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We investigate the effectiveness of convolutive prediction, a novel formulation of linear prediction for speech dereverberation, for speaker separation in reverberant conditions. The key idea is to first use a deep neural network (DNN) to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

For extracting a target speaker voice, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is crucial for binaural hearing aids operating in noisy, multi-speaker environments. Among the solutions developed for this task, a deep learning convolutional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Farnaz Jazaeri , Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi , François Grondin , Martin Bouchard

In this paper we consider a binaural hearing aid setup, where in addition to the head-mounted microphones an external microphone is available. For this setup, we investigate the performance of several relative transfer function (RTF) vector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Daniel Fejgin , Simon Doclo

As massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) becomes popular, direction of arrival (DOA) measurement has been made a real renaissance due to the high-resolution achieved. Thus, there is no doubt about DOA estimation using massive MIMO.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jiangzhou Wang , Baihua Shi , Feng Shu , Qi Zhang , Di Wu , Qijuan Jie , Zhihong Zhuang , Siling Feng , Yijin Zhang

The direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem involves the localization of a few sources from a limited number of observations on an array of sensors, thus it can be formulated as a sparse signal reconstruction problem and solved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Angeliki Xenaki , Peter Gerstoft

In this paper, we propose an efficient technique for estimating individual power spectral density (PSD) components, i.e., PSD of each desired sound source as well as of noise and reverberation, in a multi-source reverberant sound scene with…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Abdullah Fahim , Prasanga N. Samarasinghe , Thushara D. Abhayapala

Direct-to-Reverberant Ratio (DRR) is an important measure for characterizing the properties of a room. The recently proposed DRR Estimation using a Null-Steered Beamformer (DENBE) algorithm was originally tested on simulated data where…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-10-27 James Eaton , Patrick A. Naylor

Speech recognition in adverse real-world environments is highly affected by reverberation and nonstationary background noise. A well-known strategy to reduce such undesired signal components in multi-microphone scenarios is spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hendrik Barfuss , Christian Huemmer , Andreas Schwarz , Walter Kellermann

As we interact with the world, for example when we communicate with our colleagues in a large open space or meeting room, we continuously analyse the surrounding environment and, in particular, localise and recognise acoustic events. While…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Pawel Swietojanski , Ondrej Miksik

To achieve human-like behaviour during speech interactions, it is necessary for a humanoid robot to estimate the location of a human talker. Here, we present a method to optimize the parameters used for the direction of arrival (DOA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Pranav Barot , Katja Mombaur , Ewen MacDonald

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation of multiple signals is pivotal in sensor array signal processing. A popular multi-signal DoA estimation method is the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm, which enables high-performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Julian P. Merkofer , Guy Revach , Nir Shlezinger , Tirza Routtenberg , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

We address the problem of search-free direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for sensor arrays of arbitrary geometry under the challenging conditions of a single snapshot and coherent sources. We extend a method of searchfree…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 A. Govinda Raj , J. H. McClellan

Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation techniques face a critical trade-off, as classical methods often lack accuracy in challenging, low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, while modern deep learning approaches are too energy-intensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Rajat Bhattacharjya , Woohyeok Park , Arnab Sarkar , Hyunwoo Oh , Mohsen Imani , Nikil Dutt

The estimation of the frequencies of multiple superimposed exponentials in noise is an important research problem due to its various applications from engineering to chemistry. In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Shanglin Ye , Elias Aboutanios

To provide rapid direction finding (DF) for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) emitter in future wireless networks, a low-complexity direction of arrival (DOA) estimation architecture for massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yiwen Chen , Feng Shu , Qijuan Jie , Xichao Zhan , Xuehui Wang , Zhongwen Sun , Shihao Yan , Wenlong Cai , Peng Zhang , Peng Chen

Accurately estimating the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of a speech source using a compact microphone array (CMA) is often complicated by background noise and reverberation. A commonly used DOA estimation method is the steered response power…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Klaus Brümann , Simon Doclo

In the last decades several multi-microphone speech dereverberation algorithms have been proposed, among which the weighted prediction error (WPE) algorithm. In the WPE algorithm, a prediction delay is required to reduce the correlation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Anselm Lohmann , Toon van Waterschoot , Joerg Bitzer , Simon Doclo

Deep learning (DL) based direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is an active research topic and currently represents the state-of-the-art. Usually, DL-based DOA estimators are trained with recorded data or computationally expensive generated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Fabian Hübner , Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

The direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in array signal processing is an important research area. The effectiveness of the direction of arrival greatly determines the performance of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna systems. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Fanxu Meng

This work presents a method for estimation of the acoustic intensity, the energy density and the associated sound field diffuseness around the origin, when the sound field is weighted with a spatial filter. The method permits energetic DOA…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Archontis Politis , Ville Pulkki