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Neural beamformers, which integrate both pre-separation and beamforming modules, have demonstrated impressive effectiveness in target speech extraction. Nevertheless, the performance of these beamformers is inherently limited by the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Aoqi Guo , Sichong Qian , Baoxiang Li , Dazhi Gao

We introduce a time-domain framework for efficient multichannel speech enhancement, emphasizing low latency and computational efficiency. This framework incorporates two compact deep neural networks (DNNs) surrounding a multichannel neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tsun-An Hsieh , Jacob Donley , Daniel Wong , Buye Xu , Ashutosh Pandey

Recently, many deep learning based beamformers have been proposed for multi-channel speech separation. Nevertheless, most of them rely on extra cues known in advance, such as speaker feature, face image or directional information. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Yanjie Fu , Haoran Yin , Meng Ge , Longbiao Wang , Gaoyan Zhang , Jianwu Dang , Chengyun Deng , Fei Wang

This work addresses the problem of block-online processing for multi-channel speech enhancement. Such processing is vital in scenarios with moving speakers and/or when very short utterances are processed, e.g., in voice assistant scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Jiri Malek , Zbynek Koldovsky , Marek Bohac

Speaker verification (SV) suffers from unsatisfactory performance in far-field scenarios due to environmental noise andthe adverse impact of room reverberation. This work presents a benchmark of multichannel speech enhancement for…

We present a novel model designed for resource-efficient multichannel speech enhancement in the time domain, with a focus on low latency, lightweight, and low computational requirements. The proposed model incorporates explicit spatial and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu

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

This paper proposes a hybrid beamforming framework for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in near-space airship-borne communications. To achieve high energy efficiency (EE) in energy-constraint airships, a dynamic subarray…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruiqi Wang , Zhen Gao , Keke Ying , Ziwei Wan , Symeon Chatzinotas , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Recent proposals of deep beamformers using deep neural networks have attracted significant attention as computational efficient alternatives to adaptive and compressive beamformers. Moreover, deep beamformers are versatile in that image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Signal-dependent beamformers are advantageous over signal-independent beamformers when the acoustic scenario - be it real-world or simulated - is straightforward in terms of the number of sound sources, the ambient sound field and their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Sina Hafezi , Alastair H. Moore , Pierre H. Guiraud , Patrick A. Naylor , Jacob Donley , Vladimir Tourbabin , Thomas Lunner

Beamforming (BF) design for large-scale antenna arrays with limited radio frequency chains and the phase-shifter-based analog BF architecture, has been recognized as a key issue in millimeter wave communication systems. It becomes more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Tian Lin , Yu Zhu

The time delay neural network (TDNN) represents one of the state-of-the-art of neural solutions to text-independent speaker verification. However, they require a large number of filters to capture the speaker characteristics at any local…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Tianchi Liu , Rohan Kumar Das , Kong Aik Lee , Haizhou Li

Currently there is great interest in the utility of deep neural networks (DNNs) for the physical layer of radio frequency (RF) communications. In this manuscript, we describe a custom DNN specially designed to solve problems in the RF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Brian Shevitski , Yijing Watkins , Nicole Man , Michael Girard

Complex-valued processing has brought deep learning-based speech enhancement and signal extraction to a new level. Typically, the process is based on a time-frequency (TF) mask which is applied to a noisy spectrogram, while complex masks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

High quality speech capture has been widely studied for both voice communication and human computer interface reasons. To improve the capture performance, we can often find multi-microphone speech enhancement techniques deployed on various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Yang Yang , Shao-Fu Shih , Hakan Erdogan , Jamie Menjay Lin , Chehung Lee , Yunpeng Li , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

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

We address monaural multi-speaker-image separation in reverberant conditions, aiming at separating mixed speakers but preserving the reverberation of each speaker. A straightforward approach for this task is to directly train end-to-end DNN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Jingqi Sun , Shulin He , Ruizhe Pang , Zhong-Qiu Wang

In recent years, many deep learning techniques for single-channel sound source separation have been proposed using recurrent, convolutional and transformer networks. When multiple microphones are available, spatial diversity between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Ali Aroudi , Stefan Uhlich , Marc Ferras Font

Deep learning (DL) techniques have been intensively studied for the optimization of multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) downlink systems owing to the capability of handling nonconvex formulations. However, the fixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Junbeom Kim , Hoon Lee , Seung-Eun Hong , Seok-Hwan Park

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) on Transformers have significantly improved speaker verification (SV) by providing domain-general speech representations. However, existing approaches have underutilized the multi-layered…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Jin Sob Kim , Hyun Joon Park , Wooseok Shin , Juan Yun , Sung Won Han