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Speech enhancement in hearing aids remains a difficult task in nonstationary acoustic environments, mainly because current signal processing algorithms rely on fixed, manually tuned parameters that cannot adapt in situ to different users or…

We introduce SoundSpaces 2.0, a platform for on-the-fly geometry-based audio rendering for 3D environments. Given a 3D mesh of a real-world environment, SoundSpaces can generate highly realistic acoustics for arbitrary sounds captured from…

Sound source tracking is commonly performed using classical array-processing algorithms, while machine-learning approaches typically rely on precise source position labels that are expensive or impractical to obtain. This paper introduces a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Ivana Nikoloska , Bruno Defraene , Alex Young , Johan David , Ronald M. Aarts

Due to their robustness and flexibility, neural-driven beamformers are a popular choice for speech separation in challenging environments with a varying amount of simultaneous speakers alongside noise and reverberation. Time-frequency masks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Jakob Kienegger , Alina Mannanova , Timo Gerkmann

We present a single-stage casual waveform-to-waveform multichannel model that can separate moving sound sources based on their broad spatial locations in a dynamic acoustic scene. We divide the scene into two spatial regions containing,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Dejan Markovic , Alexandre Defossez , Alexander Richard

In this paper, we formulate a blind source separation (BSS) framework, which allows integrating U-Net based deep learning source separation network with probabilistic spatial machine learning expectation maximization (EM) algorithm for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-01 Sania Gul , Muhammad Salman Khan , Syed Waqar Shah

Multi-channel acoustic signal processing is a well-established and powerful tool to exploit the spatial diversity between a target signal and non-target or noise sources for signal enhancement. However, the textbook solutions for optimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Reinhold Haeb-Umbach , Tomohiro Nakatani , Marc Delcroix , Christoph Boeddeker , Tsubasa Ochiai

The human brain distinguishes speech sounds by mapping acoustic signals into a latent perceptual space. This space can be estimated via multidimensional scaling (MDS), preserving the similarity structure in lower dimensions. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-29 Giovanni Rebaudo , Fernando Llanos , Bharath Chandrasekaran , Abhra Sarkar

Binaural audio provides human listeners with an immersive spatial sound experience, but most existing videos lack binaural audio recordings. We propose an audio spatialization method that draws on visual information in videos to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Rishabh Garg , Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

Beamforming is an imaging tool for the investigation of aeroacoustic phenomena and results in high dimensional data that is broken down to spectra by integrating spatial Regions Of Interest. This paper presents two methods that enable the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Armin Goudarzi , Carsten Spehr , Steffen Herbold

The source separation-based speech enhancement problem with multiple beamforming in reverberant indoor environments is addressed in this paper. We propose that more generic solutions should cope with time-varying dynamic scenarios with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Alejandro Díaz , Diego Pincheira , Rodrigo Mahu , Nestor Becerra Yoma

Recent work has shown that recurrent neural networks can be trained to separate individual speakers in a sound mixture with high fidelity. Here we explore convolutional neural network models as an alternative and show that they achieve…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Shariq Mobin , Brian Cheung , Bruno Olshausen

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) studies generate thousands of hours of audio, which may be used to monitor specific animal populations, conduct broad biodiversity surveys, detect threats such as poachers, and more. Machine learning…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-26 Amanda K. Navine , Tom Denton , Matthew J. Weldy , Patrick J. Hart

An anomalous sound detection system to detect unknown anomalous sounds usually needs to be built using only normal sound data. Moreover, it is desirable to improve the system by effectively using a small amount of anomalous sound data,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Ibuki Kuroyanagi , Tomoki Hayashi , Kazuya Takeda , Tomoki Toda

Most deep learning-based multi-channel speech enhancement methods focus on designing a set of beamforming coefficients to directly filter the low signal-to-noise ratio signals received by microphones, which hinders the performance of these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

We present a unified model capable of simultaneously grounding both spoken language and non-speech sounds within a visual scene, addressing key limitations in current audio-visual grounding models. Existing approaches are typically limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyeonggon Ryu , Seongyu Kim , Joon Son Chung , Arda Senocak

In this paper, we tackle the problem of handling narrowband and wideband speech by building a single acoustic model (AM), also called mixed bandwidth AM. In the proposed approach, an auxiliary input feature is used to provide the bandwidth…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Gautam Mantena , Ozlem Kalinli , Ossama Abdel-Hamid , Don McAllaster

Existing machine learning research has achieved promising results in monaural audio-visual separation (MAVS). However, most MAVS methods purely consider what the sound source is, not where it is located. This can be a problem in VR/AR…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yuxin Ye , Wenming Yang , Yapeng Tian

This study describes a binaural machine hearing system that is capable of performing auditory stream segregation in scenarios where multiple sound sources are present. The process of stream segregation refers to the capability of human…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Christopher Schymura , Thomas Walther , Dorothea Kolossa

Multi-channel speech enhancement with ad-hoc sensors has been a challenging task. Speech model guided beamforming algorithms are able to recover natural sounding speech, but the speech models tend to be oversimplified or the inference would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Xuesong Yang , Dinei Florencio , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson