The document presents a study on deep within-class covariance analysis (DWCCA) for robust audio representation learning using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). It highlights the challenges of distribution mismatches between training and test datasets, emphasizing how such mismatches lead to increased within-class variability. The proposed DWCCA layer is shown to significantly reduce this variability and improve model generalization in scenarios with mismatched data distributions.
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