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In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

In this paper, we introduce spatial attention for refining the information in multi-direction neural beamformer for far-field automatic speech recognition. Previous approaches of neural beamformers with multiple look directions, such as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Weipeng He , Lu Lu , Biqiao Zhang , Jay Mahadeokar , Kaustubh Kalgaonkar , Christian Fuegen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often struggle to suppress noise at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). This paper addresses speech enhancement in scenarios dominated by harmonic noise and proposes a framework that integrates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Giovanni Bologni , Nicolás Arrieta Larraza , Richard Heusdens , Richard C. Hendriks

Speech is converted to digital signals using speech coding for efficient transmission. However, this often lowers the quality and bandwidth of speech. This paper explores the application of convolutional neural networks for Artificial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Williard Joshua Jose

Accent recognition with deep learning framework is a similar work to deep speaker identification, they're both expected to give the input speech an identifiable representation. Compared with the individual-level features learned by speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Wei Wang , Chao Zhang , Xiaopei Wu

This paper proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-based multi-channel speech enhancement system in which a DNN is trained to maximize the quality of the enhanced time-domain signal. DNN-based multi-channel speech enhancement is often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yoshiki Masuyama , Masahito Togami , Tatsuya Komatsu

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser full-duplex secure communication system with hardware impairments at transceivers and RIS, where multiple eavesdroppers overhear the two-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhangjie Peng , Zhibo Zhang , Lei Kong , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , Jiangzhou Wang

For extracting a target speaker voice, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is crucial for binaural hearing aids operating in noisy, multi-speaker environments. Among the solutions developed for this task, a deep learning convolutional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Farnaz Jazaeri , Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi , François Grondin , Martin Bouchard

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are more powerful than Deep Neural Networks (DNN), as they are able to better reduce spectral variation in the input signal. This has also been confirmed experimentally, with CNNs showing…

Distant speech processing is a challenging task, especially when dealing with the cocktail party effect. Sound source separation is thus often required as a preprocessing step prior to speech recognition to improve the signal to distortion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Francois Grondin , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , Jonathan Vincent , Francois Michaud

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to learn representations directly from the raw signal instead of hand-crafted acoustic features, providing a richer and lossless input signal. Recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Paul-Gauthier Noé , Titouan Parcollet , Mohamed Morchid

In massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid analog-digital (AD) beamforming can be used to attain a high directional gain without requiring a dedicated radio frequency (RF) chain for each antenna element, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 S. Shi , Y. Cai , Q. Hu , B. Champagne , L. Hanzo

The emergence of new wireless technologies together with the requirement of massive connectivity results in several technical issues such as excessive interference, high computational demand for signal processing, and lengthy processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Firas Fredj , Yasser Al-Eryani , Setareh Maghsudi , Mohamed Akrout , Ekram Hossain

It is well-known that the problem of finding the optimal beamformers in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks is challenging because of its non-convexity, and conventional optimization based algorithms suffer from high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Minghe Zhu , Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) solutions are becoming pervasive at the edge of the network as they enable autonomous decision-making in a dynamic environment. However, to be able to adapt to the ever-changing environment, the DRL…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jernej Hribar , Ivana Dusparic

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

Single-channel speech enhancement with deep neural networks (DNNs) has shown promising performance and is thus intensively being studied. In this paper, instead of applying the mean squared error (MSE) as the loss function during DNN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Ziyue Zhao , Samy Elshamy , Tim Fingscheidt

A stream attention framework has been applied to the posterior probabilities of the deep neural network (DNN) to improve the far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in the multi-microphone configuration. The stream…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Xiaofei Wang , Yonghong Yan , Hynek Hermansky

The high demand for data rate in the next generation of wireless communication could be ensured by Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) approach in the millimetre-wave (mmW) frequency band. Joint power allocation and beamforming of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-16 Abbas Akbarpour-Kasgari , Mehrdad Ardebilipour

Spatial aliasing affects spaced microphone arrays, causing directional ambiguity above certain frequencies, degrading spatial and spectral accuracy of beamformers. Given the limitations of conventional signal processing and the scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Mateusz Guzik , Giulio Cengarle , Daniel Arteaga