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Andrew Hines

4 accepted papers

2024

NOMAD: Unsupervised Learning of Perceptual Embeddings For Speech Enhancement and Non-Matching Reference Audio Quality Assessment

ICASSP 2024accepted

This paper presents NOMAD (Non-Matching Audio Distance), a differentiable perceptual similarity metric that measures the distance of a degraded signal against non-matching references. The proposed method is based on learning deep feature embeddings via a triplet loss guided by the Neurogram Similari…

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2024

SCOREQ: Speech Quality Assessment with Contrastive Regression

NeurIPS 2024poster

In this paper, we present SCOREQ, a novel approach for speech quality prediction. SCOREQ is a triplet loss function for contrastive regression that addresses the domain generalisation shortcoming exhibited by state of the art no-reference speech quality metrics. In the paper we: (i) illustrate the p…

2023

Audio Quality Assessment of Vinyl Music Collections Using Self-Supervised Learning

ICASSP 2023accepted

Metadata such as mean opinion score (MOS) quality ratings are critical to improve the usability and accessibility of music archive collections. Developing a non-intrusive objective quality metric that predicts MOS of archive music collections is challenging, since it requires labeling large datasets…

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2021

Warp-Q: Quality Prediction for Generative Neural Speech Codecs

ICASSP 2021accepted

Good speech quality has been achieved using waveform matching and parametric reconstruction coders. Recently developed very low bit rate generative codecs can reconstruct high quality wideband speech with bit streams less than 3 kb/s. These codecs use a DNN with parametric input to synthesise high q…

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