Work

• Publications:
  1. Steven M. Schimmel and Les E. Atlas, “Target talker enhancement in hearing devices,”
     Accepted for publication at ICASSP'08.
  2. Jong Ho Won, Steven M. Schimmel, Ward R. Drennan, Pamela E. Souza, Les Atlas, and Jay Rubinstein, “Improving performance in noise for hearing aids and cochlear implants using coherent modulation filtering,” Hearing Research, in press.
  3. Steven M. Schimmel, “Theory of Modulation Frequency Analysis and Modulation Filtering, with Applications to Hearing Devices,”
     Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 2007.
  4. Steven M. Schimmel, Les E. Atlas, and Kaibao Nie, “Feasibility of single channel speaker separation based on modulation frequency analysis,”
     Proceedings of ICASSP'07, pp. 605-608, 2007.
  5. Steven M. Schimmel, Kelly R. Fitz, and Les E. Atlas, “Frequency Reassignment for coherent modulation filtering,”
     Proceedings of ICASSP'06, pp. 261-264, 2006.
  6. Steven M. Schimmel and Les E. Atlas, “Analysis of signal reconstruction after modulation filtering,”
     Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5910, pp. 59100H, 2005.
  7. Steven Schimmel and Les Atlas, “Coherent envelope detection for modulation filtering of speech,”
     Proceedings of ICASSP'05, pp. 221-224, 2005.
  8. Katrin Kirchhoff and Steven Schimmel, “Statistical properties of infant-directed vs. adult-directed speech: insights from speech recognition,”
     The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 117, pp. 2238-2246, 2005.
  9. Steven Schimmel, “Motion sensitive video watermarking: final report,” August 2001
     Master's Thesis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
     Published as Philips Research Technical Report 2001/825, 2001.
• Presentations:
  1. (upcoming) Tutorial “Modulation Frequency Analysis and Modification of Signals,”
     IEEE ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2008
  2. Ph.D. Final Exam presentation (PowerPoint Show, right click to download)
  3. IEEE ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, April 2007 (poster, demos)
  4. IEEE ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, May 2006 (poster)
  5. SPIE Optics & Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA, August 2005 (lecture)
  6. IEEE ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 2005 (lecture)
• Patents:
  1. Jaap Haitsma, Ton Kalker and Steven Schimmel, “Efficient storage of fingerprints,” August 2003,
     International Publication Number WO 03/067466 A2
• Teaching:
  • Lecturer for graduate level course “Speech Signal Processing (SPHSC503),” Summer 2006
  • Lecturer for graduate level course “Digital Signal Processing (EE518),” Autumn 2005
  • Teaching Assistant for undergraduate level course “Discrete-time Linear Systems (EE341),” Winter 2005
  • Teaching Assistant for graduate level course “Digital Signal Processing (EE518),” Autumn 2004
• Curriculum Vitae