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Diffusion probabilistic models have been successfully used to generate data from noise. However, most diffusion models are computationally expensive and difficult to interpret with a lack of theoretical justification. Random feature models…

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Diffusion-based generative models have recently achieved remarkable results in speech and vocal enhancement due to their ability to model complex speech data distributions. While these models generalize well to unseen acoustic environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yudong Yang , Zhan Liu , Wenyi Yu , Guangzhi Sun , Qiuqiang Kong , Chao Zhang

We present a novel way of conditioning a pretrained denoising diffusion speech model to produce speech in the voice of a novel person unseen during training. The method requires a short (~3 seconds) sample from the target person, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Alon Levkovitch , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

A primary challenge when deploying speaker recognition systems in real-world applications is performance degradation caused by environmental mismatch. We propose a diffusion-based method that takes speaker embeddings extracted from a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 KiHyun Nam , Jungwoo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Gangin Park , Chaeyoung Jung , Ha-Jin Yu , Joon Son Chung

This work proposes an efficient method to enhance the quality of corrupted speech signals by leveraging both acoustic and visual cues. While existing diffusion-based approaches have demonstrated remarkable quality, their applicability is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Chaeyoung Jung , Suyeon Lee , Ji-Hoon Kim , Joon Son Chung

Conditional diffusion models are powerful generative models that can leverage various types of conditional information, such as class labels, segmentation masks, or text captions. However, in many real-world scenarios, conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nicolas Dufour , Victor Besnier , Vicky Kalogeiton , David Picard

In this paper, we present a causal speech signal improvement system that is designed to handle different types of distortions. The method is based on a generative diffusion model which has been shown to work well in scenarios with missing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

The objective of this work is to extract target speaker's voice from a mixture of voices using visual cues. Existing works on audio-visual speech separation have demonstrated their performance with promising intelligibility, but maintaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Suyeon Lee , Chaeyoung Jung , Youngjoon Jang , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

Generative AI has demonstrated impressive performance in various fields, among which speech synthesis is an interesting direction. With the diffusion model as the most popular generative model, numerous works have attempted two active…

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Most of the existing diffusion models use Gaussian noise for training and sampling across all time steps, which may not optimally account for the frequency contents reconstructed by the denoising network. Despite the diverse applications of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Xingchang Huang , Corentin Salaün , Cristina Vasconcelos , Christian Theobalt , Cengiz Öztireli , Gurprit Singh

Directly sending audio signals from a transmitter to a receiver across a noisy channel may absorb consistent bandwidth and be prone to errors when trying to recover the transmitted bits. On the contrary, the recent semantic communication…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Eleonora Grassucci , Christian Marinoni , Andrea Rodriguez , Danilo Comminiello

The quality of generative models depends on the quality of the data they are trained on. Creating large-scale, high-quality datasets is often expensive and sometimes impossible, e.g. in certain scientific applications where there is no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Giannis Daras , Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Constantinos Daskalakis

We introduce Noise2Music, where a series of diffusion models is trained to generate high-quality 30-second music clips from text prompts. Two types of diffusion models, a generator model, which generates an intermediate representation…

Recent works have demonstrated success in controlling sentence attributes ($e.g.$, sentiment) and structure ($e.g.$, syntactic structure) based on the diffusion language model. A key component that drives theimpressive performance for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shujian Zhang , Lemeng Wu , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu

Diffusion models have been recently studied as powerful generative inverse problem solvers, owing to their high quality reconstructions and the ease of combining existing iterative solvers. However, most works focus on solving simple linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Jeongsol Kim , Michael T. Mccann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have been recently proposed to generate high-quality samples by estimating the gradient of the data density. The framework defines the prior noise as a standard Gaussian distribution, whereas the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-22 Sang-gil Lee , Heeseung Kim , Chaehun Shin , Xu Tan , Chang Liu , Qi Meng , Tao Qin , Wei Chen , Sungroh Yoon , Tie-Yan Liu

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

Denoising diffusion models, a class of generative models, have garnered immense interest lately in various deep-learning problems. A diffusion probabilistic model defines a forward diffusion stage where the input data is gradually perturbed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Amirhossein Kazerouni , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Moein Heidari , Reza Azad , Mohsen Fayyaz , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

In this paper we present a method for single-channel wind noise reduction using our previously proposed diffusion-based stochastic regeneration model combining predictive and generative modelling. We introduce a non-additive speech in noise…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Joachim Thiemann , Raphael Koning , Timo Gerkmann