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Underwater acoustic target recognition (UATR) plays a vital role in marine applications but remains challenging due to limited labeled data and the complexity of ocean environments. This paper explores a central question: can speech large…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mengcheng Huang , Xue Zhou , Chen Xu , Dapeng Man

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), inferring musical notes from raw audio, is a challenging task at the core of music understanding. Unlike Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which typically focuses on the words of a single speaker, AMT…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Josh Gardner , Ian Simon , Ethan Manilow , Curtis Hawthorne , Jesse Engel

The detection of underwater targets is severely affected by the non-uniform spatial characteristics of marine environmental noise. Additionally, the presence of both natural and anthropogenic acoustic sources, including shipping traffic,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Siyuan Cang , Cong Liu , Xueli Sheng , Xiaoming Cui , Chao Li , Changxin Fa , Jiantong Chen , Chaoran Yang , Huayong Yang

The Low frequency analysis and recording (LOFAR) spectrum is one of the key features of the under water target, which can be used for underwater target recognition. However, the underwater environment noise is complicated and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Jie Chen , Jie Liu , Chang Liu , Jian Zhang , Bing Han

Large-scale sound recognition data sets typically consist of acoustic recordings obtained from multimedia libraries. As a consequence, modalities other than audio can often be exploited to improve the outputs of models designed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Wim Boes , Hugo Van hamme

In this paper, we study the underwater acoustic localization in the presence of environmental mismatch. Especially, we exploit a pre-trained neural network for the acoustic wave propagation in a gradient-based optimization framework to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Dariush Kari , Yongjie Zhuang , Andrew C. Singer

Underwater acoustic target detection in remote marine sensing operations is challenging due to complex sound wave propagation. Despite the availability of reliable sonar systems, target recognition remains a difficult problem. Various…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jarin Ritu , Ethan Barnes , Riley Martell , Alexandra Van Dine , Joshua Peeples

Localizing acoustic sound sources in the ocean is a challenging task due to the complex and dynamic nature of the environment. Factors such as high background noise, irregular underwater geometries, and varying acoustic properties make…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Quoc Thinh Vo , Joe Woods , Priontu Chowdhury , David K. Han

Multi-instrument music transcription aims to convert polyphonic music recordings into musical scores assigned to each instrument. This task is challenging for modeling as it requires simultaneously identifying multiple instruments and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Sungkyun Chang , Emmanouil Benetos , Holger Kirchhoff , Simon Dixon

Single-task learning in artificial neural networks will be able to learn the model very well, and the benefits brought by transferring knowledge thus become limited. In this regard, when the number of tasks increases (e.g., semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Mohammad R. Bayanlou , Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh

Underwater acoustic recognition for ship-radiated signals has high practical application value due to the ability to recognize non-line-of-sight targets. However, due to the difficulty of data acquisition, the collected signals are scarce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yuan Xie , Tianyu Chen , Ji Xu

Under noisy environments, to achieve the robust performance of speaker recognition is still a challenging task. Motivated by the promising performance of multi-task training in a variety of image processing tasks, we explore the potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Jianfeng Zhou , Tao Jiang , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong , Zhe Wang , Bingyin Xia

Target identification of ship-radiated noise is a crucial area in underwater target recognition. However, there is currently a lack of multi-target ship datasets that accurately represent real-world underwater acoustic conditions. To tackle…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Xiaoyang Du , Feng Hong

Underwater Sound Speed Profile (SSP) distribution has great influence on the propagation mode of acoustic signal, thus the fast and accurate estimation of SSP is of great importance in building underwater observation systems. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Wei Huang , Fan Gao , Junting Wang , Hao Zhang

Models of acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) learn to map variable-length spoken word segments onto fixed-dimensionality vector representations such that different acoustic exemplars of the same word are projected nearby in the embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Badr M. Abdullah , Bernd Möbius , Dietrich Klakow

In a world of global trading, maritime safety, security and efficiency are crucial issues. We propose a multi-task deep learning framework for vessel monitoring using Automatic Identification System (AIS) data streams. We combine recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Duong Nguyen , Rodolphe Vadaine , Guillaume Hajduch , René Garello , Ronan Fablet

With the rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) in multi-modal understanding, there is increasing potential for video comprehension technologies to support professional domains such as medical education. However, existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Shenxi Liu , Kan Li , Mingyang Zhao , Yuhang Tian , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou , Hongliang Li , Fuxia Yang

Multi-task learning (MTL) involves the simultaneous training of two or more related tasks over shared representations. In this work, we apply MTL to audio-visual automatic speech recognition(AV-ASR). Our primary task is to learn a mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Abhinav Thanda , Shankar M Venkatesan

Increasing levels of anthropogenic noise from ships contribute significantly to underwater sound pollution, posing risks to marine ecosystems. This makes monitoring crucial to understand and quantify the impact of the ship radiated noise.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hilde I. Hummel , Sandjai Bhulai , Rob D. van der Mei , Burooj Ghani

Numerous maritime applications rely on the ability to recognize acoustic targets using passive sonar. While there is a growing reliance on pre-trained models for classification tasks, these models often require extensive computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Atharva Agashe , Davelle Carreiro , Alexandra Van Dine , Joshua Peeples