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General-purpose audio representations have proven effective across diverse music information retrieval applications, yet their utility in intelligent music production remains limited by insufficient understanding of audio effects (Fx).…

Today, the optimal performance of existing noise-suppression algorithms, both data-driven and those based on classic statistical methods, is range bound to specific levels of instantaneous input signal-to-noise ratios. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Rasool Fakoor , Xiaodong He , Ivan Tashev , Shuayb Zarar

We present an end-to-end deep learning approach to denoising speech signals by processing the raw waveform directly. Given input audio containing speech corrupted by an additive background signal, the system aims to produce a processed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-18 Francois G. Germain , Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

Deep learning is very data hungry, and supervised learning especially requires massive labeled data to work well. Machine listening research often suffers from limited labeled data problem, as human annotations are costly to acquire, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Ho-Hsiang Wu , Chieh-Chi Kao , Qingming Tang , Ming Sun , Brian McFee , Juan Pablo Bello , Chao Wang

This paper introduces Open-Amp, a synthetic data framework for generating large-scale and diverse audio effects data. Audio effects are relevant to many musical audio processing and Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks, such as modelling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Alec Wright , Alistair Carson , Lauri Juvela

Deep neural networks work well at approximating complicated functions when provided with data and trained by gradient descent methods. At the same time, there is a vast amount of existing functions that programmatically solve different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Alon Jacovi , Guy Hadash , Einat Kermany , Boaz Carmeli , Ofer Lavi , George Kour , Jonathan Berant

Retouching can significantly elevate the visual appeal of photos, but many casual photographers lack the expertise to do this well. To address this problem, previous works have proposed automatic retouching systems based on supervised…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Yuanming Hu , Hao He , Chenxi Xu , Baoyuan Wang , Stephen Lin

Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Runwu Shi , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Rui Zhang , Nabeela Khan , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

We introduce a data-driven approach to automatic pitch correction of solo singing performances. The proposed approach predicts note-wise pitch shifts from the relationship between the respective spectrograms of the singing and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Sanna Wager , George Tzanetakis , Cheng-i Wang , Minje Kim

In this paper, we present a deep-learning method to filter out effects such as ambient noise, reflections, or source directivity from microphone array data represented as cross-spectral matrices. Specifically, we focus on a generative…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Christof Puhle

Accurately estimating nonlinear audio effects without access to paired input-output signals remains a challenging problem. This work studies unsupervised probabilistic approaches for solving this task. We introduce a method, novel for this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Eloi Moliner , Michal Švento , Alec Wright , Lauri Juvela , Pavel Rajmic , Vesa Välimäki

Deep learning has the potential to enhance speech signals and increase their intelligibility for users of hearing aids. Deep models suited for real-world application should feature a low computational complexity and low processing delay of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Nils L. Westhausen , Hendrik Kayser , Theresa Jansen , Bernd T. Meyer

An important use of private data is to build machine learning classifiers. While there is a burgeoning literature on differentially private classification algorithms, we find that they are not practical in real applications due to two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Ben Stoddard , Yan Chen , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

In this work, we tackle a problem of speech emotion classification. One of the issues in the area of affective computation is that the amount of annotated data is very limited. On the other hand, the number of ways that the same emotion can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Egor Lakomkin , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Neural audio autoencoders create compact latent representations that preserve perceptually important information, serving as the foundation for both modern audio compression systems and generation approaches like next-token prediction and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Dimitrios Bralios , Paris Smaragdis , Jonah Casebeer

Many software engineering tasks, such as testing, and anomaly detection can benefit from the ability to infer a behavioral model of the software.Most existing inference approaches assume access to code to collect execution sequences. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Foozhan Ataiefard , Mohammad Jafar Mashhadi , Hadi Hemmati , Niel Walkinshaw

Learning to program an audio production VST plugin is a time consuming process, usually obtained through inefficient trial and error and only mastered after extensive user experience. We propose a white-box, iterative system that provides…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Christopher Mitcheltree , Hideki Koike

In this paper, we introduce a simple method that can separate arbitrary musical instruments from an audio mixture. Given an unaligned MIDI transcription for a target instrument from an input mixture, we synthesize new mixtures from the midi…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ethan Manilow , Bryan Pardo

Complex-valued processing has brought deep learning-based speech enhancement and signal extraction to a new level. Typically, the process is based on a time-frequency (TF) mask which is applied to a noisy spectrogram, while complex masks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

This work focuses on reliable detection of bird sound emissions as recorded in the open field. Acoustic detection of avian sounds can be used for the automatized monitoring of multiple bird taxa and querying in long-term recordings for…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ilyas Potamitis