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In the field of audio signal processing research, source separation has been a popular research topic for a long time and the recent adoption of the deep neural networks have shown a significant improvement in performance. The improvement…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Soochul Park , Ben Sangbae Chon

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 propose Universal target audio Separation (UniSep), addressing the separation task on arbitrary mixtures of different types of audio. Distinguished from previous studies, UniSep is performed on unlimited source domains and unlimited…

Speech enhancement and separation have been a long-standing problem, especially with the recent advances using a single microphone. Although microphones perform well in constrained settings, their performance for speech separation decreases…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Muhammed Zahid Ozturk , Chenshu Wu , Beibei Wang , Min Wu , K. J. Ray Liu

The performance evaluation remains a complex challenge in audio separation, and existing evaluation metrics are often misaligned with human perception, course-grained, relying on ground truth signals. On the other hand, subjective listening…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Helin Wang , Bowen Shi , Andros Tjandra , John Hoffman , Yi-Chiao Wu , Apoorv Vyas , Najim Dehak , Ann Lee , Wei-Ning Hsu

Choral music separation refers to the task of extracting tracks of voice parts (e.g., soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) from mixed audio. The lack of datasets has impeded research on this topic as previous work has only been able to train and…

In sound event detection (SED), overlapping sound events pose a significant challenge, as certain events can be easily masked by background noise or other events, resulting in poor detection performance. To address this issue, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Yang Xiao , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rohan Kumar Das , Chong Deng , Jianfeng Chen

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

Source separation is the task to separate an audio recording into individual sound sources. Source separation is fundamental for computational auditory scene analysis. Previous work on source separation has focused on separating particular…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Qiuqiang Kong , Yuxuan Wang , Xuchen Song , Yin Cao , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Speaker extraction (SE) aims to segregate the speech of a target speaker from a mixture of interfering speakers with the help of auxiliary information. Several forms of auxiliary information have been employed in single-channel SE, such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline -…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Sound event detection is the task of recognizing sounds and determining their extent (onset/offset times) within an audio clip. Existing systems commonly predict sound presence confidence in short time frames. Then, thresholding produces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Janek Ebbers , Francois G. Germain , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Query-based universal sound separation is fundamental to intelligent auditory systems, aiming to isolate specific sources from mixtures. Despite recent advances, existing methods continue to suffer from residual interference in complex…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kai Li , Jintao Cheng , Chang Zeng , Zijun Yan , Helin Wang , Zixiong Su , Bo Zheng , Xiaolin Hu

The ICASSP 2021 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important part of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Kusha Sridhar , Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Tanel Parnamaa , Markus Loide , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun , Robert Aichner , Sriram Srinivasan

In this report, we describe our submitted system for track 2 of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022 (VoxSRC-22). We fuse a variety of good-performing models ranging from supervised models to self-supervised learning(SSL)…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Gang Liu , Tianyan Zhou , Yong Zhao , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Yao Qian , Jian Wu

We introduce PodcastMix, a dataset formalizing the task of separating background music and foreground speech in podcasts. We aim at defining a benchmark suitable for training and evaluating (deep learning) source separation models. To that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Nicolás Schmidt , Jordi Pons , Marius Miron

As part of the 2016 public evaluation challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2016), the second task focused on evaluating sound event detection systems using synthetic mixtures of office sounds. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-16 Grégoire Lafay , Emmanouil Benetos , Mathieu Lagrange

Sound separation (SS) and target sound extraction (TSE) are fundamental techniques for addressing complex acoustic scenarios. While existing SS methods struggle with determining the unknown number of sound sources, TSE approaches require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Hongyu Wang , Chenda Li , Xin Zhou , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

In this paper, we describe in detail our systems for DCASE 2020 Task 4. The systems are based on the 1st-place system of DCASE 2019 Task 4, which adopts weakly-supervised framework with an attention-based embedding-level pooling module and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yuxin Huang , Liwei Lin , Shuo Ma , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian , Min Liu , Kazushige Ouch

Recent advancements in music source separation have significantly progressed, particularly in isolating vocals, drums, and bass elements from mixed tracks. These developments owe much to the creation and use of large-scale, multitrack…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Jaime Garcia-Martinez , David Diaz-Guerra , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen , Julio J. Carabias-Orti , Pedro Vera-Candeas