Department: Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Name: 黄公平
E-mail address: gongpinghuang@whu.edu.cn
Gender: Male
Title: Professor
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Personal website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a3x1k7kAAAAJ&hl=en
Education: Gongping Huang received a BS degree in Electronics and Information Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi'an, China, in 2012 and 2019, respectively. From 2015 to 2017, he was a visiting researcher at the INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada. From 2019 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is currently a Professor at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. He received the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (2021), the Andrew and Erna Finci Viterbi Post-Doctoral Fellowship award (2019), and the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics (2021), and the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of Shannxi Province (2021). He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the Circuits Systems and Signal Processing Journal and as a Consulting Associate Editors of the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.
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Research Experience and Fields of Special Interest: His research interests include acoustic signal processing, speech enhancement, microphone arrays beamforming, speech processing, array processing . 
Publications:
  1. BOOKS

    [1] J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “Microphone Arrays.” Springer, In preparation. 


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    EER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

  2. [
    1]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Fundamental approaches to robust differential beamforming with high directivity factors”, IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 30, pp. 1277- 1289, Mar. 2022.

  3. [2]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, and J. Chen, “Kronecker product multichannel linear filtering for adaptive weighted prediction error-based speech dereverberation”, IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 30, pp. 1277-1289, Mar. 2022.

  4. [3]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, and J. Chen, “A simple theory and new method of differential beamforming with uniform linear microphone arrays,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Pro- cess., vol. 28, pp. 1079-1093, Mar. 2020.

  5. [4]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, and J. Chen, “Differential beamforming on graphs,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 28, pp.901-913, Feb. 2020.

  1. [5]  G. Huang, I. Cohen, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Continuously steerable differential beamformers with null constraints for circular microphone arrays,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 148, no. 3, pp. 1248-1258, Sep. 2020.

  2. [6]  G. Huang, J. Chen, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, and X. Zhao, “Steerable differential beamformers with planar microphone arrays,” EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2020, no. 1, pp.1-18, Nov. 2020.

  3. [7]  G.Huang, J.Chen, and J.Benesty “Design of planar differential microphone arrays with fractional orders,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 28, pp. 116-130, Oct. 2019.

  4. [8]  G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “Insights into the frequency-invariant beamforming with con- centric circular microphone arrays,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 2305-2318, Dec. 2018.

  5. [9]  G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “On the design of differential beamformers with arbitrary microphone array geometry,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 144, no. 1, pp. EL66-EL70, Jul. 2018.

  6. [10]  G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “A flexible high directivity beamformer with spherical micro- phone arrays,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 143, no. 5, pp. 3024-3035, May 2018.

  7. [11]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “On the design of frequency-invariant beampatterns with uniform circular microphone arrays,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1140-1153, May 2017.

  8. [12]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Design of robust concentric circular differential microphone arrays,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 141, no. 5, pp. 3236-3249, May 2017.

  9. [13]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Superdirective beamforming based on the Krylov matrix,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 2034-2047, Dec. 2016.

  10. [14]  G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “Direction-of-arrival estimation of passive acoustic sources in reverberant environments based on the Householder transformation,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 138, no. 5, pp. 3053-3060, Nov. 2015.

  11. [15G.Huang,J.Benesty,T.Long,andJ.Chen,“Afamilyof maximum SNR filters for noise reduction,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 2034-2047, Dec. 2014. 

    [16]  X. Luo, G. Huang, J. Jin, J. Chen, J. Benesty, W. Zhang, M. Zhu, and J. Li, “Design of maximum directivity beamformers with linear acoustic vector sensor arrays,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 31, pp.1-15, 2023.

    [17]  J. Jin, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “On Differential Beamforming with Nonuniform Linear Microphone Arrays,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 30, pp.1840-1852, 2022.

    [18]  X. Zhao, G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “On the Design of 3D Steerable Beamformers with Uniform Concentric Circular Microphone Arrays,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 29, pp.2764-2778, Aug. 2021.

    [19]  X. Wang, J. Benesty, J. Chen, G. Huang, and I. Cohen, “Beamforming for cube microphone arrays via Kronecker product decompositions,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 29, pp. 1774-1784, May 2021.

    [20]  X. Chen, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “On the robustness of the superdirective beamformer,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 29, pp. 838-849, Jan. 2021.

    [21]  Y. Wang, J. Chen, J. Benesty, J. Jin, and G. Huang, “Binaural heterophasic superdirective beam- forming,” Sensors, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 74, Jan. 2021.

    [22]  X. Zhao, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “On a particular family of differential beamformers with cardioid-like and no-null patterns,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, pp. 140-144, Dec. 2020.

    [23]  X. Zhao, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “Differential beamforming from the beampattern factorization perspective,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 29, pp. 632-643, Dec. 2020.

    [24]  X. Wang, G. Huang, J. Chen, J. Benesty, and I. Cohen, “Time difference of arrival estimation based on a Kronecker product decomposition,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, pp. 51-55, Dec. 2020.

    [25]  W. Yang, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “A new class of differential beamformers,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 29, pp. 594-606, Dec. 2020.

    [26]  W. Yang, G. Huang, J. Chen, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, and W. Kellermann, “Robust dereverberation with Kronecker product based multichannel linear prediction,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, pp. 101-105, Dec. 2020.

    [27]  J. Jin, G. Huang, X. Wang, J. Chen, J. Benesty, and I. Cohen, “Steering study of linear differential microphone arrays,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 29, pp. 158-170, Nov. 2020.

    [28]  C. Pan, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “Microphone array beamforming: an overview,” J. Signal Process., vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 804-815, Mar. 2020. (in Chinese).

    [29]  J. Jin, J. Chen, J. Benesty, Y. Wang, and G. Huang, “Heterophasic binaural differential beamform- ing for speech intelligibility improvement,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 13497-13509, Nov. 2020.

    [30]  T. Long, J. Chen, G. Huang, J. Benesty, and I. Cohen, “Acoustic source localization based on geo- metric projection in reverberant and noisy environments,” IEEE J. Selected Topics Signal Process., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 143-155, Mar. 2019. 


  12. PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 

    [1]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, E. Winebrand, J. Chen, and W. Kellermann, “Switching Kronecker product linear filtering for multi-speaker adaptive speech dereverberation,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2023, pp. 1-5.

    [2]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, J. Chen, C. Paleologu, S. Ciochina, W. Kellermann, and I. Cohen, “Acoustic system identification with partially time-varying models based on tensor decompositions,” in Proc. IEEE IWAENC, 2022, pp. 1-5.

    [3]  W. Yang, G. Huang, A. Brendel, J. Chen, J. Benesty, W. Kellermann, and I. Cohen, “A bilinear framework for adaptive speech dereverberation combining beamforming and linear prediction,” in Proc. IEEE IWAENC, 2022, pp. 1-5.

    [4]  X. Wang, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “A Minimum-Variance-Distortionless-Response Spec- tral Estimator with Kronecker Product Filters,”in Proc. EUSIPCO, 2022, pp. 2261-2265.

    [5]  X. Wang, G. Huang, I. Cohen, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Kronecker product adaptive beamforming for microphone arrays,” in Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2021.

    [6]  X. Luo, J. Jin, G. Huang, J. Chen, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, W. Zhang, M. Zhu, and C. Li, “Constrained maximum directivity beamformers based on uniform linear acoustic-vector-sensor arrays,” in Proc. APSIPA ASC, 2021.

    [7]  X. Zhao, G. Huang, J. Benesty, J. Chen, and I. Cohen, “On the design of square differential micro- phone arrays with a multistage structure,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2021, pp. 746-750.

    [8]  G. Huang, Y. Wang, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, and J. Chen, “Combined differential beamforming with uniform linear microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2021, pp. 781-785.

    [9]  X. Wang, G. Huang, I. Cohen, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Robust steerable differential beamformers with null constraints for concentric circular microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2021, pp. 4465-4469.

    [10]  G. Huang, I. Cohen, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Kronecker product beamforming with multiple differential microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE SAM, 2020, pp. 1-5.

    [11]  G. Huang, J. Chen, J. Benesty, and I. Cohen, “Robust and steerable Kronecker product differential beamforming with rectangular microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2020, pp. 211-215.

    [12]  D. Li, G. Huang, Y. Lei, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “Robust source separation with differential micro- phone arrays and independent low-rank matrix analysis,” in Proc. EUSIPCO, 2020, pp. 291-295.

    [13]  X. Zhao, G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “An improved solution to the frequency-invariant beamforming with concentric circular microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2020, pp. 556- 560.

    [14]  X. Chen, G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “A maximum-achievable-directivity beamformer with white-noise-gain constraint for spherical microphone arrays,” in Proc. ICA, 2019, pp. 2752-2759.

    [15]  X. Wang, J. Benesty, G. Huang, J. Chen, and I. Cohen, “Design of Kronecker product beamformers with cuboid microphone arrays,” in Proc. ICA, 2019, pp. 2660-2667.

    [16X. Zhao, G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Optimal design of symmetric and asymmetric beam- patterns with circular arrays,” in Proc. ICA, 2019, pp. 2909-2916.

    [17G. Huang, X. Zhao, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “Properties and limits of the minimum-norm differ- ential beamformers with circular microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2019, pp. 426-430. (IEEE SPS travel grant)

    [18] W. Yang, G. Huang, J. Benesty, I. Cohen, and J. Chen,“On the design of flexible Kronecker product beamformers with linear microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2019, pp. 441-445.

    [19]  J. Jin, G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “Design of optimal linear differential microphone arrays based array geometry optimization,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2019, pp. 5741-5745.

    [20W. Yang, G. Huang, W. Zhang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “Dereverberation with differential mi- crophone arrays and the weighted-prediction-error method,” in Proc. IEEE IWAENC, 2018, pp. 376-380.

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    21]  G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “On the design of robust steerable frequency-invariant beam- patterns with concentric circular microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2018, pp. 506-510.

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    22]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Study of the frequency-domain multichannel noise reduction problem with the Householder transformation,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2017, pp. 486-490.

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    23]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “Subspace superdirective beamforming with uniform circular microphone arrays,” in Proc. IEEE IWAENC, 2016, pp. 1-5.

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    24]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “A parametric superdirective beamformer with uniform linear microphone arrays,” in Proc. ICA, 2016.

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    25]  C. Li, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen, “Subspace superdirective beamformers based on joint diagonalization,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2016, pp. 400-405.

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    26]  G. Huang, J. Benesty, and J. Chen, “On a multichannel maximum SNR filter for noise reduction in the STFT domain,” in Proc. IEEE ChinaSIP, 2015, pp. 697-700.

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    27]  G. Huang, J. Chen, and J. Benesty, “Investigation of a parametric gain approach to single-channel speech enhancement,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2015, pp. 206-210. (IEEE SPS travel grant)

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    28]  J. Yu, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen,“Optimal single-channel noise reduction filtering matrices from the Pearson correlation coefficient perspective,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2015, pp. 201-205.

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    29]  J. Yu, J. Benesty, G. Huang, and J. Chen,“Examples of optimal noise reduction filters derived from the squared Pearson correlation coefficient,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, 2014, pp. 1571-1575.