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Source separation is a fundamental task in speech, music, and audio processing, and it also provides cleaner and larger data for training generative models. However, improving separation performance in practice often depends on increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yongsheng Feng , Yuetonghui Xu , Jiehui Luo , Hongjia Liu , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Wei Li

Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Runwu Shi , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Rui Zhang , Nabeela Khan , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

The state of the art in music source separation employs neural networks trained in a supervised fashion on multi-track databases to estimate the sources from a given mixture. With only few datasets available, often extensive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

Universal sound separation (USS) is a task of separating mixtures of arbitrary sound sources. Typically, universal separation models are trained from scratch in a supervised manner, using labeled data. Self-supervised learning (SSL) is an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Junqi Zhao , Xubo Liu , Jinzheng Zhao , Yi Yuan , Qiuqiang Kong , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Recent breakthroughs in language-queried audio source separation (LASS) have shown that generative models can achieve higher separation audio quality than traditional masking-based approaches. However, two key limitations restrict their…

Current generative models are able to generate high-quality artefacts but have been shown to struggle with compositional reasoning, which can be defined as the ability to generate complex structures from simpler elements. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Giovanni Bindi , Philippe Esling

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…

Source separation is the task to separate an audio recording into individual sound sources. Source separation is fundamental for computational auditory scene analysis. Previous work on source separation has focused on separating particular…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Qiuqiang Kong , Yuxuan Wang , Xuchen Song , Yin Cao , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

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

Music source separation (MSS) aims to extract individual instrument sources from their mixture. While most existing methods focus on the widely adopted four-stem separation setup (vocals, bass, drums, and other instruments), this approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yutong Wen , Minje Kim , Paris Smaragdis

Recent audio-visual generative models have made substantial progress in generating images from audio. However, existing approaches focus on generating images from single-class audio and fail to generate images from mixed audio. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Minjae Kang , Martim Brandão

Audio source separation is the process of separating a mixture (e.g. a pop band recording) into isolated sounds from individual sources (e.g. just the lead vocals). Deep learning models are the state-of-the-art in source separation, given…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Alisa Liu , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo

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

We introduce a new paradigm for single-channel target source separation where the sources of interest can be distinguished using non-mutually exclusive concepts (e.g., loudness, gender, language, spatial location, etc). Our proposed…

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

Cinematic audio source separation is a relatively new subtask of audio source separation, with the aim of extracting the dialogue, music, and effects stems from their mixture. In this work, we developed a model generalizing the Bandsplit…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Karn N. Watcharasupat , Chih-Wei Wu , Yiwei Ding , Iroro Orife , Aaron J. Hipple , Phillip A. Williams , Scott Kramer , Alexander Lerch , William Wolcott

We present a unified model capable of simultaneously grounding both spoken language and non-speech sounds within a visual scene, addressing key limitations in current audio-visual grounding models. Existing approaches are typically limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyeonggon Ryu , Seongyu Kim , Joon Son Chung , Arda Senocak

Recent deep learning approaches have shown great improvement in audio source separation tasks. However, the vast majority of such work is focused on improving average separation performance, often neglecting to examine or control the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Efthymios Tzinis , Dimitrios Bralios , Paris Smaragdis

Despite phenomenal progress in recent years, state-of-the-art music separation systems produce source estimates with significant perceptual shortcomings, such as adding extraneous noise or removing harmonics. We propose a post-processing…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Noah Schaffer , Boaz Cogan , Ethan Manilow , Max Morrison , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo