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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…

Monaural singing voice separation task focuses on the prediction of the singing voice from a single channel music mixture signal. Current state of the art (SOTA) results in monaural singing voice separation are obtained with deep learning…

Recent neural network strategies for source separation attempt to model audio signals by processing their waveforms directly. Mean squared error (MSE) that measures the Euclidean distance between waveforms of denoised speech and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Shrikant Venkataramani , Ryley Higa , Paris Smaragdis

The past decade has witnessed great progress in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) due to advances in deep learning. The improvements in performance can be attributed to both improved models and large-scale training data. Key to training…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xiaodong Cui , Wei Zhang , Ulrich Finkler , George Saon , Michael Picheny , David Kung

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline -…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

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

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) or Long short-term memory (LSTM) based models with the input of spectrogram or waveforms are commonly used for deep learning based audio source separation. In this paper, we propose a Sliced…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Tingle Li , Jiawei Chen , Haowen Hou , Ming Li

Background sound is an informative form of art that is helpful in providing a more immersive experience in real-application voice conversion (VC) scenarios. However, prior research about VC, mainly focusing on clean voices, pay rare…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jixun Yao , Yi Lei , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Lei Xie , Hai Li , Junhui Liu , Danming Xie

Despite the recent success of speech separation models, they fail to separate sources properly while facing different sets of people or noisy environments. To tackle this problem, we proposed to apply meta-learning to the speech separation…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yuan-Kuei Wu , Kuan-Po Huang , Yu Tsao , Hung-yi Lee

The deep learning models used for speaker verification rely heavily on large amounts of data and correct labeling. However, noisy (incorrect) labels often occur, which degrades the performance of the system. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zhihua Fang , Liang He , Hanhan Ma , Xiaochen Guo , Lin Li

The source separation-based speech enhancement problem with multiple beamforming in reverberant indoor environments is addressed in this paper. We propose that more generic solutions should cope with time-varying dynamic scenarios with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Alejandro Díaz , Diego Pincheira , Rodrigo Mahu , Nestor Becerra Yoma

Many deep learning techniques are available to perform source separation and reduce background noise. However, designing an end-to-end multi-channel source separation method using deep learning and conventional acoustic signal processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Ali Aroudi , Sebastian Braun

A promising approach for speech dereverberation is based on supervised learning, where a deep neural network (DNN) is trained to predict the direct sound from noisy-reverberant speech. This data-driven approach is based on leveraging prior…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Reverberation results in reduced intelligibility for both normal and hearing-impaired listeners. This paper presents a novel psychoacoustic approach of dereverberation of a single speech source by recycling a pre-trained binaural anechoic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Sania Gul , Muhammad Salman Khan , Syed Waqar Shah , Ata Ur-Rehman

A two-stage lightweight online dereverberation algorithm for hearing devices is presented in this paper. The approach combines a multi-channel multi-frame linear filter with a single-channel single-frame post-filter. Both components rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Joachim Thiemann , Raphael Koning , Timo Gerkmann

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) consists of jointly performing audio source separation and sound event classification from a multichannel audio mixture. Evaluating S5 systems with separation and classification metrics…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mayank Mishra , Paul Magron , Romain Serizel

Separating competing speech in reverberant environments requires models that preserve spatial cues while maintaining separation efficiency. We present a Phase-aware Ear-conditioned speaker Separation network using eight microphones…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Ruben Johnson Robert Jeremiah , Peyman Goli , Steven van de Par

Single-channel speech enhancement approaches do not always improve automatic recognition rates in the presence of noise, because they can introduce distortions unhelpful for recognition. Following a trend towards end-to-end training of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Peter Plantinga , Deblin Bagchi , Eric Fosler-Lussier

Supervised multi-channel audio source separation requires extracting useful spectral, temporal, and spatial features from the mixed signals. The success of many existing systems is therefore largely dependent on the choice of features used…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Emad M. Grais , Dominic Ward , Mark D. Plumbley

This work examines a semi-blind single-channel source separation problem. Our specific aim is to separate one source whose local structure is approximately known, from another a priori unspecified background source, given only a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Sirisha Rambhatla , Jarvis D. Haupt