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Consistency Training (CT) has recently emerged as a strong alternative to diffusion models for image generation. However, non-distillation CT often suffers from high variance and instability, motivating ongoing research into its training…
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Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) has a wild range of applications in medical detecting and imaging fields. However, operating under self-generating-self-receiving (SGSR) method usually results in poor sensitivity. But…
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We introduce a new audio processing technique that increases the sampling rate of signals such as speech or music using deep convolutional neural networks. Our model is trained on pairs of low and high-quality audio examples; at test-time,…
In low-bitrate speech coding, end-to-end speech coding networks aim to learn compact yet expressive features and a powerful decoder in a single network. A challenging problem as such results in unwelcome complexity increase and inferior…
Audio codecs are a critical component of modern speech generation systems. This paper introduces a low-bitrate, multi-scale residual codec that encodes speech into four distinct streams: semantic, timbre, prosody, and residual. This…
There have been several successful deep learning models that perform audio super-resolution. Many of these approaches involve using preprocessed feature extraction which requires a lot of domain-specific signal processing knowledge to…
After its sweeping success in vision and language tasks, pure attention-based neural architectures (e.g. DeiT) are emerging to the top of audio tagging (AT) leaderboards, which seemingly obsoletes traditional convolutional neural networks…
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