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Conditional Generative Models are now acknowledged an essential tool in Machine Learning. This paper focuses on their control. While many approaches aim at disentangling the data through the coordinate-wise control of their latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Victor Berger , Michèle Sebag

This paper presents a generative approach to speech enhancement based on a recurrent variational autoencoder (RVAE). The deep generative speech model is trained using clean speech signals only, and it is combined with a nonnegative matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Autoregressive models are now capable of generating high-quality minute-long expressive MIDI piano performances. Even though this progress suggests new tools to assist music composition, we observe that generative algorithms are still not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Léopold Crestel

This paper presents an integrated system that transforms symbolic music scores into expressive piano performance audio. By combining a Transformer-based Expressive Performance Rendering (EPR) model with a fine-tuned neural MIDI synthesiser,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jingjing Tang , Erica Cooper , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , George Fazekas

This paper proposes a new model for music prediction based on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). In this work, VAEs are used in a novel way in order to address two different problems: music representation into the latent space, and using this…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Daniel Rivero , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Alejandro Pazos

Variation Autoencoder (VAE) has become a powerful tool in modeling the non-linear generative process of data from a low-dimensional latent space. Recently, several studies have proposed to use VAE for unsupervised clustering by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Qingyu Zhao , Nicolas Honnorat , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl

In this paper, we are interested in audio-visual speech separation given a single-channel audio recording as well as visual information (lips movements) associated with each speaker. We propose an unsupervised technique based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Viet-Nhat Nguyen , Mostafa Sadeghi , Elisa Ricci , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

This paper proposes a neural sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech (TTS) model which can control latent attributes in the generated speech that are rarely annotated in the training data, such as speaking style, accent, background noise, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , Ron J. Weiss , Heiga Zen , Yonghui Wu , Yuxuan Wang , Yuan Cao , Ye Jia , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathan Shen , Patrick Nguyen , Ruoming Pang

We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Monica Dinculescu , Jesse Engel

Recent advances in neural autoregressive models have improve the performance of speech synthesis (SS). However, as they lack the ability to model global characteristics of speech (such as speaker individualities or speaking styles),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Kei Akuzawa , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

While deep generative models have become the leading methods for algorithmic composition, it remains a challenging problem to control the generation process because the latent variables of most deep-learning models lack good…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Ziyu Wang , Dingsu Wang , Yixiao Zhang , Gus Xia

Density estimation, compression and data generation are crucial tasks in artificial intelligence. Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) constitute a single framework to achieve these goals. Here, we present a novel class of generative models,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-07 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Jakub M. Tomczak

Despite significant advances in deep models for music generation, the use of these techniques remains restricted to expert users. Before being democratized among musicians, generative models must first provide expressive control over the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ninon Devis , Nils Demerlé , Sarah Nabi , David Genova , Philippe Esling

We demonstrate how conditional generation from diffusion models can be used to tackle a variety of realistic tasks in the production of music in 44.1kHz stereo audio with sampling-time guidance. The scenarios we consider include…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mark Levy , Bruno Di Giorgi , Floris Weers , Angelos Katharopoulos , Tom Nickson

Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the vocal tract has become an increasingly adopted imaging modality for speech motor studies. Beyond image signals, systematic data loss, noise pollution, and audio file corruption can occur due…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yaxuan Li , Han Jiang , Yifei Ma , Shihua Qin , Jonghye Woo , Fangxu Xing

The ubiquity of sound synthesizers has reshaped music production and even entirely defined new music genres. However, the increasing complexity and number of parameters in modern synthesizers make them harder to master. Hence, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Philippe Esling , Naotake Masuda , Adrien Bardet , Romeo Despres , Axel Chemla--Romeu-Santos

Recently, audio-visual speech enhancement has been tackled in the unsupervised settings based on variational auto-encoders (VAEs), where during training only clean data is used to train a generative model for speech, which at test time is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Mostafa Sadeghi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Accurately quantifying uncertainty in predictions and projections arising from irreducible internal climate variability is critical for informed decision making. Such uncertainty is typically assessed using ensembles produced with physics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Parsa Gooya , Reinel Sospedra-Alfonso , Johannes Exenberger

The generation of virtual populations (VPs) of anatomy is essential for conducting in silico trials of medical devices. Typically, the generated VP should capture sufficient variability while remaining plausible and should reflect the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Haoran Dou , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F. Frangi

Use a parametric representation of audio to train a generative model in the interest of obtaining more flexible control over the generated sound.

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Krishna Subramani , Alexandre D'Hooge , Preeti Rao