The 16th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC) will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on September 17-20, 2018, at Hitotsubashi Hall. IWAENC was established in 1989, originally as the International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (this is how the abbreviation IWAENC came into use). It is the leading workshop in the signal processing community addressing theoretical and technical issues related to acoustic and speech signal processing. The three-day program consists of oral and poster presentations, plenary talks, and demonstrations.

Scope
This workshop will focus on the enhancement and processing of speech and audio signals. Applications include mobile communications, audio-visual conferencing systems, voice control systems, hearing aids, interactive TV, robot audition, and emerging applications in audio and acoustic signal processing.

Topics
Acoustic echo control
Noise reduction
Microphone arrays
Source localization
Source separation
Dereverberation
Active noise control
Multirate systems
Robot audition
Auditory scene analysis and classification
Acoustic environment simulation
Adaptive filtering algorithms and structures
Binaural signal processing
Speech and audio databases
Speech intelligibility enhancement
Quality assessment
New and emerging topics in speech and audio processing

Special Session
The Organizing Committee solicits proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the conference. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, titles and abstracts of 6 invited papers, short biography of special session organizer(s) that includes complete affiliation, address, and email.

Demonstrators
Besides the regular paper presentations, a separate demonstration session is planned. For a contribution to this session, a brief description of the demonstration should be submitted online via the workshop website. The description will not be included in the workshop proceedings.

Important dates
Special session proposals: Feb. 28, 2018
Submission of regular paper: April 20, 2018
Submission of demonstrator description: April 20, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 22, 2018
Submission of camera-ready paper: July 20, 2018
Early registration deadline: July 20, 2018