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It is highly desirable that speech enhancement algorithms can achieve good performance while keeping low latency for many applications, such as digital hearing aids, acoustically transparent hearing devices, and public address systems. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Chengshi Zheng , Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Yuxuan Ke , Xiaodong Li

Transformer-based speech enhancement models yield impressive results. However, their heterogeneous and complex structure restricts model compression potential, resulting in greater complexity and reduced hardware efficiency. Additionally,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ci-Hao Wu , Tian-Sheuan Chang

People with visual impairments have difficulty accessing touchscreen-enabled personal computing devices like mobile phones and laptops. The image-to-speech (ITS) systems can assist them in mitigating this problem, but their huge model size…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Gokul Srinivasagan , Michael Deisher , Munir Georges

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) has led to the adoption of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures that dynamically leverage specialized subnetworks for improved efficiency and performance. Despite their benefits, MoE…

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Image super-resolution (SR) has significantly advanced through the adoption of Transformer architectures. However, conventional techniques aimed at enlarging the self-attention window to capture broader contexts come with inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Chengxing Xie , Xiaoming Zhang , Linze Li , Yuqian Fu , Biao Gong , Tianrui Li , Kai Zhang

Previously proposed FullSubNet has achieved outstanding performance in Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge and attracted much attention. However, it still encounters issues such as input-output mismatch and coarse processing for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jun Chen , Zilin Wang , Deyi Tuo , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

The softmax attention mechanism has emerged as a noteworthy development in the field of Artificial Intelligence research, building on the successes of Transformer-based architectures. However, their ever increasing sizes necessitate ever…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Luca Herranz-Celotti , Ermal Rrapaj

Speech enhancement models should meet very low latency requirements typically smaller than 5 ms for hearing assistive devices. While various low-latency techniques have been proposed, comparing these methods in a controlled setup using DNNs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Haibin Wu , Sebastian Braun

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models have seen revolutionary quality gains with the recent development of large-scale universal speech models (USM). However, deploying these massive USMs is extremely expensive due to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Shaojin Ding , David Qiu , David Rim , Yanzhang He , Oleg Rybakov , Bo Li , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Weiran Wang , Tara N. Sainath , Zhonglin Han , Jian Li , Amir Yazdanbakhsh , Shivani Agrawal

Dynamic parameterization of acoustic environments has drawn widespread attention in the field of audio processing. Precise representation of local room acoustic characteristics is crucial when designing audio filters for various audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Chunxi Wang , Maoshen Jia , Meiran Li , Changchun Bao , Wenyu Jin

Attention serves as the fundamental mechanism for long-context modeling in large language models (LLMs), yet dense attention becomes structurally prohibitive for long sequences due to its quadratic complexity. Consequently, sparse attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Junxiang Qiu , Shuo Wang , Zhengsu Chen , Hengheng Zhang , Jinda Lu , Changcheng Li , Qi Tian

Pretraining transformers on long sequences (entire code repositories, collections of related documents) is bottlenecked by quadratic attention costs. We present Multipole Semantic Attention (MuSe), which accelerates 64k-context pretraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Rupert Mitchell , Kristian Kersting

Speech bandwidth extension (BWE) has demonstrated promising performance in enhancing the perceptual speech quality in real communication systems. Most existing BWE researches primarily focus on fixed upsampling ratios, disregarding the fact…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Guochen Yu , Xiguang Zheng , Nan Li , Runqiang Han , Chengshi Zheng , Chen Zhang , Chao Zhou , Qi Huang , Bing Yu

Segmenting cytoskeletal filaments in microscopy images is essential for studying their roles in cellular processes. However, this task is highly challenging due to the fine, densely packed, and intertwined nature of these structures.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-23 Achraf Ait Laydi , Louis Cueff , Mewen Crespo , Yousef El Mourabit , Hélène Bouvrais

A new algorithm for incremental learning in the context of Tiny Machine learning (TinyML) is presented, which is optimized for low-performance and energy efficient embedded devices. TinyML is an emerging field that deploys machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Marcus Rüb , Philipp Tuchel , Axel Sikora , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder

Speech enhancement (SE) models advance rapidly, yet it remains underexplored how degradation of input signals affects their internal representations. We introduce a probing process, aimed at modeling the behavior of internal representations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yair Amar , Amir Ivry , Israel Cohen

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have been widely applied in real-time scenarios, such as in-car assistants and online meeting comprehension. In practice, audio inputs are often corrupted by device and environmental noise, leading to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuanhe Zhang , Jiayu Tian , Yibo Zhang , Shilinlu Yan , Liang Lin , Zhenhong Zhou , Li Sun , Sen Su

Recent advances in speech enhancement have shown that models combining Mamba and attention mechanisms yield superior cross-corpus generalization performance. At the same time, integrating Mamba in a U-Net structure has yielded…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Nikolai Lund Kühne , Jesper Jensen , Jan Østergaard , Zheng-Hua Tan

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

Micro-expression recognition (MER) presents a significant challenge due to the transient and subtle nature of the motion changes involved. In recent years, deep learning methods based on attention mechanisms have made some breakthroughs in…

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