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Recently, end-to-end speaker extraction has attracted increasing attention and shown promising results. However, its performance is often inferior to that of a blind source separation (BSS) counterpart with a similar network architecture,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Zifeng Zhao , Dongchao Yang , Rongzhi Gu , Haoran Zhang , Yuexian Zou

For reliable transmission across a noisy communication channel, classical results from information theory show that it is asymptotically optimal to separate out the source and channel coding processes. However, this decomposition can fall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Kristy Choi , Kedar Tatwawadi , Aditya Grover , Tsachy Weissman , Stefano Ermon

Source separation and other audio applications have traditionally relied on the use of short-time Fourier transforms as a front-end frequency domain representation step. The unavailability of a neural network equivalent to forward and…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Shrikant Venkataramani , Jonah Casebeer , Paris Smaragdis

Source separation is a fundamental task in speech, music, and audio processing, and it also provides cleaner and larger data for training generative models. However, improving separation performance in practice often depends on increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yongsheng Feng , Yuetonghui Xu , Jiehui Luo , Hongjia Liu , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Wei Li

Many of the recent advances in speech separation are primarily aimed at synthetic mixtures of short audio utterances with high degrees of overlap. Most of these approaches need an additional stitching step to stitch the separated speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Rohit Paturi , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Katrin Kirchhoff , Daniel Garcia-Romero

Fake audio attack becomes a major threat to the speaker verification system. Although current detection approaches have achieved promising results on dataset-specific scenarios, they encounter difficulties on unseen spoofing data.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Haoxin Ma , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai , Zhengkun Tian , Chenglong Wang

Consider a time series of measurements of the state of an evolving system, x(t), where x has two or more components. This paper shows how to perform nonlinear blind source separation; i.e., how to determine if these signals are equal to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-07 David N. Levin

Separating an audio scene into isolated sources is a fundamental problem in computer audition, analogous to image segmentation in visual scene analysis. Source separation systems based on deep learning are currently the most successful…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux , Bryan Pardo

Fully-supervised models for source separation are trained on parallel mixture-source data and are currently state-of-the-art. However, such parallel data is often difficult to obtain, and it is cumbersome to adapt trained models to mixtures…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Ge Zhu , Jordan Darefsky , Fei Jiang , Anton Selitskiy , Zhiyao Duan

Speech separation has been studied in time domain because of lower latency and higher performance compared to time-frequency domain. The masking-based method has been mostly used in time domain, and the other common method (mapping-based)…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chenyang Gao , Yue Gu , Ivan Marsic

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

Source separation is the process of isolating individual sounds in an auditory mixture of multiple sounds [1], and has a variety of applications ranging from speech enhancement and lyric transcription [2] to digital audio production for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bradford Derby , Lucas Dunker , Samarth Galchar , Shashank Jarmale , Akash Setti

Audio source separation is the task of isolating sound sources that are active simultaneously in a room captured by a set of microphones. Convolutive audio source separation of equal number of sources and microphones has a number of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Dimitrios Mallis , Thomas Sgouros , Nikolaos Mitianoudis

The task of manipulating the level and/or effects of individual instruments to recompose a mixture of recordings, or remixing, is common across a variety of applications such as music production, audio-visual post-production, podcasts, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Haici Yang , Shivani Firodiya , Nicholas J. Bryan , Minje Kim

Noisy speech separation systems are typically trained on fully-synthetic mixtures, limiting generalization to real-world scenarios. Though training on mixtures of in-domain (thus often noisy) speech is possible, we show that this leads to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Matthew Maciejewski , Samuele Cornell

Speech separation is a fundamental task in audio processing, typically addressed with fully supervised systems trained on paired mixtures. While effective, such systems typically rely on synthetic data pipelines, which may not reflect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Runwu Shi , Kai Li , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Sihan Tan , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Neurophysiological time series, such as electromyographic signal and intracortical recordings, are typically composed of many individual spiking sources, the recovery of which can give fundamental insights into the biological system of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Alexander Kenneth Clarke , Dario Farina

We present a new method for separating a mixed audio sequence, in which multiple voices speak simultaneously. The new method employs gated neural networks that are trained to separate the voices at multiple processing steps, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Eliya Nachmani , Yossi Adi , Lior Wolf

Although great progresses have been made in automatic speech recognition (ASR), significant performance degradation is still observed when recognizing multi-talker mixed speech. In this paper, we propose and evaluate several architectures…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yanmin Qian , Xuankai Chang , Dong Yu

Text-independent speaker verification is an important artificial intelligence problem that has a wide spectrum of applications, such as criminal investigation, payment certification, and interest-based customer services. The purpose of…

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