P6-08: Cooperative Node-Specific Speech Enhancement in Resource-Constrained Acoustic Sensor Networks
Rameshbabu, Rajesh*, Fernando, Rashen, Xu, Yuezhong, Corey, Ryan
Subjects (starting with primary): Acoustic sensor networks ; Noise reduction ; Speaker separation, extraction and diarization
Presented in Poster Session 6
We study node-specific speech enhancement in a distributed acoustic sensor network with one microphone per node, where each node retains its local talkers while suppressing competing speech, music, and background noise. We compare local-only and graph-conditioned models using matched backbone architectures under different communication regimes. Local processing already provides strong gains under favorable conditions, but degrades in low-SNR, high-interference scenarios. In these regimes, cross-node cooperation improves SI-SDR by up to 4.8~dB over the matched local model. We further characterize the performance--bandwidth tradeoff: low-rate bottleneck sharing provides moderate gains, whereas full feature sharing achieves the best performance at substantially higher communication cost.
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