Publications

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  •  Pan, Z., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Khurana, S., Le Roux, J., "NeuroHeed+: Improving Neuro-steered Speaker Extraction with Joint Auditory Attention Detection", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP48485.2024.10446333, March 2024, pp. 11456-11460.
    BibTeX TR2024-025 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Pan2024mar,
    • author = {Pan, Zexu and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Khurana, Sameer and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{NeuroHeed+: Improving Neuro-steered Speaker Extraction with Joint Auditory Attention Detection}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {11456--11460},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446333},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-025}
    • }
  •  Wu, S.-L., Chang, X., Wichern, G., Jung, J.-W., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., Watanabe, S., "Improving Audio Captioning Models with Fine-grained Audio Features, Text Embedding Supervision, and LLM Mix-up Augmentation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP48485.2024.10447215, March 2024, pp. 316-320.
    BibTeX TR2024-028 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wu2024mar,
    • author = {Wu, Shih-Lun and Chang, Xuankai and Wichern, Gordon and Jung, Jee-weon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {{Improving Audio Captioning Models with Fine-grained Audio Features, Text Embedding Supervision, and LLM Mix-up Augmentation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {316--320},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447215},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-028}
    • }
  •  Boeddeker, C., Subramanian, A.S., Wichern, G., Haeb-Umbach, R., Le Roux, J., "TS-SEP: Joint Diarization and Separation Conditioned on Estimated Speaker Embeddings", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​TASLP.2024.3350887, Vol. 32, pp. 1185-1197, February 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-006 PDF Software
    • @article{Boeddeker2024feb,
    • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and Wichern, Gordon and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{TS-SEP: Joint Diarization and Separation Conditioned on Estimated Speaker Embeddings}},
    • journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
    • year = 2024,
    • volume = 32,
    • pages = {1185--1197},
    • month = feb,
    • doi = {10.1109/TASLP.2024.3350887},
    • issn = {2329-9304},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-006}
    • }
  •  Pan, Z., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Khurana, S., Hori, C., Le Roux, J., "Scenario-Aware Audio-Visual TF-GridNet for Target Speech Extraction", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), DOI: 10.1109/​ASRU57964.2023.10389618, December 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-152 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Pan2023dec2,
    • author = {Pan, Zexu and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Khurana, Sameer and Hori, Chiori and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Scenario-Aware Audio-Visual TF-GridNet for Target Speech Extraction}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/ASRU57964.2023.10389618},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-0689-7},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-152}
    • }
  •  Wu, S.-L., Chang, X., Wichern, G., Jung, J.-W., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., Watanabe, S., "On the Use of Pretrained Deep Audio Encoders for Automated Audio Captioning Tasks", International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology toward zero traffic accidents (FAST-zero), November 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-141 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wu2023nov,
    • author = {Wu, Shih-Lun and Chang, Xuankai and Wichern, Gordon and Jung, Jee-weon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {{On the Use of Pretrained Deep Audio Encoders for Automated Audio Captioning Tasks}},
    • booktitle = {International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology toward zero traffic accidents (FAST-zero)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = nov,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-141}
    • }
  •  Pan, Z., Wichern, G., Germain, F., Subramanian, A., Le Roux, J., "Late Audio-Visual Fusion for In-The-Wild Speaker Diarization", arXiv, DOI: 10.48550/​arXiv.2211.01299, September 2023.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Pan2023sep,
    • author = {Pan, Zexu and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, Francois and Subramanian, Aswin and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Late Audio-Visual Fusion for In-The-Wild Speaker Diarization}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2211.01299},
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01299}
    • }
  •  Falcon Perez, R., Wichern, G., Germain, F., Le Roux, J., "Location as supervision for weakly supervised multi-channel source separation of machine sounds", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), DOI: 10.1109/​WASPAA58266.2023.10248128, September 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-119 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{FalconPerez2023aug,
    • author = {Falcon Perez, Ricardo and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, Francois and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Location as supervision for weakly supervised multi-channel source separation of machine sounds}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = sep,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/WASPAA58266.2023.10248128},
    • issn = {1947-1629},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-2372-6},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-119}
    • }
  •  Germain, F., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Hyperbolic Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), DOI: 10.1109/​WASPAA58266.2023.10248092, September 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-108 PDF Video Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Germain2023aug,
    • author = {Germain, Francois and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Hyperbolic Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = sep,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/WASPAA58266.2023.10248092},
    • issn = {1947-1629},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-2372-6},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-108}
    • }
  •  Petermann, D., Wichern, G., Subramanian, A.S., Wang, Z.-Q., Le Roux, J., "Tackling the Cocktail Fork Problem for Separation and Transcription of Real-World Soundtracks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​TASLP.2023.3290428, Vol. 31, pp. 2592-2605, September 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-113 PDF
    • @article{Petermann2023sep,
    • author = {Petermann, Darius and Wichern, Gordon and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and Wang, Zhong-Qiu and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Tackling the Cocktail Fork Problem for Separation and Transcription of Real-World Soundtracks}},
    • journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
    • year = 2023,
    • volume = 31,
    • pages = {2592--2605},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.1109/TASLP.2023.3290428},
    • issn = {2329-9304},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-113}
    • }
  •  Chakrabarty, A., Wichern, G., Laughman, C.R., "Meta-Learning of Neural State-Space Models Using Data From Similar Systems", World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), DOI: 10.1016/​j.ifacol.2023.10.1843, July 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-087 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Chakrabarty2023jul,
    • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Wichern, Gordon and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Meta-Learning of Neural State-Space Models Using Data From Similar Systems}},
    • booktitle = {World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1843},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-087}
    • }
  •  Salatiello, A., Wang, Y., Wichern, G., Koike-Akino, T., Yoshihiro, O., Kaneko, Y., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Synthesizing Building Operation Data with Generative Models: VAEs, GANs, or Something In Between?", ACM e-Energy Conference, DOI: 10.1145/​3599733.3600260, June 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-072 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Salatiello2023jun,
    • author = {Salatiello, Alessandro and Wang, Ye and Wichern, Gordon and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Yoshihiro, Ohta and Kaneko, Yosuke and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Synthesizing Building Operation Data with Generative Models: VAEs, GANs, or Something In Between?}},
    • booktitle = {ACM e-Energy Conference},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = jun,
    • doi = {10.1145/3599733.3600260},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-072}
    • }
  •  Wu, S.-L., Chang, X., Wichern, G., Jung, J.-W., Germain, F., Le Roux, J., Watanabe, S., "BEATs-based Audio Captioning Model with Instructor Embedding Supervision and ChatGPT Mix-up," Tech. Rep. TR2023-068, DCASE2023 Challenge, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-068 PDF
    • @techreport{Wu2023may,
    • author = {Wu, Shih-Lun and Chang, Xuankai and Wichern, Gordon and Jung, Jee-weon and Germain, Francois and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {{BEATs-based Audio Captioning Model with Instructor Embedding Supervision and ChatGPT Mix-up}},
    • institution = {DCASE2023 Challenge},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-068}
    • }
  •  Chen, K., Wichern, G., Germain, F., Le Roux, J., "Pac-HuBERT: Self-Supervised Music Source Separation via Primitive Auditory Clustering and Hidden-Unit BERT", IEEE ICASSP Satellite Workshop on Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond (SASB), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSPW59220.2023.10193575, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-030 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Chen2023may,
    • author = {Chen, Ke and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, Francois and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Pac-HuBERT: Self-Supervised Music Source Separation via Primitive Auditory Clustering and Hidden-Unit BERT}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE ICASSP Satellite Workshop on Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond (SASB)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSPW59220.2023.10193575},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-0261-5},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-030}
    • }
  •  Aralikatti, R., Boeddeker, C., Wichern, G., Subramanian, A.S., Le Roux, J., "Reverberation as Supervision for Speech Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10095022, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
    BibTeX TR2023-016 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Aralikatti2023may,
    • author = {Aralikatti, Rohith and Boeddeker, Christoph and Wichern, Gordon and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Reverberation as Supervision for Speech Separation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {1--5},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095022},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-016}
    • }
  •  Bralios, D., Tzinis, E., Wichern, G., Smaragdis, P., Le Roux, J., "Latent Iterative Refinement for Modular Source Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10096897, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
    BibTeX TR2023-019 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bralios2023may,
    • author = {Bralios, Dimitrios and Tzinis, Efthymios and Wichern, Gordon and Smaragdis, Paris and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Latent Iterative Refinement for Modular Source Separation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {1--5},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096897},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-019}
    • }
  •  Petermann, D., Wichern, G., Subramanian, A.S., Le Roux, J., "Hyperbolic Audio Source Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10094943, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
    BibTeX TR2023-017 PDF Video Software
    • @inproceedings{Petermann2023may,
    • author = {Petermann, Darius and Wichern, Gordon and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Hyperbolic Audio Source Separation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {1--5},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094943},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-017}
    • }
  •  Tzinis, E., Wichern, G., Smaragdis, P., Le Roux, J., "Optimal Condition Training for Target Source Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10095128, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
    BibTeX TR2023-018 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Tzinis2023may,
    • author = {Tzinis, Efthymios and Wichern, Gordon and Smaragdis, Paris and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Optimal Condition Training for Target Source Separation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {1--5},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095128},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-018}
    • }
  •  Yen, H., Germain, F., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Cold Diffusion for Speech Enhancement", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10096064, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
    BibTeX TR2023-020 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yen2023may,
    • author = {Yen, Hao and Germain, Francois and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Cold Diffusion for Speech Enhancement}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {1--5},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096064},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-020}
    • }
  •  Wang, Z.-Q., Wichern, G., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J., "STFT-Domain Neural Speech Enhancement with Very Low Algorithmic Latency", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​TASLP.2022.3224285, Vol. 31, pp. 397-410, December 2022.
    BibTeX TR2022-166 PDF
    • @article{Wang2022dec2,
    • author = {Wang, Zhong-Qiu and Wichern, Gordon and Watanabe, Shinji and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{STFT-Domain Neural Speech Enhancement with Very Low Algorithmic Latency}},
    • journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
    • year = 2022,
    • volume = 31,
    • pages = {397--410},
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/TASLP.2022.3224285},
    • issn = {2329-9304},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-166}
    • }
  •  Venkatesh, S., Wichern, G., Subramanian, A.S., Le Roux, J., "Improved Domain Generalization via Disentangled Multi-Task Learning in Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection", DCASE Workshop, Lagrange, M. and Mesaros, A. and Pellegrini, T. and Richard, G. and Serizel, R. and Stowell, D., Eds., November 2022.
    BibTeX TR2022-146 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Venkatesh2022nov,
    • author = {Venkatesh, Satvik and Wichern, Gordon and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Improved Domain Generalization via Disentangled Multi-Task Learning in Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection}},
    • booktitle = {DCASE Workshop},
    • year = 2022,
    • editor = {Lagrange, M. and Mesaros, A. and Pellegrini, T. and Richard, G. and Serizel, R. and Stowell, D.},
    • month = nov,
    • isbn = {978-952-03-2677-7},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-146}
    • }
  •  Pan, Z., Wichern, G., Germain, F., Subramanian, A.S., Le Roux, J., "Towards End-to-end Speaker Diarization in the Wild", arXiv, November 2022.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Pan2022nov,
    • author = {Pan, Zexu and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, Francois and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Towards End-to-end Speaker Diarization in the Wild}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2022,
    • month = nov,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01299}
    • }
  •  Tzinis, E., Wichern, G., Subramanian, A.S., Smaragdis, P., Le Roux, J., "Heterogeneous Target Speech Separation", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2022-10717, September 2022, pp. 1796-1800.
    BibTeX TR2022-115 PDF Video Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Tzinis2022sep,
    • author = {Tzinis, Efthymios and Wichern, Gordon and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and Smaragdis, Paris and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Heterogeneous Target Speech Separation}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2022,
    • pages = {1796--1800},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10717},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-115}
    • }
  •  Zhan, S., Wichern, G., Laughman, C.R., Chong, A., Chakrabarty, A., "Calibrating building simulation models using multi-source datasets and meta-learned Bayesian optimization", Energy and Buildings, DOI: 10.1016/​j.enbuild.2022.112278, Vol. 270, pp. 112278, September 2022.
    BibTeX TR2022-072 PDF
    • @article{Zhan2023jan,
    • author = {Zhan, Sicheng and Wichern, Gordon and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chong, Adrian and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Calibrating building simulation models using multi-source datasets and meta-learned Bayesian optimization}},
    • journal = {Energy and Buildings},
    • year = 2022,
    • volume = 270,
    • pages = 112278,
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112278},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-072}
    • }
  •  Venkatesh, S., Wichern, G., Subramanian, A.S., Le Roux, J., "Disentangled Surrogate Task Learning for Improved Domain Generalization in Unsupervised Anomolous Sound Detection," Tech. Rep. TR2022-092, Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) Challenge 2022, July 2022.
    BibTeX TR2022-092 PDF Presentation
    • @techreport{Venkatesh2022jul,
    • author = {Venkatesh, Satvik and Wichern, Gordon and Subramanian, Aswin Shanmugam and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Disentangled Surrogate Task Learning for Improved Domain Generalization in Unsupervised Anomolous Sound Detection}},
    • institution = {DCASE2022 Challenge},
    • year = 2022,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-092}
    • }
  •  Petermann, D., Wichern, G., Wang, Z.-Q., Le Roux, J., "The Cocktail Fork Problem: Three-Stem Audio Separation for Real-World Soundtracks", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP43922.2022.9746005, April 2022, pp. 526-530.
    BibTeX TR2022-022 PDF Video Software
    • @inproceedings{Petermann2022apr,
    • author = {Petermann, Darius and Wichern, Gordon and Wang, Zhong-Qiu and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{The Cocktail Fork Problem: Three-Stem Audio Separation for Real-World Soundtracks}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2022,
    • pages = {526--530},
    • month = apr,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP43922.2022.9746005},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-022}
    • }