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Real-time single-channel speech separation aims to unmix an audio stream captured from a single microphone that contains multiple people talking at once, environmental noise, and reverberation into multiple de-reverberated and noise-free…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Julian Neri , Sebastian Braun

Separating the individual elements in a musical mixture is an essential process for music analysis and practice. While this is generally addressed using neural networks optimized to mask or transform the time-frequency representation of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Current generative models are able to generate high-quality artefacts but have been shown to struggle with compositional reasoning, which can be defined as the ability to generate complex structures from simpler elements. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Giovanni Bindi , Philippe Esling

Speech separation, the task of isolating multiple speech sources from a mixed audio signal, remains challenging in noisy environments. In this paper, we propose a generative correction method to enhance the output of a discriminative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Helin Wang , Jesus Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Jiarui Hai , Thomas Thebaud , Najim Dehak

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Neural networks have recently become the dominant approach to sound separation. Their good performance relies on large datasets of isolated recordings. For speech and music, isolated single channel data are readily available; however the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Jacob Kealey , John Hershey , François Grondin

The problem of speech separation, also known as the cocktail party problem, refers to the task of isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of speech signals. Previous work on source separation derived an upper bound for the source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Shahar Lutati , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

A common challenge in the natural sciences is to disentangle distinct, unknown sources from observations. Examples of this source separation task include deblending galaxies in a crowded field, distinguishing the activity of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Sydney Erickson

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

Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

Many applications of single channel source separation (SCSS) including automatic speech recognition (ASR), hearing aids etc. require an estimation of only one source from a mixture of many sources. Treating this special case as a regular…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-22 Arpita Gang , Pravesh Biyani , Akshay Soni

Audio source separation is often used as preprocessing of various applications, and one of its ultimate goals is to construct a single versatile model capable of dealing with the varieties of audio signals. Since sampling frequency, one of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Koichi Saito , Tomohiko Nakamura , Kohei Yatabe , Yuma Koizumi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The separation of single-channel underwater acoustic signals is a challenging problem with practical significance. Few existing studies focus on the source separation problem with unknown numbers of signals, and how to evaluate the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qinggang Sun , Kejun Wang

We present in this paper an informed single-channel dereverberation method based on conditional generation with diffusion models. With knowledge of the room impulse response, the anechoic utterance is generated via reverse diffusion using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

This work examines a semi-blind single-channel source separation problem. Our specific aim is to separate one source whose local structure is approximately known, from another a priori unspecified background source, given only a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Sirisha Rambhatla , Jarvis D. Haupt

Existing diffusion-based purification methods aim to disrupt adversarial perturbations by introducing a certain amount of noise through a forward diffusion process, followed by a reverse process to recover clean examples. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Gaozheng Pei , Shaojie Lyu , Gong Chen , Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Yingfei Sun , Qingming Huang

In this report we describe an ongoing line of research for solving single-channel source separation problems. Many monaural signal decomposition techniques proposed in the literature operate on a feature space consisting of a time-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Pablo Sprechmann , Joan Bruna , Yann LeCun

This paper deals with the problem of audio source separation. To handle the complex and ill-posed nature of the problems of audio source separation, the current state-of-the-art approaches employ deep neural networks to obtain instrumental…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Naoya Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

In this work, we propose an approach to music source separation that uses a generative diffusion model as a last-stage refinement on top of a deterministic separator, progressively enhancing the separated sources through iterative…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tornike Karchkhadze , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Shuo Zhang , Shlomo Dubnov

While there has been much recent progress using deep learning techniques to separate speech and music audio signals, these systems typically require large collections of isolated sources during the training process. When extending audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Fatemeh Pishdadian , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux