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Recent generative-prior-based methods have shown promising blind face restoration performance. They usually project the degraded images to the latent space and then decode high-quality faces either by single-stage latent optimization or…

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Diffusion-based Generative AI gains significant attention for its superior performance over other generative techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks and Variational Autoencoders. While it has achieved notable advancements in fields…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Haowei Lou , Helen Paik , Pari Delir Haghighi , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

Existing audio-language task-specific predictive approaches focus on building complicated late-fusion mechanisms. However, these models are facing challenges of overfitting with limited labels and low model generalization abilities. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Hang Li , Yu Kang , Tianqiao Liu , Wenbiao Ding , Zitao Liu

Audio texture manipulation involves modifying the perceptual characteristics of a sound to achieve specific transformations, such as adding, removing, or replacing auditory elements. In this paper, we propose an exemplar-based analogy model…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kan Jen Cheng , Tingle Li , Gopala Anumanchipalli

While diffusion models have shown great potential in portrait generation, generating expressive, coherent, and controllable cinematic portrait videos remains a significant challenge. Existing intermediate signals for portrait generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Junyi Wang , Yudong Guo , Boyang Guo , Shengming Yang , Juyong Zhang

We present an novel framework for efficiently and effectively extending the powerful continuous diffusion processes to discrete modeling. Previous approaches have suffered from the discrepancy between discrete data and continuous modeling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yingsheng Wu , Zekun Zhou , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Bing Qin

Modeling sounds emitted from physical object interactions is critical for immersive perceptual experiences in real and virtual worlds. Traditional methods of impact sound synthesis use physics simulation to obtain a set of physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kun Su , Kaizhi Qian , Eli Shlizerman , Antonio Torralba , Chuang Gan

Generating image variations, where a model produces variations of an input image while preserving the semantic context has gained increasing attention. Current image variation techniques involve adapting a text-to-image model to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Manoj Kumar , Neil Houlsby , Emiel Hoogeboom

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of models and a promising route to fast language generation, but practical implementations typically rely on factored reverse transitions ignoring cross-token dependencies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Dario Shariatian , Alain Durmus , Umut Simsekli , Stefano Peluchetti

Voice Conversion (VC) for unseen speakers, also known as zero-shot VC, is an attractive research topic as it enables a range of applications like voice customizing, animation production, and others. Recent work in this area made progress…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Shijun Wang , Dimche Kostadinov , Damian Borth

The introduction of audio latent diffusion models possessing the ability to generate realistic sound clips on demand from a text description has the potential to revolutionize how we work with audio. In this work, we make an initial attempt…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Dimitrios Bralios , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Zexu Pan , Sameer Khurana , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images from pure noise using a simple text prompt. While most methods which introduce additional spatial constraints into the generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zakaria Patel , Kirill Serkh

Understanding speech production both visually and kinematically can inform second language learning system designs, as well as the creation of speaking characters in video games and animations. In this work, we introduce a data-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Hong Nguyen , Sean Foley , Kevin Huang , Xuan Shi , Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

We propose noise-robust voice conversion (VC) which takes into account the recording quality and environment of noisy source speech. Conventional denoising training improves the noise robustness of a VC model by learning noisy-to-clean VC…

The Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to convert the discrete emotional state from the source emotion to the target for a given speech utterance while preserving linguistic content. In this paper, we propose regularizing emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Ashishkumar Gudmalwar , Ishan D. Biyani , Nirmesh Shah , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Recent advances in latent diffusion models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in high-dimensional time-series data synthesis while providing flexible control through conditioning and guidance. However, existing methodologies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Matteo Pettenó , Alessandro Ilic Mezza , Alberto Bernardini

While signal conversion and disentangled representation learning have shown promise for manipulating data attributes across domains such as audio, image, and multimodal generation, existing approaches, especially for speech style…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jonathan Svirsky , Ofir Lindenbaum , Uri Shaham

Curating datasets for object segmentation is a difficult task. With the advent of large-scale pre-trained generative models, conditional image generation has been given a significant boost in result quality and ease of use. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Matthew Baugh , Bernhard Kainz

Recently, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models. Despite their success, there is still limited understanding of their semantic spaces. This makes it challenging to achieve precise and disentangled image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Siyi Chen , Huijie Zhang , Minzhe Guo , Yifu Lu , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

For a speech-enhancement algorithm, it is highly desirable to simultaneously improve perceptual quality and recognition rate. Thanks to computational costs and model complexities, it is challenging to train a model that effectively…

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