Everything about Audio signal processing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Audio signal processingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Spatial audio signal processing for binaural reproduction of recorded acoustic scenes – review and challengesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Small Signal Audio DesignThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Deep Learning for Audio Signal ProcessingCited 777 times
5. Go sideways: Digital audioA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Audio coding formatA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Deep Learning for Audio Signal Processing

  Hendrik Purwins, Bo Li, Tuomas Virtanen · 2019 · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing · 777 citations

• Signal processing & audio processors

  Anandhan Dhanasingh, Ingeborg Hochmair · 2021 · Acta Oto-Laryngologica · 37 citations

• Audio signal processing by neural networks

  Aurelio Uncini · 2003 · Neurocomputing · 36 citations

• Nonuniform oversampled filter banks for audio signal processing

  Z. Cvetkovic, J.D. Johnston · 2003 · IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing · 31 citations

• Integrated automotive signal processing and audio system

  S.M. Kuo, H. Chuang, P.P. Mallela · 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 30 citations

• Audio signal based danger detection using signal processing and deep learning

  Awal Ahmed Fime, Md. Ashikuzzaman, Abdul Aziz · 2024 · Expert Systems with Applications · 25 citations

• Neuromorphic analog spiking-modulator for audio signal processing

  Pietro M. Ferreira, Jamel Nebhen, Geoffroy Klisnick · 2020 · Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing · 22 citations

• Echo Chambers and Audio Signal Processing

  Benjamin Elzinga · 2020 · Episteme · 18 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Spatial audio signal processing for binaural reproduction of recorded acoustic scenes – review and challenges

  Boaz Rafaely, Vladimir Tourbabin, Emanuel Habets · 2022 · Acta Acustica · 55 citations

• MFCC in audio signal processing for voice disorder: a review

  Manjit Singh Sidhu, Nur Atiqah Abdul Latib, Kirandeep Kaur Sidhu · 2024 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 46 citations

• Audio Signal Processing in the 21st Century: The important outcomes of the past 25 years

  Gaël Richard, Paris Smaragdis, Sharon Gannot · 2023 · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine · 39 citations

• Style Transfer of Audio Effects with Differentiable Signal Processing

  Christian J. Steinmetz, Nicholas J. Bryan, Joshua D. Reiss · 2022 · Journal of the Audio Engineering Society · 32 citations

• Acoustic Sensors and Audio Signal Processing in Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Survey

  Hossein Parineh, Majid Sarvi, Saeed Asadi Bagloee · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles · 20 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Small Signal Audio DesignDouglas Self · 2010
• 📕Multi-Pitch EstimationMads Christensen, Andreas Jakobsson · 2009
• Discrete-time processing of speech signalsJohn R. Deller, John R., Jr. Deller · 1993
• Robustness in automatic speech recognitionJean-Claude Junqua, Jean-Paul Haton · 1995
• 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal ProcessingICASSP (22nd 1997 Munich, Germany), IEEE Computer Society · 1997
• 📕Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal ProcessingIEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (1998 Seattle), IEEE Signal Processing Society · 1998
• 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal ProcessingICASSP (24th 1999 Phoenix, Ariz.), IEEE Signal Processing Society · 1999
• 1999 IEEE Workshop on Speech CodingIEEE Workshop on Speech Coding for Telecommunications (1999 Porvoo, Finland), IEEE Signal Processing Society · 1999

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