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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

The zeros of the spectrogram have proven to be a relevant feature to describe the time-frequency structure of a signal, originated by the destructive interference between components in the time-frequency plane. In this work, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Juan M. Miramont , François Auger , Marcelo A. Colominas , Nils Laurent , Sylvain Meignen

In neural-based audio feature extraction, ensuring that representations capture disentangled information is crucial for model interpretability. However, existing disentanglement methods often rely on assumptions that are highly dependent on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Benoit Ginies , Xiaoyu Bie , Olivier Fercoq , Gaël Richard

We propose a method for noise reduction, the task of producing a clean audio signal from a recording corrupted by additive noise. Many common approaches to this problem are based upon applying non-negative matrix factorization to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Andrew Sack , Wenzhao Jiang , Michael Perlmutter , Palina Salanevich , Deanna Needell

In the study of condensed matter physics, spectral information plays an important role for understand the mechanism of materials. However, it is difficult to obtain the spectrum directly through experiments or simulation. For example, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Haidong Xie , Xueshuang Xiang , Yuanqing Chen

We develop a novel method to separate the components of a diffuse emission process based on an association with the energy spectra. Most of the existing methods use some information about the spatial distribution of components, e.g.,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-07 Dmitry Malyshev

Learning how to localize and separate individual object sounds in the audio channel of the video is a difficult task. Current state-of-the-art methods predict audio masks from artificially mixed spectrograms, known as Mix-and-Separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Tanzila Rahman , Leonid Sigal

Recent years have witnessed the success of deep learning on the visual sound separation task. However, existing works follow similar settings where the training and testing datasets share the same musical instrument categories, which to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Xinchi Zhou , Dongzhan Zhou , Wanli Ouyang , Hang Zhou , Ziwei Liu , Di Hu

In this work, we present a method for learning interpretable music signal representations directly from waveform signals. Our method can be trained using unsupervised objectives and relies on the denoising auto-encoder model that uses a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Stylianos I. Mimilakis , Konstantinos Drossos , Gerald Schuller

Music recommender systems frequently utilize network-based models to capture relationships between music pieces, artists, and users. Although these relationships provide valuable insights for predictions, new music pieces or artists often…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Florian Grötschla , Luca Strässle , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Roger Wattenhofer

We present an algorithm for computing a spectral decomposition of an interval matrix as an enclosure of spectral decompositions of particular realizations of interval matrices. The algorithm relies on tight outer estimations of eigenvalues…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 David Hartman , Milan Hladík , David Říha

This article presents a Non-negative Tensor Factorization based method for sound source separation from Ambisonic microphone signals. The proposed method enables the use of prior knowledge about the Directions-of-Arrival (DOAs) of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Mateusz Guzik , Konrad Kowalczyk

This work aims to examine one of the cornerstone problems of Musical Instrument Retrieval (MIR), in particular, instrument classification. IRMAS (Instrument recognition in Musical Audio Signals) data set is chosen for this purpose. The data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Karthikeya Racharla , Vineet Kumar , Chaudhari Bhushan Jayant , Ankit Khairkar , Paturu Harish

Music is a mysterious language that conveys feeling and thoughts via different tones and timbre. For better understanding of timbre in music, we chose music data of 6 representative instruments, analysed their timbre features and classified…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zishuo Zhao , Haoyun Wang

The interference of fluorescence signals and noise remains a significant challenge in Raman spectrum analysis, often obscuring subtle spectral features that are critical for accurate analysis. Inspired by variational methods similar to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Nelson H. T. Lemes , José Claudinei Ferreira , Higor V. M. Ferreira

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

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

While Spectral Methods have long been used for Principal Component Analysis, this survey focusses on work over the last 15 years with three salient features: (i) Spectral methods are useful not only for numerical problems, but also discrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Ravindran Kannan

Singing voice separation attempts to separate the vocal and instrumental parts of a music recording, which is a fundamental problem in music information retrieval. Recent work on singing voice separation has shown that the low-rank…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-12 Tak-Shing T. Chan , Yi-Hsuan Yang

We present Vibrato Nonnegative Tensor Factorization, an algorithm for single-channel unsupervised audio source separation with an application to separating instrumental or vocal sources with nonstationary pitch from music recordings. Our…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Elliot Creager , Noah D. Stein , Roland Badeau , Philippe Depalle

In this paper we propose spectral tools based on non-decimated complex wavelet transforms implemented by their matrix formulation. This non-decimated complex wavelet spectra utilizes both real and imaginary parts of complex-valued wavelet…

Applications · Statistics 2019-02-05 Taewoon Kong , Brani Vidakovic