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Sound Event Detection and Localization (SELD) constitutes a complex task that depends on extensive multichannel audio recordings with annotated sound events and their respective locations. In this paper, we introduce a self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Orlem Lima dos Santos , Karen Rosero , Roberto de Alencar Lotufo

A flexible recommendation and retrieval system requires music similarity in terms of multiple partial elements of musical pieces to allow users to select the element they want to focus on. A method for music similarity learning using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Atsushi Miyashita , Tomoki Toda

Recently, self-supervised learning methods based on masked latent prediction have proven to encode input data into powerful representations. However, during training, the learned latent space can be further transformed to extract…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aurian Quelennec , Pierre Chouteau , Geoffroy Peeters , Slim Essid

Self-supervised learning has been a powerful approach for learning meaningful representations from unlabeled data across various domains, reducing the reliance on large labeled datasets. Inspired by BERT's success in capturing deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Hoang M. Nguyen , Satya N. Shukla , Qiang Zhang , Hanchao Yu , Sreya D. Roy , Taipeng Tian , Lingjiong Zhu , Yuchen Liu

With the progress of sensor technology in wearables, the collection and analysis of PPG signals are gaining more interest. Using Machine Learning, the cardiac rhythm corresponding to PPG signals can be used to predict different tasks such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Ramin Ghorbani , Marcel J. T. Reinders , David M. J. Tax

Despite significant efforts, the realization of the hybrid quantum-classical algorithms has predominantly been confined to proof-of-principles, mainly due to the hardware noise. With fault-tolerant implementation being a long-term goal,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Srushti Patil , Dibyendu Mondal , Rahul Maitra

While contrastive learning is proven to be an effective training strategy in computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is only recently adopting it as a self-supervised alternative to Masked Language Modeling (MLM) for improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hooman Sedghamiz , Shivam Raval , Enrico Santus , Tuka Alhanai , Mohammad Ghassemi

Convolutional Neural Networks have been extensively explored in the task of automatic music tagging. The problem can be approached by using either engineered time-frequency features or raw audio as input. Modulation filter bank…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Cyrus Vahidi , Charalampos Saitis , György Fazekas

Speaker representation learning is crucial for voice recognition systems, with recent advances in self-supervised approaches reducing dependency on labeled data. Current two-stage iterative frameworks, while effective, suffer from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Danwei Cai , Zexin Cai , Ze Li , Ming Li

This paper proposes a general method for improving the structure and quality of sequences generated by a recurrent neural network (RNN), while maintaining information originally learned from data, as well as sample diversity. An RNN is…

In this work, we aim to improve the expressive capacity of waveform-based discriminative music networks by modeling both sequential (temporal) and hierarchical information in an efficient end-to-end architecture. We present MuSLCAT, or…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Kai Middlebrook , Shyam Sudhakaran , David Guy Brizan

Generative models with discrete latent representations have recently demonstrated an impressive ability to learn complex high-dimensional data distributions. However, their performance relies on a long sequence of tokens per instance and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 David D. Nguyen , David Leibowitz , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere

Multimodal music emotion analysis leverages both audio and MIDI modalities to enhance performance. While mainstream approaches focus on complex feature extraction networks, we propose that shortening the length of audio sequence features to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dinghao Zou , Yicheng Gong , Xiaokang Li , Xin Cao , Sunbowen Lee

Speech discrete representation has proven effective in various downstream applications due to its superior compression rate of the waveform, fast convergence during training, and compatibility with other modalities. Discrete units extracted…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiatong Shi , Xutai Ma , Hirofumi Inaguma , Anna Sun , Shinji Watanabe

Music auto-tagging is crucial for enhancing music discovery and recommendation. Existing models in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) struggle with real-world noise such as environmental and speech sounds in multimedia content. This study…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haesun Joung , Kyogu Lee

Modelling sequential music skips provides streaming companies the ability to better understand the needs of the user base, resulting in a better user experience by reducing the need to manually skip certain music tracks. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Christian Hansen , Casper Hansen , Stephen Alstrup , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma

We propose Quantum Vision (QV) theory as a new perspective for deep learning-based audio classification, applied to deepfake speech detection. Inspired by particle-wave duality in quantum physics, QV theory is based on the idea that data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Khalid Zaman , Melike Sah , Anuwat Chaiwongyenc , Cem Direkoglu

While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by establishing a comprehensive…

We present a multimodal framework to learn general audio representations from videos. Existing contrastive audio representation learning methods mainly focus on using the audio modality alone during training. In this work, we show that…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Luyu Wang , Pauline Luc , Adria Recasens , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aaron van den Oord

Multi-Modal Self-Supervised Learning from videos has been shown to improve model's performance on various downstream tasks. However, such Self-Supervised pre-training requires large batch sizes and a large amount of computation resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Duo Wang , Salah Karout