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Direct-path relative transfer function (DP-RTF) refers to the ratio between the direct-path acoustic transfer functions of two microphone channels. Though DP-RTF fully encodes the sound spatial cues and serves as a reliable localization…
Neural Transducer and connectionist temporal classification (CTC) are popular end-to-end automatic speech recognition systems. Due to their frame-synchronous design, blank symbols are introduced to address the length mismatch between…
Deep learning based speech enhancement in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain typically uses a large window length such as 32 ms. A larger window can lead to higher frequency resolution and potentially better enhancement. This…
Accurate and reliable identification of the relative transfer functions (RTFs) between microphones with respect to a desired source is an essential component in the design of microphone array beamformers, specifically when applying the…
A new database of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for accurate sound source localization is presented through precise measurement and post-processing in terms of improved frequency bandwidth and causality of head-related impulse…
The short-time Fourier transform (STFT) usually computes the same number of frequency components as the frame length while overlapping adjacent time frames by more than half. As a result, the number of components of a spectrogram matrix…
This work proposes a neural network to extensively exploit spatial information for multichannel joint speech separation, denoising and dereverberation, named SpatialNet. In the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain, the proposed…
The OTFS (Orthogonal Time Frequency Space) is widely acknowledged for its ability to combat Doppler spread in time-varying channels. In this paper, another advantage of OTFS over OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) will be…
To comprehensively assess optical fiber communication system conditions, it is essential to implement joint estimation of the following four critical impairments: nonlinear signal-to-noise ratio (SNRNL), optical signal-to-noise ratio…
The intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating mechanical equipment usually requires a large amount of labeled sample data. However, in practical industrial applications, acquiring enough data is both challenging and expensive in terms of time…
High-resolution time-frequency (TF) analysis plays crucial role in characterizing multicomponent signal (MCSs) and estimating oscillatory properties. Linear time-frequency representations (TFRs) such as classical short-time Fourier…
Recently proposed Generalized Time-domain Velocity Vector (GTVV) is a generalization of relative room impulse response in spherical harmonic (aka Ambisonic) domain that allows for blind estimation of early-echo parameters: the directions…
Given an unknown audio source, the estimation of time differences-of-arrivals (TDOAs) can be efficiently and robustly solved using blind channel identification and exploiting the cross-correlation identity (CCI). Prior "blind" works have…
We present a method to remove unknown convolutive noise introduced to speech by reverberations of recording environments, utilizing some amount of training speech data from the reverberant environment, and any available non-reverberant…
Time-frequency representation (TFR) allowing for mode reconstruction plays a significant role in interpreting and analyzing the nonstationary signal constituted of various modes. However, it is difficult for most previous methods to handle…
This paper introduces a multi-microphone method for extracting a desired speaker from a mixture involving multiple speakers and directional noise in a reverberant environment. In this work, we propose leveraging the instantaneous relative…
This paper proposes a blind estimation method based on the modulation transfer function and Schroeder model for estimating reverberation time in seven-octave bands. Therefore, the speech transmission index and five room-acoustic parameters…
This paper proposes an approach for optimizing a Convolutional BeamFormer (CBF) that can jointly perform denoising (DN), dereverberation (DR), and source separation (SS). First, we develop a blind CBF optimization algorithm that requires no…
This paper proposes an efficient parameterization of the Room Transfer Function (RTF). Typically, the RTF rapidly varies with varying source and receiver positions, hence requires an impractical number of point to point measurements to…
We propose a bootstrapping framework to quantify uncertainty in time-frequency representations (TFRs) generated by the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and the STFT-based synchrosqueezing transform (SST) for oscillatory signals with…