Want to be a part of our 100 years celebration!? See your sponsorship opportunities below and select your sponsorship level by clicking the 'Register' button. PLATINUM - Three job listings on IEEE Nebraska's website job listing page for one year. - Company logo on 100 year anniversary event page. - Centerpiece logo displayed on banquet table. - Company logo on IEEE Nebraska Section sponsor web page. - Table of six for you to invite your friends, family, employees, etc. GOLD - Three job listings on IEEE Nebraska's website job listing page for one year. - Company logo on 100 year anniversary event page. - Centerpiece logo displayed on banquet table. - Company logo on IEEE Nebraska Section sponsor web page. - Company logo in event program SILVER - Two job listings on IEEE Nebraska's website job listing page for one year. - Company logo on 100 year anniversary event page. - Centerpiece logo displayed on banquet table. - Company logo in event program BRONZE - Job listing on IEEE Nebraska's website job listing page for one year. - Company logo on 100 year anniversary event page. - Company logo in event program Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/501221

Title: Convolutional Beamformer for Joint Denoising, Dereverberation, and Source Separation Abstract: When speech is captured by distant microphones in everyday environments, the signals are often contaminated by background noise, reverberation, and overlapping voices. The convolutional beamformer (CBF) is a signal processing technique that recovers clean, close-microphone-quality speech from such complex mixtures. By jointly performing denoising, dereverberation, and source separation, CBF enhances both human listening experiences and automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy. Potential applications include hearing assistive devices, meeting transcription systems, and other real-world speech technologies. This talk begins by introducing the concept of CBF, including its formal definition, mechanism for joint enhancement, and optimization via maximum likelihood estimation. CBF is defined as a series of beamformers estimated at each frequency in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain and convolved with the observed signal to achieve the desired enhancement. The presentation then describes that CBF can be factorized into Multichannel Linear Prediction (MCLP) for dereverberation and Beamforming (BF) for denoising and separation, highlighting the practical advantages of this decomposition. Related work is reviewed, including Weighted Prediction Error (WPE) dereverberation, mask-based beamforming, and guided source separation, with emphasis on strong results in challenging tasks such as the CHiME-8 distant ASR challenge. Further extensions are presented, including blind CBF for unknown recording conditions, switching CBF for enhanced performance with a limited number of microphones, and integration with neural networks - notably the DiffCBF framework, which combines CBF with diffusion-based speech enhancement models. Experimental results demonstrate state-of-the-art speech quality, even with relatively few microphones and limited training data. Co-sponsored by: Starkey Speaker(s): Dr. Tomohiro Nakatani Agenda: 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Meet and Greet 10:00 – 10:05 a.m. Welcome Remarks by Dr. Masahiro Sunohara 10:05 – 11:00 a.m. Convolutional Beamformer for Joint Denoising, Dereverberation, and Source Separation by Dr. Tomohiro Nakatani Room: Excelsior Room, Bldg: William F Austin Center, 6425 Flying Cloud Dr, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States, 55344, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/501955

ABB/Baldor will present on the topic of Motor Attributes and Applications. The presentation will include a discussion of IEEE-841/ explosion-proof motor applications and conclude with a tour of the facility. The application of motors is a vast topic laden with misconceptions. This presentation will provide a clarifying overview of motor specification criteria, with specialized applications for hazardous areas and the unique attributes of IEEE-841 & explosion-proof motors. This will be an in-person meeting and a buffet style dinner will be available. Cost is $45 per person, payable through registration or by cash / check at the time of the meeting. Registration must be made by October 14th to reserve your seat. All attendees will receive 1-PDH credit. Agenda: 6:00 PM Registration 6:30 PM Buffet Style Dinner 7:00 PM Presentation 8:00 PM Adjournment Bldg: ABB Chicago District Office (Windy City Industrial Motors, Inc.), 1055B Remington Blvd, Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States, 60440