Ryo Aihara

Ryo Aihara
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  • Biography

    Ryo's research interests are in signal processing and machine learning applied to speech, audio, and image. Prior to joining MERL, he worked at the Information Technology R&D center of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation as a head researcher of the language processing technology group. He was a recipient of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1) from 2014 to 2017.

  • MERL Publications

    •  Mitsui, Y., Aihara, R., Hori, T., Le Roux, J., Taguchi, S., "Exploring Keyword Enrollment for Japanese End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition using Contextual Biasing", OTOGAKU Symposium, June 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-073 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Mitsui2024jun,
      • author = {{Mitsui, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan and Taguchi, Shinya}},
      • title = {Exploring Keyword Enrollment for Japanese End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition using Contextual Biasing},
      • booktitle = {OTOGAKU Symposium},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = jun,
      • publisher = {Information Processing Society of Japan},
      • issn = {2188-8663},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-073}
      • }
    •  Aihara, R., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Deep clusteringによる シングルチャネル音声分離とその発展", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, DOI: 10.20697/​jasj.76.2_101, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 101-108, April 2020.
      BibTeX J-STAGE
      • @article{Aihara2020apr,
      • author = {{Aihara, Ryo and Wichern, Gordon and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
      • title = {Deep clusteringによる シングルチャネル音声分離とその発展},
      • journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan},
      • year = 2020,
      • volume = 76,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {101--108},
      • month = apr,
      • doi = {10.20697/jasj.76.2_101},
      • url = {https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jasj/76/2/76_101/_article/-char/en}
      • }
    •  Aihara, R., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Deep Clustering-based Single Channel Speech Separation and Recent Advances", Acoustical Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1250/​ast.41.465, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 465-471, March 2020.
      BibTeX TR2021-020 PDF
      • @article{Aihara2020jun,
      • author = {{Aihara, Ryo and Wichern, Gordon and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
      • title = {Deep Clustering-based Single Channel Speech Separation and Recent Advances},
      • journal = {Acoustical Science and Technology},
      • year = 2020,
      • volume = 41,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {465--471},
      • month = mar,
      • doi = {10.1250/ast.41.465},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-020}
      • }
    •  Aihara, R., Hanazawa, T., Okato, Y., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Teacher-Student Deep Clustering For Low-Delay Channel Speech Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2019.8682695, May 2019.
      BibTeX TR2019-003 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Aihara2019may,
      • author = {{Aihara, Ryo and Hanazawa, Toshiyuki and Okato, Yohei and Wichern, Gordon and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
      • title = {Teacher-Student Deep Clustering For Low-Delay Channel Speech Separation},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2019,
      • month = may,
      • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682695},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-003}
      • }

  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "Low-latency speech separation using LC-BLSTM and Teacher-Student Learning"
      Inventors: AIHARA, RYO; HANAZAWA, TOSHIYUKI; OKATO, YOHEI; Wichern, Gordon P; Le Roux, Jonathan
      Patent No.: 11798574
      Issue Date: Oct 24, 2023
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