- Bhosale, S., Masuyama, Y., Chatterjee, M., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Echoes after Edits: Room Impulse Response Estimation for Geometry Update", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-140 PDF- @inproceedings{Bhosale2026sep2,
- author = {Bhosale, Swapnil and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Echoes after Edits: Room Impulse Response Estimation for Geometry Update}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-140}
- }
- Bhosale, S., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Chatterjee, M., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Zhu, X., Le Roux, J., "Dual-Geometry Manifolds for Few-shot RIR Prediction", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-139 PDF- @inproceedings{Bhosale2026sep,
- author = {Bhosale, Swapnil and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Zhu, Xiatian and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Dual-Geometry Manifolds for Few-shot RIR Prediction}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-139}
- }
- Boeddeker, C., Masuyama, Y., Richter, J., Edo, T., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Speaker Identity as Sole Supervision for Speech Separation", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-137 PDF- @inproceedings{Boeddeker2026sep,
- author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Speaker Identity as Sole Supervision for Speech Separation}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-137}
- }
- Hori, C., Korekata, R., Kambara, M., Masuyama, Y., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Plan and Double-Check: Streaming Multimodal Q-Former for Online Robot Action Generation", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-136 PDF- @inproceedings{Hori2026sep,
- author = {{Hori, Chiori and Korekata, Ryosuke and Kambara, Motonari and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Romeres, Diego and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
- title = {{Plan and Double-Check: Streaming Multimodal Q-Former for Online Robot Action Generation}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-136}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Edo, T., Bhosale, S., Le Roux, J., "HRTF Personalization via Sim-to-Real Neural Field", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-135 PDF- @inproceedings{Masuyama2026sep2,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Bhosale, Swapnil and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{HRTF Personalization via Sim-to-Real Neural Field}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-135}
- }
- Wilkinghoff, K., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., Tan, Z.-H., "Mind the Gap: Detecting Cluster Exits for Robust Local Density-Based Score Normalization in Anomalous Sound Detection", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-138 PDF- @inproceedings{Wilkinghoff2026sep,
- author = {Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Tan, Zheng-Hua},
- title = {{Mind the Gap: Detecting Cluster Exits for Robust Local Density-Based Score Normalization in Anomalous Sound Detection}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-138}
- }
- Fujimura, T., Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Le Roux, J., "NABEATs: Noise-Aware Audio Representation Learning", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-124 PDF- @inproceedings{Fujimura2026sep,
- author = {Fujimura, Takuya and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{NABEATs: Noise-Aware Audio Representation Learning}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-124}
- }
- Lin, J., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Kim, M., Le Roux, J., "Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-125 PDF- @inproceedings{Lin2026sep,
- author = {Lin, Jackie and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and Kim, Minje and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-125}
- }
- Mitsui, Y., Aihara, R., Saito, T., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Downstream-Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-126 PDF- @inproceedings{Mitsui2026sep,
- author = {Mitsui, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Saito, Tatsuhiko and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Downstream-Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-126}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Neural Fields for Head-Related Transfer Function Modeling and Beyond", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, September 2026.
BibTeX - @article{Masuyama2026sep,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Neural Fields for Head-Related Transfer Function Modeling and Beyond}},
- journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep
- }
- Klement, D., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Saijo, K., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Technical Report for MERL’s Real-TSE Challenge Submission," Tech. Rep. TR2026-112, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-112 PDF- @techreport{Klement2026jul2,
- author = {Klement, Dominik and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Saijo, Kohei and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Technical Report for MERL’s Real-TSE Challenge Submission}},
- institution = {Real-TSE Challenge},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-112}
- }
- Fujimura, T., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Saijo, K., Richter, J., Edo, T., Le Roux, J., "The MERL Systems for DCASE 2026 Challenge Task 2," Tech. Rep. TR2026-100, IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE Challenge), June 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-100 PDF- @techreport{Fujimura2026jun,
- author = {{Fujimura, Takuya and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Saijo, Kohei and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
- title = {{The MERL Systems for DCASE 2026 Challenge Task 2}},
- institution = {IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE Challenge)},
- year = 2026,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-100}
- }
- Saijo, K., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Wichern, G., Richter, J., Edo, T., Le Roux, J., "The MERL Systems for DCASE 2026 Challenge Task 4," Tech. Rep. TR2026-098, IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE Challenge), June 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-098 PDF- @techreport{Saijo2026jun,
- author = {{Saijo, Kohei and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Wichern, Gordon and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
- title = {{The MERL Systems for DCASE 2026 Challenge Task 4}},
- institution = {IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE Challenge)},
- year = 2026,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-098}
- }
- Richter, J., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Edo, T., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Predictive-Generative Drift Decomposition for Speech Enhancement and Separation", arXiv, May 2026.
BibTeX arXiv- @article{Richter2026may,
- author = {{Richter, Julius and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Edo, Takahiro and Wichern, Gordon and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
- title = {{Predictive-Generative Drift Decomposition for Speech Enhancement and Separation}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06189}
- }
- Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Paissan, F., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11461849, May 2026, pp. 14427-14431.
BibTeX TR2026-032 PDF- @inproceedings{Aihara2026may,
- author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Paissan, Francesco and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {14427--14431},
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11461849},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-032}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Hori, C., Le Roux, J., "Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11460631, May 2026, pp. 22582-22586.
BibTeX TR2026-033 PDF- @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Hori, Chiori and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {22582--22586},
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11460631},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-033}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Saijo, K., Paissan, F., Han, J., Delcroix, M., Aihara, R., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11462393, May 2026, pp. 14417-14421.
BibTeX TR2026-034 PDF- @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may2,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Saijo, Kohei and Paissan, Francesco and Han, Jiangyu and Delcroix, Marc and Aihara, Ryo and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {14417--14421},
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11462393},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-034}
- }
- Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11462776, May 2026, pp. 21992-21996.
BibTeX TR2026-035 PDF- @inproceedings{Aihara2026may2,
- author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {21992--21996},
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11462776},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-035}
- }
- Jeon, C.-B., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Embracing Cacophony: Explaining and Improving Random Mixing in Music Source Separation", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3633567, Vol. 6, pp. 1179-1192, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-012 PDF Software- @article{Jeon2026jan,
- author = {Jeon, Chang-Bin and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Embracing Cacophony: Explaining and Improving Random Mixing in Music Source Separation}},
- journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
- year = 2026,
- volume = 6,
- pages = {1179--1192},
- month = jan,
- doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3633567},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-012}
- }
- Wilkinghoff, K., Yang, H., Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Local Density-Based Anomaly Score Normalization for Domain Generalization", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3629236, Vol. 33, pp. 4642-4652, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-010 PDF Software- @article{Wilkinghoff2026jan,
- author = {Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Yang, Haici and Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Local Density-Based Anomaly Score Normalization for Domain Generalization}},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing},
- year = 2026,
- volume = 33,
- pages = {4642--4652},
- month = jan,
- doi = {10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3629236},
- issn = {2998-4173},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-010}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "RANF: Neural Field-Based HRTF Spatial Upsampling with Retrieval Augmentation and Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3640517, Vol. 7, pp. 32-41, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-007 PDF Software- @article{Masuyama2025dec,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{RANF: Neural Field-Based HRTF Spatial Upsampling with Retrieval Augmentation and Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning}},
- journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 7,
- pages = {32--41},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3640517},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-007}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "SuDaField: Subject- and Dataset-Aware Neural Field for HRTF Modeling", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3627073, Vol. 6, pp. 1169-1178, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-009 PDF Software- @article{Masuyama2025dec2,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{SuDaField: Subject- and Dataset-Aware Neural Field for HRTF Modeling}},
- journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 6,
- pages = {1169--1178},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3627073},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-009}
- }
- Hori, C., Masuyama, Y., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), DOI: 10.1109/ASRU65441.2025.11434641, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-167 PDF- @inproceedings{Hori2025dec,
- author = {Hori, Chiori and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/ASRU65441.2025.11434641},
- issn = {2997-6995},
- isbn = {979-8-3315-4426-3},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-167}
- }
- Wilkinghoff, K., Fujimura, T., Imoto, K., Le Roux, J., Tan, Z.-H., Toda, T., "Handling Domain Shifts for Anomalous Sound Detection: A Review of DCASE-Related Work", Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17251589, October 2025, pp. 20-24.
BibTeX TR2025-157 PDF- @inproceedings{Wilkinghoff2025oct,
- author = {Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Fujimura, Takuya and Imoto, Keisuke and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Tan, Zheng-Hua and Toda, Tomoki},
- title = {{Handling Domain Shifts for Anomalous Sound Detection: A Review of DCASE-Related Work}},
- booktitle = {Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)},
- year = 2025,
- pages = {20--24},
- month = oct,
- doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17251589},
- isbn = {978-84-09-77652-8},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-157}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "Physics-Informed Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), DOI: 10.1109/WASPAA66052.2025.11230918, October 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-142 PDF- @inproceedings{Masuyama2025oct,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Physics-Informed Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)},
- year = 2025,
- month = oct,
- doi = {10.1109/WASPAA66052.2025.11230918},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-142}
- }