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…
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Vehicle recognition and classification have broad applications, ranging from traffic flow management to military target identification. We demonstrate an unsupervised method for automated identification of moving vehicles from roadside audio sensors. Using a short-time Fourier transform to decompose audio signals, we t…
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.
We propose a method for recognizing moving vehicles, using data from roadside audio sensors. This problem has applications ranging widely, from traffic analysis to surveillance. We extract a frequency signature from the audio signal using a short-time Fourier transform, and treat each time window as an individual data …
We propose the product-of-filters (PoF) model, a generative model that decomposes audio spectra as sparse linear combinations of "filters" in the log-spectral domain. PoF makes similar assumptions to those used in the classic homomorphic filtering approach to signal processing, but replaces hand-designed decompositions…
Develops deep NMF models using β-divergences for feature extraction.
problem Inadequate evaluation metrics for deep NMF on diverse datasets.
method Introduces new deep NMF models using Kullback-Leibler divergence.
result Improves feature extraction quality across different types of data.
Improved cover song detection with neural networks.
problem Identifying cover songs from original recordings.
method Siamese Convolutional Neural Networks trained on cover song audio clips.
result Mean precision@1 of 65% over mini-batches, significantly outperforming random guessing.
Previous attempts at music artist classification use frame level audio features which summarize frequency content within short intervals of time. Comparatively, more recent music information retrieval tasks take advantage of temporal structure in audio spectrograms using deep convolutional and recurrent models. This pa…
Attentive Temporal Pooling for Conformer-based Streaming Language Identification in Long-form Speecheess.AS
Paper introduces a conformer-based system for streaming language identification in long-form speech.
problem Language identification in long-form audio.
method Conformer layers with attentive temporal pooling and domain adaptation.
result Conformer-based models significantly outperform LSTM and transformer models.
Paper presents a provably correct algorithm for CNMF under separable conditions.
problem Convolutive nonnegative matrix factorization (CNMF) under separable assumptions.
method Algorithm exploiting NMF model and existing separable NMF algorithms.
result Guaranteed solution in low noise settings, runs in polynomial time.
A new VAD method uses respiration patterns from video to detect speech.
problem Improving VAD performance in noisy audio recordings.
method Extract respiration patterns from video, use neural models to detect speech.
result Efficacy demonstrated through experiments on real acoustic environments.
This paper investigates methods for quantifying similarity between audio signals, specifically for the task of of cover song detection. We consider an information-theoretic approach, where we compute pairwise measures of predictability between time series. We compare discrete-valued approaches operating on quantised au…
We present a novel algorithm, called Links, designed to perform online clustering on unit vectors in a high-dimensional Euclidean space. The algorithm is appropriate when it is necessary to cluster data efficiently as it streams in, and is to be contrasted with traditional batch clustering algorithms that have access t…
Improved cover detection in music datasets with novel triplet loss.
problem Challenging task of automatically detecting covers in audio datasets.
method Convolutional neural network mapping melodic features to embeddings, training to minimize cover distance and maximize non-cover distance.
result New prototypical triplet loss improves accuracy for large datasets and live songs.
Deep Audio Priorcs.SD
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.
This paper proposes a zero-shot learning approach for audio classification based on the textual information about class labels without any audio samples from target classes. We propose an audio classification system built on the bilinear model, which takes audio feature embeddings and semantic class label embeddings as…
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…
Spatial audio is an essential medium to audiences for 3D visual and auditory experience. However, the recording devices and techniques are expensive or inaccessible to the general public. In this work, we propose a self-supervised audio spatialization network that can generate spatial audio given the corresponding vide…
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 can fool copyright detection systems.
problem Vulnerability of copyright detection systems to adversarial attacks.
method Used gradient methods to create adversarial music that fooled detection systems.
result Adversarial attacks can successfully deceive industrial copyright detection tools.
Cross-Representation Transferability of Adversarial Attacks: From Spectrograms to Audio Waveformscs.SD
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
We evaluated the effectiveness of an automated bird sound identification system in a situation that emulates a realistic, typical application. We trained classification algorithms on a crowd-sourced collection of bird audio recording data and restricted our training methods to be completely free of manual intervention.…
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.
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.
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.
Given the recent surge in developments of deep learning, this article provides a review of the state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for audio signal processing. Speech, music, and environmental sound processing are considered side-by-side, in order to point out similarities and differences between the domains, hig…
System tackles indeterminacies in automated audio captioning.
problem Word selection and sentence length indeterminacies in automated audio captioning.
method Solves caption generation and sub-indeterminacy problems through multi-task learning to estimate keywords and sentence length.
result Model achieved 20.7 SPIDEr score, significantly outperforming baseline.