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In this paper, we present a statistical beamforming algorithm as a pre-processing step for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR). By modeling the target speech as a non-stationary Laplacian distribution, a mask-based statistical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Ui-Hyeop Shin , Hyung-Min Park

The modeling and prediction of multivariate spatio-temporal data involve numerous challenges. Dimension reduction methods can significantly simplify this process, provided that they account for the complex dependencies between variables and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-18 Mika Sipilä , Klaus Nordhausen , Sara Taskinen

Joint optimization of multi-channel front-end and automatic speech recognition (ASR) has attracted much interest. While promising results have been reported for various tasks, past studies on its meeting transcription application were…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Xiaofei Wang , Naoyuki Kanda , Yashesh Gaur , Zhuo Chen , Zhong Meng , Takuya Yoshioka

Machine learning applications on signals such as computer vision or biomedical data often face significant challenges due to the variability that exists across hardware devices or session recordings. This variability poses a Domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Théo Gnassounou , Antoine Collas , Rémi Flamary , Karim Lounici , Alexandre Gramfort

This article addresses the modeling of reverberant recording environments in the context of under-determined convolutive blind source separation. We model the contribution of each source to all mixture channels in the time-frequency domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-12-14 Ngoc Duong , Emmanuel Vincent , Remi Gribonval

Labeling of multivariate biomedical time series data is a laborious and expensive process. Self-supervised contrastive learning alleviates the need for large, labeled datasets through pretraining on unlabeled data. However, for multivariate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-21 Thea Brüsch , Mikkel N. Schmidt , Tommy S. Alstrøm

The spatial covariance matrix has been considered to be significant for beamformers. Standing upon the intersection of traditional beamformers and deep neural networks, we propose a causal neural beamformer paradigm called Embedding and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Andong Li , Wenzhe Liu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

In the practical radar with multiple antennas, the antenna imperfections degrade the system performance. In this paper, the problem of estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) in multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) radar system with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Peng Chen , Zhenxin Cao , Zhimin Chen , Xianbin Wang

Covariance matrix reconstruction has been the most widely used guiding objective in gridless direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation for sparse linear arrays. Many semidefinite programming (SDP)-based methods fall under this category.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Kuan-Lin Chen , Bhaskar D. Rao

This letter proposes a new blind source separation (BSS) framework termed minimum variance independent component analysis (MVICA), which can potentially achieve the maximum output signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) while also allowing more…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Jianju Gu , Longbiao Cheng , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li , Yonghong Yan

In this work, we propose a deep beamforming framework for speech enhancement in dynamic acoustic environments. The framework learns time-varying beamformer weights from noisy multichannel signals via a deep neural network, guided by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Ilai Zaidel , Sharon Gannot

Recent neural network strategies for source separation attempt to model audio signals by processing their waveforms directly. Mean squared error (MSE) that measures the Euclidean distance between waveforms of denoised speech and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Shrikant Venkataramani , Ryley Higa , Paris Smaragdis

Supervised neural network training has led to significant progress on single-channel sound separation. This approach relies on ground truth isolated sources, which precludes scaling to widely available mixture data and limits progress on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Scott Wisdom , Aren Jansen , Ron J. Weiss , Hakan Erdogan , John R. Hershey

Blind-audio-source-separation (BASS) techniques, particularly those with low latency, play an important role in a wide range of real-time systems, e.g., hearing aids, in-car hand-free voice communication, real-time human-machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Kaien Mo , Xianrui Wang , Yichen Yang , Shoji Makino , Jingdong Chen

This study introduces a novel unsupervised approach for separating overlapping heart and lung sounds using variational autoencoders (VAEs). In clinical settings, these sounds often interfere with each other, making manual separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

Opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) asymptotically achieves the optimal degrees-of-freedom (DoF) in interfering multiple-access channels (IMACs) in a distributed fashion, as a certain user scaling condition is satisfied. For the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hyun Jong Yang , Bang Chul Jung , Won-Yong Shin , Arogyaswami Paulraj

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems play an essential role in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. A large number of antennas used in a MIMO system imposes a huge complexity burden on the popular DOA estimation algorithms, such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Md Imrul Hasan , Mohammad Saquib

In this paper, we develop various beamforming techniques for downlink transmission for multiple-input single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. First, a beamforming approach with perfect channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Faezeh Alavi , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Zhiguo Ding , Alister G. Burr

Distributed integrated sensing and communication (D-ISAC) enables multiple spatially distributed nodes to cooperatively perform sensing and communication. However, achieving coherent cooperation across distributed nodes is challenging due…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Seonghoon Yoo , Seulhyun Kwon , Kawon Han , Elaheh Ataeebojd , Mehdi Rasti , Joonhyuk Kang

The recently proposed semi-blind source separation (SBSS) method for nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation (NAEC) outperforms adaptive NAEC in attenuating the nonlinear acoustic echo. However, the multiplicative transfer function (MTF)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Guoliang Cheng , Lele Liao , Kai Chen , Yuxiang Hu , Changbao Zhu , Jing Lu