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We introduce a U-net model for 360{\deg} acoustic source localization formulated as a spherical semantic segmentation task. Rather than regressing discrete direction-of-arrival (DoA) angles, our model segments beamformed audio maps (azimuth…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Belman Jahir Rodriguez , Sergio F. Chevtchenko , Marcelo Herrera Martinez , Yeshwanth Bethi , Saeed Afshar

The front-end module in multi-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems mainly use microphone array techniques to produce enhanced signals in noisy conditions with reverberation and echos. Recently, neural network (NN) based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yuxiang Kong , Jian Wu , Quandong Wang , Peng Gao , Weiji Zhuang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

In recent years Deep Learning has brought about a breakthrough in Medical Image Segmentation. U-Net is the most prominent deep network in this regard, which has been the most popular architecture in the medical imaging community. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Sohel Rahman

Speech enhancement in multichannel settings has been realized by utilizing the spatial information embedded in multiple microphone signals. Moreover, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recently advanced in this field; however, studies on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dongheon Lee , Seongrae Kim , Jung-Woo Choi

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to leverage the generalization and robustness…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Chong-Xin Gan , Peter Bell , Man-Wai Mak , Zhe Li , Zezhong Jin , Zilong Huang , Kong Aik Lee

In this paper, we propose a learning-based low-overhead channel estimation method for coordinated beamforming in ultra-dense networks. We first show through simulation that the channel state information (CSI) of geographically separated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Sheng Chen , Zhiyuan Jiang , Jingchu Liu , Rath Vannithamby , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Ye Wu

In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

This paper introduces a deep learning (DL)-based framework for task-based ultrasound (US) beamforming, aiming to enhance clinical outcomes by integrating specific clinical tasks directly into the beamforming process. Task-based beamforming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Ariel Amar , Ahuva Grubstein , Eli Atar , Keren Peri-Hanania , Nimrod Glazer , Ronnie Rosen , Shlomi Savariego , Yonina C. Eldar

The state-of-the-art speech enhancement has limited performance in speech estimation accuracy. Recently, in deep learning, the Transformer shows the potential to exploit the long-range dependency in speech by self-attention. Therefore, it…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yi Li , Yang Sun , Syed Mohsen Naqvi

Previously proposed FullSubNet has achieved outstanding performance in Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge and attracted much attention. However, it still encounters issues such as input-output mismatch and coarse processing for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jun Chen , Zilin Wang , Deyi Tuo , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

The proposed architecture, Dual Attentive U-Net with Feature Infusion (DAU-FI Net), addresses challenges in semantic segmentation, particularly on multiclass imbalanced datasets with limited samples. DAU-FI Net integrates multiscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Rasha Alshawi , Md Tamjidul Hoque , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Kendall Niles , Ken Prathak , Joe Tom , Jordan Klein , Murtada Mousa , Johny Javier Lopez

Speech enhancement in the time domain is becoming increasingly popular in recent years, due to its capability to jointly enhance both the magnitude and the phase of speech. In this work, we propose a dense convolutional network (DCN) with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Ashutosh Pandey , DeLiang Wang

In this paper, we propose an encoder-decoder neural architecture (called Channelformer) to achieve improved channel estimation for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms in downlink scenarios. The self-attention…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-10 Dianxin Luan , John Thompson

Recently, the end-to-end training approach for neural beamformer-supported multi-channel ASR has shown its effectiveness in multi-channel speech recognition. However, the integration of multiple modules makes it more difficult to perform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Keyu An , Zhijian Ou

This paper proposes a 3D attention-based U-Net architecture for multi-region segmentation of brain tumors using a single stacked multi-modal volume created by combining three non-native MRI volumes. The attention mechanism added to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maryann M. Gitonga

3D speech enhancement can effectively improve the auditory experience and plays a crucial role in augmented reality technology. However, traditional convolutional-based speech enhancement methods have limitations in extracting dynamic voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Mou Wang , Siwei Huang , Yafei Jia , Jianfeng Chen

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

Channel state information (CSI) feedback is necessary for the frequency division duplexing (FDD) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems due to the channel non-reciprocity. With the help of deep learning, many works have succeeded in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zhilin Lu , Xudong Zhang , Rui Zeng , Jintao Wang

Hybrid beamformer design plays very crucial role in the next generation millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems. Previous works assume the perfect channel state information (CSI) which results heavy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Ahmet M. Elbir

Channel estimation is one of the key issues in practical massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Compared with conventional estimation algorithms, deep learning (DL) based ones have exhibited great potential in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiabao Gao , Mu Hu , Caijun Zhong , Geoffrey Ye Li , Zhaoyang Zhang