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In this paper, we propose a deep learning based system for the task of deepfake audio detection. In particular, the draw input audio is first transformed into various spectrograms using three transformation methods of Short-time Fourier…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Lam Pham , Phat Lam , Truong Nguyen , Huyen Nguyen , Alexander Schindler

Improving generalization is a major challenge in audio classification due to labeled data scarcity. Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods tackle this by leveraging unlabeled data to learn useful features for downstream classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Melikasadat Emami , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

In anomalous sound detection, the discriminative method has demonstrated superior performance. This approach constructs a discriminative feature space through the classification of the meta-information labels for normal sounds. This feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Takuya Fujimura , Ibuki Kuroyanagi , Tomoki Toda

Use of an autoencoder (AE) as a normal model is a state-of-the-art technique for unsupervised-anomaly detection in sounds (ADS). The AE is trained to minimize the sample mean of the anomaly score of normal sounds in a mini-batch. One…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Yuma Koizumi , Shoichiro Saito , Masataka Yamaguchi , Shin Murata , Noboru Harada

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) aims at identifying anomalous sounds from machines and has gained extensive research interests from both academia and industry. However, the uncertainty of anomaly location and much redundant information such…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Jun Du , Lei Wang , Mingqi Cai , Xin Fang

Few-shot image classification is a challenging task in the field of machine learning, involving the identification of new categories using a limited number of labeled samples. In recent years, methods based on local descriptors have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Bingchen Yan

In this work, we explore the usage of the Frequency Transformation for reducing the domain shift between the source and target domain (e.g., synthetic image and real image respectively) towards solving the Domain Adaptation task. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Vikash Kumar , Himanshu Patil , Rohit Lal , Anirban Chakraborty

In this paper, we propose a method for incremental learning of two distinct tasks over time: acoustic scene classification (ASC) and audio tagging (AT). We use a simple convolutional neural network (CNN) model as an incremental learner to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Manjunath Mulimani , Annamaria Mesaros

For our submission to the ZeroSpeech 2019 challenge, we apply discrete latent-variable neural networks to unlabelled speech and use the discovered units for speech synthesis. Unsupervised discrete subword modelling could be useful for…

Unsupervised anomalous sound detection aims to detect unknown anomalous sounds by training a model using only normal audio data. Despite advancements in self-supervised methods, the issue of frequent false alarms when handling samples of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Shun Huang , Zhihua Fang , Liang He

In this work, we propose an approach that features deep feature embedding learning and hierarchical classification with triplet loss function for Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC). In the one hand, a deep convolutional neural network is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Lam Pham , Ian McLoughlin , Huy Phan , Ramaswamy Palaniappan , Alfred Mertins

This paper presents a context-aware framework for feature selection and classification procedures to realize a fast and accurate audio event annotation and classification. The context-aware design starts with exploring feature extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 M. Mehrdad Morsali , Hoda Mohammadzade , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Continuously learning new classes without catastrophic forgetting is a challenging problem for on-device environmental sound classification given the restrictions on computation resources (e.g., model size, running memory). To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yang Xiao , Xubo Liu , James King , Arshdeep Singh , Eng Siong Chng , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

This paper proposes a novel framework for unsupervised audio source separation using a deep autoencoder. The characteristics of unknown source signals mixed in the mixed input is automatically by properly configured autoencoders implemented…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Giljin Jang , Han-Gyu Kim , Yung-Hwan Oh

Dialect variation hampers automatic recognition of bird calls collected by passive acoustic monitoring. We address the problem on DB3V, a three-region, ten-species corpus of 8-s clips, and propose a deployable framework built on Time-Delay…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiani Ding , Qiyang Sun , Alican Akman , Björn W. Schuller

We propose a new framework to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in resource-scarce environments using a generative adversarial network (GAN) operating on acoustic input features. The GAN is used to enhance the features of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Walter Heymans , Marelie H. Davel , Charl van Heerden

Since the introduction of Masked Autoencoders, various improvements to masking techniques have been explored. In this paper, we rethink masking strategies for audio representation learning using masked prediction-based self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Masahiro Yasuda , Binh Thien Nguyen , Noboru Harada , Nobutaka Ono

Producing a large annotated speech corpus for training ASR systems remains difficult for more than 95% of languages all over the world which are low-resourced, but collecting a relatively big unlabeled data set for such languages is more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Kuan-Yu Chen , Che-Ping Tsai , Da-Rong Liu , Hung-Yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

When the task of locating manipulation regions in partially-fake audio (PFA) involves cross-domain datasets, the performance of deep learning models drops significantly due to the shift between the source and target domains. To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Siding Zeng , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Yujie Chen , Shan Liang , Yong Ren , Xiaohui Zhang

While there has been much recent progress using deep learning techniques to separate speech and music audio signals, these systems typically require large collections of isolated sources during the training process. When extending audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Fatemeh Pishdadian , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux