Malek Itani

2 accepted papers

2025

Proactive Hearing Assistants that Isolate Egocentric Conversations

Guilin Hu, Malek Itani, Tuochao Chen, Shyamnath Gollakota

EMNLP 2025

We introduce proactive hearing assistants that automatically identify and separate the wearer’s conversation partners, without requiring explicit prompts. Our system operates on egocentric binaural audio and uses the wearer’s self-speech as an anchor, leveraging turn-taking behavior and dialogue dyn

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2023

Real-Time Target Sound Extraction

Bandhav Veluri, Justin Chan, Malek Itani, Tuochao Chen, Takuya Yoshioka, Shyamnath Gollakota

ICASSP 2023accepted

We present the first neural network model to achieve real-time and streaming target sound extraction. To accomplish this, we propose Waveformer, an encoder-decoder architecture with a stack of dilated causal convolution layers as the encoder, and a transformer decoder layer as the decoder. This hybr…

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