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The CEEMDAN algorithm is one of the modern methods used in the analysis of non-stationary signals. This research presents a study of the effectiveness of this method in audio source separation to know the limits of its work. It concluded…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Rawad Melhem , Riad Hamadeh , Assef Jafar

We present a new method for separating a mixed audio sequence, in which multiple voices speak simultaneously. The new method employs gated neural networks that are trained to separate the voices at multiple processing steps, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Eliya Nachmani , Yossi Adi , Lior Wolf

We extend frequency-domain blind source separation based on independent vector analysis to the case where there are more microphones than sources. The signal is modelled as non-Gaussian sources in a Gaussian background. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Robin Scheibler , Nobutaka Ono

This paper presents a novel approach to sound source separation that leverages spatial information obtained during the recording setup. Our method trains a spatial mixing filter using solo passages to capture information about the room…

Microphone array post-filters have demonstrated their ability to greatly reduce noise at the output of a beamformer. However, current techniques only consider a single source of interest, most of the time assuming stationary background…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Jean-Marc Valin , Jean Rouat , François Michaud

We introduce a real-time, multichannel speech enhancement algorithm which maintains the spatial cues of stereo recordings including two speech sources. Recognizing that each source has unique spatial information, our method utilizes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Masahito Togami , Jean-Marc Valin , Karim Helwani , Ritwik Giri , Umut Isik , Michael M. Goodwin

It is commonly observed that acoustic echoes hurt performance of sound source localization (SSL) methods. We introduce the concept of microphone array augmentation with echoes (MIRAGE) and show how estimation of early-echo characteristics…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Diego Di Carlo , Antoine Deleforge , Nancy Bertin

Multipath effects significantly influence the quality of microwave imaging in highly reflective environments, while the physical measurement aperture size constrains resolution. It is shown that by exploiting multipath reflections, improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Quanfeng Wang , Mei Song Tong , Thomas F. Eibert

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is an important speech signal processing technology that can remove echoes from microphone signals to enable natural-sounding full-duplex speech communication. While single-channel AEC is widely adopted,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Fei Zhao , Xueliang Zhang , Zhong-Qiu Wang

Augmented listening devices such as hearing aids often perform poorly in noisy and reverberant environments with many competing sound sources. Large distributed microphone arrays can improve performance, but data from remote microphones…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Ryan M. Corey , Matthew D. Skarha , Andrew C. Singer

Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Runwu Shi , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Rui Zhang , Nabeela Khan , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Helena Peic Tukuljac , Herve Lissek , Pierre Vandergheynst

The Goal is to obtain a simple multichannel source separation with very low latency. Applications can be teleconferencing, hearing aids, augmented reality, or selective active noise cancellation. These real time applications need a very low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Gerald Schuller

In noisy and reverberant environments, the performance of deep learning-based speech separation methods drops dramatically because previous methods are not designed and optimized for such situations. To address this issue, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Xiangyuan Yang , Wenjing Zhu

In this report we describe an ongoing line of research for solving single-channel source separation problems. Many monaural signal decomposition techniques proposed in the literature operate on a feature space consisting of a time-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Pablo Sprechmann , Joan Bruna , Yann LeCun

Source separation is the process of isolating individual sounds in an auditory mixture of multiple sounds [1], and has a variety of applications ranging from speech enhancement and lyric transcription [2] to digital audio production for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bradford Derby , Lucas Dunker , Samarth Galchar , Shashank Jarmale , Akash Setti

In recent years, rapid progress has been made on the problem of single-channel sound separation using supervised training of deep neural networks. In such supervised approaches, a model is trained to predict the component sources from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Scott Wisdom , Efthymios Tzinis , Hakan Erdogan , Ron J. Weiss , Kevin Wilson , John R. Hershey

Beamforming is a signal processing technique. It has been studied in many areas such as radar, sonar, seismology and wireless communications, to name but a few. It can be used for a myriad of purposes, such as detecting the presence of a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Hidri Adel , Meddeb Souad , Abdulqadir Alaqeeli , Amiri Hamid

Many recent source separation systems are designed to separate a fixed number of sources out of a mixture. In the cases where the source activation patterns are unknown, such systems have to either adjust the number of outputs or to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

While significant advances have been made with respect to the separation of overlapping speech signals, studies have been largely constrained to mixtures of clean, near anechoic speech, not representative of many real-world scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Matthew Maciejewski , Gordon Wichern , Emmett McQuinn , Jonathan Le Roux