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Beamformers often trade off white noise gain against the ability to suppress interferers. With distributed microphone arrays, this trade-off becomes crucial as different arrays capture vastly different magnitude and phase differences for…
Widely used loss functions for CNN segmentation, e.g., Dice or cross-entropy, are based on integrals over the segmentation regions. Unfortunately, for highly unbalanced segmentations, such regional summations have values that differ by…
The random beamforming (RBF) scheme, jointly applied with multi-user diversity based scheduling, is able to achieve virtually interference-free downlink transmissions with only partial channel state information (CSI) available at the…
Target speech separation is the process of filtering a certain speaker's voice out of speech mixtures according to the additional speaker identity information provided. Recent works have made considerable improvement by processing signals…
In this paper we propose a new binaural beamforming technique which can be seen as a relaxation of the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) framework. The proposed method can achieve simultaneous noise reduction and exact binaural…
In this study, a new subspace-constrained diagonal loading (SSC-DL) method is presented for robust beamforming against the issue of a mismatched direction of arrival (DoA), based on an extension to the well known diagonal loading (DL)…
Multichannel blind source separation (MBSS), which focuses on separating signals of interest from mixed observations, has been extensively studied in acoustic and speech processing. Existing MBSS algorithms, such as independent low-rank…
Gridless direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation with multiple frequencies can be applied in acoustics source localization problems. We formulate this as an atomic norm minimization (ANM) problem and derive an equivalent regularization-free…
This paper proposes a Spatially-Augmented Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization (SA-S2SND) framework, which integrates direction-of-arrival (DOA) cues estimated by SRP-DNN into the S2SND backbone. A two-stage training strategy is adopted:…
We propose an independence-based joint dereverberation and separation method with a neural source model. We introduce a neural network in the framework of time-decorrelation iterative source steering, which is an extension of independent…
Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…
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…
Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation is critical in spatial audio and acoustic signal processing, with wide-ranging applications in real-world. Most existing DOA models are trained on synthetic data by convolving clean speech with room…
Signal-dependent beamformers are advantageous over signal-independent beamformers when the acoustic scenario - be it real-world or simulated - is straightforward in terms of the number of sound sources, the ambient sound field and their…
A new learning algorithm for speech separation networks is designed to explicitly reduce residual noise and artifacts in the separated signal in an unsupervised manner. Generative adversarial networks are known to be effective in…
Convolutional networks have marked their place over the last few years as the best performing model for various visual tasks. They are, however, most suited for supervised learning from large amounts of labeled data. Previous attempts have…
Training neural networks for source separation involves presenting a mixture recording at the input of the network and updating network parameters in order to produce an output that resembles the clean source. Consequently, supervised…
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) relies on monostatic sensing (MS) and bistatic positioning (BP) to enable comprehensive environmental awareness and user localization. However, existing frameworks predominantly assume static…
Multivariate measurements taken at irregularly sampled locations are a common form of data, for example in geochemical analysis of soil. In practical considerations predictions of these measurements at unobserved locations are of great…
In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted 3D direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation system, in which a uniform planar array (UPA) RIS is deployed to provide virtual line-of-sight (LOS) links and reflect…