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most citedInvestigating the Design Space of Diffusion Models for Speech Enhancement

19 citations · 39 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

eess.AS2026

Listen first: Output-based multi-microphone speech enhancement

Panos Apostolidis, Svend Feldt, Zheng-Hua Tan +2

Traditionally, hearing-aid speech enhancement (SE) algorithms rely on input-based feature estimation, often derived by a voice activity detector (VAD), to configure beamformers. Ye…

eess.AS2026

Ranking the Impact of Contextual Specialization in Neural Speech Enhancement

Peter Leer, Svend Feldt, Zheng-Hua Tan +2

We systematically investigate neural speech enhancement systems, ranging from very small (10\,k parameters) to medium-large (2-5\,M parameters), which specialize to aco…

cs.SD2025

Exploring Resolution-Wise Shared Attention in Hybrid Mamba-U-Nets for Improved Cross-Corpus Speech Enhancement

Nikolai Lund Kühne, Jesper Jensen, Jan Østergaard +1

Recent advances in speech enhancement have shown that models combining Mamba and attention mechanisms yield superior cross-corpus generalization performance. At the same time, inte…

cs.SD2025

Learning Robust Spatial Representations from Binaural Audio through Feature Distillation

Holger Severin Bovbjerg, Jan Østergaard, Jesper Jensen +2

Recently, deep representation learning has shown strong performance in multiple audio tasks. However, its use for learning spatial representations from multichannel audio is undere…

cs.SD2025★ 3 cited

MambAttention: Mamba with Multi-Head Attention for Generalizable Single-Channel Speech Enhancement

Nikolai Lund Kühne, Jesper Jensen, Jan Østergaard +1

With new sequence models like Mamba and xLSTM, several studies have shown that these models match or outperform the state-of-the-art in single-channel speech enhancement and audio…

eess.AS2025

Noise-Robust Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection Through Self-Supervised Pretraining

Holger Severin Bovbjerg, Jan Østergaard, Jesper Jensen +1

Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (TS-VAD) is the task of detecting the presence of speech from a known target-speaker in an audio frame. Recently, deep neural network-based…

cs.SD2025

xLSTM-SENet: xLSTM for Single-Channel Speech Enhancement

Nikolai Lund Kühne, Jan Østergaard, Jesper Jensen +1

While attention-based architectures, such as Conformers, excel in speech enhancement, they face challenges such as scalability with respect to input sequence length. In contrast, t…

eess.AS2024★ 7 cited

The Effect of Training Dataset Size on Discriminative and Diffusion-Based Speech Enhancement Systems

Philippe Gonzalez, Zheng-Hua Tan, Jan Østergaard +3

The performance of deep neural network-based speech enhancement systems typically increases with the training dataset size. However, studies that investigated the effect of trainin…

eess.AS2024★ 4 cited

How to train your ears: Auditory-model emulation for large-dynamic-range inputs and mild-to-severe hearing losses

Peter Leer, Jesper Jensen, Zheng-Hua Tan +2

Advanced auditory models are useful in designing signal-processing algorithms for hearing-loss compensation or speech enhancement. Such auditory models provide rich and detailed de…

eess.AS2024

Hearing-Loss Compensation Using Deep Neural Networks: A Framework and Results From a Listening Test

Peter Leer, Jesper Jensen, Laurel H. Carney +3

This article investigates the use of deep neural networks (DNNs) for hearing-loss compensation. Hearing loss is a prevalent issue affecting millions of people worldwide, and conven…

cs.SD2024

Self-supervised Pretraining for Robust Personalized Voice Activity Detection in Adverse Conditions

Holger Severin Bovbjerg, Jesper Jensen, Jan Østergaard +1

In this paper, we propose the use of self-supervised pretraining on a large unlabelled data set to improve the performance of a personalized voice activity detection (VAD) model in…

eess.AS2024★ 6 cited

Diffusion-Based Speech Enhancement in Matched and Mismatched Conditions Using a Heun-Based Sampler

Philippe Gonzalez, Zheng-Hua Tan, Jan Østergaard +3

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that have recently been applied to speech enhancement successfully. Previous works have demonstrated their superior performanc…

eess.AS2023★ 19 cited

Investigating the Design Space of Diffusion Models for Speech Enhancement

Philippe Gonzalez, Zheng-Hua Tan, Jan Østergaard +3

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that have shown outstanding performance in image generation literature. As a consequence, studies have attempted to apply diff…

eess.AS2023

Joint Minimum Processing Beamforming and Near-end Listening Enhancement

Andreas J. Fuglsig, Jesper Jensen, Zheng-Hua Tan +3

We consider speech enhancement for signals picked up in one noisy environment that must be rendered to a listener in another noisy environment. For both far-end noise reduction and…

eess.SP2023

Distributed Adaptive Norm Estimation for Blind System Identification in Wireless Sensor Networks

Matthias Blochberger, Filip Elvander, Randall Ali +4

Distributed signal-processing algorithms in (wireless) sensor networks often aim to decentralize processing tasks to reduce communication cost and computational complexity or avoid…