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We present a framework to model the perceived quality of audio signals by combining convolutional architectures, with ideas from classical signal processing, and describe an approach to enhancing perceived acoustical quality. We demonstrate…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Prateek Verma , Jonathan Berger

Deep learning has dramatically improved the performance of sounds recognition. However, learning acoustic models directly from the raw waveform is still challenging. Current waveform-based models generally use time-domain convolutional…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Boqing Zhu , Changjian Wang , Feng Liu , Jin Lei , Zengquan Lu , Yuxing Peng

In this paper, we present an end-to-end approach for environmental sound classification based on a 1D Convolution Neural Network (CNN) that learns a representation directly from the audio signal. Several convolutional layers are used to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sajjad Abdoli , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Transformer, an attention-based encoder-decoder model, has already revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some pioneering works have recently been done on employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Liu , Yao Zhang , Yixin Wang , Feng Hou , Jin Yuan , Jiang Tian , Yang Zhang , Zhongchao Shi , Jianping Fan , Zhiqiang He

We present a framework for learning multimodal representations from unlabeled data using convolution-free Transformer architectures. Specifically, our Video-Audio-Text Transformer (VATT) takes raw signals as inputs and extracts multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Hassan Akbari , Liangzhe Yuan , Rui Qian , Wei-Hong Chuang , Shih-Fu Chang , Yin Cui , Boqing Gong

In the era of pre-trained language models, Transformers are the de facto choice of model architectures. While recent research has shown promise in entirely convolutional, or CNN, architectures, they have not been explored using the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yi Tay , Mostafa Dehghani , Jai Gupta , Dara Bahri , Vamsi Aribandi , Zhen Qin , Donald Metzler

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

Deep learning models such as CNNs and Transformers have achieved impressive performance for end-to-end audio tagging. Recent works have shown that despite stacking multiple layers, the receptive field of CNNs remains severely limited.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Shubhr Singh , Christian J. Steinmetz , Emmanouil Benetos , Huy Phan , Dan Stowell

Modern day audio signal classification techniques lack the ability to classify low feature audio signals in the form of spectrographic temporal frequency data representations. Additionally, currently utilized techniques rely on full diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Noel Elias

In this paper, we study the performance of variants of well-known Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures on different audio tasks. We show that tuning the Receptive Field (RF) of CNNs is crucial to their generalization. An…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Khaled Koutini , Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

This study explores the design and application of Complex-Valued Convolutional Neural Networks (CVCNNs) in audio signal processing, with a focus on preserving and utilizing phase information often neglected in real-valued networks. We begin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Naman Agrawal

A novel and efficient end-to-end learning model for automatic modulation classification is proposed for wireless spectrum monitoring applications, which automatically learns from the time domain in-phase and quadrature data without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Kaisheng Liao , Yaodong Zhao , Jie Gu , Yaping Zhang , Yi Zhong

Conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in the real domain have been widely used for audio classification. However, their convolution operations process multi-channel inputs independently, limiting the ability to capture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Arshdeep Singh , Vinayak Abrol , Mark D. Plumbley

Convolution neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded in compressive image sensing. However, due to the inductive bias of locality and weight sharing, the convolution operations demonstrate the intrinsic limitations in modeling the long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Dongjie Ye , Zhangkai Ni , Hanli Wang , Jian Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

When optimizing convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a specific image-based task, specialists commonly overshoot the number of convolutional layers in their designs. By implication, these CNNs are unnecessarily resource intensive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mats L. Richter , Julius Schöning , Anna Wiedenroth , Ulf Krumnack

Speech representation models based on the transformer architecture and trained by self-supervised learning have shown great promise for solving tasks such as speech and speaker recognition, keyword spotting, emotion detection, and more.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Teresa Dorszewski , Lenka Tětková , Lars Kai Hansen

Fine-tuning of self-supervised models is a powerful transfer learning method in a variety of fields, including speech processing, since it can utilize generic feature representations obtained from large amounts of unlabeled data.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Shinta Otake , Rei Kawakami , Nakamasa Inoue

This study explores the field of audio classification from raw waveform using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a method that eliminates the need for extracting specialised features in the pre-processing step. Unlike recent trends in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Rajib Rana , Tasnim Jarin , Bjorn W. Schuller

We describe in this report our audio scene recognition system submitted to the DCASE 2016 challenge. Firstly, given the label set of the scenes, a label tree is automatically constructed. This category taxonomy is then used in the feature…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Huy Phan , Lars Hertel , Marco Maass , Philipp Koch , Alfred Mertins