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Speech enhancement is a task to improve the intelligibility and perceptual quality of degraded speech signal. Recently, neural networks based methods have been applied to speech enhancement. However, many neural network based methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Qiuqiang Kong , Haohe Liu , Xingjian Du , Li Chen , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang

Over the recent years, various deep learning-based methods were proposed for extracting a fixed-dimensional embedding vector from speech signals. Although the deep learning-based embedding extraction methods have shown good performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Woo Hyun Kang , Jahangir Alam , Abderrahim Fathan

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been successful in en- hancing noisy speech signals. Enhancement is achieved by learning a nonlinear mapping function from the features of the corrupted speech signal to that of the reference clean speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Zhenzhou Wu , Sunil Sivadas , Yong Kiam Tan , Ma Bin , Rick Siow Mong Goh

Reduction of unwanted environmental noises is an important feature of today's hearing aids (HA), which is why noise reduction is nowadays included in almost every commercially available device. The majority of these algorithms, however, is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-26 Marc Aubreville , Kai Ehrensperger , Tobias Rosenkranz , Benjamin Graf , Henning Puder , Andreas Maier

Score-based generative models provide state-of-the-art quality for image and audio synthesis. Sampling from these models is performed iteratively, typically employing a discretized series of noise levels and a predefined scheme. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Joan Serrà , Santiago Pascual , Jordi Pons

Temporal data such as time series can be viewed as discretized measurements of the underlying function. To build a generative model for such data we have to model the stochastic process that governs it. We propose a solution by defining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Marin Biloš , Kashif Rasul , Anderson Schneider , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Stephan Günnemann

This paper proposes a novel method for automatic MRI denoising that exploits last advances in deep learning feature regression and self-similarity properties of the MR images. The proposed method is a two-stage approach. In the first stage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Jose V. Manjon , Pierrick Coupe

In real life, room effect, also known as room reverberation, and the present background noise degrade the quality of speech. Recently, deep learning-based speech enhancement approaches have shown a lot of promise and surpassed traditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Jean-Marc Valin , Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Discrete audio representations are gaining traction in speech modeling due to their interpretability and compatibility with large language models, but are not always optimized for noisy or real-world environments. Building on existing works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shreyas Gopal , Ashutosh Anshul , Haoyang Li , Yue Heng Yeo , Hexin Liu , Eng Siong Chng

This paper presents a new voice conversion (VC) framework capable of dealing with both additive noise and reverberation, and its performance evaluation. There have been studied some VC researches focusing on real-world circumstances where…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yeonjong Choi , Chao Xie , Tomoki Toda

This paper investigates a self-adaptation method for speech enhancement using auxiliary speaker-aware features; we extract a speaker representation used for adaptation directly from the test utterance. Conventional studies of deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yuma Koizumi , Kohei Yatabe , Marc Delcroix , Yoshiki Masuyama , Daiki Takeuchi

Noise suppression (NS) algorithms are effective in improving speech quality in many cases. However, aggressive noise suppression can damage the target speech, reducing both speech intelligibility and quality despite removing the noise. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a crucial step in enhancing the quality of HSIs. Noise modeling methods can fit noise distributions to generate synthetic HSIs to train denoising networks. However, the noise in captured HSIs is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yingkai Zhang , Tao Zhang , Jing Nie , Ying Fu

Recently, variational autoencoders have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then used to perform speech enhancement. However, variational autoencoders are trained on clean speech only, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Guillaume Carbajal , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

Extracellular recordings are severely contaminated by a considerable amount of noise sources, rendering the denoising process an extremely challenging task that should be tackled for efficient spike sorting. To this end, we propose an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-13 Christodoulos Kechris , Alexandros Delitzas , Vasileios Matsoukas , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

The performance of speaker verification (SV) models may drop dramatically in noisy environments. A speech enhancement (SE) module can be used as a front-end strategy. However, existing SE methods may fail to bring performance improvements…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Chi-Chang Lee , Hong-Wei Chen , Chu-Song Chen , Hsin-Min Wang , Tsung-Te Liu , Yu Tsao

Despite rapid advances in speech recognition, current models remain brittle to superficial perturbations to their inputs. Small amounts of noise can destroy the performance of an otherwise state-of-the-art model. To harden models against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Davis Liang , Zhiheng Huang , Zachary C. Lipton

Both reverberation and additive noises degrade the speech quality and intelligibility. Weighted prediction error (WPE) method performs well on the dereverberation but with limitations. First, WPE doesn't consider the influence of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang , Hui Zhang , Guanglai Gao

This paper presents a generative approach to speech enhancement based on a recurrent variational autoencoder (RVAE). The deep generative speech model is trained using clean speech signals only, and it is combined with a nonnegative matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

When capturing and storing images, devices inevitably introduce noise. Reducing this noise is a critical task called image denoising. Deep learning has become the de facto method for image denoising, especially with the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Haoyu Chen , Jinjin Gu , Yihao Liu , Salma Abdel Magid , Chao Dong , Qiong Wang , Hanspeter Pfister , Lei Zhu