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With the advances in deep learning, speech enhancement systems benefited from large neural network architectures and achieved state-of-the-art quality. However, speaker-agnostic methods are not always desirable, both in terms of quality and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Anastasia Kuznetsova , Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

Obtaining data to train robust artificial intelligence (AI)-based models for species classification can be challenging, particularly for rare species. Data augmentation can boost classification accuracy by increasing the diversity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Anthony Gibbons , Emma King , Ian Donohue , Andrew Parnell

In recent years, text-to-audio models have revolutionized the field of automatic audio generation. This paper investigates their application in generating synthetic datasets for training data-driven models. Specifically, this study analyzes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci

In this paper, we address a key scientific problem in machine learning: Given a training set for an image classification task, can we train a generative model on this dataset to enhance the classification performance? (i.e., closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Haowen Wang , Guowei Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Zeyuan Chen , Haiyang Xu , Dou Hoon Kwark , Zhuowen Tu

Data augmentation is an essential part of the training process applied to deep learning models. The motivation is that a robust training process for deep learning models depends on large annotated datasets, which are expensive to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Toan Tran , Trung Pham , Gustavo Carneiro , Lyle Palmer , Ian Reid

The usage of medical image data for the training of large-scale machine learning approaches is particularly challenging due to its scarce availability and the costly generation of data annotations, typically requiring the engagement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Joshua Niemeijer , Jan Ehrhardt , Hristina Uzunova , Heinz Handels

End-to-end models have achieved significant improvement on automatic speech recognition. One common method to improve performance of these models is expanding the data-space through data augmentation. Meanwhile, human auditory inspired…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Zehai Tu , Jack Deadman , Ning Ma , Jon Barker

Modern machine learning models for audio tasks often exhibit superior performance on English and other well-resourced languages, primarily due to the abundance of available training data. This disparity leads to an unfair performance gap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wesley Bian , Xiaofeng Lin , Guang Cheng

Imbalanced classification often causes standard training procedures to prioritize the majority class and perform poorly on rare but important cases. A classic and widely used remedy is to augment the minority class with synthetic samples,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Zhengchi Ma , Anru R. Zhang

Automated respiratory sound classification faces practical challenges from background noise and insufficient denoising in existing systems. We propose Adaptive Differential Denoising network, that integrates noise suppression and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Gaoyang Dong , Zhicheng Zhang , Ping Sun , Minghui Zhang

Applications of machine learning are subject to three major components that contribute to the final performance metrics. Within the category of neural networks, and deep learning specifically, the first two are the architecture for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 William H. Clark , Steven Hauser , William C. Headley , Alan J. Michaels

Instrument classification is one of the fields in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) that has attracted a lot of research interest. However, the majority of that is dealing with monophonic music, while efforts on polyphonic material mainly…

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Acquiring large quantities of data and annotations is known to be effective for developing high-performing deep learning models, but is difficult and expensive to do in the healthcare context. Adding synthetic training data using generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Menghan Yu , Sourabh Kulhare , Courosh Mehanian , Charles B Delahunt , Daniel E Shea , Zohreh Laverriere , Ishan Shah , Matthew P Horning

With the rapid development of deep learning, automatic modulation recognition (AMR), as an important task in cognitive radio, has gradually transformed from traditional feature extraction and classification to automatic classification by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Xinjie Xu , Zhuangzhi Chen , Dongwei Xu , Huaji Zhou , Shanqing Yu , Shilian Zheng , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Although automatic pathological speech detection approaches show promising results when clean recordings are available, they are vulnerable to additive noise. Recently it has been shown that databases commonly used to develop and evaluate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mahdi Amiri , Ina Kodrasi

Electronic nose has been proven to be effective in alternative herbal medicine classification, but due to the nature of supervised learning, previous research heavily relies on the labelled training data, which are time-costly and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Li Liu , Xianghao Zhan , Rumeng Wu , Xiaoqing Guan , Zhan Wang , Wei Zhang , Mert Pilanci , You Wang , Zhiyuan Luo , Guang Li

Synthetic data has transformed language model training, yet its role in time series forecasting remains poorly understood. We present a large-scale empirical study: nine experiment groups, 4,218 runs systematically evaluating synthetic time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hugo Cazaux , Eyjólfur Ingi Ásgeirsson , Hlynur Stefánsson

Accurate and robust medical image classification is a challenging task, especially in application domains where available annotated datasets are small and present high imbalance between target classes. Considering that data acquisition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Neil De La Fuente , Mireia Majó , Irina Luzko , Henry Córdova , Gloria Fernández-Esparrach , Jorge Bernal

Synthesizing realistic medical images provides a feasible solution to the shortage of training data in deep learning based medical image recognition systems. However, the quality control of synthetic images for data augmentation purposes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Jiarong Ye , Yuan Xue , L. Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Zhiyun Xue , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang

Automated detection and classification of marine mammals vocalizations is critical for conservation and management efforts but is hindered by limited annotated datasets and the acoustic complexity of real-world marine environments. Data…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bruno Padovese , Fabio Frazao , Michael Dowd , Ruth Joy