Interaural coherence induced ideal binary mask for binaural speech separation and dereverberation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We have proposed a spatial-cue based binaural noise reduction algorithm for hearing aids. However, in that algorithm, decision parameters are empirically selected. In this paper, we extend the work and propose a supervised classification algorithm for binaural speech enhancement/separation and dereverberation using a modified ideal binary mask (mIBM) as the training target and simple neural networks (NNs) as classifiers. The low complexity of the simple NNs makes the proposed algorithm practical for binaural hearing aids. The interaural time difference (ITD) and the interaural level difference (ILD) of each T-F unit are extracted as the basic binaural features. For the purpose of dereverberation, the interaural coherence (IC) is also considered when building the target mIBM and training the NNs. For separation evaluations, our method yields comparable performance to a more complicated benchmark system, which cannot de-reverb the signal. For concurrent separation and dereverberation, our method offers 4 to 5 dB improvement on the frequency-weighted segmental speech-to-noise ratio (SNRfw) over unprocessed speech.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".