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We investigate the viability of a variational U-Net architecture for denoising of single-channel audio data. Deep network speech enhancement systems commonly aim to estimate filter masks, or opt to work on the waveform signal, potentially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Eike J. Nustede , Jörn Anemüller

For supervised speech enhancement, contextual information is important for accurate spectral mapping. However, commonly used deep neural networks (DNNs) are limited in capturing temporal contexts. To leverage long-term contexts for tracking…

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We propose a conceptually and computationally simple form of sound velocity that offers a readable view of the interference between direct and indirect sound waves. Unlike most approaches in the literature, it jointly exploits both active…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Jérôme Daniel , Srđan Kitić

A method is presented for estimating and reconstructing the sound field within a room using physics-informed neural networks. By incorporating a limited set of experimental room impulse responses as training data, this approach combines…

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Single-shot spin-state discrimination is essential for semiconductor spin qubits, but conventional threshold-based analysis of spin readout traces becomes unreliable under noisy conditions. Although recent neural-network-based methods…

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Sound-tracking refers to the process of determining the direction from which a sound originates, making it a fundamental component of sound source localization. This capability is essential in a variety of applications, including security…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mahdi Ali Pour , Zahra Habibzadeh

In multi-speaker environments the direction of arrival (DOA) of a target speaker is key for improving speech clarity and extracting target speaker's voice. However, traditional DOA estimation methods often struggle in the presence of noise,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zixuan Li , Shulin He , Xueliang Zhang

Road extraction from aerial images has been a hot research topic in the field of remote sensing image analysis. In this letter, a semantic segmentation neural network which combines the strengths of residual learning and U-Net is proposed…

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Radio environment maps (REMs) hold a central role in optimizing wireless network deployment, enhancing network performance, and ensuring effective spectrum management. Conventional REM prediction methods are either excessively…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Hazem Sallouha , Shamik Sarkar , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

Extracting direct-path spatial features is critical for sound source localization in adverse acoustic environments. This paper proposes a full-band and narrow-band fusion network for estimating direct-path inter-channel phase difference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Yabo Wang , Bing Yang , Xiaofei Li

Indoor autonomous navigation requires a precise and accurate localization system able to guide robots through cluttered, unstructured and dynamic environments. Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, as an indoor positioning system, offers precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Enrico Sutera , Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Giovanni Fantin , Marcello Chiaberge

Most deep learning-based models for speech enhancement have mainly focused on estimating the magnitude of spectrogram while reusing the phase from noisy speech for reconstruction. This is due to the difficulty of estimating the phase of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Hyeong-Seok Choi , Jang-Hyun Kim , Jaesung Huh , Adrian Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Kyogu Lee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have greatly benefited direction of arrival (DoA) estimation methods for speech source localization in noisy environments. However, their localization accuracy is still far from satisfactory due to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Kuan-Lin Chen , Ching-Hua Lee , Bhaskar D. Rao , Harinath Garudadri

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental task in array processing. A popular family of DoA estimation algorithms are subspace methods, which operate by dividing the measurements into distinct signal and noise subspaces.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Dor H. Shmuel , Julian P. Merkofer , Guy Revach , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Nir Shlezinger

Methods for accurate prediction of radio signal quality parameters are crucial for optimization of mobile networks, and a necessity for future autonomous driving solutions. The power-distance relation of current empirical models struggles…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Jakob Thrane , Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld , Henrik Christiansen

Neural network based speech dereverberation has achieved promising results in recent studies. Nevertheless, many are focused on recovery of only the direct path sound and early reflections, which could be beneficial to speech perception,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ziteng Wang , Yueyue Na , Biao Tian , Qiang Fu

As machine learning becomes increasingly prevalent in critical fields such as healthcare, ensuring the safety and reliability of machine learning systems becomes paramount. A key component of reliability is the ability to estimate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Elisabeth R. M. Heremans , Nabeel Seedat , Bertien Buyse , Dries Testelmans , Mihaela van der Schaar , Maarten De Vos

Recent speaker extraction methods using deep non-linear spatial filtering perform exceptionally well when the target direction is known and stationary. However, spatially dynamic scenarios are considerably more challenging due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Jakob Kienegger , Timo Gerkmann

Aiming at estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) of a desired speaker in a multi-talker environment using a microphone array, in this paper we propose a signal-informed method exploiting the availability of an external microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Ulrik Kowalk , Simon Doclo , Joerg Bitzer

Neural beamformers, which integrate both pre-separation and beamforming modules, have demonstrated impressive effectiveness in target speech extraction. Nevertheless, the performance of these beamformers is inherently limited by the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Aoqi Guo , Sichong Qian , Baoxiang Li , Dazhi Gao