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Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis decouples TTS by combining two types of discrete speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Yi Zhao , Ying Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

We investigate the use of zero-shot text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) as a data augmentation source for low-resource personalized speech synthesis. While synthetic augmentation can provide linguistically rich and phonetically diverse speech, naively…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Youngwon Choi , Jinwoo Oh , Hwayeon Kim , Hyeonyu Kim

A large number of annotated training images is crucial for training successful scene text recognition models. However, collecting sufficient datasets can be a labor-intensive and costly process, particularly for low-resource languages. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yangchen Xie , Xinyuan Chen , Hongjian Zhan , Palaiahankote Shivakum , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Yue Lu

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Creating large, good quality labeled data has become one of the major bottlenecks for developing machine learning applications. Multiple techniques have been developed to either decrease the dependence of labeled data (zero/few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Abhinav Bohra , Huy Nguyen , Devashish Khatwani

Weakly supervised visual recognition using inexact supervision is a critical yet challenging learning problem. It significantly reduces human labeling costs and traditionally relies on multi-instance learning and pseudo-labeling. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lianghui Zhu , Junwei Zhou , Yan Liu , Xin Hao , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Existing dialogue datasets contain lots of noise in their state annotations. Such noise can hurt model training and ultimately lead to poor generalization performance. A general framework named ASSIST has recently been proposed to train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fanghua Ye , Xi Wang , Jie Huang , Shenghui Li , Samuel Stern , Emine Yilmaz

Most previous neural text-to-speech (TTS) methods are mainly based on supervised learning methods, which means they depend on a large training dataset and hard to achieve comparable performance under low-resource conditions. To address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Edit-based approaches have recently shown promising results on multiple monolingual sequence transduction tasks. In contrast to conventional sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models, which learn to generate text from scratch as they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Kostiantyn Omelianchuk , Vipul Raheja , Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi

Weakly labeled datasets such as AudioSet have driven recent progress in audio tagging. However, annotation quality varies across sound classes. Labels may be incomplete, ambiguous, or unreliable, which introduces class-dependent supervision…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yuanbo Hou , Zhaoyi Liu , Tong Ye , Qiaoqiao Ren , Jian Guan , Wenwu Wang , Stephen Roberts

An unsupervised text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system learns to generate speech waveforms corresponding to any written sentence in a language by observing: 1) a collection of untranscribed speech waveforms in that language; 2) a collection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Heting Gao , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

The lack of strong labels has severely limited the state-of-the-art fully supervised audio tagging systems to be scaled to larger dataset. Meanwhile, audio-visual learning models based on unlabeled videos have been successfully applied to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Juncheng Li , Yun Wang , Joseph Szurley , Florian Metze , Samarjit Das

Benefiting from the development of deep learning, text-to-speech (TTS) techniques using clean speech have achieved significant performance improvements. The data collected from real scenes often contains noise and generally needs to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Qiushi Zhu , Yu Gu , Rilin Chen , Chao Weng , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai , Jie Zhang

Audio grounding, or speech-driven open-set object detection, aims to localize and identify objects directly from speech, enabling generalization beyond predefined categories. This task is crucial for applications like human-robot…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenhuan Lu , Xinyue Song , Wenjun Ke , Zhizhi Yu , Wenhao Yang , Jianguo Wei

Pre-trained vision-language models learn massive data to model unified representations of images and natural languages, which can be widely applied to downstream machine learning tasks. In addition to zero-shot inference, in order to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qian-Wei Wang , Yuqiu Xie , Letian Zhang , Zimo Liu , Shu-Tao Xia

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) is an important yet challenging task in multimedia information retrieval. Although previous TSG methods have achieved decent performance, they tend to capture the selection biases of frequently appeared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Wei Hu

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to boost the generalization capability of a trained model by conducting self-/unsupervised learning during the testing phase. While most existing TTA methods for video primarily utilize visual supervisory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Runhao Zeng , Qi Deng , Ronghao Zhang , Shuaicheng Niu , Jian Chen , Xiping Hu , Victor C. M. Leung

Deep neural networks are gaining increasing popularity for the classic text classification task, due to their strong expressive power and less requirement for feature engineering. Despite such attractiveness, neural text classification…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yu Meng , Jiaming Shen , Chao Zhang , Jiawei Han

Curation of large fully supervised datasets has become one of the major roadblocks for machine learning. Weak supervision provides an alternative to supervised learning by training with cheap, noisy, and possibly correlated labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang