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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has drawn an increased attention in the field of speech processing. Recent studies have demonstrated that contrastive learning is able to learn discriminative speaker embeddings in a self-supervised manner.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Chunlei Zhang , Dong Yu

Active Learning (AL) aims to reduce annotation costs by strategically selecting the most informative samples for labeling. However, most active learning methods struggle in the low-budget regime where only a few labeled examples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Netta Shafir , Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

Cross-modal noise-robust learning is a challenging task since noisy correspondence is hard to recognize and rectify. Due to the cumulative and unavoidable negative impact of unresolved noise, existing methods cannot maintain a stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Xu Zhang , Hao Li , Mang Ye

Speech enhancement and separation are two fundamental tasks for robust speech processing. Speech enhancement suppresses background noise while speech separation extracts target speech from interfering speakers. Despite a great number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Shu-wen Yang , Paola Garcia , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Although automatic pathological speech detection approaches show promising results when clean recordings are available, they are vulnerable to additive noise. Recently it has been shown that databases commonly used to develop and evaluate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mahdi Amiri , Ina Kodrasi

Due to the memorization effect in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), training with noisy labels usually results in inferior model performance. Existing state-of-the-art methods primarily adopt a sample selection strategy, which selects small-loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yazhou Yao , Zeren Sun , Chuanyi Zhang , Fumin Shen , Qi Wu , Jian Zhang , Zhenmin Tang

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) suffers from performance degradation in noisy conditions. To address this issue, we propose a novel adversarial learning framework that incorporates noise-disentanglement to establish a noise-independent…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xujiang Xing , Mingxing Xu , Thomas Fang Zheng

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach to seismic data denoising as it does not require clean reference data. In this work, the deployment of the Noisy-as-Clean (NaC) method was evaluated for real seismic data…

Deep noise suppressors (DNS) have become an attractive solution to remove background noise, reverberation, and distortions from speech and are widely used in telephony/voice applications. They are also occasionally prone to introducing…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Hannes Gamper

Background noise is a major source of quality impairments in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) calls. Recent work shows the efficacy of deep learning for noise suppression, but the datasets…

Detecting critical transitions in complex, noisy time-series data is a fundamental challenge across science and engineering. Such transitions may be anticipated by the emergence of a low-dimensional order parameter, whose signature is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wenqi Fang , Ye Li

We propose a separation guided speaker diarization (SGSD) approach by fully utilizing a complementarity of speech separation and speaker clustering. Since the conventional clustering-based speaker diarization (CSD) approach cannot well…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Shu-Tong Niu , Jun Du , Lei Sun , Chin-Hui Lee

Existing deep learning-based speech denoising approaches require clean speech signals to be available for training. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improve speech denoising in real-world audio environments by not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Nasim Alamdari , Arian Azarang , Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Noisy labels are an unavoidable consequence of labeling processes and detecting them is an important step towards preventing performance degradations in Convolutional Neural Networks. Discarding noisy labels avoids a harmful memorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

This paper improves contrastive learning for sentence embeddings from two perspectives: handling dropout noise and addressing feature corruption. Specifically, for the first perspective, we identify that the dropout noise from negative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Jiahao Xu , Wei Shao , Lihui Chen , Lemao Liu

This paper proposes APSS, a novel neural speech separation model with parallel amplitude and phase spectrum estimation. Unlike most existing speech separation methods, the APSS distinguishes itself by explicitly estimating the phase…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Fei Liu , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

Supervised speech separation uses supervised learning algorithms to learn a mapping from an input noisy signal to an output target. With the fast development of deep learning, supervised separation has become the most important direction in…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Shasha Xia , Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang

The field of speech separation, addressing the "cocktail party problem", has seen revolutionary advances with DNNs. Speech separation enhances clarity in complex acoustic environments and serves as crucial pre-processing for speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kai Li , Guo Chen , Wendi Sang , Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Shuai Wang , Shulin He , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Andong Li , Zhiyong Wu , Xiaolin Hu

The mismatch between the numerical and actual nonlinear models is a challenge to nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation (NAEC) when the nonlinear adaptive filter is utilized. To alleviate this problem, we combine a basis-generic expansion of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Guoliang Cheng , Lele Liao , Hongsheng Chen , Jing Lu

Speech enhancement employing deep neural networks (DNNs) for denoising are called deep noise suppression (DNS). During training, DNS methods are typically trained with mean squared error (MSE) type loss functions, which do not guarantee…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt