14 accepted papers
We address the problem of estimating room impulse responses (RIRs) in noisy, uncontrolled environments where non-stationary sounds such as speech or footsteps corrupt conventional deconvolution. We propose AnyRIR, a non-intrusive method that uses music as the excitation signal instead of a dedicated…
Music mixing involves combining individual tracks into a cohesive mixture, a task characterized by subjectivity where multiple valid solutions exist for the same input. Existing automatic mixing systems treat this task as a deterministic regression problem, thus ignoring this multiplicity of solutio…
Reverberation conveys critical acoustic cues about the environment, supporting spatial awareness and immersion. For auditory augmented reality (AAR) systems, generating perceptually plausible reverberation in real time remains a key challenge, especially when explicit acoustic measurements are unava…
We present FLAMO, a Frequency-sampling Library for Audio-Module Optimization designed to implement and optimize differentiable linear time-invariant audio systems. The library is open-source and built on the frequency-sampling filter design method, allowing for the creation of differentiable modules…
We present a head-related transfer function (HRTF) estimation method which relies on a data-driven prior given by a score-based diffusion model. The HRTF is estimated in reverberant environments using natural excitation signals, e.g. human speech. The impulse response of the room is estimated along…
We propose an audio effects processing framework that learns to emulate a target electric guitar tone from a recording. We train a deep neural network using an adversarial approach, with the goal of trans-forming the timbre of a guitar, into the timbre of another guitar after audio effects processin…
A deep neural network solution for time-scale modification (TSM) focused on large stretching factors is proposed, targeting environmental sounds. Traditional TSM artifacts such as transient smearing, loss of presence, and phasiness are heavily accentuated and cause poor audio quality when the TSM fa…
This paper presents CQT-Diff, a data-driven generative audio model that can, once trained, be used for solving various different audio inverse problems in a problem-agnostic setting. CQT-Diff is a neural diffusion model with an architecture that is carefully constructed to exploit pitch-equivariant…
Enhancing the sound quality of historical music recordings is a long-standing problem. This paper presents a novel denoising method based on a fully-convolutional deep neural network. A two-stage U-Net model architecture is designed to model and suppress the degradations with high fidelity. The meth…
Peak reduction is a common step used in audio playback chains to increase the loudness of a sound. The distortion introduced by a conventional nonlinear compressor can be avoided with the use of an allpass filter, which provides peak reduction by acting on the signal phase. This way, the signal ener…
This work investigates alternate pre-emphasis filters used as part of the loss function during neural network training for nonlinear audio processing. In our previous work, the error-to-signal ratio loss function was used during network training, with a first-order high-pass pre-emphasis filter appl…
Analog audio effects and synthesizers often owe their distinct sound to circuit nonlinearities. Faithfully modeling such significant aspect of the original sound in virtual analog software can prove challenging. The current work proposes a generic data-driven approach to virtual analog modeling and…
A graphic delay equalizer based on a high-order nonparametric allpass filter design is proposed. Command points at the centers of octave frequency bands are connected with polynomial interpolation to form a continuous target group-delay curve as function of frequency. The required number of all-pass…
A graphic equalizer is an adjustable filter in which the command gain of each frequency band is practically independent of the gains of other bands. Designing a graphic equalizer with a high precision requires evaluating a target response that interpolates the magnitude response at several frequency…