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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

Achieving high-performance audio denoising is still a challenging task in real-world applications. Existing time-frequency methods often ignore the quality of generated frequency domain images. This paper converts the audio denoising…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Youshan Zhang , Jialu Li

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

Conventionally, audio super-resolution models fixed the initial and the target sampling rates, which necessitate the model to be trained for each pair of sampling rates. We introduce NU-Wave 2, a diffusion model for neural audio upsampling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Seungu Han , Junhyeok Lee

Super-resolution is a machine-learning technique in image processing which generates high-resolution images from low-resolution images. Inspired by this approach, we perform a numerical experiment of quantum machine learning, which takes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Rei Sakuma , Yutaro Iiyama , Lento Nagano , Ryu Sawada , Koji Terashi

Neural network-based methods have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art results on image synthesis and super-resolution tasks, in particular by using variants of generative adversarial networks (GANs) with supervised feature losses.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Sung Kim , Visvesh Sathe

Recently proposed normalizing flow models such as Glow have been shown to be able to generate high quality, high dimensional images with relatively fast sampling speed. Due to their inherently restrictive architecture, however, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Rogan Morrow , Wei-Chen Chiu

Most GAN(Generative Adversarial Network)-based approaches towards high-fidelity waveform generation heavily rely on discriminators to improve their performance. However, GAN methods introduce much uncertainty into the generation process and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shengyuan Xu , Wenxiao Zhao , Jing Guo

Deep learning based single image super resolution (SISR) algorithms has revolutionized the overall diagnosis framework by continually improving the architectural components and training strategies associated with convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Muhammad Zawish , Farah Deeba Yuanchun Zhou , Kapal Dev , Sunder Ali Khowaja , Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi

We propose a novel method to use both audio and a low-resolution image to perform extreme face super-resolution (a 16x increase of the input size). When the resolution of the input image is very low (e.g., 8x8 pixels), the loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Givi Meishvili , Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

Recent neural vocoders usually use a WaveNet-like network to capture the long-term dependencies of the waveform, but a large number of parameters are required to obtain good modeling capabilities. In this paper, an efficient network, named…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zhen Zeng , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Real low-resolution (LR) face images contain degradations which are too varied and complex to be captured by known downsampling kernels and signal-independent noises. So, in order to successfully super-resolve real faces, a method needs to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Saurabh Goswami , Aakanksha , Rajagopalan A. N

Speech super-resolution (SR) reconstructs high-fidelity wideband speech from low-resolution inputs-a task that necessitates reconciling global harmonic coherence with local transient sharpness. While diffusion-based generative models yield…

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End-to-end speech recognition generally uses hand-engineered acoustic features as input and excludes the feature extraction module from its joint optimization. To extract learnable and adaptive features and mitigate information loss, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Dong Yu

With the advent of gravitational-wave astronomy and the discovery of more compact binary coalescences, data quality improvement techniques are desired to handle the complex and overwhelming noise in gravitational wave (GW) observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-21 He Wang , Yue Zhou , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Kuan Guo , Zhixiang Ren

Audio deepfake detection has become increasingly challenging due to rapid advances in speech synthesis and voice conversion technologies, particularly under channel distortions, replay attacks, and real-world recording conditions. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 K. A. Shahriar

Low-resolution image representation is a special form of sparse representation that retains only low-frequency information while discarding high-frequency components. This property reduces storage and transmission costs and benefits various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chenglong Bao , Tongyao Pang , Zuowei Shen , Dihan Zheng , Yihang Zou

High-quality audio is essential in a wide range of applications, including online communication, virtual assistants, and the multimedia industry. However, degradation caused by noise, compression, and transmission artifacts remains a major…

Flow matching offers a robust and stable approach to training diffusion models. However, directly applying flow matching to neural vocoders can result in subpar audio quality. In this work, we present WaveFM, a reparameterized flow matching…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Tianze Luo , Xingchen Miao , Wenbo Duan

Super-Resolution (SR) is a time-hallowed image processing problem that aims to improve the quality of a Low-Resolution (LR) sample up to the standard of its High-Resolution (HR) counterpart. We aim to address this by introducing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Arkaprabha Basu , Kushal Bose , Sankha Subhra Mullick , Anish Chakrabarty , Swagatam Das