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Recently, direct modeling of raw waveforms using deep neural networks has been widely studied for a number of tasks in audio domains. In speaker verification, however, utilization of raw waveforms is in its preliminary phase, requiring…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Jee-weon Jung , Hee-Soo Heo , Ju-ho Kim , Hye-jin Shim , Ha-Jin Yu

This paper describes a speaker diarization model based on target speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) using transformers. To overcome the original TS-VAD model's drawback of being unable to handle an arbitrary number of speakers, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Dongmei Wang , Xiong Xiao , Naoyuki Kanda , Takuya Yoshioka , Jian Wu

Video anomaly detection (VAD) with weak supervision has achieved remarkable performance in utilizing video-level labels to discriminate whether a video frame is normal or abnormal. However, current approaches are inherently limited to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Jing Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Voice activity detection (VAD) is essential in speech-based systems, but traditional methods detect only speech presence without identifying speakers. Target-speaker VAD (TS-VAD) extends this by detecting the speech of a known speaker using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Wen-Yung Wu , Pei-Chin Hsieh , Tai-Shih Chi

Neural network-based vocoders have recently demonstrated the powerful ability to synthesize high-quality speech. These models usually generate samples by conditioning on spectral features, such as Mel-spectrogram and fundamental frequency,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Yunchao He , Yujun Wang

In this work, we propose a new mathematical vocoder algorithm(modified spectral inversion) that generates a waveform from acoustic features without phase estimation. The main benefit of using our proposed method is that it excludes the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Hyun Gon Ryu , Jeong-Hoon Kim , Simon See

Precise detection of speech endpoints is an important factor which affects the performance of the systems where speech utterances need to be extracted from the speech signal such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system. Existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-26 Tanmoy Roy , Tshilidzi Marwala , Snehashish Chakraverty

Previous VoIP steganalysis methods face great challenges in detecting speech signals at low embedding rates, and they are also generally difficult to perform real-time detection, making them hard to truly maintain cyberspace security. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Zhongliang Yang , Hao Yang , Yuting Hu , Yongfeng Huang , Yu-Jin Zhang

We present MarbleNet, an end-to-end neural network for Voice Activity Detection (VAD). MarbleNet is a deep residual network composed from blocks of 1D time-channel separable convolution, batch-normalization, ReLU and dropout layers. When…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Fei Jia , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

Learning a generative model from partial data (data with missingness) is a challenging area of machine learning research. We study a specific implementation of the Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes (AEVB) algorithm, named in this paper as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Amir Zadeh , Yao-Chong Lim , Paul Pu Liang , Louis-Philippe Morency

Current state-of-the-art speech recognition systems build on recurrent neural networks for acoustic and/or language modeling, and rely on feature extraction pipelines to extract mel-filterbanks or cepstral coefficients. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Neil Zeghidour , Qiantong Xu , Vitaliy Liptchinsky , Nicolas Usunier , Gabriel Synnaeve , Ronan Collobert

We propose the ViNet architecture for audio-visual saliency prediction. ViNet is a fully convolutional encoder-decoder architecture. The encoder uses visual features from a network trained for action recognition, and the decoder infers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Samyak Jain , Pradeep Yarlagadda , Shreyank Jyoti , Shyamgopal Karthik , Ramanathan Subramanian , Vineet Gandhi

This paper introduces a new method for multi-channel time domain speech separation in reverberant environments. A fully-convolutional neural network structure has been used to directly separate speech from multiple microphone recordings,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

Single-channel, speaker-independent speech separation methods have recently seen great progress. However, the accuracy, latency, and computational cost of such methods remain insufficient. The majority of the previous methods have…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

Deep neural network-based systems have significantly improved the performance of speaker diarization tasks. However, end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) systems often struggle to generalize to scenarios with an unseen number of speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

Turn-taking management is crucial for any social interaction. Still, it is challenging to model human-machine interaction due to the complexity of the social context and its multimodal nature. Unlike conventional systems based on silence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Takeshi Saga , Catherine Pelachaud

Self-supervised learning approaches have lately achieved great success on a broad spectrum of machine learning problems. In the field of speech processing, one of the most successful recent self-supervised models is wav2vec 2.0. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Marie Kunešová , Zbyněk Zajíc

Recent advances in Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) have introduced sophisticated algorithms leveraging embeddings generated by pre-trained feature extractors. Inspired by these developments, we investigate the adaptation of such algorithms…

Target-speaker voice activity detection is currently a promising approach for speaker diarization in complex acoustic environments. This paper presents a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (Seq2Seq-TSVAD)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Ming Cheng , Weiqing Wang , Yucong Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Personal Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) is crucial for identifying target speaker segments in the mixture, yet its performance heavily depends on the quality of speaker embeddings. A key practical limitation is the short enrollment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Fuyuan Feng , Wenbin Zhang , Yu Gao , Longting Xu , Xiaofeng Mou , Yi Xu