13 accepted papers
Neural audio codec (NAC) is essential for reconstructing high-quality speech signals and generating discrete representations for downstream speech language models. However, ensuring accurate semantic modeling while maintaining high-fidelity reconstruction under ultra-low bitrate constraints remains…
Extracting a target source from underdetermined mixtures is challenging for beamforming approaches. Recently proposed time-frequency-bin-wise switching (TFS) and linear combination (TFLC) strategies mitigate this by combining multiple beamformers in each time-frequency (TF) bin and choosing combinat…
Online blind source separation is essential for both speech communication and human-machine interaction. Among existing approaches, overdetermined independent vector analysis (OverIVA) delivers strong performance by exploiting the statistical independence of source signals and the orthogonality betw…
While the semi-blind source separation-based acoustic echo cancellation (SBSS-AEC) has received much research attention due to its promising performance during double-talk compared to the traditional adaptive algorithms, it suffers from system latency and nonlinear distortions. To circumvent these d…
Array processing performance depends on the number of microphones available. Virtual microphone estimation (VME) has been proposed to increase the number of microphone signals artificially. Neural network-based VME (NN-VME) trains an NN with a VM-level loss to predict a signal at a microphone locati…
Stereophonic music source separation (MSS) is a problem of extracting individual source tracks, e.g. bass, drums, vocals, from a stereo music recording. Deep neural network (DNN) based MSS systems have demonstrated great promise though spatial panning cues and time-frequency spectral structures in s…
With the rapid development of neural networks in recent years, the ability of various networks to enhance the magnitude spectrum of noisy speech in the single-channel speech enhancement domain has become exceptionally outstanding. However, enhancing the phase spectrum using neural networks is often…
This paper presents a new low-latency online blind source separation (BSS) algorithm. Although algorithmic delay of a frequency domain online BSS can be reduced simply by shortening the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) frame length, it degrades the source separation performance in the presence of…
In this paper, we propose SepNet, a deep neural network (DNN) designed to predict separation matrices from multichannel observations. One well-known approach to blind source separation (BSS) involves independent component analysis (ICA). A recently developed method called independent low-rank matrix…
In this paper, we propose a low-latency online extension of wave-U-net for single-channel speech enhancement, which utilizes teacher-student learning to reduce the system latency while keeping the enhancement performance high. Wave-U-net is a recently proposed end-to-end source separation method, wh…
This paper proposes an alternative algorithm for the multi-channel variational autoencoder (MVAE), a recently proposed multichannel source separation approach. While MVAE is notable for its impressive source separation performance, its convergence-guaranteed optimization algorithm and the fact that…
In this paper, we deal with a multichannel source separation problem under a highly reverberant condition. The multichannel variational autoencoder (MVAE) is a recently proposed source separation method that employs the decoder distribution of a conditional VAE (CVAE) as the generative model for the…
In this paper, we present a speech enhancement method using two microphones in underdetermined situations. Time-frequency (TF) binary masking is a conventional method of enhancing speech in underdetermined situations by appropriately multiplying each TF component by zero or one. Extending this metho…