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Multichannel processing is widely used for speech enhancement but several limitations appear when trying to deploy these solutions to the real-world. Distributed sensor arrays that consider several devices with a few microphones is a viable…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

We describe a modulation-domain loss function for deep-learning-based speech enhancement systems. Learnable spectro-temporal receptive fields (STRFs) were adapted to optimize for a speaker identification task. The learned STRFs were then…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Tyler Vuong , Yangyang Xia , Richard M. Stern

Accurate estimates of Instrument Spectral Response Functions (ISRFs) are crucial in order to have a good characterization of high resolution spectrometers. Spectrometers are composed of different optical elements that can induce errors in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Jihanne El Haouari , Jean-Michel Gaucel , Christelle Pittet , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Herwig Wendt

We consider a remote source coding problem subject to a {distortion function}. Contrary to the use of the classical separable distortion criterion, herein we consider the more general, $f$-separable distortion measure and study its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Photios A. Stavrou , Yanina Shkel , Marios Kountouris

Score-based stochastic denoising models have recently been demonstrated as powerful machine learning tools for conditional and unconditional image generation. The existing methods are based on a forward stochastic process wherein the…

Accurate upsampling of Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) from sparse measurements is crucial for personalized spatial audio rendering. Traditional interpolation methods, such as kernel-based weighting or basis function expansions,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Xingyu Chen , Hanwen Bi , Fei Ma , Sipei Zhao , Eva Cheng , Ian S. Burnett

Time-frequency (TF) representation of non-stationary signals typically requires the effective concentration of energy distribution along the instantaneous frequency (IF) ridge, which exhibits intrinsic sparsity. Inspired by the sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Zongyue Yang , Baoqing Ding , Shibin Wang , Chuang Sun , Xuefeng Chen

Speech clarity and spatial audio immersion are the two most critical factors in enhancing remote conferencing experiences. Existing methods are often limited: either due to the lack of spatial information when using only one microphone, or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Cheng Chi , Xiaoyu Li , Yuxuan Ke , Qunping Ni , Yao Ge , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

The contrast transfer function (CTF) is widely used to evaluate phase retrieval methods in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), including center-of-mass imaging, parallax imaging, direct ptychography, and iterative…

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Siqi Zheng , Shiliang Zhang , Weilong Huang , Qian Chen , Hongbin Suo , Ming Lei , Jinwei Feng , Zhijie Yan

DIFF Transformer improves attention allocation by enhancing focus on relevant context while suppressing noise. It introduces a differential attention mechanism that calculates the difference between two independently generated attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yueyang Cang , Yuhang Liu , Xiaoteng Zhang , Li Shi , Wenge Que

The short-time Fourier transform (STFT) represents a window of audio samples as a set of complex coefficients. These are advantageously viewed as magnitudes and phases and the overall distribution of phases is very often assumed to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Stephen D. Voran

Multi-frame algorithms for single-channel speech enhancement are able to take advantage from short-time correlations within the speech signal. Deep filtering (DF) recently demonstrated its capabilities for low-latency scenarios like hearing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Hendrik Schröter , Tobias Rosenkranz , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Andreas Maier

Active noise control (ANC) over a sizeable space requires a large number of reference and error microphones to satisfy the spatial Nyquist sampling criterion, which limits the feasibility of practical realization of such systems. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Yu Maeno , Yuki Mitsufuji , Thushara D. Abhayapala

Spatial audio signal enhancement aims to reduce interfering source contributions while preserving the desired sound field with its spatial cues. Existing methods generally rely on impractical assumptions (e.g. accurate estimations of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Huawei Zhang , Jihui Zhang , Huiyuan Sun , Prasanga Samarasinghe

Remixing separated audio sources trades off interferer attenuation against the amount of audible deteriorations. This paper proposes a non-intrusive audio quality estimation method for controlling this trade-off in a signal-adaptive manner.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Matteo Torcoli , Jouni Paulus , Thorsten Kastner , Christian Uhle

Separating target speech from mixed signals containing flexible speaker quantities presents a challenging task. While existing methods demonstrate strong separation performance and noise robustness, they predominantly assume prior knowledge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Daning Zhang , Ying Wei

Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs), crucial for realistic virtual audio rendering, can be efficiently numerically computed from precise three-dimensional head and ear scans. While photogrammetry scanning is promising, it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Fabio Di Giusto , Francesc Lluís , Sjoerd van Ophem , Elke Deckers

Speaker verification (SV) aims to determine whether the speaker's identity of a test utterance is the same as the reference speech. In the past few years, extracting speaker embeddings using deep neural networks for SV systems has gone…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Nan Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Zhenhou Hong , Chendong Zhao , Xiaoyang Qu , Jing Xiao

This paper presents Rec-RIR for monaural blind room impulse response (RIR) identification. Rec-RIR is developed based on the convolutive transfer function (CTF) approximation, which models reverberation effect within narrow-band filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Pengyu Wang , Xiaofei Li