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This study investigates the approach of direction-dependent selection of Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) and its impact on sound localization accuracy. For applications such as virtual reality (VR) and teleconferencing, obtaining…

Trans-dimensional random field language models (TRF LMs) where sentences are modeled as a collection of random fields, have shown close performance with LSTM LMs in speech recognition and are computationally more efficient in inference.…

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 modulation transfer function (MTF) is widely used to characterise the performance of optical systems. Measuring it is costly and it is thus rarely available for a given lens specimen. Instead, MTFs based on simulations or, at best, MTFs…

Transfer Function (TF) generation is a fundamental problem in Direct Volume Rendering (DVR). A TF maps voxels to color and opacity values to reveal inner structures. Existing TF tools are complex and unintuitive for the users who are more…

This paper introduces a new approach to sound source localization using head-related transfer function (HRTF) characteristics, which enable precise full-sphere localization from raw data. While previous research focused primarily on using…

Sound field estimation with moving microphones can increase flexibility, decrease measurement time, and reduce equipment constraints compared to using stationary microphones. In this paper a sound field estimation method based on kernel…

In far-field speaker verification, the performance of speaker embeddings is susceptible to degradation when there is a mismatch between the conditions of enrollment and test speech. To solve this problem, we propose the feature-level and…

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are crucial for spatial soundfield reproduction in virtual reality applications. However, obtaining personalized, high-resolution HRTFs is a time-consuming and costly task. Recently, deep…

We propose an efficient method to estimate source power spectral densities (PSDs) in a multi-source reverberant environment using a spherical microphone array. The proposed method utilizes the spatial correlation between the spherical…

This paper proposes a practical approach to estimate the direct-to-reverberant energy ratio (DRR) using a spherical microphone array without having knowledge of the source signal. We base our estimation on a theoretical relationship between…

In this work, a recently proposed Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF)-based Robust Least-Squares Frequency-Invariant (RLSFI) beamformer design is analyzed with respect to its robustness against localization errors, which lead to a…

A new loss function for speaker recognition with deep neural network is proposed, based on Jeffreys Divergence. Adding this divergence to the cross-entropy loss function allows to maximize the target value of the output distribution while…

Reconstructing a 3D sound field from sparse microphone measurements is a fundamental yet ill-posed problem, which we address through Acoustic Transfer Function (ATF) magnitude estimation. ATF magnitude encapsulates key perceptual and…

In this paper, we propose an effective and robust method of spatial feature extraction for acoustic scene analysis utilizing partially synchronized and/or closely located distributed microphones. In the proposed method, a new cepstrum…

A three-stage approach is proposed for speaker counting and speech separation in noisy and reverberant environments. In the spatial feature extraction, a spatial coherence matrix (SCM) is computed using whitened relative transfer functions…

We propose a method using a long short-term memory (LSTM) network to estimate the noise power spectral density (PSD) of single-channel audio signals represented in the short time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. An LSTM network common to…

In general, multi-channel source separation has utilized inter-microphone phase differences (IPDs) concatenated with magnitude information in time-frequency domain, or real and imaginary components stacked along the channel axis. However,…

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…

Individualized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are crucial for accurate sound positioning in virtual auditory displays. As the acoustic measurement of HRTFs is resource-intensive, predicting individualized HRTFs using machine…