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Vision is often used as a complementary modality for audio speech recognition (ASR), especially in the noisy environment where performance of solo audio modality significantly deteriorates. After combining visual modality, ASR is upgraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Bo Xu , Cheng Lu , Yandong Guo , Jacob Wang

Noise suppression (NS) algorithms are effective in improving speech quality in many cases. However, aggressive noise suppression can damage the target speech, reducing both speech intelligibility and quality despite removing the noise. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

Achieving more powerful semantic representations and semantic understanding is one of the key problems in improving the performance of semantic communication systems. This work focuses on enhancing the semantic understanding of the text…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Mengli Tao , Jiancun Fan , Jie Luo , Huiqiang Xie

We propose TF-GridNet for speech separation. The model is a novel deep neural network (DNN) integrating full- and sub-band modeling in the time-frequency (T-F) domain. It stacks several blocks, each consisting of an intra-frame full-band…

In this paper, we propose a multi-channel network for simultaneous speech dereverberation, enhancement and separation (DESNet). To enable gradient propagation and joint optimization, we adopt the attentional selection mechanism of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yihui Fu , Jian Wu , Yanxin Hu , Mengtao Xing , Lei Xie

Video object detection is a tough task due to the deteriorated quality of video sequences captured under complex environments. Currently, this area is dominated by a series of feature enhancement based methods, which distill beneficial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Lijian Lin , Haosheng Chen , Honglun Zhang , Jun Liang , Yu Li , Ying Shan , Hanzi Wang

Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to recover clean speech from noisy multi-channel recordings. Most deep learning methods employ discriminative training, which can lead to non-linear distortions from regression-based objectives,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Zhongweiyang Xu , Ashutosh Pandey , Juan Azcarreta , Zhaoheng Ni , Sanjeel Parekh , Buye Xu

In daily listening environments, speech is always distorted by background noise, room reverberation and interference speakers. With the developing of deep learning approaches, much progress has been performed on monaural multi-speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Chao Ma , Dongmei Li , Xupeng Jia

Distributed microphone array (DMA) is a promising next-generation platform for speech interaction, where speech enhancement (SE) is still required to improve the speech quality in noisy cases. Existing SE methods usually first gather raw…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chengqian Jiang , Jie Zhang , Haoyin Yan

We propose a modular pipeline for the single-channel separation, recognition, and diarization of meeting-style recordings and evaluate it on the Libri-CSS dataset. Using a Continuous Speech Separation (CSS) system with a TF-GridNet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

In this paper, we propose a semantic-guided framework to address the challenging problem of large-mask image inpainting, where essential visual content is missing and contextual cues are limited. To compensate for the limited context, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chae-Yeon Heo , Yeong-Jun Cho

Numerous compression and acceleration strategies have achieved outstanding results on classification tasks in various fields, such as computer vision and speech signal processing. Nevertheless, the same strategies have yielded ungratified…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yu-Chen Lin , Cheng Yu , Yi-Te Hsu , Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Tei-Wei Kuo

Our objective is an audio-visual model for separating a single speaker from a mixture of sounds such as other speakers and background noise. Moreover, we wish to hear the speaker even when the visual cues are temporarily absent due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

This paper presents a novel multi-channel speech enhancement approach, FoVNet, that enables highly efficient speech enhancement within a configurable field of view (FoV) of a smart-glasses user without needing specific target-talker(s)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Zhongweiyang Xu , Ali Aroudi , Ke Tan , Ashutosh Pandey , Jung-Suk Lee , Buye Xu , Francesco Nesta

Recent research has made significant progress in designing fusion modules for audio-visual speech separation. However, they predominantly focus on multi-modal fusion at a single temporal scale of auditory and visual features without…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Kai Li , Runxuan Yang , Fuchun Sun , Xiaolin Hu

We present a unified network for voice separation of an unknown number of speakers. The proposed approach is composed of several separation heads optimized together with a speaker classification branch. The separation is carried out in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Shlomo E. Chazan , Lior Wolf , Eliya Nachmani , Yossi Adi

A promising approach for speech dereverberation is based on supervised learning, where a deep neural network (DNN) is trained to predict the direct sound from noisy-reverberant speech. This data-driven approach is based on leveraging prior…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality, realistic images from textual descriptions. However, these approaches have faced challenges in precisely aligning the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zutao Jiang , Guian Fang , Jianhua Han , Guansong Lu , Hang Xu , Shengcai Liao , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Discretized representations of speech signals are efficient alternatives to continuous features for various speech applications, including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech language models. However, these representations, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Takanori Ashihara , Shota Horiguchi , Kohei Matsuura , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix

Recent studies in neural network-based monaural speech separation (SS) have achieved a remarkable success thanks to increasing ability of long sequence modeling. However, they would degrade significantly when put under realistic noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Heqing Zou , Xionghu Zhong , Eng Siong Chng