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Speaker localization for binaural microphone arrays has been widely studied for applications such as speech communication, video conferencing, and robot audition. Many methods developed for this task, including the direct path dominance…
As spatial audio is enjoying a surge in popularity, data-driven machine learning techniques that have been proven successful in other domains are increasingly used to process head-related transfer function measurements. However, these…
Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are essential for virtual acoustic realities, as they contain all cues for localizing sound sources in three-dimensional space. Acoustic measurements are one way to obtain high-quality HRTFs. To…
Hybrid beamforming (HBF) design is a crucial stage in millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) systems. However, conventional HBF methods are still with high complexity and strongly rely on the quality of…
Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communications with full-duplex (FD) have the potential of increasing the spectral efficiency, relative to those with half-duplex. However, the residual self-interference (SI) from FD and high pathloss inherent to…
We propose BeamTransformer, an efficient architecture to leverage beamformer's edge in spatial filtering and transformer's capability in context sequence modeling. BeamTransformer seeks to optimize modeling of sequential relationship among…
In many multi-microphone algorithms, an estimate of the relative transfer functions (RTFs) of the desired speaker is required. Recently, a computationally efficient RTF vector estimation method was proposed for acoustic sensor networks,…
Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are important for immersive audio, and their spatial interpolation has been studied to upsample finite measurements. Recently, neural fields (NFs) which map from sound source direction to HRTF have…
This paper investigates the issues of the hybrid beamforming design for the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) system in multiple task scenarios involving the radar scanning and detection…
Conventional hybrid beamforming architectures are often compared with one another and with the fully-digital architecture under the same \emph{radiated} antenna power. However, the physically relevant budget is the power injected by the…
This paper proposes a Transformer-based hybrid beamforming framework for reconfigurable pixel antenna (RPA)-equipped massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in high-altitude platform station (HAPS) communications. The proposed pattern…
From a machine learning perspective, the human ability localize sounds can be modeled as a non-parametric and non-linear regression problem between binaural spectral features of sound received at the ears (input) and their sound-source…
This paper addresses the problem of under-determinded speech source separation from multichannel microphone singals, i.e. the convolutive mixtures of multiple sources. The time-domain signals are first transformed to the short-time Fourier…
Far-field speech recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions remains a challenging problem despite recent deep learning breakthroughs. This problem is commonly addressed by acquiring a speech signal from multiple microphones and…
This paper investigates dynamic hybrid beamforming (HBF) for a dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) system, where the DFRC base station (BS) simultaneously serves multiple single-antenna users and senses a target in the presence of…
Reconfigurable antennas possess the capability to dynamically adjust their fundamental operating characteristics, thereby enhancing system adaptability and performance. To fully exploit this flexibility in modern wireless communication…
This paper introduces an explainable DNN-based beamformer with a postfilter (ExNet-BF+PF) for multichannel signal processing. Our approach combines the U-Net network with a beamformer structure to address this problem. The method involves a…
Speech enhancement is a fundamental challenge in signal processing, particularly when robustness is required across diverse acoustic conditions and microphone setups. Deep learning methods have been successful for speech enhancement, but…
Far-field speech processing is an important and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose \textit{deep ad-hoc beamforming}, a deep-learning-based multichannel speech enhancement framework based on ad-hoc microphone arrays, to address…
The objective of Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) applications are to seamlessly integrate virtual sound sources within a real environment. It is critical for these applications that virtual sources are localised precisely at the intended…