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  •  Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Wilkinghoff, K., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "No Class Left Behind: A Closer Look at Class Balancing for Audio Tagging", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-037 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ebbers2025mar,
    • author = {Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{No Class Left Behind: A Closer Look at Class Balancing for Audio Tagging}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-037}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "Retrieval-Augmented Neural Field for HRTF Upsampling and Personalization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-029 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Masuyama2025mar,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Retrieval-Augmented Neural Field for HRTF Upsampling and Personalization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-029}
    • }
  •  Saijo, K., Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Khurana, S., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Leveraging Audio-Only Data for Text-Queried Target Sound Extraction", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-033 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Saijo2025mar2,
    • author = {Saijo, Kohei and Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Khurana, Sameer and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Leveraging Audio-Only Data for Text-Queried Target Sound Extraction}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-033}
    • }
  •  Saijo, K., Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-032 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Saijo2025mar,
    • author = {Saijo, Kohei and Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-032}
    • }
  •  Wilkinghoff, K., Yang, H., Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Keeping the Balance: Anomaly Score Calculation for Domain Generalization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-030 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wilkinghoff2025mar,
    • author = {Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Yang, Haici and Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Keeping the Balance: Anomaly Score Calculation for Domain Generalization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-030}
    • }
  •  Koo, J., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Khurana, S., Le Roux, J., "SMITIN: Self-Monitored Inference-Time INtervention for Generative Music Transformers", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​OJSP.2025.3534686, Vol. 6, pp. 266-275, January 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-012 PDF Software
    • @article{Koo2025jan,
    • author = {Koo, Junghyun and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Khurana, Sameer and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{SMITIN: Self-Monitored Inference-Time INtervention for Generative Music Transformers}},
    • journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 6,
    • pages = {266--275},
    • month = jan,
    • doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3534686},
    • issn = {2644-1322},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-012}
    • }
  •  Park, Y.-J., Germain, F.G., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Wichern, G., Christopher R., , Azizan, N., Laughman, C.A., "Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems: Are Time-Series Foundation Models The Answer?", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024.
    BibTeX TR2025-001 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Park2024dec,
    • author = {Park, Young-Jin and Germain, François G and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wichern, Gordon and Christopher R. and Azizan, Navid and Laughman, Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems: Are Time-Series Foundation Models The Answer?}},
    • booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-001}
    • }
  •  Ick, C., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Spatially-Aware Losses for Enhanced Neural Acoustic Fields", NeurIPS 2024 Audio Imagination Workshop, December 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-169 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ick2024dec,
    • author = {Ick, Christopher and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Spatially-Aware Losses for Enhanced Neural Acoustic Fields}},
    • booktitle = {NeurIPS 2024 Audio Imagination Workshop},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-169}
    • }
  •  Saijo, K., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Pan, Z., Le Roux, J., "TF-Locoformer: Transformer with Local Modeling by Convolution for Speech Separation and Enhancement", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), DOI: 10.1109/​IWAENC61483.2024.10694313, September 2024, pp. 205-209.
    BibTeX TR2024-126 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Saijo2024sep2,
    • author = {Saijo, Kohei and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Pan, Zexu and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{TF-Locoformer: Transformer with Local Modeling by Convolution for Speech Separation and Enhancement}},
    • booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {205--209},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.1109/IWAENC61483.2024.10694313},
    • issn = {2835-3439},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-6185-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-126}
    • }
  •  Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Sound Event Bounding Boxes", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2024-2075, September 2024, pp. 562-566.
    BibTeX TR2024-118 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Ebbers2024sep,
    • author = {Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Sound Event Bounding Boxes}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {562--566},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2024-2075},
    • issn = {2958-1796},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-118}
    • }
  •  Pan, Z., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Saijo, K., Le Roux, J., "PARIS: Pseudo-AutoRegressIve Siamese Training for Online Speech Separation", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2024-1066, September 2024, pp. 582-586.
    BibTeX TR2024-124 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Pan2024sep,
    • author = {Pan, Zexu and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Saijo, Kohei and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{PARIS}: Pseudo-AutoRegressIve Siamese Training for Online Speech Separation},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {582--586},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1066},
    • issn = {2958-1796},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-124}
    • }
  •  Saijo, K., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Pan, Z., Le Roux, J., "Enhanced Reverberation as Supervision for Unsupervised Speech Separation", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2024-1241, September 2024, pp. 607-611.
    BibTeX TR2024-116 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Saijo2024sep,
    • author = {Saijo, Kohei and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Pan, Zexu and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Enhanced Reverberation as Supervision for Unsupervised Speech Separation}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {607--611},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1241},
    • issn = {2958-1796},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-116}
    • }
  •  Pan, Z., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Subramanian, A., Le Roux, J., "Late Audio-Visual Fusion for In-The-Wild Speaker Diarization", Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSPW62465.2024.10626914, April 2024, pp. 174-178.
    BibTeX TR2024-029 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Pan2024apr,
    • author = {Pan, Zexu and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Subramanian, Aswin and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Late Audio-Visual Fusion for In-The-Wild Speaker Diarization}},
    • booktitle = {Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {174--178},
    • month = apr,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSPW62465.2024.10626914},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-7451-3},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-029}
    • }
  •  Koo, J., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Khurana, S., Le Roux, J., "SMITIN: Self-Monitored Inference-Time INtervention for Generative Music Transformers", arXiv, April 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Koo2024apr2,
    • author = {Koo, Junghyun and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Khurana, Sameer and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{SMITIN: Self-Monitored Inference-Time INtervention for Generative Music Transformers}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02252}
    • }
  •  Koo, J., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Khurana, S., Le Roux, J., "Understanding and Controlling Generative Music Transformers by Probing Individual Attention Heads", IEEE ICASSP Satellite Workshop on Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio (XAI-SA), April 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-032 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Koo2024apr,
    • author = {Koo, Junghyun and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Khurana, Sameer and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Understanding and Controlling Generative Music Transformers by Probing Individual Attention Heads}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE ICASSP Satellite Workshop on Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio (XAI-SA)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-032}
    • }
  •  Jeon, C.-B., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Why does music source separation benefit from cacophony?", IEEE ICASSP Satellite Workshop on Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio (XAI-SA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSPW62465.2024.10669899, March 2024, pp. 873-877.
    BibTeX TR2024-030 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Jeon2024mar,
    • author = {Jeon, Chang-Bin and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Why does music source separation benefit from cacophony?}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE ICASSP Satellite Workshop on Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio (XAI-SA)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {873--877},
    • month = mar,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSPW62465.2024.10669899},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-7451-3},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-030}
    • }
  •  Bralios, D., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Pan, Z., Khurana, S., Hori, C., Le Roux, J., "Generation or Replication: Auscultating Audio Latent Diffusion Models", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP48485.2024.10447705, March 2024, pp. 1156-1160.
    BibTeX TR2024-027 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bralios2024mar,
    • author = {Bralios, Dimitrios and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Pan, Zexu and Khurana, Sameer and Hori, Chiori and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Generation or Replication: Auscultating Audio Latent Diffusion Models}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {1156--1160},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447705},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-027}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Pan, Z., Khurana, S., Hori, C., Le Roux, J., "NIIRF: Neural IIR Filter Field for HRTF Upsampling and Personalization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP48485.2024.10448477, March 2024, pp. 1016-1020.
    BibTeX TR2024-026 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Masuyama2024mar,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Pan, Zexu and Khurana, Sameer and Hori, Chiori and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{NIIRF: Neural IIR Filter Field for HRTF Upsampling and Personalization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {1016--1020},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10448477},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-026}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }