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Large-scale multimodal pre-trained models like CLIP rely heavily on high-quality training data, yet raw web-crawled datasets are often noisy, misaligned, and redundant, leading to inefficient training and suboptimal generalization. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Guanjie Cheng , Boyi Li , Lingyu Sun , Mengying Zhu , Yangyang Wu , Xinkui Zhao , Shuiguang Deng

This paper introduces an area-based source separation method designed for virtual meeting scenarios. The aim is to preserve speech signals from an unspecified number of sources within a defined spatial area in front of a linear microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Martin Strauss , Okan Köpüklü

We propose a hierarchical meta-learning-inspired model for music source separation (Meta-TasNet) in which a generator model is used to predict the weights of individual extractor models. This enables efficient parameter-sharing, while still…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 David Samuel , Aditya Ganeshan , Jason Naradowsky

This paper deals with the problem of informed source separation (ISS), where the sources are accessible during the so-called \textit{encoding} stage. Previous works computed side-information during the encoding stage and source separation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Naoya Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

We propose a generative framework for multi-track music source separation (MSS) that reformulates the task as conditional discrete token generation. Unlike conventional approaches that directly estimate continuous signals in the time or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Pengbo Lyu , Xiangyu Zhao , Chengwei Liu , Haoyin Yan , Xiaotao Liang , Hongyu Wang , Shaofei Xue

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) based approaches have achieved the start-of-the-art performance for music source separation (MSS). Although previous methods have addressed the large receptive field modeling using various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Lianwu Chen , Xiguang Zheng , Chen Zhang , Liang Guo , Bing Yu

Sound event detection (SED) and acoustic scene classification (ASC) are important research topics in environmental sound analysis. Many research groups have addressed SED and ASC using neural-network-based methods, such as the convolutional…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Noriyuki Tonami , Keisuke Imoto , Ryosuke Yamanishi , Yoichi Yamashita

This paper presents a joint source separation algorithm that simultaneously reduces acoustic echo, reverberation and interfering sources. Target speeches are separated from the mixture by maximizing independence with respect to the other…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Yueyue Na , Ziteng Wang , Zhang Liu , Biao Tian , Qiang Fu

We propose a new method for training a supervised source separation system that aims to learn the interdependent relationships between all combinations of sources in a mixture. Rather than independently estimating each source from a mix, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ethan Manilow , Curtis Hawthorne , Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang , Bryan Pardo , Jesse Engel

Existing single-modal and multi-modal salient object detection (SOD) methods focus on designing specific architectures tailored for their respective tasks. However, developing completely different models for different tasks leads to labor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kunpeng Wang , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Zhengyi Liu , Bin Luo

Speech enhancement and speech separation are two related tasks, whose purpose is to extract either one or more target speech signals, respectively, from a mixture of sounds generated by several sources. Traditionally, these tasks have been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Jesper Jensen

Source separation is the process of isolating individual sounds in an auditory mixture of multiple sounds [1], and has a variety of applications ranging from speech enhancement and lyric transcription [2] to digital audio production for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bradford Derby , Lucas Dunker , Samarth Galchar , Shashank Jarmale , Akash Setti

Recently, end-to-end multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) systems gain success in the situation where a lot of high-quality speech plus their corresponding transcriptions are available. However, laborious paired data collection processes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Tao Tu , Yuan-Jui Chen , Alexander H. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

Immersive communication has made significant advancements, especially with the release of the codec for Immersive Voice and Audio Services. Aiming at its further realization, the DCASE 2025 Challenge has recently introduced a task for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Binh Thien Nguyen , Masahiro Yasuda , Daiki Takeuchi , Daisuke Niizumi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada

Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have been separately developed under two different categories, task-oriented and chit-chat. The former focuses on achieving functional goals and the latter aims at creating engaging social conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ye Liu , Stefan Ultes , Wolfgang Minker , Wolfgang Maier

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) and acoustic event detection (AED) are different but related tasks. Acoustic events can provide useful information for recognizing acoustic scenes. However, most of the datasets are provided without…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ruixiong Zhang , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

A common challenge in the natural sciences is to disentangle distinct, unknown sources from observations. Examples of this source separation task include deblending galaxies in a crowded field, distinguishing the activity of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Sydney Erickson

Sound source separation has attracted attention from Music Information Retrieval(MIR) researchers, since it is related to many MIR tasks such as automatic lyric transcription, singer identification, and voice conversion. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Jaehoon Oh , Duyeon Kim , Se-Young Yun

Modern smart glasses leverage advanced audio sensing and machine learning technologies to offer real-time transcribing and captioning services, considerably enriching human experiences in daily communications. However, such systems…

Deep learning approaches have recently achieved impressive performance on both audio source separation and sound classification. Most audio source separation approaches focus only on separating sources belonging to a restricted domain of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey , Aren Jansen , Daniel P. W. Ellis