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Speech enhancement is a fundamental challenge in signal processing, particularly when robustness is required across diverse acoustic conditions and microphone setups. Deep learning methods have been successful for speech enhancement, but…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of optimum multi-domain real-time beamforming and high-precision beam pattern positioning in application to very large wideband array antennas, particularly to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) aperture…

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Deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement algorithms in microphone arrays have now proven to be efficient solutions to speech understanding and speech recognition in noisy environments. However, in the context of ad-hoc microphone…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Helena Peic Tukuljac , Herve Lissek , Pierre Vandergheynst

Reverberant sound fields are often modeled as isotropic. However, it has been observed that spatial properties change during the decay of the sound field energy, due to non-isotropic attenuation in non-ideal rooms. In this letter, a model…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Sam Nees , Andreas Schwarz , Walter Kellermann

Spatial audio understanding is essential for accurately perceiving and interpreting acoustic environments. However, existing audio-language models exhibit limitations in processing spatial audio and perceiving spatial acoustic scenes. To…

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We present a new approach for spatiotemporal focusing through complex scattering media by wave front shaping. Using a nonlinear feedback signal to shape the incident pulsed wave front, we show that the limit of a spatiotemporal matched…

Advances in object tracking and acoustic beamforming are driving new capabilities in surveillance, human-computer interaction, and robotics. This work presents an embedded system that integrates deep learning-based tracking with beamforming…

We study the problem of actively imaging a range-limited far-field scene using an antenna array. We describe how the range limit imposes structure in the measurements across multiple wavelengths. This structure allows us to introduce a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-04 Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa , Mark A. Davenport , Justin Romberg

Enhancing the user's own-voice for head-worn microphone arrays is an important task in noisy environments to allow for easier speech communication and user-device interaction. However, a rarely addressed challenge is the change of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Wiebke Middelberg , Jung-Suk Lee , Saeed Bagheri Sereshki , Ali Aroudi , Vladimir Tourbabin , Daniel D. E. Wong

Audio zooming, a signal processing technique, enables selective focusing and enhancement of sound signals from a specified region, attenuating others. While traditional beamforming and neural beamforming techniques, centered on creating a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Meng Yu , Dong Yu

I present an exact and explicit solution to the scalar (Stokes flux intensity) radio interferometer imaging equation on a spherical surface which is valid also for non-coplanar interferometer configurations. This imaging equation is…

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Estimating the sound absorption in situ relies on accurately describing the measured sound field. Evidence suggests that modeling the reflection of impinging spherical waves is important, especially for compact measurement systems. This…

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Sound field reproduction methods based on numerical optimization, which aim to minimize the error between synthesized and desired sound fields, are useful in many practical scenarios because of their flexibility in the array geometry of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Shoichi Koyama , Keisuke Kimura , Natsuki Ueno

Linear superarrays (LSAs) have been proposed to address the limited steering capability of conventional linear differential microphone arrays (LDMAs) by integrating omnidirectional and directional microphones, enabling more flexible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Yuanhang Qian , Xueqin Luo , Jilu Jin , Gongping Huang , Jingdong Chen , Jacob Benesty

Audio tagging aims to label sound events appearing in an audio recording. In this paper, we propose region-specific audio tagging, a new task which labels sound events in a given region for spatial audio recorded by a microphone array. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Jinzheng Zhao , Yong Xu , Haohe Liu , Davide Berghi , Xinyuan Qian , Qiuqiang Kong , Junqi Zhao , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

The prospect of ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (UM-MIMO) technology to combat the distance problem at the Terahertz (THz)-band is considered. It is well-known that the very large available bandwidths at THz frequencies come at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Hadi Sarieddeen , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

In this paper, we introduce a neural network-based method for regional speech separation using a microphone array. This approach leverages novel spatial cues to extract the sound source not only from specified direction but also within…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yiheng Jiang , Haoxu Wang , Yafeng Chen , Gang Qiao , Biao Tian

Cosmological random fields are often analysed in spherical Fourier-Bessel basis. Compared to the Cartesian Fourier basis this has an advantage of properly taking into account some of the relevant physical processes (redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-17 Lado Samushia