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Music source separation is the task of isolating the instrumental tracks from a music song. Despite its spectacular recent progress, the trend towards more complex architectures and training protocols exacerbates reproducibility issues. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Paul Magron , Romain Serizel , Constance Douwes

We consider the problem of audio voice separation for binaural applications, such as earphones and hearing aids. While today's neural networks perform remarkably well (separating $4+$ sources with 2 microphones) they assume a known or fixed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhongweiyang Xu , Romit Roy Choudhury

The source separation-based speech enhancement problem with multiple beamforming in reverberant indoor environments is addressed in this paper. We propose that more generic solutions should cope with time-varying dynamic scenarios with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Alejandro Díaz , Diego Pincheira , Rodrigo Mahu , Nestor Becerra Yoma

Sound modelling is the process of developing algorithms that generate sound under parametric control. There are a few distinct approaches that have been developed historically including modelling the physics of sound production and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 M. Huzaifah , L. Wyse

Music genre classification is an essential tool for music information retrieval systems and it has been finding critical applications in various media platforms. Two important problems of the automatic music genre classification are feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Ulas Bagci , Engin Erzin

Generative models have thrived in computer vision, enabling unprecedented image processes. Yet the results in audio remain less advanced. Our project targets real-time sound synthesis from a reduced set of high-level parameters, including…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Adrien Bitton , Philippe Esling , Antoine Caillon , Martin Fouilleul

Deep learning-based methods have made significant achievements in music source separation. However, obtaining good results while maintaining a low model complexity remains challenging in super wide-band music source separation. Previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Weinan Tong , Jiaxu Zhu , Jun Chen , Shiyin Kang , Tao Jiang , Yang Li , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng

Source separation is a fundamental task in speech, music, and audio processing, and it also provides cleaner and larger data for training generative models. However, improving separation performance in practice often depends on increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yongsheng Feng , Yuetonghui Xu , Jiehui Luo , Hongjia Liu , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Wei Li

The rise of music large language models (LLMs) demands robust methods of evaluating output quality, especially in distinguishing high-quality compositions from "garbage music". Curiously, we observe that the standard cross-entropy loss -- a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiaosha Li , Chun Liu , Ziyu Wang

Models for audio source separation usually operate on the magnitude spectrum, which ignores phase information and makes separation performance dependant on hyper-parameters for the spectral front-end. Therefore, we investigate end-to-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

We propose a method for the blind separation of sounds of musical instruments in audio signals. We describe the individual tones via a parametric model, training a dictionary to capture the relative amplitudes of the harmonics. The model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Sören Schulze , Johannes Leuschner , Emily J. King

This study presents an exploratory evaluation of Music Generation Systems (MGS) within contemporary music production workflows by examining eight open-source systems. The evaluation framework combines technical insights with practical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Shayan Dadman , Bernt Arild Bremdal , Andreas Bergsland

Distant speech processing is a challenging task, especially when dealing with the cocktail party effect. Sound source separation is thus often required as a preprocessing step prior to speech recognition to improve the signal to distortion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Francois Grondin , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , Jonathan Vincent , Francois Michaud

We propose a method of separating a desired sound source from a single-channel mixture, based on either a textual description or a short audio sample of the target source. This is achieved by combining two distinct models. The first model,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Kevin Kilgour , Beat Gfeller , Qingqing Huang , Aren Jansen , Scott Wisdom , Marco Tagliasacchi

Research on audio generation has progressively developed along both waveform-based and spectrogram-based directions, giving rise to diverse strategies for representing and generating audio. At the same time, advances in image synthesis have…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Eleonora Ristori , Luca Bindini , Paolo Frasconi

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

Music mixing traditionally involves recording instruments in the form of clean, individual tracks and blending them into a final mixture using audio effects and expert knowledge (e.g., a mixing engineer). The automation of music production…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Giorgio Fabbro , Stefan Uhlich , Chihiro Nagashima , Yuki Mitsufuji

Upsampling artifacts are caused by problematic upsampling layers and due to spectral replicas that emerge while upsampling. Also, depending on the used upsampling layer, such artifacts can either be tonal artifacts (additive high-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jordi Pons , Joan Serrà , Santiago Pascual , Giulio Cengarle , Daniel Arteaga , Davide Scaini

Many practices have been presented in music generation recently. While stylistic music generation using deep learning techniques has became the main stream, these models still struggle to generate music with high musicality, different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Shuqi Dai , Xichu Ma , Ye Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg

Music performance synthesis aims to synthesize a musical score into a natural performance. In this paper, we borrow recent advances in text-to-speech synthesis and present the Deep Performer -- a novel system for score-to-audio music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Hao-Wen Dong , Cong Zhou , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley