We report, for the first time, the concept and generation of a novel Fresnel hologram called the digital binary mask programmable hologram (BMPH). A BMPH is comprised of a static, high resolution binary grating that is overlaid with a lower resolution binary mask. The reconstructed image of the BMPH can be programmed to approximate a target image (including both intensity and depth information)...

Processing noisy signals using the ideal binary mask improves automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance. This paper presents the first study that investigates the role of binary mask patterns in ASR under various noises, signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), and vocabulary sizes. Binary masks are computed either by comparing the SNR within a time-frequency unit of a mixture signal with a local cr...

It has been shown that large gains in speech intelligibility can be obtained by using the binary mask approach which retains the time-frequency (T-F) units of the mixture signal that are stronger than the interfering noise (masker) (i.e., SNR>0 dB), and removes the T-F units where the interfering noise dominates. In this paper, we introduce a new binary mask for improving speech intelligibility...

In this paper, we propose a joint optimal method for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and ideal binary mask (IBM) estimation in transformed into the cepstral domain through a newly derived generalized expectation maximization algorithm. First, cepstral domain missing feature marginalization is established using a linear transformation, after tying the mean and variance of non-existing cepstra...

Single channel speech enhancement is necessary where the multichannel speech enhancement is not feasible due to space constraints in the intended device and cost-effectiveness. However, the problem of having limited information from single channel sound signal mixtures or unavailability of the speech source signals makes it more difficult to separate the target speech from the background masker...

At a cocktail party, a listener can selectively attend to a single voice and filter out other acoustical interferences. How to simulate this perceptual ability remains a great challenge. This paper describes a novel supervised learning approach to speech segregation, in which a target speech signal is separated from interfering sounds using spatial location cues: interaural time differences (IT...

At a cocktail party, one can selectively attend to a single voice and filter out all the other acoustical interferences. How to simulate this perceptual ability remains a great challenge. This paper describes a novel, supervised learning approach to speech segregation, in which a target speech signal is separated from interfering sounds using spatial localization cues: interaural time differenc...

Raster document coders are typically based on the use of a binary mask layer that efficiently encodes the text and graphic content. While these methods can yield much higher compression ratios than natural image compression methods, the binary representation tends to distort fine document details, such as thin lines, and text edges. In this paper, we describe a method for encoding and decoding ...