14 accepted papers
Although many state-of-the-art approaches for improving the accuracy of Voice Activity Detection (VAD) have been proposed, their performance under adverse noise conditions with low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) remains limited. In this paper, we introduce a novel attention model-based deep neural netw…
In this paper, we propose a transformer-based architecture, called two-stage transformer neural network (TSTNN) for end-to-end speech denoising in the time domain. The proposed model is composed of an encoder, a two-stage transformer module (TSTM), a masking module and a decoder. The encoder maps in…
Most localization methods for mixed far-field (FF) and near-field (NF) sources are based on uniform linear array (ULA) rather than sparse linear array (SLA). In this paper, we propose a localization method for mixed FF and NF sources based on the generalized symmetric linear arrays, which include UL…
With the help of a power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme, satellite networks can simultaneously serve multiple users within limited time/spectrum resource block. However, the existence of channel estimation errors inevitably degrade the judgment on users' channel state informatio…
In this paper, we propose a novel robust downlink beamforming (BF) design for satellite-terrestrial integrated networks. Under a realistic assumption that the angular information of eavesdroppers is not perfectly known, we establish an optimization framework for hybrid BF at the terrestrial base sta…
In this paper we propose a fully convolutional neural network (CNN) for complex spectrogram processing in speech enhancement. The proposed CNN consists of one-dimensional (1-d) convolution and frequency-dilated 2-d convolution, and incorporates a residual learning and skip-connection structure. Comp…
The atomic norm minimization (ANM) has been successfully incorporated into the two-dimensional (2-D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem for super-resolution. However, its computational workload might be unaffordable when the number of snapshots is large. In this paper, we propose two grid…
In this paper, a new approach for the design of measurement matrix, Φ, for compressive sensing (CS) in a generic context is proposed. In accordance with well-known classical CS theory, we take the elements of Φ to be random, yet, we include correlations within the elements of the individual columns…
In this paper, a novel noncircularity-based localization method for mixed near-field (NF) and far-field (FF) sources is proposed with a symmetric uniform linear array (ULA) in the presence of unknown mutual coupling (UMC). Based on the principle of rank reduction (RARE), the multiple parameters of t…
In this paper, a new method for two-dimensional (2-D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is proposed. We first reconstruct the covariance matrix of the coarray with block-Toeplitz structure and then retrieve the DOAs. Our method is computationally efficient as supported by the derived closed-form…
This paper addresses the issue of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation with an objective to eliminate the off-grid effect of the sparsity-based methods and enlarge the maximum number of distinguishable signals in the subspace-based methods. We first reconstruct the covariance matrix of the array ou…
In this paper, we study the energy efficiency of secure communication in an underlay cognitive radio network (CRN). We first formulate an optimization problem to maximize the secrecy energy efficiency (SEE) while meeting the quality-of-service (QoS) requirement for the primary user and the transmit…
This paper addresses the pilot and data power allocation issue in time division duplexing (TDD) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. By using minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation along with a maximum-ratio combining (MRC) detector for the uplink transmi…
In this paper, we present a new dereverberation algorithm based on the weighted prediction error (WPE) method. In contrast to the conventional WPE method which alternatively estimates the reverberation prediction weights and early speech spectral variance, the proposed algorithm estimates the latter…