Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Gil Keren

Mohammad Taghizadeh

Bjoern Schuller

Shuo Liu

The disclosure relates to an audio processing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of audio sensors, each audio sensor configured to receive a respective plurality of audio frames of an audio signal from an audio source, wherein the respective plurality of audio frames defines an audio channel of the audio signal; and a processing circuitry configured to: determine a respective feature set having at least one feature for each audio frame of each of the plurality of audio frames, wherein the plurality of features define a three-dimensional feature array; process the three-dimensional feature array using a neural network, wherein the neural network comprises a self-attention layer configured to process a plurality of two-dimensional sub-arrays of the three-dimensional feature array; and generate an output signal on the basis of the plurality of processed two-dimensional sub-arrays. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a corresponding audio processing method.

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