8 papers
ALM2Vec: Learning Audio Embeddings for Universal Audio Retrieval with Large Audio-Language Models
Fengjie Lu, Chenang Jiang, Jiarui Hai +2
Recent advances in language--audio retrieval have been largely driven by contrastive dual-encoder architectures that align audio and text in a shared embedding space. While effecti…
Summary of The Inaugural Music Source Restoration Challenge
Yongyi Zang, Jiarui Hai, Wanying Ge +5
Music Source Restoration (MSR) aims to recover original, unprocessed instrument stems from professionally mixed and degraded audio, requiring the reversal of both production effect…
MSRBench: A Benchmarking Dataset for Music Source Restoration
Yongyi Zang, Jiarui Hai, Wanying Ge +5
Music Source Restoration (MSR) extends source separation to realistic settings where signals undergo production effects (equalization, compression, reverb) and real-world degradati…
FlexSED: Towards Open-Vocabulary Sound Event Detection
Jiarui Hai, Helin Wang, Weizhe Guo +1
Despite recent progress in large-scale sound event detection (SED) systems capable of handling hundreds of sound classes, existing multi-class classification frameworks remain fund…
SoloSpeech: Enhancing Intelligibility and Quality in Target Speech Extraction through a Cascaded Generative Pipeline
Helin Wang, Jiarui Hai, Dongchao Yang +7
Target Speech Extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a target speaker's voice from a mixture of multiple speakers by leveraging speaker-specific cues, typically provided as auxiliary aud…
EzAudio: Enhancing Text-to-Audio Generation with Efficient Diffusion Transformer
Jiarui Hai, Yong Xu, Hao Zhang +4
We introduce EzAudio, a text-to-audio (T2A) generation framework designed to produce high-quality, natural-sounding sound effects. Core designs include: (1) We propose EzAudio-DiT,…