The ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids

Dabike, Gerardo Roa; Akeroyd, Michael A.; Bannister, Scott; Barker, Jon; Cox, Trevor J.; Fazenda, Bruno; Firth, Jennifer; Graetzer, Simone; Greasley, Alinka; Vos, Rebecca R.; Whitmer, William M.

Abstract

This paper reports on the design and results of the 2024 ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids. The Cadenza project is working to enhance the audio quality of music for those with a hearing loss. The scenario for the challenge was listening to stereo reproduction over loudspeakers via hearing aids. The task was to: decompose pop/rock music into vocal, drums, bass and other (VDBO); rebalance the different tracks with specified gains and then remixing back to stereo. End-to-end approaches were also accepted. 17 systems were submitted by 11 teams. Causal systems performed poorer than non-causal approaches. 9 systems beat the baseline. A common approach was to fine-tuning pretrained demixing models. The best approach used an ensemble of models.

Citation

Dabike, G. R., Akeroyd, M. A., Bannister, S., Barker, J., Cox, T. J., Fazenda, B., …Whitmer, W. M. (2024). The ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icasspw62465.2024.10626340

• Conference Name: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)
• Conference Location: Seoul, Korea, Republic of
• Start Date: Apr 14, 2024
• End Date: Apr 19, 2024
• Publication Date: Apr 14, 2024
• Deposit Date: Aug 16, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 15, 2026
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• ISBN: 979-8-3503-7452-0
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icasspw62465.2024.10626340