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We propose a semi-supervised singing synthesizer, which is able to learn new voices from audio data only, without any annotations such as phonetic segmentation. Our system is an encoder-decoder model with two encoders, linguistic and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jordi Bonada , Merlijn Blaauw

The availability of large labeled datasets has allowed Convolutional Network models to achieve impressive recognition results. However, in many settings manual annotation of the data is impractical; instead our data has noisy labels, i.e.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Joan Bruna , Manohar Paluri , Lubomir Bourdev , Rob Fergus

Ultrafast electron beam X-ray computed tomography produces noisy data due to short measurement times, causing reconstruction artifacts and limiting overall image quality. To counteract these issues, two self-supervised deep learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Israt Jahan Tulin , Sebastian Starke , Dominic Windisch , André Bieberle , Peter Steinbach

In traditional speech denoising tasks, clean audio signals are often used as the training target, but absolutely clean signals are collected from expensive recording equipment or in studios with the strict environments. To overcome this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Jiasong Wu , Qingchun Li , Guanyu Yang , Lei Li , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

Semantic segmentation labels are expensive and time consuming to acquire. Hence, pretraining is commonly used to improve the label-efficiency of segmentation models. Typically, the encoder of a segmentation model is pretrained as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Emmanuel Brempong Asiedu , Simon Kornblith , Ting Chen , Niki Parmar , Matthias Minderer , Mohammad Norouzi

We present a learned unsupervised denoising method for arbitrary types of data, which we explore on images and one-dimensional signals. The training is solely based on samples of noisy data and examples of noise, which -- critically -- do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Sören Dittmer , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Peter Maass

In this study, we propose a simple and effective fine-tuning algorithm called "restore-from-restored", which can greatly enhance the performance of fully pre-trained image denoising networks. Many supervised denoising approaches can produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Seunghwan Lee , Dongkyu Lee , Donghyeon Cho , Jiwon Kim , Tae Hyun Kim

Autoencoders are commonly used in representation learning. They consist of an encoder and a decoder, which provide a straightforward way to map n-dimensional data in input space to a lower m-dimensional representation space and back. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Viktoria Schuster , Anders Krogh

The effectiveness of existing denoising algorithms typically relies on accurate pre-defined noise statistics or plenty of paired data, which limits their practicality. In this work, we focus on denoising in the more common case where noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Huangxing Lin , Yihong Zhuang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Yizhou Yu , Xiaoqing Liu , John Paisley

Monitoring of bird populations has played a vital role in conservation efforts and in understanding biodiversity loss. The automation of this process has been facilitated by both sensing technologies, such as passive acoustic monitoring,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Irina Tolkova , Brian Chu , Marcel Hedman , Stefan Kahl , Holger Klinck

Image classification problems are typically addressed by first collecting examples with candidate labels, second cleaning the candidate labels manually, and third training a deep neural network on the clean examples. The manual labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Fatih Furkan Yilmaz , Reinhard Heckel

Fully supervised deep-learning based denoisers are currently the most performing image denoising solutions. However, they require clean reference images. When the target noise is complex, e.g. composed of an unknown mixture of primary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Florian Lemarchand , Erwan Nogues , Maxime Pelcat

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of computer vision tasks, where massive labeled images are routinely required for model optimization. Yet, the data collected from the open world are unavoidably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Peng Cui , Yang Yue , Zhijie Deng , Jun Zhu

An algorithm is described that adaptively learns a non-linear mutation distribution. It works by training a denoising autoencoder (DA) online at each generation of a genetic algorithm to reconstruct a slowly decaying memory of the best…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Alexander W. Churchill , Siddharth Sigtia , Chrisantha Fernando

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

In physical science, sensor data are collected over time to produce timeseries data. However, depending on the real-world condition and underlying physics of the sensor, data might be noisy. Besides, the limitation of sample-time on sensors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-07 Rahul Bhadani

Image noise is ubiquitous in photography. However, image noise is not compressible nor desirable, thus attempting to convey the noise in compressed image bitstreams yields sub-par results in both rate and distortion. We propose to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Benoit Brummer , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

We propose a general framework for denoising high-dimensional measurements which requires no prior on the signal, no estimate of the noise, and no clean training data. The only assumption is that the noise exhibits statistical independence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Joshua Batson , Loic Royer

A flexible discriminative image denoiser is introduced in which multi-task learning methods are applied to a densoising FCN based on U-Net. The activations of the U-Net model are modified by affine transforms that are a learned function of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Anthony Kelly

ConvNets achieve good results when training from clean data, but learning from noisy labels significantly degrades performances and remains challenging. Unlike previous works constrained by many conditions, making them infeasible to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Jiangfan Han , Ping Luo , Xiaogang Wang