3 papers
cs.CL2026
CHiME-9 ECHI: A Machine Learning Challenge for Enhancing Conversations to Address Hearing Impairment
Robert Sutherland, Thomas Kuebert, Marko Lugger +6
This work presents the task and results of the CHiME-9 challenge for Enhancing Conversations to address Hearing Impairment. The challenge considers the scenario of four-party conve…
eess.AS2026
Ambisonics Encoding of Room Impulse Responses using a Device-Agnostic Diffusion Model
Eloi Moliner, Christoph Hold, Juan Azcarreta Ortiz +5
We address the problem of encoding room impulse responses (RIRs) into high-order Ambisonics (HOA) representations from arbitrary and potentially insufficient or incomplete micropho…
eess.AS2026
Sound Event Detection with Boundary-Aware Optimization and Inference
Florian Schmid, Chi Ian Tang, Sanjeel Parekh +9
Temporal detection problems appear in many fields including time-series estimation, activity recognition and sound event detection (SED). In this work, we propose a new approach to…