2020/05/24 by Chi-Chang Lee, Yu-Chen Lin, Lee, Chi-Chang +7
Computer Science · Engineering · Neuroscience · #Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Speech and Audio Processing #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2005.11760
openalex publication_date 2020/05/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Numerous noise adaptation techniques have been proposed to fine-tune deep-learning models in speech enhancement (SE) for mismatched noise environments. Nevertheless, adaptation to a new environment may lead to catastrophic forgetting of the previously learned environments. The catastrophic forgetting issue degrades the performance of SE in real-world embedded devices, which often revisit previous noise environments. The nature of embedded devices does not allow solving the issue with additional storage of all pre-trained models or earlier training data. In this paper, we propose a regularization-based incremental learning SE (SERIL) strategy, complementing existing noise adaptation strategies without using additional storage. With a regularization constraint, the parameters are updated to the new noise environment while retaining the knowledge of the previous noise environments. The experimental results show that, when faced with a new noise domain, the SERIL model outperforms the unadapted SE model. Meanwhile, compared with the current adaptive technique based on fine-tuning, the SERIL model can reduce the forgetting of previous noise environments by 52%. The results verify that the SERIL model can effectively adjust itself to new noise environments while overcoming the catastrophic forgetting issue. The results make SERIL a favorable choice for real-world SE applications, where the noise environment changes frequently.