Noisy Environment
Research on noisy environments focuses on improving the robustness of various systems to background noise and data corruption, aiming to maintain performance in real-world conditions. Current efforts concentrate on developing noise-robust algorithms and models, including those based on deep learning architectures like U-Nets, transformers, and convolutional neural networks, often incorporating techniques like speech enhancement, data augmentation, and multi-modal fusion. These advancements are crucial for applications ranging from speech recognition and speaker verification to robot navigation and machine translation, where reliable performance in noisy settings is paramount. The ultimate goal is to create systems that are not only accurate but also resilient to the unpredictable nature of real-world data.
Papers
Sound Matters: Auditory Detectability of Mobile Robots
Subham Agrawal, Marlene Wessels, Jorge de Heuvel, Johannes Kraus, Maren Bennewitz
What is Learnt by the LEArnable Front-end (LEAF)? Adapting Per-Channel Energy Normalisation (PCEN) to Noisy Conditions
Hanyu Meng, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah