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Understanding wireless channels is crucial for the design of wireless systems. For mobile communication, sounders and antenna arrays with short measurement times are required to simultaneously capture the dynamic and spatial channel…
Ambisonics is a spatial audio format describing a sound field. First-order Ambisonics (FOA) is a popular format comprising only four channels. This limited channel count comes at the expense of spatial accuracy. Ideally one would be able to…
This article presents a method for estimating and reconstructing the spatial energy distribution pattern of natural speech, which is crucial for achieving realistic vocal presence in virtual communication settings. The method comprises two…
This paper reviews pioneering works in microphone array processing and multichannel speech enhancement, highlighting historical achievements, technological evolution, commercialization aspects, and key challenges. It provides valuable…
Ambisonics is a method for capturing and rendering a sound field accurately, assuming that the acoustics of the playback room does not significantly influence the sound field. However, in practice, the acoustics of the playback room may…
This work establishes a framework of near-field communication under different array geometries of extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO). We first formulate the near-field spatial non-stationary channel model which…
In recent years and with introduction of 5G cellular network and communication, researchers have shown great interest in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication, an advanced technology. Many studies have examined the problem of…
Array-geometry-agnostic speech separation (AGA-SS) aims to develop an effective separation method regardless of the microphone array geometry. Conventional methods rely on permutation-free operations, such as summation or attention…
Microphone array post-filters have demonstrated their ability to greatly reduce noise at the output of a beamformer. However, current techniques only consider a single source of interest, most of the time assuming stationary background…
The field of speech recognition is in the midst of a paradigm shift: end-to-end neural networks are challenging the dominance of hidden Markov models as a core technology. Using an attention mechanism in a recurrent encoder-decoder…
We propose a novel Neural Steering technique that adapts the target area of a spatial-aware multi-microphone sound source separation algorithm during inference without the necessity of retraining the deep neural network (DNN). To achieve…
This paper demonstrates the advantages of aperiodic arrays in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output systems for future mobile communication applications. We propose a novel aperiodic array synthesis method which account for the…
Advanced remote applications such as Networked Music Performance (NMP) require solutions to guarantee immersive real-world-like interaction among users. Therefore, the adoption of spatial audio formats, such as Ambisonics, is fundamental to…
Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by integrating visual and auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same now with images, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for dense semantic…
The reproduction of acoustics is an important aspect of the preservation of cultural heritage. A common approach is to capture an impulse response in a hall and auralize it by convolving an input signal with the measured reverberant…
Telepresence aims to create an immersive but virtual experience of the audio and visual scene at the far end for users at the near end. In this contribution, we propose an array-based binaural rendering system that converts the array…
In the evolving landscape of sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are incorporating an unprecedented number of antenna elements, advancing towards Extremely large-scale…
This paper investigates continuous representations of steering vectors over frequency and microphone/source positions for augmented listening (e.g., spatial filtering and binaural rendering), enabling user-parameterized control of the…
Enhancing the user's own-voice for head-worn microphone arrays is an important task in noisy environments to allow for easier speech communication and user-device interaction. However, a rarely addressed challenge is the change of the…
Spherical microphone arrays are convenient tools for capturing the spatial characteristics of a sound field. However, achieving superior spatial resolution requires arrays with numerous capsules, consequently leading to expensive devices.…