Minje Kim
Associate Professor
Studies AI for audio, including speech enhancement, source separation and efficient, personalized audio models.
Minje Kim's lab at UIUC works on music, audio & sound, speech enhancement & signal processing and efficient training & inference. 34 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly TASLP. 7 PhD students and 2 master's students. 11 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 3%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 11
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 0
- 10 papers2024 · T1 0
- 3 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: TASLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech enhancement & signal processing18 papers
- Music, audio & sound13 papers
- audio11 papers
- separation5 papers
- Efficient training & inference3 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202612 papers
- DAFxAccurate Plate Reverb Parameter Estimation Using Two-Stage Evolutionary Search (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, .Adaptive Deterministic Flow Matching for Target Speaker Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Sydney, Australia, Sep. 27 - Oct. 1, .Elastic Time: Dynamic Frame Rate Bottlenecks for Neural Audio Coding (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech),Sydney, Australia, Sep. 27 - Oct. 1, .End-to-End Model Compression for Personalized Neural Speech Codecs (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Cremona, Italy, Sep. 7-10, .Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, .From Hallucination to Articulation: Language Model-Driven Losses for Ultra Low-Bitrate Neural Speech Coding (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, .Gencho: Room Impulse Response Generation from Reverberant Speech and Text via Diffusion Transformers (opens in a new tab)
- TASLP (T1)HE-NAC: High-Efficiency Neural Audio Coding via Hierarchical and Residual Multi-Band Quantization (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW): Low-Resource Audio Codec (LRAC) Workshop Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, .Low-Resource Audio Codec (LRAC): 2025 Challenge Description (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 4-8, .PromptSep: Generative Audio Separation via Multimodal Prompting (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Cremona, Italy, Sep. 7-10, .Singer-Informed Vocal Source Separation for Multi-Singer Music Mixtures (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech Long Paper Track), Sydney, Australia, Sep. 27 - Oct. 1, .Something from Nothing: Data Augmentation for Robust Severity Level Estimation of Dysarthric Speech (opens in a new tab)
20259 papers
- Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), Tahoe City, CA, Oct. 12-15, .Adaptive Slimming for Scalable and Efficient Speech Enhancement (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), Tahoe City, CA, Oct. 12-15, .Combolutional Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), ISSN: 2835-8856Discrete Audio Tokens: More Than a Survey! (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW): Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA ), Hyderabad, India, Apr. 6-11, .Generative Data Augmentation Challenge: Synthesis of Room Acoustics for Speaker Distance Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW): Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA ), Hyderabad, India, Apr. 6-11, .Generative Data Augmentation Challenge: Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis for Personalized Speech Enhancement (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, Apr. 6-11, .Perceptual Audio Coding: A 40-Year Historical Perspective (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), Tahoe City, CA, Oct. 12-15, .Task-Specific Audio Coding for Machines: Machine-Learned Latent Features Are Codes for That Machine (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), Tahoe City, CA, Oct. 12-15, .TGIF: Talker Group-Informed Familiarization of Target Speaker Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR),Daejeon, Korea, Sep. 21-25, .User-Guided Generative Source Separation (opens in a new tab)
202410 papers
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Apr. 14-19A Comparative Analysis of Poetry Reading Audio: Singing, Narrating, or Somewhere In Between? (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Apr. 14-19, .Generative De-Quantization for Neural Speech Codec via Latent Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Kos Island, Greece, Sep. 1-5, .Genhancer: High-Fidelity Speech Enhancement via Generative Modeling on Discrete Codec Tokens (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Apr. 14-19Hyperbolic Distance-Based Speech Separation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Kos Island, Greece, Sep. 1-5, .Multimodal Representation Loss Between Timed Text and Audio for Regularized Speech Separation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Signal Processing MagazineNeural Speech and Audio Coding: Modern AI Technology Meets Traditional Codecs (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Apr. 14-19Personalized Neural Speech Codec (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciProfessional Jazz Musicians Explore and Exploit a Space of Sounds (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Apr. 14-19, .Scalable and Efficient Speech Enhancement Using Modified Cold Diffusion: a Residual Learning Approach (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Acoustical Society of AmericaZero-Shot Test-Time Adaptation Via Knowledge Distillation for Personalized Speech Denoising and Dereverberation (opens in a new tab)
20233 papers
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4-10Native Multi-Band Audio Coding within Hyper-Autoencoded Reconstruction Propagation Networks (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4-10Neural Feature Predictor and Discriminative Residual Coding for Low-Bitrate Speech Coding (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4-10The Potential of Neural Speech Synthesis-Based Data Augmentation for Personalized Speech Enhancement (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went11 listed
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