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Universal source separation (USS) is a fundamental research task for computational auditory scene analysis, which aims to separate mono recordings into individual source tracks. There are three potential challenges awaiting the solution to…

Target audio source separation with natural language queries presents a promising paradigm for extracting arbitrary audio events through arbitrary text descriptions. Existing methods mainly face two challenges, the difficulty in jointly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xinlei Yin , Xiulian Peng , Xue Jiang , Zhiwei Xiong , Yan Lu

Real-world sound scenes consist of time-varying collections of sound sources, each generating characteristic sound events that are mixed together in audio recordings. The association of these constituent sound events with their mixture and…

We propose a new dataset for cinematic audio source separation (CASS) that handles non-verbal sounds. Existing CASS datasets only contain reading-style sounds as a speech stem. These datasets differ from actual movie audio, which is more…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Takuya Hasumi , Yusuke Fujita

Most existing sound event detection~(SED) algorithms operate under a closed-set assumption, restricting their detection capabilities to predefined classes. While recent efforts have explored language-driven zero-shot SED by exploiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pengfei Cai , Yan Song , Qing Gu , Nan Jiang , Haoyu Song , Ian McLoughlin

We propose a knowledge-driven approach to speech target extraction in the presence of background sound effects already recorded in cinematic audio. The specific knowledge sources studied are manners of articulation that are detected in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Chun-wei Ho , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Kai Li , Chin-Hui Lee

Propelled by the breakthrough in deep generative models, audio-to-image generation has emerged as a pivotal cross-modal task that converts complex auditory signals into rich visual representations. However, previous works only focus on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Hao Zhou , Xiaobao Guo , Yuzhe Zhu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

General audio source separation is a key capability for multimodal AI systems that can perceive and reason about sound. Despite substantial progress in recent years, existing separation models are either domain-specific, designed for fixed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Bowen Shi , Andros Tjandra , John Hoffman , Helin Wang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Luya Gao , Julius Richter , Matt Le , Apoorv Vyas , Sanyuan Chen , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Piotr Dollár , Wei-Ning Hsu , Ann Lee

State-of-the-art approaches for visually-guided audio source separation typically assume sources that have characteristic sounds, such as musical instruments. These approaches often ignore the visual context of these sound sources or avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Moitreya Chatterjee , Jonathan Le Roux , Narendra Ahuja , Anoop Cherian

Perceiving a scene most fully requires all the senses. Yet modeling how objects look and sound is challenging: most natural scenes and events contain multiple objects, and the audio track mixes all the sound sources together. We propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Ruohan Gao , Rogerio Feris , Kristen Grauman

Auditory scene analysis (ASA) aims to retrieve information from the acoustic environment, by carrying out three main tasks: sound source location, separation, and classification. These tasks are traditionally executed with a linear data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Caleb Rascon , Luis Gato-Diaz , Eduardo García-Alarcón

Cinematic audio source separation (CASS), as a problem of extracting the dialogue, music, and effects stems from their mixture, is a relatively new subtask of audio source separation. To date, only one publicly available dataset exists for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Karn N. Watcharasupat , Chih-Wei Wu , Iroro Orife

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to produce pixel-level masks of sound producing objects in videos, by jointly learning from audio and visual signals. However, real-world environments are inherently dynamic, causing audio and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Fengqing Zhu

We propose DAVIS, a Diffusion-based Audio-VIsual Separation framework that solves the audio-visual sound source separation task through generative learning. Existing methods typically frame sound separation as a mask-based regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

Learning how objects sound from video is challenging, since they often heavily overlap in a single audio channel. Current methods for visually-guided audio source separation sidestep the issue by training with artificially mixed video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

Language-queried Audio Source Separation (LASS) enables open-vocabulary sound separation via natural language queries. While existing methods rely on task-specific training, we explore whether pretrained diffusion models, originally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Geonyoung Lee , Geonhee Han , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Autoregressive models have achieved impressive results over a wide range of domains in terms of generation quality and downstream task performance. In the continuous domain, a key factor behind this success is the usage of quantized latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Emilian Postolache , Giorgio Mariani , Michele Mancusi , Andrea Santilli , Luca Cosmo , Emanuele Rodolà

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

This paper describes a dataset and protocols for evaluating continuous speech separation algorithms. Most prior studies on speech separation use pre-segmented signals of artificially mixed speech utterances which are mostly \emph{fully}…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka , Liang Lu , Tianyan Zhou , Zhong Meng , Yi Luo , Jian Wu , Xiong Xiao , Jinyu Li

The scaling up has brought tremendous success in the fields of vision and language in recent years. When it comes to audio, however, researchers encounter a major challenge in scaling up the training data, as most natural audio contains…