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This paper addresses the problem of multi-channel multi-speech separation based on deep learning techniques. In the short time Fourier transform domain, we propose an end-to-end narrow-band network that directly takes as input the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

This work proposes a neural network to extensively exploit spatial information for multichannel joint speech separation, denoising and dereverberation, named SpatialNet. In the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain, the proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

The performance of traditional linear spatial filters for speech enhancement is constrained by the physical size and number of channels of microphone arrays. For instance, for large microphone distances and high frequencies, spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Alina Mannanova , Jakob Kienegger , Timo Gerkmann

Multi-channel speech enhancement extracts speech using multiple microphones that capture spatial cues. Effectively utilizing directional information is key for multi-channel enhancement. Deep learning shows great potential on multi-channel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jiahui Pan , Pengjie Shen , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

With the recent advancements of data driven approaches using deep neural networks, music source separation has been formulated as an instrument-specific supervised problem. While existing deep learning models implicitly absorb the spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Darius Petermann , Minje Kim

Multi-channel speech separation in dynamic environments is challenging as time-varying spatial and spectral features evolve at different temporal scales. Existing methods typically employ sequential architectures, forcing a single network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

This paper presents a robust multi-channel speaker extraction algorithm designed to handle inaccuracies in reference information. While existing approaches often rely solely on either spatial or spectral cues to identify the target speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Aviad Eisenberg , Sharon Gannot , Shlomo E. Chazan

This paper addresses the problem of speech separation and enhancement from multichannel convolutive and noisy mixtures, \emph{assuming known mixing filters}. We propose to perform the speech separation and enhancement task in the short-time…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Xiaofei Li , Laurent Girin , Sharon Gannot , Radu Horaud

We address monaural multi-speaker-image separation in reverberant conditions, aiming at separating mixed speakers but preserving the reverberation of each speaker. A straightforward approach for this task is to directly train end-to-end DNN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Jingqi Sun , Shulin He , Ruizhe Pang , Zhong-Qiu Wang

Despite the overwhelming success of deep learning in various speech processing tasks, the problem of separating simultaneous speakers in a mixture remains challenging. Two major difficulties in such systems are the arbitrary source…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Zhuo Chen , Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

The sources separated by most single channel audio source separation techniques are usually distorted and each separated source contains residual signals from the other sources. To tackle this problem, we propose to enhance the separated…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Emad M. Grais , Gerard Roma , Andrew J. R. Simpson , Mark D. Plumbley

A promising approach for speech dereverberation is based on supervised learning, where a deep neural network (DNN) is trained to predict the direct sound from noisy-reverberant speech. This data-driven approach is based on leveraging prior…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Current multichannel speech enhancement algorithms typically assume a stationary sound source, a common mismatch with reality that limits their performance in real-world scenarios. This paper focuses on attention-driven spatial filtering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Multi-channel deep clustering (MDC) has acquired a good performance for speech separation. However, MDC only applies the spatial features as the additional information. So it is difficult to learn mutual relationship between spatial and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen

Speech clarity and spatial audio immersion are the two most critical factors in enhancing remote conferencing experiences. Existing methods are often limited: either due to the lack of spatial information when using only one microphone, or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Cheng Chi , Xiaoyu Li , Yuxuan Ke , Qunping Ni , Yao Ge , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

In reverberant conditions with multiple concurrent speakers, each microphone acquires a mixture signal of multiple speakers at a different location. In over-determined conditions where the microphones out-number speakers, we can narrow down…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe

Recently, deep clustering (DPCL) based speaker-independent speech separation has drawn much attention, since it needs little speaker prior information. However, it still has much room of improvement, particularly in reverberant…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ziye Yang , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Recent speaker extraction methods using deep non-linear spatial filtering perform exceptionally well when the target direction is known and stationary. However, spatially dynamic scenarios are considerably more challenging due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Jakob Kienegger , Timo Gerkmann

Recently studies on time-domain audio separation networks (TasNets) have made a great stride in speech separation. One of the most representative TasNets is a network with a dual-path segmentation approach. However, the original model…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yinhao Xu , Jian Zhou , Liang Tao , Hon Keung Kwan

The crux of single-channel speech separation is how to encode the mixture of signals into such a latent embedding space that the signals from different speakers can be precisely separated. Existing methods for speech separation either…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Zengwei Yao , Wenjie Pei , Fanglin Chen , Guangming Lu , David Zhang