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While pre-trained automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems demonstrate impressive performance on matched domains, their performance often degrades when confronted with channel mismatch stemming from unseen recording environments and…

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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become predominant in image generation tasks. Their success is attributed to the training regime which employs two models: a generator G and discriminator D that compete in a minimax zero sum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Ariel Ruiz-Garcia , Ibrahim Almakky , Vasile Palade , Luke Hicks

Resting-state EEG offers a non-invasive view of spontaneous brain activity, yet the extraction of meaningful patterns is often constrained by limited availability of high-quality data, and heavy reliance on manually engineered EEG features.…

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Noise and artifacts are intrinsic to low dose CT (LDCT) data acquisition, and will significantly affect the imaging performance. Perfect noise removal and image restoration is intractable in the context of LDCT due to the statistical and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Peixi Liao , Hongyu Yang , Ge Wang , Yi Zhang

The state-of-the-art approaches in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to learn a mapping function from one image domain to another with unpaired image data. However, these methods often produce artifacts and can only be able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hao Tang , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Synthesising a text-to-image model of high-quality images by guiding the generative model through the Text description is an innovative and challenging task. In recent years, AttnGAN based on the Attention mechanism to guide GAN training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Mingyu Jin , Chong Zhang , Qinkai Yu , Haochen Xue , Xiaobo Jin , Xi Yang

End-to-end, autoregressive model-based TTS has shown significant performance improvements over the conventional one. However, the autoregressive module training is affected by the exposure bias, or the mismatch between the different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Haohan Guo , Frank K. Soong , Lei He , Lei Xie

In general, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is significantly degraded due to the mismatch between training and test environments. Recently, a deep-learning-based image-to-image translation technique to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-15 Jong-Hyeon Park , Myungwoo Oh , Hyung-Min Park

We propose Relativistic Adversarial Feedback (RAF), a novel training objective for GAN vocoders that improves in-domain fidelity and generalization to unseen scenarios. Although modern GAN vocoders employ advanced architectures, their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Yongjoon Lee , Jung-Woo Choi

Thanks to their ability to learn flexible data-driven losses, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are an integral part of many semi- and weakly-supervised methods for medical image segmentation. GANs jointly optimise a generator and an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Generative deep neural networks are widely used for speech synthesis, but most existing models directly generate waveforms or spectral outputs. Humans, however, produce speech by controlling articulators, which results in the production of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Gašper Beguš , Alan Zhou , Peter Wu , Gopala K Anumanchipalli

Generative models (GMs) such as Generative Adversary Network (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have thrived these years and achieved high quality results in generating new samples. Especially in Computer Vision, GMs have been used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Honggang Zhou , Yunchun Li , Hailong Yang , Wei Li , Jie Jia

In traditional generative modeling, good data representation is very often a base for a good machine learning model. It can be linked to good representations encoding more explanatory factors that are hidden in the original data. With the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Maciej Zamorski , Adrian Zdobylak , Maciej Zięba , Jerzy Świątek

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have seen steep ascension to the peak of ML research zeitgeist in recent years. Mostly catalyzed by its success in the domain of image generation, the technique has seen wide range of adoption in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-09 Aparna Balagopalan , Satya Gorti , Mathieu Ravaut , Raeid Saqur

Recently, mainstream mel-spectrogram-based neural vocoders rely on generative adversarial network (GAN) for high-fidelity speech generation, e.g., HiFi-GAN and BigVGAN. However, the use of GAN restricts training efficiency and model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Hui-Peng Du , Yang Ai , Rui-Chen Zheng , Ye-Xin Lu , Zhen-Hua Ling

As a revolutionary generative paradigm of deep learning, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been widely applied in various fields to synthesize realistic data. However, it is challenging for conventional GANs to synthesize raw…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Weidong Wang , Jiancheng An , Hongshu Liao , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be a powerful tool for generating realistic synthetic data. However, traditional GANs often struggle to capture complex relationships between features which results in generation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Srikrishna Iyer , Teng Teck Hou

Inferring the latent variable generating a given test sample is a challenging problem in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this paper, we propose InvGAN - a novel framework for solving the inference problem in GANs, which involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Wei-An Lin , Yogesh Balaji , Pouya Samangouei , Rama Chellappa

In this paper, we propose an Attentional Generative Adversarial Network (AttnGAN) that allows attention-driven, multi-stage refinement for fine-grained text-to-image generation. With a novel attentional generative network, the AttnGAN can…

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Conventional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for text generation tend to have issues of reward sparsity and mode collapse that affect the quality and diversity of generated samples. To address the issues, we propose a novel…

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