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Variational autoencoder-based voice conversion (VAE-VC) has the advantage of requiring only pairs of speeches and speaker labels for training. Unlike the majority of the research in VAE-VC which focuses on utilizing auxiliary losses or…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kei Akuzawa , Kotaro Onishi , Keisuke Takiguchi , Kohki Mametani , Koichiro Mori

This paper presents a vision transformer (ViT) based joint source and channel coding (JSCC) scheme for wireless image transmission over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, called ViT-MIMO. The proposed ViT-MIMO architecture, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Haotian Wu , Yulin Shao , Chenghong Bian , Krystian Mikolajczyk , Deniz Gündüz

Learning a robust video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is essential for reducing video redundancy and facilitating efficient video generation. Directly applying image VAEs to individual frames in isolation can result in temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yazhou Xing , Yang Fei , Yingqing He , Jingye Chen , Jiaxin Xie , Xiaowei Chi , Qifeng Chen

The framework of variational autoencoders (VAEs) provides a principled method for jointly learning latent-variable models and corresponding inference models. However, the main drawback of this approach is the blurriness of the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ioannis Gatopoulos , Maarten Stol , Jakub M. Tomczak

Vector quantization (VQ) is a technique to deterministically learn features with discrete codebook representations. It is commonly performed with a variational autoencoding model, VQ-VAE, which can be further extended to hierarchical…

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has emerged as a promising technique in 6G for enhancing the efficiency and reliability of data transmission across diverse modalities, particularly in low signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Kaiyi Chi , Yinghui He , Qianqian Yang , Zhiping Jiang , Yuanchao Shu , Zhiqin Wang , Jun Luo , Jiming Chen

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are well-established as a principled approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning with neural networks. Typically, an encoder network defines the parameters of a Gaussian distributed latent space from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alan Jeffares , Liyuan Liu

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are capable of learning latent representations for high dimensional data. However, due to the i.i.d. assumption, VAEs only optimize the singleton variational distributions and fail to account for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Da Tang , Dawen Liang , Tony Jebara , Nicholas Ruozzi

In this paper we introduce Neural Network Coding(NNC), a data-driven approach to joint source and network coding. In NNC, the encoders at each source and intermediate node, as well as the decoder at each destination node, are neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Litian Liu , Amit Solomon , Salman Salamatian , Muriel Medard

To make an employee roster, photo album, or training dataset of generative models, one needs to collect high-quality images while dismissing low-quality ones. This study addresses a new task of unsupervised detection of low-quality images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Tomoyasu Nanaumi , Kazuhiko Kawamoto , Hiroshi Kera

A variational autoencoder (VAE) is a probabilistic machine learning framework for posterior inference that projects an input set of high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional, latent space. The latent space learned with a VAE offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rafael Pastrana

Variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a powerful unsupervised learning framework for image generation. One drawback of VAE is that it generates blurry images due to its Gaussianity assumption and thus L2 loss. To allow the generation of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Lei Cai , Hongyang Gao , Shuiwang Ji

Context modeling is essential in learned image compression for accurately estimating the distribution of latents. While recent advanced methods have expanded context modeling capacity, they still struggle to efficiently exploit long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Yuqi Li , Haotian Zhang , Li Li , Dong Liu

Interpreting computations in the visual cortex as learning and inference in a generative model of the environment has received wide support both in neuroscience and cognitive science. However, hierarchical computations, a hallmark of visual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-02 Ferenc Csikor , Balázs Meszéna , Bence Szabó , Gergő Orbán

In this paper, a learning-aided content-based wireless image transmission scheme is proposed, where a multi-antenna-aided source wishes to securely deliver an image to a legitimate destination in the presence of randomly distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mehdi Letafati , Hamid Behroozi , Babak Hossein Khalaj , Eduard A. Jorswieck

As a widely recognized approach to deep generative modeling, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) still face challenges with the quality of generated images, often presenting noticeable blurriness. This issue stems from the unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This paper proposes a multichannel source separation technique called the multichannel variational autoencoder (MVAE) method, which uses a conditional VAE (CVAE) to model and estimate the power spectrograms of the sources in a mixture. By…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Hirokazu Kameoka , Li Li , Shota Inoue , Shoji Makino

Recent advances in deep generative modeling have enabled efficient modeling of high dimensional data distributions and opened up a new horizon for solving data compression problems. Specifically, autoencoder based learned image or video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Adam Golinski , Reza Pourreza , Yang Yang , Guillaume Sautiere , Taco S Cohen

In this paper, a generalization of deep learning-aided joint source channel coding (Deep-JSCC) approach to secure communications is studied. We propose an end-to-end (E2E) learning-based approach for secure communication against multiple…

Data augmentation effectively addresses the imbalanced-small sample data (ISSD) problem in hyperspectral image classification (HSIC). While most methodologies extend features in the latent space, few leverage text-driven generation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yimin Zhu , Lincoln Linlin Xu