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Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) is a challenging task. Generating fine-grained pseudo-labels based on weak-label and then self-training a classifier is currently a promising solution. However, since the existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhiwei Yang , Jing Liu , Peng Wu

While deep learning based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have greatly simplified modeling pipelines, they suffer from the data sparsity issue. In this work, we propose a self-training method with an end-to-end system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Yang Chen , Weiran Wang , Chao Wang

Identifying mistakes (i.e., miscues) made while reading aloud is commonly approached post-hoc by comparing automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcriptions to the target reading text. However, post-hoc methods perform poorly when ASR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Griffin Dietz Smith , Dianna Yee , Jennifer King Chen , Leah Findlater

Consistency regularization has recently been applied to semi-supervised sequence-to-sequence (S2S) automatic speech recognition (ASR). This principle encourages an ASR model to output similar predictions for the same input speech with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Heli Qi , Sashi Novitasari , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Self-supervised pre-training could effectively improve the performance of low-resource automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, existing self-supervised pre-training are task-agnostic, i.e., could be applied to various downstream tasks.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Han Zhu , Li Wang , Jindong Wang , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has achieved remarkable success with deep learning, driving advancements in conversational artificial intelligence, media transcription, and assistive technologies. However, ASR systems still struggle in…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoyuan Yang , Yue Zhang , Liqiang Jing , John H. L. Hansen

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems can be trained to achieve remarkable performance given large amounts of manually transcribed speech, but large labeled data sets can be difficult or expensive to acquire for all languages of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Hanan Aldarmaki , Asad Ullah , Nazar Zaki

In the domain of air traffic control (ATC) systems, efforts to train a practical automatic speech recognition (ASR) model always faces the problem of small training samples since the collection and annotation of speech samples are expert-…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yi Lin , Qin Li , Bo Yang , Zhen Yan , Huachun Tan , Zhengmao Chen

State-of-the-art deep neural networks require large-scale labeled training data that is often expensive to obtain or not available for many tasks. Weak supervision in the form of domain-specific rules has been shown to be useful in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Giannis Karamanolakis , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Guoqing Zheng , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often degrade on accented speech because acoustic-phonetic and prosodic shifts induce a mismatch to training data, making labeled accent adaptation costly. However, common pseudo-label selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ligong Lei , Wenwen Lu , Xudong Pang , Zaokere Kadeer , Aishan Wumaier

Fine tuning self supervised pretrained models using pseudo labels can effectively improve speech recognition performance. But, low quality pseudo labels can misguide decision boundaries and degrade performance. We propose a simple yet…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zezhong Jin , Dading Zhong , Xiao Song , Zhaoyi Liu , Naipeng Ye , Qingcheng Zeng

Employing pre-trained language models (LM) to extract contextualized word representations has achieved state-of-the-art performance on various NLP tasks. However, applying this technique to noisy transcripts generated by automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen

The Recurrent Neural Network-Transducer (RNN-T) is widely adopted in end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks but depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality annotated data, which are often costly and difficult to obtain.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dongji Gao , Chenda Liao , Changliang Liu , Matthew Wiesner , Leibny Paola Garcia , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Jian Wu

Target-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe the desired speech of a target speaker from multi-talker overlapped utterances. Most of the existing target-speaker ASR (TS-ASR) methods involve either training from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hao Ma , Zhiyuan Peng , Mingjie Shao , Jing Li , Ju Liu

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models rely on high-quality transcribed data for effective training. Generating pseudo-labels for large unlabeled audio datasets often relies on complex pipelines that combine multiple ASR outputs through…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Jeena Prakash , Blessingh Kumar , Kadri Hacioglu , Bidisha Sharma , Sindhuja Gopalan , Malolan Chetlur , Shankar Venkatesan , Andreas Stolcke

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance in a video, referred by a text expression. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning, requiring expensive pixel-level mask annotations. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Miaojing Shi , Jun Huang , Zijie Yue , Hanli Wang

We explore training attention-based encoder-decoder ASR in low-resource settings. These models perform poorly when trained on small amounts of transcribed speech, in part because they depend on having sufficient target-side text to train…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Matthew Wiesner , Adithya Renduchintala , Shinji Watanabe , Chunxi Liu , Najim Dehak , Sanjeev Khudanpur

We introduce Wav2Seq, the first self-supervised approach to pre-train both parts of encoder-decoder models for speech data. We induce a pseudo language as a compact discrete representation, and formulate a self-supervised pseudo speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Felix Wu , Kwangyoun Kim , Shinji Watanabe , Kyu Han , Ryan McDonald , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Yoav Artzi

The Audio-Visual Video Parsing task aims to identify and temporally localize the events that occur in either or both the audio and visual streams of audible videos. It often performs in a weakly-supervised manner, where only video event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jinxing Zhou , Dan Guo , Yiran Zhong , Meng Wang

The surge of audiovisual content on streaming platforms and social media has heightened the demand for accurate and accessible subtitles. However, existing subtitle generation methods primarily speech-based transcription or OCR-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Arpita Kundu , Joyita Chakraborty , Anindita Desarkar , Aritra Sen , Srushti Anil Patil , Vishwanathan Raman