Perceptual Loss Function for Neural Modelling of Audio Systems

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2020-05-04

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Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics

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en

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2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020 - Proceedings, pp. 251-255, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

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This work investigates alternate pre-emphasis filters used as part of the loss function during neural network training for nonlinear audio processing. In our previous work, the error-to-signal ratio loss function was used during network training, with a first-order highpass pre-emphasis filter applied to both the target signal and neural network output. This work considers more perceptually relevant pre-emphasis filters, which include lowpass filtering at high frequencies. We conducted listening tests to determine whether they offer an improvement to the quality of a neural network model of a guitar tube amplifier. Listening test results indicate that the use of an A-weighting pre-emphasis filter offers the best improvement among the tested filters. The proposed perceptual loss function improves the sound quality of neural network models in audio processing without affecting the computational cost.

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Acoustic signal processing, Music technology, Psychoacoustics

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10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9052944

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Wright, A & Välimäki, V 2020, Perceptual Loss Function for Neural Modelling of Audio Systems. in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020 - Proceedings., 9052944, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE, pp. 251-255, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Barcelona, Spain, 04/05/2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9052944

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