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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…
Invariance to microphone array configuration is a rare attribute in neural beamformers. Filter-and-sum (FS) methods in this class define the target signal with respect to a reference channel. However, this not only complicates formulation…
Recording channel mismatch between training and testing conditions has been shown to be a serious problem for speech separation. This situation greatly reduces the separation performance, and cannot meet the requirement of daily use. In…
An important problem in ad-hoc microphone speech separation is how to guarantee the robustness of a system with respect to the locations and numbers of microphones. The former requires the system to be invariant to different indexing of the…
Robust speech processing in multi-talker environments requires effective speech separation. Recent deep learning systems have made significant progress toward solving this problem, yet it remains challenging particularly in real-time, short…
Time-domain audio separation network (TasNet) has achieved remarkable performance in blind source separation (BSS). Classic multi-channel speech processing framework employs signal estimation and beamforming. For example, Beam-TasNet links…
Speech separation has been studied widely for single-channel close-talk microphone recordings over the past few years; developed solutions are mostly in frequency-domain. Recently, a raw audio waveform separation network (TasNet) is…
Most deep learning-based multi-channel speech enhancement methods focus on designing a set of beamforming coefficients to directly filter the low signal-to-noise ratio signals received by microphones, which hinders the performance of these…
The remarkable ability of humans to selectively focus on a target speaker in cocktail party scenarios is facilitated by binaural audio processing. In this paper, we present a binaural time-domain Target Speaker Extraction model based on the…
Recently studies on time-domain audio separation networks (TasNets) have made a great stride in speech separation. One of the most representative TasNets is a network with a dual-path segmentation approach. However, the original model…
To date, mainstream target speech separation (TSS) approaches are formulated to estimate the complex ratio mask (cRM) of the target speech in time-frequency domain under supervised deep learning framework. However, the existing deep models…
Deep learning speech separation algorithms have achieved great success in improving the quality and intelligibility of separated speech from mixed audio. Most previous methods focused on generating a single-channel output for each of the…
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…
Single-channel speech separation has recently made great progress thanks to learned filterbanks as used in ConvTasNet. In parallel, parameterized filterbanks have been proposed for speaker recognition where only center frequencies and…
Separating target speech from mixed signals containing flexible speaker quantities presents a challenging task. While existing methods demonstrate strong separation performance and noise robustness, they predominantly assume prior knowledge…
Target speech separation refers to extracting the target speaker's speech from mixed signals. Despite the recent advances in deep learning based close-talk speech separation, the applications to real-world are still an open issue. Two main…
This work introduces sequential neural beamforming, which alternates between neural network based spectral separation and beamforming based spatial separation. Our neural networks for separation use an advanced convolutional architecture…
This study presents UX-Net, a time-domain audio separation network (TasNet) based on a modified U-Net architecture. The proposed UX-Net works in real-time and handles either single or multi-microphone input. Inspired by the…
Complex-valued processing has brought deep learning-based speech enhancement and signal extraction to a new level. Typically, the process is based on a time-frequency (TF) mask which is applied to a noisy spectrogram, while complex masks…
In a multi-channel separation task with multiple speakers, we aim to recover all individual speech signals from the mixture. In contrast to single-channel approaches, which rely on the different spectro-temporal characteristics of the…