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Discrete diffusion models excel at visual synthesis but rely on slow, iterative decoding. Existing single-step distillation methods attempt to bypass this bottleneck, either by training auxiliary score networks that effectively double…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaoyang Wang , Yunhai Tong

Voice conversion has gained increasing popularity in many applications of speech synthesis. The idea is to change the voice identity from one speaker into another while keeping the linguistic content unchanged. Many voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Bac Nguyen , Fabien Cardinaux

Recent hybrid video generation models combine autoregressive temporal dynamics with diffusion-based spatial denoising, but their sequential, iterative nature leads to error accumulation and long inference times. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yongqi Yang , Huayang Huang , Xu Peng , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yu Wu

While traditional and neural video codecs (NVCs) have achieved remarkable rate-distortion performance, improving perceptual quality at low bitrates remains challenging. Some NVCs incorporate perceptual or adversarial objectives but still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Naifu Xue , Zhaoyang Jia , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Zihan Zheng , Yuan Zhang , Yan Lu

Although diffusion models in text-to-speech have become a popular choice due to their strong generative ability, the intrinsic complexity of sampling from diffusion models harms their efficiency. Alternatively, we propose VoiceFlow, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) has recently achieved remarkable fidelity but still suffers from prohibitive sampling costs. While distribution matching distillation (DMD) can accelerate diffusion models toward one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengyao Lv , Menghan Xia , Xintao Wang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Diffusion models have recently advanced photorealistic human synthesis, although practical talking-head generation (THG) remains constrained by high inference latency, temporal instability such as flicker and identity drift, and imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh

Text-to-audio systems, while increasingly performant, are slow at inference time, thus making their latency unpractical for many creative applications. We present Adversarial Relativistic-Contrastive (ARC) post-training, the first…

Diffusion models have significantly improved the quality and diversity of audio generation but are hindered by slow inference speed. Rectified flow enhances inference speed by learning straight-line ordinary differential equation (ODE)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Junqi Zhao , Jinzheng Zhao , Haohe Liu , Yun Chen , Lu Han , Xubo Liu , Mark Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert a source utterance into the voice of an unseen target speaker while preserving its linguistic content. Although recent systems have improved conversion quality, building zero-shot VC systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Qixi Zheng , Yuxiang Zhao , Tianrui Wang , Wenxi Chen , Kele Xu , Yikang Li , Qinyuan Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Diffusion models are instrumental in text-to-audio (TTA) generation. Unfortunately, they suffer from slow inference due to an excessive number of queries to the underlying denoising network per generation. To address this bottleneck, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yatong Bai , Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida , Somayeh Sojoudi

Recently, voice conversion (VC) has been widely studied. Many VC systems use disentangle-based learning techniques to separate the speaker and the linguistic content information from a speech signal. Subsequently, they convert the voice by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yen-Hao Chen , Da-Yi Wu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-yi Lee

Voice conversion (VC) refers to transforming the speaker characteristics of an utterance without altering its linguistic contents. Many works on voice conversion require to have parallel training data that is highly expensive to acquire.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Shindong Lee , BongGu Ko , Keonnyeong Lee , In-Chul Yoo , Dongsuk Yook

In this work, we introduce a framework for cross-lingual speech synthesis, which involves an upstream Voice Conversion (VC) model and a downstream Text-To-Speech (TTS) model. The proposed framework consists of 4 stages. In the first two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Dariusz Piotrowski , Renard Korzeniowski , Alessio Falai , Sebastian Cygert , Kamil Pokora , Georgi Tinchev , Ziyao Zhang , Kayoko Yanagisawa

Diffusion-based models have been widely used in various visual generation tasks, showing promising results in image super-resolution (SR), while typically being limited by dozens or even hundreds of sampling steps. Although existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xue Wu , Jingwei Xin , Zhijun Tu , Jie Hu , Jie Li , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Cross-lingual voice conversion (VC) is an important and challenging problem due to significant mismatches of the phonetic set and the speech prosody of different languages. In this paper, we build upon the neural text-to-speech (TTS) model,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Shengkui Zhao , Hao Wang , Trung Hieu Nguyen , Bin Ma

Singing voice conversion (SVC) is one promising technique which can enrich the way of human-computer interaction by endowing a computer the ability to produce high-fidelity and expressive singing voice. In this paper, we propose DiffSVC, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Songxiang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Dan Su , Helen Meng

Video diffusion generation suffers from critical sampling efficiency bottlenecks, particularly for large-scale models and long contexts. Existing video acceleration methods, adapted from image-based techniques, lack a single-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jiaxiang Cheng , Bing Ma , Xuhua Ren , Hongyi Henry Jin , Kai Yu , Peng Zhang , Wenyue Li , Yuan Zhou , Tianxiang Zheng , Qinglin Lu

This paper revisits the neural vocoder task through the lens of audio restoration and propose a novel diffusion vocoder called BridgeVoC. Specifically, by rank analysis, we compare the rank characteristics of Mel-spectrum with other common…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Andong Li , Tong Lei , Rilin Chen , Kai Li , Meng Yu , Xiaodong Li , Dong Yu , Chengshi Zheng

While diffusion models have achieved great success in the field of video generation, this progress is accompanied by a rapidly escalating computational burden. Among the existing acceleration methods, Feature Caching is popular due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chang Zou , Changlin Li , Yang Li , Patrol Li , Jianbing Wu , Xiao He , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Kailin Huang , Linfeng Zhang