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In multi-speaker scenarios, leveraging spatial features is essential for enhancing target speech. While with limited microphone arrays, developing a compact multi-channel speech enhancement system remains challenging, especially in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Wen Wen , Qiang Zhou , Yu Xi , Haoyu Li , Ziqi Gong , Kai Yu

Accurately localizing multiple sources is a critical task with various applications in wireless communications, such as emergency services, including natural post-disaster search and rescue operations. However, scenarios where the receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Amir Mansourian , Alireza Fadakar , Saeed Akhavan , Behrouz Maham

An ambiguity-free direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation scheme is proposed for sparse uniform linear arrays under low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and non-stationary broadband signals. First, for achieving better DOA estimation performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Wei Wang , Shefeng Yan , Linlin Mao , Zeping Sui , Jirui Yang

This paper proposes a new method that fuses acoustic measurements in the reverberation field and low-accuracy inertial measurement unit (IMU) motion reports for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Different from existing studies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Wenhao Qiu , Gang Wang , Wenjing Zhang

With the introduction of shared spectrum sensing and beam-forming based multi-antenna transceivers, 5G networks demand spectrum sensing to identify opportunities in time, frequency, and spatial domains. Narrow beam-forming makes it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Piyush Sahoo , Romesh Rajoria , Shivam Chandhok , S. J. Darak , Danilo Pau , Hem-Dutt Dabral

We introduce an interpretable deep learning approach for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation with a single snapshot. Classical subspace-based methods like MUSIC and ESPRIT use spatial smoothing on uniform linear arrays for single snapshot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Hongshan Liu , Honglei Chen , Jian Li

Speech enhancement performance degrades significantly in noisy environments, limiting the deployment of speech-controlled technologies in industrial settings, such as manufacturing plants. Existing speech enhancement solutions primarly rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Zachary Turcotte , François Grondin

In this paper we propose a robust loudspeaker beamforming algorithm which is used to enhance the performance of voice driven applications in scenarios where the loudspeakers introduce the majority of the noise, e.g. when music is playing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Dimme de Groot , Baturalp Karslioglu , Odette Scharenborg , Jorge Martinez

We introduce a distinctive real-time, causal, neural network-based active speaker detection system optimized for low-power edge computing. This system drives a virtual cinematography module and is deployed on a commercial device. The system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Ilya Gurvich , Ido Leichter , Dharmendar Reddy Palle , Yossi Asher , Alon Vinnikov , Igor Abramovski , Vishak Gopal , Ross Cutler , Eyal Krupka

This study investigates the application of single vector hydrophones in underwater acoustic signal processing for Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation. Addressing the limitations of traditional DOA estimation methods in multi-source…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jiabin Guo

Distorted sensors could occur randomly and may lead to the breakdown of a sensor array system. We consider an array model within which a small number of sensors are distorted by unknown sensor gain and phase errors. With such an array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Huiping Huang , Qi Liu , Hing Cheung So , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

We focus on developing an effective Direction Of Arrival (DOA) estimation method for wideband sources based on the gridless sparse concept. Previous coherent methods have been designed by dividing wideband frequencies into a few subbands…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Milad Javadzadeh Jirhandeh , Mohammad Hossein Kahae

This paper presents an efficient method for computing maximum likelihood (ML) direction of arrival (DOA) estimates assuming unknown sensor noise powers. The method combines efficient Alternate Projection (AP) procedures with Newton…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 J. Selva

Inspection robots are widely used in the field of smart grid monitoring in substations, and partial discharge (PD) is an important sign of the insulation state of equipments. PD direction of arrival (DOA) algorithms using conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Wencong Xu , Yandong Li , Bingshu Chen , Yue Hu , Jianxu Li , Zijing Zeng

Deep learning (DL) based direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is an active research topic and currently represents the state-of-the-art. Usually, DL-based DOA estimators are trained with recorded data or computationally expensive generated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Fabian Hübner , Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

In this paper, we study the problem of direction of arrival estimation and model order selection for systems employing subarray sampling. Thereby, we focus on scenarios, where the number of active sources is not smaller than the number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Andreas Barthelme , Wolfgang Utschick

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

Recent works on deep non-linear spatially selective filters demonstrate exceptional enhancement performance with computationally lightweight architectures for stationary speakers of known directions. However, to maintain this performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Jakob Kienegger , Alina Mannanova , Huajian Fang , Timo Gerkmann

Fluid antenna (FA) technology has emerged as a promising approach in wireless communications due to its capability of providing increased degrees of freedom (DoFs) and exceptional design flexibility. This paper addresses the challenge of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 He Xu , Tuo Wu , Ye Tian , Kangda Zhi , Wei Liu , Baiyang Liu , Hing Cheung So , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper presents a robust multi-channel speaker extraction algorithm designed to handle inaccuracies in reference information. While existing approaches often rely solely on either spatial or spectral cues to identify the target speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Aviad Eisenberg , Sharon Gannot , Shlomo E. Chazan