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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multichannel, multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging due to ambient noise, reverberation and overlapping speakers. In this paper, we propose a beamforming approach that processes specific angular…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Can Cui , Paul Magron , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent

Typical learning-based light field reconstruction methods demand in constructing a large receptive field by deepening the network to capture correspondences between input views. In this paper, we propose a spatial-angular attention network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Gaochang Wu , Yingqian Wang , Yebin Liu , Lu Fang , Tianyou Chai

Beamforming has significance for enhancing spectral efficiency and mitigating interference in multi-antenna wireless systems, facilitating spatial multiplexing and diversity in dense and high mobility scenarios. Traditional beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Cemil Vahapoglu , Timothy J. O'Shea , Wan Liu , Sennur Ulukus

The exploration of mutual-benefit cross-domains has shown great potential toward accurate self-supervised depth estimation. In this work, we revisit feature fusion between depth and semantic information and propose an efficient local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Daitao Xing , Jinglin Shen , Chiuman Ho , Anthony Tzes

Segmentation for continuous Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has traditionally used silence timeouts or voice activity detectors (VADs), which are both limited to acoustic features. This segmentation is often overly aggressive, given that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Piyush Behre , Naveen Parihar , Sharman Tan , Amy Shah , Eva Sharma , Geoffrey Liu , Shuangyu Chang , Hosam Khalil , Chris Basoglu , Sayan Pathak

Beamforming for multichannel speech enhancement relies on the estimation of spatial characteristics of the acoustic scene. In its simplest form, the delay-and-sum beamformer (DSB) introduces a time delay to all channels to align the desired…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Annika Briegleb , Thomas Haubner , Vasileios Belagiannis , Walter Kellermann

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

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

In the realm of deep learning, spatial attention mechanisms have emerged as a vital method for enhancing the performance of convolutional neural networks. However, these mechanisms possess inherent limitations that cannot be overlooked.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xin Zhang , Chen Liu , Degang Yang , Tingting Song , Yichen Ye , Ke Li , Yingze Song

Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by integrating visual and auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same now with images, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for dense semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Visual speech recognition is a technique to identify spoken content in silent speech videos, which has raised significant attention in recent years. Advancements in data-driven deep learning methods have significantly improved both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lei Yang , Junshan Jin , Mingyuan Zhang , Yi He , Bofan Chen , Shilin Wang

Deep convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation achieve outstanding accuracy, however they also have a couple of major drawbacks: first, they do not generalize well to distributions slightly different from the one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Francesco Barbato , Marco Toldo , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Audio-visual speech enhancement system is regarded to be one of promising solutions for isolating and enhancing speech of desired speaker. Conventional methods focus on predicting clean speech spectrum via a naive convolution neural network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Xinmeng Xu , Jianjun Hao

Change detection, i.e. identification per pixel of changes for some classes of interest from a set of bi-temporal co-registered images, is a fundamental task in the field of remote sensing. It remains challenging due to unrelated forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , François Waldner , Peter Caccetta

We introduce an approach to integrate segmentation information within a convolutional neural network (CNN). This counter-acts the tendency of CNNs to smooth information across regions and increases their spatial precision. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Majority of the recent approaches for text-independent speaker recognition apply attention or similar techniques for aggregation of frame-level feature descriptors generated by a deep neural network (DNN) front-end. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Sarthak Yadav , Atul Rai

The machine recognition of speech spoken at a distance from the microphones, known as far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR), has received a significant increase of attention in science and industry, which caused or was caused by an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Reinhold Haeb-Umbach , Jahn Heymann , Lukas Drude , Shinji Watanabe , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani

Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

In this work, we explore a multimodal semi-supervised learning approach for punctuation prediction by learning representations from large amounts of unlabelled audio and text data. Conventional approaches in speech processing typically use…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Monica Sunkara , Srikanth Ronanki , Dhanush Bekal , Sravan Bodapati , Katrin Kirchhoff

Supervised deep learning has gained significant attention for speech enhancement recently. The state-of-the-art deep learning methods perform the task by learning a ratio/binary mask that is applied to the mixture in the time-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Bahareh Tolooshams , Ritwik Giri , Andrew H. Song , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy