MIPS Project Detail:
Company
Company Description:
The Juxtopia Group Inc. is a 501c(3) not-for-profit organization established in 2000 and founded by Jayfus Tucker Doswell. Juxtopia®’s core business is developing human performance products, with a focus on augmented reality headsets and software services where speech is the primary human computer interface.
MIPS Project
An Auditorily-Based Speech Enhancement Scheme
Project #
4324
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MIPS Round
43
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Starting Date:
Jan 2009
MIPS Project Challenge:
Juxtopia sought to fine-tune a single-channel speech enhancement algorithm to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of speech signals recorded in noisy environments. This algorithm would enhance the performance of Juxtopia’s Context-Aware Augmented Reality System (CAARS) platform, a speech-controlled, wearable augmented reality headset that needs to perform well in every-day situations.
Project Scope:
In the MIPS study, Carol Espy-Wilson developed a speech enhancement algorithm to eliminate noise (echo and background noise) from speech signals.
Results:
Juxtopia® developed a speech enhancement product based on this algorithm, which eliminated noise from speech signals. Juxtopia® planned to integrate the noise-reduction software product into its headset and license it to other headset manufacturers and speech service vendors. The company also attracted several SBIR/STTR grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as NASA and the Department of Defense (DOD), to advance its Juxtopia® wearable augmented reality for improving human performance®.
Principal Investigator:
Carol
Espy-Wilson
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Project Manager:
Jayfus
Doswell
President and CEO Juxtopia, LLC
Technologies:
Electrical / Power Engineering
