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Learning robust audio representations currently demands extensive datasets of real-world sound recordings. By applying artificial transformations to these recordings, models can learn to recognize similarities despite subtle variations…

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Distance-based anomaly detection methods rely on compact in-distribution (ID) embeddings that are well separated from anomalies. However, conventional contrastive learning strategies often struggle to achieve this balance, either promoting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Willian T. Lunardi , Abdulrahman Banabila , Dania Herzalla , Martin Andreoni

Unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) aims to detect unknown anomalous sounds of devices when only normal sound data is available. The autoencoder (AE) and self-supervised learning based methods are two mainstream methods. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jian Guan , Youde Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiyang Xiao , Qiaoxi Zhu , Jiantong Tian , Wenwu Wang

Accurate classification of articulatory-phonological features plays a vital role in understanding human speech production and developing robust speech technologies, particularly in clinical contexts where targeted phonemic analysis and…

Improving generalization is a major challenge in audio classification due to labeled data scarcity. Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods tackle this by leveraging unlabeled data to learn useful features for downstream classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Melikasadat Emami , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

In anomalous sound detection, the discriminative method has demonstrated superior performance. This approach constructs a discriminative feature space through the classification of the meta-information labels for normal sounds. This feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Takuya Fujimura , Ibuki Kuroyanagi , Tomoki Toda

Different machines can exhibit diverse frequency patterns in their emitted sound. This feature has been recently explored in anomaly sound detection and reached state-of-the-art performance. However, existing methods rely on the manual or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Hejing Zhang , Jian Guan , Qiaoxi Zhu , Feiyang Xiao , Youde Liu

We present a multimodal framework to learn general audio representations from videos. Existing contrastive audio representation learning methods mainly focus on using the audio modality alone during training. In this work, we show that…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Luyu Wang , Pauline Luc , Adria Recasens , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aaron van den Oord

Methods based on supervised learning using annotations in an end-to-end fashion have been the state-of-the-art for classification problems. However, they may be limited in their generalization capability, especially in the low data regime.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ilyass Moummad , Nicolas Farrugia

Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) aims to design a generalizable method that can be used to detect anomalies when only normal sounds are given. In this paper, Anomalous Sound Detection based on Diffusion Models (ASD-Diffusion) is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Fengrun Zhang , Xiang Xie , Kai Guo

Anomalous sound detection (ASD) typically involves self-supervised proxy tasks to learn feature representations from normal sound data, owing to the scarcity of anomalous samples. In ASD research, proxy tasks such as AutoEncoders operate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Seunghyeon Shin , Seokjin Lee

Audio self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to learn general-purpose representations from large-scale unlabeled audio data. While recent advances have been driven mainly by generative reconstruction objectives, contrastive approaches remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hanxun Huang , Qizhou Wang , Xingjun Ma , Cihang Xie , Christopher Leckie , Sarah Erfani

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) aims at identifying anomalous sounds from machines and has gained extensive research interests from both academia and industry. However, the uncertainty of anomaly location and much redundant information such…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Jun Du , Lei Wang , Mingqi Cai , Xin Fang

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

Sound event detection systems are widely used in various applications such as surveillance and environmental monitoring where data is automatically collected, processed, and sent to a cloud for sound recognition. However, this process may…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Shayan Gharib , Minh Tran , Diep Luong , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

In this work, a novel deep neural network, designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of unsupervised sound anomaly detection, is presented. The proposed model exploits an attention module and separable convolutions to identify…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Michael Neri , Marco Carli

We present a self-supervised learning approach to learn audio-visual representations from video and audio. Our method uses contrastive learning for cross-modal discrimination of video from audio and vice-versa. We show that optimizing for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Nuno Vasconcelos , Ishan Misra

Time series anomaly detection is critical for a wide range of applications. It aims to identify deviant samples from the normal sample distribution in time series. The most fundamental challenge for this task is to learn a representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yiyuan Yang , Chaoli Zhang , Tian Zhou , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun

We present a self-supervised learning method to learn audio and video representations. Prior work uses the natural correspondence between audio and video to define a standard cross-modal instance discrimination task, where a model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Ishan Misra , Nuno Vasconcelos

The rise of video-sharing platforms has attracted more and more people to shoot videos and upload them to the Internet. These videos mostly contain a carefully-edited background audio track, where serious speech change, pitch shifting and…

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