Smoothed Frame-Level SINR and Its Estimation for Sensor Selection in Distributed Acoustic Sensor Networks
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Distributed acoustic sensor network (DASN) refers to a sound acquisition system that consists of a collection of microphones randomly distributed across a wide acoustic area. Theory and methods for DASN are gaining increasing attention as the associated technologies can be used in a broad range of applications to solve challenging problems. However, unlike traditional microphone arrays or centralized systems, properly exploiting the redundancy among different channels in DASN is facing many challenges including but not limited to variations in pre-amplification gains, clocks, sensors' response, and signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINRs). Selecting appropriate sensors relevant to the task at hand is therefore crucial in DASN. In this work, we propose a speaker-dependent smoothed frame-level SINR estimation method for sensor selection in multi-speaker scenarios, specifically addressing source movement within DASN. Additionally, we devise an approach for similarity measurement to generate dynamic speaker embeddings resilient to variations in reference speech levels. Furthermore, we introduce a novel loss function that integrates classification and ordinal regression within a unified framework. Extensive simulations are performed and the results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method in accurately estimating smoothed frame-level SINR dynamically, yielding state-of-the-art performance.
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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)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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