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In this paper, we study whether music source separation can be used as a pre-training strategy for music representation learning, targeted at music classification tasks. To this end, we first pre-train U-Net networks under various music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Christos Garoufis , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos

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

Segmenting objects in images and separating sound sources in audio are challenging tasks, in part because traditional approaches require large amounts of labeled data. In this paper we develop a neural network model for visual object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Andrew Rouditchenko , Hang Zhao , Chuang Gan , Josh McDermott , Antonio Torralba

We propose a knowledge-driven, model-based approach to segmenting audio into single-category and mixed-category chunks with applications to source separation. "Knowledge" here denotes information associated with the data, such as music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Chun-wei Ho , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Kai Li , Chin-Hui Lee

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

Isolating individual instruments in a musical mixture has a myriad of potential applications, and seems imminently achievable given the levels of performance reached by recent deep learning methods. While most musical source separation…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jonathan Le Roux

The performance of deep learning models for music source separation heavily depends on training data quality. However, datasets are often corrupted by difficult-to-detect artifacts such as audio bleeding and label noise. Since the type and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Azalea Gui , Woosung Choi , Junghyun Koo , Kazuki Shimada , Takashi Shibuya , Joan Serrà , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Yuki Mitsufuji

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

Recently, significant progress has been made in audio source separation by the application of deep learning techniques. Current methods that combine both audio and visual information use 2D representations such as images to guide the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Francesc Lluís , Vasileios Chatziioannou , Alex Hofmann

Deep learning-based works for singing voice separation have performed exceptionally well in the recent past. However, most of these works do not focus on allowing users to interact with the model to improve performance. This can be crucial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ankur Gupta , Anshul Rai , Archit Bansal , Vipul Arora

The state of the art in music source separation employs neural networks trained in a supervised fashion on multi-track databases to estimate the sources from a given mixture. With only few datasets available, often extensive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

Separating a song into vocal and accompaniment components is an active research topic, and recent years witnessed an increased performance from supervised training using deep learning techniques. We propose to apply the visual information…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Bochen Li , Yuxuan Wang , Zhiyao Duan

We present a joint audio-visual model for isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of sounds such as other speakers and background noise. Solving this task using only audio as input is extremely challenging and does not provide an…

We study the problem of source separation for music using deep learning with four known sources: drums, bass, vocals and other accompaniments. State-of-the-art approaches predict soft masks over mixture spectrograms while methods working on…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Alexandre Défossez , Nicolas Usunier , Léon Bottou , Francis Bach

Deep convolutional neural networks are known to specialize in distilling compact and robust prior from a large amount of data. We are interested in applying deep networks in the absence of training dataset. In this paper, we introduce deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu , Dingzeyu Li

Music mixing traditionally involves recording instruments in the form of clean, individual tracks and blending them into a final mixture using audio effects and expert knowledge (e.g., a mixing engineer). The automation of music production…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Giorgio Fabbro , Stefan Uhlich , Chihiro Nagashima , Yuki Mitsufuji

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

Universal sound separation aims to extract clean audio tracks corresponding to distinct events from mixed audio, which is critical for artificial auditory perception. However, current methods heavily rely on artificially mixed audio for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xize Cheng , Slytherin Wang , Zehan Wang , Rongjie Huang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Deep learning approaches have recently achieved impressive performance on both audio source separation and sound classification. Most audio source separation approaches focus only on separating sources belonging to a restricted domain of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey , Aren Jansen , Daniel P. W. Ellis

Deep learning-based approaches to musical source separation are often limited to the instrument classes that the models are trained on and do not generalize to separate unseen instruments. To address this, we propose a few-shot musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yu Wang , Daniel Stoller , Rachel M. Bittner , Juan Pablo Bello