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Sound source localization (SSL) is a critical technology for determining the position of sound sources in complex environments. However, existing methods face challenges such as high computational costs and precise calibration requirements,…

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Spike sorting is a critical process for decoding large-scale neural activity from extracellular recordings. The advancement of neural probes facilitates the recording of a high number of neurons with an increase in channel counts, arising a…

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Online audio source separation has been an important part of auditory scene analysis and robot audition. The main type of technique to carry this out, because of its online capabilities, has been spatial filtering (or beamforming), where it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Alejandro Maldonado , Caleb Rascon , Ivette Velez

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

To phased microphone array for sound source localization, algorithm with both high computational efficiency and high precision is a persistent pursuit. In this paper convolutional neural network (CNN) a kind of deep learning is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-14 Wei Ma , Xun Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks are widely used in various machine learning domains. In image processing, the features can be obtained by applying 2D convolution to all spatial dimensions of the input. However, in the audio case, frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Simyung Chang , Hyoungwoo Park , Janghoon Cho , Hyunsin Park , Sungrack Yun , Kyuwoong Hwang

In this report we describe an ongoing line of research for solving single-channel source separation problems. Many monaural signal decomposition techniques proposed in the literature operate on a feature space consisting of a time-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Pablo Sprechmann , Joan Bruna , Yann LeCun

Advances of deep learning for Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs) have led to significant improvements in the performance of digital signal processing systems implemented on digital chips. Although recent progress in low-power chips is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Giorgia Dellaferrera , Flavio Martinelli , Milos Cernak

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), inspired by biological neural mechanisms, represent a promising neuromorphic computing paradigm that offers energy-efficient alternatives to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Despite proven…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zeyang Song , Shimin Zhang , Yuhong Chou , Jibin Wu , Haizhou Li

Spatial frequency analysis and transforms serve a central role in most engineered image and video lossy codecs, but are rarely employed in neural network (NN)-based approaches. We propose a novel NN-based image coding framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racape , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Mateen Ulhaq , Simon Feltman

This paper presents a novel approach for indoor acoustic source localization using microphone arrays and based on a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The proposed solution is, to the best of our knowledge, the first published work in…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Juan Manuel Vera-Diaz , Daniel Pizarro , Javier Macias-Guarasa

Beamforming is a powerful tool designed to enhance speech signals from the direction of a target source. Computing the beamforming filter requires estimating spatial covariance matrices (SCMs) of the source and noise signals. Time-frequency…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki

Spiking neural network (SNN) has been attached to great importance due to the properties of high biological plausibility and low energy consumption on neuromorphic hardware. As an efficient method to obtain deep SNN, the conversion method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yang Li , Xiang He , Yiting Dong , Qingqun Kong , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks that are biologically inspired to process data in a fashion that emulates the exchange of signals in the brain. Within the Computer Vision community SNNs have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 William Bjorndahl , Jack Easton , Austin Modoff , Eric C. Larson , Joseph Camp , Prasanna Rangarajan

This study introduces an online target sound extraction (TSE) process using the similarity-and-independence-aware beamformer (SIBF) derived from an iterative batch algorithm. The study aimed to reduce latency while maintaining extraction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Atsuo Hiroe

Acoustic beamformers have been widely used to enhance audio signals. Currently, the best methods are the deep neural network (DNN)-powered variants of the generalized eigenvalue and minimum-variance distortionless response beamformers and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Yuichiro Koyama , Bhiksha Raj

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency in event driven neuromorphic hardware. However, the state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-05 Gourav Datta , Souvik Kundu , Peter A. Beerel

Depth estimation is a critical task in computer vision, with applications in autonomous navigation, robotics, and augmented reality. Event cameras, which encode temporal changes in light intensity as asynchronous binary spikes, offer unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xin Zhang , Liangxiu Han , Tam Sobeih , Lianghao Han , Darren Dancey

In this paper authors have presented a power efficient scheme for implementing a spike sorting module. Spike sorting is an important application in the field of neural signal acquisition for implantable biomedical systems whose function is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Anand Kumar Mukhopadhyay , Indrajit Chakrabarti , Arindam Basu , Mrigank Sharad

We present a transformer-based speech-declipping model that effectively recovers clipped signals across a wide range of input signal-to-distortion ratios (SDRs). While recent time-domain deep neural network (DNN)-based declippers have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Younghoo Kwon , Jung-Woo Choi