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Seismic data is often sparse and unevenly distributed due to the high costs and logistical challenges associated with deploying physical seismometers, limiting the application of Machine Learning (ML) in earthquake analysis. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Pascal Tribel , Gianluca Bontempi

This paper investigates the design of effective prompt strategies for generating realistic datasets using Text-To-Audio (TTA) models. We also analyze different techniques for efficiently combining these datasets to enhance their utility in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Francesca Ronchini , Ho-Hsiang Wu , Wei-Cheng Lin , Fabio Antonacci

Recent years have seen significant progress in Text-To-Audio (TTA) synthesis, enabling users to enrich their creative workflows with synthetic audio generated from natural language prompts. Despite this progress, the effects of data, model…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sang-gil Lee , Zhifeng Kong , Arushi Goel , Sungwon Kim , Rafael Valle , Bryan Catanzaro

Most tools for astrophysical research was centered on visual display. Even after some studies shows that the use of sound could help the data analysis, and on the other hand generate more accessibility. This fact motivates the creation of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Johanna Casado , Wanda Diaz-Merced , Beatriz García

The evaluation of audio fingerprinting at a realistic scale is limited by the scarcity of large public music databases. We present an audio-free approach that synthesises latent fingerprints which approximate the distribution of real…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Aditya Bhattacharjee , Marco Pasini , Emmanouil Benetos

The emergence of data-driven computational materials science offers unprecedented opportunities to explore complex material landscapes, complementing experimental research with the discovery of novel compounds. To enable these developments,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-30 Holger-Dietrich Saßnick , Joshua Edzards , Timo Reents , Caterina Cocchi

The constant introduction of standardized benchmarks in the literature has helped accelerating the recent advances in meta-learning research. They offer a way to get a fair comparison between different algorithms, and the wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Tristan Deleu , Tobias Würfl , Mandana Samiei , Joseph Paul Cohen , Yoshua Bengio

Recent advancements in music source separation have significantly progressed, particularly in isolating vocals, drums, and bass elements from mixed tracks. These developments owe much to the creation and use of large-scale, multitrack…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Jaime Garcia-Martinez , David Diaz-Guerra , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen , Julio J. Carabias-Orti , Pedro Vera-Candeas

Exact similarity search over large collections of data series is a fundamental operation in modern applications, yet existing solutions are often fragmented, specialized, or tailored to specific execution environments. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Francesca Del Gaudio , Manos Chatzakis , Gayathiri Ravendirane , Botao Peng , Themis Palpanas

Procedural audio, often referred to as "digital Foley", generates sound from scratch using computational processes. It represents an innovative approach to sound-effects creation. However, the development and adoption of procedural audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Nelly Garcia , Joshua Reiss

The quantity of processed data is crucial for advancing the field of singing voice synthesis. While there are tools available for lyric or note transcription tasks, they all need pre-processed data which is relatively time-consuming (e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Siwei Wu , Jinzheng He , Ruibin Yuan , Haojie Wei , Xipin Wei , Chenghua Lin , Jin Xu , Junyang Lin

We present an overview of Sherpa, an open source Python project, and discuss its development history, broad design concepts and capabilities. Sherpa contains powerful tools for combining parametric models into complex expressions that can…

The performance of deep learning (DL) algorithms is heavily influenced by the quantity and the quality of the annotated data. However, in Surgical Data Science, access to it is limited. It is thus unsurprising that substantial research…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Luis C. Garcia-Peraza-Herrera , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren

In conventional studies on environmental sound separation and synthesis using captions, datasets consisting of multiple-source sounds with their captions were used for model training. However, when we collect the captions for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuki Okamoto , Kanta Shimonishi , Keisuke Imoto , Kota Dohi , Shota Horiguchi , Yohei Kawaguchi

This paper presents Crowd-Kit, a general-purpose computational quality control toolkit for crowdsourcing. Crowd-Kit provides efficient and convenient implementations of popular quality control algorithms in Python, including methods for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Dmitry Ustalov , Nikita Pavlichenko , Boris Tseitlin

Manual sound design with a synthesizer is inherently iterative: an artist compares the synthesized output to a mental target, adjusts parameters, and repeats until satisfied. Iterative sound-matching automates this workflow by continually…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Amir Salimi , Abram Hindle , Osmar R. Zaiane

We present WOMBAT, a Python tool which supports NLP practitioners in accessing word embeddings from code. WOMBAT addresses common research problems, including unified access, scaling, and robust and reproducible preprocessing. Code that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Mark-Christoph Müller , Michael Strube

In recent years, the guitar has received increased attention from the music information retrieval (MIR) community driven by the challenges posed by its diverse playing techniques and sonic characteristics. Mainly fueled by deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jackson Loth , Pedro Sarmento , Saurjya Sarkar , Zixun Guo , Mathieu Barthet , Mark Sandler

Software that processes real-world data or that models a physical system must have some way of managing units. While simple approaches like the understood convention that all data are in a unit system (such as the MKS SI unit system) do…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Nathan J. Goldbaum , John A. ZuHone , Matthew J. Turk , Kacper Kowalik , Anna L. Rosen

In recent years, text-to-audio models have revolutionized the field of automatic audio generation. This paper investigates their application in generating synthetic datasets for training data-driven models. Specifically, this study analyzes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci