Job: Project Manager (Noise Network Plus) - Still time to apply (Part-time 60%, Closes 23 Mar) Help us to "Engineer a Quieter Future"! jobs.surrey.ac.uk/013025

Join us as the Noise Network Plus project manager. Deadline: Sunday 23rd March.

Delighted to be at the launch of Noise Network Plus last week, the £1.8 m project where engineers, policymakers, industry, social scientists & campaigners have joined forces to create quieter products, buildings & transport systems, aiming to cut noise over the next 10-15 years

Our paper being presented at #ICASSP2025 today (Apr 8: 5:00pm-6:30pm) FlowSep: Language-Queried Sound Separation with Rectified Flow Matching Yi Yuan, Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang AASP-P4: Audio Source Separation I More at: audio-agi.github.io/FlowSep_demo/

Our paper at #ICASSP2025 today: Yi Yuan et al, w Wenwu Wang: "Sound-VECaps: Improving Audio Generation With Visual Enhanced Captions" Apr 10, 5:00pm-6:30pm, AASP-P22 Preprint/code/dataset/demos: yyua8222.github.io/Sound-VECaps-d… // CVSSP Research Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI

On now at #ICASSP2025: Arshdeep Singh and Gabriel Bibbo presenting our demo: Apr 11: 11:30am-1:00 pm Personalized live sound recognition using efficient PANNs Arshdeep Singh, Haohe Liu, Gabriel Bibbó, Thomas Deacon, Mark D. Plumbley Show and Tell Session II (Room: MR1.06)

Talk at #ICASSP2025 this pm: Apr 11: 2:30pm-2:45pm A decade of DCASE: achievements, practices, evaluations and future challenges Annamaria Mesaros Romain Serizel Toni Heittola Tuomas Virtanen P AASP-SS6-L7: 50 years of Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04951

SPS Journal at #ICASSP2025 today: Apr 11: 2pm-3:30pm SAM-PJ1 (Poster 3G) Selective-Memory Meta-Learning with Environment Representations for Sound Event Localization and Detection Jinbo Hu, Yin Cao, Ming Wu, Qiuqiang Kong, Feiran Yang, P, Jun Yang AAM openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/output…

Presenting "A decade of DCASE" IEEE ICASSP to a fully packed room. Co-authors Mark Plumbley, Romain Serizel, Tuomas Virtanen Toni Heittola. DCASE Challenge and DCASE Workshop would not be the same without the work of all the task organizers.

JOB: Research Fellow in Generative Audio AI Applications from under-represented groups encouraged, incl. women, people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups, & people with disabilities. genai.ac.uk jobs.surrey.ac.uk/021025 CVSSP Research Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI

Coming up 14 May 2025: 'London Branch hybrid meeting 'Noise Network Plus: A new interdisciplinary network to address noise pollution' presentation by Prof Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey (Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing) 19:00 - 19:00 AECOM, London, E1 8FA

And the second day of #USS2025 starts this morning! Claudio Guarnaccia talking about traffic noise modeling and Prof Antonio J Torija talking about drone noise.

Representing #NoiseNetworkPlus at Urban Sound Symposium 2025 in Zurich last week (28-30 April), presenting our poster, with Prof Antonio J Torija and Charlotte Clark. Poster: zenodo.org/records/147734… Simone Graetzer Alan Hunter CVSSP Research Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI

Looking forward to talking about Noise Network Plus at the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) London Branch hybrid meeting 6pm-7pm Wednesday 14 May 2025. (Registration for in-person attendance closes 5pm Mon 12 May) More below and at ioa.org.uk/civicrm/event/…

Relais Médicis, our favourite hotel in Paris, now has a cat "Chanel", do look out for her if you visit!

Why existing music source separation models are already so good (easily >10 dB SDR), but mixing engineers rarely use them? Our answer: They need music source **restoration**. We introduce the music source restoration (MSR) task, which not only aims to separate the instruments,

“United by Acoustics—FA Euronoise 2025 Family Shot.”

Great to have the opportunity to give a plenary talk at Forum Acusticum / Euronoise 2025 - thanks to the organizers for putting on a great event!

📢Excited to announce the 1st workshop on 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗖𝗖) at #NeurIPS2025 ! See you there🌴 🗓️Deadline: August 22nd, 2025 (23:59, AoE) 📷More info: genprocc.github.io

I'm super excited to announce that the MSR paper has been accepted at MMSP 2025, and the inaugural MSR challenge has been accepted as a grand challenge at ICASSP 2026! Thanks to Zheqi Dai, Qiuqiang Kong and Mark Plumbley for joint work on the paper, and Jiarui Hai , Wanying Ge,