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Speaker verification systems are increasingly deployed in security-sensitive applications but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. In this work, we propose the Mask Diffusion Detector (MDD), a novel adversarial detection…

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Auditory attention decoding (AAD) is a technique used to identify and amplify the talker that a listener is focused on in a noisy environment. This is done by comparing the listener's brainwaves to a representation of all the sound sources…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Cong Han , Vishal Choudhari , Yinghao Aaron Li , Nima Mesgarani

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a growing torrent that has recently transformed machine learning and its many real world applications, by learning on massive amounts of unlabeled data via self-generated supervisory signals. Unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Leman Akoglu , Jaemin Yoo

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is the latest breakthrough in speech processing, especially for label-scarce downstream tasks by leveraging massive unlabeled audio data. The noise robustness of the SSL is one of the important challenges to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Hiroshi Sato , Ryo Masumura , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Kentaro Shinayama , Saki Mizuno , Mana Ihori , Tomohiro Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

To better model the contextual information and increase the generalization ability of Speech Activity Detection (SAD) system, this paper leverages a multi-lingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to perform SAD. Sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo , Srikanth Madikeri , Petr Motlicek

Video anomaly detection (VAD) with weak supervision has achieved remarkable performance in utilizing video-level labels to discriminate whether a video frame is normal or abnormal. However, current approaches are inherently limited to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Jing Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as the solution of choice to learn transferable representations from unlabeled data. However, SSL requires to build samples that are known to be semantically akin, i.e. positive views. Requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Vivien Cabannes , Leon Bottou , Yann Lecun , Randall Balestriero

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) predominantly relies on supervised approaches. However, acquiring labeled data for training ASC models is often costly and time-consuming. Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yiqiang Cai , Shengchen Li , Xi Shao

With the goal of more natural and human-like interaction with virtual voice assistants, recent research in the field has focused on full duplex interaction mode without relying on repeated wake-up words. This requires that in scenes with…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Anna Wang , Da Liu , Zhiyu Zhang , Shengqiang Liu , Jie Gao , Yali Li

Speaker anonymization is an effective privacy protection solution that aims to conceal the speaker's identity while preserving the naturalness and distinctiveness of the original speech. Mainstream approaches use an utterance-level vector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Jixun Yao , Qing Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Ziqian Ning , Lei Xie

Self-supervised language models are very effective at predicting high-level cortical responses during language comprehension. However, the best current models of lower-level auditory processing in the human brain rely on either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Aditya R. Vaidya , Shailee Jain , Alexander G. Huth

Arabic dialect identification (ADI) systems are essential for large-scale data collection pipelines that enable the development of inclusive speech technologies for Arabic language varieties. However, the reliability of current ADI systems…

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Face signatures, including size, shape, texture, skin tone, eye color, appearance, and scars/marks, are widely used as discriminative, biometric information for access control. Despite recent advancements in facial recognition systems,…

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Face anti-spoofing (FAS) plays an important role in protecting face recognition systems from face representation attacks. Many recent studies in FAS have approached this problem with domain generalization technique. Domain generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Young Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been investigated to generate task-agnostic representations across various domains. However, such investigation has not been conducted for detecting multiple mental disorders. The rationale behind the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Rohan Kumar Gupta , Rohit Sinha

Individuals with hearing impairments face challenges in their ability to comprehend speech, particularly in noisy environments. The aim of this study is to explore the effectiveness of audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) in enhancing the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Richard Lee Lai , Jen-Cheng Hou , I-Chun Chern , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yi-Ting Chen , Mandar Gogate , Tughrul Arslan , Amir Hussain , Yu Tsao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has revolutionized audio representations, yet models often remain domain-specific, focusing on either speech or non-speech tasks. In this work, we present Universal Speech and Audio Distillation (USAD), a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Heng-Jui Chang , Saurabhchand Bhati , James Glass , Alexander H. Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale datasets like AudioSet has become the dominant paradigm for audio representation learning. While the continuous influx of new, unlabeled audio presents an opportunity to enrich these static…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yizhou Zhang , Yuan Gao , Wangjin Zhou , Zicheng Yuan , Keisuke Imoto , Tatsuya Kawahara

The rapid development of audio-driven talking head generators and advanced Text-To-Speech (TTS) models has led to more sophisticated temporal deepfakes. These advances highlight the need for robust methods capable of detecting and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Ivan Kukanov , Jun Wah Ng

Modern speech enhancement (SE) networks typically implement noise suppression through time-frequency masking, latent representation masking, or discriminative signal prediction. In contrast, some recent works explore SE via generative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Mikolaj Kegler , Li-Chia Yang