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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged as useful generative models, which are capable of implicitly learning data distributions of arbitrarily complex dimensions. However, the training of GANs is empirically well-known for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Cuong V. Nguyen , Tien-Dung Cao , Tram Truong-Huu , Khanh N. Pham , Binh T. Nguyen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great capacity on image generation, in which a discriminative model guides the training of a generative model to construct images that resemble real images. Recently, GANs have been extended…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Xinyue Liu , Xiangnan Kong , Lei Liu , Kuorong Chiang

Under limited data setting, GANs often struggle to navigate and effectively exploit the input latent space. Consequently, images generated from adjacent variables in a sparse input latent space may exhibit significant discrepancies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jian Wang , Xin Lan , Jizhe Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Jiancheng Lv

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has achieved impressive success on cross-domain generation, but it faces difficulty in cross-modal generation due to the lack of a common distribution between heterogeneous data. Most existing methods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Wen-Cheng Chen , Chien-Wen Chen , Min-Chun Hu

This paper proposes an effective probability density distillation (PDD) algorithm for WaveNet-based parallel waveform generation (PWG) systems. Recently proposed teacher-student frameworks in the PWG system have successfully achieved a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Ryuichi Yamamoto , Eunwoo Song , Jae-Min Kim

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the most widely used generative models. GANs can learn complex multi-modal distributions, and generate real-like samples. Despite the major success of GANs in generating synthetic data, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sanaz Mohammadjafari , Mucahit Cevik , Ayse Basar

This paper introduces a unified source-filter network with a harmonic-plus-noise source excitation generation mechanism. In our previous work, we proposed unified Source-Filter GAN (uSFGAN) for developing a high-fidelity neural vocoder with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Reo Yoneyama , Yi-Chiao Wu , Tomoki Toda

Speech enhancement involves the distinction of a target speech signal from an intrusive background. Although generative approaches using Variational Autoencoders or Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have increasingly been used in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Martin Strauss , Bernd Edler

Recent approaches in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis employ neural network strategies to vocode perceptually-informed spectrogram representations directly into listenable waveforms. Such vocoding procedures create a computational bottleneck…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Paarth Neekhara , Chris Donahue , Miller Puckette , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), as a framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process, have attracted huge attention and have proven to be powerful in a variety of tasks. However, training GANs is well known for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Zi-Yi Dou

Space-time video super-resolution (STVSR) aims to construct a high space-time resolution video sequence from the corresponding low-frame-rate, low-resolution video sequence. Inspired by the recent success to consider spatial-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Chenyu You , Lianyi Han , Aosong Feng , Ruihan Zhao , Hui Tang , Wei Fan

In this paper, we explore machine translation improvement via Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture. We take inspiration from RelGAN, a model for text generation, and NMT-GAN, an adversarial machine translation model, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jay Ahn , Hari Madhu , Viet Nguyen

Voice Conversion (VC) emerged as a significant domain of research in the field of speech synthesis in recent years due to its emerging application in voice-assisting technology, automated movie dubbing, and speech-to-singing conversion to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das

In current two-stage neural text-to-speech (TTS) paradigm, it is ideal to have a universal neural vocoder, once trained, which is robust to imperfect mel-spectrogram predicted from the acoustic model. To this end, we propose Robust MelGAN…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kun Song , Jian Cong , Xinsheng Wang , Yongmao Zhang , Lei Xie , Ning Jiang , Haiying Wu

This paper proposes SEFGAN, a Deep Neural Network (DNN) combining maximum likelihood training and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for efficient speech enhancement (SE). For this, a DNN is trained to synthesize the enhanced speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Martin Strauss , Nicola Pia , Nagashree K. S. Rao , Bernd Edler

The Transformer architecture has demonstrated a superior ability compared to recurrent neural networks in many different natural language processing applications. Therefore, our study applies a modified Transformer in a speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Szu-Wei Fu , Chien-Feng Liao , Tsun-An Hsieh , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Syu-Siang Wang , Cheng Yu , Heng-Cheng Kuo , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , You-Jin Li , Shang-Yi Chuang , Yen-Ju Lu , Yu Tsao

Recently, video super resolution (VSR) has become a very impactful task in the area of Computer Vision due to its various applications. In this paper, we propose Recurrent Back-Projection Generative Adversarial Network (RBPGAN) for VSR in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Marwah Sulaiman , Zahraa Shehabeldin , Israa Fahmy , Mohammed Barakat , Mohammed El-Naggar , Dareen Hussein , Moustafa Youssef , Hesham M. Eraqi

Generative Adversarial Networks have become one of the most studied frameworks for unsupervised learning due to their intuitive formulation. They have also been shown to be capable of generating convincing examples in limited domains, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Daniel Jiwoong Im , He Ma , Chris Dongjoo Kim , Graham Taylor

Besides the well-known classification task, these days neural networks are frequently being applied to generate or transform data, such as images and audio signals. In such tasks, the conventional loss functions like the mean squared error…

Learning-based methods have proven successful in compressing geometric information for point clouds. For attribute compression, however, they still lag behind non-learning-based methods such as the MPEG G-PCC standard. To bridge this gap,…

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