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Extracting fine-grained features such as styles from unlabeled data is crucial for data analysis. Unsupervised methods such as variational autoencoders (VAEs) can extract styles that are usually mixed with other features. Conditional VAEs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Suguru Yasutomi , Toshihisa Tanaka

This paper addresses the problem of separating audio sources from time-varying convolutive mixtures. We propose a probabilistic framework based on the local complex-Gaussian model combined with non-negative matrix factorization. The…

This paper introduces a modified variational autoencoder (VAEs) that contains an additional neural network branch. The resulting branched VAE (BVAE) contributes a classification component based on the class labels to the total loss and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ahmed Salah , David Yevick

Recent progress in singing voice separation has primarily focused on supervised deep learning methods. However, the scarcity of ground-truth data with clean musical sources has been a problem for long. Given a limited set of labeled data,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Zhepei Wang , Ritwik Giri , Umut Isik , Jean-Marc Valin , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

The problem of speech separation, also known as the cocktail party problem, refers to the task of isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of speech signals. Previous work on source separation derived an upper bound for the source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Shahar Lutati , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

In recent studies, diffusion models have shown promise as priors for solving audio inverse problems. These models allow us to sample from the posterior distribution of a target signal given an observed signal by manipulating the diffusion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Chin-Yun Yu , Emilian Postolache , Emanuele Rodolà , György Fazekas

In this paper we present a new implementation of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) for the calibration of sensors. We propose that the VAE can be used to calibrate sensor data by training the latent space as a calibration output. We discuss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Travis Barrett , Amit Kumar Mishra , Joyce Mwangama

One of the obstacles in many-to-many voice conversion is the requirement of the parallel training data, which contain pairs of utterances with the same linguistic content spoken by different speakers. Since collecting such parallel data is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Keonnyeong Lee , In-Chul Yoo , Dongsuk Yook

We provide an example of a distribution preserving source separation method, which aims at addressing perceptual shortcomings of state-of-the-art methods. Our approach uses unconditioned generative models of signal sources. Reconstruction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Pedro J. Villasana T. , Janusz Klejsa , Lars Villemoes , Per Hedelin

Current performance evaluation for audio source separation depends on comparing the processed or separated signals with reference signals. Therefore, common performance evaluation toolkits are not applicable to real-world situations where…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Emad M. Grais , Hagen Wierstorf , Dominic Ward , Russell Mason , Mark D. Plumbley

Existing salient instance detection (SID) methods typically learn from pixel-level annotated datasets. In this paper, we present the first weakly-supervised approach to the SID problem. Although weak supervision has been considered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Label noise - incorrect labels assigned to observations - can substantially degrade the performance of supervised classifiers. This paper proposes a label noise cleaning method based on Bernoulli random sampling. We show that the mean label…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Yuxin Liu , Xiong Jin , Yang Han

Data-driven fault diagnostics of safety-critical systems often faces the challenge of a complete lack of labeled data associated with faulty system conditions (i.e., fault types) at training time. Since an unknown number and nature of fault…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Manuel Arias Chao , Bryan T. Adey , Olga Fink

In this paper, we introduce a simple method that can separate arbitrary musical instruments from an audio mixture. Given an unaligned MIDI transcription for a target instrument from an input mixture, we synthesize new mixtures from the midi…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ethan Manilow , Bryan Pardo

The high cost of pixel-level annotations makes it appealing to train saliency detection models with weak supervision. However, a single weak supervision source usually does not contain enough information to train a well-performing model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yu Zeng , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , Lihe Zhang , Mingyang Qian , Yizhou Yu

Blind source separation (BSS) seeks to recover latent source signals from observed mixtures. Variational autoencoders (VAEs) offer a natural perspective for this problem: the latent variables can be interpreted as source components, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Yuan-Hao Wei , Fu-Hao Deng , Lin-Yong Cui , Yan-Jie Sun

The detection of anomalous sounds in machinery operation presents a significant challenge due to the difficulty in generalizing anomalous acoustic patterns. This task is typically approached as an unsupervised learning or novelty detection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Seunghyeon Shin , Seokjin Lee

Separating two sources from an audio mixture is an important task with many applications. It is a challenging problem since only one signal channel is available for analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for singing voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhe-Cheng Fan , Yen-Lin Lai , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

We address the task of weakly-supervised few-shot image classification and segmentation, by leveraging a Vision Transformer (ViT) pretrained with self-supervision. Our proposed method takes token representations from the self-supervised ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Dahyun Kang , Piotr Koniusz , Minsu Cho , Naila Murray

A novel model was recently proposed by Schulze-Forster et al. in [1] for unsupervised music source separation. This model allows to tackle some of the major shortcomings of existing source separation frameworks. Specifically, it eliminates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Gael Richard , Pierre Chouteau , Bernardo Torres