Paper proposes a time-frequency analysis method for blind modulation classification in MIMO systems.
problem Blind modulation classification in MIMO systems with overlapping signals and unknown channel parameters.
method Time-frequency analysis using windowed short-time Fourier transform, conversion to RGB spectrogram images, convolutional neural network for classification, decision fusion.
result Proposed scheme achieves high classification accuracy at different SNRs, outperforming existing methods.
A new data-level recombination strategy improves RGB-D salient object detection.
problem RGB-D salient object detection struggles with depth information.
method Proposes a novel data-level recombination strategy to fuse RGB and depth data before feature extraction.
result Achieves a new state-of-the-art performance in RGB-D salient object detection.
Scene recognition with RGB images has been extensively studied and has reached very remarkable recognition levels, thanks to convolutional neural networks (CNN) and large scene datasets. In contrast, current RGB-D scene data is much more limited, so often leverages RGB large datasets, by transferring pretrained RGB CNN…
iSTFTNet speeds up mel-spectrogram vocoders without sacrificing quality.
problem Efficiently converting mel-spectrograms to speech with minimal computation.
method Replaces convolutional layers with iSTFT after frequency dimension reduction.
result Significant reduction in computational cost with comparable quality.
Technological development aims to produce generations of increasingly efficient robots able to perform complex tasks. This requires considerable efforts, from the scientific community, to find new algorithms that solve computer vision problems, such as object recognition. The diffusion of RGB-D cameras directed the stu…
This paper aims to address two issues existing in the current speech enhancement methods: 1) the difficulty of phase estimations; 2) a single objective function cannot consider multiple metrics simultaneously. To solve the first problem, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) model for complex spectrogra…
This paper shows the susceptibility of spectrogram-based audio classifiers to adversarial attacks and the transferability of such attacks to audio waveforms. Some commonly used adversarial attacks to images have been applied to Mel-frequency and short-time Fourier transform spectrograms, and such perturbed spectrograms…
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used for speech emotion recognition (SER). In such cases, the short time fourier transform (STFT) spectrogram is the most popular choice for representing speech, which is fed as input to the CNN. However, the uncertainty principles of the short-time Fourier transform preve…
Sound source separation has attracted attention from Music Information Retrieval(MIR) researchers, since it is related to many MIR tasks such as automatic lyric transcription, singer identification, and voice conversion. In this paper, we propose an intuitive spectrogram-based model for source separation by adapting U-…
CycleGAN-VC3 improves CycleGAN-VCs for mel-spectrogram conversion.
problem Ambiguity in CycleGAN-VC/VC2 effectiveness for mel-spectrogram conversion.
method Proposes CycleGAN-VC3 with time-frequency adaptive normalization (TFAN).
result CycleGAN-VC3 outperforms or matches CycleGAN-VC2 for mel-spectrogram conversion.
The paper explores methods to construct knots with diffeomorphic 0-traces.
problem Constructing knots with diffeomorphic 0-traces. method Survey of Gompf-Miyazaki's dualizable pattern, Abe-Jong-Omae-Takeuchi's band presentation, and RGB-diagram.
result A sufficient condition for two knots obtained by Abe-Jong-Omae-Takeuchi's method to coincide.
We present a novel approach to adjust global image properties such as colour, saturation, and luminance using human-interpretable image enhancement curves, inspired by the Photoshop curves tool. Our method, dubbed neural CURve Layers (CURL), is designed as a multi-colour space neural retouching block trained jointly in…
This paper proposes a multichannel source separation technique called the multichannel variational autoencoder (MVAE) method, which uses a conditional VAE (CVAE) to model and estimate the power spectrograms of the sources in a mixture. By training the CVAE using the spectrograms of training examples with source-class l…
For training the sequence-to-sequence voice conversion model, we need to handle an issue of insufficient data about the number of speech pairs which consist of the same utterance. This study experimentally investigated the effects of Mel-spectrogram augmentation on training the sequence-to-sequence voice conversion (VC…
In this paper, we present a novel system that separates the voice of a target speaker from multi-speaker signals, by making use of a reference signal from the target speaker. We achieve this by training two separate neural networks: (1) A speaker recognition network that produces speaker-discriminative embeddings; (2) …
In this paper, we address the problem of reconstructing a time-domain signal (or a phase spectrogram) solely from a magnitude spectrogram. Since magnitude spectrograms do not contain phase information, we must restore or infer phase information to reconstruct a time-domain signal. One widely used approach for dealing w…
A new RBM model handles both linear and log-amplitude spectrograms.
problem Handling amplitude spectra with existing models.
method Proposed gamma-Bernoulli RBM that uses gamma distribution.
result The model can naturally handle positive numbers and log-amplitude spectrograms.
Histopathology tissue samples are widely available in two states: paraffin-embedded unstained and non-paraffin-embedded stained whole slide RGB images (WSRI). Hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is one of the principal stains in histology but suffers from several shortcomings related to tissue preparation, staining proto…
With the aim of creating virtual cloth deformations more similar to real world clothing, we propose a new computational framework that recasts three dimensional cloth deformation as an RGB image in a two dimensional pattern space. Then a three dimensional animation of cloth is equivalent to a sequence of two dimensiona…
We introduce the convolutional spectral kernel (CSK), a novel family of non-stationary, nonparametric covariance kernels for Gaussian process (GP) models, derived from the convolution between two imaginary radial basis functions. We present a principled framework to interpret CSK, as well as other deep probabilistic mo…
GWHD dataset offers 4,700 high-res images of wheat heads.
problem Challenges in wheat head detection from high-resolution imagery.
method Large, diverse dataset with detailed metadata.
result Benchmark for wheat head detection methods.
In this paper we study deep learning-based music source separation, and explore using an alternative loss to the standard spectrogram pixel-level L2 loss for model training. Our main contribution is in demonstrating that adding a high-level feature loss term, extracted from the spectrograms using a VGG net, can improve…
Optimal transport as a loss for machine learning optimization problems has recently gained a lot of attention. Building upon recent advances in computational optimal transport, we develop an optimal transport non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) algorithm for supervised speech blind source separation (BSS). Optimal …
Paper presents a deep learning framework for classifying respiratory anomalies and lung diseases from sound recordings.
problem Classifying respiratory anomalies and lung diseases from respiratory sound recordings.
method The framework uses front-end feature extraction to transform sound into spectrograms, and a deep learning network to classify these features.
result The proposed deep learning system outperforms current state-of-the-art methods on the ICBHI benchmark dataset.
Typically a classifier trained on a given dataset (source domain) does not performs well if it is tested on data acquired in a different setting (target domain). This is the problem that domain adaptation (DA) tries to overcome and, while it is a well explored topic in computer vision, it is largely ignored in robotic …
Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in a variety of image processing tasks, we explore the potential of cond…
Singing Voice Separation (SVS) tries to separate singing voice from a given mixed musical signal. Recently, many U-Net-based models have been proposed for the SVS task, but there were no existing works that evaluate and compare various types of intermediate blocks that can be used in the U-Net architecture. In this pap…
Action recognition has attracted increasing attention from RGB input in computer vision partially due to potential applications on somatic simulation and statistics of sport such as virtual tennis game and tennis techniques and tactics analysis by video. Recently, deep learning based methods have achieved promising per…
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.
The introduction of cheap RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, and LIDAR devices has given the computer vision community 3D information that conventional RGB cameras cannot provide. This data is often stored as a point cloud. In this paper, we present a novel method to apply the concept of convolutional neural networks to th…
X-DC improves speech separation by making DNNs more interpretable.
problem Black-box nature of DNNs in speech separation tasks.
method Introduces X-DC, a DNN architecture that interprets as spectrogram template fitting followed by Wiener filtering.
result X-DC achieves comparable speech separation performance to DC but with enhanced interpretability.
MaskCycleGAN-VC improves voice conversion without parallel data.
problem Limited ability to convert mel-spectrogram data without parallel data.
method Integrates a novel auxiliary task called filling in frames (FIF) to learn time-frequency structures.
result MaskCycleGAN-VC outperforms existing methods with similar model size.
AaSP improves audio self-supervised learning by addressing aliasing issues.
problem Alias issues in audio spectrogram transformers.
method AaSP combines aliasing-aware patch representation, teacher-student masked modeling, cross-attention predictor, and contrastive regularization.
result AaSP learns more stable representations that integrate high-frequency cues.
Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have originated and revolutionized machine learning for images. In order to take advantage of CNNs in predictive modeling with audio data, standard FFT-based signal processing methods are often applied to convert the raw audio waveforms into an image-like representations…
End-to-end neural network based approaches to audio modelling are generally outperformed by models trained on high-level data representations. In this paper we present preliminary work that shows the feasibility of training the first layers of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model to learn the commonly-used l…
iSTFTNet2 improves iSTFTNet's speed and lightness with 1D-2D CNN.
problem Efficiently synthesizing high-fidelity speech.
method Improved iSTFTNet using 1D-2D CNNs for temporal and spectrogram structures.
result iSTFTNet2 is faster and more lightweight with comparable speech quality.
Enhances SSL methods with depth cues for better image understanding.
problem Lack of depth cues in 2D image pixel maps limits SSL performance.
method Integrates depth signals from a pretrained monocular RGB-to-depth model into contrastive learning frameworks.
result Improves SSL methods' robustness and generalization with depth signals.
In this paper we propose a novel environmental sound classification approach incorporating unsupervised feature learning from codebook via spherical K-Means++ algorithm and a new architecture for high-level data augmentation. The audio signal is transformed into a 2D representation using a discrete wavelet transform …
Deep neural networks with convolutional layers usually process the entire spectrogram of an audio signal with the same time-frequency resolutions, number of filters, and dimensionality reduction scale. According to the constant-Q transform, good features can be extracted from audio signals if the low frequency bands ar…
Deep learning continues to push state-of-the-art performance for the semantic segmentation of color (i.e., RGB) imagery; however, the lack of annotated data for many remote sensing sensors (i.e. hyperspectral imagery (HSI)) prevents researchers from taking advantage of this recent success. Since generating sensor speci…
Adversarial attacks have always been a serious threat for any data-driven model. In this paper, we explore subspaces of adversarial examples in unitary vector domain, and we propose a novel detector for defending our models trained for environmental sound classification. We measure chordal distance between legitimate a…
This paper deals with a multichannel audio source separation problem under underdetermined conditions. Multichannel Non-negative Matrix Factorization (MNMF) is one of powerful approaches, which adopts the NMF concept for source power spectrogram modeling. This concept is also employed in Independent Low-Rank Matrix Ana…
Speech separation has been very successful with deep learning techniques. Substantial effort has been reported based on approaches over spectrogram, which is well known as the standard time-and-frequency cross-domain representation for speech signals. It is highly correlated to the phonetic structure of speech, or "how…
MASnet enhances speech on mobile devices with low latency.
problem Efficiently enhancing speech on mobile devices with low latency.
method MASnet processes linear-scale spectrograms, using ratio masks to enhance noisy frames, and operates in low-latency incremental inference mode.
result MASnet achieves efficient speech enhancement with low latency, reducing FMA/s operations.
Music genre is arguably one of the most important and discriminative information for music and audio content. Visual representation based approaches have been explored on spectrograms for music genre classification. However, lack of quality data and augmentation techniques makes it difficult to employ deep learning tec…
SRMD uses random features for efficient time-frequency analysis.
problem Efficiently analyzing time-series data with low computational cost.
method Sparse Random Mode Decomposition (SRMD) constructs a sparse approximation to the spectrogram.
result SRMD outperforms other methods in signal representation, outlier removal, and mode decomposition.
Novel fusion of autoencoders predicts sleepiness from speech.
problem Predicting sleepiness from speech recordings.
method Attention-based and recurrent sequence to sequence autoencoders for unsupervised representation learning.
result Fusion of autoencoders' representations achieves higher correlation with sleepiness scales.
PBN combines generative and discriminative capabilities in a neural network.
problem Combining generative and discriminative capabilities in neural networks.
method Convolutional PBN, sharing FF-NN embodiment, combining generative and discriminative qualities.
result PBN shows excellent qualities from either generative or discriminative viewpoint.