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Music source separation is important for applications such as karaoke and remixing. Much of previous research focuses on estimating short-time Fourier transform (STFT) magnitude and discarding phase information. We observe that, for singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yixuan Zhang , Yuzhou Liu , DeLiang Wang

Recovering the masked speech frames is widely applied in speech representation learning. However, most of these models use random masking in the pre-training. In this work, we proposed two kinds of masking approaches: (1) speech-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Kexin Zhu , Jing Xiao

Speaker extraction aims to mimic humans' selective auditory attention by extracting a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker environment. It is common to perform the extraction in frequency-domain, and reconstruct the time-domain signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Despite the recent success of deep learning for many speech processing tasks, single-microphone, speaker-independent speech separation remains challenging for two main reasons. The first reason is the arbitrary order of the target and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Nima Mesgarani

This paper proposes an end-to-end approach for single-channel speaker-independent multi-speaker speech separation, where time-frequency (T-F) masking, the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), and its inverse are represented as layers within…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Jonathan Le Roux , DeLiang Wang , John R. Hershey

This paper introduces our approaches for the Mask and Breathing Sub-Challenge in the Interspeech COMPARE Challenge 2020. For the mask detection task, we train deep convolutional neural networks with filter-bank energies, gender-aware…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Haiwei Wu , Lin Zhang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Dong Zhang , Ming Li

This study introduces a novel and interpretable model, DiffVox, for matching vocal effects in music production. DiffVox, short for ``Differentiable Vocal Fx", integrates parametric equalisation, dynamic range control, delay, and reverb with…

Large Speech Language Models (LSLMs) typically operate at high token rates (tokens/s) to ensure acoustic fidelity, yet this results in sequence lengths that far exceed the underlying semantic content, incurring prohibitive inference costs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Bajian Xiang , Tingwei Guo , Xuan Chen , Yang Han

Remote sensing image change description represents an innovative multimodal task within the realm of remote sensing processing.This task not only facilitates the detection of alterations in surface conditions, but also provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dongwei Sun , Jing Yao , Wu Xue , Changsheng Zhou , Pedram Ghamisi , Xiangyong Cao

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

Recently, deep neural network (DNN) based time-frequency (T-F) mask estimation has shown remarkable effectiveness for speech enhancement. Typically, a single T-F mask is first estimated based on DNN and then used to mask the spectrogram of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Liangchen Zhou , Wenbin Jiang , Jingyan Xu , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

Accurate recognition of cocktail party speech containing overlapping speakers, noise and reverberation remains a highly challenging task to date. Motivated by the invariance of visual modality to acoustic signal corruption, an audio-visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Guinan Li , Jiajun Deng , Mengzhe Geng , Zengrui Jin , Tianzi Wang , Shujie Hu , Mingyu Cui , Helen Meng , Xunying Liu

In most current approaches of speech processing, information is extracted from the magnitude spectrum. However recent perceptual studies have underlined the importance of the phase component. The goal of this paper is to investigate the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Thomas Drugman , Thomas Dubuisson , Thierry Dutoit

In recent years, large language models have achieved significant success in generative tasks related to speech, audio, music, and other signal domains. A crucial element of these models is the discrete acoustic codecs, which serve as an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Shengpeng Ji , Minghui Fang , Jialong Zuo , Ziyue Jiang , Dingdong Wang , Hanting Wang , Hai Huang , Zhou Zhao

This work proposes a learnable filterbank based on a multi-channel masking framework for multi-channel source separation. The learnable filterbank is a 1D Conv layer, which transforms the raw waveform into a 2D representation. In contrast…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Wang Dai , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Conventional NMF methods for source separation factorize the matrix of spectral magnitudes. Spectral Phase is not included in the decomposition process of these methods. However, phase of the speech mixture is generally used in…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Chaitanya Ahuja , Karan Nathwani , Rajesh M. Hegde

Target speech separation refers to extracting the target speaker's speech from mixed signals. Despite the recent advances in deep learning based close-talk speech separation, the applications to real-world are still an open issue. Two main…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Rongzhi Gu , Yuexian Zou

As an important component of multimedia analysis tasks, audio classification aims to discriminate between different audio signal types and has received intensive attention due to its wide applications. Generally speaking, the raw signal can…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Liang Gao , Kele Xu , Huaimin Wang , Yuxing Peng

Deep learning based models have significantly improved the performance of speech separation with input mixtures like the cocktail party. Prominent methods (e.g., frequency-domain and time-domain speech separation) usually build regression…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jing Shi , Xuankai Chang , Tomoki Hayashi , Yen-Ju Lu , Shinji Watanabe , Bo Xu

With recent research advancements, deep learning models are becoming attractive and powerful choices for speech enhancement in real-time applications. While state-of-the-art models can achieve outstanding results in terms of speech quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Ivan Tashev