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In recent years, Text-to-Audio Generation has achieved remarkable progress, offering sound creators powerful tools to transform textual inspirations into vivid audio. However, existing models predominantly operate directly in the acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Zheqi Dai , Guangyan Zhang , Haolin He , Xiquan Li , Jingyu Li , Chunyat Wu , Yiwen Guo , Qiuqiang Kong

Despite the recent success of GANs in synthesizing images conditioned on inputs such as a user sketch, text, or semantic labels, manipulating the high-level attributes of an existing natural photograph with GANs is challenging for two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 David Bau , Hendrik Strobelt , William Peebles , Jonas Wulff , Bolei Zhou , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

We introduce SeeingSounds, a lightweight and modular framework for audio-to-image generation that leverages the interplay between audio, language, and vision-without requiring any paired audio-visual data or training on visual generative…

Multi-modal approaches employ data from multiple input streams such as textual and visual domains. Deep neural networks have been successfully employed for these approaches. In this paper, we present a novel multi-modal approach that fuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Ignazio Gallo , Alessandro Calefati , Shah Nawaz , Muhammad Kamran Janjua

Recent advances in text-guided image compression have shown great potential to enhance the perceptual quality of reconstructed images. These methods, however, tend to have significantly degraded pixel-wise fidelity, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hagyeong Lee , Minkyu Kim , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Seungeon Kim , Dokwan Oh , Jaeho Lee

Advancements in text-to-image generative AI with large multimodal models are spreading into the field of image compression, creating high-quality representation of images at extremely low bit rates. This work introduces novel components to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Cheng-Lin Wu , Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajić

Spatial audio understanding is essential for accurately perceiving and interpreting acoustic environments. However, existing audio-language models exhibit limitations in processing spatial audio and perceiving spatial acoustic scenes. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Zhenbo Luo , Jun Yang

Understating and controlling generative models' latent space is a complex task. In this paper, we propose a novel method for learning to control any desired attribute in a pre-trained GAN's latent space, for the purpose of editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Nir Diamant , Nitsan Sandor , Alex M Bronstein

Attribute image manipulation has been a very active topic since the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Exploring the disentangled attribute space within a transformation is a very challenging task due to the multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Andrés Romero , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

We investigate applying audio manipulations using pretrained neural network-based autoencoders as an alternative to traditional signal processing methods, since the former may provide greater semantic or perceptual organization. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Scott H. Hawley , Christian J. Steinmetz

Recent advances in interactive technologies have highlighted the prominence of audio signals for semantic encoding. This paper explores a new task, where audio signals are used as conditioning inputs to generate motions that align with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zi-An Wang , Shihao Zou , Shiyao Yu , Mingyuan Zhang , Chao Dong

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

Latent spaces offer an efficient and effective means of summarizing data while implicitly preserving meta-information through relational encoding. We leverage these meta-embeddings to develop a modality-agnostic, unified encoder. Our method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Abdullah Ahmed , Jeremy Gummeson

Recent advances in image, video, text and audio generative techniques, and their use by the general public, are leading to new forms of content generation. Usually, each modality was approached separately, which poses limitations. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 María Sánchez , Laura Fernández , Julián Arias , Mateo Cámara , Giulia Comini , Adam Gabrys , José Luis Blanco , Juan Ignacio Godino , Luis Alfonso Hernández

If a picture paints a thousand words, sound may voice a million. While recent robotic painting and image synthesis methods have achieved progress in generating visuals from text inputs, the translation of sound into images is vastly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Vihaan Misra , Peter Schaldenbrand , Jean Oh

Research in vision-language models has seen rapid developments off-late, enabling natural language-based interfaces for image generation and manipulation. Many existing text guided manipulation techniques are restricted to specific classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Paramanand Chandramouli , Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota

From the patter of rain to the crunch of snow, the sounds we hear often convey the visual textures that appear within a scene. In this paper, we present a method for learning visual styles from unlabeled audio-visual data. Our model learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Tingle Li , Yichen Liu , Andrew Owens , Hang Zhao

Several recent publications have proposed methods for mapping images into continuous semantic embedding spaces. In some cases the embedding space is trained jointly with the image transformation. In other cases the semantic embedding space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Mohammad Norouzi , Tomas Mikolov , Samy Bengio , Yoram Singer , Jonathon Shlens , Andrea Frome , Greg S. Corrado , Jeffrey Dean

Language-guided image generation has achieved great success nowadays by using diffusion models. However, texts can be less detailed to describe highly-specific subjects such as a particular dog or a certain car, which makes pure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yiyang Ma , Huan Yang , Wenjing Wang , Jianlong Fu , Jiaying Liu

In recent years, image generation has shown a great leap in performance, where diffusion models play a central role. Although generating high-quality images, such models are mainly conditioned on textual descriptions. This begs the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Guy Yariv , Itai Gat , Lior Wolf , Yossi Adi , Idan Schwartz