Publications

102 / 4,062 publications found.


  •  Klement, D., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Saijo, K., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Technical Report for MERL's Real-TSE Challenge Submission", arXiv, July 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Klement2026jul,
    • 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}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09043}
    • }
  •  Khan, N., Wichern, G., Laughman, C.R., "Reinforced Neural Processes: Memory-Efficient Time-Series Forecasting with a World-Feedback-Trained Memory Policy", ICML Workshop on Reinforcement Learning from World Feedback (RLxF), July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-095 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Khan2026jul,
    • author = {Khan, Nibraas and Wichern, Gordon and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Reinforced Neural Processes: Memory-Efficient Time-Series Forecasting with a World-Feedback-Trained Memory Policy}},
    • booktitle = {ICML Workshop on Reinforcement Learning from World Feedback (RLxF)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-095}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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", arXiv, February 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Wilkinghoff2026feb,
    • 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}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18777}
    • }
  •  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., "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}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Park, Y.-J., Germain, F.G., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Wichern, G., Azizan, N., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models", Energy and Buildings, DOI: 10.1016/​j.enbuild.2025.116446, Vol. 348, pp. 116446, December 2025.
    BibTeX TR2026-030 PDF
    • @article{Park2026mar,
    • author = {Park, Young-Jin and Germain, François G and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wichern, Gordon and Azizan, Navid and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models}},
    • journal = {Energy and Buildings},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 348,
    • pages = 116446,
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116446},
    • issn = {0378-7788},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-030}
    • }
  •  Chakrabarty, A., Wichern, G., Deshpande, V.M., Vinod, A.P., Berntorp, K., Laughman, C.R., "Meta-Learning for Physically-Constrained Neural System Identification", Neurocomputing, DOI: 10.1016/​j.neucom.2025.130945, Vol. 651, pp. 130945, October 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-159 PDF
    • @article{Chakrabarty2025nov,
    • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Wichern, Gordon and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Vinod, Abraham P. and Berntorp, Karl and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Meta-Learning for Physically-Constrained Neural System Identification}},
    • journal = {Neurocomputing},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 651,
    • pages = 130945,
    • month = nov,
    • doi = {10.1016/j.neucom.2025.130945},
    • issn = {0925-2312},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-159}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Paissan, F., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Aihara, R., Germain, F.G., Saijo, K., Le Roux, J., "FasTUSS: Faster Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), DOI: 10.1109/​WASPAA66052.2025.11230943, October 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-143 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Paissan2025oct,
    • author = {Paissan, Francesco and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Germain, François G and Saijo, Kohei and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{FasTUSS: Faster Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = oct,
    • doi = {10.1109/WASPAA66052.2025.11230943},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-143}
    • }
  •  Hussein, A., Khurana, S., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "HASRD: Hierarchical Acoustic and Semantic Representation Disentanglement", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2063, August 2025, pp. 5393-5397.
    BibTeX TR2025-122 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hussein2025aug,
    • author = {Hussein, Amir and Khurana, Sameer and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{HASRD: Hierarchical Acoustic and Semantic Representation Disentanglement}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {5393--5397},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2063},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-122}
    • }
  •  Ick, C., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields for Few-Shot Interpolation of Ambisonic Impulse Responses", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-1912, August 2025, pp. 933-937.
    BibTeX TR2025-120 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ick2025aug,
    • author = {Ick, Christopher and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields for Few-Shot Interpolation of Ambisonic Impulse Responses}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {933--937},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1912},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-120}
    • }
  •  Khurana, S., Klement, D., Laurent, A., Bobos, D., Novosad, J., Gazdik, P., Zhang, E., Huang, Z., Hussein, A., Marxer, R., Masuyama, Y., Aihara, R., Hori, C., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Factorized RVQ-GAN For Disentangled Speech Tokenization", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2612, August 2025, pp. 3514-3518.
    BibTeX TR2025-123 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Khurana2025aug,
    • author = {Khurana, Sameer and Klement, Dominik and Laurent, Antoine and Bobos, Dominik and Novosad, Juraj and Gazdik, Peter and Zhang, Ellen and Huang, Zilli and Hussein, Amir and Marxer, Ricard and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Hori, Chiori and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Factorized RVQ-GAN For Disentangled Speech Tokenization}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {3514--3518},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2612},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-123}
    • }
  •  Yang, H., Wichern, G., Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Khurana, S., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Investigating Continuous Autoregressive Generative Speech Enhancement", Interspeech, DOI: doi: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2335, August 2025, pp. 2360-2364.
    BibTeX TR2025-119 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yang2025aug,
    • author = {Yang, Haici and Wichern, Gordon and Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Khurana, Sameer and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Investigating Continuous Autoregressive Generative Speech Enhancement}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {2360--2364},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2335},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-119}
    • }
  •  Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Aihara2025aug,
    • 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}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08399}
    • }
  •  Steinmetz, C., Uhle, C., Everardo, F., Mitcheltree, C., McElveen, J.K., Jot, J.-M., Wichern, G., "Audio Signal Processing in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Challenges and Directions", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, DOI: 10.17743/​jaes.2022.0209, Vol. 73, No. 7/8, pp. 406-428, August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-116 PDF
    • @article{Steinmetz2025aug,
    • author = {Steinmetz, Christian and Uhle, Christian and Everardo, Flavio and Mitcheltree, Christopher and McElveen, J. Keith and Jot, Jean-Marc and Wichern, Gordon},
    • title = {{Audio Signal Processing in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Challenges and Directions}},
    • journal = {Journal of the Audio Engineering Society},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 73,
    • number = {7/8},
    • pages = {406--428},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.17743/jaes.2022.0209},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-116}
    • }
  •  Park, Y.-J., Germain, F.G., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Wichern, G., Azizan, N., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models", arXiv, May 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Park2025may,
    • author = {Park, Young-Jin and Germain, François G and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wichern, Gordon and Azizan, Navid and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00630}
    • }