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45 results about "Noise masking" patented technology

"Noise masking" refers to any device that produces a white noise sound to prevent someone from hearing voices or other sounds in the environment. Millions of people sleep with a fan at night because it drowns out snoring and other sounds.

Method and system for adaptively adjusting ambient noise of Bluetooth headset

The invention relates to the technical field of audio noise reduction, and discloses a Bluetooth headset environment noise adaptive adjustment method and system, and the method comprises the steps: collecting multi-band sound data of headset environment noise through a preset acoustic sensor array, generating a noise spectrogram, extracting a noise masking threshold through time-frequency joint analysis, and collecting a headset audio signal; next, noise suppression is carried out on the audio signal by using a multi-order digital filter bank to obtain a primary noise reduction signal, the primary noise reduction signal is optimized into an optimized noise reduction signal based on a signal-to-noise ratio, and the frequency response matching degree of the optimized noise reduction signal and the original audio signal is calculated; then, performing phase correction and amplitude-frequency equalization processing according to the frequency response matching degree to obtain an audio equalization parameter; and finally, monitoring residual noise energy based on the parameter, generating a noise regulation and control instruction, driving adaptive sampling, and generating an adaptive noise reduction scheme. According to the invention, the audio noise reduction effect of the Bluetooth earphone can be improved.
Owner:SHENZHEN SHENYU ELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD

Single-microphone acoustic echo and noise suppression

This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for audio signal processing. The present implementations more specifically relate to speech enhancement techniques for separating microphone signals into speech, echo, and noise signals. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may include a delay estimator and an acoustic echo and noise (AEN) decoupling filter. The delay estimator receives a microphone signal via a microphone and a far-end audio signal for output via a speaker and estimates a reference audio signal based on a delay between the microphone signal and the far-end audio signal. In some aspects, the AEN decoupling filter may determine a speech mask, an echo mask, and a noise mask based on the microphone signal and the reference audio signal and may suppress an echo component and a noise component of the microphone signal based on the determined set of masks.
Owner:SYNAPTICS INC

Audio signal processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and vehicle

This application relates to an audio signal processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a vehicle. The method includes: obtaining a first audio signal collected by a sound sensor; processing one or more of human voice information, harmonic information, and burst sound information that are included in the first audio signal, to determine a first noise signal in the first audio signal; adjusting a second audio signal based on the first noise signal and the second audio signal to obtain a third audio signal, where the second audio signal is an original audio source of a play device, and the adjustment includes amplitude adjustment; and playing the third audio signal by using the play device. According to embodiments of this application, a current noise level can be accurately estimated, so that an adjusted audio signal has a better noise masking effect, and auditory experience of a user is better. In addition, in the foregoing process, dependency on non-acoustic state information is avoided, and this adjustment method can be used in a plurality of scenarios, is more flexible, and supports fast deployment.
Owner:YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD

Post-filtering method and system for speech enhancement network

PCT designated stage expiredWO2025077686A1Speech analysisNoiseMicrophone signal
Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a post-filtering method and system for a speech enhancement network. The technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application comprises: acquiring a first speech masking value of a microphone signal output by an ENC module, wherein the first speech masking value is generated on the basis of the microphone signal and a loudspeaker signal to be played, and the microphone signal is aligned with the loudspeaker signal to be played; determining a first residual echo masking value of the microphone signal, calculating a noise masking value of the microphone signal on the basis of the first speech masking value and the first residual echo masking value, and performing overestimation on the first residual echo masking value to obtain a second residual echo masking value; and outputting a second speech masking value on the basis of the noise masking value and the second residual echo masking value, to synthesize a speech enhancement signal of the microphone signal on the basis of the second speech masking value. By using the foregoing technical means, echo residuals in a speech signal can be filtered out, reliability of the speech enhancement network is improved, the speech enhancement effect is improved, and voice call experience of users is optimized.
Owner:GUANGZHOU BAIGUOYUAN INFORMATION TECH CO LTD

Underwater acoustic signal noise reduction method and device, computer equipment and readable storage medium

The embodiment of the invention provides an underwater acoustic signal noise reduction method and device, computer equipment and a readable storage medium. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a to-be-denoised time domain signal of a to-be-denoised underwater sound, and performing feature extraction on the to-be-denoised time domain signal through a target model to obtain a to-be-denoised feature tensor; calculating local position dependence features and local time dependence features between each local feature block and the adjacent feature block in parallel through a local department control circulation unit attention mechanism of the target model to obtain local noise features; calculating global noise features of the feature tensor to be subjected to noise reduction through a global gating circulation unit attention mechanism of the target model; reconstructing a noise time domain signal through a decoder of the target model based on a noise mask matrix generated by fusing the local noise features and the global noise features; and based on the noise time domain signal, performing noise filtering on the to-be-denoised time domain signal to obtain a target waveform signal. Therefore, the accuracy of the waveform signal obtained by reconstruction can be improved.
Owner:PENG CHENG LAB

Mobile phone personalized sound effect adjusting method based on auricle form recognition

The invention discloses a mobile phone personalized sound effect adjusting method based on auricle shape recognition, which comprises the following steps: acquiring three-dimensional shape data of a user auricle through a mobile phone camera, and extracting key parameters such as contour feature points, concave depth and reflection angle of the auricle; calculating a propagation path, a reflection characteristic and a resonance characteristic of sound waves in auricles by using an acoustic modeling technology, and generating a personalized sound effect optimization model; calculating auricle sound insulation characteristics based on an acoustic modeling result, wherein the auricle sound insulation characteristics comprise external noise shielding capability and specific frequency band sound wave absorption capability; when the user answers the call, audio optimization parameters are dynamically generated in combination with the spectral characteristics of the surrounding noise, the frequency band characteristics of the call audio and the personalized sound effect optimization model; dynamically adjusting the audio output setting of the mobile phone based on the audio optimization parameters; according to the method, deep combination of the auricle form and audio optimization is realized, and the personalized auditory experience of the user is improved.
Owner:SHENZHEN ULEFONE TECH CO LTD

Single-microphone acoustic echo and noise suppression

PCT designated stage expiredWO2025049626A1Speech analysisEarpiece/earphone attachmentsNoiseLoudspeaker
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for audio signal processing. The present implementations more specifically relate to speech enhancement techniques for separating microphone signals into speech, echo, and noise signals. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may include a delay estimator and an acoustic echo and noise (AEN) decoupling filter. The delay estimator receives a microphone signal via a microphone and a far-end audio signal for output via a speaker and estimates a reference audio signal based on a delay between the microphone signal and the far-end audio signal. In some aspects, the AEN decoupling filter may determine a speech mask, an echo mask, and a noise mask based on the microphone signal and the reference audio signal and may suppress an echo component and a noise component of the microphone signal based on the determined set of masks.
Owner:SYNAPTICS INC

Conformer-based underwater glider acoustic data processing method and storage medium

ActiveCN120526783BNoiseEngineering
The application discloses a kind of underwater glider acoustic data processing method and storage medium based on Conformer, belong to underwater acoustic signal processing technical field.The method includes: using MCR-AAD model to the original acoustic data collected by glider Effective signal detection, output the probability of each frame as effective signal, and using double threshold post-processing method to determine effective signal and noise signal;The detected effective signal is input into the causal BGformer noise reduction model, generates and reverses noise mask by audio feature fusion, DCC encoder, Conformer decoder and label embedding module, to obtain the audio result after noise reduction.MCR-AAD model is composed of mel feature extractor, multi-scale depth separable convolution, dynamic position coding, Conformer encoder and multi-task classification module.The application constructs efficient, real-time underwater acoustic data processing scheme, effectively improves the application performance of glider in marine observation and target identification.
Owner:TIANJIN UNIV

Audio signal processing method and apparatus, storage medium and vehicle

PendingEP4513324A1Current noiseNoise
This application relates to an audio signal processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a vehicle. The method includes: obtaining a first audio signal collected by a sound sensor; processing one or more of human voice information, harmonic information, and burst sound information that are included in the first audio signal, to determine a first noise signal in the first audio signal; adjusting a second audio signal based on the first noise signal and the second audio signal to obtain a third audio signal, where the second audio signal is an original audio source of a play device, and the adjustment includes amplitude adjustment; and playing the third audio signal by using the play device. According to embodiments of this application, a current noise level can be accurately estimated, so that an adjusted audio signal has a better noise masking effect, and auditory experience of a user is better. In addition, in the foregoing process, dependency on non-acoustic state information is avoided, and this adjustment method can be used in a plurality of scenarios, is more flexible, and supports fast deployment.
Owner:YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD

Sound noise-masking device and masking earphone

ActiveUS12598431B2MicrophonesSustainable transportationMisophoniaNoise
A sound noise-shielding device and a masking earphone are provided in this disclosure. Earphones, hearing aids and noise-masking earplugs are integrated. The noise-masking earplugs are used to directly block real sounds, so that for patients with misophonia, stress response caused by sounds received by the earphones can be reduced, and these sounds can be converted into other acceptable sounds by the bone conduction earphones. Sometimes there may be some mixed sounds at the same time, and the computer can't distinguish them because of their fusion. A separate network is used to extract fused audio separately, and a spectrogram of an individual sound is obtained correspondingly and detected. By training the network, a sound recognition model that can accurately detect sound information can be obtained.
Owner:FOK HIU LING

Single microphone acoustic echo and noise suppression

The invention provides a method, a device and a system for audio signal processing. The present implementations more particularly relate to speech enhancement techniques for separating microphone signals into speech, echo, and noise signals. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may include a delay estimator and an acoustic echo and noise (AEN) decoupling filter. The delay estimator receives a microphone signal via the microphone and receives a far-end audio signal for output via the speaker, and estimates a reference audio signal based on a delay between the microphone signal and the far-end audio signal. In some aspects, an AEN decoupling filter may determine a speech mask, an echo mask, and a noise mask based on a microphone signal and a reference audio signal, and may suppress echo and noise components of the microphone signal based on the determined set of masks.
Owner:SYNAPTICS INC

A method and system for testing low-noise power supplies using waveforms

This invention belongs to the field of communication noise detection and processing technology, and relates to a method and system for testing low-noise power supplies using waveforms. The method connects the power supply under test (DUT) and a voice gateway, and powers them on in real time. The voice gateway is connected to an external noise-shielded environment via its voice interface. Within this environment, the voice gateway is modulated to a periodic state of comfortable noise or a dial tone, and the sound is played. The playing sound is acquired and processed, and based on the processed sound and the sound signal waveform, the noise level of the DUT is detected in real time. This transforms uncontrollable human-induced noise into an electrical signal measurable by an oscilloscope, accurately determining whether the power supply meets requirements. In other words, by utilizing a clean environment, the unmeasurable power frequency noise on the telephone line is converted into a differential-mode signal measurable by an oscilloscope through a physical sound isolation process, providing testers with an objective experimental result.
Owner:GUANGZHOU V-SOLUTION TELECOMM TECH CO LTD

Acoustic characteristic determination method and device, electronic equipment, system and storage medium

The invention provides an acoustic characteristic determination method and device, electronic equipment, a system and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of signal processing. The method comprises the following steps: controlling to continuously input an excitation signal to a detected sounding body, wherein the excitation signal is obtained by splicing an identifier signal different from a main signal in front of the main signal; acquiring a sound response signal which is output by the detected sounding body and aims at the excitation signal; performing cross-correlation analysis on the sound response signal based on the identifier signal to obtain an effective signal corresponding to the main signal contained in the sound response signal; and performing frequency domain analysis on the effective signal to obtain the acoustic characteristics of the detected sounding body. The correlation between the acoustic response signal and the excitation signal is enhanced through the identifier signal, cross-correlation errors caused by time migration, high noise covering and the like are reduced, the accuracy of effective signals is improved, and then the accuracy of acoustic characteristics is improved. In addition, the positions of the identifier signal and the effective signal in the sound response signal are quickly positioned, the algorithm complexity is low, and the signal processing efficiency is high.
Owner:GUANGDONG RUIQIN TECH CO LTD

Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for generating a clear voice signal using a voice and noise modeling based voice

A method performed by an electronic device includes obtaining noisy speech signals, generating a predicted speech mask based on a first subset of the noisy speech signals using a speech mask prediction model, and generating a predicted noise mask based on a second subset of the noisy speech signals using a noise mask prediction model, a predicted filter mask is generated based on the predicted speech mask and the predicted noise mask using the filter mask prediction model, and a clean speech signal is generated using the predicted filter mask.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Automobile air conditioning control method, electronic device, and storage medium

The application discloses a kind of automobile air conditioner control method, electronic equipment and storage medium.The automobile air conditioner control method includes: in response to the start request of air conditioner, control condenser cooling fan earlier than or equal to electric compressor start;In response to the stop request of air conditioner, control condenser cooling fan later than or equal to electric compressor stop.The present application is based on the noise masking effect of human hearing, using condenser cooling fan noise as the incremental source of air conditioning system working background noise, by staggering the start-stop time interval of cooling fan and electric compressor, let the cooling fan start in advance, delay closing, increase the background noise in the process of electric compressor start-stop, solve the abrupt feeling generated by noise mutation in the process of electric compressor start-stop.
Owner:DONGFENG MOTOR CO LTD DONGFENG NISSAN PASSENGER VEHICLE CO

Device for recognizing multi-channel input voice independent on microphone array form and learning method thereof

A device for recognizing a multi-channel input voice includes a time-frequency transformer that receives channel audio signals extracted from voice data recorded through microphones having unspecified microphone array forms and transforms the channel audio signals into time-frequency domain signals, a speaker and noise mask estimator that receives the time-frequency domain signals and estimates a time-frequency domain mask for voices and noise for speakers, a beamformer estimator that estimates a time-frequency domain signal for voice signals of the speakers from which the noise has been removed from the time-frequency domain signals by using the time-frequency domain mask, a time-frequency inverse transformer that inversely transforms the time-frequency domain signal from which the noise has been removed into a time domain signal, and a learning machine that trains the speaker and noise mask estimator based on a loss function obtained by comparing the inversely-transformed time domain signal and a pre-defined answer signal.
Owner:ELECTRONICS & TELECOMM RES INST

Spatio-temporal noise masks for image processing

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate blue noise masks for real-time image rendering and enhancement. In at least one embodiment, a noise mask is generated and applied to one or more images to generate one or more enhanced images for image processing (e.g., real-time image rendering). In at least one embodiment, the noise mask is able to handle the temporal domain (e.g., add time to the spatial domain) to improve image quality when rendering images over multiple frames.
Owner:NVIDIA CORP

A sweep frequency equalization threshold noise test method for rapid detection of cochlear dead zone

The invention relates to the field of noise detection technology, in particular to a swept frequency equalization threshold noise test method for rapid detection of cochlear dead zones, which can measure continuous dead zone results in a large range, solve the problem of isolated test frequency and easy omission of dead zones, and can accurately detect the edge frequency of the dead zone, continuously play the equalization threshold noise, and realize the feedback of hearing or not hearing by continuously pressing or releasing a button, when the subject presses the button, the intensity of the pure tone continuously decreases; when the subject releases the button, the intensity of the pure tone continuously increases, and a sawtooth curve whose hearing threshold constantly fluctuates when masked by the equalization threshold noise is obtained, and the midpoints of each segment of the sawtooth curve are connected to obtain a test result in one direction, and the signal-to-noise ratio of the hearing threshold after masking by the equalization threshold noise is greater than 10dB, and the area where the hearing threshold after masking is 10dB higher than the hearing threshold before masking is determined as the dead zone, and the frequency corresponding to the end point of the curve where the dead zone is located is the edge frequency of the dead zone.
Owner:WUXI QINGER VOICE TECH CO LTD +1

Single-microphone acoustic echo and noise suppression

ActiveUS20250078854A1Speech analysisNoiseLoudspeaker
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for audio signal processing. The present implementations more specifically relate to speech enhancement techniques for separating microphone signals into speech, echo, and noise signals. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may include a delay estimator and an acoustic echo and noise (AEN) decoupling filter. The delay estimator receives a microphone signal via a microphone and a far-end audio signal for output via a speaker and estimates a reference audio signal based on a delay between the microphone signal and the far-end audio signal. In some aspects, the AEN decoupling filter may determine a speech mask, an echo mask, and a noise mask based on the microphone signal and the reference audio signal and may suppress an echo component and a noise component of the microphone signal based on the determined set of masks.
Owner:SYNAPTICS INC

Spatio-temporal noise masks for image processing

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate blue noise masks for real-time image rendering and enhancement. In at least one embodiment, a noise mask is generated and applied to one or more images to generate one or more enhanced images for image processing (e.g., real-time image rendering). In at least one embodiment, the noise mask is able to handle the temporal domain (e.g., add time to the spatial domain) to improve image quality when rendering images over multiple frames.
Owner:NVIDIA CORP

Low-speed prompt tone generation method and device for electric vehicle, vehicle and storage medium

The invention relates to a low-speed warning tone generation method and device of an electric vehicle, the vehicle and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps that the sound style of the low-speed warning tone of the electric vehicle is determined; the whole vehicle frequency response of the electric vehicle and the pedestrian warning indicator frequency response are tested and analyzed, and the main frequency band of the low-speed warning tone is determined; on the basis of the main frequency band, respectively recording in-vehicle noise of the electric vehicle in a low-speed pedestrian warning tone road test and a low-speed pedestrian warning tone-free road test under the condition that the electric vehicle runs at a preset low speed to obtain a frequency range and noise masking data of the in-vehicle road noise, and outputting the in-vehicle road noise after the frequency range and the noise masking data meet preset conditions. And generating a low-speed prompt tone. Therefore, the problems that in the related technology, warning tone generated by an external loudspeaker is transmitted into a cabin through structural sound transmission and air sound transmission ways, so that the sound quality in a vehicle is poor, and the sound pressure level in the vehicle is increased once a self-adaptive control system is used for improving the warning loudness to compensate the external environment noise, and the sound quality is poor are solved. The driving comfort is influenced, and the like.
Owner:CHINA FAW CO LTD

Enhancing audio content

Techniques for enhancing an audio signal are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for enhancing an audio segment may include receiving an input audio segment to be enhanced. The method may also include generating a feature indicative of an audio content type of the input audio segment. The method may also include generating a feature indicative of the presence of noise in the input audio segment by providing at least the feature indicative of the audio content type to the trained de-noising feature extraction model. The method may also include generating a de-noising mask based on a feature indicating the presence of noise in the input audio segment. The method may also include generating an enhanced audio segment at least by applying a de-noising mask to the input audio segment.
Owner:DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORP

Privacy-respecting detection and localization of sounds in autonomous driving applications

The described aspects and implementations enable privacy-respecting detection, separation, and localization of sounds in vehicle environments. The techniques include obtaining, using audio detector(s) of a vehicle, a sound recording that includes a plurality of elemental sounds (ESs) in a driving environment of the vehicle, and processing, using a sound separation model, the sound recording to separate individual ESs of the plurality of ESs. The techniques further include identifying a content of individual ESs and causing a driving path of the vehicle to be modified in view of the identified content of the individual ESs. Further techniques include rendering speech imperceptibly by redacting temporal portions of the speech, using sound recognition models to identify and discard recordings of speech, and driving at speeds that exceed threshold speeds at which speech becomes imperceptible from noise masking.
Owner:WAYMO LLC

Vehicle noise masking device and method

A vehicle noise masking device includes a database configured to store sound sources, a sound source classification unit configured to classify the sound sources into a first sound source group and a second sound source group, a communication unit, a first processing unit configured to analyze components of the noise measurement signals based on the traveling information and classify the noise measurement signals into vehicle-related noise and vehicle-unrelated noise, a second processing unit configured to extract a first masking sound source similar to the vehicle-related noise from the first sound source group, a third processing unit configured to extract a second masking sound source similar to the vehicle-unrelated noise from the second sound source group, and a fourth processing unit configured to generate a third masking sound source using at least one of the first masking sound source and the second masking sound source.
Owner:HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD +1

Method and system for masking noise

The present invention discloses a method and system for masking noise. The method for masking noise includes the following steps: training an intelligent neural network model with a variety of "ideal noises" that can soothe people's body and mind; using the trained intelligent neural network model to identify the actual noise to be masked and form a parameter matching table, the parameter matching table includes noise types, time scaling parameters, and slope transformation parameters, and at the same time obtaining the amplitude ratio of the actual noise; according to the parameter matching table, combined with the user's personalized settings, obtaining the ideal noise type, time scaling parameter, and slope transformation parameter with the best masking effect; generating the best personalized noise masking sound according to the best-matched ideal noise type, time scaling parameter, slope transformation parameter, and the amplitude ratio of the actual noise.
Owner:SHANGHAI ZHENCHENG MICROELECTRONICS TECH CO LTD

Vehicle noise masking apparatus and method

A vehicle noise masking apparatus and method are disclosed. The vehicle noise masking apparatus includes: a database configured to store a sound source; a sound source classification unit configured to classify sound sources into a first sound source group and a second sound source group; a communication unit; a first processing unit configured to analyze a composition of the noise measurement signal based on the driving information and classify the noise measurement signal into vehicle-related noise and vehicle-independent noise, a second processing unit configured to extract a first masking sound source similar to the vehicle-related noise from the first sound source group, a third processing unit configured to extract a second masking sound source similar to the vehicle-independent noise from the second sound source group, and a fourth processing unit configured to extract a second masked sound source similar to the vehicle-independent noise from the second sound source group, and a fourth processing unit configured to generate a third masked sound source using at least one of the first masked sound source and the second masked sound source.
Owner:HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD +1

Intelligent indoor noise reduction and sound scene optimization system

The invention relates to the technical field of indoor environment control, and discloses an intelligent indoor noise reduction and sound scene optimization system, which comprises the following modules: a noise monitoring module; a scene identification module; a user preference module; the sound scene optimization module is configured to dynamically match sound scene resources through a three-dimensional matrix based on the noise data, scene types and user preferences; the active noise reduction module is configured to generate reverse sound waves according to the noise spectrum characteristics, and target noise is counteracted through the loudspeaker array; a sound scene playing module; and an evaluation feedback module. According to the invention, the active noise reduction module is combined to suppress low-frequency and high-frequency noise in a partitioned manner, the noise reduction efficiency is improved, meanwhile, the sound scene optimization module based on the three-dimensional matrix dynamically matches scene requirements and user preferences, double targets of noise covering and sound scene immersion are realized, the user comfort is improved, and the user experience is improved. The loudspeaker is especially suitable for various living spaces, office spaces, commercial areas and special places with high requirements for sound environment.
Owner:HEFEI UNIV OF TECH

A method and system for magnetotelluric signal denoising based on a self-supervised diffusion model

This invention discloses a method and system for denoising magnetotelluric signals based on a self-supervised diffusion model, belonging to the field of magnetotelluric technology. The invention designs the TimeDART diffusion model as a two-stage architecture for constructing a noise classifier model and a diffusion denoising model. The initial input magnetotelluric data first passes through a noise classifier to generate a noise mask to identify target noise regions. Subsequently, the diffusion denoising model based on the diffusion model processes only these noise regions, generating denoised signal segments. Finally, the denoised noise regions are merged with the clean regions of the initial magnetotelluric data. By combining time-frequency analysis and VMD techniques to extract low-frequency trends from the magnetotelluric data, precise noise region localization, differentiated denoising, and smooth fusion can be achieved. While efficiently suppressing noise, it retains the effective signal characteristics to the greatest extent, improving the automation level of noise suppression, signal-to-noise identification accuracy, and denoising accuracy.
Owner:NANCHANG CAMPUS OF EAST CHINA UNIV OF TECH

A Speaker Recognition Method and System for Real Scenarios

The present invention relates to the technical field of speaker recognition, and discloses a speaker recognition method and system for real scenarios, including: acquiring external sound information, processing it through multi-resolution convolutional kernels, extracting features in the time domain and performing feature fusion only in the time domain; after feature fusion in the time domain, using grouped convolution to extract features in the frequency domain, performing processing and feature fusion only in the frequency domain; after feature fusion in the frequency domain, performing masking processing, and finally outputting the recognition result. Through the noise masking module and multi-resolution feature extraction, the extraction of target speaker features is enhanced, and the influence of noise on the recognition result is reduced. At the same time, in a complex noise environment, the system can effectively focus on the target speaker, improving the stability and reliability of recognition. Through multi-scale feature extraction in the time domain and frequency domain, more comprehensive feature information is provided, which helps to capture the subtle differences of speakers.
Owner:SUZHOU UNIV

Privacy-respecting detection and localization of sounds in autonomous driving applications

The described aspects and implementations enable privacy-respecting detection, separation, and localization of sounds in vehicle environments. The techniques include obtaining, using audio detector(s) of a vehicle, a sound recording that includes a plurality of elemental sounds (ESs) in a driving environment of the vehicle, and processing, using a sound separation model, the sound recording to separate individual ESs of the plurality of ESs. The techniques further include identifying a content of individual ESs and causing a driving path of the vehicle to be modified in view of the identified content of the individual ESs. Further techniques include rendering speech imperceptibly by redacting temporal portions of the speech, using sound recognition models to identify and discard recordings of speech, and driving at speeds that exceed threshold speeds at which speech becomes imperceptible from noise masking.
Owner:WAYMO LLC