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Video-to-music (V2M) generation aims to create music that aligns with visual content. However, two main challenges persist in existing methods: (1) the lack of explicit rhythm modeling hinders audiovisual temporal alignments; (2)…

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Evaluation for continuous piano pedal depth estimation tasks remains incomplete when relying only on conventional frame-level metrics, which overlook musically important features such as direction-change boundaries and pedal curve contours.…

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Breakthroughs in text-to-music generation models are transforming the creative landscape, equipping musicians with innovative tools for composition and experimentation like never before. However, controlling the generation process to…

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In this work, we propose DiffWave, a versatile diffusion probabilistic model for conditional and unconditional waveform generation. The model is non-autoregressive, and converts the white noise signal into structured waveform through a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Zhifeng Kong , Wei Ping , Jiaji Huang , Kexin Zhao , Bryan Catanzaro

We propose Polyffusion, a diffusion model that generates polyphonic music scores by regarding music as image-like piano roll representations. The model is capable of controllable music generation with two paradigms: internal control and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lejun Min , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia , Jingwei Zhao

The field of Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) has seen significant advancements in recent years due to the rapid progress of diffusion-based approaches. However, capturing vocal style, genre-specific pitch inflections, and language-dependent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sandipan Dhar , Mayank Gupta , Preeti Rao

This study focuses on generating fundamental frequency (F0) curves of singing voice from musical scores stored in a midi-like notation. Current statistical parametric approaches to singing F0 modeling meet difficulties in reproducing…

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In automatic music generation, a central challenge is to design controls that enable meaningful human-machine interaction. Existing systems often rely on extrinsic inputs such as text prompts or metadata, which do not allow humans to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xiaoyu Yi , Qi He , Gus Xia , Ziyu Wang

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…

This paper proposes an expressive singing voice synthesis system by introducing explicit vibrato modeling and latent energy representation. Vibrato is essential to the naturalness of synthesized sound, due to the inherent characteristics of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yingjie Song , Wei Song , Wei Zhang , Zhengchen Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhi Liu , Yang Yu

Generating expressive audio performances from music scores requires models to capture both instrument acoustics and human interpretation. Traditional music performance synthesis pipelines follow a two-stage approach, first generating…

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While automatic music transcription is well-established in music information retrieval, most models are limited to transcribing pitch and timing information from audio, and thus omit crucial expressive and instrument-specific nuances. One…

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This study introduces a novel and interpretable model, DiffVox, for matching vocal effects in music production. DiffVox, short for ``Differentiable Vocal Fx", integrates parametric equalisation, dynamic range control, delay, and reverb with…

Removing audio effects from electric guitar recordings makes it easier for post-production and sound editing. An audio distortion recovery model not only improves the clarity of the guitar sounds but also opens up new opportunities for…

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This paper presents an advanced end-to-end singing voice synthesis (SVS) system based on the source-filter mechanism that directly translates lyrical and melodic cues into expressive and high-fidelity human-like singing. Similarly to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Jianwei Cui , Yu Gu , Chao Weng , Jie Zhang , Liping Chen , Lirong Dai

Building upon Diff-A-Riff, a latent diffusion model for musical instrument accompaniment generation, we present a series of improvements targeting quality, diversity, inference speed, and text-driven control. First, we upgrade the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Javier Nistal , Marco Pasini , Stefan Lattner

In many industries, including aerospace and defense, waveform analysis is commonly conducted to compute the resonance of physical objects, with the Finite Element Method (FEM) being the standard approach. The Finite Difference Method (FDM)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Juliette Florin

Recent video inpainting methods have achieved encouraging improvements by leveraging optical flow to guide pixel propagation from reference frames either in the image space or feature space. However, they would produce severe artifacts in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chaohao Xie , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Virtual instrument generation requires maintaining consistent timbre across different pitches and velocities, a challenge that existing note-level models struggle to address. We present FlowSynth, which combines distributional flow matching…

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