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We present a generative adversarial network to synthesize 3D pose sequences of co-speech upper-body gestures with appropriate affective expressions. Our network consists of two components: a generator to synthesize gestures from a joint…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Uttaran Bhattacharya , Elizabeth Childs , Nicholas Rewkowski , Dinesh Manocha

Noise synthesis is a challenging low-level vision task aiming to generate realistic noise given a clean image along with the camera settings. To this end, we propose an effective generative model which utilizes clean features as guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mingyang Song , Yang Zhang , Tunç O. Aydın , Elham Amin Mansour , Christopher Schroers

In this paper we introduce StyleWaveGAN, a style-based drum sound generator that is a variation of StyleGAN, a state-of-the-art image generator. By conditioning StyleWaveGAN on both the type of drum and several audio descriptors, we are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Antoine Lavault , Axel Roebel , Matthieu Voiry

Human communication combines speech with expressive nonverbal cues such as hand gestures that serve manifold communicative functions. Yet, current generative gesture generation approaches are restricted to simple, repetitive beat gestures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hendric Voss , Stefan Kopp

In contemporary popular music production, drum sound design is commonly performed by cumbersome browsing and processing of pre-recorded samples in sound libraries. One can also use specialized synthesis hardware, typically controlled…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Javier Nistal , Cyran Aouameur , Ithan Velarde , Stefan Lattner

In recent years, Text-to-Audio Generation has achieved remarkable progress, offering sound creators powerful tools to transform textual inspirations into vivid audio. However, existing models predominantly operate directly in the acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Zheqi Dai , Guangyan Zhang , Haolin He , Xiquan Li , Jingyu Li , Chunyat Wu , Yiwen Guo , Qiuqiang Kong

Recent advancements in neural audio codecs have enabled the use of tokenized audio representations in various audio generation tasks, such as text-to-speech, text-to-audio, and text-to-music generation. Leveraging this approach, we propose…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Kyungsu Kim , Junghyun Koo , Sungho Lee , Haesun Joung , Kyogu Lee

Contemporary conversational systems often present a significant limitation: their responses lack the emotional depth and disfluent characteristic of human interactions. This absence becomes particularly noticeable when users seek more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Rohan Chaudhury , Mihir Godbole , Aakash Garg , Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo

Embodied human communication encompasses both verbal (speech) and non-verbal information (e.g., gesture and head movements). Recent advances in machine learning have substantially improved the technologies for generating synthetic versions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Simon Alexanderson , Éva Székely , Gustav Eje Henter , Taras Kucherenko , Jonas Beskow

Controlling the variations of sound effects using neural audio synthesis models has been a difficult task. Differentiable digital signal processing (DDSP) provides a lightweight solution that achieves high-quality sound synthesis while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yunyi Liu , Craig Jin , David Gunawan

Controllable speech generation methods typically rely on single or fixed prompts, hindering creativity and flexibility. These limitations make it difficult to meet specific user needs in certain scenarios, such as adjusting the style while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Hanzhao Li , Yuke Li , Xinsheng Wang , Jingbin Hu , Qicong Xie , Shan Yang , Lei Xie

We present a deep neural network-based methodology for synthesising percussive sounds with control over high-level timbral characteristics of the sounds. This approach allows for intuitive control of a synthesizer, enabling the user to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 António Ramires , Pritish Chandna , Xavier Favory , Emilia Gómez , Xavier Serra

The evaluation of audio fingerprinting at a realistic scale is limited by the scarcity of large public music databases. We present an audio-free approach that synthesises latent fingerprints which approximate the distribution of real…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Aditya Bhattacharjee , Marco Pasini , Emmanouil Benetos

In this paper, we propose a novel score-base generative model for unconditional raw audio synthesis. Our proposal builds upon the latest developments on diffusion process modeling with stochastic differential equations, which already…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Simon Rouard , Gaëtan Hadjeres

Whisper generation is constrained by the difficulty of data collection. Because whispered speech has low acoustic amplitude, high-fidelity recording is challenging. In this paper, we introduce WhispSynth, a large-scale multilingual corpus…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tianyi Tan , Jiaxin Ye , Yuanming Zhang , Xiaohuai Le , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Jing Lu

Audio-driven talking video generation has advanced significantly, but existing methods often depend on video-to-video translation techniques and traditional generative networks like GANs and they typically generate taking heads and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Hamza Daruger , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

The rapid development of generative audio raises ethical and security concerns stemming from forged data, making deepfake sound detection an important safeguard against the malicious use of such technologies. Although prior studies have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zeyu Xie , Yaoyun Zhang , Xuenan Xu , Yongkang Yin , Chenxing Li , Mengyue Wu , Yuexian Zou

This paper presents a novel approach to neural instrument sound synthesis using a two-stage semi-supervised learning framework capable of generating pitch-accurate, high-quality music samples from an expressive timbre latent space. Existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Christian Limberg , Fares Schulz , Zhe Zhang , Stefan Weinzierl

Existing gesture generation methods primarily focus on upper body gestures based on audio features, neglecting speech content, emotion, and locomotion. These limitations result in stiff, mechanical gestures that fail to convey the true…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yongkang Cheng , Mingjiang Liang , Shaoli Huang , Gaoge Han , Jifeng Ning , Wei Liu

In audio-related creative tasks, sound designers often seek to extend and morph different sounds from their libraries. Generative audio models, capable of creating audio using examples as references, offer promising solutions. By masking…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Prem Seetharaman , Oriol Nieto , Justin Salamon