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With the development of deep learning, speech enhancement has been greatly optimized in terms of speech quality. Previous methods typically focus on the discriminative supervised learning or generative modeling, which tends to introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiaonan Zhi

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

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Diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for image synthesis, demonstrating exceptional photorealism and diversity. However, training diffusion models at high resolutions remains computationally prohibitive, and existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Tobias Vontobel , Seyedmorteza Sadat , Farnood Salehi , Romann M. Weber

Separating the individual elements in a musical mixture is an essential process for music analysis and practice. While this is generally addressed using neural networks optimized to mask or transform the time-frequency representation of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Although recent speech processing technologies have achieved significant improvements in objective metrics, there still remains a gap in human perceptual quality. This paper proposes Diffiner, a novel solution that utilizes the powerful…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Masato Hirano , Ryosuke Sawata , Naoki Murata , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

Audio-driven simultaneous gesture generation is vital for human-computer communication, AI games, and film production. While previous research has shown promise, there are still limitations. Methods based on VAEs are accompanied by issues…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yongkang Cheng , Mingjiang Liang , Shaoli Huang , Gaoge Han , Jifeng Ning , Wei Liu

Diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated a capacity for perceptually impressive synthesis, but can they also be great likelihood-based models? We answer this in the affirmative, and introduce a family of diffusion-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Diederik P. Kingma , Tim Salimans , Ben Poole , Jonathan Ho

We propose Parallel WaveGAN, a distillation-free, fast, and small-footprint waveform generation method using a generative adversarial network. In the proposed method, a non-autoregressive WaveNet is trained by jointly optimizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim

We present VoiceDiT, a multi-modal generative model for producing environment-aware speech and audio from text and visual prompts. While aligning speech with text is crucial for intelligible speech, achieving this alignment in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Jaemin Jung , Junseok Ahn , Chaeyoung Jung , Tan Dat Nguyen , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

Speech-driven gesture synthesis is a field of growing interest in virtual human creation. However, a critical challenge is the inherent intricate one-to-many mapping between speech and gestures. Previous studies have explored and achieved…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Fan Zhang , Naye Ji , Fuxing Gao , Yongping Li

In this paper, we address the problem of single-microphone speech separation in the presence of ambient noise. We propose a generative unsupervised technique that directly models both clean speech and structured noise components, training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yochai Yemini , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

This paper proposes a novel way of doing audio synthesis at the waveform level using Transformer architectures. We propose a deep neural network for generating waveforms, similar to wavenet. This is fully probabilistic, auto-regressive, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Prateek Verma , Chris Chafe

We propose AudioStyleGAN (ASGAN), a new generative adversarial network (GAN) for unconditional speech synthesis. As in the StyleGAN family of image synthesis models, ASGAN maps sampled noise to a disentangled latent vector which is then…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Matthew Baas , Herman Kamper

Accurate Speed-of-Sound (SoS) reconstruction from acoustic waveforms is a cornerstone of ultrasound computed tomography (USCT), enabling quantitative velocity mapping that reveals subtle anatomical details and pathological variations often…

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Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that have shown outstanding performance in image generation literature. As a consequence, studies have attempted to apply diffusion models to other tasks, such as speech enhancement. A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May

Diffusion-based generative models (DBGMs) perturb data to a target noise distribution and reverse this process to generate samples. The choice of noising process, or inference diffusion process, affects both likelihoods and sample quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Raghav Singhal , Mark Goldstein , Rajesh Ranganath

We propose a simple and novel method for generating 3D human motion from complex natural language sentences, which describe different velocity, direction and composition of all kinds of actions. Different from existing methods that use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zhiyuan Ren , Zhihong Pan , Xin Zhou , Le Kang

While diffusion models are best known for their performance in generative tasks, they have also been successfully applied to many other tasks, including audio source separation. However, current generative approaches to music source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Yun-Ning , Hung , Richard Vogl , Filip Korzeniowski , Igor Pereira

In this paper, we present a causal speech signal improvement system that is designed to handle different types of distortions. The method is based on a generative diffusion model which has been shown to work well in scenarios with missing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Solving ill-posed inverse problems requires careful formulation of prior beliefs over the signals of interest and an accurate description of their manifestation into noisy measurements. Handcrafted signal priors based on e.g. sparsity are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Hans van Gorp , Faik C. Meral , Junseob Shin , Jason Yu , Jean-Luc Robert , Ruud J. G. van Sloun