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This study introduces a novel unsupervised approach for separating overlapping heart and lung sounds using variational autoencoders (VAEs). In clinical settings, these sounds often interfere with each other, making manual separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

We consider the problem of audio voice separation for binaural applications, such as earphones and hearing aids. While today's neural networks perform remarkably well (separating $4+$ sources with 2 microphones) they assume a known or fixed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhongweiyang Xu , Romit Roy Choudhury

The state of the art in music source separation employs neural networks trained in a supervised fashion on multi-track databases to estimate the sources from a given mixture. With only few datasets available, often extensive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

This work focuses on reliable detection of bird sound emissions as recorded in the open field. Acoustic detection of avian sounds can be used for the automatized monitoring of multiple bird taxa and querying in long-term recordings for…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ilyas Potamitis

We propose a method for the blind separation of sounds of musical instruments in audio signals. We describe the individual tones via a parametric model, training a dictionary to capture the relative amplitudes of the harmonics. The model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Sören Schulze , Johannes Leuschner , Emily J. King

Real-world sound scenes consist of time-varying collections of sound sources, each generating characteristic sound events that are mixed together in audio recordings. The association of these constituent sound events with their mixture and…

Separating an audio scene such as a cocktail party into constituent, meaningful components is a core task in computer audition. Deep networks are the state-of-the-art approach. They are trained on synthetic mixtures of audio made from…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux , Bryan Pardo

The task of blind source separation (BSS) involves separating sources from a mixture without prior knowledge of the sources or the mixing system. Single-channel mixtures and non-linear mixtures are a particularly challenging problem in BSS.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Matthew B. Webster , Joonnyong Lee

Given recent advances in deep music source separation, we propose a feature representation method that combines source separation with a state-of-the-art representation learning technique that is suitably repurposed for computer audition…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Gabriel Mersy , Jin Hong Kuan

This paper deals with the problem of audio source separation. To handle the complex and ill-posed nature of the problems of audio source separation, the current state-of-the-art approaches employ deep neural networks to obtain instrumental…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Naoya Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

We showcase an unsupervised method that repurposes deep models trained for music generation and music tagging for audio source separation, without any retraining. An audio generation model is conditioned on an input mixture, producing a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ethan Manilow , Patrick O'Reilly , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo

Segmenting objects in images and separating sound sources in audio are challenging tasks, in part because traditional approaches require large amounts of labeled data. In this paper we develop a neural network model for visual object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Andrew Rouditchenko , Hang Zhao , Chuang Gan , Josh McDermott , Antonio Torralba

Identifying acoustic events from a continuously streaming audio source is of interest for many applications including environmental monitoring for basic research. In this scenario neither different event classes are known nor what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Matthias Meyer , Jan Beutel , Lothar Thiele

Deep learning approaches have recently achieved impressive performance on both audio source separation and sound classification. Most audio source separation approaches focus only on separating sources belonging to a restricted domain of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey , Aren Jansen , Daniel P. W. Ellis

Hyperspectral image analysis has become an important topic widely researched by the remote sensing community. Classification and segmentation of such imagery help understand the underlying materials within a scanned scene, since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Jakub Nalepa , Michal Myller , Yasuteru Imai , Ken-ichi Honda , Tomomi Takeda , Marek Antoniak

Training neural networks for source separation involves presenting a mixture recording at the input of the network and updating network parameters in order to produce an output that resembles the clean source. Consequently, supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shrikant Venkataramani , Efthymios Tzinis , Paris Smaragdis

In recent years, music source separation has been one of the most intensively studied research areas in music information retrieval. Improvements in deep learning lead to a big progress in music source separation performance. However, most…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Jie Hwan Lee , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Kyogu Lee

Discriminative models for source separation have recently been shown to produce impressive results. However, when operating on sources outside of the training set, these models can not perform as well and are cumbersome to update. Classical…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Shrikant Venkataramani , Efthymios Tzinis , Paris Smaragdis

Deep learning techniques for separating audio into different sound sources face several challenges. Standard architectures require training separate models for different types of audio sources. Although some universal separators employ a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ke Chen , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

Unsupervised spoken term discovery consists of two tasks: finding the acoustic segment boundaries and labeling acoustically similar segments with the same labels. We perform segmentation based on the assumption that the frame feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Saurabhchand Bhati , Jesús Villalba , Piotr Żelasko , Najim Dehak