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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

This paper presents our latest investigations on improving automatic speech recognition for noisy speech via speech enhancement. We propose a novel method named Multi-discriminators CycleGAN to reduce noise of input speech and therefore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Chia-Yu Li , Ngoc Thang Vu

Efficient audio synthesis is an inherently difficult machine learning task, as human perception is sensitive to both global structure and fine-scale waveform coherence. Autoregressive models, such as WaveNet, model local structure at the…

Deep neural network based speech enhancement approaches aim to learn a noisy-to-clean transformation using a supervised learning paradigm. However, such a trained-well transformation is vulnerable to unseen noises that are not included in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Heqing Zou , Linhui Sun , Eng Siong Chng

Deep generative models for Speech Enhancement (SE) received increasing attention in recent years. The most prominent example are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), while normalizing flows (NF) received less attention despite their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Martin Strauss , Matteo Torcoli , Bernd Edler

In this paper we propose a novel defense approach against end-to-end adversarial attacks developed to fool advanced speech-to-text systems such as DeepSpeech and Lingvo. Unlike conventional defense approaches, the proposed approach does not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are recently highly successful in generative applications involving images and start being applied to time series data. Here we describe EEG-GAN as a framework to generate electroencephalographic (EEG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-07 Kay Gregor Hartmann , Robin Tibor Schirrmeister , Tonio Ball

The ubiquitous presence of machine learning systems in our lives necessitates research into their vulnerabilities and appropriate countermeasures. In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of adversarial attacks and defenses against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Piotr Żelasko , Sonal Joshi , Yiwen Shao , Jesus Villalba , Jan Trmal , Najim Dehak , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful generative models that achieved strong results, mainly in the image domain. However, the training of GANs is not trivial, presenting some challenges tackled by different strategies.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Victor Costa , Nuno Lourenço , João Correia , Penousal Machado

Cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks (CycleGAN) were successfully applied to speech enhancement (SE) tasks with unpaired noisy-clean training data. The CycleGAN SE system adopted two generators and two discriminators trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Wen-Yuan Ting , Syu-Siang Wang , Hsin-Li Chang , Borching Su , Yu Tsao

Generative-adversarial networks (GANs) have been used to produce data closely resembling example data in a compressed, latent space that is close to sufficient for reconstruction in the original vector space. The Wasserstein metric has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-10 Oliver Serang

The Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated impressive performance for data synthesis, and are now used in a wide range of computer vision tasks. In spite of this success, they gained a reputation for being difficult to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-07 Tatjana Chavdarova , François Fleuret

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants exhibit state-of-the-art performance in the class of generative models. To capture higher-dimensional distributions, the common learning procedure requires high computational complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Xingwei Cao , Xuyang Zhao , Qibin Zhao

Applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) on real systems suffers from slow data sampling. We propose an enhanced generative adversarial network (EGAN) to initialize an RL agent in order to achieve faster learning. The EGAN utilizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Vincent Huang , Tobias Ley , Martha Vlachou-Konchylaki , Wenfeng Hu

Deep neural networks have been applied in wireless communications system to intelligently adapt to dynamically changing channel conditions, while the users are still under the threat of the malicious attacks due to the broadcasting property…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jianyuan Chen , Lin Zhang , Zuwei Chen , Yawen Chen , Hongcheng Zhuang

In this paper, we compare different audio signal representations, including the raw audio waveform and a variety of time-frequency representations, for the task of audio synthesis with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We conduct the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Javier Nistal , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven effective in modeling distributions of high-dimensional data. However, their training instability is a well-known hindrance to convergence, which results in practical challenges in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Alessandro Ferrero , Shireen Elhabian , Ross Whitaker

In this paper, we present Extreme Bandwidth Extension Network (EBEN), a Generative Adversarial network (GAN) that enhances audio measured with body-conduction microphones. This type of capture equipment suppresses ambient noise at the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Julien Hauret , Thomas Joubaud , Véronique Zimpfer , Éric Bavu

As more and more data is collected in various settings across organizations, companies, and countries, there has been an increase in the demand of user privacy. Developing privacy preserving methods for data analytics is thus an important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 David Ericsson , Adam Östberg , Edvin Listo Zec , John Martinsson , Olof Mogren

Recent improvements in Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) have shown their ability to generate higher quality samples as well as to learn good representations for transfer learning. Most of the representation learning methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Kazi Nazmul Haque , Rajib Rana , John H. L. Hansen , Björn Schuller