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Noise reduction techniques based on deep learning have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing the overall quality of recorded speech. While these approaches are highly performant, their application in audio engineering can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Christian J. Steinmetz , Thomas Walther , Joshua D. Reiss

In this paper, we study whether music source separation can be used as a pre-training strategy for music representation learning, targeted at music classification tasks. To this end, we first pre-train U-Net networks under various music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Christos Garoufis , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos

This paper proposes reverberation as supervision (RAS), a novel unsupervised loss function for single-channel reverberant speech separation. Prior methods for unsupervised separation required the synthesis of mixtures of mixtures or assumed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Rohith Aralikatti , Christoph Boeddeker , Gordon Wichern , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Jonathan Le Roux

Audio source separation is often achieved by estimating the magnitude spectrogram of each source, and then applying a phase recovery (or spectrogram inversion) algorithm to retrieve time-domain signals. Typically, spectrogram inversion is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen

Deep learning approaches have recently achieved impressive performance on both audio source separation and sound classification. Most audio source separation approaches focus only on separating sources belonging to a restricted domain of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey , Aren Jansen , Daniel P. W. Ellis

Recent work has shown that recurrent neural networks can be trained to separate individual speakers in a sound mixture with high fidelity. Here we explore convolutional neural network models as an alternative and show that they achieve…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Shariq Mobin , Brian Cheung , Bruno Olshausen

Speech separation seeks to isolate individual speech signals from a multi-talk speech mixture. Despite much progress, a system well-trained on synthetic data often experiences performance degradation on out-of-domain data, such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wupeng Wang , Zexu Pan , Jingru Lin , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

A novel model was recently proposed by Schulze-Forster et al. in [1] for unsupervised music source separation. This model allows to tackle some of the major shortcomings of existing source separation frameworks. Specifically, it eliminates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Gael Richard , Pierre Chouteau , Bernardo Torres

Unsupervised representation learning, particularly sequential disentanglement, aims to separate static and dynamic factors of variation in data without relying on labels. This remains a challenging problem, as existing approaches based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hedi Zisling , Ilan Naiman , Nimrod Berman , Supasorn Suwajanakorn , Omri Azencot

Training neural networks for source separation involves presenting a mixture recording at the input of the network and updating network parameters in order to produce an output that resembles the clean source. Consequently, supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shrikant Venkataramani , Efthymios Tzinis , Paris Smaragdis

In numerous inverse problems, state-of-the-art solving strategies involve training neural networks from ground truth and associated measurement datasets that, however, may be expensive or impossible to collect. Recently, self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Victor Sechaud , Laurent Jacques , Patrice Abry , Julián Tachella

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability to model data distributions. To solve image restoration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiang Li , Soo Min Kwon , Shijun Liang , Ismail R. Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Qing Qu

This study aims to construct an audio-video generative model with minimal computational cost by leveraging pre-trained single-modal generative models for audio and video. To achieve this, we propose a novel method that guides single-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Akio Hayakawa , Masato Ishii , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

The recent emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced the precision of learnable priors, presenting innovative avenues for addressing inverse problems. Since inverse problems inherently entail maximum a posteriori estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiawei Zhang , Jiaxin Zhuang , Cheng Jin , Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

Source separation is the task to separate an audio recording into individual sound sources. Source separation is fundamental for computational auditory scene analysis. Previous work on source separation has focused on separating particular…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Qiuqiang Kong , Yuxuan Wang , Xuchen Song , Yin Cao , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

The goal of speech separation is to extract multiple speech sources from a single microphone recording. Recently, with the advancement of deep learning and availability of large datasets, speech separation has been formulated as a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Midia Yousefi , John H. L. Hansen

Speech separation aims to separate individual voice from an audio mixture of multiple simultaneous talkers. Although audio-only approaches achieve satisfactory performance, they build on a strategy to handle the predefined conditions,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Peng Zhang , Jiaming Xu , Jing shi , Yunzhe Hao , Bo Xu

Segmenting objects in images and separating sound sources in audio are challenging tasks, in part because traditional approaches require large amounts of labeled data. In this paper we develop a neural network model for visual object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Andrew Rouditchenko , Hang Zhao , Chuang Gan , Josh McDermott , Antonio Torralba

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

We present a novel source separation model to decompose asingle-channel speech signal into two speech segments belonging to two different speakers. The proposed model is a neural network based on residual blocks, and uses learnt speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Shuo Liu , Gil Keren , Björn Schuller