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Conventional cross-domain image-to-image translation or unsupervised domain adaptation methods assume that the source domain and target domain are closely related. This neglects a practical scenario where the domain discrepancy between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Yichen Li , Xingchao Peng

Recently, deep learning approaches for accelerated MRI have been extensively studied thanks to their high performance reconstruction in spite of significantly reduced runtime complexity. These neural networks are usually trained in a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Gyutaek Oh , Byeongsu Sim , Hyungjin Chung , Leonard Sunwoo , Jong Chul Ye

The research presents a voice conversion model using coefficient mapping and neural network. Most previous works on parametric speech synthesis did not account for losses in spectral details causing over smoothing and invariably, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Olaide Ayodeji Agbolade , Samson A. Oyetunji

Magnetic resonance (MR) and computer tomography (CT) images are two typical types of medical images that provide mutually-complementary information for accurate clinical diagnosis and treatment. However, obtaining both images may be limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Jiayuan Wang , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Farhad Pourpanah

Voice conversion (VC) transforms an utterance to sound like another person without changing the linguistic content. A recently proposed generative adversarial network-based VC method, StarGANv2-VC is very successful in generating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Arnab Das , Suhita Ghosh , Tim Polzehl , Sebastian Stober

Cross-corpus speech emotion recognition (SER) aims to transfer emotional knowledge from a labeled source corpus to an unlabeled corpus. However, prior methods require access to source data during adaptation, which is unattainable in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yan Zhao , Jincen Wang , Cheng Lu , Sunan Li , Björn Schuller , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng

Deep learning based pan-sharpening has received significant research interest in recent years. Most of existing methods fall into the supervised learning framework in which they down-sample the multi-spectral (MS) and panchromatic (PAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Huanyu Zhou , Qingjie Liu , Dawei Weng , Yunhong Wang

This paper presents a method to train end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models using unpaired data. Although the end-to-end approach can eliminate the need for expert knowledge such as pronunciation dictionaries to build ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Takaaki Hori , Ramon Astudillo , Tomoki Hayashi , Yu Zhang , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux

Voice Conversion research in recent times has increasingly focused on improving the zero-shot capabilities of existing methods. Despite remarkable advancements, current architectures still tend to struggle in zero-shot cross-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Advait Joglekar , Divyanshu Singh , Rooshil Rohit Bhatia , S. Umesh

Singing voice conversion is a task to convert a song sang by a source singer to the voice of a target singer. In this paper, we propose using a parallel data free, many-to-one voice conversion technique on singing voices. A phonetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-12 Xin Chen , Wei Chu , Jinxi Guo , Ning Xu

Nonparallel multi-domain voice conversion methods such as the StarGAN-VCs have been widely applied in many scenarios. However, the training of these models usually poses a challenge due to their complicated adversarial network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Xulong Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Recently, voice conversion (VC) without parallel data has been successfully adapted to multi-target scenario in which a single model is trained to convert the input voice to many different speakers. However, such model suffers from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee

One of the frontier issues that severely hamper the development of automatic snore sound classification (ASSC) associates to the lack of sufficient supervised training data. To cope with this problem, we propose a novel data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Zixing Zhang , Jing Han , Kun Qian , Christoph Janott , Yanan Guo , Bjoern Schuller

Classical parametric speech coding techniques provide a compact representation for speech signals. This affords a very low transmission rate but with a reduced perceptual quality of the reconstructed signals. Recently, autoregressive deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Arijit Biswas , Christian Bergler , Julia Schottenhamml , Andreas Maier

This paper investigates an open research task of text-to-image synthesis for automatically generating or manipulating images from text descriptions. Prevailing methods mainly use the text as conditions for GAN generation, and train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

An effective approach to non-parallel voice conversion (VC) is to utilize deep neural networks (DNNs), specifically variational auto encoders (VAEs), to model the latent structure of speech in an unsupervised manner. A previous study has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Wen-Chin Huang , Hsin-Te Hwang , Yu-Huai Peng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Understanding how activity in neural circuits reshapes following task learning could reveal fundamental mechanisms of learning. Thanks to the recent advances in neural imaging technologies, high-quality recordings can be obtained from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-29 Bryan M. Li , Theoklitos Amvrosiadis , Nathalie Rochefort , Arno Onken

While pre-trained automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems demonstrate impressive performance on matched domains, their performance often degrades when confronted with channel mismatch stemming from unseen recording environments and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Chien-Chun Wang , Li-Wei Chen , Cheng-Kang Chou , Hung-Shin Lee , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang

We propose a stable, parallel approach to train Wasserstein Conditional Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (W-CGANs) under the constraint of a fixed computational budget. Differently from previous distributed GANs training techniques,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Junqi Yin

Zero-shot voice conversion is becoming an increasingly popular research topic, as it promises the ability to transform speech to sound like any speaker. However, relatively little work has been done on end-to-end methods for this task,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Wonjune Kang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Deb Roy