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…
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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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
Existing automatic music generation approaches that feature deep learning can be broadly classified into two types: raw audio models and symbolic models. Symbolic models, which train and generate at the note level, are currently the more prevalent approach; these models can capture long-range dependencies of melodic st…
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.
New method allows real-time audio synthesis using non-causal convolutions.
problem Real-time audio synthesis limitations due to offline model constraints.
method Post-training reconfiguration of non-causal models for real-time buffer-based processing.
result Non-causal streaming models can be transformed from offline-trained models without quality loss.
Capturing high-level structure in audio waveforms is challenging because a single second of audio spans tens of thousands of timesteps. While long-range dependencies are difficult to model directly in the time domain, we show that they can be more tractably modelled in two-dimensional time-frequency representations suc…
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.
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…
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…
High-Fidelity Audio Generation and Representation Learning with Guided Adversarial Autoencodereess.AS
Proposes GAAE for high-fidelity audio generation and representation learning.
problem Lack of usable representations and high-fidelity audio generation from unsupervised learning.
method Guided Adversarial Autoencoder (GAAE) leveraging a small percentage of labelled data.
result Generates high-fidelity audio with superior quality and learns powerful representations.
Efficient audio synthesis is an inherently difficult machine learning task, as human perception is sensitive to both global structure and fine-scale waveform coherence. Autoregressive models, such as WaveNet, model local structure at the expense of global latent structure and slow iterative sampling, while Generative A…
Deep Audio Priorcs.SD
Deep convolutional neural networks are known to specialize in distilling compact and robust prior from a large amount of data. We are interested in applying deep networks in the absence of training dataset. In this paper, we introduce deep audio prior (DAP) which leverages the structure of a network and the temporal in…
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.
Generative adversarial network improves audio inpainting for long gaps.
problem Generating missing audio content in long-range gaps using WGAN.
method Proposed WGAN architecture with short-range and long-range neighboring borders.
result The proposed model outperforms classical WGAN in reconstructing high-frequency content.
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.
MuLan links music audio to natural language tags.
problem Traditional music tagging systems use rigid attributes; MuLan aims to link audio directly to natural language.
method Joint audio-text embedding model trained on 44 million music recordings and text annotations.
result MuLan's embeddings enable zero-shot functionalities and transfer learning.
Adversarial audio attacks can be considered as a small perturbation unperceptive to human ears that is intentionally added to the audio signal and causes a machine learning model to make mistakes. This poses a security concern about the safety of machine learning models since the adversarial attacks can fool such model…
DiffWave generates high-fidelity audio waveforms efficiently.
problem Conditional and unconditional audio waveform generation.
method Non-autoregressive diffusion model using Markov chain synthesis.
result DiffWave produces high-quality audios in various tasks.
Paper proposes a method to create smaller, more efficient deep generative audio models.
problem High computation cost and complexity of deep generative models in audio applications.
method Developed a method for structured trimming of deep generative audio models.
result 95% of model weights can be removed without significant degradation in accuracy.
Level assessment for foreign language students is necessary for putting them in the right level group, furthermore, interviewing students is a very time-consuming task, so we propose to automate the evaluation of speaker fluency level by implementing machine learning techniques. This work presents an audio processing s…
Paper uses SSL models' uncertainty to predict audio quality efficiently.
problem Efficiently predicting audio quality in low-resource settings.
method Leverages self-supervised learning models' uncertainty measures.
result Uncertainty measures correlate with MOS scores in SSL models.
Gaussian process (GP) audio source separation is a time-domain approach that circumvents the inherent phase approximation issue of spectrogram based methods. Furthermore, through its kernel, GPs elegantly incorporate prior knowledge about the sources into the separation model. Despite these compelling advantages, the c…
GGAN improves audio representation learning with fewer labels.
problem Learning representations for specific tasks from unlabelled data.
method Guided Generative Adversarial Neural Network (GGAN).
result GGAN learns better representations with fewer labelled data.
Jukebox generates high-fidelity songs with singing in raw audio.
problem Generating music with singing in raw audio.
method Multi-scale VQ-VAE for compression, autoregressive Transformers for modeling.
result Generates high-fidelity and diverse songs with coherence up to multiple minutes.
Audio source separation is the process of separating a mixture (e.g. a pop band recording) into isolated sounds from individual sources (e.g. just the lead vocals). Deep learning models are the state-of-the-art in source separation, given that the mixture to be separated is similar to the mixtures the deep model was tr…
Classification of audio samples is an important part of many auditory systems. Deep learning models based on the Convolutional and the Recurrent layers are state-of-the-art in many such tasks. In this paper, we approach audio classification tasks using capsule networks trained by recently proposed dynamic routing-by-ag…
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.
Incremental Text to Speech for Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Models using Reinforcement Learningeess.AS
Improves text-to-speech speed by interleaving character reading and audio synthesis.
problem Latency in text-to-speech models limits their use in time-sensitive tasks.
method Reinforcement learning to train an agent to choose the order of character reading and audio synthesis.
result The proposed method successfully balances latency and audio quality.
PolarBM models complex-valued audio signals in polar coordinates, improving over conventional methods.
problem Discarding structural information in complex-valued problems simplifies models but loses important amplitude-phase relationships.
method Proposes PolarBM, a novel Boltzmann machine for complex-valued variables in polar coordinates, and LogPolarBM for logarithmic amplitude.
result PolarBM and LogPolarBM achieve superior modeling accuracy compared to conventional models, including deep neural networks.
This thesis evaluates text-based vs audio-based classification of mental health interviews.
problem Classifying psychiatric illness using text-based methods.
method Design and evaluate a text classification network on mental health interviews, using belabBERT.
result Text-based classification is a strong alternative to audio-based methods.
Curiosity enhanced by audio-visual associations improves learning efficiency.
problem Challenges in reinforcement learning, especially predicting the future.
method Exploits multiple modalities (audio and vision) to predict novel associations.
result Improves exploration and learning efficiency in various environments.
We present a method for audio denoising that combines processing done in both the time domain and the time-frequency domain. Given a noisy audio clip, the method trains a deep neural network to fit this signal. Since the fitting is only partly successful and is able to better capture the underlying clean signal than th…
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…
End-to-end ASR error detection using audio-transcript entailment.
problem Detecting transcription errors in ASR systems to prevent error propagation.
method Proposes a novel end-to-end approach using audio-transcript entailment, with acoustic and linguistic encoders.
result Achieves CER of 26.2% on all transcription errors and 23% on medical errors specifically, improving by 12% and 15.4% respectively over a strong baseline.