Title
Sub-band Knowledge Distillation Framework for Speech Enhancement
Abstract
In single-channel speech enhancement, methods based on full-band spectral features have been widely studied. However, only a few methods pay attention to non-full-band spectral features. In this paper, we explore a knowledge distillation framework based on sub-band spectral mapping for single-channel speech enhancement. Specifically, we divide the full frequency band into multiple sub-bands and pre-train an elite-level sub-band enhancement model (teacher model) for each sub-band. These teacher models are dedicated to processing their own sub-bands. Next, under the teacher models' guidance, we train a general sub-band enhancement model (student model) that works for all sub-bands. Without increasing the number of model parameters and computational complexity, the student model's performance is further improved. To evaluate our proposed method, we conducted a large number of experiments on an open-source data set. The final experimental results show that the guidance from the elite-level teacher models dramatically improves the student model's performance, which exceeds the full-band model by employing fewer parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1539
INTERSPEECH
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiang Hao1247.87
Wen Shixue210.36
Su Xiangdong310.36
Liu Yun412.05
Guanglai Gao57824.57
Xiaofei Li610324.78