New method detects conflicts in police body-worn audio.
problem Poor metrics for conflict detection in police interactions.
method Adaptive noise removal, non-speech filtering, and new phrase-based measures.
result Demonstrated effectiveness on LAPD body-worn audio data.
Paper tackles activity recognition from body-worn video footage.
problem Classifying frames of body-worn video footage according to the wearer's activity.
method Extract motion features and semi-supervised classification.
result Method achieves comparable results to supervised and deep learning methods using less training data.
Body-worn video (BWV) cameras are increasingly utilized by police departments to provide a record of police-public interactions. However, large-scale BWV deployment produces terabytes of data per week, necessitating the development of effective computational methods to identify salient changes in video. In work carried…
Predictive policing models can be biased by differential crime reporting rates.
problem Bias in predictive policing models due to differential crime reporting.
method Simulation based on Bogotá, Colombia's victimization and crime reporting data.
result Differential crime reporting rates can lead to misallocation of police patrols.
Predictive policing systems are increasingly used to determine how to allocate police across a city in order to best prevent crime. Discovered crime data (e.g., arrest counts) are used to help update the model, and the process is repeated. Such systems have been empirically shown to be susceptible to runaway feedback l…
Algorithm learns fair allocations in unknown group frequencies.
problem Fairness in resource allocation problems.
method Efficient learning algorithm in a censored feedback model.
result Algorithm converges to optimal fair allocation.
POLICE enforces linear constraints on deep neural networks efficiently.
problem Enforcing constraints on deep neural networks without affecting optimization.
method Provably optimal affine constraint enforcement method that minimally modifies DNNs.
result POLICE ensures DNNs fulfill affine constraints during training and testing.
Develops a method to quantify racial bias in law enforcement systems.
problem Quantify racial bias in law enforcement systems considering criminality and multi-stage interactions.
method Multi-stage causal framework incorporating criminality.
result Identifies three canonical scenarios of racial bias in law enforcement.
Paper introduces CageBO for optimizing complex public policy problems.
problem Complex decision-making and implicit constraints in public policy.
method CageBO framework using conditional variational autoencoder.
result CageBO outperforms baselines in optimizing large-scale police redistricting.
Machine learning improves risk assessment for gender-based violence victims.
problem Accurately predicting recidivism risk in gender-based crime victims.
method Applied machine learning techniques to create models predicting recidivism risk.
result Proposed ML method outperforms classical statistical methods.
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.
Threshold tests have recently been proposed as a useful method for detecting bias in lending, hiring, and policing decisions. For example, in the case of credit extensions, these tests aim to estimate the bar for granting loans to white and minority applicants, with a higher inferred threshold for minorities indicative…
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.
This work enables privacy-preserving model learning from single samples per client.
problem Learning from devices with only one sample each, especially in early rounds.
method Injects a single, calibrated noisy perturbation to transform data, then aggregates and processes for unbiased gradient update.
result Enables accurate, privacy-preserving model learning from devices with limited data.
Deep learning improves crime prediction accuracy.
problem Improving crime prediction accuracy using deep learning.
method Comparative study of 10 deep learning methods on crime data.
result Deep learning methods outperform existing methods in crime prediction.
The paper proposes a method to predict audio ad quality using acoustic features.
problem Improving user experience in online music streaming services by ensuring high quality audio advertisements.
method The paper proposes predicting audio ad quality using acoustic features and a proxy metric called Long Click Rate (LCR). A deep learning model is also introduced.
result The proposed deep learning model outperforms other models trained on hand-crafted features for audio ad quality prediction.
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.
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.
Task describes tagging audio clips from 41 categories.
problem Tagging audio clips from diverse categories.
method Baseline system using AudioSet labels.
result Demonstrates feasibility of general-purpose audio tagging.
AVDCNN combines audio and visual data for better speech enhancement.
problem Improving speech quality by reducing noise in audio signals.
method Proposes an AVDCNN model that integrates audio and visual streams into a unified deep CNN network for end-to-end training.
result AVDCNN outperforms audio-only and conventional SE methods in enhancing speech quality.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
Combines symbolic and raw audio models for structured, realistic-sound music generation.
problem Lack of long-range dependencies in raw audio models and unstructured music.
method Uses a Long Short Term Memory network for melodic structure and WaveNet for raw audio generation with symbolic conditioning.
result Creates structured, realistic-sounding compositions using both symbolic and raw audio models.
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.
Efficient sparse GP model improves audio source separation.
problem Sparse Gaussian Process (GP) inference is computationally expensive for long audio frames.
method Used GP regression, spectral mixture kernels, and variational sparse GPs.
result Proposed method outperforms LD-PSDTF, KL-NMF, and IS-NMF.
Machine learning identifies species by voice in remote areas.
problem Continuous monitoring of endangered species in remote areas.
method Training machine learning models on audio data to recognize species.
result Machine learning can accurately classify and recognize various species sounds.
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.
Neural networks and audio processing improve speaker clustering accuracy.
problem Differentiating speakers in audio recordings.
method Neural networks (CNN) followed by clustering and audio processing.
result Reach similar accuracy to state-of-the-art methods.
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.