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Transformers have revolutionized deep learning across various tasks, including audio representation learning, due to their powerful modeling capabilities. However, they often suffer from quadratic complexity in both GPU memory usage and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Siavash Shams , Sukru Samet Dindar , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani

Deep learning-based single-channel speaker separation has improved significantly in recent years largely due to the introduction of the transformer-based attention mechanism. However, these improvements come at the expense of intense…

This paper presents CleanUMamba, a time-domain neural network architecture designed for real-time causal audio denoising directly applied to raw waveforms. CleanUMamba leverages a U-Net encoder-decoder structure, incorporating the Mamba…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Sjoerd Groot , Qinyu Chen , Jan C. van Gemert , Chang Gao

Recent research has delved into speech enhancement (SE) approaches that leverage audio embeddings from pre-trained models, diverging from time-frequency masking or signal prediction techniques. This paper introduces an efficient and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Xingwei Sun , Heinrich Dinkel , Yadong Niu , Linzhang Wang , Junbo Zhang , Jian Luan

Transformer and its derivatives have achieved success in diverse tasks across computer vision, natural language processing, and speech processing. To reduce the complexity of computations within the multi-head self-attention mechanism in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Xiangyu Zhang , Qiquan Zhang , Hexin Liu , Tianyi Xiao , Xinyuan Qian , Beena Ahmed , Eliathamby Ambikairajah , Haizhou Li , Julien Epps

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is a fundamental problem in computational audition, which seeks to classify environments based on the distinctive acoustic features. In the ASC task of the APSIPA ASC 2025 Grand Challenge, the organizers…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Bochao Sun , Dong Wang , ZhanLong Yang , Jun Yang , Han Yin

Current automatic speech recognition systems struggle with modeling long speech sequences due to high quadratic complexity of Transformer-based models. Selective state space models such as Mamba has performed well on long-sequence modeling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Xiaoxue Gao , Nancy F. Chen

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

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

The cochlear implant (CI) is a successful biomedical device that enables individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss to perceive sound through electrical stimulation, yet listening in noise remains challenging. Recent deep learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Meng-Ping Lin , Enoch Hsin-Ho Huang , Shao-Yi Chien , Yu Tsao

We introduce a new paradigm for active sound modification: Active Speech Enhancement (ASE). While Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) algorithms focus on suppressing external interference, ASE goes further by actively shaping the speech signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Ofir Yaish , Yehuda Mishaly , Eliya Nachmani

This study addresses the speech enhancement (SE) task within the causal inference paradigm by modeling the noise presence as an intervention. Based on the potential outcome framework, the proposed causal inference-based speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Tsun-An Hsieh , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Yu Tsao

Recently, deep learning models have achieved excellent performance in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Among the many deep models, Transformer has gradually attracted interest for its excellence in modeling the long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Lingbo Huang , Yushi Chen , Xin He

Deploying speech enhancement (SE) systems in wearable devices, such as smart glasses, is challenging due to the limited computational resources on the device. Although deep learning methods have achieved high-quality results, their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Heitor R. Guimarães , Ke Tan , Juan Azcarreta , Jesus Alvarez , Prabhav Agrawal , Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu

Speech enhancement plays an essential role in various applications, and the integration of visual information has been demonstrated to bring substantial advantages. However, the majority of current research concentrates on the examination…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xinyuan Qian , Jiaran Gao , Yaodan Zhang , Qiquan Zhang , Hexin Liu , Leibny Paola Garcia , Haizhou Li

Discrete audio tokens are compact representations that aim to preserve perceptual quality, phonetic content, and speaker characteristics while enabling efficient storage and inference, as well as competitive performance across diverse…

Although Mamba models greatly improve Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification, they have critical challenges in terms defining efficient and adaptive token sequences for improve performance. This paper therefore presents CSSMamba…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zack Dewis , Yimin Zhu , Zhengsen Xu , Mabel Heffring , Saeid Taleghanidoozdoozan , Quinn Ledingham , Lincoln Linlin Xu

Voice user interfaces (VUIs) have facilitated the efficient interactions between humans and machines through spoken commands. Since real-word acoustic scenes are complex, speech enhancement plays a critical role for robust VUI. Transformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Moran Chen , Qiquan Zhang , Mingjiang Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Hexin Liu , Eliathamby Ambikairaiah , Deying Chen

Most current speech enhancement (SE) methods recover clean speech from noisy inputs by directly estimating time-frequency masks or spectrums. However, these approaches often neglect the distinct attributes, such as semantic content and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Yang Xiang , Canan Huang , Desheng Hu , Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Chao Zhang

When the parameters of Bayesian Short-time Spectral Amplitude (STSA) estimator for speech enhancement are selected based on the characteristics of the human auditory system, the gain function of the estimator becomes more flexible. Although…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Suman Samui