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A Dual-branch Convolutional Network Architecture Processing on both Frequency and Time Domain for Single-channel Speech Enhancement

Kanghao Zhang, College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University, China, Shulin He, College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University, China, Hao Li, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Key Laboratory of Urban Land Resources Monitoring and Simulation, Ministry of Natural Resources, China, Xueliang Zhang, College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University, China, cszxl@imu.edu.cn
 
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Kanghao Zhang, Shulin He, Hao Li and Xueliang Zhang (2023), "A Dual-branch Convolutional Network Architecture Processing on both Frequency and Time Domain for Single-channel Speech Enhancement", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 12: No. 3, e19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/116.00000083

Publication Date: 24 May 2023
© 2023 K. Zhang, S. He, H. Li and X. Zhang
 
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Deep learningspeech enhancementtime-domain processingfrequency-domain processingfeature normalization
 

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Introduction 
Problem Formulation 
Dual-Branch Architecture 
Experimental Settings 
Results, Comparisons and Analyses 
Conclusion 
References 

Abstract

Single-channel speech enhancement aims to remove the interfering noise and reverberation in real environments by a single microphone, which is a very challenging task in the speech signal processing field. Over the past years, deep learning has shown great potential for speech enhancement. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time framework, called DBCN, which is a dual-branch architecture. One branch takes waveform as its input for time-domain modeling and the other one takes shift real spectrum as input for frequency-domain modeling. The two branches have the same network structure, which is the representative convolutional recurrent network. To exchange information sufficiently, a bridge module is added between the two branches. Furthermore, we propose a novel feature normalization approach that enables each band to complete the normalization independently by counting the root mean square of each band and obtaining the inter-frame relationship for each band. The proposed approach allows the network to ignore the magnitude during processing, reducing learning difficulty and improving performance. Systematical evaluation and comparison are conducted. Experimental results show that the proposed system substantially outperforms related algorithms for causal and non-causal speech enhancement under very challenging environments.

DOI:10.1561/116.00000083

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