EVENT    MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2026

Date released: April 21, 2026

  •  EVENT    MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2026
  • Date:

    Monday, May 4, 2026 - , May 8, 2026

  • Location:

    Barcelona, Spain

  • Description:

    MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2026, which is being held in Barcelona, Spain from May 4-8, 2026.

    Sponsorship

    MERL is proud to be a Silver Patron of the conference and will participate in the student job fair on Thursday, May 7. Please join this session to learn more about employment opportunities at MERL, including openings for research scientists, post-docs, and interns. MERL Distinguished Research Scientists Petros T. Boufounos and Jonathan Le Roux will also present a spotlight session on MERL’s research in signal processing on Tuesday, May 5 at 13:05.

    MERL is also pleased to be the sponsor of two IEEE Awards that will be presented at the conference. We congratulate Prof. Nasir Ahmed, the recipient of the 2026 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, and Dr. Alex Acero, the recipient of the 2026 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

    Technical Program

    MERL is presenting 7 papers in the main conference on a wide range of topics including source separation, spatial audio, neural audio codecs, radar-based pose estimation, camera-based airflow sensing, radar array processing, and optimization. Another paper on neural speech codecs will be presented at the Low-Resource Audio Codec (LRAC) Satellite Workshop. MERL researchers will also present two articles published in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) on music source separation and head-related transfer function (HRTF) modeling. Finally, Speech and Audio Team members Yoshiki Masuyama and Jonathan Le Roux co-organized a Special Session on Neural Spatial Audio Processing, which will feature six oral presentations.

    About ICASSP

    ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 4000 participants each year.

  • MERL Contacts:

    Wael H. Ali; Petros T. Boufounos; Chiori Hori; Jonathan Le Roux; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Yoshiki Masuyama; Joshua Rapp; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern

  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Optimization, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio

    •  Zhang, H., Ma, Y., Kitichotkul, R., Rapp, J., Boufounos, P.T., "ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-041 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Zhang2026may,
      • author = {Zhang, Haoyu and Ma, Yanting and Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Rapp, Joshua and Boufounos, Petros T.},
      • title = {{ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-041}
      • }
    •  Kato, S., Wang, P., Fujihashi, T., Markham, A., "Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-040 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Kato2026may,
      • author = {Kato, Sorachi and Wang, Pu and Fujihashi, Takuya and Markham, Andrew},
      • title = {{Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-040}
      • }
    •  Takahashi, R., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-039 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Takahashi2026may,
      • author = {Takahashi, Ryuhei and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
      • title = {{DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-039}
      • }
    •  Tandi, K., Ali, W.H., Rapp, J., Mansour, H., "Single View Camera-Based Dynamic Airflow Sensing", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-038 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Tandi2026may,
      • author = {Tandi, Kevin and Ali, Wael H. and Rapp, Joshua and Mansour, Hassan},
      • title = {{Single View Camera-Based Dynamic Airflow Sensing}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-038}
      • }
    •  Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-035 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Aihara2026may2,
      • author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-035}
      • }
    •  Masuyama, Y., Saijo, K., Paissan, F., Han, J., Delcroix, M., Aihara, R., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-034 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may2,
      • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Saijo, Kohei and Paissan, Francesco and Han, Jiangyu and Delcroix, Marc and Aihara, Ryo and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-034}
      • }
    •  Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Hori, C., Le Roux, J., "Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-033 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may,
      • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Hori, Chiori and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-033}
      • }
    •  Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Paissan, F., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-032 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Aihara2026may,
      • author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Paissan, Francesco and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2026,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-032}
      • }
    •  Jeon, C.-B., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Embracing Cacophony: Explaining and Improving Random Mixing in Music Source Separation", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​OJSP.2025.3633567, Vol. 6, pp. 1179-1192, January 2026.
      BibTeX TR2026-012 PDF
      • @article{Jeon2026jan,
      • author = {Jeon, Chang-Bin and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{Embracing Cacophony: Explaining and Improving Random Mixing in Music Source Separation}},
      • journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
      • year = 2026,
      • volume = 6,
      • pages = {1179--1192},
      • month = jan,
      • doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3633567},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-012}
      • }
    •  Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "SuDaField: Subject- and Dataset-Aware Neural Field for HRTF Modeling", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​OJSP.2025.3627073, Vol. 6, pp. 1169-1178, December 2025.
      BibTeX TR2026-009 PDF
      • @article{Masuyama2025dec2,
      • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
      • title = {{SuDaField: Subject- and Dataset-Aware Neural Field for HRTF Modeling}},
      • journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
      • year = 2025,
      • volume = 6,
      • pages = {1169--1178},
      • month = dec,
      • doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3627073},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-009}
      • }