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Recently, there has been a vast interest in self-supervised learning (SSL) where the model is pre-trained on large scale unlabeled data and then fine-tuned on a small labeled dataset. The common wisdom is that SSL helps resource-limited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Chengyi Wang , Yu Wu , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yao Qian , Kenichi Kumatani , Furu Wei

Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled data. Traditionally, it has been assumed that emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Zongyang Du , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

With the rapid progress of speech language models (SLMs), discrete speech tokens have emerged as a core interface between speech and text, enabling unified modeling across modalities. Recent speech tokenization approaches aim to isolate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daejin Jo , Jeeyoung Yun , Byungseok Roh , Sungwoong Kim

Recently, pre-trained models for music information retrieval based on self-supervised learning (SSL) are becoming popular, showing success in various downstream tasks. However, there is limited research on the specific meanings of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yizhi Zhou , Haina Zhu , Hangting Chen

Emotion recognition from speech is a challenging task. Re-cent advances in deep learning have led bi-directional recur-rent neural network (Bi-RNN) and attention mechanism as astandard method for speech emotion recognition, extractingand…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Zixuan Peng , Yu Lu , Shengfeng Pan , Yunfeng Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has significantly advanced acoustic representation learning. However, most existing models are optimised for either speech or audio event understanding, resulting in a persistent gap between these two domains.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Xiaoyu Yang , Yifan Yang , Zengrui Jin , Ziyun Cui , Wen Wu , Baoxiang Li , Chao Zhang , Phil Woodland

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful technique for learning representations from unlabeled data. Transformer based models such as HuBERT, which consist a feature extractor and transformer layers, are leading the field in the speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-23 Zih-Ching Chen , Yu-Shun Sung , Hung-yi Lee

State-of-the-art frameworks in self-supervised learning have recently shown that fully utilizing transformer-based models can lead to performance boost compared to conventional CNN models. Striving to maximize the mutual information of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jiho Jang , Seonhoon Kim , Kiyoon Yoo , Chaerin Kong , Jangho Kim , Nojun Kwak

Recent advancements in speech-language models have yielded significant improvements in speech tokenization and synthesis. However, effectively mapping the complex, multidimensional attributes of speech into discrete tokens remains…

Multilingual self-supervised speech representation models have greatly enhanced the speech recognition performance for low-resource languages, and the compression of these huge models has also become a crucial prerequisite for their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Haoyu Wang , Siyuan Wang , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Jinfeng Bai

Speech emotion recognition predicts a speaker's emotional state from speech signals using discrete labels or continuous dimensions such as arousal, valence, and dominance (VAD). We propose EmoSphere-SER, a joint model that integrates…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

While supervised quality predictors for synthesized speech have demonstrated strong correlations with human ratings, their requirement for in-domain labeled training data hinders their generalization ability to new domains. Unsupervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Erica Cooper , Takuma Okamoto , Yamato Ohtani , Tomoki Toda , Hisashi Kawai

Given a small set of labeled data and a large set of unlabeled data, semi-supervised learning (SSL) attempts to leverage the location of the unlabeled datapoints in order to create a better classifier than could be obtained from supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Michael C. Burkhart , Kyle Shan

Medical instrument segmentation in 3D ultrasound is essential for image-guided intervention. However, to train a successful deep neural network for instrument segmentation, a large number of labeled images are required, which is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Hongxu Yang , Caifeng Shan , R. Arthur Bouwman , Lukas R. C. Dekker , Alexander F. Kolen , Peter H. N. de With

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a crucial component in developing general-purpose AI agents capable of natural human-computer interaction. However, building robust multilingual SER systems remains challenging due to the scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Hsi-Che Lin , Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

This research presents a hybrid emotion recognition system integrating advanced Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze audio and textual data for enhancing customer interactions in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Sahan Hewage Wewelwala , T. G. D. K. Sumanathilaka

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has transformed representation learning for large models, yet remains unexplored for microcontroller (MCU)-class models with fewer than 500K parameters. We identify three obstacles at this scale -- projection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bibin Wilson

This paper looks at semi-supervised learning (SSL) for image-based text recognition. One of the most popular SSL approaches is pseudo-labeling (PL). PL approaches assign labels to unlabeled data before re-training the model with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Gaurav Patel , Jan Allebach , Qiang Qiu

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems find applications in various fields such as healthcare, education, and security and defense. A major drawback of these systems is their lack of generalization across different conditions. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Srinivas Parthasarathy , Carlos Busso