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Recently studies on time-domain audio separation networks (TasNets) have made a great stride in speech separation. One of the most representative TasNets is a network with a dual-path segmentation approach. However, the original model…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yinhao Xu , Jian Zhou , Liang Tao , Hon Keung Kwan

Although supervised learning based on a deep neural network has recently achieved substantial improvement on speech enhancement, the existing schemes have either of two critical issues: spectrum or metric mismatches. The spectrum mismatch…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jaeyoung Kim , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Feature-based transfer is one of the most effective methodologies for transfer learning. Existing studies usually assume that the learned new feature representation is \emph{domain-invariant}, and thus train a transfer model $\mathcal{M}$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Pengfei Wei , Xinghua Qu , Yew Soon Ong , Zejun Ma

Personalized Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) are starting to be introduced in many commercial immersive audio applications and are crucial for realistic spatial audio rendering. However, one of the main hesitations regarding their…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xuyi Hu , Jian Li , Shaojie Zhang , Stefan Goetz , Lorenzo Picinali , Ozgur B. Akan , Aidan O. T. Hogg

Source wavelet estimation is the key in seismic signal processing for resolving subsurface structural properties. Homomorphic deconvolution using cepstrum analysis has been an effective method for wavelet estimation for decades. In general,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-06 K. H. Miah , R. H. Herrera , M. van der Baan , M. D. Sacchi

The image source method (ISM) is often used to simulate room acoustics due to its ease of use and computational efficiency. The standard ISM is limited to simulations of room impulse responses between point sources and omnidirectional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Zeyu Xu , Adrian Herzog , Alexander Lodermeyer , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Albert G. Prinn

Flow matching offers a robust and stable approach to training diffusion models. However, directly applying flow matching to neural vocoders can result in subpar audio quality. In this work, we present WaveFM, a reparameterized flow matching…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Tianze Luo , Xingchen Miao , Wenbo Duan

Time-frequency (TF) domain dual-path models achieve high-fidelity speech separation. While some previous state-of-the-art (SoTA) models rely on RNNs, this reliance means they lack the parallelizability, scalability, and versatility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Kohei Saijo , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Zexu Pan , Jonathan Le Roux

We propose a novel sparse representation for heavily underdetermined multichannel sound mixtures, i.e., with much more sources than microphones. The proposed approach operates in the complex Fourier domain, thus preserving spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Antoine Deleforge , Walter Kellermann

Most deep learning-based multi-channel speech enhancement methods focus on designing a set of beamforming coefficients to directly filter the low signal-to-noise ratio signals received by microphones, which hinders the performance of these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

Separation of simultaneously active multiple speakers is a difficult task in environments with strong reverberation and many background noise sources. This paper uses the relative transfer matrix (ReTM), a generalization of the relative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Wageesha N. Manamperi , Thushara D. Abhayapala

This paper proposes a novel bidirectional neural vocoder, named BiVocoder, capable both of feature extraction and reverse waveform generation within the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. For feature extraction, the BiVocoder takes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Hui-Peng Du , Ye-Xin Lu , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Rayyan Abdalla

Time-domain speech enhancement (SE) has recently been intensively investigated. Among recent works, DEMUCS introduces multi-resolution STFT loss to enhance performance. However, some resolutions used for STFT contain non-stationary signals,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hao Shi , Masato Mimura , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Tatsuya Kawahara

Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have originated and revolutionized machine learning for images. In order to take advantage of CNNs in predictive modeling with audio data, standard FFT-based signal processing methods are…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Pavol Harar , Roswitha Bammer , Anna Breger , Monika Dörfler , Zdenek Smekal

The graph Fourier transform (GFT) is a fundamental tool in graph signal processing and has recently been extended to the graph fractional Fourier transform (GFRFT). Existing sampling methods in the GFRFT domain are primarily designed to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Yu Zhang , Jia-Yin Peng , Bing-Zhao Li

This paper proposes methods that can optimize a Convolutional BeamFormer (CBF) for jointly performing denoising, dereverberation, and source separation (DN+DR+SS) in a computationally efficient way. Conventionally, cascade configuration…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Tomohiro Nakatani , Christoph Boeddeker , Keisuke Kinoshita , Rintaro Ikeshita , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end post-filter method with deep attention fusion features for monaural speaker-independent speech separation. At first, a time-frequency domain speech separation method is applied as the pre-separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Cunhang Fan , Jianhua Tao , Bin Liu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Xuefei Liu

With the emergence of GAN-based vocoders, the discriminator, as a crucial component, has been developed recently. In our work, we focus on improving the time-frequency based discriminator. Particularly, Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiao Zeng

This paper introduces a quantum-inspired denoising framework that integrates the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) into classical audio enhancement pipelines. Unlike conventional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based methods, QFT provides a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Rajeshwar Tripathi , Sahil Tomar , Sandeep Kumar , Monika Aggarwal