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This paper addresses the challenge of audio-visual single-microphone speech separation and enhancement in the presence of real-world environmental noise. Our approach is based on generative inverse sampling, where we model clean speech and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yochai Yemini , Yoav Ellinson , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Runwu Shi , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Rui Zhang , Nabeela Khan , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Audio-text retrieval enables semantic alignment between audio content and natural language queries, supporting applications in multimedia search, accessibility, and surveillance. However, current state-of-the-art approaches struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Meizhu Liu , Matthew Rowe , Amit Agarwal , Michael Avendi , Yassi Abbasi , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Paul Li , Kyu J. Han , Tao Sheng , Sujith Ravi , Dan Roth

We consider the task of retrieving audio using free-form natural language queries. To study this problem, which has received limited attention in the existing literature, we introduce challenging new benchmarks for text-based audio…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Andreea-Maria Oncescu , A. Sophia Koepke , João F. Henriques , Zeynep Akata , Samuel Albanie

Universal sound separation (USS) aims to extract arbitrary types of sounds from real-world recordings. This can be achieved by language-queried target sound extraction (TSE), which typically consists of two components: a query network that…

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

This paper proposes a new task called spatial voice conversion, which aims to convert a target voice while preserving spatial information and non-target signals. Traditional voice conversion methods focus on single-channel waveforms,…

Foley sound generation, the art of creating audio for multimedia, has recently seen notable advancements through text-conditioned latent diffusion models. These systems use multimodal text-audio representation models, such as Contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Tornike Karchkhadze , Hassan Salami Kavaki , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Bryce Irvin , Mikolaj Kegler , Ari Hertz , Shuo Zhang , Marko Stamenovic

In the context of environmental sound classification, the adaptability of systems is key: which sound classes are interesting depends on the context and the user's needs. Recent advances in text-to-audio retrieval allow for zero-shot audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Saksham Singh Kushwaha , Magdalena Fuentes

Perceiving a scene most fully requires all the senses. Yet modeling how objects look and sound is challenging: most natural scenes and events contain multiple objects, and the audio track mixes all the sound sources together. We propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Ruohan Gao , Rogerio Feris , Kristen Grauman

Conventional approaches to sound localization and separation are based on microphone arrays in artificial systems. Inspired by the selective perception of human auditory system, we design a multi-source listening system which can separate…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Xuecong Sun , Han Jia , Zhe Zhang , Yuzhen Yang , Zhaoyong Sun , Jun Yang

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

Supervised deep learning approaches to underdetermined audio source separation achieve state-of-the-art performance but require a dataset of mixtures along with their corresponding isolated source signals. Such datasets can be extremely…

In anomalous sound detection, the discriminative method has demonstrated superior performance. This approach constructs a discriminative feature space through the classification of the meta-information labels for normal sounds. This feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Takuya Fujimura , Ibuki Kuroyanagi , Tomoki Toda

We tackle the multi-party speech recovery problem through modeling the acoustic of the reverberant chambers. Our approach exploits structured sparsity models to perform room modeling and speech recovery. We propose a scheme for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Afsaneh Asaei , Mohammad Golbabaee , Hervé Bourlard , Volkan Cevher

Separating an audio scene into isolated sources is a fundamental problem in computer audition, analogous to image segmentation in visual scene analysis. Source separation systems based on deep learning are currently the most successful…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux , Bryan Pardo

Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) focuses on separating sounds using textual descriptions of the desired sources. Current methods mainly use discriminative approaches, such as time-frequency masking, to separate target sounds…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yi Yuan , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

We present a deep learning based methodology for extracting the singing voice signal from a musical mixture based on the underlying linguistic content. Our model follows an encoder decoder architecture and takes as input the magnitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

We introduce a real-time, multichannel speech enhancement algorithm which maintains the spatial cues of stereo recordings including two speech sources. Recognizing that each source has unique spatial information, our method utilizes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Masahito Togami , Jean-Marc Valin , Karim Helwani , Ritwik Giri , Umut Isik , Michael M. Goodwin

Audio source separation aims to separate a mixture into target sources. Previous audio source separation systems usually conduct one-step inference, which does not fully explore the separation ability of models. In this work, we reveal that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yongyi Zang , Jingyi Li , Qiuqiang Kong

Deep learning techniques for separating audio into different sound sources face several challenges. Standard architectures require training separate models for different types of audio sources. Although some universal separators employ a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ke Chen , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov