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In the task of audio-visual sound source separation, which leverages visual information for sound source separation, identifying objects in an image is a crucial step prior to separating the sound source. However, existing methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Takashi Oya , Shohei Iwase , Shigeo Morishima

A vocoder is a conditional audio generation model that converts acoustic features such as mel-spectrograms into waveforms. Taking inspiration from Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP), we propose a new vocoder named SawSing for…

Signal separation and extraction are important tasks for devices recording audio signals in real environments which, aside from the desired sources, often contain several interfering sources such as background noise or concurrent speakers.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Andreas Brendel , Thomas Haubner , Walter Kellermann

Given a time series of multicomponent measurements x(t), the usual objective of nonlinear blind source separation (BSS) is to find a "source" time series s(t), comprised of statistically independent combinations of the measured components.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-13 David N. Levin

Sound separation (SS) and target sound extraction (TSE) are fundamental techniques for addressing complex acoustic scenarios. While existing SS methods struggle with determining the unknown number of sound sources, TSE approaches require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Hongyu Wang , Chenda Li , Xin Zhou , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

A text-independent speaker recognition system relies on successfully encoding speech factors such as vocal pitch, intensity, and timbre to achieve good performance. A majority of such systems are trained and evaluated using spoken voice or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Anurag Chowdhury , Austin Cozzo , Arun Ross

This paper introduces a cross adversarial source separation (CASS) framework via autoencoder, a new model that aims at separating an input signal consisting of a mixture of multiple components into individual components defined via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yong Zheng Ong , Charles K. Chui , Haizhao Yang

I developed a neural audio codec model based on the residual quantized variational autoencoder architecture. I train the model on the Slakh2100 dataset, a standard dataset for musical source separation, composed of multi-track audio. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Leonardo Berti

Guided source separation (GSS) is a type of target-speaker extraction method that relies on pre-computed speaker activities and blind source separation to perform front-end enhancement of overlapped speech signals. It was first proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Desh Raj , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

To advance immersive communication, the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2025 Challenge recently introduced Task 4 on Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes (S5). An S5 system takes a multi-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Binh Thien Nguyen , Masahiro Yasuda , Daiki Takeuchi , Daisuke Niizumi , Noboru Harada

In this work, we study the task of multi-singer separation in a cappella music, where the number of active singers varies across mixtures. To address this, we use a power set-based data augmentation strategy that expands limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Constantin Pinkl , Florian Grötschla

With the recent advancements of data driven approaches using deep neural networks, music source separation has been formulated as an instrument-specific supervised problem. While existing deep learning models implicitly absorb the spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Darius Petermann , Minje Kim

Singing voice conversion is to convert the source singing voice into the target singing voice except for the content. Currently, flow-based models can complete the task of voice conversion, but they struggle to effectively extract latent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Hui Li , Hongyu Wang , Zhijin Chen , Bohan Sun , Bo Li

The task of blind source separation (BSS) involves separating sources from a mixture without prior knowledge of the sources or the mixing system. Single-channel mixtures and non-linear mixtures are a particularly challenging problem in BSS.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Matthew B. Webster , Joonnyong Lee

Supervised deep learning approaches to underdetermined audio source separation achieve state-of-the-art performance but require a dataset of mixtures along with their corresponding isolated source signals. Such datasets can be extremely…

A prototypical blind signal separation problem is the so-called cocktail party problem, with n people talking simultaneously and n different microphones within a room. The goal is to recover each speech signal from the microphone inputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Mikhail Belkin , Luis Rademacher , James Voss

This paper presents a computationally efficient approach to blind source separation (BSS) of audio signals, applicable even when there are more sources than microphones (i.e., the underdetermined case). When there are as many sources as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Nobutaka Ito , Rintaro Ikeshita , Hiroshi Sawada , Tomohiro Nakatani

This paper proposes singing voice synthesis (SVS) based on frame-level sequence-to-sequence models considering vocal timing deviation. In SVS, it is essential to synchronize the timing of singing with temporal structures represented by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Miku Nishihara , Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

Music source separation in the time-frequency domain is commonly achieved by applying a soft or binary mask to the magnitude component of (complex) spectrograms. The phase component is usually not estimated, but instead copied from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Andreas Jansson , Rachel M. Bittner , Nicola Montecchio , Tillman Weyde

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