Wenwu Wang

Phone: +44 (0) 1483 686039
Fax: +44 (0) 1483 686031
Email: w.wang AT surrey.ac.uk
Office: 22AB05 (Building AB, 5th floor)

Research Interests

• Blind Signal Processing
• Machine Learning and Perception
• Machine Audition (Listening)
• Speech and Audio Processing
• Audio-Visual Signal Processing
• Sparse Signal Processing

We are part of the MOD University Defence Research Centre in Signal Processing.

We are involved in the Research Councils UK Global Uncertainties programme.

Publications

Research

Teaching

Short Bio

Demo & Data

Administrative Duties

• Director of FEPS Mathematics Drop-in Centre
• External Seminar Organiser at CVSSP

EE100

A poster for the 100th anniversary (on 5th Oct 07) of the Department of Electronic Engineering is available here .

Book Mark

Photos

• CVSSP away day (taken on the CVSSP & iLab merge meeting on 08/01/10)
• My daughter

Selected Recent Publications

• T. Jan, W. Wang, and D.L. Wang, "A Multistage Approach to Blind Separation of Convolutive Speech Mixtures," Speech Communication, 2011. [PDF]

• W. Wang (ed), Machine Audition: Principles, Algorithms and Systems, IGI Global Press, 532 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1615209194, August, 2010. [link]

• Q. Liu, W. Wang, and P. Jackson, "Use of Bimodal Coherence to Resolve Spectral Indeterminacy in Convolutive BSS," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 6365), Springer-Verlag. Proc. 9th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (formerly the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation) (LVA/ICA 2010), pp. 131-139, St. Malo, France, Sept 27-30, 2010. [PDF] (Best Student Paper Award Normination)

• W. Wang, A. Cichocki, and J. A. Chambers, "A Multiplicative Algorithm for Convolutive Non-negative Matrix Factorization Based on Squared Euclidean Distance," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 2858-2864, July 2009. [PDF]

• T. Xu and W. Wang, "A Compressed Sensing Approach for Underdetermined Blind Audio Source Separation with Sparse Representations," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2009), Cardiff, UK, August 31-Sept 3, 2009. [PDF]

• A. Cichocki, M. Morup, P. Smaragdis, W. Wang, and R. Zdunek, "Advances in Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorization (Editorial)," Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2008, Article ID 852187, 3 pages, doi:10.1155/2008/852187, July 2008. [PDF]

• W. Wang, Y. Luo, J. A. Chambers, and S. Sanei, "Note Onset Detection via Non-negative Factorization of Magnitude Spectrum," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2008, Article ID 231367, 15 pages, doi:10.1155/2008/231367, June 2008. [PDF]

• Y. Luo, W. Wang, J. A. Chambers, S. Lambotharan, and I. Prouder, "Exploitation of Source Non-stationarity for Underdetermined Blind Source Separation With Advanced Clustering Techniques," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 2198-2212, June 2006. [PDF]

• M. Jafari, W. Wang, J. A. Chambers, T. Hoya, and A. Cichocki, "Sequential Blind Source Separation Based Exclusively on Second Order Statistics Developed for a Class of Periodic Signals," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 3, pp.1028-1040, March 2006. [PDF]

• L. Yuan, W. Wang, and J.A. Chambers, "A Variable Step-Size Sign Natural Gradient Algorithm for Sequential Blind Source Separation," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no.8, pp. 589-592, August 2005. [PDF]

• W. Wang, S. Sanei, and J.A. Chambers, "Penalty Function Based Joint Diagonalization Approach for Convolutive Blind Separation of Nonstationary Sources," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1654-1669, May 2005. [PDF]

• W. Wang, M. Jafari, S. Sanei, and J.A. Chambers, "Blind Separation of Convolutive Mixtures of Cyclostationary Signals," International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Special Issue on BSS, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 279-298, Apr. 2004. [PDF] (This paper was chosen as one of the three "Hot Papers" by Wiley/IEEE worldwide advert for books and journals in signal and image processing in Jan 2008.)

Selected Recent Activities

• Session Co-Chair, ICASSP 2012, "MLSP-L3: Applications in Audio, Speech, and Image Processing", Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, S+SSPR 2012, Hiroshima, Japan, 7 - 9 November, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, CISP 2012, Chongqing, China, 16-18 October, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, UKCI 2012, Edinburgh, UK, 5-11 September, 2012.
• Area Chair, EUSIPCO 2012, Bucharest, Romania, 27 - 31 August, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, BMVC 2012, Guildford, UK, 3 - 7 September, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, EUSIPCO 2012, Bucharest, Romania, 27 - 31 August, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, SIP 2012, Honolulu, USA, 20 - 22 August, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, ISNN 2012, Shenyang, China, 11-14 July, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, ICSAI 2012, Yantai, China, 19-21 May, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, ICIST 2012, Wuhan, China, 23-25 March, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, SENSORNETS 2012, Rome, Italy, 24-26 February, 2012.
• Internal PhD Examiner, PhD Thesis: "Novel Tensor Factorization Based Approaches for Blind Source Separation", Department of Computing, University of Surrey, December 2011.
• Session Chair, EUSIPCO 2011, "Multichannel Acoustic Processing I", Barcelona, Spain, 29 August -2 Sept, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, SIP 2011, Dallas, USA, 14-16 December, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, CISP 2011, Shanghai, China, 15-17 October, 2011.
• Technical Committee Member, SSPD 2011, London, UK, 28-29 September, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, UKCI 2011, Manchester, UK, September, 2011.
• Special Session Co-Chair, EUSIPCO 2011, "Multimodal (Audio-Visual) Speech Separation", Barcelona, Spain, 29 August -2 Sept, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, BMVC 2011, Dundee, UK, 29 August -2 Sept, 2011.
• Headstart Project Leader, School Outreach, Guildford, 17-20 July, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, SIPA 2011, Crete, Greece, 22-24 June, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, CSIE 2011, Changchun, China, 17-19 June, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, ISNN 2011, Guilin, China, 29 May- 1 June, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, ICIST 2011, Nanjing, China, 26-28 March, 2011.
• Grant Reviewer, EPSRC, first grant proposal, March, 2011.
• External PhD Examiner, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2010.
• Grant Reviewer, PASCAL2, internal visiting proposal, August, 2010.
• Headstart Project Leader, School Outreach, Guildford, 19-22 July, 2010.
• Technical Committee Member, Conference on Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD 2010), London, UK, 29-30 September, 2010.
• Program Committee Member, BMVC 2010, Aberystwyth, UK, 31 August - 3 September, 2010.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE WCSE 2010, Wuhan, China, December 19-20, 2010.
• Program Committee Member, IWACI 2010, Suzhou, China, August 25-27, 2010.
• Program Committee Member, SIP 2010, Maui, Hawaii, USA, August 23-25, 2010.
• Program Committee Member, SSSPR 2010, Cesme, Turkey, August 18-20, 2010.
• Program Committee Member, ISNN 2010, Shanghai, China, June 6-9, 2010.
• Publicity chair, IEEE International Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2009), Cardiff, UK, Aug. 31- Sept. 3, 2009.
• Program Co-chair, IEEE Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2009), Xiamen, China, May 19-21, 2009.
• Program Committee Member, SIP 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 17-19, 2009.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE WCSE 2009, Xiamen, China, May 19-21, 2009.
• Session Chair, ICA Research Network International Workshop (ICARN 2008), Liverpool, UK, September 25-26, 2008.
• Chair, oral session "Unsupervised learning III", IEEE WCCI 2008, HongKong, China, June 1-6, 2008.
• Guest editor, special issue "Advances in Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorization", Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (Hindawi), edited by A. Cichocki, M. Morup, P. Smaragdis, W. Wang, and R. Zdunek, May 2008.
• Program Committee Member, SIP 2008, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA, August 18-20, 2008.
• Technical Committee Member, IEEE WCCI 2008, HongKong, China, June 1-6, 2008.

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