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Recent studies have demonstrated that incorporating auxiliary information, such as speaker voiceprint or visual cues, can substantially improve Speech Enhancement (SE) performance. However, single-channel methods often yield suboptimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Chihyun Liu , Jiaxuan Fan , Mingtung Sun , Michael Anthony , Mingsian R. Bai , Yu Tsao

Although the conventional mask-based minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) could reduce the non-linear distortion, the residual noise level of the MVDR separated speech is still high. In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yong Xu , Zhuohuang Zhang , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

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

We present TVF (Time-Varying Filtering), a low-latency speech enhancement model with 1 million parameters. Combining the interpretability of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) with the adaptability of deep learning, TVF bridges the gap between…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Riccardo Rota , Kiril Ratmanski , Jozef Coldenhoff , Milos Cernak

Deep learning has the potential to enhance speech signals and increase their intelligibility for users of hearing aids. Deep models suited for real-world application should feature a low computational complexity and low processing delay of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Nils L. Westhausen , Hendrik Kayser , Theresa Jansen , Bernd T. Meyer

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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Hala As'ad , Martin Bouchard , Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi

We propose a novel mixture of experts framework for field-of-view enhancement in binaural signal matching. Our approach enables dynamic spatial audio rendering that adapts to continuous talker motion, allowing users to emphasize or suppress…

In this work, we address the problem of binaural target-speaker extraction in the presence of multiple simultane-ous talkers. We propose a novel approach that leverages the individual listener's Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Yoav Ellinson , Sharon Gannot

We introduce a real-time, multichannel speech enhancement algorithm which maintains the spatial cues of stereo recordings including two speech sources. Recognizing that each source has unique spatial information, our method utilizes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Masahito Togami , Jean-Marc Valin , Karim Helwani , Ritwik Giri , Umut Isik , Michael M. Goodwin

Deep learning-based direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation has gained increasing popularity. A popular family of DoA estimation algorithms is beamforming methods, which operate by constructing a spatial filter that is applied to array…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xuyao Deng , Yong Dou , Kele Xu

We present a single-stage casual waveform-to-waveform multichannel model that can separate moving sound sources based on their broad spatial locations in a dynamic acoustic scene. We divide the scene into two spatial regions containing,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Dejan Markovic , Alexandre Defossez , Alexander Richard

To improve speech intelligibility and speech quality in noisy environments, binaural noise reduction algorithms for head-mounted assistive listening devices are of crucial importance. Several binaural noise reduction algorithms such as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Marvin Tammen , Simon Doclo

Speech clarity and spatial audio immersion are the two most critical factors in enhancing remote conferencing experiences. Existing methods are often limited: either due to the lack of spatial information when using only one microphone, or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Cheng Chi , Xiaoyu Li , Yuxuan Ke , Qunping Ni , Yao Ge , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

In this work we use deep reinforcement learning to create an autonomous agent that can navigate in a two-dimensional space using only raw auditory sensory information from the environment, a problem that has received very little attention…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Petros Giannakopoulos , Aggelos Pikrakis , Yannis Cotronis

While existing end-to-end beamformers achieve impressive performance in various front-end speech processing tasks, they usually encapsulate the whole process into a black box and thus lack adequate interpretability. As an attempt to fill…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Andong Li , Guochen Yu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

Deep learning-based techniques for automatic dysarthric speech detection have recently attracted interest in the research community. State-of-the-art techniques typically learn neurotypical and dysarthric discriminative representations by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Ina Kodrasi

A primary challenge in developing synthetic spatial hearing systems, particularly underwater, is accurately modeling sound scattering. Biological organisms achieve 3D spatial hearing by exploiting sound scattering off their bodies to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siminfar Samakoush Galougah , Pranav Pulijala , Ramani Duraiswami

Multi-channel speech enhancement extracts speech using multiple microphones that capture spatial cues. Effectively utilizing directional information is key for multi-channel enhancement. Deep learning shows great potential on multi-channel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jiahui Pan , Pengjie Shen , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

Most existing sound field reconstruction methods target point-to-region reconstruction, interpolating the Acoustic Transfer Functions (ATFs) between a fixed-position sound source and a receiver region. The applicability of these methods is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Xingyu Chen , Sipei Zhao , Fei Ma , Eva Cheng , Ian S. Burnett

This paper describes speech enhancement for realtime automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real environments. A standard approach to this task is to use neural beamforming that can work efficiently in an online manner. It estimates the…