Bäckström Tom
Description
My research is focused on ethically sustainable speech communications technology, which refers to methods that use resources efficiently and ecologically and which do not expose the privacy or security of user more than necessary. I am the president of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), and the initiator and first chair of the ISCA Special Interest Group "Security and Privacy in Speech Communication". Previously, I have contributed to several international standards such as 3GPP Enhanced Voice Services and MPEG Unified Speech and Audio Coding. My current research topics include privacy-preserving speech processing, disentangled representations of speech, perception and design of privacy and trust, as well as modelling of speech interaction.
Keywords
speech processing, speech coding, distributed coding, audio processing, speech analysis, privacy in speech processing
Affiliations
Aalto University
Professor (Associate Professor)
Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
2019 - 2022
Source: Aalto University
Aalto University
Professor of practice
Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
2016 - 2019
Source: ORCID
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
professor (W2)
International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
2013 - 2016
Source: ORCID
Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits
leading scientist
2013 - 2016
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Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits
researcher
2008 - 2013
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Education (3)
doctor of technology
2001 - 2004
Helsinki University of Technology
master of science
1993 - 2001
Helsinki University of Technology
Doctoral degree, Engineering and Technology
Helsinki University of Technology
Publications (125)
2022
European Signal Processing Conference
Open access
Peer-reviewed
Open access
Frontiers in Signal Processing
Open access
Peer-reviewed
Granted funding (1)
Research Council of Finland
2022 - 2025
Activities and awards (58)
Supervision of postgraduate students
Supervisor of doctoral candidate
Supervising professor and Thesis advisor, doctoral studies, since Oct 28, 2022
2022
International collaboration: No
Supervision of postgraduate students
Supervisor of doctoral candidate
Supervising professor, doctoral studies, since Mar 18, 2022
2022
International collaboration: No
Supervision of postgraduate students
Supervisor of doctoral candidate
Preserving Speech Privacy in Interactions with Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
2022
International collaboration: No