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Improving generalization is a major challenge in audio classification due to labeled data scarcity. Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods tackle this by leveraging unlabeled data to learn useful features for downstream classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Melikasadat Emami , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

Automated heart sounds classification is a much-required diagnostic tool in the view of increasing incidences of heart related diseases worldwide. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive study of heart sounds classification by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Balagopal Unnikrishnan , Pranshu Ranjan Singh , Xulei Yang , Matthew Chin Heng Chua

Deep clustering is the first method to handle general audio separation scenarios with multiple sources of the same type and an arbitrary number of sources, performing impressively in speaker-independent speech separation tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-30 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , John R. Hershey , Jonathan Le Roux , Nima Mesgarani

A model involving Gaussian processes (GPs) is introduced to simultaneously handle multi-task learning, clustering, and prediction for multiple functional data. This procedure acts as a model-based clustering method for functional data as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Arthur Leroy , Pierre Latouche , Benjamin Guedj , Servane Gey

This paper describes an effective unsupervised speaker indexing approach. We suggest a two stage algorithm to speed-up the state-of-the-art algorithm based on the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). In the first stage of the merging…

Sound · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Konstantin Biatov

Audio perception is a key to solving a variety of problems ranging from acoustic scene analysis, music meta-data extraction, recommendation, synthesis and analysis. It can potentially also augment computers in doing tasks that humans do…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Prateek Verma , Kenneth Salisbury

State of the art audio source separation models rely on supervised data-driven approaches, which can be expensive in terms of labeling resources. On the other hand, approaches for training these models without any direct supervision are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Michele Mancusi , Emilian Postolache , Giorgio Mariani , Marco Fumero , Andrea Santilli , Luca Cosmo , Emanuele Rodolà

Speech enhancement in hearing aids remains a difficult task in nonstationary acoustic environments, mainly because current signal processing algorithms rely on fixed, manually tuned parameters that cannot adapt in situ to different users or…

Deep learning frameworks allowed for a remarkable advancement in semantic segmentation, but the data hungry nature of convolutional networks has rapidly raised the demand for adaptation techniques able to transfer learned knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Marco Toldo , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

The vector quantization is a widely used method to map continuous representation to discrete space and has important application in tokenization for generative mode, bottlenecking information and many other tasks in machine learning. Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingyuan Yan , Jiawei Wu , Rushi Shah , Dianbo Liu

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are well-established as a principled approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning with neural networks. Typically, an encoder network defines the parameters of a Gaussian distributed latent space from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alan Jeffares , Liyuan Liu

We propose a spatial compounding technique and variational framework to improve 3D ultrasound image quality by compositing multiple ultrasound volumes acquired from different probe orientations. In the composite volume, instead of intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jyotirmoy Banerjee , Premal A. Patel , Fred Ushakov , Donald Peebles , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , David Hawkes , Tom Vercauteren

Utilizing the large-scale unlabeled data from the target domain via pseudo-label clustering algorithms is an important approach for addressing domain adaptation problems in speaker verification tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhuo Li , Jingze Lu , Zhenduo Zhao , Wenchao Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

Power quality (PQ) events are recorded by PQ meters whenever anomalous events are detected on the power grid. Using neural networks with machine learning can aid in accurately classifying the recorded waveforms and help power system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-21 Md Maidul Islam , Md Omar Faruque , Joshua Butterfield , Gaurav Singh , Thomas A. Cooke

Recent studies have explored the use of deep generative models of speech spectra based of variational autoencoders (VAEs), combined with unsupervised noise models, to perform speech enhancement. These studies developed iterative algorithms…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Manuel Pariente , Antoine Deleforge , Emmanuel Vincent

Existing speech tokenizers typically assign a fixed number of tokens per second, regardless of the varying information density or temporal fluctuations in the speech signal. This uniform token allocation mismatches the intrinsic structure…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Rui-Chen Zheng , Wenrui Liu , Hui-Peng Du , Qinglin Zhang , Chong Deng , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

Multi-modal data-sets are ubiquitous in modern applications, and multi-modal Variational Autoencoders are a popular family of models that aim to learn a joint representation of the different modalities. However, existing approaches suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mustapha Bounoua , Giulio Franzese , Pietro Michiardi

Data assimilation, consisting in the combination of a dynamical model with a set of noisy and incomplete observations in order to infer the state of a system over time, involves uncertainty in most settings. Building upon an existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Anthony Frion , David S Greenberg

This study presents a deep-learning framework for controlling multichannel acoustic feedback in audio devices. Traditional digital signal processing methods struggle with convergence when dealing with highly correlated noise such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuan-Kuei Wu , Juan Azcarreta , Kashyap Patel , Buye Xu , Jung-Suk Lee , Sanha Lee , Ashutosh Pandey

Real-world sound scenes consist of time-varying collections of sound sources, each generating characteristic sound events that are mixed together in audio recordings. The association of these constituent sound events with their mixture and…