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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…

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In this letter, we present a novel multi-talker minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming as the front-end of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system in a dinner party scenario. The CHiME-5 dataset is selected to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Hangting Chen , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Binaural beamforming algorithms for head-mounted assistive listening devices are crucial to improve speech quality and speech intelligibility in noisy environments, while maintaining the spatial impression of the acoustic scene. While the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 N. Gößling , D. Marquardt , I. Merks , T. Zhang , S. Doclo

Nonreciprocal signal operation is highly desired for various acoustic applications, where protection from unwanted backscattering can be realized so that transmitting and receiving signals are processed in a full-duplex mode. Here we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Lijuan Fan , Jun Mei

The optimal beamforming design for multi-user continuous aperture array (CAPA) systems is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete array (SPDA), the beamformer for CAPA is a continuous function rather than a discrete vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu

Hearing aids use dynamic range compression (DRC), a form of automatic gain control, to make quiet sounds louder and loud sounds quieter. Compression can improve listening comfort, but it can also cause distortion in noisy environments. It…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Ryan M. Corey , Andrew C. Singer

We present a phenomenological reduced-order model to capture the transition to thermoacoustic instability in turbulent combustors. The model is based on the framework of synchronization and considers the acoustic field and the unsteady heat…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-06-14 Yue Weng , Vishnu R. Unni , R. I. Sujith , Abhishek Saha

Harmonic generation during radio frequency (RF)-dc conversion causes performance degradation of a microwave rectifying circuit. To suppress and recycle the harmonic power, this letter proposes a novel compact dual-band resonator (DBR) based…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Pengde Wu , Hao Wu , Yi-Dan Chen , Zhi Hua Ren , Yuhua Cheng , Changjun Liu

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Manan Mittal , Ryan M. Corey , Diego Cuji , John R. Buck , Andrew C. Singer

Many modern engineering structures exhibit nonlinear vibration. Characterizing such vibrations efficiently is critical to optimizing designs for reliability and performance. For linear systems, steady-state vibration occurs only at the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Justin H. Porter , Matthew R. W. Brake

In modern communication systems operating with Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM), channel estimation requires minimal complexity with one-tap equalizers. However, this depends on cyclic prefixes, which must be sufficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Heitor dos Santos Sousa , Jonathan Aguiar Soares , Kayol Soares Mayer , Dalton Soares Arantes

Vibration-based condition monitoring (VBCM) is widely utilized in various applications due to its non-destructive nature. Recent advancements in sensor technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), and computing have enabled the facilitation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Sulaiman Aburakhia , Abdallah Shami

Cognitive Radio requires efficient and reliable spectrum sensing of wideband signals. In order to cope with the sampling rate bottleneck, new sampling methods have been proposed that sample below the Nyquist rate. However, such techniques…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Deborah Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

We propose Comprehensive Robust Dynamic Mode Decomposition (CR-DMD), a novel framework that robustifies the entire DMD process - from mode extraction to dimensional reduction - against mixed noise. Although standard DMD widely used for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Yuki Nakamura , Shingo Takemoto , Shunsuke Ono

We develop a method to design tunable quasiperiodic structures of particles suspended in a fluid by controlling standing acoustic waves. One application of our results is to ultrasound directed self-assembly, which allows fabricating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Elena Cherkaev , Fernando Guevara Vasquez , China Mauck

For multichannel speech enhancement, this letter derives a robust maximum likelihood distortionless response beamformer by modeling speech sparse priors with a complex generalized Gaussian distribution, where we refer to as the CGGD-MLDR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Weixin Meng , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

Audio super-resolution aims to recover missing high-frequency details from bandwidth-limited low-resolution audio, thereby improving the naturalness and perceptual quality of the reconstructed signal. However, most existing methods directly…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Fei Liu , Yang Ai , Hui-Peng Du , Yu-Fei Shi , Zhen-Hua Ling

Noise reduction constitutes a crucial operation within Digital Signal Processing. Regrettably, it frequently remains neglected when dealing with the processing of convolutional features in segmentation networks. This oversight could trigger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hong Zheng , Nan Mu , Han Su , Lin Feng , Xiaoning Li

In this letter, we investigate the robust beamforming design for an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system featuring low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Taking into account…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Tiantian Xu , Zhenyao He , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Jianfeng Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In large-scale wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs), many of the sensors will only have a marginal contribution to a certain estimation task. Involving all sensors increases the energy budget unnecessarily and decreases the lifetime of…

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