Mr. Genya Shimizu Won 1st Prize, IEEE GCCE 2016 Excellent Paper Award

　A paper by Mr. Genya Shimizu (senior student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering), Mr. Kenshi Amano (graduated from the same department in 2016), et al. won the 1st Prize, IEEE GCCE(*) 2016 Excellent Paper Award. The title of the paper was “Superdirective microphone array based on DOA(**) and waveform estimations of noise.”

　The coauthors, Profs. Kenji Ozawa and Masanori Morise, stated that it might be highly evaluated that a compact sound separation system showed a high resolution. The research was conducted with Mr. Satoshi Oode and Dr. Kazuho Ono of the Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

(*) IEEE GCCE: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Global Conference on Consumer Electronics
(**) DOA: Direction of arrival