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Deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement ordinarily requires clean speech signals as the training target. However, collecting clean signals is very costly because they must be recorded in a studio. This requirement currently…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Takuya Fujimura , Yuma Koizumi , Kohei Yatabe , Ryoichi Miyazaki

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) seeks to model, and thereby exploit, the dynamic relationship between a human voice and the corresponding mouth movements. A recently proposed multimodal fusion strategy, AV Align, based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 George Sterpu , Christian Saam , Naomi Harte

In this paper, we focus on audio violence detection (AVD). AVD is necessary for several reasons, especially in the context of maintaining safety, preventing harm, and ensuring security in various environments. This calls for accurate AVD…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Sarthak Jain , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Arun Balaji Buduru , Rajesh Sharma

The disparity between the computational demands of deep learning and the capabilities of compute hardware is expanding drastically. Although deep learning achieves remarkable performance in countless tasks, its escalating requirements for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiao Wang , Hendrik Borras , Bernhard Klein , Holger Fröning

Retinal artery/vein (A/V) classification plays a critical role in the clinical biomarker study of how various systemic and cardiovascular diseases affect the retinal vessels. Conventional methods of automated A/V classification are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Wenao Ma , Shuang Yu , Kai Ma , Jiexiang Wang , Xinghao Ding , Yefeng Zheng

Unlike traditional visual segmentation, audio-visual segmentation (AVS) requires the model not only to identify and segment objects but also to determine whether they are sound sources. Recent AVS approaches, leveraging transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jia Li , Wenjie Zhao , Ziru Huang , Yunhui Guo , Yapeng Tian

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Speech super-resolution (SR) is a task to increase speech sampling rate by generating high-frequency components. Existing speech SR methods are trained in constrained experimental settings, such as a fixed upsampling ratio. These strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Haohe Liu , Woosung Choi , Xubo Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Qiao Tian , DeLiang Wang

The problem of identifying voice commands has always been a challenge due to the presence of noise and variability in speed, pitch, etc. We will compare the efficacies of several neural network architectures for the speech recognition…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-25 Sanjay Krishna Gouda , Salil Kanetkar , David Harrison , Manfred K Warmuth

Intro: Vocal cord ultrasound (VCUS) has emerged as a less invasive and better tolerated examination technique, but its accuracy is operator dependent. This research aims to apply a machine learning-assisted algorithm to automatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Will Sebelik-Lassiter , Evan Schubert , Muhammad Alliyu , Quentin Robbins , Excel Olatunji , Mustafa Barry

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) often operates on speech segments detected by a Voice Activity Detection (VAD) model. However, VAD models may output flawed speech segments, especially in noisy environments, resulting in degraded…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Natsuo Yamashita , Masaaki Yamamoto , Yohei Kawaguchi

Noise-robust speaker verification leverages joint learning of speech enhancement (SE) and speaker verification (SV) to improve robustness. However, prevailing approaches rely on implicit noise suppression, which struggles to separate noise…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Minu Kim , Kangwook Jang , Hoirin Kim

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have a high capacity to completely memorize noisy labels given sufficient training time, and its memorization, unfortunately, leads to performance degradation. Recently, virtual adversarial training (VAT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Do-Myoung Lee , Yeachan Kim , Chang-gyun Seo

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition is a promising approach to robust ASR under noisy conditions. However, up until recently it had been traditionally studied in isolation assuming the video of a single speaking face matches the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Background: Active noise cancellation has been a subject of research for decades. Traditional techniques, like the Fast Fourier Transform, have limitations in certain scenarios. This research explores the use of deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Brandon Colelough , Andrew Zheng

Speech activity detection (SAD) is an essential component for a variety of speech processing applications. It has been observed that performances of various speech based tasks are very much dependent on the efficiency of the SAD. In this…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Md. Sahidullah , Goutam Saha

Multiple rotation averaging is an essential task for structure from motion, mapping, and robot navigation. The task is to estimate the absolute orientations of several cameras given some of their noisy relative orientation measurements. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Pulak Purkait , Tat-Jun Chin , Ian Reid

This paper proposes an active learning system for sound event detection (SED). It aims at maximizing the accuracy of a learned SED model with limited annotation effort. The proposed system analyzes an initially unlabeled audio dataset, from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Shuyang Zhao , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Humans are adept at leveraging visual cues from lip movements for recognizing speech in adverse listening conditions. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models follow similar approach to achieve robust speech recognition in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Maxime Burchi , Krishna C. Puvvada , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg , Radu Timofte

Recently, video recognition is emerging with the help of multi-modal learning, which focuses on integrating distinct modalities to improve the performance or robustness of the model. Although various multi-modal learning methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Haochen Han , Qinghua Zheng , Minnan Luo , Kaiyao Miao , Feng Tian , Yan Chen