26 accepted papers
Source separation (SS) of acoustic signals is a research field that emerged in the mid-1990s and has flourished ever since. On the occasion of ICASSP’s 50<sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> anniversary, we review the major contribut…
Emitted sounds may drastically change when using different microphones, when properties of the sound sources change, or when recording in different acoustic environments. Ideally, anomalous sound detection (ASD) systems should be able to generalize well to unseen target domains by only providing a f…
The goal of text-queried target sound extraction (TSE) is to extract from a mixture a sound source specified with a natural-language caption. While it is preferable to have access to large-scale text-audio pairs to address a variety of text queries, the limited number of available high-quality text-…
Large-scale audio tagging datasets like AudioSet usually suffer from severe class imbalance comprising many audio examples for common sound classes but only few examples of rare sound classes. The latter, however, may yet be equally or even more important to recognize. Therefore, it is common practi…
Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) with dense spatial grids are desired for immersive binaural audio generation, but their recording is time-consuming. Although HRTF spatial upsampling has shown remarkable progress with neural fields, spatial upsampling only from a few measured directions, e.g.…
Several attempts have been made to handle multiple source separation tasks such as speech enhancement, speech separation, sound event separation, music source separation (MSS), or cinematic audio source separation (CASS) with a single model. These models are trained on large-scale data including spe…
The primary objective of room acoustics is to model the intricate sound propagation dynamics from any source to receiver position within enclosed 3D spaces. These dynamics are encapsulated in the form of a 1D room impulse response (RIR). Precisely measuring RIR is difficult due to the complexity of…
The introduction of audio latent diffusion models possessing the ability to generate realistic sound clips on demand from a text description has the potential to revolutionize how we work with audio. In this work, we make an initial attempt at understanding the inner workings of audio latent diffusi…
Automated audio captioning (AAC) aims to generate informative descriptions for various sounds from nature and/or human activities. In recent years, AAC has quickly attracted research interest, with state-of-the-art systems now relying on a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) backbone powered by strong mo…
Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are important for immersive audio, and their spatial interpolation has been studied to upsample finite measurements. Recently, neural fields (NFs) which map from sound source direction to HRTF have gained attention. Existing NF-based methods focused on estimat…
Neuro-steered speaker extraction aims to extract the listener’s brainattended speech signal from a multi-talker speech signal, in which the attention is derived from the cortical activity. This activity is usually recorded using electroencephalography (EEG) devices. Though promising, current methods…
Diffusion models have recently shown promising results for difficult enhancement tasks such as the conditional and unconditional restoration of natural images and audio signals. In this work, we explore the possibility of leveraging a recently proposed advanced iterative diffusion model, namely cold…
We introduce a framework for audio source separation using embeddings on a hyperbolic manifold that compactly represent the hierarchical relationship between sound sources and time-frequency features. Inspired by recent successes modeling hierarchical relationships in text and images with hyperbolic…
Traditional source separation approaches train deep neural network models end-to-end with all the data available at once by minimizing the empirical risk on the whole training set. On the inference side, after training the model, the user fetches a static computation graph and runs the full model on…
Recent research has shown remarkable performance in leveraging multiple extraneous conditional and non-mutually-exclusive semantic concepts for sound source separation, allowing the flexibility to extract a given target source based on multiple different queries. In this work, we propose a new optim…
This paper proposes reverberation as supervision (RAS), a novel unsupervised loss function for single-channel reverberant speech separation. Prior methods for unsupervised separation required the synthesis of mixtures of mixtures or assumed the existence of a teacher model, making them difficult to…
Existing systems for sound event localization and detection (SELD) typically operate by estimating a source location for all classes at every time instant. In this paper, we propose an alternative class-conditioned SELD model for situations where we may not be interested in localizing all classes al…
The cocktail party problem aims at isolating any source of interest within a complex acoustic scene, and has long inspired audio source separation research. Recent efforts have mainly focused on separating speech from noise, speech from speech, musical instruments from each other, or sound events fr…
Most music source separation systems require large collections of isolated sources for training, which can be difficult to obtain. In this work, we use musical scores, which are comparatively easy to obtain, as a weak label for training a source separation system. In contrast with previous score-inf…
Deep learning models for monaural audio source separation are typically trained on large collections of isolated sources, which may not be available in domains such as environmental monitoring. We propose objective functions and network architectures that enable training a source separation system w…
While significant advances have been made with respect to the separation of overlapping speech signals, studies have been largely constrained to mixtures of clean, near anechoic speech, not representative of many real-world scenarios. Although the WHAM! dataset introduced noise to the ubiquitous wsj…
Separating an audio scene into isolated sources is a fundamental problem in computer audition, analogous to image segmentation in visual scene analysis. Source separation systems based on deep learning are currently the most successful approaches for solving the underdetermined separation problem, w…
Isolating individual instruments in a musical mixture has a myriad of potential applications, and seems imminently achievable given the levels of performance reached by recent deep learning methods. While most musical source separation techniques learn an independent model for each instrument, we pr…
In order for machines interacting with the real world to have conversations with users about the objects and events around them, they need to understand dynamic audiovisual scenes. The recent revolution of neural network models allows us to combine various modules into a single end-to-end differenti…
The recently-proposed deep clustering algorithm introduced significant advances in monaural speaker-independent multi-speaker speech separation. Deep clustering operates on magnitude spectro-grams using bidirectional recurrent networks and K-means clustering, both of which require offline operation,…
Deep learning based speech enhancement and source separation systems have recently reached unprecedented levels of quality, to the point that performance is reaching a new ceiling. Most systems rely on estimating the magnitude of a target source, either directly or by computing a real-valued mask to…