2025
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December 2025
[Award] The paper entitled “All-in-One ASR: Unifying Encoder-Decoder Models of CTC, Attention, and Transducer in Dual-Mode ASR,” won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).
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November 2025
The paper entitled “Second-Tiemscale Glints from Satellites and Space Debris Detected with Tomo-e Gozen” has been accepted to The Astrophysical Journal, a prestigious journal in the field of astronomy.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0f99/pdf -
November 2025
The paper entitled “Sleep Misalignment and Cognitive Decline in Everyday Life—Social Jet Lag as a Proxy for Chronic Sleep Deprivation” has been accepted to Journal of Sleep Research.
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October 2025
The paper entitled “LatentVoiceGrad: Nonparallel Voice Conversion with Latent Diffusion/Flow-Matching Models” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
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September 2025
We presented the paper entitled “DiffCBF: A Diffusion Model with Convolutional Beamformer for Joint Speech Separation, Denoising, and Dereverberation” at the 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2025).
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July 2025
The paper entitled “Word Error Rate Definitions and Algorithms for Long-Form Multi-Talker Speech Recognition” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11082427 -
July 2025
The paper entitled “Generic speech enhancement with self-supervised representation space loss” has been accepted to Frontiers in Signal Processing.
https://doaj.org/article/421169964ec845128bfd1141dbb4a46e -
July 2025
The paper entitled “Microphone Array Geometry Independent Multi-Talker Distant ASR: NTT System for the DASR Task of the CHiME-8 Challenge” has been accepted to Computer Speech and Language.
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July 2025
The paper entitled “Maximizing Predicted Signal-to-Distortion Ratio: A New Microphone Selection Criterion for Beamforming in Acoustic Sensor Networks” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11017629 -
June 2025
The paper entitled “Acousto-Optic Reconstruction of Exterior Sound Field Based on Concentric Circle Sampling with Circular Harmonic Expansion” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11028067 -
June 2025
The report “Probin M2D: Technical Report for the ICME 2025 Audio Encoder Capability Challenge” has been accepted to the Audio Encoder Capability Challenge held at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2025).
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June 2025
The paper titled "Why Shape Matters: Experimental Evidence behind Sound of Musical Triangle," published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters (JASA-EL), was selected as the cover image for the May 2025 issue of JASA-EL.
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May 2025
The paper entitled “Three-Dimensional Sound Field Reconstruction from Optical Projections Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks” has been accepted to The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters (JASA-EL).
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May 2025
The following 14 papers from the Media Information Laboratory have been accepted to Interspeech2025:
https://group.ntt/en/topics/2025/08/07/interspeech2025.html
・Daisuke Niizumi, Daiki Takeuchi, Binh Thien Nguyen, Masahiro Yasuda, Yasunori Ohishi, Noboru Harada, "Towards Pre-training an Effective Respiratory Audio Foundation Models"
・Daiki Takeuchi, Binh Thien Nguyen, Masahiro Yasuda, Daisuke Niizumi, Yasunori Ohishi, Noboru Harada, "CLAP-ART: Automated Audio Captioning with Semantic-rich Audio Representation Tokenizer"
・Naoyuki Kamo, Tsubasa Ochiai, Marc Delcroix, Tomohiro Nakatani, "MOVER: Combining Multiple Meeting Recognition Systems"
・Koharu Horii, Naohiro Tawara, Atsunori Ogawa, Shoko Araki, "Why is children's ASR so difficult? Analyzing children's phonological error patterns using SSL-based phoneme recognizers"
・Takatomo Kano, Atsunori Ogawa, Marc Delcroix, Ryo Fukuda, Chen William (CMU), Shinji Watanabe (CMU), "Pick and Summarize: Integrating Extractive and Abstractive Speech Summarization"
・Takuhiro Kaneko, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kou Tanaka, Yuto Kondo, "FasterVoiceGrad: Faster One-step Diffusion-Based Voice Conversion with Adversarial Diffusion Conversion Distillation"
・Takuhiro Kaneko, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kou Tanaka, Yuto Kondo, "Vocoder-Projected Feature Discriminator"
・Yuto Kondo, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kou Tanaka, Takuhiro Kaneko, "JIS: A Speech Corpus of Japanese Idol Speakers with Various Speaking Styles"
・Takafumi Moriya, Masato Mimura, Kiyoaki Matsui, Hiroshi Sato, Kohei Matsuura, "Attention-Free Dual-Mode ASR with Latency-Controlled Selective State Spaces"
・Takanori Ashihara, Marc Delcroix, Tsubasa Ochiai, Kohei Matsuura, Shota Horiguchi, "Analysis of Semantic and Acoustic Token Variability Across Speech, Music, and Audio Domains"
・Shota Horiguchi, Atsushi Ando, Marc Delcroix, Naohiro Tawara, "Pretraining Multi-Speaker Identification for Neural Speaker Diarization"
・Shota Horiguchi, Takanori Ashihara, Marc Delcroix, Atsushi Ando, Naohiro Tawara, "Mitigating Non-Target Speaker Bias in Guided Speaker Embedding"
・Marc Delcroix, "Advances in Conversational Speech Recognition" (Survey talk)
・Keigo Wakayama, Tomoko Kawase, Takafumi Moriya, Marc Delcroix, Hiroshi Sato, Tsubasa Ochiai, Masahiro Yasuda, Shoko Araki, "Real-time TSE demonstration via SoundBeam with KD" (Show and Tell) -
May 2025
The paper entitled “Baseline Systems and Evaluation Metrics for Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes” has been accepted to European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2025).
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May 2025
The paper entitled “Extension of Deep Sound-Field Denoiser to High-Frequency Sound Fields Considering Wavenumber Spectral Loss” has been accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2025).
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May 2025
The paper titled "Why Shape Matters: Experimental Evidence behind Sound of Musical Triangle," which was accepted for publication in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters (JASA-EL), was selected for a feature article on the AIP Publishing website, and an article based on an interview has been published.
https://publishing.aip.org/publications/latest-content/would-a-musical-triangle-of-any-other-shape-sound-as-sweet/ -
April 2025
The paper entitled “Flexible Source-Free Domain Generalization via Domain Prompt-Discriminator Collaborative Learning” has been accepted to the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2025).
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April 2025
The review paper entitled “Target Sound Information Extraction: Speech and Audio Processing With Neural Networks Conditioned on Target Clues” has been published in Acoustical Science and Technology.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ast/46/3/46_e24.124/_article/-char/ja -
April 2025
The paper entitled “Assessing the Utility of Audio Foundation Models for Heart and Respiratory Sound Analysis” has been accepted to IEEE Internatinal conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC2025).
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18004 -
March 2025
The paper entitled “Structure From Collision” has been accepted to IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR2025).
https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2025/poster/34297 -
March 2025
The paper entitled “Module-Based End-to-End Distant Speech Processing: A case study of far-field automatic speech recognition” has been published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10819672 -
March 2025
The paper entitled “Why Shape Matters: Experimental Evidence behind Sound of Musical Triangle” has been accepted to The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters (JASA-EL).
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March 2025
The paper entitled “Hybrid Dynamics of Henon Maps” has been accepted to Mathematical Zeitschrift.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.10851 -
March 2025
The paper entitled “Equivalence Between Non-Commutative Harmonic Oscillators and Two-Photon Quantum Rabi Models” has been accepted to International Mathematics Research Notices.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.19814 -
January 2025
[Award] The paper entitled “Cross-Action Cross-Subject Action Recognition Via Simultaneous Action-Subject Learning with Two-Step Feature Removal” won the Best Paper Award 1st Runner-up at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2024).