Hanchen Pei

Mingda Lin, Lei Ding, Xinyue Zhou et al.

While pre-trained models excel in specialized tasks, learning universal representations across diverse acoustic domains remains challenging. To address this, we propose WQ-Fusion, a robust dual-encoder framework for cross-domain audio representation learning. Overcoming the limitations of static concatenation, WQ-Fusion integrates whisper and qwen via an Adaptive Feature Modulation module and a novel element-wise gated attention mechanism. This design enables dynamic feature selection, allowing the model to selectively emphasize relevant acoustic and semantic dimensions. Extensive experiments on the Interspeech 2026 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge (Track A) benchmark demonstrate that by effectively routing heterogeneous information, WQ-Fusion achieves a superior overall score of 0.836, significantly outperforming the strongest single-encoder baseline.

Yongyi Deng, Hanchen Pei, Jianbo Ma et al.

The minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer is widely used for multichannel speech enhancement due to strong noise suppression while preserving target signals. In practice, its performance is sensitive to microphone self-noise and array mismatches. Existing approaches typically rely on fixed, manually tuned WNG thresholds or diagonal loading, leading to suboptimal performance under unknown or time-varying acoustic conditions. This paper proposes a data-driven MVDR framework that adaptively estimates the WNG constraint using a deep neural network. The network jointly predicts a time-frequency noise mask for covariance estimation and a frequency-dependent WNG threshold, enabling dynamic robustness-directivity control. A differentiable robust MVDR layer is integrated into the framework, allowing end-to-end optimization. Experiments demonstrate consistent improvements in speech quality and intelligibility over conventional fixed-WNG MVDR methods.

Yaokai Zhang, Hanchen Pei, Wanqi Wang et al.

Deep learning based end-to-end multi-channel speech enhancement methods have achieved impressive performance by leveraging sub-band, cross-band, and spatial information. However, these methods often demand substantial computational resources, limiting their practicality on terminal devices. This paper presents a lightweight multi-channel speech enhancement network with decoupled fully connected attention (LMFCA-Net). The proposed LMFCA-Net introduces time-axis decoupled fully-connected attention (T-FCA) and frequency-axis decoupled fully-connected attention (F-FCA) mechanisms to effectively capture long-range narrow-band and cross-band information without recurrent units. Experimental results show that LMFCA-Net performs comparably to state-of-the-art methods while significantly reducing computational complexity and latency, making it a promising solution for practical applications.