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With the advent of deep learning, research on noise-robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) has progressed rapidly. However, ASR performance in noisy conditions of single-channel systems remains unsatisfactory. Indeed, most single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Keisuke Kinoshita , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani

In this paper, we propose a novel deep unsupervised learning-based approach that jointly optimizes antenna selection and hybrid beamforming to improve the hardware and spectral efficiencies of massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Zhiyan Liu , Yuwen Yang , Feifei Gao , Ting Zhou , Hongbing Ma

The potential advantages of intelligent wireless communications with millimeter wave (mmWave) and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) are based on the availability of instantaneous channel state information (CSI) at the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yibin Zhang , Jinlong Sun , Guan Gui , Yun Lin , Haris Gacanin , Hikmet Sari , Fumiyuki Adachi

Casual conversations involving multiple speakers and noises from surrounding devices are common in everyday environments, which degrades the performances of automatic speech recognition systems. These challenging characteristics of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Nelson Yalta , Shinji Watanabe , Takaaki Hori , Kazuhiro Nakadai , Tetsuya Ogata

Deep learning-based channel estimation has been recognized as a promising technique for sixth-generation wireless systems. However, most existing approaches rely solely on least-squares estimates obtained from demodulation reference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Ke Ma , Feng Wang , Lihui Lei , Shu Tan

Neural networks have recently become the dominant approach to sound separation. Their good performance relies on large datasets of isolated recordings. For speech and music, isolated single channel data are readily available; however the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Jacob Kealey , John Hershey , François Grondin

The most recent deep neural network (DNN) models exhibit impressive denoising performance in the time-frequency (T-F) magnitude domain. However, the phase is also a critical component of the speech signal that is easily overlooked. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Lu Zhang , Mingjiang Wang , Zehua Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang

Pocket-sized, low-cost point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) devices are increasingly used in musculoskeletal (MSK) applications for structural examination of bone tissue. However, the image quality in MSK ultrasound is often limited by speckle…

Beamforming has been extensively investigated for multi-channel audio processing tasks. Recently, learning-based beamforming methods, sometimes called \textit{neural beamformers}, have achieved significant improvements in both signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Yi Luo , Enea Ceolini , Cong Han , Shih-Chii Liu , Nima Mesgarani

Single-shot imaging with femtosecond X-ray lasers is a powerful measurement technique that can achieve both high spatial and temporal resolution. However, its accuracy has been severely limited by the difficulty of applying conventional…

Existing beamforming-based full-duplex solutions for multi-antenna wireless systems often rely on explicit estimation of the self-interference channel. The pilot overhead of such estimation, however, can be prohibitively high in…

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In this work, we tackle a denoising and dereverberation problem with a single-stage framework. Although denoising and dereverberation may be considered two separate challenging tasks, and thus, two modules are typically required for each…

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The spatial covariance matrix has been considered to be significant for beamformers. Standing upon the intersection of traditional beamformers and deep neural networks, we propose a causal neural beamformer paradigm called Embedding and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Andong Li , Wenzhe Liu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

Far-field speech processing is an important and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose \textit{deep ad-hoc beamforming}, a deep-learning-based multichannel speech enhancement framework based on ad-hoc microphone arrays, to address…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Xiao-Lei Zhang

Recently, many deep learning based beamformers have been proposed for multi-channel speech separation. Nevertheless, most of them rely on extra cues known in advance, such as speaker feature, face image or directional information. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Yanjie Fu , Haoran Yin , Meng Ge , Longbiao Wang , Gaoyan Zhang , Jianwu Dang , Chengyun Deng , Fei Wang

Brain tumor segmentation is a critical task in medical image analysis, aiding in the diagnosis and treatment planning of brain tumor patients. The importance of automated and accurate brain tumor segmentation cannot be overstated. It…

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We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for speech recognition that explicitly employs knowledge of the background environmental noise within a deep neural network acoustic model. A deep neural network is used to predict the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Suyoun Kim , Bhiksha Raj , Ian Lane

We present an unsupervised training approach for a neural network-based mask estimator in an acoustic beamforming application. The network is trained to maximize a likelihood criterion derived from a spatial mixture model of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Lukas Drude , Jahn Heymann , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

In this work, we present CleanUNet, a causal speech denoising model on the raw waveform. The proposed model is based on an encoder-decoder architecture combined with several self-attention blocks to refine its bottleneck representations,…

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