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Image denoising has achieved unprecedented progress as great efforts have been made to exploit effective deep denoisers. To improve the denoising performance in realworld, two typical solutions are used in recent trends: devising better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Yunhao Zou , Ying Fu

Cosine-based softmax losses significantly improve the performance of deep face recognition networks. However, these losses always include sensitive hyper-parameters which can make training process unstable, and it is very tricky to set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Xiao Zhang , Rui Zhao , Junjie Yan , Mengya Gao , Yu Qiao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Recently, deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement (SE) systems have been used with great success. During training, such systems require clean speech data - ideally, in large quantity with a variety of acoustic conditions, many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Koichi Saito , Stefan Uhlich , Giorgio Fabbro , Yuki Mitsufuji

Introducing explicit constraints on the structural predictions has been an effective way to improve the performance of semantic segmentation models. Existing methods are mainly based on insufficient hand-crafted rules that only partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Boxi Wu , Shuai Zhao , Wenqing Chu , Zheng Yang , Deng Cai

Recent advances in End-to-End (E2E) Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) have been primarily due to effective pretraining of speech representations. One such pretraining paradigm is the distillation of semantic knowledge from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Vishal Sunder , Eric Fosler-Lussier , Samuel Thomas , Hong-Kwang J. Kuo , Brian Kingsbury

In this paper, we propose a novel face alignment method that trains deep convolutional network from coarse to fine. It divides given landmarks into principal subset and elaborate subset. We firstly keep a large weight for principal subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Zhiwen Shao , Shouhong Ding , Yiru Zhao , Qinchuan Zhang , Lizhuang Ma

It is highly desirable that speech enhancement algorithms can achieve good performance while keeping low latency for many applications, such as digital hearing aids, acoustically transparent hearing devices, and public address systems. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Chengshi Zheng , Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Yuxuan Ke , Xiaodong Li

Audio coding is an essential module in the real-time communication system. Neural audio codecs can compress audio samples with a low bitrate due to the strong modeling and generative capabilities of deep neural networks. To address the poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Wenzhe Liu , Wei Xiao , Meng Wang , Shan Yang , Yupeng Shi , Yuyong Kang , Dan Su , Shidong Shang , Dong Yu

Animating still face images with deep generative models using a speech input signal is an active research topic and has seen important recent progress.However, much of the effort has been put into lip syncing and rendering quality while the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Louis Airale , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

In this paper, in order to further deal with the performance degradation caused by ignoring the phase information in conventional speech enhancement systems, we proposed a temporal dilated convolutional generative adversarial network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Shuaishuai Ye , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

The human brain contextually exploits heterogeneous sensory information to efficiently perform cognitive tasks including vision and hearing. For example, during the cocktail party situation, the human auditory cortex contextually integrates…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Amir Hussain

Deep learning-based speech enhancement for real-time applications recently made large advancements. Due to the lack of a tractable perceptual optimization target, many myths around training losses emerged, whereas the contribution to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Sebastian Braun , Ivan Tashev

Noise-robust speech recognition systems require large amounts of training data including noisy speech data and corresponding transcripts to achieve state-of-the-art performances in face of various practical environments. However, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chen Chen , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Shashank Shirol , Eng Siong Chng

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has shown unprecedented performance in recent years. The most popular mono speech enhancement frameworks are end-to-end networks mapping the noisy mixture into an estimate of the clean speech. With…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Bahareh Tolooshams , Kazuhito Koishida

Manual sound design with a synthesizer is inherently iterative: an artist compares the synthesized output to a mental target, adjusts parameters, and repeats until satisfied. Iterative sound-matching automates this workflow by continually…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Amir Salimi , Abram Hindle , Osmar R. Zaiane

Generating consistent and high-quality images from given texts is essential for visual-language understanding. Although impressive results have been achieved in generating high-quality images, text-image consistency is still a major concern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Zhaorui Tan , Xi Yang , Zihan Ye , Qiufeng Wang , Yuyao Yan , Anh Nguyen , Kaizhu Huang

In this work, we propose a full-band real-time speech enhancement system with GAN-based stochastic regeneration. Predictive models focus on estimating the mean of the target distribution, whereas generative models aim to learn the full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Sanberk Serbest , Tijana Stojkovic , Milos Cernak , Andrew Harper

We present a psychoacoustically enhanced cost function to balance network complexity and perceptual performance of deep neural networks for speech denoising. While training the network, we utilize perceptual weights added to the ordinary…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Kai Zhen , Aswin Sivaraman , Jongmo Sung , Minje Kim

Recent work in the domain of speech enhancement has explored the use of self-supervised speech representations to aid in the training of neural speech enhancement models. However, much of this work focuses on using the deepest or final…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 George Close , William Ravenscroft , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have recently been shown to be efficient for speech enhancement. However, most, if not all, existing speech enhancement GANs (SEGAN) make use of a single generator to perform one-stage enhancement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Huy Phan , Ian V. McLoughlin , Lam Pham , Oliver Y. Chén , Philipp Koch , Maarten De Vos , Alfred Mertins