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This paper targets a new scenario that integrates speech separation with speech compression, aiming to disentangle multiple speakers while producing discrete representations for efficient transmission or storage, with applications in online…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Hui-Peng Du , Yang Ai , Xiao-Hang Jiang , Rui-Chen Zheng , Zhen-Hua Ling

Advances in deep learning have resulted in state-of-the-art performance for many audio classification tasks but, unlike humans, these systems traditionally require large amounts of data to make accurate predictions. Not every person or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Piper Wolters , Chris Careaga , Brian Hutchinson , Lauren Phillips

Strong labels are a necessity for evaluation of sound event detection methods, but often scarcely available due to the high resources required by the annotation task. We present a method for estimating strong labels using crowdsourced weak…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

The Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events Challenge Task 4 aims to advance sound event detection (SED) systems in domestic environments by leveraging training data with different supervision uncertainty. Participants…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Samuele Cornell , Janek Ebbers , Constance Douwes , Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros , Romain Serizel

Constructing fine-grained image datasets typically requires domain-specific expert knowledge, which is not always available for crowd-sourcing platform annotators. Accordingly, learning directly from web images becomes an alternative method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Chuanyi Zhang , Yazhou Yao , Xiangbo Shu , Zechao Li , Zhenmin Tang , Qi Wu

Source separation for music is the task of isolating contributions, or stems, from different instruments recorded individually and arranged together to form a song. Such components include voice, bass, drums and any other…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Alexandre Défossez , Nicolas Usunier , Léon Bottou , Francis Bach

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

We tackle the problem of audiovisual scene analysis for weakly-labeled data. To this end, we build upon our previous audiovisual representation learning framework to perform object classification in noisy acoustic environments and integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sanjeel Parekh , Alexey Ozerov , Slim Essid , Ngoc Duong , Patrick Pérez , Gaël Richard

We propose a method of separating a desired sound source from a single-channel mixture, based on either a textual description or a short audio sample of the target source. This is achieved by combining two distinct models. The first model,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Kevin Kilgour , Beat Gfeller , Qingqing Huang , Aren Jansen , Scott Wisdom , Marco Tagliasacchi

Deep clustering is the first method to handle general audio separation scenarios with multiple sources of the same type and an arbitrary number of sources, performing impressively in speaker-independent speech separation tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-30 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , John R. Hershey , Jonathan Le Roux , Nima Mesgarani

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) and sound event detection (SED) are fundamental tasks in environmental sound analysis, and many methods based on deep learning have been proposed. Considering that information on acoustic scenes and sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Keisuke Imoto , Yuka Komatsu , Shunsuke Tsubaki , Tatsuya Komatsu

Data-based and learning-based sound source localization (SSL) has shown promising results in challenging conditions, and is commonly set as a classification or a regression problem. Regression-based approaches have certain advantages over…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

We propose a time-domain audio source separation method using down-sampling (DS) and up-sampling (US) layers based on a discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The proposed method is based on one of the state-of-the-art deep neural networks,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tomohiko Nakamura , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Many recent source separation systems are designed to separate a fixed number of sources out of a mixture. In the cases where the source activation patterns are unknown, such systems have to either adjust the number of outputs or to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

Separating an audio scene such as a cocktail party into constituent, meaningful components is a core task in computer audition. Deep networks are the state-of-the-art approach. They are trained on synthetic mixtures of audio made from…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux , Bryan Pardo

We present a novel source separation model to decompose asingle-channel speech signal into two speech segments belonging to two different speakers. The proposed model is a neural network based on residual blocks, and uses learnt speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Shuo Liu , Gil Keren , Björn Schuller

Weakly labeled datasets such as AudioSet have driven recent progress in audio tagging. However, annotation quality varies across sound classes. Labels may be incomplete, ambiguous, or unreliable, which introduces class-dependent supervision…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yuanbo Hou , Zhaoyi Liu , Tong Ye , Qiaoqiao Ren , Jian Guan , Wenwu Wang , Stephen Roberts

Universal sound separation (USS) is a task of separating mixtures of arbitrary sound sources. Typically, universal separation models are trained from scratch in a supervised manner, using labeled data. Self-supervised learning (SSL) is an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Junqi Zhao , Xubo Liu , Jinzheng Zhao , Yi Yuan , Qiuqiang Kong , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Identification and localization of sounds are both integral parts of computational auditory scene analysis. Although each can be solved separately, the goal of forming coherent auditory objects and achieving a comprehensive spatial scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Ivo Trowitzsch , Christopher Schymura , Dorothea Kolossa , Klaus Obermayer