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Fully exploiting ad-hoc microphone networks for distant speech recognition is still an open issue. Empirical evidence shows that being able to select the best microphone leads to significant improvements in recognition without any…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Samuele Cornell , Alessio Brutti , Marco Matassoni , Stefano Squartini

Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices can assist the blind in sensing the visual environment by translating the visual information into a sound pattern. To improve the translation quality, the task performances of the blind are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Di Hu , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li , Feiping Nie , Qi Wang

Spatial attributes of room acoustics have been widely studied using microphone and loudspeaker arrays. However, systems that combine both arrays, referred to as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, have only been studied to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Hai Morgenstern , Boaz Rafaely , Franz Zotter

We consider the multiuser successive refinement (MSR) problem, where the users are connected to a central server via links with different noiseless capacities, and each user wishes to reconstruct in a successive-refinement fashion. An…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-13 Chao Tian , Jun Chen , Suhas Diggavi

This paper derives fundamental limits on the performance of compressive classification when the source is a mixture of Gaussians. It provides an asymptotic analysis of a Bhattacharya based upper bound on the misclassification probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Hugo Reboredo , Francesco Renna , Robert Calderbank , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

In this paper, linear transceiver design for multi-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) relaying systems with Gaussian distributed channel estimation errors is investigated. Commonly used transceiver design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chengwen Xing , Shaodan Ma , Zesong Fei , Yik-Chung Wu , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we introduce the novel use of linear spatial precoding based on fixed and known parameters of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels to improve the performance of space-time coded MIMO systems. We derive linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Tharaka A. Lamahewa , Rodney A. Kennedy , Thushara D. Abhayapala , Van K. Nguyen

Lossy coding of correlated sources over a multiple access channel (MAC) is studied. First, a joint source-channel coding scheme is presented when the decoder has correlated side information. Next, the optimality of separate source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Basak Guler , Deniz Gunduz , Aylin Yener

In this article we focus on the problem of channel decoding in presence of a-priori information. In particular, assuming that the a-priori information reliability is not perfectly estimated at the receiver, we derive a novel analytical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-14 Andrea Abrardo

Building on recent advances in representation learning for wireless channels, this work investigates the cost-benefit trade-offs of high-dimensional channel embeddings in practical systems. We benchmark multiple wireless representations:…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Murilo Batista , Shirin Salehi , Saeed Mashdour , Paul Zheng , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Anke Schmeink

The goal of a denoising algorithm is to reconstruct a signal from its noise-corrupted observations. Perfect reconstruction is seldom possible and performance is measured under a given fidelity criterion. In a recent work, the authors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-11 George Gemelos , Styrmir Sigurjonsson , Tsachy Weissman

We present the concept of an acoustic rake receiver---a microphone beamformer that uses echoes to improve the noise and interference suppression. The rake idea is well-known in wireless communications; it involves constructively combining…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Ivan Dokmanić , Robin Scheibler , Martin Vetterli

The two-user broadcast channel (BC) with receivers connected by bidirectional cooperation links of finite capacities, known as conferencing decoders, is considered. A novel capacity region outer bound is established based on multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Reza K. Farsani , Wei Yu

In this paper, we propose to simultaneously estimate all the sampling rate offsets (SROs) of multiple devices. In a distributed microphone array, the SRO is inevitable, which deteriorates the performance of array signal processing. Most of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Yoshiki Masuyama , Kouei Yamaoka , Nobutaka Ono

This paper studies the distributed optimal bilinear equalizer (OBE) beamforming design for both the uplink and downlink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output networks. We consider arbitrary statistics-based channel estimators…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Hao Lei , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements from an underlying random process, code and transmit those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Nan Liu , Sennur Ulukus

Gradient-descent based iterative algorithms pervade a variety of problems in estimation, prediction, learning, control, and optimization. Recently iterative algorithms based on higher-order information have been explored in an attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Spencer McDonald , Yingnan Cui , Joseph E. Gaudio , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

The widespread use of multisensor technology and the emergence of big datasets have created the need to develop tools to reduce, approximate, and classify large and multimodal data such as higher-order tensors. While early approaches…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Alp Ozdemir , Ali Zare , Mark A. Iwen , Selin Aviyente

Learned denoisers play a fundamental role in various signal generation (e.g., diffusion models) and reconstruction (e.g., compressed sensing) architectures, whose success derives from their ability to leverage low-dimensional structure in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shiyu Wang , Mariam Avagyan , Yihan Shen , Arnaud Lamy , Tingran Wang , Szabolcs Márka , Zsuzsa Márka , John Wright

We introduce a new beam search decoder that is fully differentiable, making it possible to optimize at training time through the inference procedure. Our decoder allows us to combine models which operate at different granularities (e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Ronan Collobert , Awni Hannun , Gabriel Synnaeve