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Deep generative models applied to audio have improved by a large margin the state-of-the-art in many speech and music related tasks. However, as raw waveform modelling remains an inherently difficult task, audio generative models are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Antoine Caillon , Philippe Esling

Multi-speaker singing voice synthesis is to generate the singing voice sung by different speakers. To generalize to new speakers, previous zero-shot singing adaptation methods obtain the timbre of the target speaker with a fixed-size…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Shoutong Wang , Jinglin Liu , Yi Ren , Zhen Wang , Changliang Xu , Zhou Zhao

Timbre and pitch are the two main perceptual properties of musical sounds. Depending on the target applications, we sometimes prefer to focus on one of them, while reducing the effect of the other. Researchers have managed to hand-craft…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Yun-Ning Hung , Yi-An Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Neural Audio Synthesis (NAS) models offer interactive musical control over high-quality, expressive audio generators. While these models can operate in real-time, they often suffer from high latency, making them unsuitable for intimate…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Franco Caspe , Jordie Shier , Mark Sandler , Charalampos Saitis , Andrew McPherson

In this paper we present a new implementation of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) for the calibration of sensors. We propose that the VAE can be used to calibrate sensor data by training the latent space as a calibration output. We discuss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Travis Barrett , Amit Kumar Mishra , Joyce Mwangama

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are essential for large-scale audio tasks like diffusion-based generation. However, existing open-source models often neglect auditory perceptual aspects during training, leading to weaknesses in phase…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Kangdi Wang , Zhiyue Wu , Dinghao Zhou , Rui Lin , Junyu Dai , Tao Jiang

We introduce a framework for audio source separation using embeddings on a hyperbolic manifold that compactly represent the hierarchical relationship between sound sources and time-frequency features. Inspired by recent successes modeling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-12 Darius Petermann , Gordon Wichern , Aswin Subramanian , Jonathan Le Roux

Timbre allows us to distinguish between sounds even when they share the same pitch and loudness, playing an important role in music, instrument recognition, and speech. Traditional approaches, such as frequency analysis or machine learning,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Gakusei Sato , Hiroya Nakao , Riccardo Muolo

By considering the membrane's dissipation, the membrane-type acoustic metamaterial (MAM) has been demonstrated as a super absorber for low-frequency sound. In the paper, a theoretical vibroacoustic plate model is developed to reveal sound…

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In this paper, we propose a visual embedding approach to improving embedding aware speech enhancement (EASE) by synchronizing visual lip frames at the phone and place of articulation levels. We first extract visual embedding from lip frames…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hang Chen , Jun Du , Yu Hu , Li-Rong Dai , Bao-Cai Yin , Chin-Hui Lee

Multimodal music creation requires models that can both generate audio from high-level cues and edit existing mixtures in a targeted manner. Yet most multimodal music systems are built for a single task and a fixed prompting interface,…

Purpose: Handling heterogeneous and mixed data types has become increasingly critical with the exponential growth in real-world databases. While deep generative models attempt to merge diverse data views into a common latent space, they…

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Multimodal variational autoencoders (VAEs) aim to capture shared latent representations by integrating information from different data modalities. A significant challenge is accurately inferring representations from any subset of modalities…

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We present fast, realistic image generation on high-resolution, multimodal datasets using hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) trained on a deterministic autoencoder's latent space. In this two-stage setup, the autoencoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Troy Luhman , Eric Luhman

We propose a timbre conversion model based on the Diffusion architecture de-signed to precisely translate music played by various instruments into piano ver-sions. The model employs a Pitch Encoder and Loudness Encoder to extract pitch and…

Membrane-type Acoustic Metamaterials (MAMs) have demonstrated unusual capacity in controlling low-frequency sound transmission/reflection. In this paper, an analytical vibroacoustic membrane model is developed to study sound transmission…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Yangyang Chen , Xiaoming Zhou , Gengkai Hu , Chin-Teh Sun , Guoliang Huang

Hybrid recommendations have recently attracted a lot of attention where user features are utilized as auxiliary information to address the sparsity problem caused by insufficient user-item interactions. However, extracted user features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yaochen Zhu , Zhenzhong Chen

Brain encoding models not only serve to decipher how visual stimuli are transformed into neural responses, but also represent a critical step toward visual prostheses that restore vision for patients with severe vision disorders. Brain…

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In this paper, we introduce the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to an end-to-end speech synthesis model, to learn the latent representation of speaking styles in an unsupervised manner. The style representation learned through VAE shows good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Ya-Jie Zhang , Shifeng Pan , Lei He , Zhen-Hua Ling

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has demonstrated superior performance on various vision tasks via randomly masking image patches and reconstruction. However, effective data augmentation strategies for MAE still remain open questions, different…

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