Title
Towards Low-Distortion Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement: The ESPNET-Se Submission to the L3DAS22 Challenge
Abstract
This paper describes our submission to the L3DAS22 Challenge Task 1, which consists of speech enhancement with 3D Ambisonic microphones. The core of our approach combines Deep Neural Network (DNN) driven complex spectral mapping with linear beamformers such as the multi-frame multi-channel Wiener filter. Our proposed system has two DNNs and a linear beamformer in between. Both DNNs are trained to perform complex spectral mapping, using a combination of waveform and magnitude spectrum losses. The estimated signal from the first DNN is used to drive a linear beamformer, and the beamforming result, together with this enhanced signal, are used as extra inputs for the second DNN which refines the estimation. Then, from this new estimated signal, the linear beamformer and second DNN are run iteratively. The proposed method was ranked first in the challenge, achieving, on the evaluation set, a ranking metric of 0.984, versus 0.833 of the challenge baseline.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ICASSP43922.2022.9747146
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yen-Ju Lu100.68
Samuele Cornell200.68
Xuankai Chang3244.34
Wangyou Zhang4125.44
Chenda Li543.83
Zhaoheng Ni600.68
Zhong-Qiu Wang7689.93
Shinji Watanabe81158139.38