Study on mother-infant affect communication using audio recordings.
problem Lack of accurate emotional speech databases for real-life settings.
method Used RAVDESS database and trained a Convolutional Neural Nets model.
result Dominant emotions in mother-infant speech were angry and sad.
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),…
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…
We consider the task of multimodal music mood prediction based on the audio signal and the lyrics of a track. We reproduce the implementation of traditional feature engineering based approaches and propose a new model based on deep learning. We compare the performance of both approaches on a database containing 18,000 …
Improved cover detection using dominant melody embeddings.
problem Challenging cover detection in large audio databases.
method Neural network architecture for track embeddings, focusing on dominant melody.
result Improved accuracy on small and large datasets, scalable to thousands of tracks.
Deep Fusion improves audio-video emotion recognition accuracy.
problem Challenges in automatic emotion recognition due to abstract concept and multiple expressions of emotion.
method Introduces factorized bilinear pooling (FBP) with embedded attention mechanism to integrate audio and video features.
result Achieves an accuracy of 62.48% on AFEW database, outperforming state-of-the-art results.
Two-stream model recognizes affect from audio and video.
problem Human affect recognition in real-world settings.
method Two-stream aural-visual analysis model with separate audio and visual processing.
result Model achieves promising results on Aff-Wild2 database.
Solution for voice conversion with limited data using hierarchical seq2seq and attention models.
problem Voice conversion between speakers with limited parallel audio pairs.
method Hierarchical sequence to sequence model with attention-based decoder, trained on single speaker dataset.
result Improved voice conversion quality using mel spectrograms and wavenet vocoder.
Improved music source separation using spectrogram feature loss.
problem Music source separation quality improvement.
method Added a high-level feature loss term from spectrograms using a VGG net to a deep learning model.
result Improvement in separation quality of drums and vocals from songs.
The goal of this project is to develop a limited lip reading algorithm for a subset of the English language. We consider a scenario in which no audio information is available. The raw video is processed and the position of the lips in each frame is extracted. We then prepare the lip data for processing and classify the…
New method separates sounds with weak labels in noisy environments.
problem Training audio source separation systems with limited labeled data.
method Proposes objective functions and network architectures for weakly labeled training.
result Achieves significant SI-SDR improvement in noisy scenarios.
Paper proposes a new framework for SAD using GANs.
problem Speech Activity Detection (SAD) in diverse conditions.
method Joint learning with GANs and temporal discriminator.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art SAD approaches.
Traditional multi-view learning approaches suffer in the presence of view disagreement,i.e., when samples in each view do not belong to the same class due to view corruption, occlusion or other noise processes. In this paper we present a multi-view learning approach that uses a conditional entropy criterion to detect v…
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.
A new autoencoder speeds up audio style transfer.
problem Efficiently generating stylized audio from content audio.
method Autoencoder architecture for real-time audio style transfer.
result Single forward pass for stylized audio generation.
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…
Generative model improves audio synthesis from TF features.
problem Challenges in generating high-quality audio from TF features.
method Used a GAN to generate invertible TF features from short-time Fourier transforms.
result Generated TF features from GAN outperformed direct waveform generation.
Paper proposes LSTM for speaker similarity measurement and improves diarization accuracy.
problem Improving speaker diarization accuracy using neural networks.
method Uses Bi-LSTM for similarity measurement and spectral clustering for clustering.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods with diarization error rate of 6.63%.
Transfer learning using deep neural networks as feature extractors has become increasingly popular over the past few years. It allows to obtain state-of-the-art accuracy on datasets too small to train a deep neural network on its own, and it provides cutting edge descriptors that, combined with nonparametric learning m…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Capsule networks improve audio classification performance.
problem Improving audio classification accuracy.
method Dynamic routing-by-agreement mechanism for capsule networks.
result Significant improvements in performance compared to baseline models.
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.
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.