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The performance of deep learning-based multi-channel speech enhancement methods often deteriorates when the geometric parameters of the microphone array change. Traditional approaches to mitigate this issue typically involve training on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Tianqin Zheng , Jilu Jin , Hanchen Pei , Gongping Huang , Jingdong Chen , Jacob Benesty

Conventional far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically employ microphone array techniques for speech enhancement in order to improve robustness against noise or reverberation. However, such speech enhancement techniques…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Minhua Wu , Kenichi Kumatani , Shiva Sundaram , Nikko Strom , Bjorn Hoffmeister

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) algorithms are usually expected to be deployed in resource-constrained systems. Existing works reduce the complexity of ASC algorithms by pruning some components, e.g. pruning channels in neural network.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yiqiang Cai , Shengchen Li

The prevailing noise-resistant and reverberation-resistant localization algorithms primarily emphasize separating and providing directional output for each speaker in multi-speaker scenarios, without association with the identity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yu Chen , Xinyuan Qian , Zexu Pan , Kainan Chen , Haizhou Li

Modern neural networks are often augmented with an attention mechanism, which tells the network where to focus within the input. We propose in this paper a new framework for sparse and structured attention, building upon a smoothed max…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-26 Vlad Niculae , Mathieu Blondel

Channel estimation problem is one of the key technical issues in time-variant multiple-input single-output (MSIO) communication systems. To estimate the MISO channel, least mean square (LMS) algorithm is applied to adaptive channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Guan Gui , Wei Peng , Abolfazl Mehbodniya , Fumiyuki Adachi

To estimate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, invariable step-size normalized least mean square (ISSNLMS) algorithm was applied to adaptive channel estimation (ACE). Since the MIMO channel is often described by sparse channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Guan Gui , Li Xu , Lin Shan , Fumiyuki Adachi

End-to-end (E2E) multi-channel ASR systems show state-of-the-art performance in far-field ASR tasks by joint training of a multi-channel front-end along with the ASR model. The main limitation of such systems is that they are usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Marco Gaudesi , Felix Weninger , Dushyant Sharma , Puming Zhan

The maximum element of the vector output by the Softmax function approaches zero as the input vector size increases. Transformer-based language models rely on Softmax to compute attention scores, causing the attention distribution to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ken M. Nakanishi

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the cloud allows the use of larger models and more powerful multi-channel signal processing front-ends compared to on-device processing. However, it also adds an inherent latency due to the transmission…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Lukas Drude , Jahn Heymann , Andreas Schwarz , Jean-Marc Valin

Speech separation has been successfully applied as a frontend processing module of conversation transcription systems thanks to its ability to handle overlapped speech and its flexibility to combine with downstream tasks such as automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Jian Wu , Zhuo Chen , Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Takuya Yoshioka , Naoyuki Kanda , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li

Deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement algorithms in microphone arrays have now proven to be efficient solutions to speech understanding and speech recognition in noisy environments. However, in the context of ad-hoc microphone…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

We introduce \emph{ScalableMax}, a novel communication scheme for achieving max-consensus in a network of multiple agents which harnesses the interference in the wireless channel as well as its multicast capabilities. In a sufficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Navneet Agrawal , Matthias Frey , Slawomir Stanczak

The traditional adaptive algorithms will face the non-uniqueness problem when dealing with stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC). In this paper, we first propose an efficient multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) scheme based on deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Chenggang Zhang , Jinjiang Liu , Xueliang Zhang

This paper proposes an additive phoneme-aware margin softmax (APM-Softmax) loss to train the multi-task learning network with phonetic information for language recognition. In additive margin softmax (AM-Softmax) loss, the margin is set as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zheng Li , Yan Liu , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Broadband wireless channels usually have the sparse nature. Based on the assumption of Gaussian noise model, adaptive filtering algorithms for reconstruction sparse channels were proposed to take advantage of channel sparsity. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Guan Gui , Li Xu , Wentao Ma , Badong Chen

Conventional sound source localization methods are mostly based on a single microphone array that consists of multiple microphones. They are usually formulated as the estimation of the direction of arrival problem. In this paper, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yijun Gong , Shupei Liu , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Sparse channel estimation for massive multiple-input multiple-output systems has drawn much attention in recent years. The required pilots are substantially reduced when the sparse channel state vectors can be reconstructed from a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Pengxia Wu , Hui Ma , Julian Cheng

Accurate channel state information (CSI) is required for coherent detection in time-variant multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) communication systems using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation. One of low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Guan Gui , Wei Peng , Fumiyuki Adachi

Automatic speech recognition systems are part of people's daily lives, embedded in personal assistants and mobile phones, helping as a facilitator for human-machine interaction while allowing access to information in a practically intuitive…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Julio Cesar Duarte , Sérgio Colcher