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Denoising without access to clean data using a partitioned autoencoder

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2015-09-24 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

Training a denoising autoencoder neural network requires access to truly clean data, a requirement which is often impractical. To remedy this, we introduce a method to train an autoencoder using only noisy data, having examples with and without the signal class of interest. The autoencoder learns a partitioned representation of signal and noise, learning to reconstruct each separately. We illustrate the method by denoising birdsong audio (available abundantly in uncontrolled noisy datasets) using a convolutional autoencoder.

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@article{arxiv.1509.05982,
  title  = {Denoising without access to clean data using a partitioned autoencoder},
  author = {Dan Stowell and Richard E. Turner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05982},
  year   = {2015}
}
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