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Self-supervised learning general-purpose audio representations have demonstrated high performance in a variety of tasks. Although they can be optimized for application by fine-tuning, even higher performance can be expected if they can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Masked Autoencoders is a simple yet powerful self-supervised learning method. However, it learns representations indirectly by reconstructing masked input patches. Several methods learn representations directly by predicting representations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Contrastive language-audio pre-training (CLAP) enables zero-shot (ZS) inference of audio and exhibits promising performance in several classification tasks. However, conventional audio representations are still crucial for many tasks where…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Masahiro Yasuda , Shunsuke Tsubaki , Keisuke Imoto

Contrastive language-audio pre-training (CLAP), which learns audio-language representations by aligning audio and text in a common feature space, has become popular for solving audio tasks. However, CLAP's audio features lack…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Masahiro Yasuda , Binh Thien Nguyen , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada

To reduce the need for skilled clinicians in heart sound interpretation, recent studies on automating cardiac auscultation have explored deep learning approaches. However, despite the demands for large data for deep learning, the size of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Supervised speech enhancement methods have been very successful. However, in practical scenarios, there is a lack of clean speech, and self-supervised learning-based (SSL) speech enhancement methods that offer comparable enhancement…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan , Ritwik Giri , Zhiqiang Tang , Kyu Han

Masked latent prediction has emerged as a leading paradigm in self-supervised learning (SSL), especially for general audio and music representation learning. While recent methods have demonstrated strong performance, the role of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Aurian Quelennec , Pierre Chouteau , Geoffroy Peeters , Slim Essid

Since the introduction of Masked Autoencoders, various improvements to masking techniques have been explored. In this paper, we rethink masking strategies for audio representation learning using masked prediction-based self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Masahiro Yasuda , Binh Thien Nguyen , Noboru Harada , Nobutaka Ono

Recent general-purpose audio representations show state-of-the-art performance on various audio tasks. These representations are pre-trained by self-supervised learning methods that create training signals from the input. For example,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

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

Speech representation learning plays a vital role in speech processing. Among them, self-supervised learning (SSL) has become an important research direction. It has been shown that an SSL pretraining model can achieve excellent performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Yi-Chen Chen , Shu-wen Yang , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Simon See , Hung-yi Lee

We present Masked Frequency Modeling (MFM), a unified frequency-domain-based approach for self-supervised pre-training of visual models. Instead of randomly inserting mask tokens to the input embeddings in the spatial domain, in this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jiahao Xie , Wei Li , Xiaohang Zhan , Ziwei Liu , Yew Soon Ong , Chen Change Loy

Masked signal modeling has greatly advanced self-supervised pre-training for language and 2D images. However, it is still not fully explored in 3D scene understanding. Thus, this paper introduces Masked Shape Prediction (MSP), a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Li Jiang , Zetong Yang , Shaoshuai Shi , Vladislav Golyanik , Dengxin Dai , Bernt Schiele

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has grown in interest within the speech processing community, since it produces representations that are useful for many downstream tasks. SSL uses global and contextual methods to produce robust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Subrina Sultana , Donald S. Williamson

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has driven impressive advances in speech processing by adopting time-domain prediction objectives, while audio representation learning frameworks operate on time-frequency spectrograms. Models optimized for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Ameenudeen P E , Charumathi Narayanan , Sriram Ganapathy

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

With the advances in deep learning, the performance of end-to-end (E2E) single-task models for speech and audio processing has been constantly improving. However, it is still challenging to build a general-purpose model with high…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Xiaoyu Yang , Qiujia Li , Chao Zhang , Phil Woodland

As the deep learning revolution marches on, self-supervised learning has garnered increasing attention in recent years thanks to its remarkable representation learning ability and the low dependence on labeled data. Among these varied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Siyuan Li , Luyuan Zhang , Zedong Wang , Di Wu , Lirong Wu , Zicheng Liu , Jun Xia , Cheng Tan , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Stan Z. Li

Emotion recognition models using audio input data can enable the development of interactive systems with applications in mental healthcare, marketing, gaming, and social media analysis. While the field of affective computing using audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Peranut Nimitsurachat , Peter Washington

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models use only the intrinsic structure of a given signal, independent of its acoustic domain, to extract essential information from the input to an embedding space. This implies that the utility of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Eklavya Sarkar , Mathew Magimai. -Doss
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