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Music Structure Analysis (MSA) consists in segmenting a music piece in several distinct sections. We approach MSA within a compression framework, under the hypothesis that the structure is more easily revealed by a simplified representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Axel Marmoret , Jérémy E. Cohen , Frédéric Bimbot

The high computational complexity of the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm is mainly caused by the subspace decomposition and spectrum search, especially for frequent real-time applications or massive sensors. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Yiming Fang , Li Chen , Ang Chen , Weidong Wang

It remains a significant challenge to compress images at extremely low bitrate while achieving both semantic consistency and high perceptual quality. Inspired by human progressive perception mechanism, we propose a Semantically Disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Juan Song , Lijie Yang , Mingtao Feng

We present UniMIC, a universal multi-modality image compression framework, intending to unify the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) optimization for multiple image codecs simultaneously through excavating cross-modality generative priors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Yixin Gao , Xin Li , Xiaohan Pan , Runsen Feng , Zongyu Guo , Yiting Lu , Yulin Ren , Zhibo Chen

Realizing the full potential of quantum computation requires quantum error correction (QEC), with most recent breakthrough demonstrations of QEC using the surface code. QEC codes use multiple noisy physical qubits to encode information in…

Remote-sensing (RS) image compression at extremely low bitrates has always been a challenging task in practical scenarios like edge device storage and narrow bandwidth transmission. Generative models including VAEs and GANs have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yixuan Ye , Ce Wang , Wanjie Sun , Zhenzhong Chen

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) holds great promise for improving the detection and management of breast cancer. Because they are based on the acoustic wave equation, waveform inversion-based reconstruction methods can produce images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Kun Wang , Thomas Matthews , Fatima Anis , Cuiping Li , Neb Duric , Mark A. Anastasio

The rapid growth of camera-based IoT devices demands the need for efficient video compression, particularly for edge applications where devices face hardware constraints, often with only 1 or 2 MB of RAM and unstable internet connections.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Ali Hojjat , Janek Haberer , Olaf Landsiedel

Overfitted neural video codecs offer a decoding complexity orders of magnitude smaller than their autoencoder counterparts. Yet, this low complexity comes at the cost of limited compression efficiency, in part due to their difficulty…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Thomas Leguay , Théo Ladune , Pierrick Philippe , Olivier Deforges

Traditional video codecs optimized for pixel fidelity collapse at ultra-low bitrates and produce severe artifacts. This failure arises from a fundamental misalignment between pixel accuracy and human perception. We propose a semantic video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Lingdong Wang , Guan-Ming Su , Divya Kothandaraman , Tsung-Wei Huang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Ramesh K. Sitaraman

Neural audio codecs (NACs) provide compact representations that can be leveraged in many downstream applications, in particular large language models. Yet most NACs encode mixtures of multiple sources in an entangled manner, which may…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Ryo Aihara , Yoshiki Masuyama , Francesco Paissan , François G. Germain , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

We introduce Jukebox, a model that generates music with singing in the raw audio domain. We tackle the long context of raw audio using a multi-scale VQ-VAE to compress it to discrete codes, and modeling those using autoregressive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Prafulla Dhariwal , Heewoo Jun , Christine Payne , Jong Wook Kim , Alec Radford , Ilya Sutskever

Traditional low bit-rate speech coding approach only handles narrowband speech at 8kHz, which limits further improvements in speech quality. Motivated by recent successful exploration of deep learning methods for image and speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Gang Min , Xiongwei Zhang , Xia Zou , Xiangyang Liu

We present a scalable and efficient neural waveform coding system for speech compression. We formulate the speech coding problem as an autoencoding task, where a convolutional neural network (CNN) performs encoding and decoding as a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Kai Zhen , Jongmo Sung , Mi Suk Lee , Seungkwon Beak , Minje Kim

When used with deep learning, the symbolic music modality is often coupled with language model architectures. To do so, the music needs to be tokenized, i.e. converted into a sequence of discrete tokens. This can be achieved by different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Nathan Fradet , Nicolas Gutowski , Fabien Chhel , Jean-Pierre Briot

EEG and audio are inherently distinct modalities, differing in sampling rate, channel structure, and scale. Yet, we show that pretrained neural audio codecs can serve as effective starting points for EEG compression, provided that the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ard Kastrati , Luca Lanzendörfer , Riccardo Rigoni , John Staib Matilla , Roger Wattenhofer

Separating vocal elements from musical tracks is a longstanding challenge in audio signal processing. This study tackles the distinct separation of vocal components from musical spectrograms. We employ the Short Time Fourier Transform…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Adam Sorrenti

Neural audio/speech coding has recently demonstrated its capability to deliver high quality at much lower bitrates than traditional methods. However, existing neural audio/speech codecs employ either acoustic features or learned blind…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xue Jiang , Xiulian Peng , Huaying Xue , Yuan Zhang , Yan Lu

Neural audio codecs have been widely adopted in audio-generative tasks because their compact and discrete representations are suitable for both large-language-model-style and regression-based generative models. However, most neural codecs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Yi-Chiao Wu , Dejan Marković , Steven Krenn , Israel D. Gebru , Alexander Richard

Word embedding has become an essential means for text-based information retrieval. Typically, word embeddings are learned from large quantities of general and unstructured text data. However, in the domain of music, the word embedding may…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-24 SeungHeon Doh , Jongpil Lee , Dasaem Jeong , Juhan Nam