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Sound event localization and detection (SELD) aims to determine the appearance of sound classes, together with their Direction of Arrival (DOA). However, current SELD systems can only predict the activities of specific classes, for example,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Jinzheng Zhao , Xinyuan Qian , Yong Xu , Haohe Liu , Yin Cao , Davide Berghi , Wenwu Wang

Recent advances in generating synthetic captions based on audio and related metadata allow using the information contained in natural language as input for other audio tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel method to guide a sound event…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

In this work, we address the problem of binaural target-speaker extraction in the presence of multiple simultane-ous talkers. We propose a novel approach that leverages the individual listener's Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Yoav Ellinson , Sharon Gannot

Recently, an event-based end-to-end model (SEDT) has been proposed for sound event detection (SED) and achieves competitive performance. However, compared with the frame-based model, it requires more training data with temporal annotations…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhirong Ye , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian , Rui Tao , Long Yan , Kazushige Ouchi

In this paper, we propose a temporal-frequential attention model for sound event detection (SED). Our network learns how to listen with two attention models: a temporal attention model and a frequential attention model. Proposed system…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yu-Han Shen , Ke-Xin He , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Due to the unprecedented breakthroughs brought about by deep learning, speech enhancement (SE) techniques have been developed rapidly and play an important role prior to acoustic modeling to mitigate noise effects on speech. To increase the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Fu-An Chao , Shao-Wei Fan Jiang , Bi-Cheng Yan , Jeih-weih Hung , Berlin Chen

The reconstruction of clipped speech signals is an important task in audio signal processing to achieve an enhanced audio quality for further processing. In this paper, Frequency Selective Extrapolation (FSE), which is commonly used for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Markus Jonscher , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Audio Event Detection (AED) aims to recognize sounds within audio and video recordings. AED employs machine learning algorithms commonly trained and tested on annotated datasets. However, available datasets are limited in number of samples…

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

Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline -…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Morocutti , Jonathan Greif , Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Environmental Sound Classification (ESC) is a rapidly evolving field that recently demonstrated the advantages of application of visual domain techniques to the audio-related tasks. Previous studies indicate that the domain-specific…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Andrey Guzhov , Federico Raue , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

Sound event detection (SED) is typically posed as a supervised learning problem requiring training data with strong temporal labels of sound events. However, the production of datasets with strong labels normally requires unaffordable labor…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Changchun Bao , Kele Xu , Boqing Zhu , Qiuqiang Kong

This study introduces an online target sound extraction (TSE) process using the similarity-and-independence-aware beamformer (SIBF) derived from an iterative batch algorithm. The study aimed to reduce latency while maintaining extraction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Atsuo Hiroe

Speaker extraction aims to mimic humans' selective auditory attention by extracting a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker environment. It is common to perform the extraction in frequency-domain, and reconstruct the time-domain signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

This paper addresses performance degradation in anomalous sound detection (ASD) when neither sufficiently similar machine data nor operational state labels are available. We present an integrated pipeline that combines three complementary…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ibuki Kuroyanagi , Takuya Fujimura , Kazuya Takeda , Tomoki Toda

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multimedia content is one of the promising applications, but speech data in this kind of content are frequently mixed with background music, which is harmful for the performance of ASR. In this study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Jeongwoo Woo , Masato Mimura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii , Tatsuya Kawahara

A typical neural speech enhancement (SE) approach mainly handles speech and noise mixtures, which is not optimal for singing voice enhancement scenarios. Music source separation (MSS) models treat vocals and various accompaniment components…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Weiming Xu , Zhouxuan Chen , Zhili Tan , Shubo Lv , Runduo Han , Wenjiang Zhou , Weifeng Zhao , Lei Xie

Text-based speech editing (TSE) techniques are designed to enable users to edit the output audio by modifying the input text transcript instead of the audio itself. Despite much progress in neural network-based TSE techniques, the current…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Rui Liu , Jiatian Xi , Ziyue Jiang , Haizhou Li

The performances of Sound Event Detection (SED) systems are greatly limited by the difficulty in generating large strongly labeled dataset. In this work, we used two main approaches to overcome the lack of strongly labeled data. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Hyeonuk Nam , Byeong-Yun Ko , Gyeong-Tae Lee , Seong-Hu Kim , Won-Ho Jung , Sang-Min Choi , Yong-Hwa Park

This paper introduces a novel application of Test-Time Training (TTT) for Speech Enhancement, addressing the challenges posed by unpredictable noise conditions and domain shifts. This method combines a main speech enhancement task with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Avishkar Behera , Riya Ann Easow , Venkatesh Parvathala , K. Sri Rama Murty