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Recent years have seen significant progress in Text-To-Audio (TTA) synthesis, enabling users to enrich their creative workflows with synthetic audio generated from natural language prompts. Despite this progress, the effects of data, model…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sang-gil Lee , Zhifeng Kong , Arushi Goel , Sungwon Kim , Rafael Valle , Bryan Catanzaro

Text-to-audio (TTA), which generates audio signals from textual descriptions, has received huge attention in recent years. However, recent works focused on text to monaural audio only. As we know, spatial audio provides more immersive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Lei Zhao , Sizhou Chen , Linfeng Feng , Jichao Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

Sequential models achieve state-of-the-art results in audio, visual and textual domains with respect to both estimating the data distribution and generating high-quality samples. Efficient sampling for this class of models has however…

Masked Image Generation Models (MIGMs) have achieved great success, yet their efficiency is hampered by the multiple steps of bi-directional attention. In fact, there exists notable redundancy in their computation: when sampling discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kaiwen Zhu , Quansheng Zeng , Yuandong Pu , Shuo Cao , Xiaohui Li , Yi Xin , Qi Qin , Jiayang Li , Yu Qiao , Jinjin Gu , Yihao Liu

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) generally consists of cascaded architecture with separately optimized acoustic model and vocoder, or end-to-end architecture with continuous mel-spectrograms or self-extracted speech frames as the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Ruiqing Xue , Yanqing Liu , Lei He , Xu Tan , Linquan Liu , Edward Lin , Sheng Zhao

Although neural text-to-speech (TTS) models have attracted a lot of attention and succeeded in generating human-like speech, there is still room for improvements to its naturalness and architectural efficiency. In this work, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Myeonghun Jeong , Hyeongju Kim , Sung Jun Cheon , Byoung Jin Choi , Nam Soo Kim

We tackle the task of conditional music generation. We introduce MusicGen, a single Language Model (LM) that operates over several streams of compressed discrete music representation, i.e., tokens. Unlike prior work, MusicGen is comprised…

A mixed sample data augmentation strategy is proposed to enhance the performance of models on audio scene classification, sound event classification, and speech enhancement tasks. While there have been several augmentation methods shown to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Gwantae Kim , David K. Han , Hanseok Ko

While the transformer has emerged as the eminent neural architecture, several independent lines of research have emerged to address its limitations. Recurrent neural approaches have observed a lot of renewed interest, including the extended…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sarthak Yadav , Sergios Theodoridis , Zheng-Hua Tan

Speech representation learning has improved both speech understanding and speech synthesis tasks for single language. However, its ability in cross-lingual scenarios has not been explored. In this paper, we extend the pretraining method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Xiaoran Fan , Chao Pang , Tian Yuan , He Bai , Renjie Zheng , Pengfei Zhu , Shuohuan Wang , Junkun Chen , Zeyu Chen , Liang Huang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu

Deep generative models can generate high-fidelity audio conditioned on various types of representations (e.g., mel-spectrograms, Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)). Recently, such models have been used to synthesize audio waveforms…

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

Recently diffusion models have shown improvement in synthetic image quality as well as better control in generation. We motivate and present Gen2Det, a simple modular pipeline to create synthetic training data for object detection for free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Saksham Suri , Fanyi Xiao , Animesh Sinha , Sean Chang Culatana , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Chenchen Zhu , Abhinav Shrivastava

Large-scale multimodal generative modeling has created milestones in text-to-image and text-to-video generation. Its application to audio still lags behind for two main reasons: the lack of large-scale datasets with high-quality text-audio…

Target speaker extraction (TSE) extracts the target speaker's voice from overlapping speech mixtures given a reference utterance. Existing approaches typically fall into two categories: discriminative and generative. Discriminative methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Junwon Moon , Hyunjin Choi , Hansol Park , Heeseung Kim , Kyuhong Shim

Generative audio modeling has largely been fragmented into specialized tasks, text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-music (TTM), and text-to-audio (TTA), each operating under heterogeneous control paradigms. Unifying these modalities remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Chunyu Qiang , Xiaopeng Wang , Kang Yin , Yuzhe Liang , Yuxin Guo , Teng Ma , Ziyu Zhang , Tianrui Wang , Cheng Gong , Yushen Chen , Ruibo Fu , Chen Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

As a pragmatic data augmentation tool, data synthesis has generally returned dividends in performance for deep learning based medical image analysis. However, generating corresponding segmentation masks for synthetic medical images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Xiaodan Xing , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Pre-training and fine-tuning, e.g., BERT, have achieved great success in language understanding by transferring knowledge from rich-resource pre-training task to the low/zero-resource downstream tasks. Inspired by the success of BERT, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Jianfeng Lu , Tie-Yan Liu

We introduce the MAsked Generative VIdeo Transformer, MAGVIT, to tackle various video synthesis tasks with a single model. We introduce a 3D tokenizer to quantize a video into spatial-temporal visual tokens and propose an embedding method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Lijun Yu , Yong Cheng , Kihyuk Sohn , José Lezama , Han Zhang , Huiwen Chang , Alexander G. Hauptmann , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yuan Hao , Irfan Essa , Lu Jiang

In this paper, we design and train a Generative Image-to-text Transformer, GIT, to unify vision-language tasks such as image/video captioning and question answering. While generative models provide a consistent network architecture between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Zhe Gan , Zicheng Liu , Ce Liu , Lijuan Wang