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We introduce CLaMP: Contrastive Language-Music Pre-training, which learns cross-modal representations between natural language and symbolic music using a music encoder and a text encoder trained jointly with a contrastive loss. To pre-train…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Shangda Wu , Dingyao Yu , Xu Tan , Maosong Sun

This paper introduces a semi-supervised contrastive learning framework and its application to text-independent speaker verification. The proposed framework employs generalized contrastive loss (GCL). GCL unifies losses from two different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Nakamasa Inoue , Keita Goto

Self-supervised learning (SSL) achieves great success in monaural speech enhancement, while the accuracy of the target speech estimation, particularly for unseen speakers, remains inadequate with existing pre-tasks. As speech signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yi Li , ShuangLin Li , Yang Sun , Syed Mohsen Naqvi

Although supervised deep learning has revolutionized speech and audio processing, it has necessitated the building of specialist models for individual tasks and application scenarios. It is likewise difficult to apply this to dialects and…

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training, benefiting from large-scale unlabeled text-image pairs, has demonstrated great performance in open-world vision understanding tasks. However, due to the limited Text-3D data pairs, adapting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yihan Zeng , Chenhan Jiang , Jiageng Mao , Jianhua Han , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingqiu Huang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Zhen Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Hang Xu

To reduce the need for skilled clinicians in heart sound interpretation, recent studies on automating cardiac auscultation have explored deep learning approaches. However, despite the demands for large data for deep learning, the size of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Human-centric visual analysis plays a pivotal role in diverse applications, including surveillance, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. With the emergence of large-scale unlabeled human image datasets, there is an increasing need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingshuang Luo , Ruibing Hou , Bo Chao , Hong Chang , Zimo Liu , Yaowei Wang , Shiguang Shan

Contrastive learning has shown remarkable success in the field of multimodal representation learning. In this paper, we propose a pipeline of contrastive language-audio pretraining to develop an audio representation by combining audio data…

Bootstrap-based Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable progress in audio understanding. However, existing methods typically operate at a single level of granularity, limiting their ability to model the diverse temporal and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Bing Han , Chushu Zhou , Yifan Yang , Wei Wang , Chenda Li , Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian

Language-queried target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract specific sounds from mixtures based on language queries. Traditional fully-supervised training schemes require extensively annotated parallel audio-text data, which are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Hao Ma , Zhiyuan Peng , Xu Li , Yukai Li , Mingjie Shao , Qiuqiang Kong , Ju Liu

Collecting large-scale medical datasets with fully annotated samples for training of deep networks is prohibitively expensive, especially for 3D volume data. Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning (SSL) offer the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Duy M. H. Nguyen , Hoang Nguyen , Mai T. N. Truong , Tri Cao , Binh T. Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Paul Swoboda , Shadi Albarqouni , Pengtao Xie , Daniel Sonntag

Joint audio-text models are widely used for music retrieval, yet they struggle with semantic phenomena such as negation. Negation is fundamental for distinguishing the absence (or presence) of musical elements (e.g., "with vocals" vs.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yannis Vasilakis , Rachel Bittner , Johan Pauwels

In this paper, we propose an efficient MLP-based approach for learning audio representations, namely timestamp and scene-level audio embeddings. We use an encoder consisting of sequentially stacked gated MLP blocks, which accept 2D MFCCs as…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mashrur M. Morshed , Ahmad Omar Ahsan , Hasan Mahmud , Md. Kamrul Hasan

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) framework has become a widely used approach for multimodal representation learning, particularly in image-text retrieval and clustering. However, its efficacy is constrained by three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Ziyong Feng , Xingjun Wang , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Yingda Chen , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently shown remarkable results in closing the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning. The idea is to learn robust features that are invariant to distortions of the input data. Despite its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Bac Nguyen , Stefan Uhlich , Fabien Cardinaux

Audio representations for music information retrieval are typically learned via supervised learning in a task-specific fashion. Although effective at producing state-of-the-art results, this scheme lacks flexibility with respect to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Ilaria Manco , Emmanouil Benetos , Elio Quinton , Gyorgy Fazekas

Existing contrastive learning methods for anomalous sound detection refine the audio representation of each audio sample by using the contrast between the samples' augmentations (e.g., with time or frequency masking). However, they might be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Guan , Feiyang Xiao , Youde Liu , Qiaoxi Zhu , Wenwu Wang

In this project, we demonstrate that phoneme-based models for speech processing can achieve strong crosslinguistic generalizability to unseen languages. We curated the IPAPACK, a massively multilingual speech corpora with phonemic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jian Zhu , Changbing Yang , Farhan Samir , Jahurul Islam

Dual-encoder-based audio retrieval systems are commonly optimized with contrastive learning on a set of matching and mismatching audio-caption pairs. This leads to a shared embedding space in which corresponding items from the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Audio can disclose PII, particularly when combined with related text data. Therefore, it is essential to develop tools to detect privacy leakage in Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining(CLAP). Existing MIAs need audio as input, risking…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ruoxi Cheng , Yizhong Ding , Shuirong Cao , Shitong Shao , Zhiqiang Wang