- 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), May 2026.
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,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-032}
- }
- Ryo, H., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., Hato, J., "Evaluating Security Policy Compliance in Infrastructure as Code Generated by Large Language Models", International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security, March 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-036 PDF- @inproceedings{Ryo2026mar,
- author = {Ryo, Hase and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran and Hato, Jumpei},
- title = {{Evaluating Security Policy Compliance in Infrastructure as Code Generated by Large Language Models}},
- booktitle = {International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security},
- year = 2026,
- month = mar,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-036}
- }
- 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- @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}
- }
- Cornell, S., Boeddeker, C., Park, T., Huang, H., Raj, D., Wiesner, M., Masuyama, Y., Chang, X., Wang, Z.-Q., Squartini, S., Garcia, P., Watanabe, S., "Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges", Computer Speech & Language, DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2025.101901, Vol. 97, pp. 101901, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-008 PDF- @article{Cornell2025dec,
- author = {Cornell, Samuele and Boeddeker, Christoph and Park, Taejin and Huang, He and Raj, Desh and Wiesner, Matthew and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chang, Xuankai and Wang, Zhong-Qiu and Squartini, Stefano and Garcia, Paola and Watanabe, Shinji},
- title = {{Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges}},
- journal = {Computer Speech \& Language},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 97,
- pages = 101901,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1016/j.csl.2025.101901},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-008}
- }
- Zhang, Y., Corcodel, R., Hori, C., Cherian, A., Zhao, D., "AxisBench: What Can Go Wrong in VLMs’ Spatial Reasoning?", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-168 PDF- @inproceedings{Zhang2025dec2,
- author = {{{Zhang, Yuyou and Corcodel, Radu and Hori, Chiori and Cherian, Anoop and Zhao, Ding}}},
- title = {{{AxisBench: What Can Go Wrong in VLMs’ Spatial Reasoning?}}},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-168}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- Ma, J., Dong, Y., Qiao, H., Laughman, C.R., "A physics-constrained deep learning framework for dynamic modeling of vapor compression systems", Applied Energy, DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.123734, Vol. 254, September 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-137 PDF- @article{Ma2025sep,
- author = {Ma, JiaCheng and Dong, Yiyun and Qiao, Hongtao and Laughman, Christopher R.},
- title = {{A physics-constrained deep learning framework for dynamic modeling of vapor compression systems}},
- journal = {Applied Energy},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 254,
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.123734},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-137}
- }
- Yataka, R., Wang, P., Boufounos, P.T., Takahashi, R., "End-to-End Radar Human Segmentation with Differentiable Positional Encoding", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO63237.2025.11226318, August 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-125 PDF- @inproceedings{Yataka2025aug,
- author = {Yataka, Ryoma and Wang, Pu and Boufounos, Petros T. and Takahashi, Ryuhei},
- title = {End-to-End Radar Human Segmentation with Differentiable Positional Encoding},
- booktitle = {European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)},
- year = 2025,
- month = aug,
- doi = {10.23919/EUSIPCO63237.2025.11226318},
- isbn = {978-9-4645-9362-4},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-125}
- }
- 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}
- }
- Lewis, A., White, M., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Winning Big with Small Models: Knowledge Distillation vs. Self-Training for Reducing Hallucination in Product QA Agents", ACL 2025 workshop on Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM), Ofir Arviv, Miruna Clinciu, Kaustubh Dhole, Rotem Dror, Sebastian Gehrmann, Eliya Habba, Itay Itzhak, Simon Mille, Yotam Perlitz, Enrico Santus, João Sedoc, Michal Shmueli Scheuer, Gabriel Stanovsky, Oyvind Tafjord, Eds., July 2025, pp. 705-727.
BibTeX TR2025-114 PDF- @inproceedings{Lewis2025jul2,
- author = {Lewis, Ashley and White, Michael and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
- title = {{Winning Big with Small Models: Knowledge Distillation vs. Self-Training for Reducing Hallucination in Product QA Agents}},
- booktitle = {ACL 2025 workshop on Generation, Evaluation \& Metrics (GEM)},
- year = 2025,
- editor = {Ofir Arviv, Miruna Clinciu, Kaustubh Dhole, Rotem Dror, Sebastian Gehrmann, Eliya Habba, Itay Itzhak, Simon Mille, Yotam Perlitz, Enrico Santus, João Sedoc, Michal Shmueli Scheuer, Gabriel Stanovsky, Oyvind Tafjord},
- pages = {705--727},
- month = jul,
- publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
- isbn = {979-8-89176-261-9},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-114}
- }
- Kuwabara, A., Kato, S., Koike-Akino, T., Fujihashi, T., "SCC-Aided INR for High-Frequency Detail Preservation in LiDAR", IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCOMS), DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3594545, Vol. 6, pp. 6352-6367, July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-129 PDF- @article{Kuwabara2025sep,
- author = {Kuwabara, Akihiro and Kato, Sorachi and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Fujihashi, Takuya},
- title = {{SCC-Aided INR for High-Frequency Detail Preservation in LiDAR}},
- journal = {IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCOMS)},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 6,
- pages = {6352--6367},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3594545},
- issn = {2644-125X},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-129}
- }
- Qiao, H., Miyawaki, K., Nishio, J., Laughman, C.R., "Transient Simulation of Refrigerant and Oil Flow Distribution in Air Source Heat Pump Systems", International Conference on Compressor and Refrigeration, July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-107 PDF- @inproceedings{Qiao2025jul,
- author = {Qiao, Hongtao and Miyawaki, Kosuke and Nishio, Jun and Laughman, Christopher R.},
- title = {{Transient Simulation of Refrigerant and Oil Flow Distribution in Air Source Heat Pump Systems}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Compressor and Refrigeration},
- year = 2025,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-107}
- }
- Hegde, D., Lohit, S., Peng, K.-C., Jones, M.J., Patel, V.M., "Multimodal 3D Object Detection on Unseen Domains", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop, June 2025, pp. 2499-2509.
BibTeX TR2025-078 PDF- @inproceedings{Hegde2025jun,
- author = {Hegde, Deepti and Lohit, Suhas and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Jones, Michael J. and Patel, Vishal M.},
- title = {{Multimodal 3D Object Detection on Unseen Domains}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop},
- year = 2025,
- pages = {2499--2509},
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-078}
- }
- Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., "Rateless Deep Joint Source Channel Coding for 3D Point Cloud", IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3546514, Vol. 13, pp. 39585-39599, June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-069 PDF- @article{Fujihashi2025jun,
- author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi},
- title = {{Rateless Deep Joint Source Channel Coding for 3D Point Cloud}},
- journal = {IEEE Access},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 13,
- pages = {39585--39599},
- month = jun,
- doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3546514},
- issn = {2169-3536},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-069}
- }
- Giammarino, V., Queeney, J., Paschalidis, I.C., "Visually Robust Adversarial Imitation Learning from Videos with Contrastive Learning", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11127595, May 2025, pp. 15642-15648.
BibTeX TR2025-065 PDF- @inproceedings{Giammarino2025may,
- author = {Giammarino, Vittorio and Queeney, James and Paschalidis, Ioannis Ch.},
- title = {{Visually Robust Adversarial Imitation Learning from Videos with Contrastive Learning}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2025,
- pages = {15642--15648},
- month = may,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11127595},
- isbn = {979-8-3315-4139-2},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-065}
- }
- Kitichotkul, R., Rapp, J., Ma, Y., Mansour, H., "Simultaneous Range and Velocity Measurement with Doppler Single-Photon Lidar", Optica, DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.555984, Vol. 12, pp. 604-613, April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-050 PDF- @article{Kitichotkul2025apr,
- author = {Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Rapp, Joshua and Ma, Yanting and Mansour, Hassan},
- title = {{Simultaneous Range and Velocity Measurement with Doppler Single-Photon Lidar}},
- journal = {Optica},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 12,
- pages = {604--613},
- month = apr,
- doi = {10.1364/OPTICA.555984},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-050}
- }
- Araki, S., Ito, N., Haeb-Umbach, R., Wichern, G., Wang, Z.-Q., Mitsufuji, Y., "30+ Years of Source Separation Research: Achievements and Future Challenges", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889006, April 2025, pp. 1-5.
BibTeX TR2025-036 PDF- @inproceedings{Araki2025mar,
- author = {Araki, Shoko and Ito, Nobutaka and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and Wichern, Gordon and Wang, Zhong-Qiu and Mitsufuji, Yuki},
- title = {{30+ Years of Source Separation Research: Achievements and Future Challenges}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2025,
- pages = {1--5},
- month = mar,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889006},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-036}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "Retrieval-Augmented Neural Field for HRTF Upsampling and Personalization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889481, April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-029 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Masuyama2025mar,
- author = {{{Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Ick, Christopher and Le Roux, Jonathan}}},
- title = {{{Retrieval-Augmented Neural Field for HRTF Upsampling and Personalization}}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2025,
- month = apr,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889481},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-029}
- }
- Saijo, K., Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Khurana, S., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Leveraging Audio-Only Data for Text-Queried Target Sound Extraction", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888769, April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-033 PDF- @inproceedings{Saijo2025mar2,
- author = {Saijo, Kohei and Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Khurana, Sameer and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Leveraging Audio-Only Data for Text-Queried Target Sound Extraction}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2025,
- month = mar,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888769},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-033}
- }
- Saijo, K., Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10887819, April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-032 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Saijo2025mar,
- author = {Saijo, Kohei and Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2025,
- month = mar,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10887819},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-032}
- }
- Wilkinghoff, K., Yang, H., Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Keeping the Balance: Anomaly Score Calculation for Domain Generalization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888402, April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-030 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Wilkinghoff2025mar,
- author = {{{Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Yang, Haici and Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Le Roux, Jonathan}}},
- title = {{{Keeping the Balance: Anomaly Score Calculation for Domain Generalization}}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2025,
- month = apr,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888402},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-030}
- }
- Ick, C., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Data Augmentation Using Neural Acoustic Fields With Retrieval-Augmented Pre-training", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Satellite Workshop on Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA), April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-045 PDF- @inproceedings{Ick2025apr,
- author = {Ick, Christopher and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Data Augmentation Using Neural Acoustic Fields With Retrieval-Augmented Pre-training}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Satellite Workshop on Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA)},
- year = 2025,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-045}
- }