A new method for audio denoising using deep neural networks.
problem Improving audio quality by removing background noise.
method Combines time and time-frequency domain processing; trains a deep neural network to fit the signal.
result The method effectively disentangles clean audio from noisy signals.
Nyström approximation for scalable operator learning
problem Scalability of operator learning for large datasets
method Nyström subsampling with operator learning
result Minimax-optimal convergence rates for functional outputs
AeGAN improves speech clarity in noisy environments.
problem Improving speech recognition in crowded noisy environments.
method Generative adversarial networks (GAN) with a novel architecture.
result The proposed framework outperforms traditional and learning-based methods.
WaveFit uses fixed-point iteration to create high-quality neural vocoders.
problem Creating high-quality neural vocoders with fast inference.
method Integrates GANs' adversarial training into a DDPM-like iterative framework based on fixed-point iteration.
result WaveFit synthesizes speech with naturalness comparable to human speech, and is significantly faster than existing methods.
A method to estimate high order derivatives of data distributions from samples.
problem Estimating high order derivatives of data distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Generalizing denoising score matching via Tweedie's formula to estimate higher order derivatives.
result Models trained with the proposed method can approximate second order derivatives more efficiently and accurately than via automatic differentiation.
Paper proves diffusion models work on manifolds.
problem Current diffusion models assume densities are w.r.t. Lebesgue measure, limiting their applicability.
method Introduced convergence results for diffusion models on more general target distributions.
result Quantitative bounds on Wasserstein distance for target and generated distributions.
PNDMs accelerate DDPMs by treating them as differential equations on manifolds.
problem Accelerate DDPMs while maintaining sample quality.
method Propose pseudo numerical methods (PNDMs) to solve differential equations on manifolds.
result PNDMs generate higher quality images with only 50 steps compared to 1000-step DDIMs (20x speedup).
A new method uses mixture approximations to improve diffusion models for Bayesian inverse problems.
problem Approximating posterior distributions in Bayesian inverse problems with intractable likelihoods.
method Proposes a mixture-based approximation of intermediate posterior distributions and uses Gibbs sampling for practical sampling.
result Validated the approach on image inverse problems and audio source separation, demonstrating improved performance.
One-dimensional CNNs improve signal recovery from sparse measurements.
problem Recovering signals from limited data.
method One-dimensional Deep Image Prior (DIP) using CNNs with regularization.
result One-dimensional CNNs outperform traditional methods in signal recovery.
New polynomial convergence guarantees for SGM on general data distributions.
problem Efficient guarantees for multimodal and non-smooth distributions in SGM.
method Polynomial convergence guarantees for denoising diffusion models on general data distributions, with no assumptions on functional inequalities or smoothness.
result Wasserstein distance guarantees for distributions of bounded support or decaying tails, and TV guarantees for further smoothness assumptions.
Proposes a self-supervised method for generating spatial audio from monaural audio and video.
problem Generating spatial audio from monaural audio and video recordings is challenging and expensive.
method Uses a self-supervised network with an auxiliary classifier to classify video channels and generate spatial audio.
result The proposed method effectively generates spatial audio from monaural audio and video.
Deep audio prior uses neural networks to solve audio problems without data.
problem Challenging audio problems like source separation, editing, and synthesis.
method Randomly-initialized neural network with carefully designed audio prior.
result Superior audio results on Universal-150 benchmark dataset.
Zero-shot audio classification using class label embeddings.
problem Classifying audio without labeled data.
method Bilinear model with audio feature embeddings and class label embeddings.
result Achieved accuracy up to 39.7% for natural audio categories.
We address the problem of estimating a sparse low-rank matrix from its noisy observation. We propose an objective function consisting of a data-fidelity term and two parameterized non-convex penalty functions. Further, we show how to set the parameters of the non-convex penalty functions, in order to ensure that the ob…
We present a probabilistic modeling and inference framework for discriminative analysis dictionary learning under a weak supervision setting. Dictionary learning approaches have been widely used for tasks such as low-level signal denoising and restoration as well as high-level classification tasks, which can be applied…
Recently, there has been great interest in the field of audio style transfer, where a stylized audio is generated by imposing the style of a reference audio on the content of a target audio. We improve on the current approaches which use neural networks to extract the content and the style of the audio signal and propo…
Method learns audio embeddings with contextualized tags.
problem Align audio and tags for cross-modal tasks.
method Audio autoencoder, word embeddings, multi-head self-attention, contrastive loss.
result Multi-head self-attention improves audio representations.
Study improves radio show segmentation using audio embeddings.
problem Automated segmentation of radio shows.
method Created audio embeddings from multi-class classification tasks on different datasets, evaluated performance against text-only baseline.
result Audio embeddings from non-speech sound event classification significantly outperformed text-only baseline by 32.3% in F1-measure.
Online audio advertising is a particular form of advertising used abundantly in online music streaming services. In these platforms, which tend to host tens of thousands of unique audio advertisements (ads), providing high quality ads ensures a better user experience and results in longer user engagement. Therefore, th…
Adversarial attacks on spectrograms can fool audio classifiers trained on waveforms.
problem Susceptibility of audio classifiers to adversarial attacks on spectrograms.
method Applying adversarial attacks to spectrograms and reconstructing audio waveforms.
result Perturbed spectrograms can fool 2D CNNs and 1D CNNs trained on audio waveforms.
Study improves animal audio classification using data augmentation.
problem Improving automated animal audio classification accuracy.
method Exploits different data augmentation techniques for training CNNs.
result Best recognition rates on animal audio classification datasets.
MicAugment transfers audio style from few seconds of input to match target conditions.
problem Audio model robustness to diverse acquisition conditions.
method Identifies and applies transformations learned from target audio to input audio.
result MicAugment significantly improves model robustness in downstream tasks.
Detects audio adversarial examples using anomalous pattern detection.
problem Identifies adversarial audio attacks in deep neural networks.
method Applies anomalous pattern detection in activation space of audio models.
result Can detect adversarial examples with up to 0.98 AUC, no degradation on benign samples.
Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual de…
Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual de…
Unified model for audio control and style transfer.
problem Explicit control and style transfer in music generation.
method Diffusion autoencoders for semantic feature extraction, disentanglement using adversarial criterion.
result Model generates audio matching timbre targets with specified structure.
Audio fingerprinting, also named as audio hashing, has been well-known as a powerful technique to perform audio identification and synchronization. It basically involves two major steps: fingerprint (voice pattern) design and matching search. While the first step concerns the derivation of a robust and compact audio si…
Transformer model estimates keywords for better audio captioning.
problem Indeterminacy in word selection for audio events/scenes.
method Transformer-based model with keyword estimation.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in AAC.
SpecGrad improves neural vocoder sound quality by adapting diffusion noise to log-mel spectrogram.
problem Improving neural vocoder sound quality, especially in high-frequency bands.
method Adapting the diffusion noise distribution to the conditioning log-mel spectrogram through time-varying filtering.
result SpecGrad generates higher-fidelity speech waveform than conventional DDPM-based neural vocoders.
GANSynth uses GANs to efficiently synthesize high-fidelity audio.
problem Efficient and high-fidelity audio synthesis is challenging.
method Model log magnitudes and instantaneous frequencies with GANs.
result GANSynth outperforms WaveNet on automated and human evaluation metrics.
LumièreNet creates lecture videos from audio narration.
problem Creating high-quality lecture videos from audio narration.
method Modular deep-learning architecture that learns from audio to video.
result Synthesizes high-quality lecture videos from any length of audio.
Review of deep learning techniques for audio signal processing.
problem Improving audio signal processing using deep learning.
method Analysis of various deep learning models and techniques.
result Advancements in speech, music, and environmental sound processing.
This paper describes Task 2 of the DCASE 2018 Challenge, titled "General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels". This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as "Freesound General-Purpose Audio Tagging Challenge". The goal of the task is to build an audio tagging system that can recognize the c…
AV-CPL uses continuous pseudo-labels for AVSR combining labeled and unlabeled data.
problem Improving AVSR performance with labeled and unlabeled data.
method Semi-supervised method using continuous pseudo-labels generated by the same AVSR model.
result Significant improvements in VSR performance on LRS3 dataset.
MelNet generates high-fidelity audio with long-range structure.
problem Capturing long-range dependencies in audio waveforms.
method Generative model in frequency domain, leveraging spectrograms.
result Improves audio generation in various tasks.
Time-frequency (TF) representations provide powerful and intuitive features for the analysis of time series such as audio. But still, generative modeling of audio in the TF domain is a subtle matter. Consequently, neural audio synthesis widely relies on directly modeling the waveform and previous attempts at unconditio…
HEAR benchmark evaluates audio representations for diverse tasks.
problem Developing a general-purpose audio representation for various tasks.
method Evaluated 29 models across 19 tasks using 16 datasets.
result No single audio representation performs holistically.
Proposes COALA method for learning audio representations aligned with tags.
problem Lack of annotated data for high-performance audio representation learning.
method Aligns latent representations of audio and tags using a contrastive loss.
result Audio embedding model captures both acoustic and semantic characteristics.
Paper introduces a noisy-labeled audio tagging challenge.
problem Acoustic mismatch and noisy labels in audio tagging.
method Large dataset with minimal supervision, convolutional neural network baseline.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of minimal supervision in noisy conditions.
Mic2Mic reduces microphone variability for speech systems.
problem Microphone variability impacts speech system accuracy.
method Cycle-consistent GANs for learning microphone variability reduction.
result Mic2Mic recovers 66% to 89% of lost accuracy due to microphone variability.
As the technology is advancing, audio recognition in machine learning is improved as well. Research in audio recognition has traditionally focused on speech. Living creatures (especially the small ones) are part of the whole ecosystem, monitoring as well as maintaining them are important tasks. Species such as animals …
FSD50K provides an open dataset of over 51k audio clips for sound event recognition.
problem Small and domain-specific sound event recognition datasets.
method Creation of an open dataset with over 51k audio clips manually labeled using 200 classes.
result FSD50K is a new open benchmark for sound event recognition research.
Paper proposes a robust audio classification method against adversarial attacks.
problem Adversarial attacks can fool machine learning models into making incorrect predictions.
method Proposes a novel SVM-based approach using DWT and SURF features.
result The proposed method provides a good balance between accuracy and resilience against adversarial attacks.
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is now a common tool for audio source separation. When learning NMF on large audio databases, one major drawback is that the complexity in time is O(FKN) when updating the dictionary (where (F;N) is the dimension of the input power spectrograms, and K the number of basis spectra),…
Self-supervised attention model improves weakly labeled audio event classification.
problem Efficiently classify audio events with minimal labeled data.
method Develops a self-supervised attention model for weakly labeled audio clips.
result Self-supervised attention model performs comparably to strongly supervised model trained with strong labels.
This research tackles backdoor attacks on audio data using a stochastic investment approach.
problem The threat of backdoor attacks on audio data, especially in voice-activated systems.
method A Stochastic investment-based backdoor attack (MarketBack) approach.
result MarketBack can achieve an average attack success rate close to 100% with less than 1% of poisoned data.
WaveGrad generates high-fidelity audio using gradient estimation.
problem Generating high-fidelity audio efficiently.
method Conditional model using score matching and diffusion models, iteratively refining a Gaussian white noise signal.
result WaveGrad can generate high-fidelity audio samples using as few as six iterations.
GACELA fills long gaps in musical audio with a GAN and context conditioning.
problem Restoring long gaps in musical audio with varying complexity and duration.
method Generative adversarial network (GAN) with five parallel discriminators and context conditioning.
result Reduced artifacts in inpaintings from unacceptable to mildly disturbing.