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A method for analyzing sampling jitter in audio equipment is proposed. The method is based on the time-domain analysis where the time fluctuations of zero-crossing points in recorded sinusoidal waves are employed to characterize jitter.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Makoto Takeuchi , Haruo Saito

Diffusion models have recently shown promising results for difficult enhancement tasks such as the conditional and unconditional restoration of natural images and audio signals. In this work, we explore the possibility of leveraging a…

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A novel method of contrast enhancement is proposed for underexposed images, in which heavy noise is hidden. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in dark or bright regions. This is due to a limited…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Chien-Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Phase vocoder-based time-stretching is a widely used technique for the time-scale modification of audio signals. However, conventional implementations suffer from ``percussion smearing,'' a well-known artifact that significantly degrades…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Natsuki Akaishi , Nicki Holighaus , Kohei Yatabe

Vocoders received renewed attention as main components in statistical parametric text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and speech transformation systems. Even though there are vocoding techniques give almost accepted synthesized speech, their high…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi , Tamás Gábor Csapó , Géza Németh

In this paper a signal denoising scheme based on Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is presented. The denoising method is a fully data driven approach. Noisy signal is decomposed adaptively into intrinsic oscillatory components called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Mina Kemiha

Enhancing speech signal quality in adverse acoustic environments is a persistent challenge in speech processing. Existing deep learning based enhancement methods often struggle to effectively remove background noise and reverberation in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Heming Wang , Meng Yu , Hao Zhang , Chunlei Zhang , Zhongweiyang Xu , Muqiao Yang , Yixuan Zhang , Dong Yu

A method for sound field decomposition based on neural networks is proposed. The method comprises two stages: a sound field separation stage and a single-source localization stage. In the first stage, the sound pressure at microphones…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Ryo Matsuda , Makoto Otani

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. Therefore, these models are impractical for processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Timo Gerkmann

Signal decomposition and multiscale signal analysis provide many useful tools for time-frequency analysis. We proposed a random feature method for analyzing time-series data by constructing a sparse approximation to the spectrogram. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Nicholas Richardson , Hayden Schaeffer , Giang Tran

We present a transformer-based speech-declipping model that effectively recovers clipped signals across a wide range of input signal-to-distortion ratios (SDRs). While recent time-domain deep neural network (DNN)-based declippers have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Younghoo Kwon , Jung-Woo Choi

In the process of recording, storage and transmission of time-domain audio signals, errors may be introduced that are difficult to correct in an unsupervised way. Here, we train a convolutional deep neural network to re-synthesize input…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Andrew J. R. Simpson

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in generative tasks, including audio super-resolution (SR). In many applications like movie post-production and album mastering, substantial computational budgets are available for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yizhu Jin , Zhen Ye , Zeyue Tian , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Yike Guo , Wei Xue

Most text-to-speech (TTS) methods use high-quality speech corpora recorded in a well-designed environment, incurring a high cost for data collection. To solve this problem, existing noise-robust TTS methods are intended to use noisy speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Takaaki Saeki , Kentaro Tachibana , Ryuichi Yamamoto

A novel method for noise reduction in the setting of curve time series with error contamination is proposed, based on extending the framework of functional principal component analysis (FPCA). We employ the underlying, finite-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-06 Cees Diks , Bram Wouters

Masked modeling has emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning framework, but existing methods largely rely on random masking, disregarding the structural properties of different modalities. In this work, we introduce structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Aritra Bhowmik , Fida Mohammad Thoker , Carlos Hinojosa , Bernard Ghanem , Cees G. M. Snoek

During the last decades, denoising methods have attracted much attention of researchers. The conventional method for removing the Moire' pattern from images is using notch filters in the Frequency-domain. In this paper a new method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Seyede Mahya Hazavei , Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

A novel method for audio declipping based on sparsity is presented. The method incorporates psychoacoustic information by weighting the transform coefficients in the $\ell_1$ minimization. Weighting leads to an improved quality of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Pavel Záviška , Pavel Rajmic , Jíří Schimmel

The reconstruction of clipped speech signals is an important task in audio signal processing to achieve an enhanced audio quality for further processing. In this paper, Frequency Selective Extrapolation (FSE), which is commonly used for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Markus Jonscher , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Noise is an important factor that degrades the quality of medical images. Impulse noise is a common noise, which is caused by malfunctioning of sensor elements or errors in the transmission of images. In medical images due to presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Zohreh HosseinKhani , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Reza Soroushmehr , Shahram Shirani , Kayvan Najarian , Shadrokh Samavi