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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…

Distortion resulting from acoustic echo suppression (AES) is a common issue in full-duplex communication. To address the distortion problem, a multi-frame minimum variance distortionless response (MFMVDR) filtering technique is proposed.…

Although the conventional mask-based minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) could reduce the non-linear distortion, the residual noise level of the MVDR separated speech is still high. In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal…

In large-scale wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs), many of the sensors will only have a marginal contribution to a certain estimation task. Involving all sensors increases the energy budget unnecessarily and decreases the lifetime of…

Neural networks have recently become the dominant approach to sound separation. Their good performance relies on large datasets of isolated recordings. For speech and music, isolated single channel data are readily available; however the…

This paper aims at eliminating the interfering speakers' speech, additive noise, and reverberation from the noisy multi-talker speech mixture that benefits automatic speech recognition (ASR) backend. While the recently proposed Weighted…

Automatic learning algorithms for improving the image quality of diagnostic B-mode ultrasound (US) images have been gaining popularity in the recent past. In this work, a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained using time of…

We propose a deep beamforming framework for enhancing target speaker(s) in multi-speaker environments. A deep neural network (DNN) is trained to estimate beamforming weights directly from noisy multichannel inputs while satisfying linear…

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…

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…

This work introduces sequential neural beamforming, which alternates between neural network based spectral separation and beamforming based spatial separation. Our neural networks for separation use an advanced convolutional architecture…

The key advantage of using multiple microphones for speech enhancement is that spatial filtering can be used to complement the tempo-spectral processing. In a traditional setting, linear spatial filtering (beamforming) and single-channel…

In the intricate acoustic landscapes where speech intelligibility is challenged by noise and reverberation, multichannel speech enhancement emerges as a promising solution for individuals with hearing loss. Such algorithms are commonly…

Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to extract clean speech from a noisy mixture using signals captured from multiple microphones. Recently proposed methods tackle this problem by incorporating deep neural network models with spatial…

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…

Time-domain audio separation network (TasNet) has achieved remarkable performance in blind source separation (BSS). Classic multi-channel speech processing framework employs signal estimation and beamforming. For example, Beam-TasNet links…

Recently, multi-channel speech enhancement has drawn much interest due to the use of spatial information to distinguish target speech from interfering signal. To make full use of spatial information and neural network based masking…

Binaural reproduction is gaining increasing attention with the rise of devices such as virtual reality headsets, smart glasses, and head-tracked headphones. Achieving accurate binaural signals with these systems is challenging, as they…

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…

In the scenario with reverberation, the experience of human-machine interaction will become worse. In order to solve this problem, many methods for the dereverberation have emerged. At present, how to update the parameters of the Kalman…