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Deep learning models trained in a supervised setting have revolutionized audio and speech processing. However, their performance inherently depends on the quantity of human-annotated data, making them costly to scale and prone to poor…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

The lack of labeled data is a common challenge in speech classification tasks, particularly those requiring extensive subjective assessment, such as cognitive state classification. In this work, we propose a Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Yuanchao Li , Zixing Zhang , Jing Han , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen , Chong Deng , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang

Recently, Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) has shown much promise in leveraging unlabeled data while being provided with very few labels. In this paper, we show that ignoring the labels altogether for whole epochs intermittently during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Boaz Lerner , Guy Shiran , Daphna Weinshall

This technical report describes Johns Hopkins University speaker recognition system submitted to Voxceleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2021 Track 3: Self-supervised speaker verification (closed). Our overall training process is similar to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Jejin Cho , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning flexible speech representations from unlabeled data. By designing pretext tasks that exploit statistical regularities, SSL models can capture useful…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yusuf Brima , Ulf Krumnack , Simone Pika , Gunther Heidemann

This report describes the submission of the DKU-DukeECE team to the self-supervision speaker verification task of the 2021 VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC). Our method employs an iterative labeling framework to learn…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Danwei Cai , Ming Li

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for large labelled datasets by incorporating unlabelled data into the training. This is particularly interesting for semantic segmentation, where labelling data is very costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Sebastian Scherer , Robin Schön , Rainer Lienhart

Speech representation learning approaches for non-semantic tasks such as language recognition have either explored supervised embedding extraction methods using a classifier model or self-supervised representation learning approaches using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shikhar Vashishth , Shikhar Bharadwaj , Sriram Ganapathy , Ankur Bapna , Min Ma , Wei Han , Vera Axelrod , Partha Talukdar

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a long-standing goal for speech processing, since it utilizes large-scale unlabeled data and avoids extensive human labeling. Recent years witness great successes in applying self-supervised learning in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Chengyi Wang , Zhengyang Chen , Zhuo Chen , Shujie Liu , Jian Wu , Yao Qian , Furu Wei , Jinyu Li , Xiangzhan Yu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a powerful way to learn robust, generalizable representations without labeled data. In music, where labeled data is scarce, existing SSL methods typically use generated supervision and multi-view…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Julia Wilkins , Sivan Ding , Magdalena Fuentes , Juan Pablo Bello

Neural network-based speaker recognition has achieved significant improvement in recent years. A robust speaker representation learns meaningful knowledge from both hard and easy samples in the training set to achieve good performance.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Ruijie Tao , Kong Aik Lee , Zhan Shi , Haizhou Li

The past few years have witnessed a remarkable advance in deep learning for EEG-based sleep stage classification (SSC). However, the success of these models is attributed to possessing a massive amount of labeled data for training, limiting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Emadeldeen Eldele , Mohamed Ragab , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Chee-Keong Kwoh , Xiaoli Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which utilizes the input data itself for representation learning, has achieved state-of-the-art results for various downstream speech tasks. However, most of the previous studies focused on offline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Zili Huang , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Jian Wu , Yiming Wang , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka , Xiaofei Wang , Peidong Wang

Deep learning models rely heavily on large volumes of labeled data to achieve high performance. However, real-world datasets often contain noisy labels due to human error, ambiguity, or resource constraints during the annotation process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Gouranga Bala , Anuj Gupta , Subrat Kumar Behera , Amit Sethi

Although supervised deep learning has revolutionized speech and audio processing, it has necessitated the building of specialist models for individual tasks and application scenarios. It is likewise difficult to apply this to dialects and…

Since convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can easily overfit noisy labels, which are ubiquitous in visual classification tasks, it has been a great challenge to train CNNs against them robustly. Various methods have been proposed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yongqi Zhang , Hui Zhang , Quanming Yao , Jun Wan

The goal of this paper is to train effective self-supervised speaker representations without identity labels. We propose two curriculum learning strategies within a self-supervised learning framework. The first strategy aims to gradually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Jingu Kang , Youngki Kwon , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

The lack of labeled data is a major obstacle in many music information retrieval tasks such as melody extraction, where labeling is extremely laborious or costly. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a solution to alleviate the issue by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Sangeun Kum , Jing-Hua Lin , Li Su , Juhan Nam