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Impressive progress in neural network-based single-channel speech source separation has been made in recent years. But those improvements have been mostly reported on anechoic data, a situation that is hardly met in practice. Taking the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Thilo von Neumann , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

The audio source separation tasks, such as speech enhancement, speech separation, and music source separation, have achieved impressive performance in recent studies. The powerful modeling capabilities of deep neural networks give us hope…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Lu Zhang , Chenxing Li , Feng Deng , Xiaorui Wang

Fully-supervised models for source separation are trained on parallel mixture-source data and are currently state-of-the-art. However, such parallel data is often difficult to obtain, and it is cumbersome to adapt trained models to mixtures…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Ge Zhu , Jordan Darefsky , Fei Jiang , Anton Selitskiy , Zhiyao Duan

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a powerful tool for decomposing mixtures of audio signals in the Time-Frequency (TF) domain. In applications such as source separation, the phase recovery for each extracted component is a major…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Paul Magron , Roland Badeau , Bertrand David

We present a study of a phase-separation process induced by the presence of spatially-correlated multiplicative noise. We develop a mean-field approach suitable for conserved-order-parameter systems and use it to obtain the phase diagram of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Ibanes , J. Garcia-Ojalvo , R. Toral , J. M. Sancho

Music source separation is the task of separating a mixture of instruments into constituent tracks. Music source separation models are typically trained using only audio data, although additional information can be used to improve the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Eetu Tunturi , David Diaz-Guerra , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

This paper presents a novel method for extracting the vocal track from a musical mixture. The musical mixture consists of a singing voice and a backing track which may comprise of various instruments. We use a convolutional network with…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

Audio source separation is a difficult machine learning problem and performance is measured by comparing extracted signals with the component source signals. However, if separation is motivated by the ultimate goal of re-mixing then…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Andrew J. R Simpson , Gerard Roma , Mark D. Plumbley

Visual sound source separation aims at identifying sound components from a given sound mixture with the presence of visual cues. Prior works have demonstrated impressive results, but with the expense of large multi-stage architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Lingyu Zhu , Esa Rahtu

Binaural audio remains underexplored within the music information retrieval community. Motivated by the rising popularity of virtual and augmented reality experiences as well as potential applications to accessibility, we investigate how…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Richa Namballa , Agnieszka Roginska , Magdalena Fuentes

Existing methods utilizing spatial information for sound source separation require prior knowledge of the direction of arrival (DOA) of the source or utilize estimated but imprecise localization results, which impairs the separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Donghang Wu , Xihong Wu , Tianshu Qu

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

Most music source separation systems require large collections of isolated sources for training, which can be difficult to obtain. In this work, we use musical scores, which are comparatively easy to obtain, as a weak label for training a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yun-Ning Hung , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Modern audio is created by mixing stems from different sources, raising the question: can we independently watermark each stem and recover all watermarks after separation? We study a separation-first, multi-stream watermarking…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Houmin Sun , Zi Hu , Linxi Li , Yechen Wang , Liwei Jin , Ming Li

This paper introduces a phase-aware probabilistic model for audio source separation. Classical source models in the short-term Fourier transform domain use circularly-symmetric Gaussian or Poisson random variables. This is equivalent to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen

The cocktail party problem aims at isolating any source of interest within a complex acoustic scene, and has long inspired audio source separation research. Recent efforts have mainly focused on separating speech from noise, speech from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Darius Petermann , Gordon Wichern , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Jonathan Le Roux

We study the single-channel source separation problem involving orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals, which are ubiquitous in many modern-day digital communication systems. Related efforts have been pursued in monaural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Gary C. F. Lee , Amir Weiss , Alejandro Lancho , Yury Polyanskiy , Gregory W. Wornell

Decomposition of an audio mixture into harmonic and percussive components, namely harmonic/percussive source separation (HPSS), is a useful pre-processing tool for many audio applications. Popular approaches to HPSS exploit the distinctive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-14 Yoshiki Masuyama , Kohei Yatabe , Yasuhiro Oikawa

Emulating the human ability to solve the cocktail party problem, i.e., focus on a source of interest in a complex acoustic scene, is a long standing goal of audio source separation research. Much of this research investigates separating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Darius Petermann , Gordon Wichern , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Jonathan Le Roux

In Gaussian model-based multichannel audio source separation, the likelihood of observed mixtures of source signals is parametrized by source spectral variances and by associated spatial covariance matrices. These parameters are estimated…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Mahmoud Fakhry , Piergiorgio Svaizer , Maurizio Omologo