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Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are among leading approaches to address the problem of learning disentangled representations. Typically a single VAE is used and disentangled representations are sought within its single continuous latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Veranika Boukun , Jörg Lücke

Continuous speech separation (CSS) aims to separate overlapping voices from a continuous influx of conversational audio containing an unknown number of utterances spoken by an unknown number of speakers. A common application scenario is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Zhuohuang Zhang , Takuya Yoshioka , Naoyuki Kanda , Zhuo Chen , Xiaofei Wang , Dongmei Wang , Sefik Emre Eskimez

We propose a novel multi-source direction of arrival (DOA) estimation technique using a convolutional neural network algorithm which learns the modal coherence patterns of an incident soundfield through measured spherical harmonic…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-19 A. Fahim , P. N. Samarasinghe , T. D. Abhayapala

In this paper, we propose a two-step training procedure for source separation via a deep neural network. In the first step we learn a transform (and it's inverse) to a latent space where masking-based separation performance using oracles is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Efthymios Tzinis , Shrikant Venkataramani , Zhepei Wang , Cem Subakan , Paris Smaragdis

The task of blind source separation (BSS) involves separating sources from a mixture without prior knowledge of the sources or the mixing system. Single-channel mixtures and non-linear mixtures are a particularly challenging problem in BSS.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Matthew B. Webster , Joonnyong Lee

Horizontal line arrays are often employed in underwater environments to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of a weak signal. Conventional beamforming (CB) is robust but has wide beamwidths and high-level sidelobes. High-resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Qi Zhang , Jiang Zhu , Yuantao Gu , Zhiwei Xu

A two-stage multi-channel speech enhancement method is proposed which consists of a novel adaptive beamformer, Hybrid Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR), Isotropic-MVDR (Iso), and a novel multi-channel spectral Principal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Sina Hafezi , Alastair H. Moore , Pierre Guiraud , Patrick A. Naylor , Jacob Donley , Vladimir Tourbabin , Thomas Lunner

To improve speech intelligibility and speech quality in noisy environments, binaural noise reduction algorithms for head-mounted assistive listening devices are of crucial importance. Several binaural noise reduction algorithms such as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Marvin Tammen , Simon Doclo

This paper proposes a multichannel source separation technique called the multichannel variational autoencoder (MVAE) method, which uses a conditional VAE (CVAE) to model and estimate the power spectrograms of the sources in a mixture. By…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Hirokazu Kameoka , Li Li , Shota Inoue , Shoji Makino

We propose a new algorithm for blind source separation (BSS) using independent vector analysis (IVA). This is an improvement over the popular auxiliary function based IVA (AuxIVA) with iterative projection (IP) or iterative source steering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Robin Scheibler

This paper develops a framework that can perform denoising, dereverberation, and source separation accurately by using a relatively small number of microphones. It has been empirically confirmed that Independent Vector Analysis (IVA) can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Tomohiro Nakatani , Rintaro Ikeshita , Keisuke Kinoshita , Hiroshi Sawada , Naoyuki Kamo , Shoko Araki

In spatial blind source separation the observed multivariate random fields are assumed to be mixtures of latent spatially dependent random fields. The objective is to recover latent random fields by estimating the unmixing transformation.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-12 Mika Sipilä , Klaus Nordhausen , Sara Taskinen

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

Separating audio mixtures into individual instrument tracks has been a long standing challenging task. We introduce a novel weakly supervised audio source separation approach based on deep adversarial learning. Specifically, our loss…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Ning Zhang , Junchi Yan , Yuchen Zhou

Purely neural network (NN) based speech separation and enhancement methods, although can achieve good objective scores, inevitably cause nonlinear speech distortions that are harmful for the automatic speech recognition (ASR). On the other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Chao Weng , Jianming Liu , Dong Yu

Supervised deep learning approaches to underdetermined audio source separation achieve state-of-the-art performance but require a dataset of mixtures along with their corresponding isolated source signals. Such datasets can be extremely…

We present an audio-visual speech separation learning method that considers the correspondence between the separated signals and the visual signals to reflect the speech characteristics during training. Audio-visual speech separation is a…

Spatial audio signal enhancement aims to reduce interfering source contributions while preserving the desired sound field with its spatial cues. Existing methods generally rely on impractical assumptions (e.g. accurate estimations of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Huawei Zhang , Jihui Zhang , Huiyuan Sun , Prasanga Samarasinghe

Signal separation and extraction are important tasks for devices recording audio signals in real environments which, aside from the desired sources, often contain several interfering sources such as background noise or concurrent speakers.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Andreas Brendel , Thomas Haubner , Walter Kellermann

Cell-free massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems can provide reliable connectivity and increase user throughput and spectral efficiency of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. This can only be achieved through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Mohamed Elrashidy , Mudassir Masood , Ali Arshad Nasir