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Self-supervised speech pre-training methods have developed rapidly in recent years, which show to be very effective for many near-field single-channel speech tasks. However, far-field multichannel speech processing is suffering from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Qiushi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai

We propose Uni-ArrayDPS, a novel diffusion-based refinement framework for unified multi-channel speech enhancement and separation. Existing methods for multi-channel speech enhancement/separation are mostly discriminative and are highly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Zhongweiyang Xu , Ashutosh Pandey , Juan Azcarreta , Zhaoheng Ni , Sanjeel Parekh , Buye Xu , Romit Roy Choudhury

Multi-channel speech separation using speaker's directional information has demonstrated significant gains over blind speech separation. However, it has two limitations. First, substantial performance degradation is observed when the coming…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

Blind speech separation (BSS) aims to recover multiple speech sources from multi-channel, multi-speaker mixtures under unknown array geometry and room impulse responses. In unsupervised setup where clean target speech is not available for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Shulin He , Zhong-Qiu Wang

Deep neural networks are often coupled with traditional spatial filters, such as MVDR beamformers for effectively exploiting spatial information. Even though single-stage end-to-end supervised models can obtain impressive enhancement,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Asutosh Pandey , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar , Jacob Donley , Paul Calamia , DeLiang Wang

One key aspect differentiating data-driven single- and multi-channel speech enhancement and dereverberation methods is that both the problem formulation and complexity of the solutions are considerably more challenging in the latter case.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Arthur N. dos Santos , Bruno S. Masiero , Túlio C. L. Mateus

Recent studies have demonstrated that incorporating auxiliary information, such as speaker voiceprint or visual cues, can substantially improve Speech Enhancement (SE) performance. However, single-channel methods often yield suboptimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Chihyun Liu , Jiaxuan Fan , Mingtung Sun , Michael Anthony , Mingsian R. Bai , Yu Tsao

Raman spectra obtained in real world applications are often a noisy combination of several spectra of various substances in a tested sample. Unmixing such spectra into individual components corresponding to each of the substances is of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Gaoruishu Long , Jinchao Liu , Bo Liu , Jie Liu , Xiaolin Hu

Multi-frame algorithms for single-microphone speech enhancement, e.g., the multi-frame minimum variance distortionless response (MFMVDR) filter, are able to exploit speech correlation across adjacent time frames in the short-time Fourier…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Marvin Tammen , Simon Doclo

Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to extract clean speech from a noisy mixture using signals captured from multiple microphones. Recently proposed methods tackle this problem by incorporating deep neural network models with spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Panagiotis Tzirakis , Anurag Kumar , Jacob Donley

The Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) beamforming technique is widely applied in array systems to mitigate interference. However, applying MVDR to large arrays is computationally challenging; its computational complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Sanjaya Herath , Armin Gerami , Kevin Wagner , Ramani Duraiswami , Christopher A. Metzler

This paper describes a versatile method that accelerates multichannel source separation methods based on full-rank spatial modeling. A popular approach to multichannel source separation is to integrate a spatial model with a source model…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Kouhei Sekiguchi , Aditya Arie Nugraha , Yoshiaki Bando , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Multichannel convolutive blind speech source separation refers to the problem of separating different speech sources from the observed multichannel mixtures without much a priori information about the mixing system. Multichannel nonnegative…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jianyu Wang , Shanzheng Guan

In multi-channel speech enhancement and robust automatic speech recognition (ASR), beamforming can typically improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the target speaker and produce reliable enhancement with little distortion to target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Ruizhe Pang

In this paper we propose a new binaural beamforming technique which can be seen as a relaxation of the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) framework. The proposed method can achieve simultaneous noise reduction and exact binaural…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Andreas I. Koutrouvelis , Richard C. Hendriks , Richard Heusdens , Jesper Jensen

Supervised neural network training has led to significant progress on single-channel sound separation. This approach relies on ground truth isolated sources, which precludes scaling to widely available mixture data and limits progress on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Scott Wisdom , Aren Jansen , Ron J. Weiss , Hakan Erdogan , John R. Hershey

Unsupervised blind source separation methods do not require a training phase and thus cannot suffer from a train-test mismatch, which is a common concern in neural network based source separation. The unsupervised techniques can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Christoph Boeddeker , Frederik Rautenberg , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Speech separation has been studied widely for single-channel close-talk microphone recordings over the past few years; developed solutions are mostly in frequency-domain. Recently, a raw audio waveform separation network (TasNet) is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Jian Wu , Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

Most deep learning-based multi-channel speech enhancement methods focus on designing a set of beamforming coefficients to directly filter the low signal-to-noise ratio signals received by microphones, which hinders the performance of these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li