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In dynamic acoustic environments with time-varying interferers, effective beamforming requires identifying stationary regions over time. The Capon beamformer, a whitened matched filter constrained to maintain unity gain in the desired…

The Continuous Integrate-and-Fire (CIF) mechanism provides effective alignment for non-autoregressive (NAR) speech recognition. This mechanism creates a smooth and monotonic mapping from acoustic features to target tokens, achieving…

Recently, phase processing is attracting increasinginterest in speech enhancement community. Some researchersintegrate phase estimations module into speech enhancementmodels by using complex-valued short-time Fourier transform(STFT)…

Beamforming techniques are utilized in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication to address the inherent path loss limitation, thereby establishing and maintaining reliable connections. However, adopting standard defined beamforming approach…

In this paper, Whisper, a large-scale pre-trained model for automatic speech recognition, is proposed to apply to speaker verification. A partial multi-scale feature aggregation (PMFA) approach is proposed based on a subset of Whisper…

Consider a waveform channel where the transmitted signal is corrupted by Wiener phase noise and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). A discrete-time channel model that takes into account the effect of filtering on the phase noise is…

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication with large antenna arrays is a promising technique to enable extremely high data rates due to the large available bandwidth in mmWave frequency bands. In addition, given the knowledge of an optimal…

In ultrasound imaging, propagation of an acoustic wavefront through heterogeneous media causes phase aberrations that degrade the coherence of the reflected wavefront, leading to reduced image resolution and contrast. Adaptive imaging…

Multi-frame approaches for single-microphone speech enhancement, e.g., the multi-frame minimum-power-distortionless-response (MFMPDR) filter, are able to exploit speech correlations across neighboring time frames. In contrast to…

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communications with full-duplex (FD) have the potential of increasing the spectral efficiency, relative to those with half-duplex. However, the residual self-interference (SI) from FD and high pathloss inherent to…

This study investigates the direct use of speech waveforms to predict head motion for speech-driven head-motion synthesis, whereas the use of spectral features such as MFCC as basic input features together with additional features such as…

Beamforming is a signal processing technique. It has been studied in many areas such as radar, sonar, seismology and wireless communications, to name but a few. It can be used for a myriad of purposes, such as detecting the presence of a…

In this work, we propose a new mathematical vocoder algorithm(modified spectral inversion) that generates a waveform from acoustic features without phase estimation. The main benefit of using our proposed method is that it excludes the…

The binaural minimum-variance distortionless-response (BMVDR) beamformer is a well-known noise reduction algorithm that can be steered using the relative transfer function (RTF) vector of the desired speech source. Exploiting the…

This paper introduces a quantum-inspired denoising framework that integrates the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) into classical audio enhancement pipelines. Unlike conventional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based methods, QFT provides a…

Iterative inversion of seismic, ultrasonic, and other wave data by local gradient-based optimization of mean-square data prediction error (Full Waveform Inversion or FWI) can fail to converge to useful model estimates if started from an…

For audio source separation applications, it is common to estimate the magnitude of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) of each source. In order to further synthesizing time-domain signals, it is necessary to recover the phase of the…

In this paper, a binaural beamforming algorithm for hearing aid applications is introduced.The beamforming algorithm is designed to be robust to some error in the estimate of the target speaker direction. The algorithm has two main…

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based vocoders are superior in both inference speed and synthesis quality when reconstructing an audible waveform from an acoustic representation. This study focuses on improving the discriminator for…

In this paper, we propose a speech enhancement method us ing dual-path Multi-Channel Linear Prediction (MCLP) filters and multi-norm beamforming. Specifically, the MCLP part in the proposed method is designed with dual-path filters in both…