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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's North American research organization.

MERL does application-motivated basic and applied research and advanced development in physical simulation & modeling, optimization, control, signal processing and Artificial Intelligence. We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world.

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Featured Research

Deep Clustering: Training deep discriminative embeddings to solve the cocktail party problem.

The human auditory system gives us the extraordinary ability to converse in the midst of a noisy throng of party goers. Solving this so-called cocktail party problem has proven extremely challenging for computers, and separating and recognizing speech in such conditions has been the holy grail of speech processing for more than 50 years. Deep clustering is a recently introduced deep learning architecture that uses discriminatively trained embeddings as the basis for clustering, producing unprecedented speaker-independent single-channel separation performance on two-speaker and three-speaker . . . [learn more]

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News & Events

  • EVENT  SANE 2019 - Speech and Audio in the NortheastDate of EVENT: Thursday, Oct 24, 2019

    SANE 2019, a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech and audio from the Northeast of the American continent, was held on Thursday October 24, 2019 at Columbia University, in New York City.

    It was the 8th edition in . . . [read more]

  • EVENT  SANE 2023 - Speech and Audio in the NortheastDate of EVENT: Thursday, Oct 26, 2023

    SANE 2023, a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech and audio from the Northeast of the American continent, was held on Thursday October 26, 2023 at NYU in Brooklyn, New York.

    It was the 10th edition in the SANE . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  Suhas Lohit presents invited talk at Boston Symmetry Day 2025Released: Apr 17, 2025

    MERL researcher Suhas Lohit was an invited speaker at Boston Symmetry Day, held at Northeastern University. Boston Symmetry Day, an annual workshop organized by researchers at MIT and Northeastern, brought together attendees interested in . . . [read more]

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