PEVD-based Speech Enhancement

Published in ICASSP, 2019
This paper is about the use of Householder transformation on the SBR2 algorithm to speed up PEVD computation.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo and P. A. Naylor, "Second-order sequential best rotation algorithm with Householder transformation for polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoust., Speech and Signal Process. (ICASSP), May 2019.
Published in WASPAA, 2019
This paper proposes a speech enhancement algorithm using polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition in anechoic environments.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, C. Evers and P. A. Naylor, "Speech enhancement using polynomial eigenvalue decomposition," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Process. to Audio and Acoust. (WASPAA), Oct. 2019.
Published in ICASSP, 2020
This paper proposes a PEVD-based algorithm which is shown to be effective for speech enhancement in reverberant environments.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, C. Evers and P. A. Naylor, "PEVD-based Speech Enhancement in Reverberant Environments," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoust., Speech and Signal Process. (ICASSP), May 2020.
Published in EUSIPCO, 2020
This paper investigates the speech dereverberation performance of the PEVD-based speech enhancement algorithm, which was previously evaluated for noise reduction, speech intelligibility and quality performance.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, C. Evers, and P. A. Naylor, "Speech dereverberation performance of a polynomial-EVD subspace approach," in Proc. Eur. Signal Process. Conf. (EUSIPCO), Aug. 2020.
Published in ICASSP, 2021
Suitable for spherical microphone arrays, this paper proposes a PEVD algorithm that uses only lower dimension eigenbeams for speech enhancement at a significantly lower cost while maintaining full performance of the original algorithm.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, C. Evers, and P. A. Naylor, "Polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition of spherical harmonics for speech enhancement," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Acoust., Speech and Signal Process. (ICASSP), Jun. 2021.
Published in WASPAA, 2021
This paper proposes a polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition-based source separation algorithm using informed spherical arrays.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, C. Evers and P. A. Naylor, "Polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition-based source separation using informed spherical microphone arrays," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Process. to Audio and Acoust. (WASPAA), Oct. 2021.
Published in WASPAA, 2021
This paper proposes enhancements to polynomial MUSIC (PMUSIC), a broadband extension to the classical MUSIC algorithm for sound source localization.
Recommended citation: A. O. T. Hogg, V. W. Neo, C. Evers and P. A. Naylor, "A polynomial eigenvalue decomposition MUSIC approach for broadband sound source localization," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Process. to Audio and Acoust. (WASPAA), Oct. 2021.
Published in ASPIPA, 2021
This paper studies the modulation domain features useful for speaker identification.
Recommended citation: S. W. McKnight, A. O. T. Hogg, V. W. Neo, and P. A. Naylor, "A study of salient modulation domain features for speaker identification," in Proc. Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Dec. 2021.
Published in IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech and Lang. Process., 2021
This paper presents the PEVD-based speech enhancement algorithm under a unified framework.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, C. Evers, and P. A. Naylor, "Enhancement of noisy reverberant speech using polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition," IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech and Lang. Process., vol. 28, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2021.3120630
Published in EUSIPCO, 2022
This paper presents the PEVD-based speech enhancement algorithm for distributed microphone arrays.
Recommended citation: E. d'Olne, V. W. Neo, C. Evers, and P. A. Naylor, "Speech enhancement in distributed microphone arrays using polynomial eigenvalue decomposition," in Proc. Eur. Signal Process. Conf., Aug. 2022.
Published in IWAENC, 2022
This paper presents a multi-channel PEVD-based VAD algorithm.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, S. Weiss, S. W. McKnight, A. O. T. Hogg, and P. A. Naylor, "Polynomial eigenvalue decomposition-based target speaker voice activity detection in the presence of competing talkers," in Proc. Int. Workshop on Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Sep. 2022.
Published in IWAENC, 2022
This paper presents a frame-based space-time covariance matrix estimation for PEVD-based speech enhancement.
Recommended citation: E. d'Olne, V. W. Neo, and P. A. Naylor, "Frame-based space-time covariance matrix estimation for polynomial eigenvalue decomposition-based speech enhancement," in Proc. Int. Workshop on Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Sep. 2022.
Published in IWAENC, 2022
This paper presents a fixed beamformer design using PEVD.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, E. d'Olne, A. H. Moore, and P. A. Naylor, "Fixed beamformer design using polynomial eigenvalue decomposition," in Proc. Int. Workshop on Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Sep. 2022.
Published in SSPD, 2022
This paper presents the PEVD-based pre-processor for multi-channel VAD.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, S. Weiss, and P. A. Naylor, "A polynomial subspace projection approach for the detection of weak voice activity," in Proc. Sensor Signal Proc. for Defence Conf. (SSPD), Sep. 2022.
Published in ASPIPA, 2022
This paper compares the performance of human-based speaker diarization against state-of-the-art machine learning systems.
Recommended citation: S. W. McKnight, A. O. T. Hogg, V. W. Neo, and P. A. Naylor, "Studying human-based speaker diarization and comparing to state-of-the-art systems," in Proc. Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Nov. 2022.
Published in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2023
This paper proposes new neural network approaches to jointly process signals and exploit metadata. The effectiveness of these approaches are demonstrated for the positional sound source localization task.
Recommended citation: E. Grinstein, V. W. Neo, and P. A. Naylor, "Dual input neural networks for positional sound source localization," EURASIP J. Audio, Speech, and, Music Process., vol. 32, Aug. 2023, pp. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13636-023-00301-x
Published in IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech and Lang. Process., 2023
This paper presents the a unified framework using SHT and PEVD for applications using spherical sensor arrays.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, C. Evers, S.Weiss, and P. A. Naylor, "Signal compaction using PEVD for spherical array processing with applications," IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech and Lang. Process., vol. 28, 2023. doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2023.3313441
Published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2023
This paper introduces polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition (PEVD) and applications to multichannel broadband signal processing.
Recommended citation: V. W. Neo, S. Redif, J. G. McWhirter, J. Pestana, I. K. Proudler, S. Weiss, and P. A. Naylor, "Polynomial Eigenvalue Decomposition for Multichannel Broadband Signal Processing", IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol. 40, no. 7, 2023. doi: 10.1109/MSP.2023.3269200
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Undergraduate course, Imperial College London, Dept. of Elect. & Electron. Eng., 2018
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Postgraduate course, Imperial College London, Dept. of Elect. & Electron. Eng., 2018
I am the lab demonstrator and assessor for the speech processing experiment for MSc Communications and Signal Processing students from 2018-Now.
Undergraduate course, Imperial College London, Dept. of Elect. & Electron. Eng., 2020
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Undergraduate course, Imperial College London, Dept. of Elect. & Electron. Eng., 2021
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