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Binaural speech enhancement (BSE) aims to jointly improve the speech quality and intelligibility of noisy signals received by hearing devices and preserve the spatial cues of the target for natural listening. Existing methods often suffer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jingyuan Wang , Jie Zhang , Shihao Chen , Miao Sun

Multichannel processing is widely used for speech enhancement but several limitations appear when trying to deploy these solutions to the real-world. Distributed sensor arrays that consider several devices with a few microphones is a viable…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

A promising approach for multi-microphone speech separation involves two deep neural networks (DNN), where the predicted target speech from the first DNN is used to compute signal statistics for time-invariant minimum variance…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Conventional far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically employ microphone array techniques for speech enhancement in order to improve robustness against noise or reverberation. However, such speech enhancement techniques…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Minhua Wu , Kenichi Kumatani , Shiva Sundaram , Nikko Strom , Bjorn Hoffmeister

Enhancing speech quality under adverse SNR conditions remains a significant challenge for discriminative deep neural network (DNN)-based approaches. In this work, we propose DisCoGAN, which is a time-frequency-domain generative adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

Recent advancements in multi-scale architectures have demonstrated exceptional performance in image denoising tasks. However, existing architectures mainly depends on a fixed single-input single-output Unet architecture, ignoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xu Zhao , Chen Zhao , Xiantao Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Ying Tai , Jian Yang

Deep learning based single-channel speech enhancement tries to train a neural network model for the prediction of clean speech signal. There are a variety of popular network structures for single-channel speech enhancement, such as TCNN,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Xupeng Jia , Dongmei Li

Despite significant progress made in the last decade, deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement (SE) still faces the challenge of notable degradation in the quality of recovered speech under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhongshu Hou , Tong Lei , Qinwen Hu , Zhanzhong Cao , Ming Tang , Jing Lu

In this paper, we propose a method combining variational autoencoder model of speech with a spatial clustering approach for multi-channel speech separation. The advantage of integrating spatial clustering with a spectral model was shown in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Katerina Zmolikova , Marc Delcroix , Lukáš Burget , Tomohiro Nakatani , Jan "Honza" Černocký

Localizing sounds and detecting events in different room environments is a difficult task, mainly due to the wide range of reflections and reverberations. When training neural network models with sounds recorded in only a few room…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Yusun Shul , Byeong-Yun Ko , Jung-Woo Choi

Single-channel speech enhancement is utilized in various tasks to mitigate the effect of interfering signals. Conventionally, to ensure the speech enhancement performs optimally, the speech enhancement has needed to be tuned for each task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Ryo Masumura

With the increasing reliance of self-driving and similar robotic systems on robust 3D vision, the processing of LiDAR scans with deep convolutional neural networks has become a trend in academia and industry alike. Prior attempts on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ran Cheng , Christopher Agia , Yuan Ren , Xinhai Li , Liu Bingbing

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has shown remarkable progress, yet it still faces challenges in real-world distant scenarios across various array topologies each with multiple recording devices. The focal point of the CHiME-7 Distant ASR…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Bingshen Mu , Pengcheng Guo , Dake Guo , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Lei Xie

We propose a spatial diffuseness feature for deep neural network (DNN)-based automatic speech recognition to improve recognition accuracy in reverberant and noisy environments. The feature is computed in real-time from multiple microphone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Andreas Schwarz , Christian Huemmer , Roland Maas , Walter Kellermann

Multi-channel speech enhancement with ad-hoc sensors has been a challenging task. Speech model guided beamforming algorithms are able to recover natural sounding speech, but the speech models tend to be oversimplified or the inference would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Xuesong Yang , Dinei Florencio , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

This paper proposes to use low-level spatial features extracted from multichannel audio for sound event detection. We extend the convolutional recurrent neural network to handle more than one type of these multichannel features by learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Sharath Adavanne , Pasi Pertilä , Tuomas Virtanen

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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ilai Zaidel , Ori Engel , Bar Engel , Sharon Gannot

Estimating time-frequency domain masks for speech enhancement using deep learning approaches has recently become a popular field of research. In this paper, we propose a mask-based speech enhancement framework by using concatenated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

We consider the problem of simultaneous reduction of acoustic echo, reverberation and noise. In real scenarios, these distortion sources may occur simultaneously and reducing them implies combining the corresponding distortion-specific…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Guillaume Carbajal , Romain Serizel , Emmanuel Vincent , Eric Humbert