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Recent work in the domain of speech enhancement has explored the use of self-supervised speech representations to aid in the training of neural speech enhancement models. However, much of this work focuses on using the deepest or final…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 George Close , William Ravenscroft , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze

Simultaneous interpretation, translation of the spoken word in real-time, is both highly challenging and physically demanding. Methods to predict interpreter confidence and the adequacy of the interpreted message have a number of potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Craig Stewart , Nikolai Vogler , Junjie Hu , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Graham Neubig

In the realm of face image quality assesment (FIQA), method based on sample relative classification have shown impressive performance. However, the quality scores used as pseudo-labels assigned from images of classes with low intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Minsoo Kim , Gi Pyo Nam , Haksub Kim , Haesol Park , Ig-Jae Kim

The discrepancy between the cost function used for training a speech enhancement model and human auditory perception usually makes the quality of enhanced speech unsatisfactory. Objective evaluation metrics which consider human perception…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Szu-Wei Fu , Cheng Yu , Tsun-An Hsieh , Peter Plantinga , Mirco Ravanelli , Xugang Lu , Yu Tsao

Unsupervised commonsense question answering is appealing since it does not rely on any labeled task data. Among existing work, a popular solution is to use pre-trained language models to score candidate choices directly conditioned on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yilin Niu , Fei Huang , Jiaming Liang , Wenkai Chen , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

This paper describes our submission of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Sentence Level Direct Assessment, Quality Estimation (QE). In this study, we empirically reveal the \textit{mismatching issue} when directly adopting BERTScore to QE.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Lei Zhou , Liang Ding , Koichi Takeda

In this study, we propose a cross-domain multi-objective speech assessment model called MOSA-Net, which can estimate multiple speech assessment metrics simultaneously. Experimental results show that MOSA-Net can improve the linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Szu-Wei Fu , Fei Chen , Chiou-Shann Fuh , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

Target sound extraction (TSE) is the task of extracting a target sound specified by a query from an audio mixture. Much prior research has focused on the problem setting under the Fully Matched Query (FMQ) condition, where the query…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Ryo Sato , Chiho Haruta , Nobuhiko Hiruma , Keisuke Imoto

One-shot voice conversion (VC), which performs conversion across arbitrary speakers with only a single target-speaker utterance for reference, can be effectively achieved by speech representation disentanglement. Existing work generally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-22 Disong Wang , Liqun Deng , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

For a speech-enhancement algorithm, it is highly desirable to simultaneously improve perceptual quality and recognition rate. Thanks to computational costs and model complexities, it is challenging to train a model that effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Rasool Fakoor , Xiaodong He , Ivan Tashev , Shuayb Zarar

We propose a perceptual video quality assessment (PVQA) metric for distorted videos by analyzing the power spectral density (PSD) of a group of pictures. This is an estimation approach that relies on the changes in video dynamic calculated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Mohammed A. Aabed , Gukyeong Kwon , Ghassan AlRegib

Content-focused research-based assessment instruments typically use items (i.e., questions) as the unit of assessment for scoring, reporting, and validation. Couplet scoring employs an alternative unit of assessment called a couplet, which…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-12-11 Michael Vignal , Gayle Geschwind , Marcos D. Caballero , H. J. Lewandowski

Traditional image quality assessment (IQA) methods rely on mean opinion scores (MOS), which are resource-intensive to collect and fail to provide interpretable, localized feedback on specific image distortions. We overcome these limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fadeel Sher Khan , Long N. Le , Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Seok-Jun Lee , Hamid R. Sheikh

In this paper, we address the well-known image quality assessment problem but in contrast from existing approaches that predict image quality independently for every images, we propose to jointly model different images depicting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Marcelin Tworski , Stéphane Lathuilière

Among the various image quality assessment (IQA) tasks, blind IQA (BIQA) is particularly challenging due to the absence of knowledge about the reference image and distortion type. Features based on natural scene statistics (NSS) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wufeng Xue , Xuanqin Mou , Lei Zhang

We propose a speech enhancement system for multitrack audio. The system will minimize auditory masking while allowing one to hear multiple simultaneous speakers. The system can be used in multiple communication scenarios e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiaojing Liu , Hongwei Ai , Joshua D. Reiss

In speech quality estimation for speech enhancement (SE) systems, subjective listening tests so far are considered as the gold standard. This should be even more true considering the large influx of new generative or hybrid methods into the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Marvin Sach , Yihui Fu , Kohei Saijo , Wangyou Zhang , Samuele Cornell , Robin Scheibler , Chenda Li , Anurag Kumar , Wei Wang , Yanmin Qian , Shinji Watanabe , Tim Fingscheidt

We propose a novel objective evaluation metric for synthesized audio in text-to-audio (TTA), aiming to improve the performance of TTA models. In TTA, subjective evaluation of the synthesized sound is an important, but its implementation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Minoru Kishi , Ryosuke Sakai , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Yusuke Kanamori , Yuki Okamoto

Recent learning-based video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms are expensive to implement due to the cost of data collection of human quality opinions, and are less robust across various scenarios due to the biases of these opinions. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Haoning Wu , Liang Liao , Jingwen Hou , Chaofeng Chen , Erli Zhang , Annan Wang , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

This paper introduces a novel double stimulus subjective assessment methodology for the evaluation of high quality images to address the limitations of existing protocols in detecting subtle perceptual differences. The In-place Double…