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Recently, audio-visual speech enhancement has been tackled in the unsupervised settings based on variational auto-encoders (VAEs), where during training only clean data is used to train a generative model for speech, which at test time is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Mostafa Sadeghi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Recent studies have explored the use of deep generative models of speech spectra based of variational autoencoders (VAEs), combined with unsupervised noise models, to perform speech enhancement. These studies developed iterative algorithms…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Manuel Pariente , Antoine Deleforge , Emmanuel Vincent

In this paper, we are interested in audio-visual speech separation given a single-channel audio recording as well as visual information (lips movements) associated with each speaker. We propose an unsupervised technique based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Viet-Nhat Nguyen , Mostafa Sadeghi , Elisa Ricci , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Latent variable models like the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) are commonly used to learn representations of images. However, for downstream tasks like semantic classification, the representations learned by VAE are less competitive than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-31 Mingtian Zhang , Tim Z. Xiao , Brooks Paige , David Barber

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

Acoustic Event Classification (AEC) has become a significant task for machines to perceive the surrounding auditory scene. However, extracting effective representations that capture the underlying characteristics of the acoustic events is…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zixing Zhang , Ding Liu , Jing Han , Kun Qian , Björn Schuller

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful deep generative models widely used to represent high-dimensional complex data through a low-dimensional latent space learned in an unsupervised manner. In the original VAE model, the input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Laurent Girin , Simon Leglaive , Xiaoyu Bie , Julien Diard , Thomas Hueber , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

The variational auto-encoder has become a leading framework for symbolic music generation, and a popular research direction is to study how to effectively control the generation process. A straightforward way is to control a model using…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jingwei Zhao , Gus Xia , Ye Wang

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are highly vulnerable to presentation attacks, also called spoofing attacks. Replay is among the simplest attacks to mount - yet difficult to detect reliably. The generalization failure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Bhusan Chettri , Tomi Kinnunen , Emmanouil Benetos

Unsupervised representation learning of speech has been of keen interest in recent years, which is for example evident in the wide interest of the ZeroSpeech challenges. This work presents a new method for learning frame level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Mingjie Chen , Thomas Hain

Current voice conversion (VC) methods can successfully convert timbre of the audio. As modeling source audio's prosody effectively is a challenging task, there are still limitations of transferring source style to the converted speech. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Zhichao Wang , Xinyong Zhou , Fengyu Yang , Tao Li , Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie , Wendong Gan , Haitao Chen , Hai Li

In speech recognition, it is essential to model the phonetic content of the input signal while discarding irrelevant factors such as speaker variations and noise, which is challenging in low-resource settings. Self-supervised pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sreepratha Ram , Hanan Aldarmaki

This paper addresses the problem of self-supervised general-purpose audio representation learning. We explore the use of Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) for this task, which consists of splitting an input mel-spectrogram…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Alain Riou , Stefan Lattner , Gaëtan Hadjeres , Geoffroy Peeters

Audio classification and restoration are among major downstream tasks in audio signal processing. However, restoration derives less of a benefit from pretrained models compared to the overwhelming success of pretrained models in…

This paper proposes a non-parallel many-to-many voice conversion (VC) method using a variant of the conditional variational autoencoder (VAE) called an auxiliary classifier VAE (ACVAE). The proposed method has three key features. First, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Kou Tanaka , Nobukatsu Hojo

Variational autoencoder-based voice conversion (VAE-VC) has the advantage of requiring only pairs of speeches and speaker labels for training. Unlike the majority of the research in VAE-VC which focuses on utilizing auxiliary losses or…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kei Akuzawa , Kotaro Onishi , Keisuke Takiguchi , Kohki Mametani , Koichiro Mori

Existing learning-based denoising methods typically train models to generalize the image prior from large-scale datasets, suffering from the variability in noise distributions encountered in real-world scenarios. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Yuanfei Huang , Hua Huang

Neural audio autoencoders create compact latent representations that preserve perceptually important information, serving as the foundation for both modern audio compression systems and generation approaches like next-token prediction and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Dimitrios Bralios , Paris Smaragdis , Jonah Casebeer

Self-supervised audio representation learning offers an attractive alternative for obtaining generic audio embeddings, capable to be employed into various downstream tasks. Published approaches that consider both audio and words/tags…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen , Xavier Serra

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have been used extensively to discover low-dimensional latent factors governing neural activity and animal behavior. However, without careful model selection, the uncovered latent factors may reflect noise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Julia Huiming Wang , Dexter Tsin , Tatiana Engel