Past review, current progress, and challenges ahead on the cocktail party problem

Y Qian, C Weng, X Chang, S Wang, D Yu - Frontiers of Information …, 2018 - Springer
The cocktail party problem, ie, tracing and recognizing the speech of a specific speaker
when multiple speakers talk simultaneously, is one of the critical problems yet to be solved …

Systems and methods for surround sound echo reduction

AI Mohammad, LH Kim, E Visser - US Patent 9,497,544, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for echo reduction by an electronic device is described. The
method includes nulling at least one speaker. The method also includes mixing a set of …

Processing audio signals

KV Sorensen - US Patent 9,042,575, 2015 - Google Patents
H04R 3/12(2006.01) A method, device and computer program product for process (52) US
Cl. ing audio signals, the method including determining beam CPC H04R 3/T2 (2013.01) …

Neural cascade architecture for multi-channel acoustic echo suppression

H Zhang, DL Wang - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) works by identifying an acoustic impulse
response using adaptive algorithms. This paper proposes a neural cascade architecture for …

Vignetted optoelectronic array for use in synthetic image formation via signal processing, lensless cameras, and integrated camera-displays

LF Ludwig - US Patent 8,830,375, 2014 - Google Patents
A vignetted optoelectronic array for systems and methods performing electronic image
formation and refinement from overlap** measurement vignettes captured by an array of …

[KİTAP][B] Topics in acoustic echo and noise control: selected methods for the cancellation of acoustical echoes, the reduction of background noise, and speech …

E Hänsler, G Schmidt - 2006 - Springer
While standard approaches for acoustic echo cancellation in telecommunication systems
assume that the echo path to be identified can be modeled by a linear system, in practice …

Microphone arrays

GW Elko, J Meyer - Springer handbook of speech processing, 2008 - Springer
This chapter introduces various types of microphone array beamforming systems and
discusses some of the fundamental theory of their operation, design, implementation, and …

[PDF][PDF] A Deep Learning Approach to Multi-Channel and Multi-Microphone Acoustic Echo Cancellation.

H Zhang, DL Wang - Interspeech, 2021 - isca-archive.org
Building on deep learning based acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in the single-
loudspeaker (single-channel) and single-microphone setup, this paper investigates multi …

Integrated echo cancellation and noise suppression

AI Mohammad, K Chan, IE Liu, E Visser… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for echo cancellation and noise Suppression is disclosed. Linear
echo cancellation (LEC) is performed for a primary microphone channel on an entire …

Distributed combined acoustic echo cancellation and noise reduction in wireless acoustic sensor and actuator networks

S Ruiz, T van Waterschoot… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents distributed algorithms for combined acoustic echo cancellation (AEC)
and noise reduction (NR) in a wireless acoustic sensor and actuator network (WASAN) …