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April 27, 2026

Ten papers accepted to the international conference ICASSP2026

Ten papers from the Mitsubishi Electric Group were accepted at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, which is a leading international conference in this field.
Additionally, one paper was accepted for a workshop at the same conference, and two papers published in a journal will also be presented (Listed below).
ICASSP2026 will be held in Barcelona, Spain from May 4 to May 8, 2026.

2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (External site)

Title: Low-Computation Detection Method for Unknown LFM Signals below Noise Floor

Authors: Hirofumi Fukushima (Melco), Yuki Takabayashi (Melco)

URL: LOW-COMPUTATION DETECTION METHOD FOR UNKNOWN LFM SIGNALS BELOW NOISE FLOOR (External site)

Title: One-Stage Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation for Anomaly Detection via Consistency Regularization and Student-Teacher Models

Authors: Yuta Nakanishi (Melco)

URL: ONE-STAGE SEMI-SUPERVISED SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION FOR ANOMALY DETECTION VIA CONSISTENCY REGULARIZATION AND STUDENT-TEACHER MODELS (External site)

Title: Dual-Regularized Iterative Adaptive Approach for DOA Spectrum Reconstruction in Limited Angle Sector

Authors: Ryuhei Takahashi (Melco), Hassan Mansour (MERL), Petros Boufounos (MERL)

URL: DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR (External site)

Title: SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec

Authors: Ryo Aihara (Melco/MERL), Yoshiki Masuyama (MERL), Francesco Paissan (Univeristy of Trento), François G. Germain (MERL), Gordon Wichern (MERL), Jonathan Le Roux (MERL)

URL: SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec (External site)

Title: FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement

Authors: Yoshiki Masuyama (MERL), Kohei Saijo (Waseda University), Francesco Paissan (Univeristy of Trento), Jiangyu Han (Brno University of Technology), Marc Delcroix (NTT, Inc.), Ryo Aihara (Melco/MERL), François G. Germain (MERL), Gordon Wichern (MERL), Jonathan Le Roux (MERL)

URL: FLEXIO: FLEXIBLE SINGLE- AND MULTI-CHANNEL SPEECH SEPARATION AND ENHANCEMENT (External site)

Title: Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling

Authors: Yoshiki Masuyama (MERL), François G. Germain (MERL), Gordon Wichern (MERL), Chiori Hori (MERL), Jonathan Le Roux (MERL)

URL: VELOCITY POTENTIAL NEURAL FIELD FOR EFFICIENT AMBISONICS IMPULSE RESPONSE MODELING (External site)

Title: Spatially Aware Self-Supervised Models for Multi-Channel Neural Speaker Diarization

Authors: Jiangyu Han (Brno University of Technology), Ruoyu Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), Yoshiki Masuyama (MERL), Marc Delcroix (NTT, Inc.), Johan Rohdin (Brno University of Technology), Jun Du (University of Science and Technology of China), Lukas Burget (Brno University of Technology)

URL: SPATIALLY AWARE SELF-SUPERVISED MODELS FOR MULTI-CHANNEL NEURAL SPEAKER DIARIZATION (External site)

Title: Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation

Authors: Sorachi Kato (University of Osaka), Pu (Perry) Wang (MERL), Takuya Fujihashi (University of Osaka), Andrew Markham (University of Oxford)

URL: Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation (External site)

Title: Single View Camera-Based Dynamic Airflow Sensing

Authors: Kevin Tandi (University of California San Diego), Wael H. Ali (MERL), Joshua Rapp (MERL), Hassan Mansour (MERL)

URL: SINGLE VIEW CAMERA-BASED DYNAMIC AIRFLOW SENSING (External site)

Title: ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization

Authors: Haoyu Zhang (University of California San Diego), Yanting Ma (MERL), Ruangrawee Kitichotkul (Boston University), Joshua Rapp (MERL), Petros T. Boufounos (MERL)

URL: PROXICBO: A CONSENSUS-BASED METHOD FOR COMPOSITE OPTIMIZATION (External site)

List of papers from the Mitsubishi Electric Group accepted for the workshop

One paper was accepted for the workshop (Low-Resource Audio Codec (LRAC) Workshop) at the same conference.

The 2026 LRAC Workshop (External site)

Title: Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations

Authors: Ryo Aihara (Melco/MERL), Yoshiki Masuyama (MERL), Gordon Wichern (MERL), François G. Germain (MERL), Jonathan Le Roux (MERL)

URL: Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations (External site)

List of papers from Mitsubishi Electric Group published in the journal and will be presented

Two papers published in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing will also be presented at the same conference.

Journal: Embracing Cacophony: Explaining and Improving Random Mixing in Music Source Separation
IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, pp. 1179-1192, vol. 6, 2026

Authors: Chang-Bin Jeon (Samsung Electronics), Gordon Wichern (MERL), François G. Germain (MERL), Jonathan Le Roux (MERL)

URL: Embracing Cacophony: Explaining and Improving Random Mixing in Music Source Separation (External site)

Journal: SuDaField: Subject- and Dataset-Aware Neural Field for HRTF Modeling
IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, pp. 1169-1178, vol. 6, 2026

Authors: Yoshiki Masuyama (MERL), Gordon Wichern (MERL), François G. Germain (MERL), Christopher Ick (New York University), Jonathan Le Roux (MERL)

URL: SUDAFIELD: SUBJECT- AND DATASET-AWARE NEURAL FIELD FOR HRTF MODELING (External site)

January 19, 2026

Three papers accepted at the international conference AAAI-26

Three papers from the Mitsubishi Electric Group were accepted at the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), a leading international conference on artificial intelligence.
Additionally, five papers were accepted for the workshops at the same conference (List publication).
AAAI-26 will be held in Singapore from January 20 to January 27, 2026.

Summary of accepted three papers

Title: Indoor Multi-View Radar Object Detection via 3D Bounding Box Diffusion

Authors: Ryoma Yataka (Melco), Pu (Perry) Wang (MERL), Petros Boufounos (MERL), Ryuhei Takahashi (Melco)

Title: LatentLLM: Activation-Aware Transform to Multi-Head Latent Attention

Authors: Toshiaki Koike-Akino (MERL), Xiangyu Chen (MERL), Jing Liu (MERL), Ye Wang (MERL), Pu (Perry) Wang (MERL), Matthew Brand (MERL)

Title: Chain-of-Thought Driven Adversarial Scenario Extrapolation for Robust Language Models

Authors: Md Rafi Ur Rashid (Pennsylvania State University), Vishnu Asutosh Dasu (Pennsylvania State University), Ye Wang (MERL), Gang Tan (Pennsylvania State University), Shagufta Mehnaz (Pennsylvania State University)

Papers from the Mitsubishi Electric Group Accepted at Workshops in 2026

At the workshops of the same conference, we will present five papers.

Title: Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities

Authors: Vanshaj Khattar (Virginia Tech University), Moumita Choudhury (The University of Massachusetts), Md Rafi Ur Rashid (Pennsylvania State University), Jing Liu (MERL), Toshiaki Koike-Akino (MERL), Ming Jin (Virginia Tech University), Ye Wang (MERL)

Title: PatchDecomp: Interpretable Patch-Based Time Series Forecasting

Authors: Hiroki Tomioka (Melco), Genta Yoshimura (Melco)

Title: Perception-Reasoning Integration for Temporal Action Segmentation in Human-Centered Manufacturing

Authors: Jia Qu (Melco), Ren Sasage (Melco), Shotaro Miwa (Melco)

Title: A Task-Level Explanation Framework for Meta-Learning Algorithms

Authors: Yoshihiro Mitsuka (Melco), Shadan Golestan (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute), Zahin Sufiyan (University of Alberta), Shotaro Miwa (Melco), Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute)

Title: GeoSteer: Faithful Chain-of-Thought Steering via Latent Manifold Gradients

Authors: Kentaro Kazama (Melco), Daiki Shirafuji (Melco), Tatsuhiko Saito (Melco)

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