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We propose an algorithm to denoise speakers from a single microphone in the presence of non-stationary and dynamic noise. Our approach is inspired by the recent success of neural network models separating speakers from other speakers and…

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This paper proposes an unsupervised anomalous sound detection method using sound separation. In factory environments, background noise and non-objective sounds obscure desired machine sounds, making it challenging to detect anomalous…

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3D object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous systems, yet existing methods are limited by closed-set assumptions and struggle to recognize novel objects and their attributes in real-world scenarios. We propose OVODA, a novel…

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The deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) methods always take the clean speech's waveform or time-frequency spectrum feature as the learning target, and train the deep neural network (DNN) by reducing the error loss between the DNN's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Yuewei Zhang , Huanbin Zou , Jie Zhu

In this paper, we focus on audio violence detection (AVD). AVD is necessary for several reasons, especially in the context of maintaining safety, preventing harm, and ensuring security in various environments. This calls for accurate AVD…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Sarthak Jain , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Arun Balaji Buduru , Rajesh Sharma

Despite the significant improvements in speaker recognition enabled by deep neural networks, unsatisfactory performance persists under noisy environments. In this paper, we train the speaker embedding network to learn the "clean" embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Danwei Cai , Weicheng Cai , Ming Li

Audio-visual active speaker detection (AV-ASD) aims to identify which visible face is speaking in a scene with one or more persons. Most existing AV-ASD methods prioritize capturing speech-lip correspondence. However, there is a noticeable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Ruijie Tao , Xinyuan Qian , Rohan Kumar Das , Xiaoxue Gao , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li

Audio denoising has been explored for decades using both traditional and deep learning-based methods. However, these methods are still limited to either manually added artificial noise or lower denoised audio quality. To overcome these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Youshan Zhang , Jialu Li

We present MarbleNet, an end-to-end neural network for Voice Activity Detection (VAD). MarbleNet is a deep residual network composed from blocks of 1D time-channel separable convolution, batch-normalization, ReLU and dropout layers. When…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Fei Jia , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

This report introduces a new corpus of music, speech, and noise. This dataset is suitable for training models for voice activity detection (VAD) and music/speech discrimination. Our corpus is released under a flexible Creative Commons…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-10-30 David Snyder , Guoguo Chen , Daniel Povey

Over the past few years significant progress has been made in the field of presentation attack detection (PAD) for automatic speaker recognition (ASV). This includes the development of new speech corpora, standard evaluation protocols and…

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

Recently, a generative variational autoencoder (VAE) has been proposed for speech enhancement to model speech statistics. However, this approach only uses clean speech in the training phase, making the estimation particularly sensitive to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Huajian Fang , Guillaume Carbajal , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

Speech signals are subjected to more acoustic interference and emotional factors than other signals. Noisy emotion-riddled speech data is a challenge for real-time speech processing applications. It is essential to find an effective way to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Shibani Hamsa , Ismail Shahin , Youssef Iraqi , Ernesto Damiani , Naoufel Werghi

The rapid development of deep learning and generative AI technologies has profoundly transformed the digital contact landscape, creating realistic Deepfake that poses substantial challenges to public trust and digital media integrity. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ying Xu , Marius Pedersen , Kiran Raja

Voice-based human-machine interfaces with an automatic speaker verification (ASV) component are commonly used in the market. However, the threat from presentation attacks is also growing since attackers can use recent speech synthesis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi

Audio context determines which sound components and sources are relevant and which can be perceived as irrelevant (noise) by listeners. For example, traffic noise is informative in urban surveillance but noise for a phone call at the same…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Diep Luong , Konstantinos Drossos , Mikko Heikkinen , Tuomas Virtanen

VAD is a critical field in machine learning focused on identifying deviations from normal patterns in images, often challenged by the scarcity of anomalous data and the need for unsupervised training. To accelerate research and deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Manuel Barusco , Francesco Borsatti , Arianna Stropeni , Davide Dalle Pezze , Gian Antonio Susto

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) is conventionally performed by modelling the temporal synchronisation of acoustic and visual speech cues. In egocentric recordings, however, the efficacy of synchronisation-based methods is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

The intelligent dialogue system, aiming at communicating with humans harmoniously with natural language, is brilliant for promoting the advancement of human-machine interaction in the era of artificial intelligence. With the gradually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Hao Wang , Bin Guo , Yating Zeng , Yasan Ding , Chen Qiu , Ying Zhang , Lina Yao , Zhiwen Yu