My research concerns using signal processing and machine learning for acoustics, audio, and speech processing. In particular, audio event detection and classification, sound source localization, sound source separation, speech enhancement, speech echo cancellation, active noise control, sound field control, array signal processing, and vibration and structural acoustics.
Qualifications
Ph.D., Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences -2013
BSc, Nanjing University - 2008
Experience
Research Fellow, Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing, University of Surrey - 2020
Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - 2018
Postdoc, Acoustic Research Group, Brigham Young University - 2015
Research interests
Acoustics, audio, and speech processing. In particular, audio event detection and classification, sound source localization, sound source separation, speech enhancement, speech echo cancellation, active noise control, sound field control, array signal processing, and vibration and structural acoustics.
Articles
Chen Gong, Ming Wu, Jianfeng Guo, Zeqiang Zhang, Yin Cao, Jun Yang, Multichannel Narrowband Active Noise Control System with a Frequency Estimator Based on DFT coefficients, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 521, 2022.
Chen Gong, Ming Wu, Jianfeng Guo, Yin Cao, Zeqiang Zhang, Jun Yang, Modified Narrowband Active Noise Control System with Frequency Mismatch Tolerance, Applied Acoustics, 189, 2022.
Fengyan An, Yin Cao, Bilong Liu, Optimized Decentralized Filtered-X Least Mean Square Algorithm for Over-Determined Systems with Periodic Disturbances, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2021.
Qiuqiang Kong, Yin Cao, Turab Iqbal, Yuxuan Wang, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, PANNs: Large-Scale Pretrained Audio Neural Networks for Audio Pattern Recognition, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2020.
Fengyan An, Yin Cao, Ming Wu, Hongling Sun, Bilong Liu, Jun Yang, Robust Wiener Controller Design with Acoustic Feedback for Active Noise Control Systems, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(4), EL291, 2019.
Feiran Yang, Yin Cao, Ming Wu, Felix Albu, Jun Yang, Frequency-Domain Filtered-X LMS Algorithms for Active Noise Control: A Review and New Insights, Applied Sciences, 8(11), 2313, 2018.
Fengyan An, Yin Cao, Bilong Liu, Optimized Decentralized Adaptive Control of Noise and Vibration for Periodic Disturbances, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(4), EL275, 2018.
Yin Cao, Scott. D. Sommerfeldt, William Johnson, Jonathan D. Blotter, Pegah Ashlani, An Analysis of Control Using the Weighted Sum of Spatial Gradients in Active Structural Acoustic Control for Flat Panels, The Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 138(5), 2986-2997, 2015.
Yicheng Yu, Hongling Sun, Yin Cao, Fengyan An, Jun Yang, Experimental Validation of Virtual Absorbed Energy of Piezoelectric Patch Actuators in Decentralized Velocity Feedback Control of A Plate, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 341, 1-15, 2015.
Yin Cao, Hongling Sun, Fengyan An, Xiaodong Li, Virtual Absorbed Energy in Decentralized Velocity Feedback Control of a Plate with Piezoelectric Patch Actuators, Applied Acoustics, 74(6), 909-919, 2013.
Yin Cao, Hongling Sun, Fengyan An, Xiaodong Li, Active Control of Low-Frequency Sound Radiation by Cylindrical Shell with Piezoelectric Stack Force Actuators, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 331(11), 2471-2484, 2012.
Yin Cao, Hongling Sun, Xiaodong Li, A Novel Decentralized Feedforward Control Strategy of Plate Vibrations without Secondary Path Modeling Using Piezoelectric Patch Actuators, Journal of Vibration and Shock, 33, 2014. (In Chinese)
Proceedings
Jinbo Hu, Yin Cao, Ming Wu, Qiuqiang Kong, Feiran Yang, Mark D. Plumbley, Jun Yang, A Track-Wise Ensemble Event Independent Network for Polyphonic Sound Event Localization and Detection, ICASSP 2022.
Turab Iqbal, Yin Cao, Andrew Bailey, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang, ARCA23k: An Audio Dataset for Investigating Open-Set Label Noise, DCASE workshop 2021.
Qiuqiang Kong, Yin Cao, Haohe Liu, Keunwoo Choi, Yuxuan Wang, Decoupling Magnitude and Phase Estimation with Deep ResUNet for Music Source Separation, ISMIR 2021.
Yin Cao, Turab Iqbal, Qiuqiang Kong, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, An Improved Event-Independent Network for Polyphonic Sound Event Localization and Detection, ICASSP 2021.
Yin Cao, Turab Iqbal, Qiuqiang Kong, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, Event-Independent Network for Polyphonic Sound Event Localization and Detection, DCASE workshop 2020.
Turab Iqbal, Yin Cao, Qiuqiang Kong, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang, Learning with Out-of-Distribution Data for Audio Classification, ICASSP 2020.
Qiuqiang Kong, Yuxuan Wang, Xuchen Song, Yin Cao, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, Source Separation with Weakly Labelled Data: An Approach to Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, ICASSP 2020.
Yin Cao, Qiuqiang Kong, Turab Iqbal, Fengyan An, Wenwu Wang and Mark D. Plumbley, Polyphonic Sound Event Detection and Localization Using a Two-Stage Strategy, DCASE Workshop, 2019.
Yin Cao, Turab Iqbal, Qiuqiang Kong, Miguel B. Galindo, Wenwu Wang and Mark D. Plumbley, Two-Stage Sound Event Localization and Detection Using Intensity Vector and Generalized Cross-Correlation, DCASE Challenge Report, 2019.
Qiuqiang Kong, Yin Cao, Turab, Iqbal, Yong Xu, Wenwu Wang and Mark D. Plumbley, Cross-Task Learning for Audio Tagging, Sound Event Detection and Spatial Localization: DCASE 2019 Baseline System, arXiv preprint, arXiv: 1904.03476, 2019.
Qiuqiang Kong, Yong Xu, Turab Iqbal, Yin Cao, Wenwu Wang and Mark D. Plumbley, Acoustic Scene Generation with Conditional SampleRNN, ICASSP 2019.
Christian Kroos, Oliver Bones, Yin Cao, Lara Harris, Philip J. B. Jackson, William J. Davies, Wenwu Wang, Trevor J. Cox and Mark D. Plumbley, Generalisation in Environmental Sound Classification: the ‘Making Sense of Sounds’ Dataset and Challenge. ICASSP 2019.
Xiaofeng Shu, Yi Zhou, Yin Cao, A Progressive Enhancement Method for Noisy and Reverberant Speech, 2018 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2018.
Ziyi Wang, Yin Cao, An On-line Algorithm for Music-to-Score Alignment of Guzheng Performance, 2018 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2018.
Yin Cao, Honglin Sun, Generalized Control Metric for Active Structural Acoustic Control: A Novel Understanding for Controlling Symmetric Structures, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(4), 2517-2517, 2017.
Yin Cao, Kelli Succoo, Scott. D. Sommerfeldt, Jonathan D. Blotter, Active Control of Noise Radiated from An X-Ray Tube, The Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 139(4), 2205-2206, 2016.
Yin Cao, Scott D. Sommerfeldt, Jonathan D. Blotter, Active Structural Acoustic Control of Plates with Different Boundary Conditions Using a Weighted Sum of Spatial Gradients, INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings 250(4), 3260-3270, 2015
Pegah Aslani, Scott D. Sommerfeldt, Yin Cao, Jonathan D. Blotter, Active Noise Control of Cylindrical Shells Using A Sum of Weighted Spatial Gradients (WSSG) Control Metric, The Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 135(4), 2387-2387, 2014.
Yin Cao, Scott Sommerfeldt, Jonathan Blotter, Pegah Aslani, An Analysis of the WSSG Control Metric in Active Structural Acoustic Control, The Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 135(4), 2418-2418, 2014.
Yin Cao, Hongling Sun, Xiaodong Li, Experimental Study on Decentralized Feed-Forward Control Strategy of Plate Vibrations without Secondary Path Modeling Using Piezoelectric Patch Actuators, Vilnius, Lithuania, ICSV 19, 2012.
Yin Cao, Hongling Sun, Xiaodong Li, A Novel Decentralized Velocity Feedback Strategy of Plate Vibrations Using Piezoelectric Patch Actuators, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(4), 3472-3472, 2012.
Yin Cao, Anne Shen, Fengsheng Sui, Experimental Investigations on Sound Insulation of Compound Aluminum Material, Noise and Vibration Control, S2, 268-271, 2009. (In Chinese)
Yin Cao, Hongling Sun, Xiaodong Li, Performance Analysis on Decentralized Feedback Control of Plate Vibration, Technical Acoustics, 30, 221-222, 2011. (In Chinese)
Yin Cao, Hongling Sun, Xiaodong Li, Effects of the Bulkhead on Active Structural Acoustic Control of a Cylindrical Shell Structure, Technical Acoustics, 29, 266-267, 2010. (In Chinese)
Professional service activities
Associate editor, Noise Control Engineering Journal, 2020-present.
Member, Noise Control Engineering.
Courses taught
INT402, Data Mining and Big Data Analytics
Awards and honours
Second top ranking in the challenge of DCASE 2022 Task 3.
Top ranking in the challenge of ICASSP 2022 L3DAS22 Task 2.
Top ranking in the challenge of DCASE 2020 Task 4.
"Reproducible System Award" in the workshop of DCASE 2020.
"Judges' Award" in the workshop of DCASE 2020.
"Reproducible System Award" in the workshop of DCASE 2019.
Second top ranking in the challenge of DCASE 2019 Task 3.
