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Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

Recent studies have demonstrated that vision models can effectively learn multimodal audio-image representations when paired. However, the challenge of enabling deep models to learn representations from unpaired modalities remains…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman , Kin Wai Lau , Yuyang Xie , Ma Lan , JiaJun Shen

Supervised speech enhancement methods have been very successful. However, in practical scenarios, there is a lack of clean speech, and self-supervised learning-based (SSL) speech enhancement methods that offer comparable enhancement…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan , Ritwik Giri , Zhiqiang Tang , Kyu Han

We present a new Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) approach to pre-train encoders on unlabeled audio data that reduces the need for large amounts of labeled data for audio and speech classification. Our primary aim is to learn audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Ashish Seth , Sreyan Ghosh , S. Umesh , Dinesh Manocha

Learning rich visual representations using contrastive self-supervised learning has been extremely successful. However, it is still a major question whether we could use a similar approach to learn superior auditory representations. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Haider Al-Tahan , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Machine hearing of the environmental sound is one of the important issues in the audio recognition domain. It gives the machine the ability to discriminate between the different input sounds that guides its decision making. In this work we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Peter Ochieng , Dennis Kaburu

Artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to play a pivotal role in 6G. However, a key challenge in developing AI-powered solutions is the extensive data collection and labeling efforts required to train supervised deep learning models.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Ogechukwu Kanu , Ashkan Eshaghbeigi , Hatem Abou-Zeid

Audio self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training, which aims to learn good representations from unlabeled audio, has made remarkable progress. However, the extensive computational demands during pre-training pose a significant barrier to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Wenxi Chen , Yuzhe Liang , Ziyang Ma , Zhisheng Zheng , Xie Chen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a powerful approach to learning representations from large-scale unlabeled data, showing promising results in time series analysis. The self-supervised representation learning can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ziyu Liu , Azadeh Alavi , Minyi Li , Xiang Zhang

Contrastive learning has been shown to produce generalizable representations of audio and visual data by maximizing the lower bound on the mutual information (MI) between different views of an instance. However, obtaining a tight lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

We propose a method named AudioFormer,which learns audio feature representations through the acquisition of discrete acoustic codes and subsequently fine-tunes them for audio classification tasks. Initially,we introduce a novel perspective…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Zhaohui Li , Haitao Wang , Xinghua Jiang

The goal of universal audio representation learning is to obtain foundational models that can be used for a variety of downstream tasks involving speech, music and environmental sounds. To approach this problem, methods inspired by works on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Leonardo Pepino , Pablo Riera , Luciana Ferrer

Transformer-based audio self-supervised learning (SSL) models commonly use spectrograms, vision-style Transformers, and masked modeling objectives. However, convolutional patchification with temporal downsampling lowers the effective…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kohei Yamamoto , Kosuke Okusa

We study a novel neural architecture and its training strategies of speaker encoder for speaker recognition without using any identity labels. The speaker encoder is trained to extract a fixed-size speaker embedding from a spoken utterance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Ruijie Tao , Kong Aik Lee , Rohan Kumar Das , Ville Hautamäki , Haizhou Li

In this paper, we propose "SoundSpring", a cutting-edge error-resilient audio transceiver that marries the robustness benefits of joint source-channel coding (JSCC) while also being compatible with current digital communication systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Shengshi Yao , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Sixian Wang , Siye Wang , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) for automated speech recognition in terms of its emotional content, can be heavily degraded by the presence noise, affecting the efficiency of modeling the intricate temporal and spectral informative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Ioannis Ziogas , Hessa Alfalahi , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis

Bootstrap-based Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable progress in audio understanding. However, existing methods typically operate at a single level of granularity, limiting their ability to model the diverse temporal and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Bing Han , Chushu Zhou , Yifan Yang , Wei Wang , Chenda Li , Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian

A great challenge in speaker representation learning using deep models is to design learning objectives that can enhance the discrimination of unseen speakers under unseen domains. This work proposes a supervised contrastive learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Zhe Li , Man-Wai Mak

Time series self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to exploit unlabeled data for pre-training to mitigate the reliance on labels. Despite the great success in recent years, there is limited discussion on the potential noise in the time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Shuang Zhou , Daochen Zha , Xiao Shen , Xiao Huang , Rui Zhang , Fu-Lai Chung

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has grown in interest within the speech processing community, since it produces representations that are useful for many downstream tasks. SSL uses global and contextual methods to produce robust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Subrina Sultana , Donald S. Williamson