Events
July 2026 | |
 Wed 29 Jul 202615:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: Start Simple! Learning Sound-Producing Systems from Surrogate Problems  Centre for Multimodal AI Abstract: Modern generative models have transformed audio synthesis, yet they are primarily designed to reproduce signals rather than uncover the physical systems that generate them. This talk presents an alternative perspective on learning from sound, drawing on ideas from classical system identification and recent advances in representation learning. Rather than fitting increasingly complex models directly, it advocates for progressively learning through a sequence of surrogate problems that... |
August 2026 | |
| Wed 5 Aug 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: An SVD view of Conv-TasNet: signal-processing structure, spectral dynamics, and low-rank compression Centre for Multimodal AI Abstract: Conv-TasNet is often presented as a neural time-domain separator, but its design is deeply rooted in acoustic signal processing: a learned analysis-synthesis filter bank replaces the STFT, masking is retained as the separation mechanism, and temporal convolutions implement structured finite-impulse-response filtering. This work studies Conv-TasNet through singular value decomposition (SVD). For depthwise temporal convolutions, we view each filter as a Toeplitz operator, linking its... |