Tobias Goehring
PhD researcher
University of Southampton
Institute for Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR)
University Road
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
Email: T.Goehring@soton.ac.uk
CV
Originally from Hanover (Germany) I studied electrical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) at the University of Technology Braunschweig and at the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain. Several internships and projects with Sennheiser Electronic, Dräger Medical and IAV Automotive Engineering enriched these years.
After graduating as Dipl.-Ing. in 2011 with my thesis on A psychoacoustically optimised in-car communication system I continued working for IAV as development engineer in automotive industry collaborating with leading manufacturers. I gained experience through several projects in the field of speech and audio systems for automotive vehicles (e.g. hands-free telephony, audio-system design and in-car communication) ranging from prototype design to field experiments with clients and product maintenance.
In November 2013, I started as a PhD researcher at the ISVR, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton and the EU Marie Curie network ICanHear. Technology, sound and sense come together in this interdisciplinary and innovative research project that strives for improving the life of people with hearing loss. This combination is fascinating and a strong motivation for me.
Research
My research work tackles the present challenge of improving speech perception of people with hearing loss in noisy acoustic environments. The healthy auditory system is still superior to technical solutions and therefor serves as an ideal prototype. This is why I combine the advances of computational auditory modelling with powerful machine learning techniques to develop improved noise reduction schemes for application in both hearing aid and cochlear implant technology.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed
Goehring, T., Yang, X., Monaghan, J., Bleeck, S. (2016). Speech enhancement for hearing-impaired listeners using deep neural networks with auditory-model based features. In 2016 EURASIP 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (pp. 2300-2304). IEEE.
Bolner, F., Goehring, T., Monaghan, J., van Dijk, B., Wouters, J. and Bleeck, S. (2016). Speech enhancement based on neural networks applied to cochlear implant coding strategies. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 6520-6524). IEEE.
Lieb, M., Haferburg, B. and Goehring, T. (2012). Automotive Hands-free Telephony Speech Quality Evaluation-A Subjective Testing Approach. In Speech Communication; 10. ITG Symposium; Proceedings of (pp. 1-4). VDE.
Submitted
Monaghan, J., Goehring, T., Yang, X., Bolner, F., Wang, S., Bleeck, S. (2016). Machine-learning based speech enhancement for hearing impaired listeners. Submitted to Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Goehring, T., Bolner, F., Monaghan, J. J. M., Van Dijk, B., Zarowski, A., Bleeck, S. (2016). Speech enhancement based on neural networks improves speech intelligibility in noise for cochlear implant users. Submitted to Hearing Research.
Goehring, T., Chapman, J., Bleeck, S., Monaghan, J. (2016). Listeners with hearing loss have a greater tolerance to processing delay than listeners with normal hearing. Submitted to International Journal of Audiology.
Conference item
Goehring, T., Yang, X., Monaghan, J., Wang, S., Niranjan, M., Bleeck, S. (2016). Speech enhancement based on artificial neural networks for hearing-impaired listeners using auditory inspired features. At German Society of Audiology meeting (DGA), Hannover, DE, 09 - 12 Mar 2016.
Goehring, T., Bolner, F., Monaghan, J., Van Dijk, B., Wouters, J., Moonen, M., Bleeck, S. (2015). Speech enhancement based on neural networks applied to cochlear implant coding strategies. At Acoustical Society of America meeting (ASA), Jacksonville, US, 01 – 06 Nov 2015.
Goehring, T., Bolner, F., Monaghan, J., Bleeck, S. (2015). Neural network based speech enhancement applied to hearing instruments. At British Society of Audiology meeting (BSA), Cardiff, UK, 03 – 04 Sep 2015.
Goehring, T., Bolner, F., Monaghan, J., Van Dijk, B., Wouters, J., Moonen, M., Bleeck, S. (2015). Speech enhancement based on neural networks applied to cochlear implant coding strategies. At Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP), Lake Tahoe, US, 12 – 17 Jul 2015.
Goehring, T., Chapman, J., Monaghan, J., Bleeck, S. (2014). Do hearing impaired individuals tolerate different output delay lengths than normal hearing individuals ?. At British Society of Audiology meeting (BSA), Keele, UK, 01 – 03 Sep 2014.
