Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfred Mertins

Institute for Signal Processing
University of Luebeck
Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, 1. OG, Raum 93
Email: | mertins(at)isip.uni-luebeck.de |
Phone: | +49 451 3101 5800 |
Fax: | +49 451 3101 5804 |
Curriculum Vitae
Alfred Mertins received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 1984, the Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Dr.-Ing. habil. degree in Telecommunications from the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. From 1986 to 1991 he was with the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, from 1991 to 1995 with the Microelectronics Applications Center Hamburg, Germany, from 1996 to 1997 with the University of Kiel, Germany, from 1997 to 1998 with the University of Western Australia, and from 1998 to 2003 with the University of Wollongong, Australia. From April 2003 to October 2006, he was with the University of Oldenburg, Germany. In November 2006 he joined the University of Lübeck, Germany, as a Professor of Computer Science and director of the Institute for Signal Processing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. His research interests include speech, audio, image and video processing, wavelets and filter banks, and digital communications.
Published Books

A. Mertins: Signal Analysis: Wavelets, Filter Banks, Time-Frequency Transforms and Applications.
John Wiley & Sons., Chichester, 1999

L. C. Tran, T. A. Wysocki, A. Mertins, and J. Seberry, Complex Orthogonal Space-Time Processing in Wireless Communications.
Springer, New York, 2006.

A. Mertins: Signaltheorie: Grundlagen der Signalbeschreibung, Filterbänke, Wavelets, Zeit-Frequenz-Analyse, Parameter- und Signalschätzung.
Springer Vieweg, 3. Auflage, 2013. ISBN: 978-3-8348-1394-7
List of Publications (sorted by year)
2018
2017
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Katzberg, F., Mazur, R., Maass, M., Koch, P., and Mertins, A.: Sound-field measurement with moving microphones. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 141, no. 5, pp. 3220-3235, May 2017, Copyright (2017) Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America.
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Phan, H., Koch, P., Hertel, L., Maass, M., Mazur, R., and Mertins, A.: CNN-LTE: a Class of 1-X Pooling Convolutional Neural Networks on Label Tree Embeddings for Audio Scene Classification. Proc. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, USA, March 2017
2016
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Moeller, A., Lüpke, M., Koch, P., and Mertins, A.: Classification of Vibroarthrography Signals from Equine Fetlock Joints. 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik (DGMP 2016), Würzburg, Germany, pp. 552-553, Sep 2016
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Phan, H., Maass, M., Hertel, L., Mazur, R., McLoughlin, I., and Mertins, A.: Learning Compact Structural Representations for Audio Events Using Regressor Banks. Proc. 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Shanghai, China, pp. 211-215, March 2016
SPS Travel Grant
2015
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Maass, M., Phan, H., Möller, A., and Mertins, A.: Cosine-Sine Modulated Filter Banks for Motion Estimation and Correction: Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Battiato, S., Blanc-Talon, J., Gallo, G., Philips, W., Popescu, D., and Scheunders, P. (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, 2015
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Phan, H., Hertel, L., Maass, M., Mazur, R., and Mertins, A.: Representing Nonspeech Audio Signals through Speech Classification Models. Proc. 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), Dresden, Germany, pp. 3441-3445, September 2015
Best Student Paper Award Finalist, ISCA Travel Grant
2014
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Warzybok, A., Kodrasi, I., Jungmann, J. O., Habets, E. A. P., Gerkmann, T., Mertins, A., Doclo, S., Kollmeier, B., and Goetze, S.: Subjective Speech Quality and Speech Intelligibility Evaluation of Single-Channel Dereverberation Algorithms. Proc. International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC2014), Antibes, France, Sep. 2014
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Goetze, S., Warzybok, A., Kodrasi, I., Jungmann, J. O., Cauchi, B., Rennies, J., Habets, E. A. P., Mertins, A., Gerkmann, T., Doclo, S., and Kollmeier, B.: A Study on Speech Quality and Speech Intelligibility Measures for Quality Assessment of Single-Channel Dereverberation Algorithms. Proc. International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC2014), Antibes, France, Sep. 2014
2013
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AL-Zubaidi, A., Chen, L., Hagenah, J., and Mertins, A.: Robust Feature for Transcranial Sonography Image Classification Using Rotation-Invariant Gabor Filter. Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2013, Meinzer, H., Deserno, T. M., Handels, H., and Tolxdorff, T. (Ed.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Informatik aktuell, pp. 271-276, 2013
2012
2011
2010
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Müller, F. and Mertins, A.: Robust Features for Speaker-Independent Speech Recognition Based on a Certain Class of Translation-Invariant Transformations. Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing, Sole-Casals, J. and Zaiats, V. (Ed.), Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, LNAI, vol. 5933, pp. 111-119, Feb. 2010
2009
2008
2007
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Benzeghiba, M., Mori, R. D., Deroo, O., Dupont, S., Erbes, T., Jouvet, D., Fissore, L., Laface, P., Mertins, A., Ris, C., Rose, R., Tyagi, V., and Wellekens, C.: Automatic speech recognition and speech variability: a review. Speech Communication, vol. 49, no. 10-11, pp. 763-786, Oct.-Nov. 2007, Copyright (2007) Elsevier
Best Paper Award
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Darolti, C., Mertins, A., and Hofmann, U. G.: A Fast Level-Set Method for Accurate Tracking of Articulated Objectswith An Edge-Based Binary Speed Term. Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Jacques Blanc-Talon, W. P. D. P. u. P. S. (Ed.), Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 4678, pp. 828-839, August 2007
2006
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Benzeguiba, M., Mori, R. D., Deroo, O., D., S., , ., Jouvet, D., Fissore, L., Laface, P., Mertins, A., Ris, C., Rose, R., Tyagi, V., and Wellekens, C.: Impact of variabilities on speech recognition. Proc. 11th International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2006), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, June 25-29 2006
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Benzeguiba, M., Mori, R. D., Deroo, O., Dupont, S., Erbes, T., Jouvet, D., Fissore, L., Laface, P., Mertins, A., Ris, C., Rose, R., Tyagi, V., and Wellekens, C.: Automatic speech recognition and intrinsic speech variation. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, vol. V, pp. 1021-1024, May 2006
2005
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Tran, L. C., Wysocki, T. A., Seberry, J., Mertins, A., and Spence, S. A.: Generalized Williamson and Wallis-Whiteman constructions for improved square order-8 CO STBCs. Proc. 16th Annual IEEE Int. Symp. Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun. PIMRC 2005, Berlin, Germany, vol. 2, pp. 1155-1159, Sept. 2005
2004
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Tran, L. C., Wysocki, T. A., Seberry, J., and Mertins, A.: The effect of imperfect carrier recovery on the performance of the antenna selection technique in wireless channels utilizing DSTM. Proc. 2nd IEEE Int. Conf. Inform. Technol.: Research and Education (ITRE 2004), London, UK, vol. 1, pp. 15-18, 28 June - 1 July 2004
2003
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Raad, M., Mertins, A., and Burnett, I. S.: Scalable to lossless audio compression based on Perceptual Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (PSPIHT). Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP2003), Kong, vol. 5, pp. V-624-V-627, reprinted in Proc. Fourth International on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2003), Baltimore, vol. 3, pp. 393-396, July, 2003