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Recently, an audio-visual instance segmentation (AVIS) task has been introduced, aiming to identify, segment and track individual sounding instances in videos. However, prevailing methods primarily adopt the offline paradigm, that cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yingjian Zhu , Ying Wang , Yuyang Hong , Ruohao Guo , Kun Ding , Xin Gu , Bin Fan , Shiming Xiang

We introduce a state-of-the-art audio-visual on-screen sound separation system which is capable of learning to separate sounds and associate them with on-screen objects by looking at in-the-wild videos. We identify limitations of previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , Tal Remez , John R. Hershey

Many speech enhancement methods try to learn the relationship between noisy and clean speech, obtained using an acoustic room simulator. We point out several limitations of enhancement methods relying on clean speech targets; the goal of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Geonmin Kim , Hwaran Lee , Bo-Kyeong Kim , Sang-Hoon Oh , Soo-Young Lee

The conceptualization of a claim lies at the core of argument mining. The segregation of claims is complex, owing to the divergence in textual syntax and context across different distributions. Another pressing issue is the unavailability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Shreya Gupta , Parantak Singh , Megha Sundriyal , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to learn the concepts of attributes and objects in seen compositions and to recognize their unseen compositions. Most Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)-based CZSL methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pan Yang , Cheng Deng , Jing Yang , Han Zhao , Yun Liu , Yuling Chen , Xiaoli Ruan , Yanping Chen

Speech separation is a fundamental task in audio processing, typically addressed with fully supervised systems trained on paired mixtures. While effective, such systems typically rely on synthetic data pipelines, which may not reflect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Runwu Shi , Kai Li , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Sihan Tan , Kazuhiro Nakadai

The goal of text-queried target sound extraction (TSE) is to extract from a mixture a sound source specified with a natural-language caption. While it is preferable to have access to large-scale text-audio pairs to address a variety of text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Kohei Saijo , Janek Ebbers , François G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS) aligns audio and video at the pixel level but requires costly per-frame annotations. We introduce Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (WSAVSS), which uses only video-level labels to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chengzhi Li , Heyan Huang , Ping Jian , Yanghao Zhou

Speaker extraction (SE) aims to segregate the speech of a target speaker from a mixture of interfering speakers with the help of auxiliary information. Several forms of auxiliary information have been employed in single-channel SE, such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets

We introduce Audio-SDS, a generalization of Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) to text-conditioned audio diffusion models. While SDS was initially designed for text-to-3D generation using image diffusion, its core idea of distilling a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Jessie Richter-Powell , Antonio Torralba , Jonathan Lorraine

Audio generation has attracted significant attention. Despite remarkable enhancement in audio quality, existing models overlook diversity evaluation. This is partially due to the lack of a systematic sound class diversity framework and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Baihan Li , Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Yiwei Guo , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Kai Yu , Mengyue Wu

Discrete audio tokens have recently gained considerable attention for their potential to bridge audio and language processing, enabling multimodal language models that can both generate and understand audio. However, preserving key…

Unlike traditional visual segmentation, audio-visual segmentation (AVS) requires the model not only to identify and segment objects but also to determine whether they are sound sources. Recent AVS approaches, leveraging transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jia Li , Wenjie Zhao , Ziru Huang , Yunhui Guo , Yapeng Tian

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

Currently, artificial intelligence is profoundly transforming the audio domain; however, numerous advanced algorithms and tools remain fragmented, lacking a unified and efficient framework to unlock their full potential. Existing audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Cheng Zhu , Jing Han , Qianshuai Xue , Kehan Wang , Huan Zhao , Zixing Zhang

This paper explores a novel perspective to speech quality assessment by leveraging natural language descriptions, offering richer, more nuanced insights than traditional numerical scoring methods. Natural language feedback provides…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Siyin Wang , Wenyi Yu , Xianzhao Chen , Xiaohai Tian , Jun Zhang , Lu Lu , Yu Tsao , Junichi Yamagishi , Yuxuan Wang , Chao Zhang

In the field of audio signal processing research, source separation has been a popular research topic for a long time and the recent adoption of the deep neural networks have shown a significant improvement in performance. The improvement…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Soochul Park , Ben Sangbae Chon

Speech enhancement and separation have been a long-standing problem, especially with the recent advances using a single microphone. Although microphones perform well in constrained settings, their performance for speech separation decreases…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Muhammed Zahid Ozturk , Chenshu Wu , Beibei Wang , Min Wu , K. J. Ray Liu

Audiovisual segmentation (AVS) aims to identify visual regions corresponding to sound sources, playing a vital role in video understanding, surveillance, and human-computer interaction. Traditional AVS methods depend on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Seung-jae Lee , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Humans excel at multisensory perception and can often recognise object properties from the sound of their interactions. Inspired by this, we propose the novel task of Collision Sound Source Segmentation (CS3), where we aim to segment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kranti Kumar Parida , Omar Emara , Hazel Doughty , Dima Damen