---
_id: '12900'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Deep attractor networks (DANs) are a recently introduced method to blindly
    separate sources from spectral features of a monaural recording using bidirectional
    long short-term memory networks (BLSTMs). Due to the nature of BLSTMs, this is
    inherently not online-ready and resorting to operating on blocks yields a block
    permutation problem in that the index of each speaker may change between blocks.
    We here propose the joint modeling of spatial and spectral features to solve the
    block permutation problem and generalize DANs to multi-channel meeting recordings:
    The DAN acts as a spectral feature extractor for a subsequent model-based clustering
    approach. We first analyze different joint models in batch-processing scenarios
    and finally propose a block-online blind source separation algorithm. The efficacy
    of the proposed models is demonstrated on reverberant mixtures corrupted by real
    recordings of multi-channel background noise. We demonstrate that both the proposed
    batch-processing and the proposed block-online system outperform (a) a spatial-only
    model with a state-of-the-art frequency permutation solver and (b) a spectral-only
    model with an oracle block permutation solver in terms of signal to distortion
    ratio (SDR) gains.'
author:
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: ' Takuya '
  full_name: 'Higuchi,,  Takuya '
  last_name: Higuchi,
- first_name: 'Keisuke '
  full_name: 'Kinoshita, Keisuke '
  last_name: Kinoshita
- first_name: 'Tomohiro '
  full_name: 'Nakatani, Tomohiro '
  last_name: Nakatani
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Drude L, Higuchi,  Takuya , Kinoshita K, Nakatani T, Haeb-Umbach R. Dual Frequency-
    and Block-Permutation Alignment for Deep Learning Based Block-Online Blind Source
    Separation. In: <i>ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada</i>. ; 2018.'
  apa: Drude, L., Higuchi,  Takuya , Kinoshita, K., Nakatani, T., &#38; Haeb-Umbach,
    R. (2018). Dual Frequency- and Block-Permutation Alignment for Deep Learning Based
    Block-Online Blind Source Separation. In <i>ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Drude_Higuchi,_Kinoshita_Nakatani_Haeb-Umbach_2018, title={Dual
    Frequency- and Block-Permutation Alignment for Deep Learning Based Block-Online
    Blind Source Separation}, booktitle={ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada}, author={Drude,
    Lukas and Higuchi,  Takuya  and Kinoshita, Keisuke  and Nakatani, Tomohiro  and
    Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2018} }'
  chicago: Drude, Lukas,  Takuya  Higuchi, Keisuke  Kinoshita, Tomohiro  Nakatani,
    and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Dual Frequency- and Block-Permutation Alignment for
    Deep Learning Based Block-Online Blind Source Separation.” In <i>ICASSP 2018,
    Calgary, Canada</i>, 2018.
  ieee: L. Drude,  Takuya  Higuchi, K. Kinoshita, T. Nakatani, and R. Haeb-Umbach,
    “Dual Frequency- and Block-Permutation Alignment for Deep Learning Based Block-Online
    Blind Source Separation,” in <i>ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada</i>, 2018.
  mla: Drude, Lukas, et al. “Dual Frequency- and Block-Permutation Alignment for Deep
    Learning Based Block-Online Blind Source Separation.” <i>ICASSP 2018, Calgary,
    Canada</i>, 2018.
  short: 'L. Drude,  Takuya  Higuchi, K. Kinoshita, T. Nakatani, R. Haeb-Umbach, in:
    ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada, 2018.'
date_created: 2019-07-30T14:42:15Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:24Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2018/ICASSP_2018_Drude_Paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Poster
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2018/ICASSP_2018_Drude_Poster.pdf
status: public
title: Dual Frequency- and Block-Permutation Alignment for Deep Learning Based Block-Online
  Blind Source Separation
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2018'
...
---
_id: '12899'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This contribution presents a speech enhancement system for the CHiME-5 Dinner
    Party Scenario. The front-end employs multi-channel linear time-variant filtering
    and achieves its gains without the use of a neural network. We present an adaptation
    of blind source separation techniques to the CHiME-5 database which we call Guided
    Source Separation (GSS). Using the baseline acoustic and language model, the combination
    of Weighted Prediction Error based dereverberation, guided source separation,
    and beamforming reduces the WER by 10:54% (relative) for the single array track
    and by 21:12% (relative) on the multiple array track.
author:
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Boeddeker, Christoph
  id: '40767'
  last_name: Boeddeker
- first_name: Jens
  full_name: Heitkaemper, Jens
  id: '27643'
  last_name: Heitkaemper
- first_name: Joerg
  full_name: Schmalenstroeer, Joerg
  id: '460'
  last_name: Schmalenstroeer
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Boeddeker C, Heitkaemper J, Schmalenstroeer J, Drude L, Heymann J, Haeb-Umbach
    R. Front-End Processing for the CHiME-5 Dinner Party Scenario. In: <i>Proc. CHiME
    2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India</i>.
    ; 2018.'
  apa: Boeddeker, C., Heitkaemper, J., Schmalenstroeer, J., Drude, L., Heymann, J.,
    &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2018). Front-End Processing for the CHiME-5 Dinner Party
    Scenario. <i>Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments,
    Hyderabad, India</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Boeddeker_Heitkaemper_Schmalenstroeer_Drude_Heymann_Haeb-Umbach_2018,
    title={Front-End Processing for the CHiME-5 Dinner Party Scenario}, booktitle={Proc.
    CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad,
    India}, author={Boeddeker, Christoph and Heitkaemper, Jens and Schmalenstroeer,
    Joerg and Drude, Lukas and Heymann, Jahn and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2018}
    }'
  chicago: Boeddeker, Christoph, Jens Heitkaemper, Joerg Schmalenstroeer, Lukas Drude,
    Jahn Heymann, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Front-End Processing for the CHiME-5
    Dinner Party Scenario.” In <i>Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in
    Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India</i>, 2018.
  ieee: C. Boeddeker, J. Heitkaemper, J. Schmalenstroeer, L. Drude, J. Heymann, and
    R. Haeb-Umbach, “Front-End Processing for the CHiME-5 Dinner Party Scenario,”
    2018.
  mla: Boeddeker, Christoph, et al. “Front-End Processing for the CHiME-5 Dinner Party
    Scenario.” <i>Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments,
    Hyderabad, India</i>, 2018.
  short: 'C. Boeddeker, J. Heitkaemper, J. Schmalenstroeer, L. Drude, J. Heymann,
    R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday
    Environments, Hyderabad, India, 2018.'
date_created: 2019-07-30T14:35:15Z
date_updated: 2023-10-26T08:14:15Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2018/INTERSPEECH_2018_Heitkaemper_Paper.pdf
oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '52'
  name: Computing Resources Provided by the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing
publication: Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments,
  Hyderabad, India
quality_controlled: '1'
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Poster
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2018/INTERSPEECH_2018_Heitkaemper_Poster.pdf
status: public
title: Front-End Processing for the CHiME-5 Dinner Party Scenario
type: conference
user_id: '460'
year: '2018'
...
---
_id: '11876'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This paper describes the systems for the single-array track and the multiple-array
    track of the 5th CHiME Challenge. The final system is a combination of multiple
    systems, using Confusion Network Combination (CNC). The different systems presented
    here are utilizing different front-ends and training sets for a Bidirectional
    Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) Acoustic Model (AM). The front-end was replaced
    by enhancements provided by Paderborn University [1]. The back-end has been implemented
    using RASR [2] and RETURNN [3]. Additionally, a system combination including the
    hypothesis word graphs from the system of the submission [1] has been performed,
    which results in the final best system.
author:
- first_name: Markus
  full_name: Kitza, Markus
  last_name: Kitza
- first_name: Wilfried
  full_name: Michel, Wilfried
  last_name: Michel
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Boeddeker, Christoph
  id: '40767'
  last_name: Boeddeker
- first_name: Jens
  full_name: Heitkaemper, Jens
  id: '27643'
  last_name: Heitkaemper
- first_name: Tobias
  full_name: Menne, Tobias
  last_name: Menne
- first_name: Ralf
  full_name: Schlüter, Ralf
  last_name: Schlüter
- first_name: Hermann
  full_name: Ney, Hermann
  last_name: Ney
- first_name: Joerg
  full_name: Schmalenstroeer, Joerg
  id: '460'
  last_name: Schmalenstroeer
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Kitza M, Michel W, Boeddeker C, et al. The RWTH/UPB System Combination for
    the CHiME 2018 Workshop. In: <i>Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing
    in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India</i>. ; 2018.'
  apa: Kitza, M., Michel, W., Boeddeker, C., Heitkaemper, J., Menne, T., Schlüter,
    R., Ney, H., Schmalenstroeer, J., Drude, L., Heymann, J., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R.
    (2018). The RWTH/UPB System Combination for the CHiME 2018 Workshop. <i>Proc.
    CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad,
    India</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Kitza_Michel_Boeddeker_Heitkaemper_Menne_Schlüter_Ney_Schmalenstroeer_Drude_Heymann_et
    al._2018, title={The RWTH/UPB System Combination for the CHiME 2018 Workshop},
    booktitle={Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments,
    Hyderabad, India}, author={Kitza, Markus and Michel, Wilfried and Boeddeker, Christoph
    and Heitkaemper, Jens and Menne, Tobias and Schlüter, Ralf and Ney, Hermann and
    Schmalenstroeer, Joerg and Drude, Lukas and Heymann, Jahn and et al.}, year={2018}
    }'
  chicago: Kitza, Markus, Wilfried Michel, Christoph Boeddeker, Jens Heitkaemper,
    Tobias Menne, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney, et al. “The RWTH/UPB System Combination
    for the CHiME 2018 Workshop.” In <i>Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing
    in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India</i>, 2018.
  ieee: M. Kitza <i>et al.</i>, “The RWTH/UPB System Combination for the CHiME 2018
    Workshop,” 2018.
  mla: Kitza, Markus, et al. “The RWTH/UPB System Combination for the CHiME 2018 Workshop.”
    <i>Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad,
    India</i>, 2018.
  short: 'M. Kitza, W. Michel, C. Boeddeker, J. Heitkaemper, T. Menne, R. Schlüter,
    H. Ney, J. Schmalenstroeer, L. Drude, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. CHiME
    2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India,
    2018.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:29:58Z
date_updated: 2023-10-26T08:12:14Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2018/INTERSPEECH_2018_Heitkaemper_RWTH_Paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: Proc. CHiME 2018 Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments,
  Hyderabad, India
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: The RWTH/UPB System Combination for the CHiME 2018 Workshop
type: conference
user_id: '460'
year: '2018'
...
---
_id: '11735'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This report describes the computation of gradients by algorithmic differentiation
    for statistically optimum beamforming operations. Especially the derivation of
    complex-valued functions is a key component of this approach. Therefore the real-valued
    algorithmic differentiation is extended via the complex-valued chain rule. In
    addition to the basic mathematic operations the derivative of the eigenvalue problem
    with complex-valued eigenvectors is one of the key results of this report. The
    potential of this approach is shown with experimental results on the CHiME-3 challenge
    database. There, the beamforming task is used as a front-end for an ASR system.
    With the developed derivatives a joint optimization of a speech enhancement and
    speech recognition system w.r.t. the recognition optimization criterion is possible.
author:
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Boeddeker, Christoph
  id: '40767'
  last_name: Boeddeker
- first_name: Patrick
  full_name: Hanebrink, Patrick
  last_name: Hanebrink
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: Boeddeker C, Hanebrink P, Drude L, Heymann J, Haeb-Umbach R. <i>On the Computation
    of Complex-Valued Gradients with Application to Statistically Optimum Beamforming</i>.;
    2017.
  apa: Boeddeker, C., Hanebrink, P., Drude, L., Heymann, J., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R.
    (2017). <i>On the Computation of Complex-valued Gradients with Application to
    Statistically Optimum Beamforming</i>.
  bibtex: '@book{Boeddeker_Hanebrink_Drude_Heymann_Haeb-Umbach_2017, title={On the
    Computation of Complex-valued Gradients with Application to Statistically Optimum
    Beamforming}, author={Boeddeker, Christoph and Hanebrink, Patrick and Drude, Lukas
    and Heymann, Jahn and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2017} }'
  chicago: Boeddeker, Christoph, Patrick Hanebrink, Lukas Drude, Jahn Heymann, and
    Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. <i>On the Computation of Complex-Valued Gradients with Application
    to Statistically Optimum Beamforming</i>, 2017.
  ieee: C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, L. Drude, J. Heymann, and R. Haeb-Umbach, <i>On
    the Computation of Complex-valued Gradients with Application to Statistically
    Optimum Beamforming</i>. 2017.
  mla: Boeddeker, Christoph, et al. <i>On the Computation of Complex-Valued Gradients
    with Application to Statistically Optimum Beamforming</i>. 2017.
  short: C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, L. Drude, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, On the
    Computation of Complex-Valued Gradients with Application to Statistically Optimum
    Beamforming, 2017.
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:15Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/ArXiv_2017_BoeddekerHanebrinkHaeb_Article.pdf
oa: '1'
status: public
title: On the Computation of Complex-valued Gradients with Application to Statistically
  Optimum Beamforming
type: report
user_id: '40767'
year: '2017'
...
---
_id: '11736'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: In this paper we show how a neural network for spectral mask estimation for
    an acoustic beamformer can be optimized by algorithmic differentiation. Using
    the beamformer output SNR as the objective function to maximize, the gradient
    is propagated through the beamformer all the way to the neural network which provides
    the clean speech and noise masks from which the beamformer coefficients are estimated
    by eigenvalue decomposition. A key theoretical result is the derivative of an
    eigenvalue problem involving complex-valued eigenvectors. Experimental results
    on the CHiME-3 challenge database demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
    The tools developed in this paper are a key component for an end-to-end optimization
    of speech enhancement and speech recognition.
author:
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Boeddeker, Christoph
  id: '40767'
  last_name: Boeddeker
- first_name: Patrick
  full_name: Hanebrink, Patrick
  last_name: Hanebrink
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Boeddeker C, Hanebrink P, Drude L, Heymann J, Haeb-Umbach R. Optimizing Neural-Network
    Supported Acoustic Beamforming by Algorithmic Differentiation. In: <i>Proc. IEEE
    Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>. ; 2017.'
  apa: Boeddeker, C., Hanebrink, P., Drude, L., Heymann, J., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R.
    (2017). Optimizing Neural-Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming by Algorithmic
    Differentiation. In <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
    Processing (ICASSP)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Boeddeker_Hanebrink_Drude_Heymann_Haeb-Umbach_2017, title={Optimizing
    Neural-Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming by Algorithmic Differentiation},
    booktitle={Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    author={Boeddeker, Christoph and Hanebrink, Patrick and Drude, Lukas and Heymann,
    Jahn and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2017} }'
  chicago: Boeddeker, Christoph, Patrick Hanebrink, Lukas Drude, Jahn Heymann, and
    Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Optimizing Neural-Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming
    by Algorithmic Differentiation.” In <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech
    and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2017.
  ieee: C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, L. Drude, J. Heymann, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Optimizing
    Neural-Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming by Algorithmic Differentiation,”
    in <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>,
    2017.
  mla: Boeddeker, Christoph, et al. “Optimizing Neural-Network Supported Acoustic
    Beamforming by Algorithmic Differentiation.” <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics,
    Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2017.
  short: 'C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, L. Drude, J. Heymann, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc.
    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:16Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/icassp_2017_boeddeker_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
status: public
title: Optimizing Neural-Network Supported Acoustic Beamforming by Algorithmic Differentiation
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2017'
...
---
_id: '11754'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Recent advances in discriminatively trained mask estimation networks to extract
    a single source utilizing beamforming techniques demonstrate, that the integration
    of statistical models and deep neural networks (DNNs) are a promising approach
    for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. In this contribution
    we demonstrate how discriminatively trained embeddings on spectral features can
    be tightly integrated into statistical model-based source separation to separate
    and transcribe overlapping speech. Good generalization to unseen spatial configurations
    is achieved by estimating a statistical model at test time, while still leveraging
    discriminative training of deep clustering embeddings on a separate training set.
    We formulate an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm which jointly estimates
    a model for deep clustering embeddings and complex-valued spatial observations
    in the short time Fourier transform (STFT) domain at test time. Extensive simulations
    confirm, that the integrated model outperforms (a) a deep clustering model with
    a subsequent beamforming step and (b) an EM-based model with a beamforming step
    alone in terms of signal to distortion ratio (SDR) and perceptually motivated
    metric (PESQ) gains. ASR results on a reverberated dataset further show, that
    the aforementioned gains translate to reduced word error rates (WERs) even in
    reverberant environments.
author:
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Drude L, Haeb-Umbach R. Tight integration of spatial and spectral features
    for BSS with Deep Clustering embeddings. In: <i>INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden</i>.
    ; 2017.'
  apa: Drude, L., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2017). Tight integration of spatial and spectral
    features for BSS with Deep Clustering embeddings. In <i>INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm,
    Schweden</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Drude_Haeb-Umbach_2017, title={Tight integration of spatial
    and spectral features for BSS with Deep Clustering embeddings}, booktitle={INTERSPEECH
    2017, Stockholm, Schweden}, author={Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2017}
    }'
  chicago: Drude, Lukas, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Tight Integration of Spatial and
    Spectral Features for BSS with Deep Clustering Embeddings.” In <i>INTERSPEECH
    2017, Stockholm, Schweden</i>, 2017.
  ieee: L. Drude and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Tight integration of spatial and spectral features
    for BSS with Deep Clustering embeddings,” in <i>INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden</i>,
    2017.
  mla: Drude, Lukas, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Tight Integration of Spatial and Spectral
    Features for BSS with Deep Clustering Embeddings.” <i>INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm,
    Schweden</i>, 2017.
  short: 'L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden, 2017.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:37Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/INTERSPEECH_2017_Drude_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Slides
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/INTERSPEECH_2017_Drude_slides.pdf
status: public
title: Tight integration of spatial and spectral features for BSS with Deep Clustering
  embeddings
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2017'
...
---
_id: '11809'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This paper presents an end-to-end training approach for a beamformer-supported
    multi-channel ASR system. A neural network which estimates masks for a statistically
    optimum beamformer is jointly trained with a network for acoustic modeling. To
    update its parameters, we propagate the gradients from the acoustic model all
    the way through feature extraction and the complex valued beamforming operation.
    Besides avoiding a mismatch between the front-end and the back-end, this approach
    also eliminates the need for stereo data, i.e., the parallel availability of clean
    and noisy versions of the signals. Instead, it can be trained with real noisy
    multichannel data only. Also, relying on the signal statistics for beamforming,
    the approach makes no assumptions on the configuration of the microphone array.
    We further observe a performance gain through joint training in terms of word
    error rate in an evaluation of the system on the CHiME 4 dataset.
author:
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Boeddeker, Christoph
  id: '40767'
  last_name: Boeddeker
- first_name: Patrick
  full_name: Hanebrink, Patrick
  last_name: Hanebrink
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Heymann J, Drude L, Boeddeker C, Hanebrink P, Haeb-Umbach R. BEAMNET: End-to-End
    Training of a Beamformer-Supported Multi-Channel ASR System. In: <i>Proc. IEEE
    Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>. ; 2017.'
  apa: 'Heymann, J., Drude, L., Boeddeker, C., Hanebrink, P., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R.
    (2017). BEAMNET: End-to-End Training of a Beamformer-Supported Multi-Channel ASR
    System. In <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
    (ICASSP)</i>.'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Heymann_Drude_Boeddeker_Hanebrink_Haeb-Umbach_2017, title={BEAMNET:
    End-to-End Training of a Beamformer-Supported Multi-Channel ASR System}, booktitle={Proc.
    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, author={Heymann,
    Jahn and Drude, Lukas and Boeddeker, Christoph and Hanebrink, Patrick and Haeb-Umbach,
    Reinhold}, year={2017} }'
  chicago: 'Heymann, Jahn, Lukas Drude, Christoph Boeddeker, Patrick Hanebrink, and
    Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “BEAMNET: End-to-End Training of a Beamformer-Supported
    Multi-Channel ASR System.” In <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and
    Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2017.'
  ieee: 'J. Heymann, L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “BEAMNET:
    End-to-End Training of a Beamformer-Supported Multi-Channel ASR System,” in <i>Proc.
    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2017.'
  mla: 'Heymann, Jahn, et al. “BEAMNET: End-to-End Training of a Beamformer-Supported
    Multi-Channel ASR System.” <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and
    Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2017.'
  short: 'J. Heymann, L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, P. Hanebrink, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc.
    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:28:40Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:09Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/icassp_2017_heymann_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '52'
  name: Computing Resources Provided by the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing
publication: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Poster
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/icassp_2017_heymann_poster.pdf
status: public
title: 'BEAMNET: End-to-End Training of a Beamformer-Supported Multi-Channel ASR System'
type: conference
user_id: '40767'
year: '2017'
...
---
_id: '11811'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Acoustic beamforming can greatly improve the performance of Automatic Speech
    Recognition (ASR) and speech enhancement systems when multiple channels are available.
    We recently proposed a way to support the model-based Generalized Eigenvalue beamforming
    operation with a powerful neural network for spectral mask estimation. The enhancement
    system has a number of desirable properties. In particular, neither assumptions
    need to be made about the nature of the acoustic transfer function (e.g., being
    anechonic), nor does the array configuration need to be known. While the system
    has been originally developed to enhance speech in noisy environments, we show
    in this article that it is also effective in suppressing reverberation, thus leading
    to a generic trainable multi-channel speech enhancement system for robust speech
    processing. To support this claim, we consider two distinct datasets: The CHiME
    3 challenge, which features challenging real-world noise distortions, and the
    Reverb challenge, which focuses on distortions caused by reverberation. We evaluate
    the system both with respect to a speech enhancement and a recognition task. For
    the first task we propose a new way to cope with the distortions introduced by
    the Generalized Eigenvalue beamformer by renormalizing the target energy for each
    frequency bin, and measure its effectiveness in terms of the PESQ score. For the
    latter we feed the enhanced signal to a strong DNN back-end and achieve state-of-the-art
    ASR results on both datasets. We further experiment with different network architectures
    for spectral mask estimation: One small feed-forward network with only one hidden
    layer, one Convolutional Neural Network and one bi-directional Long Short-Term
    Memory network, showing that even a small network is capable of delivering significant
    performance improvements.'
author:
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: Heymann J, Drude L, Haeb-Umbach R. A Generic Neural Acoustic Beamforming Architecture
    for Robust Multi-Channel Speech Processing. <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>.
    2017.
  apa: Heymann, J., Drude, L., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2017). A Generic Neural Acoustic
    Beamforming Architecture for Robust Multi-Channel Speech Processing. <i>Computer
    Speech and Language</i>.
  bibtex: '@article{Heymann_Drude_Haeb-Umbach_2017, title={A Generic Neural Acoustic
    Beamforming Architecture for Robust Multi-Channel Speech Processing}, journal={Computer
    Speech and Language}, author={Heymann, Jahn and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach,
    Reinhold}, year={2017} }'
  chicago: Heymann, Jahn, Lukas Drude, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “A Generic Neural
    Acoustic Beamforming Architecture for Robust Multi-Channel Speech Processing.”
    <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>, 2017.
  ieee: J. Heymann, L. Drude, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “A Generic Neural Acoustic Beamforming
    Architecture for Robust Multi-Channel Speech Processing,” <i>Computer Speech and
    Language</i>, 2017.
  mla: Heymann, Jahn, et al. “A Generic Neural Acoustic Beamforming Architecture for
    Robust Multi-Channel Speech Processing.” <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>,
    2017.
  short: J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, Computer Speech and Language (2017).
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:28:43Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:09Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/ComputerSpeechLanguage_2017_heymann_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: Computer Speech and Language
status: public
title: A Generic Neural Acoustic Beamforming Architecture for Robust Multi-Channel
  Speech Processing
type: journal_article
user_id: '44006'
year: '2017'
...
---
_id: '11759'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have been shown to provide efficient neural-network-based
    approximate Bayesian inference for observation models for which exact inference
    is intractable. Its extension, the so-called Structured VAE (SVAE) allows inference
    in the presence of both discrete and continuous latent variables. Inspired by
    this extension, we developed a VAE with Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) as latent
    models. We applied the resulting HMM-VAE to the task of acoustic unit discovery
    in a zero resource scenario. Starting from an initial model based on variational
    inference in an HMM with Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) emission probabilities,
    the accuracy of the acoustic unit discovery could be significantly improved by
    the HMM-VAE. In doing so we were able to demonstrate for an unsupervised learning
    task what is well-known in the supervised learning case: Neural networks provide
    superior modeling power compared to GMMs.'
author:
- first_name: Janek
  full_name: Ebbers, Janek
  id: '34851'
  last_name: Ebbers
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Glarner, Thomas
  id: '14169'
  last_name: Glarner
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
- first_name: Bhiksha
  full_name: Raj, Bhiksha
  last_name: Raj
citation:
  ama: 'Ebbers J, Heymann J, Drude L, Glarner T, Haeb-Umbach R, Raj B. Hidden Markov
    Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery. In: <i>INTERSPEECH
    2017, Stockholm, Schweden</i>. ; 2017.'
  apa: Ebbers, J., Heymann, J., Drude, L., Glarner, T., Haeb-Umbach, R., &#38; Raj,
    B. (2017). Hidden Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery.
    <i>INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Ebbers_Heymann_Drude_Glarner_Haeb-Umbach_Raj_2017, title={Hidden
    Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery}, booktitle={INTERSPEECH
    2017, Stockholm, Schweden}, author={Ebbers, Janek and Heymann, Jahn and Drude,
    Lukas and Glarner, Thomas and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and Raj, Bhiksha}, year={2017}
    }'
  chicago: Ebbers, Janek, Jahn Heymann, Lukas Drude, Thomas Glarner, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach,
    and Bhiksha Raj. “Hidden Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit
    Discovery.” In <i>INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden</i>, 2017.
  ieee: J. Ebbers, J. Heymann, L. Drude, T. Glarner, R. Haeb-Umbach, and B. Raj, “Hidden
    Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery,” 2017.
  mla: Ebbers, Janek, et al. “Hidden Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic
    Unit Discovery.” <i>INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden</i>, 2017.
  short: 'J. Ebbers, J. Heymann, L. Drude, T. Glarner, R. Haeb-Umbach, B. Raj, in:
    INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden, 2017.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:42Z
date_updated: 2023-11-22T08:29:06Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/INTERSPEECH_2017_Ebbers_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Schweden
quality_controlled: '1'
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Poster
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/INTERSPEECH_2017_Ebbers_poster.pdf
  - description: Slides
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/INTERSPEECH_2017_Ebbers_slides.pdf
status: public
title: Hidden Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery
type: conference
user_id: '34851'
year: '2017'
...
---
_id: '11895'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Multi-channel speech enhancement algorithms rely on a synchronous sampling
    of the microphone signals. This, however, cannot always be guaranteed, especially
    if the sensors are distributed in an environment. To avoid performance degradation
    the sampling rate offset needs to be estimated and compensated for. In this contribution
    we extend the recently proposed coherence drift based method in two important
    directions. First, the increasing phase shift in the short-time Fourier transform
    domain is estimated from the coherence drift in a Matched Filterlike fashion,
    where intermediate estimates are weighted by their instantaneous SNR. Second,
    an observed bias is removed by iterating between offset estimation and compensation
    by resampling a couple of times. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated
    by speech recognition results on the output of a beamformer with and without sampling
    rate offset compensation between the input channels. We compare MVDR and maximum-SNR
    beamformers in reverberant environments and further show that both benefit from
    a novel phase normalization, which we also propose in this contribution.
author:
- first_name: Joerg
  full_name: Schmalenstroeer, Joerg
  id: '460'
  last_name: Schmalenstroeer
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Boeddeker, Christoph
  id: '40767'
  last_name: Boeddeker
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Schmalenstroeer J, Heymann J, Drude L, Boeddeker C, Haeb-Umbach R. Multi-Stage
    Coherence Drift Based Sampling Rate Synchronization for Acoustic Beamforming.
    In: <i>IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)</i>.
    ; 2017.'
  apa: Schmalenstroeer, J., Heymann, J., Drude, L., Boeddeker, C., &#38; Haeb-Umbach,
    R. (2017). Multi-Stage Coherence Drift Based Sampling Rate Synchronization for
    Acoustic Beamforming. <i>IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal
    Processing (MMSP)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Schmalenstroeer_Heymann_Drude_Boeddeker_Haeb-Umbach_2017,
    title={Multi-Stage Coherence Drift Based Sampling Rate Synchronization for Acoustic
    Beamforming}, booktitle={IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal
    Processing (MMSP)}, author={Schmalenstroeer, Joerg and Heymann, Jahn and Drude,
    Lukas and Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2017} }'
  chicago: Schmalenstroeer, Joerg, Jahn Heymann, Lukas Drude, Christoph Boeddeker,
    and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Multi-Stage Coherence Drift Based Sampling Rate Synchronization
    for Acoustic Beamforming.” In <i>IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia
    Signal Processing (MMSP)</i>, 2017.
  ieee: J. Schmalenstroeer, J. Heymann, L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, and R. Haeb-Umbach,
    “Multi-Stage Coherence Drift Based Sampling Rate Synchronization for Acoustic
    Beamforming,” 2017.
  mla: Schmalenstroeer, Joerg, et al. “Multi-Stage Coherence Drift Based Sampling
    Rate Synchronization for Acoustic Beamforming.” <i>IEEE 19th International Workshop
    on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)</i>, 2017.
  short: 'J. Schmalenstroeer, J. Heymann, L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, R. Haeb-Umbach,
    in: IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2017.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:30:20Z
date_updated: 2023-10-26T08:12:05Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/MMSP_2017_SchHaeb.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
quality_controlled: '1'
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Poster
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2017/MMSP_2017_SchHaeb_poster.pdf
status: public
title: Multi-Stage Coherence Drift Based Sampling Rate Synchronization for Acoustic
  Beamforming
type: conference
user_id: '460'
year: '2017'
...
---
_id: '11744'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: A noise power spectral density (PSD) estimation is an indispensable component
    of speech spectral enhancement systems. In this paper we present a noise PSD tracking
    algorithm, which employs a noise presence probability estimate delivered by a
    deep neural network (DNN). The algorithm provides a causal noise PSD estimate
    and can thus be used in speech enhancement systems for communication purposes.
    An extensive performance comparison has been carried out with ten causal state-of-the-art
    noise tracking algorithms taken from the literature and categorized acc. to applied
    techniques. The experiments showed that the proposed DNN-based noise PSD tracker
    outperforms all competing methods with respect to all tested performance measures,
    which include the noise tracking performance and the performance of a speech enhancement
    system employing the noise tracking component.
author:
- first_name: Aleksej
  full_name: Chinaev, Aleksej
  last_name: Chinaev
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Chinaev A, Heymann J, Drude L, Haeb-Umbach R. Noise-Presence-Probability-Based
    Noise PSD Estimation by Using DNNs. In: <i>12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation
    (ITG 2016)</i>. ; 2016.'
  apa: Chinaev, A., Heymann, J., Drude, L., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2016). Noise-Presence-Probability-Based
    Noise PSD Estimation by Using DNNs. In <i>12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation
    (ITG 2016)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Chinaev_Heymann_Drude_Haeb-Umbach_2016, title={Noise-Presence-Probability-Based
    Noise PSD Estimation by Using DNNs}, booktitle={12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation
    (ITG 2016)}, author={Chinaev, Aleksej and Heymann, Jahn and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach,
    Reinhold}, year={2016} }'
  chicago: Chinaev, Aleksej, Jahn Heymann, Lukas Drude, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach.
    “Noise-Presence-Probability-Based Noise PSD Estimation by Using DNNs.” In <i>12.
    ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)</i>, 2016.
  ieee: A. Chinaev, J. Heymann, L. Drude, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Noise-Presence-Probability-Based
    Noise PSD Estimation by Using DNNs,” in <i>12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation
    (ITG 2016)</i>, 2016.
  mla: Chinaev, Aleksej, et al. “Noise-Presence-Probability-Based Noise PSD Estimation
    by Using DNNs.” <i>12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)</i>, 2016.
  short: 'A. Chinaev, J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 12. ITG Fachtagung
    Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016), 2016.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:25Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/ChHeyDrHa16.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: 12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Presentation
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/ChHeyDrHa16_Presentation.pdf
status: public
title: Noise-Presence-Probability-Based Noise PSD Estimation by Using DNNs
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2016'
...
---
_id: '11751'
author:
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Boeddeker, Christoph
  id: '40767'
  last_name: Boeddeker
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Drude L, Boeddeker C, Haeb-Umbach R. Blind Speech Separation based on Complex
    Spherical k-Mode Clustering. In: <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech
    and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>. ; 2016.'
  apa: Drude, L., Boeddeker, C., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2016). Blind Speech Separation
    based on Complex Spherical k-Mode Clustering. In <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Drude_Boeddeker_Haeb-Umbach_2016, title={Blind Speech Separation
    based on Complex Spherical k-Mode Clustering}, booktitle={Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf.
    on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, author={Drude, Lukas and
    Boeddeker, Christoph and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2016} }'
  chicago: Drude, Lukas, Christoph Boeddeker, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Blind Speech
    Separation Based on Complex Spherical K-Mode Clustering.” In <i>Proc. IEEE Intl.
    Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2016.
  ieee: L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Blind Speech Separation based
    on Complex Spherical k-Mode Clustering,” in <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics,
    Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2016.
  mla: Drude, Lukas, et al. “Blind Speech Separation Based on Complex Spherical K-Mode
    Clustering.” <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
    (ICASSP)</i>, 2016.
  short: 'L. Drude, C. Boeddeker, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics,
    Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:33Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/icassp_2016_drude_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Slides
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/icassp_2016_drude_slides.pdf
status: public
title: Blind Speech Separation based on Complex Spherical k-Mode Clustering
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2016'
...
---
_id: '11756'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Although complex-valued neural networks (CVNNs) â?? networks which can operate
    with complex arithmetic â?? have been around for a while, they have not been given
    reconsideration since the breakthrough of deep network architectures. This paper
    presents a critical assessment whether the novel tool set of deep neural networks
    (DNNs) should be extended to complex-valued arithmetic. Indeed, with DNNs making
    inroads in speech enhancement tasks, the use of complex-valued input data, specifically
    the short-time Fourier transform coefficients, is an obvious consideration. In
    particular when it comes to performing tasks that heavily rely on phase information,
    such as acoustic beamforming, complex-valued algorithms are omnipresent. In this
    contribution we recapitulate backpropagation in CVNNs, develop complex-valued
    network elements, such as the split-rectified non-linearity, and compare real-
    and complex-valued networks on a beamforming task. We find that CVNNs hardly provide
    a performance gain and conclude that the effort of developing the complex-valued
    counterparts of the building blocks of modern deep or recurrent neural networks
    can hardly be justified.
author:
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Bhiksha
  full_name: Raj, Bhiksha
  last_name: Raj
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Drude L, Raj B, Haeb-Umbach R. On the appropriateness of complex-valued neural
    networks for speech enhancement. In: <i>INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, USA</i>.
    ; 2016.'
  apa: Drude, L., Raj, B., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2016). On the appropriateness of
    complex-valued neural networks for speech enhancement. In <i>INTERSPEECH 2016,
    San Francisco, USA</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Drude_Raj_Haeb-Umbach_2016, title={On the appropriateness
    of complex-valued neural networks for speech enhancement}, booktitle={INTERSPEECH
    2016, San Francisco, USA}, author={Drude, Lukas and Raj, Bhiksha and Haeb-Umbach,
    Reinhold}, year={2016} }'
  chicago: Drude, Lukas, Bhiksha Raj, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “On the Appropriateness
    of Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Speech Enhancement.” In <i>INTERSPEECH 2016,
    San Francisco, USA</i>, 2016.
  ieee: L. Drude, B. Raj, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “On the appropriateness of complex-valued
    neural networks for speech enhancement,” in <i>INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco,
    USA</i>, 2016.
  mla: Drude, Lukas, et al. “On the Appropriateness of Complex-Valued Neural Networks
    for Speech Enhancement.” <i>INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, USA</i>, 2016.
  short: 'L. Drude, B. Raj, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, USA,
    2016.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:39Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/interspeech_2016_drude_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, USA
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Poster
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/interspeech_2016_drude_slides.pdf
status: public
title: On the appropriateness of complex-valued neural networks for speech enhancement
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2016'
...
---
_id: '11771'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This paper is concerned with speech presence probability estimation employing
    an explicit model of the temporal and spectral correlations of speech. An undirected
    graphical model is introduced, based on a Factor Graph formulation. It is shown
    that this undirected model cures some of the theoretical issues of an earlier
    directed graphical model. Furthermore, we formulate a message passing inference
    scheme based on an approximate graph factorization, identify this inference scheme
    as a particular message passing schedule based on the turbo principle and suggest
    further alternative schedules. The experiments show an improved performance over
    speech presence probability estimation based on an IID assumption, and a slightly
    better performance of the turbo schedule over the alternatives.
author:
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Glarner, Thomas
  id: '14169'
  last_name: Glarner
- first_name: Mohammad
  full_name: Mahdi Momenzadeh, Mohammad
  last_name: Mahdi Momenzadeh
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Glarner T, Mahdi Momenzadeh M, Drude L, Haeb-Umbach R. Factor Graph Decoding
    for Speech Presence Probability Estimation. In: <i>12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation
    (ITG 2016)</i>. ; 2016.'
  apa: Glarner, T., Mahdi Momenzadeh, M., Drude, L., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2016).
    Factor Graph Decoding for Speech Presence Probability Estimation. In <i>12. ITG
    Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Glarner_Mahdi Momenzadeh_Drude_Haeb-Umbach_2016, title={Factor
    Graph Decoding for Speech Presence Probability Estimation}, booktitle={12. ITG
    Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)}, author={Glarner, Thomas and Mahdi
    Momenzadeh, Mohammad and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2016}
    }'
  chicago: Glarner, Thomas, Mohammad Mahdi Momenzadeh, Lukas Drude, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach.
    “Factor Graph Decoding for Speech Presence Probability Estimation.” In <i>12.
    ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)</i>, 2016.
  ieee: T. Glarner, M. Mahdi Momenzadeh, L. Drude, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Factor Graph
    Decoding for Speech Presence Probability Estimation,” in <i>12. ITG Fachtagung
    Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)</i>, 2016.
  mla: Glarner, Thomas, et al. “Factor Graph Decoding for Speech Presence Probability
    Estimation.” <i>12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)</i>, 2016.
  short: 'T. Glarner, M. Mahdi Momenzadeh, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 12. ITG Fachtagung
    Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016), 2016.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:56Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/itgspeech2016_08_Glarner.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: 12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Slides
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/itgspeech2016_08_Glarner_slides.pdf
status: public
title: Factor Graph Decoding for Speech Presence Probability Estimation
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2016'
...
---
_id: '11812'
author:
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Heymann J, Drude L, Haeb-Umbach R. Neural Network Based Spectral Mask Estimation
    for Acoustic Beamforming. In: <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and
    Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>. ; 2016.'
  apa: Heymann, J., Drude, L., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2016). Neural Network Based
    Spectral Mask Estimation for Acoustic Beamforming. In <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf.
    on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Heymann_Drude_Haeb-Umbach_2016, title={Neural Network Based
    Spectral Mask Estimation for Acoustic Beamforming}, booktitle={Proc. IEEE Intl.
    Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, author={Heymann, Jahn
    and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2016} }'
  chicago: Heymann, Jahn, Lukas Drude, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Neural Network Based
    Spectral Mask Estimation for Acoustic Beamforming.” In <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf.
    on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2016.
  ieee: J. Heymann, L. Drude, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Neural Network Based Spectral Mask
    Estimation for Acoustic Beamforming,” in <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics,
    Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)</i>, 2016.
  mla: Heymann, Jahn, et al. “Neural Network Based Spectral Mask Estimation for Acoustic
    Beamforming.” <i>Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
    (ICASSP)</i>, 2016.
  short: 'J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics,
    Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:28:44Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:09Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/icassp_2016_heymann_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Slides
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/icassp_2016_heymann_slides.pdf
status: public
title: Neural Network Based Spectral Mask Estimation for Acoustic Beamforming
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2016'
...
---
_id: '11834'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We present a system for the 4th CHiME challenge which significantly increases
    the performance for all three tracks with respect to the provided baseline system.
    The front-end uses a bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM)-based neural
    network to estimate signal statistics. These then steer a Generalized Eigenvalue
    beamformer. The back-end consists of a 22 layer deep Wide Residual Network and
    two extra BLSTM layers. Working on a whole utterance instead of frames allows
    us to refine Batch-Normalization. We also train our own BLSTM-based language model.
    Adding a discriminative speaker adaptation leads to further gains. The final system
    achieves a word error rate on the six channel real test data of 3.48%. For the
    two channel track we achieve 5.96% and for the one channel track 9.34%. This is
    the best reported performance on the challenge achieved by a single system, i.e.,
    a configuration, which does not combine multiple systems. At the same time, our
    system is independent of the microphone configuration. We can thus use the same
    components for all three tracks.
author:
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Heymann J, Drude L, Haeb-Umbach R. Wide Residual BLSTM Network with Discriminative
    Speaker Adaptation for Robust Speech Recognition. In: <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>.
    ; 2016.'
  apa: Heymann, J., Drude, L., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2016). Wide Residual BLSTM Network
    with Discriminative Speaker Adaptation for Robust Speech Recognition. In <i>Computer
    Speech and Language</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Heymann_Drude_Haeb-Umbach_2016, title={Wide Residual BLSTM
    Network with Discriminative Speaker Adaptation for Robust Speech Recognition},
    booktitle={Computer Speech and Language}, author={Heymann, Jahn and Drude, Lukas
    and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2016} }'
  chicago: Heymann, Jahn, Lukas Drude, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Wide Residual BLSTM
    Network with Discriminative Speaker Adaptation for Robust Speech Recognition.”
    In <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>, 2016.
  ieee: J. Heymann, L. Drude, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Wide Residual BLSTM Network with
    Discriminative Speaker Adaptation for Robust Speech Recognition,” in <i>Computer
    Speech and Language</i>, 2016.
  mla: Heymann, Jahn, et al. “Wide Residual BLSTM Network with Discriminative Speaker
    Adaptation for Robust Speech Recognition.” <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>,
    2016.
  short: 'J. Heymann, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Computer Speech and Language,
    2016.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:29:09Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:11Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/chime4_upbonly_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: Computer Speech and Language
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Poster
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/chime4_upbonly_poster.pdf
status: public
title: Wide Residual BLSTM Network with Discriminative Speaker Adaptation for Robust
  Speech Recognition
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2016'
...
---
_id: '11908'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'This paper describes automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems developed
    jointly by RWTH, UPB and FORTH for the 1ch, 2ch and 6ch track of the 4th CHiME
    Challenge. In the 2ch and 6ch tracks the final system output is obtained by a
    Confusion Network Combination (CNC) of multiple systems. The Acoustic Model (AM)
    is a deep neural network based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM)
    units. The systems differ by front ends and training sets used for the acoustic
    training. The model for the 1ch track is trained without any preprocessing. For
    each front end we trained and evaluated individual acoustic models. We compare
    the ASR performance of different beamforming approaches: a conventional superdirective
    beamformer [1] and an MVDR beamformer as in [2], where the steering vector is
    estimated based on [3]. Furthermore we evaluated a BLSTM supported Generalized
    Eigenvalue beamformer using NN-GEV [4]. The back end is implemented using RWTH?s
    open-source toolkits RASR [5], RETURNN [6] and rwthlm [7]. We rescore lattices
    with a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based language model. The overall best results
    are obtained by a system combination that includes the lattices from the system
    of UPB?s submission [8]. Our final submission scored second in each of the three
    tracks of the 4th CHiME Challenge.'
author:
- first_name: Tobias
  full_name: Menne, Tobias
  last_name: Menne
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Anastasios
  full_name: Alexandridis, Anastasios
  last_name: Alexandridis
- first_name: Kazuki
  full_name: Irie, Kazuki
  last_name: Irie
- first_name: Albert
  full_name: Zeyer, Albert
  last_name: Zeyer
- first_name: Markus
  full_name: Kitza, Markus
  last_name: Kitza
- first_name: Pavel
  full_name: Golik, Pavel
  last_name: Golik
- first_name: Ilia
  full_name: Kulikov, Ilia
  last_name: Kulikov
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Ralf
  full_name: Schlüter, Ralf
  last_name: Schlüter
- first_name: Hermann
  full_name: Ney, Hermann
  last_name: Ney
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
- first_name: Athanasios
  full_name: Mouchtaris, Athanasios
  last_name: Mouchtaris
citation:
  ama: 'Menne T, Heymann J, Alexandridis A, et al. The RWTH/UPB/FORTH System Combination
    for the 4th CHiME Challenge Evaluation. In: <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>.
    ; 2016.'
  apa: Menne, T., Heymann, J., Alexandridis, A., Irie, K., Zeyer, A., Kitza, M., …
    Mouchtaris, A. (2016). The RWTH/UPB/FORTH System Combination for the 4th CHiME
    Challenge Evaluation. In <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Menne_Heymann_Alexandridis_Irie_Zeyer_Kitza_Golik_Kulikov_Drude_Schlüter_et
    al._2016, title={The RWTH/UPB/FORTH System Combination for the 4th CHiME Challenge
    Evaluation}, booktitle={Computer Speech and Language}, author={Menne, Tobias and
    Heymann, Jahn and Alexandridis, Anastasios and Irie, Kazuki and Zeyer, Albert
    and Kitza, Markus and Golik, Pavel and Kulikov, Ilia and Drude, Lukas and Schlüter,
    Ralf and et al.}, year={2016} }'
  chicago: Menne, Tobias, Jahn Heymann, Anastasios Alexandridis, Kazuki Irie, Albert
    Zeyer, Markus Kitza, Pavel Golik, et al. “The RWTH/UPB/FORTH System Combination
    for the 4th CHiME Challenge Evaluation.” In <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>,
    2016.
  ieee: T. Menne <i>et al.</i>, “The RWTH/UPB/FORTH System Combination for the 4th
    CHiME Challenge Evaluation,” in <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>, 2016.
  mla: Menne, Tobias, et al. “The RWTH/UPB/FORTH System Combination for the 4th CHiME
    Challenge Evaluation.” <i>Computer Speech and Language</i>, 2016.
  short: 'T. Menne, J. Heymann, A. Alexandridis, K. Irie, A. Zeyer, M. Kitza, P. Golik,
    I. Kulikov, L. Drude, R. Schlüter, H. Ney, R. Haeb-Umbach, A. Mouchtaris, in:
    Computer Speech and Language, 2016.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:30:35Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:12Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2016/chime4_rwthupbforth_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: Computer Speech and Language
status: public
title: The RWTH/UPB/FORTH System Combination for the 4th CHiME Challenge Evaluation
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2016'
...
---
_id: '11755'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This contribution presents a Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation algorithm
    based on the complex Watson distribution to incorporate both phase and level differences
    of captured micro- phone array signals. The derived algorithm is reviewed in the
    context of the Generalized State Coherence Transform (GSCT) on the one hand and
    a kernel density estimation method on the other hand. A thorough simulative evaluation
    yields insight into parameter selection and provides details on the performance
    for both directional and omni-directional microphones. A comparison to the well
    known Steered Response Power with Phase Transform (SRP-PHAT) algorithm and a state
    of the art DoA estimator which explicitly accounts for aliasing, shows in particular
    the advantages of presented algorithm if inter-sensor level differences are indicative
    of the DoA, as with directional microphones.
author:
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Florian
  full_name: Jacob, Florian
  last_name: Jacob
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Drude L, Jacob F, Haeb-Umbach R. DOA-Estimation based on a Complex Watson
    Kernel Method. In: <i>23th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015)</i>.
    ; 2015.'
  apa: Drude, L., Jacob, F., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2015). DOA-Estimation based on
    a Complex Watson Kernel Method. In <i>23th European Signal Processing Conference
    (EUSIPCO 2015)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Drude_Jacob_Haeb-Umbach_2015, title={DOA-Estimation based
    on a Complex Watson Kernel Method}, booktitle={23th European Signal Processing
    Conference (EUSIPCO 2015)}, author={Drude, Lukas and Jacob, Florian and Haeb-Umbach,
    Reinhold}, year={2015} }'
  chicago: Drude, Lukas, Florian Jacob, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “DOA-Estimation
    Based on a Complex Watson Kernel Method.” In <i>23th European Signal Processing
    Conference (EUSIPCO 2015)</i>, 2015.
  ieee: L. Drude, F. Jacob, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “DOA-Estimation based on a Complex
    Watson Kernel Method,” in <i>23th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO
    2015)</i>, 2015.
  mla: Drude, Lukas, et al. “DOA-Estimation Based on a Complex Watson Kernel Method.”
    <i>23th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015)</i>, 2015.
  short: 'L. Drude, F. Jacob, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 23th European Signal Processing
    Conference (EUSIPCO 2015), 2015.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:27:38Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2015/DrJaHa15.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: 23th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015)
related_material:
  link:
  - description: Presentation
    relation: supplementary_material
    url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2015/DrJaHa15_Presentation.pdf
status: public
title: DOA-Estimation based on a Complex Watson Kernel Method
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '11810'
author:
- first_name: Jahn
  full_name: Heymann, Jahn
  id: '9168'
  last_name: Heymann
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Aleksej
  full_name: Chinaev, Aleksej
  last_name: Chinaev
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Heymann J, Drude L, Chinaev A, Haeb-Umbach R. BLSTM supported GEV Beamformer
    Front-End for the 3RD CHiME Challenge. In: <i>Automatic Speech Recognition and
    Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015)</i>. ; 2015.'
  apa: Heymann, J., Drude, L., Chinaev, A., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2015). BLSTM supported
    GEV Beamformer Front-End for the 3RD CHiME Challenge. In <i>Automatic Speech Recognition
    and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Heymann_Drude_Chinaev_Haeb-Umbach_2015, title={BLSTM supported
    GEV Beamformer Front-End for the 3RD CHiME Challenge}, booktitle={Automatic Speech
    Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015)}, author={Heymann, Jahn and
    Drude, Lukas and Chinaev, Aleksej and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2015} }'
  chicago: Heymann, Jahn, Lukas Drude, Aleksej Chinaev, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach.
    “BLSTM Supported GEV Beamformer Front-End for the 3RD CHiME Challenge.” In <i>Automatic
    Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015)</i>, 2015.
  ieee: J. Heymann, L. Drude, A. Chinaev, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “BLSTM supported GEV
    Beamformer Front-End for the 3RD CHiME Challenge,” in <i>Automatic Speech Recognition
    and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015)</i>, 2015.
  mla: Heymann, Jahn, et al. “BLSTM Supported GEV Beamformer Front-End for the 3RD
    CHiME Challenge.” <i>Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU
    2015)</i>, 2015.
  short: 'J. Heymann, L. Drude, A. Chinaev, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: Automatic Speech Recognition
    and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015), 2015.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:28:41Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:09Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015)
status: public
title: BLSTM supported GEV Beamformer Front-End for the 3RD CHiME Challenge
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '11919'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: In this paper we present a source counting algorithm to determine the number
    of speakers in a speech mixture. In our proposed method, we model the histogram
    of estimated directions of arrival with a nonparametric Bayesian infinite Gaussian
    mixture model. As an alternative to classical model selection criteria and to
    avoid specifying the maximum number of mixture components in advance, a Dirichlet
    process prior is employed over the mixture components. This allows to automatically
    determine the optimal number of mixture components that most probably model the
    observations. We demonstrate by experiments that this model outperforms a parametric
    approach using a finite Gaussian mixture model with a Dirichlet distribution prior
    over the mixture weights.
author:
- first_name: Oliver
  full_name: Walter, Oliver
  last_name: Walter
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Drude, Lukas
  id: '11213'
  last_name: Drude
- first_name: Reinhold
  full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
  id: '242'
  last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
  ama: 'Walter O, Drude L, Haeb-Umbach R. Source Counting in Speech Mixtures by Nonparametric
    Bayesian Estimation of an infinite Gaussian Mixture Model. In: <i>40th International
    Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015)</i>. ; 2015.'
  apa: Walter, O., Drude, L., &#38; Haeb-Umbach, R. (2015). Source Counting in Speech
    Mixtures by Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of an infinite Gaussian Mixture
    Model. In <i>40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
    (ICASSP 2015)</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Walter_Drude_Haeb-Umbach_2015, title={Source Counting in
    Speech Mixtures by Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of an infinite Gaussian Mixture
    Model}, booktitle={40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
    Processing (ICASSP 2015)}, author={Walter, Oliver and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach,
    Reinhold}, year={2015} }'
  chicago: Walter, Oliver, Lukas Drude, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Source Counting
    in Speech Mixtures by Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of an Infinite Gaussian
    Mixture Model.” In <i>40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
    Processing (ICASSP 2015)</i>, 2015.
  ieee: O. Walter, L. Drude, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Source Counting in Speech Mixtures
    by Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of an infinite Gaussian Mixture Model,” in
    <i>40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP
    2015)</i>, 2015.
  mla: Walter, Oliver, et al. “Source Counting in Speech Mixtures by Nonparametric
    Bayesian Estimation of an Infinite Gaussian Mixture Model.” <i>40th International
    Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015)</i>, 2015.
  short: 'O. Walter, L. Drude, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: 40th International Conference on
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), 2015.'
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title: Source Counting in Speech Mixtures by Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of
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