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Speech enhancement and speech separation are two related tasks, whose purpose is to extract either one or more target speech signals, respectively, from a mixture of sounds generated by several sources. Traditionally, these tasks have been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Jesper Jensen

In sound event detection (SED), overlapping sound events pose a significant challenge, as certain events can be easily masked by background noise or other events, resulting in poor detection performance. To address this issue, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Han Yin , Jisheng Bai , Yang Xiao , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rohan Kumar Das , Chong Deng , Jianfeng Chen

The segmentation of video sequences into foreground and background regions is a low-level process commonly used in video content analysis and smart surveillance applications. Using a multispectral camera setup can improve this process by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Pierre-Luc St-Charles , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Robert Bergevin

We introduce a state-of-the-art audio-visual on-screen sound separation system which is capable of learning to separate sounds and associate them with on-screen objects by looking at in-the-wild videos. We identify limitations of previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , Tal Remez , John R. Hershey

This paper deals with the problem of audio source separation. To handle the complex and ill-posed nature of the problems of audio source separation, the current state-of-the-art approaches employ deep neural networks to obtain instrumental…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Naoya Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

Sound Event Detection (SED) is challenging in noisy environments where overlapping sounds obscure target events. Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) aims to isolate the target sound events from a noisy clip. However, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Han Yin , Yang Xiao , Jisheng Bai , Rohan Kumar Das

Sound event detection (SED) and Acoustic scene classification (ASC) are two widely researched audio tasks that constitute an important part of research on acoustic scene analysis. Considering shared information between sound events and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Daniel Aleksander Krause , Annamaria Mesaros

We propose a completely unsupervised method to understand audio scenes observed with random microphone arrangements by decomposing the scene into its constituent sources and their relative presence in each microphone. To this end, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Jonah Casebeer , Michael Colomb , Paris Smaragdis

Sound event detection is a challenging task, especially for scenes with multiple simultaneous events. While event classification methods tend to be fairly accurate, event localization presents additional challenges, especially when large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Sandeep Kothinti , Keisuke Imoto , Debmalya Chakrabarty , Gregory Sell , Shinji Watanabe , Mounya Elhilali

Given the recent surge in developments of deep learning, this article provides a review of the state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for audio signal processing. Speech, music, and environmental sound processing are considered…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hendrik Purwins , Bo Li , Tuomas Virtanen , Jan Schlüter , Shuo-yiin Chang , Tara Sainath

A recent class of hyperspectral anomaly detection methods can be trained once on background datasets and then deployed universally without per-scene retraining or parameter tuning, showing strong efficiency and robustness. Building upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wenping Jin , Li Zhu , Fei Guo

Visual sound source separation aims at identifying sound components from a given sound mixture with the presence of visual cues. Prior works have demonstrated impressive results, but with the expense of large multi-stage architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Lingyu Zhu , Esa Rahtu

The weakly supervised sound event detection problem is the task of predicting the presence of sound events and their corresponding starting and ending points in a weakly labeled dataset. A weak dataset associates each training sample (a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Robert Stevenson , Laura N. Kloepper

This paper proposes to use low-level spatial features extracted from multichannel audio for sound event detection. We extend the convolutional recurrent neural network to handle more than one type of these multichannel features by learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Sharath Adavanne , Pasi Pertilä , Tuomas Virtanen

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 focus on the real-world problem of training accurate deep models for image classification of a small number of rare categories. In these scenarios, almost all images belong to the background category in the dataset (>95% of the dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ravi Teja Mullapudi , Fait Poms , William R. Mark , Deva Ramanan , Kayvon Fatahalian

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

This paper presents a novel method for extracting acoustic features that characterise the background environment in audio recordings. These features are based on the output of an alignment that fits multiple parallel background--based…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Oscar Saz , Mortaza Doulaty , Thomas Hain

Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

This work aims to advance sound event detection (SED) research by presenting a new large language model (LLM)-powered dataset namely wild domestic environment sound event detection (WildDESED). It is crafted as an extension to the original…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das