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Footsteps are among the most ubiquitous sound effects in multimedia applications. There is substantial research into understanding the acoustic features and developing synthesis models for footstep sound effects. In this paper, we present a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Marco Comunità , Huy Phan , Joshua D. Reiss

Incorporating accurate physics-based simulation into interactive design tools is challenging. However, adding the physics accurately becomes crucial to several emerging technologies. For example, in virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) videos,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Dingzeyu Li

Scene synthesis is a challenging problem with several industrial applications. Recently, substantial efforts have been directed to synthesize the scene using human motions, room layouts, or spatial graphs as the input. However, few studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 An Vuong , Minh Nhat Vu , Toan Tien Nguyen , Baoru Huang , Dzung Nguyen , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

Automated audio captioning is a cross-modal translation task that aims to generate natural language descriptions for given audio clips. This task has received increasing attention with the release of freely available datasets in recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Sound effects model design commonly uses digital signal processing techniques with full control ability, but it is difficult to achieve realism within a limited number of parameters. Recently, neural sound effects synthesis methods have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yisu Zong , Joshua Reiss

Our research introduces an innovative framework for video-to-audio synthesis, which solves the problems of audio-video desynchronization and semantic loss in the audio. By incorporating a semantic alignment adapter and a temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Zhiqi Huang , Dan Luo , Jun Wang , Huan Liao , Zhiheng Li , Zhiyong Wu

Since its conception, digital synthesis has significantly influenced the advancement of music, leading to new genres and production styles. Through existing synthesis techniques, one can recreate naturally occurring sounds as well as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Ashwin Pillay

Video-to-audio generation (V2A) is of increasing importance in domains such as film post-production, AR/VR, and sound design, particularly for the creation of Foley sound effects synchronized with on-screen actions. Foley requires…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Satvik Dixit , Koichi Saito , Zhi Zhong , Yuki Mitsufuji , Chris Donahue

Various applications of voice synthesis have been developed independently despite the fact that they generate "voice" as output in common. In addition, the majority of voice synthesis models currently rely on annotated audio data, but it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Rongjie Huang , Chunlei Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Dongchao Yang , Luping Liu , Zhenhui Ye , Ziyue Jiang , Chao Weng , Zhou Zhao , Dong Yu

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into professional audio production workflows, yet a gap persists between the tools developers produce and the requirements of practising sound designers. This paper investigates this…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nelly Garcia , Joshua Reiss

With the development of deep learning and artificial intelligence, audio synthesis has a pivotal role in the area of machine learning and shows strong applicability in the industry. Meanwhile, significant efforts have been dedicated by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Zhaofeng Shi

In the synthesis problem, we are given a specification, and we automatically generate a system that satisfies the specification in all environments. We introduce and study {\em synthesis with guided environments} (SGE, for short), where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Orna Kupferman , Ofer Leshkowitz

In formal synthesis of reactive systems an implementation of a system is automatically constructed from its formal specification. The great advantage of synthesis is that the resulting implementation is correct by construction; therefore…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Hadas Kress-Gazit , Hazem Torfah

Recent advances in video generation produce visually realistic content, yet the absence of synchronized audio severely compromises immersion. To address key challenges in video-to-audio generation, including multimodal data scarcity,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Sizhe Shan , Qiulin Li , Yutao Cui , Miles Yang , Yuehai Wang , Qun Yang , Jin Zhou , Zhao Zhong

The world of audio production and design has long been a difficult one to break into, requiring expertise and a working knowledge of the standard digital audio paradigms. This paper describes a novel interface that makes audio production…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Alexander Scarlatos

In this paper, we study incremental LTLf synthesis -- a form of reactive synthesis where the goals are given incrementally while in execution. In other words, the protagonist agent is already executing a strategy for a certain goal when it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Yves Lespérance , Gianmarco Parretti , Fabio Patrizi , Moshe Y. Vardi

Recent advances in deep learning and computer vision have made the synthesis and counterfeiting of multimedia content more accessible than ever, leading to possible threats and dangers from malicious users. In the audio field, we are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Daniele Mari , Davide Salvi , Paolo Bestagini , Simone Milani

Shared challenges provide a venue for comparing systems trained on common data using a standardized evaluation, and they also provide an invaluable resource for researchers when the data and evaluation results are publicly released. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

We study a variant of the problem of synthesizing Mealy machines that enforce LTL specifications against all possible behaviours of the environment including hostile ones. In the variant studied here, the user provides the high level LTL…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Mrudula Balachander , Emmanuel Filiot , Jean-François Raskin

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is a task that aims to generate audio signals according to musical scores and lyrics. With its multifaceted nature concerning music and language, producing singing voices indistinguishable from that of human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Yin-Ping Cho , Fu-Rong Yang , Yung-Chuan Chang , Ching-Ting Cheng , Xiao-Han Wang , Yi-Wen Liu