Short Bio

I was born in Padova (Italy) in 1959. I received the Laurea degree with honours in Electrical Engineering (University of Padova) in 1984. From 1984 to 1987 I was Researcher at the Speech Coding Department of CSELT - Torino (Italy). In 1988 I joined ITC-irst as Senior Researcher of the Acoustic and Speech Recognition group. Since 1998, I have been acting as head of SHINE (Speech-acoustic scene analysis and interpretation) project. Since 2002, I have also been teaching the course of "Audio signal processing" at the Department of Information and Communication Technology - University of Trento.

Currently, my primary research interests are in the areas of: Microphone array processing, Acoustic Scene Analysis, Speaker Localization and tracking, Speech Enhancement, Blind Source Separation, Speaker Identification, Voice Activity Detection, Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition, particularly for distant-talking scenarios and for hands-free interaction in the car environment.

I have been acting as reviewer for all the most important journals in my areas of expertise. From January 2003 to December 2005 I was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing journal. Currently, I am Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, for a special issue on Speech Processing for Natural Interaction with Intelligent Environments.

From 2006 to 2009, I acted as Project Manager of DICIT, a European Project of the VI EC Framework Programme (see http://dicit.fbk.eu), which investigated technologies for the development Distant-talking Interfaces for Control of Interactive TV.

I was General CoChairman of IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2001, and of Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA) 2008, and more recently I was Local Chair of IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2009.

During the last years I have also been acting as member of the steering committee of AISV, the italian association on speech sciences, and I am member of IEEE and ISCA. I am author of more than 100 scientific papers in major international conferences and journals in the field of Speech Processing and ASR, and of three international patents.

For any questions, please contact me at the following address: omologo (at) fbk.eu

Maurizio Omologo

FBK-irst, Povo, via Sommarive 18, I-38100 Trento, Italy

Tel: +39 0461 314563

Fax: +39 0461 314591

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