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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved excellent audio synthesis quality in the last years. However, making them operable with semantically meaningful controls remains an open challenge. An obvious approach is to control the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Javier Nistal , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

Recent advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, particularly based on generative adversarial networks (GAN), have shown great promise for improving decoding performance for BCI. Within the realm of Brain-Computer Interfaces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Young-Eun Lee , Seo-Hyun Lee , Soowon Kim , Jung-Sun Lee , Deok-Seon Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

We present an encoder-powered generative adversarial network (EncGAN) that is able to learn both the multi-manifold structure and the abstract features of data. Unlike the conventional decoder-based GANs, EncGAN uses an encoder to model the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jiseob Kim , Seungjae Jung , Hyundo Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Custom voice is to construct a personal speech synthesis system by adapting the source speech synthesis model to the target model through the target few recordings. The solution to constructing a custom voice is to combine an adaptive…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Xin Yuan , Yongbing Feng , Mingming Ye , Cheng Tuo , Minghang Zhang

Auto-encoding generative adversarial networks (GANs) combine the standard GAN algorithm, which discriminates between real and model-generated data, with a reconstruction loss given by an auto-encoder. Such models aim to prevent mode…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Mihaela Rosca , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , David Warde-Farley , Shakir Mohamed

Since the advent of generative adversarial networks (GANs), various loss functions have been developed and combined to constitute the overall training objective function, in order to improve model performance or for specific learning tasks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Jingwen Su , Hujun Yin

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

We introduce SalGAN, a deep convolutional neural network for visual saliency prediction trained with adversarial examples. The first stage of the network consists of a generator model whose weights are learned by back-propagation computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Junting Pan , Cristian Canton Ferrer , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor , Jordi Torres , Elisa Sayrol , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

One of the most significant challenges in statistical signal processing and machine learning is how to obtain a generative model that can produce samples of large-scale data distribution, such as images and speeches. Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Pegah Salehi , Abdolah Chalechale , Maryam Taghizadeh

Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) based brain-computer interface (BCI) has received considerable attention due to its high information transfer rate (ITR) and available quantity of targets. However, the performance of frequency…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-03 Yudong Pan , Ning Li , Yangsong Zhang , Peng Xu , Dezhong Yao

We propose a video compression framework using conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We rely on two encoders: one that deploys a standard video codec and another which generates low-level maps via a pipeline of down-sampling,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-28 Sungsoo Kim , Jin Soo Park , Christos G. Bampis , Jaeseong Lee , Mia K. Markey , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Alan C. Bovik

We propose a new framework to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in resource-scarce environments using a generative adversarial network (GAN) operating on acoustic input features. The GAN is used to enhance the features of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Walter Heymans , Marelie H. Davel , Charl van Heerden

In this paper, we study deep generative models for effective unsupervised learning. We propose VGAN, which works by minimizing a variational lower bound of the negative log likelihood (NLL) of an energy based model (EBM), where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Rogerio Feris , Zhongfei Zhang

Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN) have led to large improvements in the task of conditional image generation, which lies at the heart of computer vision. The major focus so far has been on performance improvement, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Grigorios G. Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Conditional waveform synthesis models learn a distribution of audio waveforms given conditioning such as text, mel-spectrograms, or MIDI. These systems employ deep generative models that model the waveform via either sequential…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Max Morrison , Rithesh Kumar , Kundan Kumar , Prem Seetharaman , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Deep learning algorithms produces state-of-the-art results for different machine learning and computer vision tasks. To perform well on a given task, these algorithms require large dataset for training. However, deep learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Talha Iqbal , Hazrat Ali

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the best medical imaging modalities as it offers excellent spatial resolution and soft-tissue contrast. But, the usage of MRI is limited by its slow acquisition time, which makes it expensive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Balamurali Murugesan , Vijaya Raghavan S , Kaushik Sarveswaran , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

The traditional vocoders have the advantages of high synthesis efficiency, strong interpretability, and speech editability, while the neural vocoders have the advantage of high synthesis quality. To combine the advantages of two vocoders,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi Wen

Audio super-resolution is a challenging task of recovering the missing high-resolution features from a low-resolution signal. To address this, generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been used to achieve promising results by training the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Shichao Hu , Bin Zhang , Beici Liang , Ethan Zhao , Simon Lui

Neural vocoders are central to speech synthesis; despite their success, most still suffer from limited prosody modeling and inaccurate phase reconstruction. We propose a vocoder that introduces prosody-guided harmonic attention to enhance…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Riad Larbi , Mátyás Bartalis , Géza Németh