Deep learning models improve sound separation across various types of sounds.
problem Developing a universal method to separate arbitrary sounds of different types.
method Created a dataset of mixtures containing arbitrary sounds, investigated mask-based separation architectures, and tested different framewise analysis-synthesis bases.
result STFT outperformed learnable bases in universal sound separation tasks.
Deep learning models generate music with arbitrary control strategies.
problem Lack of efficient methods for generating music with arbitrary control.
method Deep generative models learn to navigate arbitrary sound spaces.
result Deep learning enables high-quality, arbitrary sound synthesis.
This paper proposes a novel optimization principle and its implementation for unsupervised anomaly detection in sound (ADS) using an autoencoder (AE). The goal of unsupervised-ADS is to detect unknown anomalous sound without training data of anomalous sound. Use of an AE as a normal model is a state-of-the-art techniqu…
New quantum codes improve error correction with local tests.
problem Improving quantum error correction efficiency.
method Introducing hemicubic codes and exploiting their local testability.
result Quantum codes with improved local testability and error correction.
We frame the problem of selecting an optimal audio encoding scheme as a supervised learning task. Through uniform convergence theory, we guarantee approximately optimal codec selection while controlling for selection bias. We present rigorous statistical guarantees for the codec selection problem that hold for arbitrar…
This paper improves universal sound separation using sound classification.
problem Separating acoustic sources from an open domain, regardless of their class.
method Utilizing semantic embeddings from a sound classifier to condition a separation network.
result Classifier embeddings provide nearly one dB of SNR gain, and iterative models achieve significant performance.
Paper introduces ToyADMOS dataset for detecting anomalous machine sounds.
problem Lack of large-scale datasets for ADMOS anomaly detection.
method Collected anomalous sounds of miniature machines by deliberate damage.
result Released dataset includes over 180 hours of normal and 4,000 anomalous sounds.
Biodiversity monitoring using audio recordings is achievable at a truly global scale via large-scale deployment of inexpensive, unattended recording stations or by large-scale crowdsourcing using recording and species recognition on mobile devices. The ability, however, to reliably identify vocalising animal species is…
Deep learning methods have achieved high performance in sound recognition tasks. Deciding how to feed the training data is important for further performance improvement. We propose a novel learning method for deep sound recognition: Between-Class learning (BC learning). Our strategy is to learn a discriminative feature…
Batch uniformization improves anomaly detection in sound data.
problem Anomaly scores for rare and frequent normal sounds are not uniform.
method Propose batch uniformization to minimize anomaly scores by weighting samples based on their density.
result Improves performance of unsupervised anomaly detection in sound data.
Paper presents an audiovisual model to recognize sounds from weakly labeled video data.
problem Sound recognition from weakly labeled video data.
method Audiovisual fusion model with attention mechanism.
result The model achieves a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 46.16 on AudioSet, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
Neural network synthesizes percussive sounds with adjustable timbral features.
problem Control over high-level timbral characteristics of percussive sounds.
method Feedforward convolutional neural network mapping input parameters to waveform.
result Changing input parameters produces a waveform congruent with desired characteristics.
Smart city surveillance benefits from sound event recognition.
problem Improving monitoring capabilities in smart cities.
method Exploration of several classifiers on the SESA dataset.
result SGD achieved 72.13% accuracy in sound event recognition.
A new method detects anomalous sounds using self-supervised learning.
problem Detecting anomalous sounds in noisy data.
method Flow-based self-supervised density estimation using Normalizing Flows.
result The method improves anomaly detection performance significantly.
In this study we present a kernel based convolution model to characterize neural responses to natural sounds by decoding their time-varying acoustic features. The model allows to decode natural sounds from high-dimensional neural recordings, such as magnetoencephalography (MEG), that track timing and location of human …
New dataset for industrial machine sounds to aid maintenance.
problem Lack of public datasets for industrial machine sounds.
method Recorded normal and anomalous sounds of industrial machines.
result Assists in automated facility maintenance development.
Paper proposes active learning for sound event detection with reduced annotation effort.
problem Reducing annotation effort for sound event detection.
method Change point detection for candidate selection, mismatch-first farthest-traversal for selection, training with context recordings.
result The proposed system achieves similar performance to full annotation with only 2% of data, reducing annotation effort.
This paper examines the speaker identification potential of breath sounds in continuous speech. Speech is largely produced during exhalation. In order to replenish air in the lungs, speakers must periodically inhale. When inhalation occurs in the midst of continuous speech, it is generally through the mouth. Intra-spee…
The paper presents a method for sound event localization and detection using CRNN models.
problem Sound event localization and detection in complex environments.
method Consecutive ensemble of CRNN models for estimating event onset, offset, direction of arrival, and classification.
result The proposed method outperforms other participants in the DCASE2019 task3.
Paper improves sound event detection using semi-supervised learning.
problem Weakly labeled sound event detection in polyphonic audio clips.
method Combines tri-training and adversarial learning for semi-supervised learning.
result Significant performance improvement over baseline model.
Paper discusses ASD challenge for machine condition monitoring.
problem Detecting unknown anomalous sounds without labeled data.
method Design and evaluation of a large-scale ASD dataset, novel approaches.
result Several novel approaches developed, evaluation results analyzed.
A new method classifies heart sounds using i-vectors and machine learning.
problem Heart sound classification for disease diagnostics.
method Extract i-vectors from MFCC features, apply PCA and VAE for dimensionality reduction, then use GMMs and SVM for classification.
result The method improves heart sound classification by 16% on the Physionet dataset.
Heart diseases constitute a global health burden, and the problem is exacerbated by the error-prone nature of listening to and interpreting heart sounds. This motivates the development of automated classification to screen for abnormal heart sounds. Existing machine learning-based systems achieve accurate classificatio…
A multi-head attention network improves ASC by recognizing overlapping sound patterns.
problem Challenging ASC due to overlapping sound patterns and complex event mixtures.
method Proposes a multi-head attention network to model complex temporal input structures.
result Achieved competitive performance on DCASE 2018 Task 5 dataset.
Automatically detecting sound units of humpback whales in complex time-varying background noises is a current challenge for scientists. In this paper, we explore the applicability of Convolution Neural Network (CNN) method for this task. In the evaluation stage, we present 6 bi-class classification experimentations of …
Paper detects adversarial attacks in sound classification models.
problem Adversarial attacks threaten data-driven models, especially in sound classification.
method Detects adversarial subspaces in unitary vector domain using chordal distance and generalized Schur decomposition.
result Regularized logistic regression detector outperforms other approaches on benchmark datasets.
Objective: Ultrasound elastography is gaining traction as an accessible and useful diagnostic tool for such things as cancer detection and differentiation and thyroid disease diagnostics. Unfortunately, state of the art shear wave imaging techniques, essential to promote this goal, are limited to high-end ultrasound ha…
Reduces sound event localization error by 2.6x with hybrid parametric-deep learning.
problem Sound event localization and detection accuracy.
method Hybrid approach combining parametric spatial audio analysis and deep learning.
result Reduction of localization error by 2.6x compared to baseline.
Generative replay extends sound classification models to new classes without old data.
problem Incrementally refining a sound classifier with new data causes previously learned tasks to degrade.
method Developed a generative replay procedure to generate training data in place of older datasets.
result Generative replay with 4% of old data performs as well as keeping 20% of old data.
New task AQA tackles acoustic reasoning from sound scenes.
problem Promote research in acoustic reasoning.
method Generate acoustic scenes from elementary sounds and formulate questions.
result Preliminary results with models FiLM and MAC show promise.
Single parameter fits any dataset, simplifying complex data science.
problem Approximating any dataset with a single parameter.
method Adopting chaos theory concepts, adjusting a single real-valued parameter.
result Arbitrary precision fit to all data samples.
New saliency evaluations focus on completeness and soundness, improving explanations.
problem Current saliency evaluations focus on completeness but ignore soundness.
method Introduces new intrinsic evaluation metrics based on completeness and soundness.
result Simple saliency method matches or outperforms prior methods in new evaluations.
Neural network based architectures used for sound recognition are usually adapted from other application domains, which may not harness sound related properties. The ConditionaL Neural Network (CLNN) is designed to consider the relational properties across frames in a temporal signal, and its extension the Masked Condi…
The ConditionaL Neural Network (CLNN) exploits the nature of the temporal sequencing of the sound signal represented in a spectrogram, and its variant the Masked ConditionaL Neural Network (MCLNN) induces the network to learn in frequency bands by embedding a filterbank-like sparseness over the network's links using a …
Even in the absence of any explicit semantic annotation, vast collections of audio recordings provide valuable information for learning the categorical structure of sounds. We consider several class-agnostic semantic constraints that apply to unlabeled nonspeech audio: (i) noise and translations in time do not change t…
Paper aims to find joint representation between vocal tract geometry and speech sound acoustics.
problem Finding a joint latent representation between articulatory and acoustic domains for vowel sounds.
method Invertible neural network models, convolutional autoencoder, normalizing flows, semi-supervised learning.
result Satisfactory performance in articulatory-to-acoustic and acoustic-to-articulatory mapping.
Paper proposes a novel unsupervised feature learning approach for environmental sound classification.
problem Classifying environmental sounds without labeled data.
method Cycle-consistent GAN for high-level data augmentation, unsupervised feature learning, codebook construction.
result Improves classification rate by 3.51% to 14.34% compared to state-of-the-art classifiers.
New unsupervised learning framework for sound recognition.
problem Learning sound recognition without explicit labels.
method Combines self-supervised and clustering objectives with active learning.
result Achieves state-of-the-art unsupervised audio representation with reduced labels.
DCASE 2021 ASD task tackles domain-shifted anomalous sound detection.
problem Detecting unknown anomalous sounds under domain-shifted conditions.
method Ensemble of outlier exposure and inlier modeling detectors, feature learning from machine identification.
result Two types of remarkable approaches were adopted by top teams.
Simple methods boost sound event classifier accuracy by 2.5%.
problem Label noise in sound event classification datasets.
method Label smoothing regularization, mixup, and noise-robust loss functions.
result Simple methods can boost accuracy by up to 2.5%.
Sound synthesis is a complex field that requires domain expertise. Manual tuning of synthesizer parameters to match a specific sound can be an exhaustive task, even for experienced sound engineers. In this paper, we introduce InverSynth - an automatic method for synthesizer parameters tuning to match a given input soun…
Model for directed synthesis of audio textures using multi-scale RNNs.
problem Challenges in modeling complex audio textures with traditional methods.
method Combining multi-scale RNNs with a conditioning strategy for user-directed synthesis.
result Demonstrated improved performance on various audio texture datasets.
Sound event detection (SED) methods are tasked with labeling segments of audio recordings by the presence of active sound sources. SED is typically posed as a supervised machine learning problem, requiring strong annotations for the presence or absence of each sound source at every time instant within the recording. Ho…
SELD-TCN improves sound event localization and detection efficiency.
problem Efficient sound event localization and detection on embedded hardware.
method Developed a novel temporal convolutional network (TCN) architecture.
result SELD-TCN outperforms state-of-the-art SELDnet on four datasets.
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.
Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) is one of the oldest and most well-studied problems in the field of music information retrieval. Within this challenging research field, onset detection and instrument recognition take important places in transcription systems, as they respectively help to determine exact onset times…
Introduces TDRC to balance TD's ease and soundness.
problem TD learning's instability and divergence issues.
method Gradient Temporal-Difference Learning with Regularized Corrections (TDRC).
result TDRC performs as well as TD when TD works, but is sound in divergent cases.
Model classifies environment sounds using multiple feature channels and attention mechanisms.
problem Environment sound classification task.
method Multiple feature channels (MFCC, GFCC, CQT, Chromagram) and attention mechanism in a deep CNN.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on three benchmark datasets.