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As spatial audio is enjoying a surge in popularity, data-driven machine learning techniques that have been proven successful in other domains are increasingly used to process head-related transfer function measurements. However, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Johan Pauwels , Lorenzo Picinali

Estimating Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) of arbitrary source points is essential in immersive binaural audio rendering. Computing each individual's HRTFs is challenging, as traditional approaches require expensive time and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Jin Woo Lee , Sungho Lee , Kyogu Lee

This paper introduces a new approach to sound source localization using head-related transfer function (HRTF) characteristics, which enable precise full-sphere localization from raw data. While previous research focused primarily on using…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Gil Geva , Olivier Warusfel , Shlomo Dubnov , Tammuz Dubnov , Amir Amedi , Yacov Hel-Or

Personalized binaural audio reproduction is the basis of realistic spatial localization, sound externalization, and immersive listening, directly shaping user experience and listening effort. This survey reviews recent advances in deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Xikun Lu , Yunda Chen , Zehua Chen , Jie Wang , Mingxing Liu , Hongmei Hu , Chengshi Zheng , Stefan Bleeck , Jinqiu Sang

We present a method for audio denoising that combines processing done in both the time domain and the time-frequency domain. Given a noisy audio clip, the method trains a deep neural network to fit this signal. Since the fitting is only…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Michael Michelashvili , Lior Wolf

Headphone-based spatial audio uses head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to simulate real-world acoustic environments. HRTFs are unique to everyone, due to personal morphology, shaping how sound waves interact with the body before…

Accurate upsampling of Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) from sparse measurements is crucial for personalized spatial audio rendering. Traditional interpolation methods, such as kernel-based weighting or basis function expansions,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Xingyu Chen , Hanwen Bi , Fei Ma , Sipei Zhao , Eva Cheng , Ian S. Burnett

The head-related transfer function (HRTF) characterizes the frequency response of the sound traveling path between a specific location and the ear. When it comes to estimating HRTFs by neural network models, angle-specific models greatly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Keng-Wei Chang , Yih-Liang Shen , Tai-Shi Chi

Relative impulse responses between microphones are usually long and dense due to the reverberant acoustic environment. Estimating them from short and noisy recordings poses a long-standing challenge of audio signal processing. In this paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zbynek Koldovsky , Jiri Malek , Sharon Gannot

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

Noise reduction techniques based on deep learning have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing the overall quality of recorded speech. While these approaches are highly performant, their application in audio engineering can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Christian J. Steinmetz , Thomas Walther , Joshua D. Reiss

This work describes a speech denoising system for machine ears that aims to improve speech intelligibility and the overall listening experience in noisy environments. We recorded approximately 100 hours of audio data with reverberation and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Cong Han , E. Merve Kaya , Kyle Hoefer , Malcolm Slaney , Simon Carlile

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) is crucial for observing material's structural and morphological evolution at Angstrom scales, but the electron beam can alter these processes. Devices such as CMOS-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Brian Lee , Meng Li , Judith C Yang , Dmitri N Zakharov , Xiaohui Qu

Objective: Lung auscultation is a valuable tool in diagnosing and monitoring various respiratory diseases. However, lung sounds (LS) are significantly affected by numerous sources of contamination, especially when recorded in real-world…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Samiul Based Shuvo , Syed Samiul Alam , Taufiq Hasan

We propose a method of head-related transfer function (HRTF) interpolation from sparsely measured HRTFs using an autoencoder with source position conditioning. The proposed method is drawn from an analogy between an HRTF interpolation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yuki Ito , Tomohiko Nakamura , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

This study investigates the approach of direction-dependent selection of Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) and its impact on sound localization accuracy. For applications such as virtual reality (VR) and teleconferencing, obtaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Sapir Goldring , Zamir Ben Hur , David Lou Alon , Boaz Rafaely

To achieve immersive spatial audio rendering on VR/AR devices, high-quality Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) are essential. In general, HRTFs are subject-dependent and position-dependent, and their measurement is time-consuming and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-17 De Hu , Junsheng Hu , Cuicui Jiang

Automatic speech recognition systems are part of people's daily lives, embedded in personal assistants and mobile phones, helping as a facilitator for human-machine interaction while allowing access to information in a practically intuitive…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Julio Cesar Duarte , Sérgio Colcher

We present an end-to-end deep learning approach to denoising speech signals by processing the raw waveform directly. Given input audio containing speech corrupted by an additive background signal, the system aims to produce a processed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-18 Francois G. Germain , Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

Machine learning techniques are an active area of research for speech enhancement for hearing aids, with one particular focus on improving the intelligibility of a noisy speech signal. Recent work has shown that feature encodings from…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Robert Sutherland , George Close , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze , Jon Barker