Dr. Ivan Tashev of Microsoft Research

In this talk we will discuss the audio processing for the needs of virtual and augmented reality devices. On the input side we have sound capture and speech enhancement pipelines for both capturing the voice of the wearer and for capturing the surrounding audio. On the rendering side we have spatial audio and its personalization. The talk will be illustrated with real-life examples from the speech enhancement and spatial audio pipelines in HoloLens, Kinect, Microsoft Mixed Reality Platform, and Teams.

Biography:

Dr. Ivan Tashev is a Partner Software Architect in Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond, WA, USA, where he leads the Audio and Acoustics Group. His interests include multichannel signal processing using machine learning and AI approaches. Ivan Tashev also coordinates the Brain-Computer Interfaces project in MSR. Dr. Tashev is affiliate professor in the Department for Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Washington in Seattle, USA, and honorary professor at Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Technologies created by Ivan Tashev are incorporated in many Microsoft products, he served as the audio architect for Kinect and for HoloLens. He is an IEEE Fellow, member of AES and ASA. More details about him can be found in his web page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/ivantash/.