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Chun-wei Ho

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arXiv2026

A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Target Speech Extraction in the Presence of Background Sound Effects for Cinematic Audio Source Separation (CASS)

We propose a knowledge-driven approach to speech target extraction in the presence of background sound effects already recorded in cinematic audio. The specific knowledge sources studied are manners of articulation that are detected in speech frames and adopted to form a knowledge vector as a part of features to enhance speech separation and target speech extraction because some short speech segments are often difficult to separate from mixed background sounds. Testing on the recent Sound Demixing Challenge data for cinematic audio source separation (CASS) shows that utilizing articulator-aware knowledge sources produces better separation results than those obtained without using any knowledge, especially for speech segments buried in unspecified background sound events.

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arXiv2026

A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Music Segmentation, Music Source Separation and Cinematic Audio Source Separation

We propose a knowledge-driven, model-based approach to segmenting audio into single-category and mixed-category chunks with applications to source separation. "Knowledge" here denotes information associated with the data, such as music scores. "Model" here refers to tool that can be used for audio segmentation and recognition, such as hidden Markov models. In contrast to conventional learning that often relies on annotated data with given segment categories and their corresponding boundaries to guide the learning process, the proposed framework does not depend on any pre-segmented training data and learns directly from the input audio and its related knowledge sources to build all necessary models autonomously. Evaluation on simulation data shows that score-guided learning achieves very good music segmentation and separation results. Tested on movie track data for cinematic audio source separation also shows that utilizing sound category knowledge achieves better separation results than those obtained with data-driven techniques without using such information.

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