P7-08: Flexible Multi-Channel Target Speaker Extraction Using Geometry-Conditioned Spatially Selective Non-linear Filters
Li, Jiatong*, Middelberg, Wiebke, Doclo, Simon
Subjects (starting with primary): Microphone array processing ; Speaker separation, extraction and diarization
Presented in Poster Session 7
Recently, a spatially selective non-linear filter (SSF) has been proposed for target speaker extraction, using the target direction-of-arrival (DOA) as a spatial cue. Since learned intermediate features are tied to the microphone geometry, the performance of the SSF degrades significantly when evaluated on mismatched array geometries. In this paper, we propose a geometry-conditioned SSF (GC-SSF), which incorporates a geometry-conditioning branch based on FiLM layers. Furthermore, we propose a feature that jointly encodes the DOA and the microphone positions (DOA-MPE). The conditioning branch modulates the intermediate feature maps of the SSF using the DOA-MPE feature to capture the spatial relationship between the microphone positions and the target speaker. Experimental results across circular, uniform linear, and random microphone arrays show that the proposed GC-SSF generalizes better to mismatched geometries while maintaining high spatial selectivity, demonstrating its ability to effectively adapt the filtering process to different array geometries.
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