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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.

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is considered as one of the principal causes of death in the world. Over recent years, this field of study has attracted researchers' attention to investigate heart sounds' patterns for disease diagnostics. In this study, an approach is proposed for normal/abnormal heart sound classificatio…

2019-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

AdaStop improves statistical testing for Deep RL algorithm comparisons.

problem Statistical reproducibility issues in Deep RL.
method AdaStop, a new statistical test based on multiple group sequential tests.
result AdaStop ensures theoretically sound comparisons of Deep RL algorithms.

We analyze a family of methods for statistical causal inference from sample under the so-called Additive Noise Model. While most work on the subject has concentrated on establishing the soundness of the Additive Noise Model, the statistical consistency of the resulting inference methods has received little attention. W…

2013-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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…

2017-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

A system is presented that segments, clusters and predicts musical audio in an unsupervised manner, adjusting the number of (timbre) clusters instantaneously to the audio input. A sequence learning algorithm adapts its structure to a dynamically changing clustering tree. The flow of the system is as follows: 1) segment…

2015-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2017-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a statistical framework for coherent risk estimation.

problem Constructing coherent risk estimators with sound financial and statistical properties.
method Inspired by axiomatic risk measure theory, defines coherent risk estimators through robust representations linked to LL-estimators.
result Demonstrates that coherence of a risk measure does not necessarily carry over to its estimators and shows alternative weight structures can lead to different outcomes.

Real music signals are highly variable, yet they have strong statistical structure. Prior information about the underlying physical mechanisms by which sounds are generated and rules by which complex sound structure is constructed (notes, chords, a complete musical score), can be naturally unified using Bayesian modell…

2016-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Two impossibility theorems show formal alignment certification is impossible for AI systems.

problem Formal certification of AI alignment over open-ended domains is impossible.
method Two independent impossibility theorems: Semantic and Statistical barriers.
result No procedure can simultaneously satisfy soundness, completeness, and tractability.

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.

ParK efficiently solves kernel ridge regression for large datasets.

problem Large-scale kernel ridge regression efficiency and accuracy.
method Partitioning feature space with random projections and iterative optimization.
result Provably maintains statistical accuracy with reduced space and time complexity.

Due to the growing demand for improving surveillance capabilities in smart cities, systems need to be developed to provide better monitoring capabilities to competent authorities, agencies responsible for strategic resource management, and emergency call centers. This work assumes that, as a complementary monitoring so…

2019-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) is a challenging task, as a single scene may involve multiple events that contain complex sound patterns. For example, a cooking scene may contain several sound sources including silverware clinking, chopping, frying, etc. What complicates ASC more is that classes of different activi…

2019-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New formulae identify discrete probability laws without needing normalization constants.

problem Characterizing non-normalized discrete probability distributions.
method Derive explicit formulae for mass functions using Stein's method.
result Developed tools for solving statistical problems without normalization constants.

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.

Recent deep learning approaches have achieved impressive performance on speech enhancement and separation tasks. However, these approaches have not been investigated for separating mixtures of arbitrary sounds of different types, a task we refer to as universal sound separation, and it is unknown how performance on spe…

2019-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2017-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

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…

2018-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

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.