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In this paper, we propose a residual echo suppression method using a UNet neural network that directly maps the outputs of a linear acoustic echo canceler to the desired signal in the spectral domain. This system embeds a design parameter…
Deep learning-based methods that jointly perform the task of acoustic echo and noise reduction (AENR) often require high memory and computational resources, making them unsuitable for real-time deployment on low-resource platforms such as…
Neural networks have led to tremendous performance gains for single-task speech enhancement, such as noise suppression and acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). In this work, we evaluate whether it is more useful to use a single joint or…
Although today's speech communication systems support various bandwidths from narrowband to super-wideband and beyond, state-of-the art DNN methods for acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) are lacking modularity and bandwidth scalability. Our…
Audio-visual speech enhancement (AV-SE) methods utilize auxiliary visual cues to enhance speakers' voices. Therefore, technically they should be able to outperform the audio-only speech enhancement (SE) methods. However, there are few works…
This paper presents a real-time Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) algorithm submitted to the AEC-Challenge. The algorithm consists of three modules: Generalized Cross-Correlation with PHAse Transform (GCC-PHAT) based time delay compensation,…
Music source separation involves a large input field to model a long-term dependence of an audio signal. Previous convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approaches address the large input field modeling using sequentially down- and…
This paper introduces the NWPU Team's entry to the ICASSP 2022 AEC Challenge. We take a hybrid approach that cascades a linear AEC with a neural post-filter. The former is used to deal with the linear echo components while the latter…
In hands-free communication system, the coupling between loudspeaker and microphone generates echo signal, which can severely influence the quality of communication. Meanwhile, various types of noise in communication environments further…
This paper presents an acoustic echo canceler based on a U-Net convolutional neural network for single-talk and double-talk scenarios. U-Net networks have previously been used in the audio processing area for source separation problems…
With the increasing demand for audio communication and online conference, ensuring the robustness of Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) under the complicated acoustic scenario including noise, reverberation and nonlinear distortion has become…
Noise suppression and echo cancellation are critical in speech enhancement and essential for smart devices and real-time communication. Deployed in voice processing front-ends and edge devices, these algorithms must ensure efficient…
In full-duplex speech interaction systems, effective Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is crucial for recovering echo-contaminated speech. This paper presents a neural network-based AEC solution to address challenges in mobile scenarios with…
In this paper a generalized postfilter algorithm design issues are presented. This postfilter is used to jointly suppress late reverberation, residual echo, and background noise. When residual echo and noise are suppressed, the best result…
The topic of deep acoustic echo control (DAEC) has seen many approaches with various model topologies in recent years. Convolutional recurrent networks (CRNs), consisting of a convolutional encoder and decoder encompassing a recurrent…
We consider the problem of simultaneous reduction of acoustic echo, reverberation and noise. In real scenarios, these distortion sources may occur simultaneously and reducing them implies combining the corresponding distortion-specific…
In many speech recording applications, the recorded desired speech is corrupted by both noise and acoustic echo, such that combined noise reduction (NR) and acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is called for. A common cascaded design…
Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is an important speech signal processing technology that can remove echoes from microphone signals to enable natural-sounding full-duplex speech communication. While single-channel AEC is widely adopted,…
In recent years, the introduction of neural networks (NNs) into the field of speech enhancement has brought significant improvements. However, many of the proposed methods are quite demanding in terms of computational complexity and memory…
In recent years, neural networks (NNs) have been widely applied in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). However, existing approaches struggle to meet real-world low-latency and computational requirements while maintaining performance. To…