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Learning from audio-visual data offers many possibilities to express correspondence between the audio and visual content, similar to the human perception that relates aural and visual information. In this work, we present a method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Shanshan Wang , Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros , Tuomas Virtanen

Most of the current supervised automatic music transcription (AMT) models lack the ability to generalize. This means that they have trouble transcribing real-world music recordings from diverse musical genres that are not presented in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kin Wai Cheuk , Dorien Herremans , Li Su

Existing studies on self-supervised speech representation learning have focused on developing new training methods and applying pre-trained models for different applications. However, the quality of these models is often measured by the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Alexander H. Liu , Sung-Lin Yeh , James Glass

Recently, speech representation learning has improved many speech-related tasks such as speech recognition, speech classification, and speech-to-text translation. However, all the above tasks are in the direction of speech understanding,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 He Bai , Renjie Zheng , Junkun Chen , Xintong Li , Mingbo Ma , Liang Huang

We present RAVEn, a self-supervised multi-modal approach to jointly learn visual and auditory speech representations. Our pre-training objective involves encoding masked inputs, and then predicting contextualised targets generated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Alexandros Haliassos , Pingchuan Ma , Rodrigo Mira , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

We investigate unsupervised learning of correspondences between sound events and textual phrases through aligning audio clips with textual captions describing the content of a whole audio clip. We align originally unaligned and unannotated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Huang Xie , Okko Räsänen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to identify, at the pixel level, the object in a visual scene that produces a given sound. Current AVS methods rely on costly fine-grained annotations of mask-audio pairs, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Swapnil Bhosale , Haosen Yang , Diptesh Kanojia , Jiangkang Deng , Xiatian Zhu

Compared with ample visual-text pre-training research, few works explore audio-text pre-training, mostly due to the lack of sufficient parallel audio-text data. Most existing methods incorporate the visual modality as a pivot for audio-text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuenan Xu , Zhiling Zhang , Zelin Zhou , Pingyue Zhang , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

This paper presents NOMAD (Non-Matching Audio Distance), a differentiable perceptual similarity metric that measures the distance of a degraded signal against non-matching references. The proposed method is based on learning deep feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Alessandro Ragano , Jan Skoglund , Andrew Hines

Self-supervised pre-training using so-called "pretext" tasks has recently shown impressive performance across a wide range of modalities. In this work, we advance self-supervised learning from permutations, by pre-training a model to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Andrew N Carr , Quentin Berthet , Mathieu Blondel , Olivier Teboul , Neil Zeghidour

In this study we address the problem of training a neuralnetwork for language identification using both labeled and unlabeled speech samples in the form of i-vectors. We propose a neural network architecture that can also handle out-of-set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Ehud Ben-Reuven , Jacob Goldberger

Acoustic word embeddings are fixed-dimensional representations of variable-length speech segments. In settings where unlabelled speech is the only available resource, such embeddings can be used in "zero-resource" speech search, indexing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Herman Kamper , Yevgen Matusevych , Sharon Goldwater

While deep learning has been incredibly successful in modeling tasks with large, carefully curated labeled datasets, its application to problems with limited labeled data remains a challenge. The aim of the present work is to improve the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Tyler Lee , Ting Gong , Suchismita Padhy , Andrew Rouditchenko , Anthony Ndirango

One of the key factors of enabling machine learning models to comprehend and solve real-world tasks is to leverage multimodal data. Unfortunately, annotation of multimodal data is challenging and expensive. Recently, self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Elad Amrani , Rami Ben-Ari , Daniel Rotman , Alex Bronstein

Recent research indicates that pretraining cross-lingual language models on large-scale unlabeled texts yields significant performance improvements over various cross-lingual and low-resource tasks. Through training on one hundred languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Juntao Li , Ruidan He , Hai Ye , Hwee Tou Ng , Lidong Bing , Rui Yan

Leveraging context information is an intuitive idea to improve performance on conversational automatic speech recognition(ASR). Previous works usually adopt recognized hypotheses of historical utterances as preceding context, which may bias…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Kun Wei , Yike Zhang , Sining Sun , Lei Xie , Long Ma

Supervised learning methods can solve the given problem in the presence of a large set of labeled data. However, the acquisition of a dataset covering all the target classes typically requires manual labeling which is expensive and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

We present an approach for unsupervised learning of speech representation disentangling contents and styles. Our model consists of: (1) a local encoder that captures per-frame information; (2) a global encoder that captures per-utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Andros Tjandra , Ruoming Pang , Yu Zhang , Shigeki Karita

This paper presents XLSR which learns cross-lingual speech representations by pretraining a single model from the raw waveform of speech in multiple languages. We build on wav2vec 2.0 which is trained by solving a contrastive task over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Alexis Conneau , Alexei Baevski , Ronan Collobert , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Michael Auli

The increasing amount of online videos brings several opportunities for training self-supervised neural networks. The creation of large scale datasets of videos such as the YouTube-8M allows us to deal with this large amount of data in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Didac Surís , Amanda Duarte , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto