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This paper introduces our system submission for the Cadenza ICASSP 2024 Grand Challenge, which presents the problem of remixing and enhancing music for hearing aid users. Our system placed first in the challenge, achieving the best average…

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Over-aligning image generation models to a generalized aesthetic preference conflicts with user intent, particularly when "anti-aesthetic" outputs are requested for artistic or critical purposes. This adherence prioritizes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wenqi Marshall Guo , Qingyun Qian , Khalad Hasan , Shan Du

Speech style editing refers to modifying the stylistic properties of speech while preserving its linguistic content and speaker identity. However, most existing approaches depend on explicit labels or reference audio, which limits both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Yun Chen , Qi Chen , Zheqi Dai , Arshdeep Singh , Philip J. B. Jackson , Mark D. Plumbley

Automated Scoring (AS), the natural language processing task of scoring essays and speeches in an educational testing setting, is growing in popularity and being deployed across contexts from government examinations to companies providing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yaman Kumar Singla , Sriram Krishna , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Changyou Chen

The Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) challenge is designed to foster innovation in the area of noise suppression to achieve superior perceptual speech quality. This is the 4th DNS challenge, with the previous editions held at INTERSPEECH 2020,…

Background music affects lyrics intelligibility of singing vocals in a music piece. Automatic lyrics alignment and transcription in polyphonic music are challenging tasks because the singing vocals are corrupted by the background music. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Chitralekha Gupta , Emre Yılmaz , Haizhou Li

Acoustic matching aims to re-synthesize an audio clip to sound as if it were recorded in a target acoustic environment. Existing methods assume access to paired training data, where the audio is observed in both source and target…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Arjun Somayazulu , Changan Chen , Kristen Grauman

Audio editing aims to manipulate audio content based on textual descriptions, supporting tasks such as adding, removing, or replacing audio events. Despite recent progress, the lack of high-quality benchmark datasets and comprehensive…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhang Jia , Hui Wang , Xin Nie , Yujie Guo , Lianru Gao , Yong Qin

Anomalous sound detection (ASD) systems are usually compared by using threshold-independent performance measures such as AUC-ROC. However, for practical applications a decision threshold is needed to decide whether a given test sample is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Kevin Wilkinghoff , Keisuke Imoto

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) is fundamentally reshaping software engineering (SE), driving a paradigm shift in both academic research and industrial practice. While top-tier SE venues continue to show sustained or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Hang Yu , Yuzhou Lai , Li Zhang , Xiaoli Lian , Fang Liu , Yanrui Dong , Ting Zhang , Zhi Jin , David Lo

This paper presents the results of the 2025 Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) Challenge, an online competition to benchmark progress in multi-instrument transcription. Eight teams submitted valid solutions; two outperformed the baseline…

Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) is a vital and intricate task that entails analyzing and assessing an image's aesthetic values, and identifying its highlights and areas for improvement. Traditional methods of IAA often concentrate on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuti Liu , Shice Liu , Junyuan Gao , Pengtao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li

The ICASSP 2023 Speech Signal Improvement Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the area of improving the speech signal quality in communication systems. The speech signal quality can be measured with SIG in ITU-T P.835 and is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Ross Cutler , Ando Saabas , Babak Naderi , Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea , Sebastian Braun , Solomiya Branets

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have significantly enhanced generative tasks involving music and images, employing both unimodal and multimodal approaches. This research develops a model capable of generating music that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Tanisha Hisariya , Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang

Although recent text-to-image generative models have achieved impressive performance, they still often struggle with capturing the compositional complexities of prompts including attribute binding, and spatial relationships between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Seyed Mohammad Hadi Hosseini , Amir Mohammad Izadi , Ali Abdollahi , Armin Saghafian , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

This paper presents the details of our system designed for the Task 1 of Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) Challenge 2021. The purpose of Task 1 is to leverage both audio and video information to improve the…

We propose a framework for audio-to-score alignment on piano performance that employs automatic music transcription (AMT) using neural networks. Even though the AMT result may contain some errors, the note prediction output can be regarded…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Taegyun Kwon , Dasaem Jeong , Juhan Nam

Automatic photo aesthetic assessment is a challenging artificial intelligence task. Existing computational approaches have focused on modeling a single aesthetic score or a class (good or bad), however these do not provide any details on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Gautam Malu , Raju S. Bapi , Bipin Indurkhya

The aim of this project is to implement and design arobust synthetic speech classifier for the IEEE Signal ProcessingCup 2022 challenge. Here, we learn a synthetic speech attributionmodel using the speech generated from various…

In this paper, the dataset used for the data challenge organised by Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) is introduced. The CSMT data challenge requires participants to identify whether a given piece of melody is generated by…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Shengchen Li , Yinji Jing , György Fazekas