Exploiting spatial information with the informed complex-valued spatial autoencoder for target speaker extraction

Autor: Briegleb, Annika, Halimeh, Mhd Modar, Kellermann, Walter
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095196
Popis: In conventional multichannel audio signal enhancement, spatial and spectral filtering are often performed sequentially. In contrast, it has been shown that for neural spatial filtering a joint approach of spectro-spatial filtering is more beneficial. In this contribution, we investigate the spatial filtering performed by such a time-varying spectro-spatial filter. We extend the recently proposed complex-valued spatial autoencoder (COSPA) for the task of target speaker extraction by leveraging its interpretable structure and purposefully informing the network of the target speaker's position. We show that the resulting informed COSPA (iCOSPA) effectively and flexibly extracts a target speaker from a mixture of speakers. We also find that the proposed architecture is well capable of learning pronounced spatial selectivity patterns and show that the results depend significantly on the training target and the reference signal when computing various evaluation metrics.
Comment: Accepted to 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece. 5 pages, 2 figures
Databáze: arXiv