication: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2010, Ch. 9, pp. 225-254.
    9. S. Markovich, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Extraction of Desired Speech Signals in MultipleSpeaker Reverberant Noisy Environments,” in I. Cohen, J. Benesty and S. Gannot (Eds.),Speech Processing in Modern Communication: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2010,Ch. 10, pp. 255-280.
    10. R. Martin and I. Cohen, “Single-Channel Speech Presence Probability Estimation and NoiseTracking,” in E. Vincent, T. Virtanen, and S. Gannot (Eds.), Audio Source Separation andSpeech Enhancement, Wiley, 2017, Ch. 6.
    11. D. Dov, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Alternating Diffusion Maps for Audio-Visual SourceSeparation,” in S. Makino (Ed.), Audio Source Separation, Springer, 2018.
    12. S. Markovich-Golan, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Multimicrophone MMSE-Based Speech SourceSeparation,” in S. Makino (Ed.), Audio Source Separation, Springer, 2018.

    Refereed papers in conference proceedings

    1. I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Shift invariant wavelet packet bases,” Proc. of the 20th IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP-95, Detroit, Michigan, 8-12 May 1995, pp. 1081-1084.
    2. I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Shift-invariant adaptive local trigonometric decomposition,” Proc. of the 4th European Conference on Speech, Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH-95, Madrid, Spain, 18-21 September 1995, pp. 247-250.
    3. I. Schnitzer, A. Rosenberg, C. Leibovitch, M. Botton, I. Cohen and J. Leopold, “Evolution of spectral power density in grounded cathode relativistic magnetron,” Proc. SPIE, Intense Microwave Pulses IV, Vol. 2843, August 1996, pp. 101-109.
    4. I. Cohen, S. Raz, D. Malah and I. Schnitzer, “Best-basis algorithm for orthonormal shiftinvariant trigonometric decomposition,” Proc. of the 7th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, DSPWS’96, Loen, Norway, 1-4 September 1996, pp. 401-404.
    5. I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Eliminating interference terms in the Wigner distribution using extended libraries of bases,” Proc. of the 22nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP-97, Munich, Germany, 20-24 April 1997, pp. 2133-2136.
    6. I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Time-frequency analysis and noise suppression with shiftinvariant wavelet packets,” Proc. of the 11th Int. Conf. on High-Power Electromagnetics, EUROEM'98, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 14-19 June 1998, pp. 401-408.
    7. I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “MDL-based translation-invariant denoising and robust timefrequency representations,” Proc. of the 4th IEEE-SP Int. Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 6-9 October 1998, pp. 629-632.
    8. I. Cohen, S. Raz and D. Malah, “Adaptive time-frequency distributions via the shift-invariant wavelet packet decomposition,” Proc. of the 4th IEEE-SP Int. Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 6-9 October 1998, pp. 645-648.
    9. I. Cohen and B. Berdugo, “Spectral enhancement by tracking speech presence probability in subbands,” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Hands Free Speech Communication, HSC'01, Kyoto, Japan, 9-11 April 2001, pp. 95-98.
    10. I. Cohen, “On speech enhancement under signal presence uncertainty,” Proc. 26th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, 7-11 May 2001, pp. 167-170.
    11. I. Cohen, “Enhancement of Speech Using Bark-Scaled Wavelet Packet Decomposition,” Proc. 7 th European Conf. Speech, Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH-2001, Aalborg, Denmark, 3--7 September 2001, pp. 1933-1936.
    12. I. Cohen and B. Berdugo, “Microphone Array Post-Filtering for Non-Stationary Noise Suppression,” Proc. 27th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2002, Orlando, Florida, 13-17 May 2002, pp. 901-904.
    13. I. Cohen and B. Berdugo, “Speech Enhancement Based on a Microphone Array and LogSpectral Amplitude Estimation,” Proc. 22nd IEEE Convention of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2002, pp. 4-6.
    14. S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Speech Enhancement Based on the General Transfer Function GSC and Postfiltering,” Proc. 28th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP- 2003, Hong Kong, 6-10 April 2003, pp. I_908 -I_911.
    15. I. Cohen and B. Berdugo, “Two-channel Signal Detection and Speech Enhancement Based on the Transient Beam-to-Reference Ratio,” Proc. 28th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, 6-10 April 2003, pp. V-233 -236.
    16. I. Cohen, S. Gannot and B. Berdugo, “Real-Time TF-GSC in Nonstationary Noise Environments,” Proc. 8th Internat. Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2003, Kyoto, Japan, 8-11 September 2003, pp.183-186.
    17. I. Cohen, “On the Decision-Directed Estimation Approach of Ephraim and Malah,” Proc. 29th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2004, Montreal, Canada, 17-21 May 2004, pp. I-293-296.
    18. I. Cohen, A Vassiliou and N Coult, “Seismic Spectrum Broadening,” Proc. 17th Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicist Conference and Exhibition, Sydney, Australia, 15-19 August 2004.
    19. I. Cohen, A Vassiliou and N Coult, “Automatic 3D Fault Extraction and Fault Surface Separation,” Proc. 17th Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicist Conference and Exhibition, Sydney, Australia, 15-19 August 2004.
    20. 20. A. Goldman and I. Cohen, “Anomaly Detection Based on an Iterative Local Statistics Approach,” Proc. 23rd IEEE Convention of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 6-7 September 2004, pp. 440-443.
    21. A. Goldman and I. Cohen, “Anomaly Subspace Detection Based on a Multi-Scale Markov Random Field Model,” Proc. 23rd IEEE Convention of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 6-7 September 2004, pp. 444-447.
    22. A. Noiboar and I. Cohen, “Anomaly Detection in 3-Dimensional Data Based on Gauss Markov Random Field Modeling,” Proc. 23 rd IEEE Convention of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 6-7 September 2004, pp. 448-451. (Best student paper award).
    23. G. Reuven, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Joint Acoustic Echo Cancellation and Transfer Function GSC in the Frequency Domain,” Proc. 23rd IEEE Convention of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 6-7 September 2004, pp. 412-415.
    24. . A. Noiboar and I. Cohen, “Two-Dimensional GARCH Model with Application to Anomaly Detection,” Proc. 13th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2005, Antalya, Turkey, 4-8 September 2005, paper no. 1594, pp. 1-4 .
    25. G. Reuven, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Dual Source Transfer-Function Generalized Sidelobe Canceller,” Proc. 9th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2005, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 12-15 September 2005, pp. 89-92.
    26. . I. Cohen, “Supergaussian GARCH Models for Speech Signals,” Proc. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, INTERSPEECH '2005 - EUROSPEECH, Lisbon, Portugal, 4-8 September 2005, pp. 2053-2056.
    27. B. Little, A. Vassiliou, I. Cohen and N. Coult, “Typhoon-Boris Gulf of Mexico Oil Field — A Spectrum Broadening Case Study,” Proc. Society of Exploration Geophysicist International Conference, Exposition and 75th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 6-11 November 2005, pp. 825-828.
    28. I. Cohen, N. Coult and A. Vassiliou, “Detection and Extraction of Fault Surfaces in 3-D Seismic Data,” Proc. Society of Exploration Geophysicist International Conference, Exposition and 75th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 6-11 November 2005, pp. 759-762.
    29. A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “Asymptotic Stationarity of Markov-Switching Time-Frequency GARCH Processes,” Proc. 31st IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2006, Toulouse, France, 14-19 May 2006, pp. III-452-455.
    30. E. A. P. Habets, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Dual-Microphone Speech Dereverberation in a Noisy Environment,” Proc. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT-2006, Vancouver, Canada, 27-30 August 2006, pp. 651-655.
    31. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Performance Analysis of Cross-Band Adaptation for Subband Acoustic Echo Cancellation,” Proc. 10th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2006, Paris, France, 12-14 September 2006, paper no. 8, pp. 1-4.
    32. E. A. P. Habets, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “MMSE Log-Spectral Amplitude Estimator for Multiple Interferences,” Proc. 10th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2006, Paris, France, 12-14 September 2006, paper no. 14, pp. 1-4.
    33. L. Benaroya, R. Blouet, C. Fevotte and I. Cohen, “Single Sensor Source Separation Using Multiple-Window STFT Representation,” Proc. 10th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2006, Paris, France, 12-14 September 2006, paper no. 52, pp. 1-4.
    34. A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “Markov-Switching GARCH Model and Application to Speech Enhancement in Subbands,” Proc. 10th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2006, Paris, France, 12-14 September 2006, paper no. 7, pp. 1-4. (Best student paper award).
    35. L. Shadhan and I. Cohen, “Detection of Anomalies in Textures Based on Multi-Resolution Features,” Proc. 24th IEEE Convention of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, 15-17 November 2006, pp. 354-358.
    36. G. Reuven, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Multichannel Acoustic Echo Cancellation and Noise Reduction in Reverberant Environments using the Transfer-Function GSC,” Proc. 32nd IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, 15-20 April 2007, pp. I-81-84.
    37. A. Abramson and I. Cohen, “Enhancement of Speech Signals Under Multiple Hypotheses Using an Indicator for Transient Noise Presence,” Proc. 32nd IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, 15-20 April 2007, pp. IV-553-556. (Best student paper finalist).
    38. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Representation and identification of systems in the Wavelet Transform Domain,” Proc. 16th IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling, ASM-2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 29-31 August 2007, pp. 463-468.
    39. A. Heimer, I. Cohen and A. Vassiliou, “Dynamic Programming for Multichannel Blind Seismic Deconvolution,” Proc. Society of Exploration Geophysicist International Conference, Exposition and 77th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 23-28 September 2007, pp. 1845-1849.
    40. R. Blouet, G. Rapaport, I. Cohen and C. Fevotte “Evaluation of Several Strategies for Single Sensor Speech/Music Separation,” Proc. 33rd IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 30 – April 4, 2008, pp. 37-40.
    41. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Identification of Linear Systems with Adaptive Control of the CrossMultiplicative Transfer Function Approximation,” Proc. 33rd IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 30 – April 4, 2008, pp. 3789- 3792.
    42. A. Abramson, E. A. P. Habets, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Dual-Microphone Speech Dereverberation Using GARCH Modeling,” Proc. 33rd IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 30 – April 4, 2008, pp. 4565-4568.
    43. I. Ram, E. A. P. Habets, Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Multi-Microphone Speech Dereverberation Using Lime and Least Squares Filtering,” Proc. 16th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, 25-29 August 2008.
    44. . Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Nonlinear Acoustic Echo Cancellation Based on a Multiplicative Transfer Function Approximation,” Proc. 11th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2008, Seattle, Washington, 14-17 September 2008, paper no. 9035, pp. 1-4.
    45. E. A. P. Habets, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Robust Early Echo Cancellation and Late Echo Suppression in the STFT Domain,” Proc. 11th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2008, Seattle, Washington, 14-17 September 2008, paper no. 9034, pp. 1-4.
    46. S. Markovich, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “A Comparison Between Alternative Beamforming Strategies for Interference Cancelation in Noisy and Reverberant Environment,” Proc. 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2008, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2008, pp. 203-207.
    47. R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Identification of the Relative Transfer Function Between Microphones in Reverberant Environments,” Proc. 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2008, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2008, pp. 208-212.
    48. O. Mebel, Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “A Fast Geometric Method for Blind Separation of Sparse Sources,” Proc. 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2008, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2008, pp. 180-184.
    49. Y. Buchris, I. Cohen and M. A. Doron, “Bayesian Focusing Transformation for Coherent Wideband Array Processing,” Proc. 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2008, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2008, pp. 479-483.
    50. E. Cohen and I. Cohen, “System Identification in the Wavelet Domain with Crossband Filters,” Proc. 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2008, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2008, pp. 300-304.
    51. E. A. P. Habets, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Speech Dereverberation Using Backward Estimation of the Late Reverberant Spectral Variance,” Proc. 25th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2008, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2008, pp. 384-388.
    52. E. A. P. Habets, J. Benesty, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “On a Tradeoff Between Dereverberation and Noise Reduction Using the MVDR Beamformer,” Proc. 34th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2009, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19 –24, 2009, pp. 3741- 3744 (invited paper).
    53. R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Multichannel Speech Enhancement Using Convolutive Transfer Function Approximation in Reverberant Environments,” Proc. 34th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2009, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19 –24, 2009, pp. 3885-3888.
    54. H. Benisty, Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Adaptive System Identification Using Time-Varying Fourier Transform,” Proc. 2nd Internat. Conf. Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, ICADIWT 2009, London, UK, August 4-6, 2009, pp. 652-657.
    55. M. Zontak and I. Cohen, “Kernel-Based Detection of Defects on Semiconductor Wafers,” Proc. 9th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP2009, Grenoble, France, September 2-4 2009, pp. 1-6.
    56. Y. Litvin and I. Cohen, “Single-Channel Source Separation of Audio Signals Using Bark Scale Wavelet Packet Decomposition,” Proc. 9th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP-2009, Grenoble, France, September 1-4 2009, pp. 1-4.
    57. E. A. P. Habets, J. Benesty, S. Gannot, P. A. Naylor and I. Cohen, “On the Application of the LCMV Beamformer to Speech Enhancement,” Proc. 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA-2009, New Paltz, NY, 18-21 October 2009, pp. 141-144.
    58. A. Heimer, I. Cohen and A. Vassiliou, “Multichannel seismic modeling and inversion based on Markov-Bernoulli random field,” Proc. Society of Exploration Geophysicist International Conference, Exposition and 79th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 25-30 October 2009.
    59. T. Michaeli and I. Cohen, “Particle Filtering Based Recovery of Noisy GARCH Processes,” Proc. 35th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2010, Dallas, Texas, March 14 –19, 2010, pp. 3954-3957.
    60. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Subspace Tracking of Multiple Sources and its Application to Speakers Extraction,” Proc. 35th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2010, Dallas, Texas, March 14 –19, 2010, pp. 201-204.
    61. R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Speech Enhancement in Transient Noise Environment Using Diffusion Filtering,” Proc. 35th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2010, Dallas, Texas, March 14 –19, 2010, pp. 4782-4785.
    62. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Frequency-Based Detector for Improved Resolvability of CloselySpaced Exponential Signals,” Proc. 35th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2010, Dallas, Texas, March 14 –19, 2010, pp. 2690-2693.
    63. M. Genussov and I. Cohen, “Musical Genre Classification of Audio Signals Using Geometric Methods,” Proc. 18th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2010, Aalborg, Denmark, 23-27 August 2010, pp. 497-501.
    64. Y. Litvin, I. Cohen, and J. Benesty, “Single-Channel Source Separation of Speech and Music Using Short Time Spectral Kurtosis,” Proc. 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel, August 30th – September 2nd, 2010.
    65. Y. Litvin, I. Cohen, and D. Chazan, “Separation of Speech and Music Sources From a SingleChannel Mixture Using Discrete Energy Separation Algorithm,” Proc. 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel, August 30th – September 2nd, 2010.
    66. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “A Reduced Bandwidth Binaural MVDR Beamformer,” Proc. 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel, August 30th – September 2nd, 2010. (Best student paper award).
    67. M. Genussov, Y. Lavner and I. Cohen, “Classification of Unvoiced Fricative Phonemes using Geometric Methods,” Proc. 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel, August 30th – September 2nd, 2010.
    68. . Y. Buchris, I. Cohen, and M. A. Doron, “Robust Focusing for Wideband MVDR Beamforming,” Proc. 6th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, SAM-2010, Israel, 4-7 October 2010, pp. 1-4.
    69. I. Ram, I. Cohen, S. Raz, and A. Vassiliou, “Seismic Signal Deconvolution Using a Maximum Posterior Mode Algorithm,” Proc. Society of Exploration Geophysicist International Conference, Exposition and 80th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 17-22 October 2010, pp. 3673-3677.
    70. S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “Anomaly Detection in Sonar Images Based on Wavelet Domain Noncausal AR-ARCH Random Field Modeling,” Proc. 26th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2010, Eilat, Israel, 17-20 November 2010, pp. 306- 309.
    71. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Performance Analysis of a Randomly Spaced Wireless Microphone Array,” Proc. 36th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2011, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22 –27, 2011, pp. 121-124.
    72. R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Clustering and Suppression of Transient Noise in Speech Signals Using Diffusion Maps,” Proc. 36th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2011, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22 –27, 2011, pp. 5084-5087.
    73. Y. Avargel and I. Cohen, “Speech Measurements Using a Laser Doppler Vibrometer Sensor: Application to Speech Enhancement,” Proc. 3 rd Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, HSCMA-2011, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 May–1 June, 2011, pp. 109-114.
    74. Y. Michalevsky, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Speaker Identification Using Diffusion Maps,” Proc. 19 th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2011, Barcelona, Spain, August 29- September 2, 2011.
    75. I. Katsir, I. Cohen and D. Malah, “Speech Bandwidth Extension Based on Speech Phonetic Content and Speaker Vocal Tract Shape Estimation,” Proc. 19th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2011, Barcelona, Spain, August 29- September 2, 2011.
    76. R. Talmon, I. Cohen and S. Gannot, “Supervised Source Localization Using Diffusion Kernels,” Proc. 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA-2011, New Paltz, NY, 16-19 October 2011, pp. 245-248.
    77. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “A Sparse Blocking Matrix for Multiple Constraints GSC Beamformer,” Proc. 37th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2012, Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30, 2012, pp. 541-544.
    78. T. Koren, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Supervised System Identification Based on Local PCA Models” Proc. 37th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2012, Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30, 2012, pp. 197-200.
    79. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Distributed GSC Beamforming Using the Relative Transfer Function,” Proc. 20th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO2012, Bucharest, Romania, August 27-31, 2012 (invited paper).
    80. A. Oyzerman and I. Cohen, “System Identification and Dereverberation of Speech Signals in the Single-Side-Band Transform Domain,” Proc. 20th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2012, Bucharest, Romania, August 27-31, 2012.
    81. A. Hirszhorn, D. Dov, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Transient Interference Suppression in Speech Signals Based on the OM-LSA Algorithm,” Proc. 13 th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2012, Aachen, Germany, Sep. 4-6, 2012.
    82. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “Blind Sampling Rate Offset Estimation and Compensation in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks with Application to Beamforming,” Proc. 13th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2012, Aachen, Germany, Sep. 4-6, 2012.
    83. I. Katsir, D. Malah and I. Cohen, “Evaluation of Speech Bandwidth Extension Algorithm Based on Vocal Tract Shape Estimation,” Proc. 13th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC-2012, Aachen, Germany, Sep. 4-6, 2012.
    84. I. Volfin and I. Cohen, “Dominant Speaker Identification for Multipoint Videoconferencing,” Proc. 27th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2012, Eilat, Israel, 14-17 November 2012 (invited paper).
    85. V. Evelkin and I. Cohen, “Effect of Latency Time in High Frequencies on Sound Localization,” Proc. 27th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2012, Eilat, Israel, 14-17 November 2012.
    86. S. Markovich Golan, S. Gannot and I. Cohen, “A Weighted Multichannel Wiener Filter for Multiple Sources Scenarios,” Proc. 27th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2012, Eilat, Israel, 14-17 November 2012 (invited paper, Best student paper award).
    87. S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “ARCH and GARCH Parameter Estimation in Presence of Additive Noise Using Particle Methods,” Proc. 38th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2013, Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013, pp. 6279-6282.
    88. I. Ram, M. Elad and I. Cohen, “Image Denoising Using NL-Means Via Smooth Patch Ordering,” Proc. 38th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2013, Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013, pp. 1350-1354.
    89. R. Talmon, I. Cohen, S. Gannot and Ronald R. Coifman, “Graph-Based Bayesian Approach for Transient Interference Suppression,” Proc. 21st European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2013, Marrakech, Morocco, September 9-13, 2013 (invited paper).
    90. G. Mishne and I. Cohen, “Multiscale Anomaly Detection Using Diffusion Maps and Saliency Score”, Proc. 39th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2014, Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014.
    91. M. Li, I. Cohen and S. Mousazadeh, “Multisensory Speech Enhancement in Noisy Environments Using Bone-Conducted and Air-Conducted Microphones”, Proc. 2nd IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, ChinaSIP’14, July 9-13, 2014 (invited paper).
    92. N. Spingarn, S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “Voice Activity Detection in Transient Noise Environment Using Laplacian Pyramid Algorithm,” Proc. 14th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2014, Antibes – Juan les Pins, French Riviera, Sep. 9–11, 2014.
    93. R. Berkun, I. Cohen and J. Benesty, “User Determined Superdirective Beamforming,” Proc. 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2014, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2014.
    94. D. Dov and I. Cohen, “Voice Activity Detection in Presence of Transients Using the Scattering Transform,” Proc. 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2014, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2014.
    95. O. Rosen, S. Mousazadeh and I. Cohen, “Voice Activity Detection in Presence of Transient Noise Using Spectral Clustering and Diffusion Kernels,” Proc. 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2014, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2014.
    96. . G. Mishne and I. Cohen, “Multi-Channel Wafer Defect Detection Using Diffusion Maps,” Proc. 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2014, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2014.
    97. I. Rozenberg, I. Cohen and A. Vassiliou, “Performance Measures for Sparse Spike Inversion vs. Basis Pursuit Inversion,” Proc. 28th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2014, Eilat, Israel, 3-5 December 2014.
    98. Y. Doweck, A. Amar, and I. Cohen, “Parameter Estimation of Harmonic Linear Chirps,” Proc. 23rd European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2015, Nice, France, 31st August-4th September, 2015.
    99. J. Abel, M. Kaniewska, C. Guillaumé, W. Tirry, H. Pulakka, I. Katsir, D. Malah, I. Cohen, M. A. T. Turan, E. Erzin, P. Vary, T. Schlien, A. H. Nour-Eldin, P. Kabal, and T. Fingscheidt, “A Subjective Listening Test of Six Different Artificial Bandwidth Extension Approaches in English, Chinese, German, and Korean”, Proc. 41st IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2016, Shanghai, China, March 20-25, 2016.
    100. Y. Buchris, I. Cohen, and J. Benesty, “Analysis and Design of Time-Domain First-Order Circular Differential Microphone Arrays,” Proc. 22nd International Congress on Acoustics, ICA-2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep. 5-9, 2016 (invited paper).
    101. A. Atkins, Y. Ben-Hur, I. Cohen, and J. Benesty, “Robust Superdirective Beamformer With Optimal Regularization,” Proc. 15th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2016, Xi’an, China, Sep. 14-16, 2016.
    102. R. Berkun, I. Cohen, and J. Benesty, “A Tunable Beamformer for Robust Superdirective Beamforming,” Proc. 15th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2016, Xi’an, China, Sep. 14-16, 2016.
    103. Y. Buchris, I. Cohen, and J. Benesty, “First-Order Differential Microphone Arrays From a Time-Domain Broadband Perspective,” Proc. 15th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2016, Xi’an, China, Sep. 14-16, 2016.
    104. D. Wolff, Y. Buchris, and I. Cohen, “A Directionaly Constrained Distortionless Multistage LCMV Beamformer,” Proc. 15th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2016, Xi’an, China, Sep. 14-16, 2016.
    105. A. Atkins and I. Cohen, “Speech Enhancement Using ARCH Model,” Proc. 15th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC-2016, Xi’an, China, Sep. 14-16, 2016.
    106. . D. Dov, R. Talmon and I. Cohen, “Kernel Method for Speech Source Activity Detection in Multi-Modal Signals,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering, ICSEE-2016, Eilat, Israel, Nov. 16-18, 2016.
    107. O. Shahar, L. Twito, N. Spingarn and I. Cohen, “Speaker Diarization Based on Locally Linear Embedding,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering, ICSEE-2016, Eilat, Israel, Nov. 16-18, 2016.
    108. Y. Zonis, Y. Buchris and I. Cohen, “Estimation of Speaker Individual Spectral Envelope for Pitch Tracking Improvement,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering, ICSEE-2016, Eilat, Israel, Nov. 16-18, 2016 (Best student paper award).
    109. M. Harel, D. Dov, I. Cohen, R. Talmon and R. Meir, “Voiced-Unvoiced-Silence Classification via Hierarchical Dual Geometry Analysis,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering, ICSEE-2016, Eilat, Israel, Nov. 16-18, 2016.
    110. . M. Buchbinder, Y. Buchris and I. Cohen, “Adaptive Weighting Parameter in Audio-Visual Voice Activity Detection,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering, ICSEE-2016, Eilat, Israel, Nov. 16-18, 2016.
    111. G. Mishne and I. Cohen, “Iterative Diffusion-Based Anomaly Detection”, Proc. 42nd IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2017, New Orleans, USA, March 5-9, 2017.
    112. G. Avrashi, A. Amar, I. Cohen and M. Stojanovic, “Eigenvalue Decomposition Based Estimators of Carrier Frequency Offset in Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Communication”, Proc. 42nd IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP2017, New Orleans, USA, March 5-9, 2017.
    113. .X. Leng, J. Chen, I. Cohen, and J. Benesty, “Study of Widely Linear Multichannel Wiener Filter for Binaural Noise Reduction,” Proc. 25th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2017, Kos island, Greece, August 28 to September 2, 2017.
    114. M. Mirel, I. Cohen, and A. Vassiliou, “Multichannel Semi-blind Sparse Deconvolution of Seismic Signals,” Proc. Society of Exploration Geophysicist International Conference, Exposition and 87th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 24-27 September 2017.
    115. D. Pereg, I. Cohen, and A. Vassiliou, “Sparse Seismic Time-Variant Deconvolution Using Q Attenuation Model,” Proc. Society of Exploration Geophysicist International Conference, Exposition and 87th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 24-27 September 2017.
    116. R. Mulayoff, Y. Buchris and I. Cohen, “Differential Microphone Arrays for the Underwater Acoustic Channel,” Proc. 2017 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA-2017, New Paltz, NY, 15-18 October 2017.
    117. Y. Buchris, I. Cohen and J. Benesty, “Asymmetric Beampatterns with Circular Differential Microphone Arrays,” Proc. 2017 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA-2017, New Paltz, NY, 15-18 October 2017.
    Patents

    1. I. Cohen, A. Vassiliou and N. Coult, “Method and Apparatus for Seismic Image Processing andExploration,” US 60/424937, 2002.
    2. I. Cohen, A. Vassiliou and N. Coult, “Method and Apparatus for Seismic Feature Extraction,”WO 2004/044615, 2004.

    CONFERENCES

    Invited talks and tutorials

    1. “On a Tradeoff Between Dereverberation and Noise Reduction Using the MVDRBeamformer,” 34th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2009, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19 –24, 2009 (invited talk given by my postdoctoral student E. Habets).
    2. “GARCH Models and Their Applications to Speech Enhancement and Sea-Mine Detection inSonar Images,” the First Israeli Signal Processing Workshop, Bar-Ilan University, Israel,January 30, 2011 (invited talk).
    3. “Speech Modeling and Enhancement in Nonstationary Noise Environments,” IASTEDInternational Conference on Signal and Image Processing and Applications, SIPA-2011, Crete,Greece, June 22 –24, 2011 (tutorial given by I. Cohen and S. Gannot).
    4.  "Speech Modeling and Enhancement Using Diffusion Maps," 37th IEEE Internat. Conf.Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2012, Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30, 2012 (tutorial givenby I. Cohen, S. Gannot and R. Talmon).
    5. “Speech Enhancement for Acoustic Communication Using Multiple Microphones andDiffusion Maps” 20th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2012, Bucharest,Romania, August 27-31, 2012 (tutorial given by I. Cohen, S. Gannot, E. Habets and R.Talmon).
    6.  “A Weighted Multichannel Wiener Filter for Multiple Sources Scenarios,” 27th IEEEConvention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2012, Eilat, Israel, 14-17November 2012 (invited talk given by my student S. Markovich Golan).
    7.  “Dominant Speaker Identification for Multipoint Videoconferencing,” 27th IEEE Conventionof Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI-2012, Eilat, Israel, 14-17 November2012 (invited talk given by my student I. Volfin).
    8. “Graph-Based Bayesian Approach for Transient Interference Suppression,” 21st EuropeanSignal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2013, Marrakech, Morocco, September 9-13, 2013(invited talk given by S. Gannot).
    9. “Multisensory Speech Enhancement in Noisy Environments Using Bone-Conducted and AirConducted Microphones”, 2nd IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signaland Information Processing, ChinaSIP’14, July 9-13, 2014 (invited talk given by my student M.Li).
    10. “GARCH Models and Their Applications to Speech Enhancement and Sea-Mine Detection inSonar Images”, The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing,Communications and Computing (ICSPCC 2015), Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, September 19-22,2015 (keynote speaker).
    11.  “GARCH Models and Applications to Speech Enhancement and Anomaly Detection”, WinterSchool on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP 2016), Chennai, India, January 8-11, 2016(invited speaker).
    12.  “Real-time microphone selection in noisy reverberant environments for teleconferencingsystems”, IEEE ICASSP-2016 Workshop on Sensor Array and Communications,Xi’an?China, March 28, 2016 (keynote speaker).
    13. “Analysis and Design of Time-Domain First-Order Circular Differential Microphone Arrays,”Proc. 22nd International Congress on Acoustics, ICA-2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep. 5-9,2016 (invited talk given by my student Y. Buchris).
    14. “Microphone array power ratio for speech quality assessment in noisy reverberantenvironments”, 15th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC2016, Xi’an, China, Sep. 14-16, 2016 (keynote speaker).
    15. “Multichannel speech enhancement and quality assessment in noisy reverberant environments”,International Conference on Innovations in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and MediaTechnology, ICIEEIMT 2017, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, February 3-4, 2017 (keynotespeaker).16. “Optimal multichannel signal enhancement in the time domain”, 10th Anniversary of IEEEXi’an Section, Xi’an, China, December 16, 2017 (keynote speaker)
    Participation in organizing conferences


    2007 Organizer and Chair of a Workshop on Speech Enhancement and MultichannelAudio Processing, Technion, Israel, Feb. 22, 2007.
    2010General Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee, International Workshop onAcoustic Echo and Noise Control, IWAENC, August 30th– September 2nd, 2010,Tel-Aviv, Israel.
    2014 Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee, The 4th Annual International TCEConference, May 26-27, 2014, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
    2016 Organizing Committee, IEEE International Conference on the Science ofElectrical Engineering (ICSEE), Nov. 16 – 18, 2016, Eilat, Israel.
    2016Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Speech and Audio Processing,Nov. 17, 2016, Eilat, Israel.


    Conference activities


    2004Session Chair, 23rd IEEE Convention of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers inIsrael, Israel
    2005Speech Technical Committee Associate for ICASSP-2005
    2006Session Chair, 31st IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP2006, France
    2006Speech Technical Committee Associate for ICASSP-2006
    2009 Session Chair, 34th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP2009, Taiwan
    2011Session Chair, 1st Technion Computer Engineering (TCE) Conference, Technion,Haifa, Israel.
    2011Scientific Review Committee Member, 12th Annual Conference of theInternational Speech Communication Association (ISCA), INTERSPEECH 2011,Florence, Italy.
    2012 Session Chair, 13th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control,IWAENC-2012, Aachen, Germany.
    2013 Session Chair, 38th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP2013, Vancouver, Canada
    2014Session Chair, 39th IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP2014, Florence, Italy.
    2016Session Chair, 41st IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., ICASSP-2016, Shanghai, China.
    2017 Session Chair, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio andAcoustics, WASPAA-2017, New Paltz, NY.