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| Presentation | 2019-07-20 13:00 Adaptive Beamformer for Extracting Speech in Desired Direction Using Neural Soft-Mask Yu Nakagome (Waseda Univ./LINE), Masahito Togami (LINE), Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda Univ.)  SP2019-8 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | A multi-channel speech extraction guided by direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is addressed in this paper. A multi-channel beamformer is constructed by multi-channel covariance matrices estimated via a time-frequency mask (TFM) which passes a speech source coming from the target direction. The TFM in the proposed method is constructed via the DOA estimate. Since the DOA estimate is sensitive to microphone-arrangement error or early reverberation effect, the proposed method restores the DOA estimate in a supervised way with a neural network. Additionally, reliability of each time-frequency bin is also estimated so as to lower weight for a time-frequency bin which is not adequate for estimation of the multi-channel covariance matrices. In the proposed method, the network parameters are free from the target direction setting and the target direction is controllable. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method can extract the target speech regardless of target direction, gender, and microphone arrangement and that TFM w/ reliability estimation can extract the target speech more accurately than the TFM w/o reliability estimation. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | spatial beamforming / time-frequency mask / DOA estimation / neural networks / speech extraction / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 119, no. 138, SP2019-8, pp. 9-14, July 2019. | |
| Paper # | SP2019-8 | |
| Date of Issue | 2019-07-13 (SP) | |
| ISSN | Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP IPSJ-SLP |
| Conference Date | 2019-07-20 - 2019-07-20 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | FURINYA(Tsukioka-Onsen, Niigata) |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Speech recognition and understanding, dialog system, etc. |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2019-07-SP-SLP |
| Language | Japanese |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Adaptive Beamformer for Extracting Speech in Desired Direction Using Neural Soft-Mask |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | spatial beamforming |
| Keyword(2) | time-frequency mask |
| Keyword(3) | DOA estimation |
| Keyword(4) | neural networks |
| Keyword(5) | speech extraction |
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| 1st Author's Name | Yu Nakagome |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Waseda University/LINE Corporation (Waseda Univ./LINE) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Masahito Togami |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | LINE Corporation (LINE) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Tetsunori Kobayashi |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Waseda University (Waseda Univ.) |
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| Speaker | Author-1 |
| Date Time | 2019-07-20 13:00:00 |
| Presentation Time | 30 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | SP2019-8 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.119 |
| Number (no) | no.138 |
| Page | pp.9-14 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2019-07-13 (SP) |
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