Search Results for author: Walter Kellermann

Found 24 papers, 5 papers with code

End-To-End Deep Learning-based Adaptation Control for Linear Acoustic Echo Cancellation

1 code implementation4 Jun 2023 Thomas Haubner, Andreas Brendel, Walter Kellermann

To obtain precise echo estimates, the parameters of the echo canceler, i. e., the filter coefficients, need to be estimated quickly and precisely from the observed loudspeaker and microphone signals.

Acoustic echo cancellation

Novel features for the detection of bearing faults in railway vehicles

no code implementations14 Apr 2023 Matthias Kreuzer, Alexander Schmidt, Walter Kellermann

However, these features are usually evaluated on data originating from relatively simple scenarios and a significant performance loss can be observed if more realistic scenarios are considered.

Audio Signal Processing Fault Detection

1-D Residual Convolutional Neural Network coupled with Data Augmentation and Regularization for the ICPHM 2023 Data Challenge

no code implementations14 Apr 2023 Matthias Kreuzer, Walter Kellermann

In this article, we present our contribution to the ICPHM 2023 Data Challenge on Industrial Systems' Health Monitoring using Vibration Analysis.

Data Augmentation Multi-class Classification

Airborne Sound Analysis for the Detection of Bearing Faults in Railway Vehicles with Real-World Data

no code implementations14 Apr 2023 Matthias Kreuzer, David Schmidt, Simon Wokusch, Walter Kellermann

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of detecting bearing faults in railway vehicles by analyzing acoustic signals recorded during regular operation.

Localizing Spatial Information in Neural Spatiospectral Filters

no code implementations14 Mar 2023 Annika Briegleb, Thomas Haubner, Vasileios Belagiannis, Walter Kellermann

Beamforming for multichannel speech enhancement relies on the estimation of spatial characteristics of the acoustic scene.

Speech Enhancement

A Unifying View on Blind Source Separation of Convolutive Mixtures based on Independent Component Analysis

no code implementations28 Jul 2022 Andreas Brendel, Thomas Haubner, Walter Kellermann

Most of the currently used algorithms belong to one of the following three families: Frequency Domain ICA (FD-ICA), Independent Vector Analysis (IVA), and TRIple-N Independent component analysis for CONvolutive mixtures (TRINICON).

blind source separation Relation

Joint Acoustic Echo Cancellation and Blind Source Extraction based on Independent Vector Extraction

1 code implementation13 May 2022 Thomas Haubner, Zbyněk Koldovský, Walter Kellermann

We describe a joint acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and blind source extraction (BSE) approach for multi-microphone acoustic frontends.

Acoustic echo cancellation

Deep Learning-Based Joint Control of Acoustic Echo Cancellation, Beamforming and Postfiltering

no code implementations3 Mar 2022 Thomas Haubner, Walter Kellermann

We introduce a novel method for controlling the functionality of a hands-free speech communication device which comprises a model-based acoustic echo canceller (AEC), minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer (BF) and spectral postfilter (PF).

Acoustic echo cancellation Speech Extraction

Microphone Utility Estimation in Acoustic Sensor Networks using Single-Channel Signal Features

no code implementations24 Jan 2022 Michael Günther, Andreas Brendel, Walter Kellermann

In this contribution, we provide a comprehensive analysis of model-based microphone utility estimation approaches that use signal features and, as an alternative, also propose machine learning-based estimation methods that identify optimal sensor signal utility features.

Manifold learning-supported estimation of relative transfer functions for spatial filtering

no code implementations5 Oct 2021 Andreas Brendel, Johannes Zeitler, Walter Kellermann

Many spatial filtering algorithms used for voice capture in, e. g., teleconferencing applications, can benefit from or even rely on knowledge of Relative Transfer Functions (RTFs).

Audio Signal Processing

Complex-valued Spatial Autoencoders for Multichannel Speech Enhancement

1 code implementation6 Aug 2021 Mhd Modar Halimeh, Walter Kellermann

As shown by the experimental results, the proposed approach is able to exploit both spatial and spectral characteristics of the desired source signal resulting in a physically plausible spatial selectivity and superior speech quality compared to other baseline methods.

Speech Enhancement

End-To-End Deep Learning-Based Adaptation Control for Frequency-Domain Adaptive System Identification

no code implementations2 Jun 2021 Thomas Haubner, Andreas Brendel, Walter Kellermann

We present a novel end-to-end deep learning-based adaptation control algorithm for frequency-domain adaptive system identification.

Density Estimation

Online Acoustic System Identification Exploiting Kalman Filtering and an Adaptive Impulse Response Subspace Model

no code implementations7 May 2021 Thomas Haubner, Andreas Brendel, Walter Kellermann

The proposed method assumes that the variability of AIRs of an acoustic scene is confined to a low-dimensional manifold which is embedded in a high-dimensional space of possible AIR estimates.

A Synergistic Kalman- and Deep Postfiltering Approach to Acoustic Echo Cancellation

no code implementations16 Dec 2020 Thomas Haubner, Mhd. Modar Halimeh, Andreas Brendel, Walter Kellermann

We introduce a synergistic approach to double-talk robust acoustic echo cancellation combining adaptive Kalman filtering with a deep neural network-based postfilter.

Acoustic echo cancellation

Extrapolation of Bandlimited Multidimensional Signals from Continuous Measurements

no code implementations31 Jul 2020 Cornelius Frankenbach, Pablo Martínez-Nuevo, Martin Møller, Walter Kellermann

In particular, we propose an iterative method to reconstruct bandlimited multidimensional signals based on truncated versions of the original signal to bounded regions---herein referred to as continuous measurements.

Faster IVA: Update Rules for Independent Vector Analysis based on Negentropy and the Majorize-Minimize Principle

no code implementations20 Mar 2020 Andreas Brendel, Walter Kellermann

Algorithms for Blind Source Separation (BSS) of acoustic signals require efficient and fast converging optimization strategies to adapt to nonstationary signal statistics and time-varying acoustic scenarios.

blind source separation

The LOCATA Challenge: Acoustic Source Localization and Tracking

1 code implementation3 Sep 2019 Christine Evers, Heinrich Loellmann, Heinrich Mellmann, Alexander Schmidt, Hendrik Barfuss, Patrick Naylor, Walter Kellermann

The aim of the LOCAlization and TrAcking (LOCATA) Challenge is an open-access framework for the objective evaluation and benchmarking of broad classes of algorithms for sound source localization and tracking.

Benchmarking

An improved uncertainty decoding scheme with weighted samples for DNN-HMM hybrid systems

no code implementations4 Aug 2016 Christian Huemmer, Ramón Fernández Astudillo, Walter Kellermann

In this paper, we advance a recently-proposed uncertainty decoding scheme for DNN-HMM (deep neural network - hidden Markov model) hybrid systems.

General Classification

Estimating parameters of nonlinear systems using the elitist particle filter based on evolutionary strategies

no code implementations14 Apr 2016 Christian Huemmer, Christian Hofmann, Roland Maas, Walter Kellermann

In this article, we present the elitist particle filter based on evolutionary strategies (EPFES) as an efficient approach for nonlinear system identification.

Acoustic echo cancellation Evolutionary Algorithms

Coherent-to-Diffuse Power Ratio Estimation for Dereverberation

1 code implementation12 Feb 2015 Andreas Schwarz, Walter Kellermann

Several novel unbiased CDR estimators are proposed, and it is shown that knowledge of either the direction of arrival (DOA) of the target source or the coherence of the noise field is sufficient for unbiased CDR estimation.

Sound

The NLMS algorithm with time-variant optimum stepsize derived from a Bayesian network perspective

no code implementations18 Nov 2014 Christian Huemmer, Roland Maas, Walter Kellermann

In this article, we derive a new stepsize adaptation for the normalized least mean square algorithm (NLMS) by describing the task of linear acoustic echo cancellation from a Bayesian network perspective.

Acoustic echo cancellation

Spatial Diffuseness Features for DNN-Based Speech Recognition in Noisy and Reverberant Environments

no code implementations9 Oct 2014 Andreas Schwarz, Christian Huemmer, Roland Maas, Walter Kellermann

We propose a spatial diffuseness feature for deep neural network (DNN)-based automatic speech recognition to improve recognition accuracy in reverberant and noisy environments.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

A Bayesian Network View on Acoustic Model-Based Techniques for Robust Speech Recognition

no code implementations11 Oct 2013 Roland Maas, Christian Huemmer, Armin Sehr, Walter Kellermann

This article provides a unifying Bayesian network view on various approaches for acoustic model adaptation, missing feature, and uncertainty decoding that are well-known in the literature of robust automatic speech recognition.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

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