- Bhosale, S., Masuyama, Y., Chatterjee, M., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Echoes after Edits: Room Impulse Response Estimation for Geometry Update", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-140 PDF- @inproceedings{Bhosale2026sep2,
- author = {Bhosale, Swapnil and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Echoes after Edits: Room Impulse Response Estimation for Geometry Update}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-140}
- }
- Bhosale, S., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Chatterjee, M., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Zhu, X., Le Roux, J., "Dual-Geometry Manifolds for Few-shot RIR Prediction", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-139 PDF- @inproceedings{Bhosale2026sep,
- author = {Bhosale, Swapnil and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Zhu, Xiatian and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Dual-Geometry Manifolds for Few-shot RIR Prediction}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-139}
- }
- Boeddeker, C., Masuyama, Y., Richter, J., Edo, T., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Speaker Identity as Sole Supervision for Speech Separation", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-137 PDF- @inproceedings{Boeddeker2026sep,
- author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Speaker Identity as Sole Supervision for Speech Separation}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-137}
- }
- Hori, C., Korekata, R., Kambara, M., Masuyama, Y., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Plan and Double-Check: Streaming Multimodal Q-Former for Online Robot Action Generation", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-136 PDF- @inproceedings{Hori2026sep,
- author = {{Hori, Chiori and Korekata, Ryosuke and Kambara, Motonari and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Romeres, Diego and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
- title = {{Plan and Double-Check: Streaming Multimodal Q-Former for Online Robot Action Generation}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-136}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Edo, T., Bhosale, S., Le Roux, J., "HRTF Personalization via Sim-to-Real Neural Field", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-135 PDF- @inproceedings{Masuyama2026sep2,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Bhosale, Swapnil and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{HRTF Personalization via Sim-to-Real Neural Field}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-135}
- }
- Fujimura, T., Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Le Roux, J., "NABEATs: Noise-Aware Audio Representation Learning", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-124 PDF- @inproceedings{Fujimura2026sep,
- author = {Fujimura, Takuya and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{NABEATs: Noise-Aware Audio Representation Learning}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-124}
- }
- Lin, J., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Kim, M., Le Roux, J., "Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-125 PDF- @inproceedings{Lin2026sep,
- author = {Lin, Jackie and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and Kim, Minje and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-125}
- }
- Mitsui, Y., Aihara, R., Saito, T., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Downstream-Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-126 PDF- @inproceedings{Mitsui2026sep,
- author = {Mitsui, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Saito, Tatsuhiko and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Downstream-Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-126}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Neural Fields for Head-Related Transfer Function Modeling and Beyond", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, September 2026.
BibTeX - @article{Masuyama2026sep,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Neural Fields for Head-Related Transfer Function Modeling and Beyond}},
- journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep
- }
- Klement, D., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Saijo, K., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Technical Report for MERL’s Real-TSE Challenge Submission," Tech. Rep. TR2026-112, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-112 PDF- @techreport{Klement2026jul2,
- 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}},
- institution = {Real-TSE Challenge},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-112}
- }
- 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}
- }
- Han, J., Wang, R., Masuyama, Y., Delcroix, M., Rohdin, J., Du, J., Burget, L., "Spatially Aware Self-Supervised Models for Multi-Channel Neural Speaker Diarization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11463023, May 2026, pp. 17447-17451.
BibTeX TR2026-047 PDF- @inproceedings{Han2026may,
- author = {Han, Jiangyu and Wang, Ruoyu and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Delcroix, Marc and Rohdin, Johan and Du, Jun and Burget, Lukáš},
- title = {{Spatially Aware Self-Supervised Models for Multi-Channel Neural Speaker Diarization}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {17447--17451},
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11463023},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-047}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- Hori, C., Masuyama, Y., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), DOI: 10.1109/ASRU65441.2025.11434641, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-167 PDF- @inproceedings{Hori2025dec,
- author = {Hori, Chiori and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/ASRU65441.2025.11434641},
- issn = {2997-6995},
- isbn = {979-8-3315-4426-3},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-167}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., "Neural Fields for Spatial Audio Modeling," Tech. Rep. TR2025-171, Speech and Audio in the Northeast (SANE), November 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-171 PDF- @techreport{Masuyama2025nov,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki},
- title = {{Neural Fields for Spatial Audio Modeling}},
- institution = {Speech and Audio in the Northeast (SANE)},
- year = 2025,
- month = nov,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-171}
- }
- 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}
- }