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Current speech enhancement techniques operate on the spectral domain and/or exploit some higher-level feature. The majority of them tackle a limited number of noise conditions and rely on first-order statistics. To circumvent these issues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà

In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have made significant progress in generating audio sequences. However, these models typically rely on bandwidth-limited mel-spectrograms, which constrain the resolution of generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zeeshan Ahmad , Shudi Bao , Meng Chen

Real-world audio recordings are often degraded by factors such as noise, reverberation, and equalization distortion. This paper introduces HiFi-GAN, a deep learning method to transform recorded speech to sound as though it had been recorded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 Jiaqi Su , Zeyu Jin , Adam Finkelstein

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a hot topic among researchers and engineers that work with deep learning. It has been a ground-breaking technique which can generate new pieces of content of data in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Parthak Mehta , Sarthak Mishra , Nikhil Chouhan , Neel Pethani , Ishani Saha

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown impressive results in various image synthesis tasks. Vast studies have demonstrated that GANs are more powerful in feature and expression learning compared to other generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Omar De Mitri , Ruyu Wang , Marco F. Huber

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are machine learning networks based around creating synthetic data. Voice Conversion (VC) is a subset of voice translation that involves translating the paralinguistic features of a source speaker to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Samuel J. Broughton , Md Asif Jalal , Roger K. Moore

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown potential in learning emotional attributes and generating new data samples. However, their performance is usually hindered by the unavailability of larger speech emotion recognition (SER)…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Siddique Latif , Muhammad Asim , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Björn W. Schuller

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained a lot of attention from machine learning community due to their ability to learn and mimic an input data distribution. GANs consist of a discriminator and a generator working in tandem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Saurabh Sahu , Rahul Gupta , Carol Espy-Wilson

The generative adversarial networks (GANs) have facilitated the development of speech enhancement recently. Nevertheless, the performance advantage is still limited when compared with state-of-the-art models. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Renhua Peng , Cunhang Fan , Xiaodong Li

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Learning allow for new modalities of image super-resolution by learning low to high resolution mappings. In this paper we present our work using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Marc Bosch , Christopher M. Gifford , Pedro A. Rodriguez

We present the first neural video compression method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). Our approach significantly outperforms previous neural and non-neural video compression methods in a user study, setting a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Fabian Mentzer , Eirikur Agustsson , Johannes Ballé , David Minnen , Nick Johnston , George Toderici

Neural networks have proven their capabilities by outperforming many other approaches on regression or classification tasks on various kinds of data. Other astonishing results have been achieved using neural nets as data generators,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Andrej Junginger , Markus Hanselmann , Thilo Strauss , Sebastian Boblest , Jens Buchner , Holger Ulmer

Several recent work on speech synthesis have employed generative adversarial networks (GANs) to produce raw waveforms. Although such methods improve the sampling efficiency and memory usage, their sample quality has not yet reached that of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jungil Kong , Jaehyeon Kim , Jaekyoung Bae

This article presents a novel approach for learning domain-invariant speaker embeddings using Generative Adversarial Networks. The main idea is to confuse a domain discriminator so that is can't tell if embeddings are from the source or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Joao Monteiro , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

Packet loss is a major cause of voice quality degradation in VoIP transmissions with serious impact on intelligibility and user experience. This paper describes a system based on a generative adversarial approach, which aims to repair the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Carlo Aironi , Samuele Cornell , Luca Serafini , Stefano Squartini

Existing audio analysis methods generally first transform the audio stream to spectrogram, and then feed it into CNN for further analysis. A standard CNN recognizes specific visual patterns over feature map, then pools for high-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yulin Pan , Xiangteng He , Biao Gong , Yuxin Peng , Yiliang Lv

We present a learned image compression system based on GANs, operating at extremely low bitrates. Our proposed framework combines an encoder, decoder/generator and a multi-scale discriminator, which we train jointly for a generative learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Eirikur Agustsson , Michael Tschannen , Fabian Mentzer , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a class of neural networks that have been widely used in the field of image-to-image translation. In this paper, we propose a streamlined image-to-image translation network with a simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Guangzong Chen , Mingui Sun , Zhi-Hong Mao , Kangni Liu , Wenyan Jia

Recent work has shown that it is feasible to use generative adversarial networks (GANs) for speech enhancement, however, these approaches have not been compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) non GAN-based approaches. Additionally, many loss…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Zhuohuang Zhang , Chengyun Deng , Yi Shen , Donald S. Williamson , Yongtao Sha , Yi Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have extended deep learning to complex generation and translation tasks across different data modalities. However, GANs are notoriously difficult to train: Mode collapse and other instabilities in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Santiago Gonzalez , Mohak Kant , Risto Miikkulainen