13 accepted papers
Video understanding requires identifying and reasoning over semantically discriminative visual objects across frames, yet existing object-agnostic solutions struggle to effectively handle substantial object variations over time. To address this, we introduce Chain-of-Glimpse, a search-guided progres…
Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) aims to rate the aesthetic quality of images and has many practical applications. However, existing methods typically rely on limited annotated data for training, leading to two key issues: 1) score-only predictions lack interpretability, making it hard for users to…
Target speaker extraction aims to isolate a specific speaker’s voice from a composite of multiple sound sources, guided by an enrollment utterance or called anchor. Current methods predominantly derive speaker embeddings from the anchor and integrate them into the separation network to separate the…
The scarcity of labeled far-field speech is a constraint for training superior far-field speaker verification systems. In general, fine-tuning the model pre-trained on large-scale near- field speech through a small amount of far-field speech substantially outperforms training from scratch. However,…
This paper describes the legends-tencent team’s real-time General Speech Restoration (Gesper) system submitted to the ICASSP 2023 Speech Signal Improvement (SSI) Challenge. This newly proposed system is a two-stage architecture, in which the speech restoration is performed, and then followed by spee…
Subband-based approaches process subbands in parallel through the model with shared parameters to learn the commonality of local spectrums for noise reduction. In this way, they have achieved remarkable results with fewer parameters. However, in some complex environments, the lack of global spectral…
Most neural network speech enhancement models ignore speech production mathematical models by directly mapping Fourier transform spectrums or waveforms. In this work, we propose a neural source filter network for speech enhancement. Specifically, we use homomorphic signal processing and cepstral ana…
This paper introduces the Unbeatable Team’s submission to the ICASSP 2023 Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge. We expand our previous work, TEA-PSE, to its upgraded version – TEA-PSE 3.0. Specifically, TEA-PSE 3.0 incorporates a residual LSTM after squeezed temporal convolution network (S-TCN) to…
This paper describes Tencent Ethereal Audio Lab – Northwestern Polytechnical University personalized speech enhancement (TEA-PSE) system submitted to track 2 of the ICASSP 2022 Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) challenge. Our system specifically combines the dual-stage network which is a superior real-ti…
The SpeakerBeam-FE (SBF) method is proposed for speaker extraction. It attempts to overcome the problem of unknown number of speakers in an audio recording during source separation. The mask approximation loss of SBF is sub-optimal, which doesn't calculate direct signal reconstruction error and cons…
Utterance level permutation invariant training (uPIT) technique is a state-of-the-art deep learning architecture for speaker independent multi-talker separation. uPIT solves the label ambiguity problem by minimizing the mean square error (MSE) over all permutations between outputs and targets. Howev…
The i-vector approach to speaker recognition has achieved good performance when the domain of the evaluation dataset is similar to that of the training dataset. However, in realworld applications, there is always a mismatch between the training and evaluation datasets, that leads to performance degr…
Gaussian PLDA with uncertainty propagation is effective for i-vector based speaker verification. The idea is to propagate the uncertainty of i-vectors caused by the duration variability of utterances to the PLDA model. However, a limitation of the method is the difficulty of performing length normal…