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Dilated convolution with learnable spacings (DCLS) is a recent convolution method in which the positions of the kernel elements are learned throughout training by backpropagation. Its interest has recently been demonstrated in computer…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ismail Khalfaoui-Hassani , Timothée Masquelier , Thomas Pellegrini

Video compression has been investigated by means of analysis-synthesis, and more particularly by means of inpainting. The first part of our approach has been to develop the inpainting of DCT coefficients in an image. This has shown good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Matthieu Moinard , Isabelle Amonou , Pierre Duhamel , Patrice Brault

Diffusion transformers have demonstrated remarkable generation quality, albeit requiring longer training iterations and numerous inference steps. In each denoising step, diffusion transformers encode the noisy inputs to extract the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Shuai Wang , Zhi Tian , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

This paper adapts a Multiple-Model Coding (MMC) approach for sampled electrical signal waveforms to satisfy reconstructed signal quality constraints. The baseline MMC approach consists of two stages processing vectors of Voltage and Current…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Corentin Presvôts , Michel Kieffer , Thibault Prevost

This paper introduces FlowMAC, a novel neural audio codec for high-quality general audio compression at low bit rates based on conditional flow matching (CFM). FlowMAC jointly learns a mel spectrogram encoder, quantizer and decoder. At…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Nicola Pia , Martin Strauss , Markus Multrus , Bernd Edler

State-of-the-art spoken dialogue models (D\'efossez et al. 2024; Schalkwyk et al. 2025) use neural audio codecs to "tokenize" audio signals into a lower-frequency stream of vectorial latent representations, each quantized using a hierarchy…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Juan Pablo Vigneaux , Jennifer Cole

Neural speech coding is a rapidly developing topic, where state-of-the-art approaches now exhibit superior compression performance than conventional methods. Despite significant progress, existing methods still have limitations in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Youqiang Zheng , Weiping Tu , Li Xiao , Xinmeng Xu

We propose \textbf{U-Codec}, an \textbf{U}ltra low frame-rate neural speech \textbf{Codec} that achieves high-fidelity reconstruction and fast speech generation at an extremely low frame-rate of 5Hz (5 frames per second). Extreme…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xusheng Yang , Long Zhou , Wenfu Wang , Kai Hu , Shulin Feng , Chenxing Li , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Yuexian Zou

Audio denoising is critical in signal processing, enhancing intelligibility and fidelity for applications like restoring musical recordings. This paper presents a proof-of-concept for adapting a state-of-the-art neural audio codec, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daniel Jimon , Mircea Vaida , Adriana Stan

Recent video codecs such as VVC and AV1 apply a Non-rectangular (NR) partitioning to combine prediction signals using a smooth blending around the boundary, followed by a rectangular transform on the whole block. The NR signal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Priyanka Das , Tim Classen , Mathias Wien

With increasing quality requirements for multimedia communications, audio codecs must maintain both high quality and low delay. Typically, audio codecs offer either low delay or high quality, but rarely both. We propose a codec that…

Audio coding is an essential module in the real-time communication system. Neural audio codecs can compress audio samples with a low bitrate due to the strong modeling and generative capabilities of deep neural networks. To address the poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Wenzhe Liu , Wei Xiao , Meng Wang , Shan Yang , Yupeng Shi , Yuyong Kang , Dan Su , Shidong Shang , Dong Yu

This work introduces TTS-Transducer - a novel architecture for text-to-speech, leveraging the strengths of audio codec models and neural transducers. Transducers, renowned for their superior quality and robustness in speech recognition, are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Vladimir Bataev , Subhankar Ghosh , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jason Li

In this article, we aim to detect the double compression of MPEG-4, a universal video codec that is built into surveillance systems and shooting devices. Double compression is accompanied by various types of video manipulation, and its…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Seung-Hun Nam , Wonhyuk Ahn , Myung-Joon Kwon , Jihyeon Kang , In-Jae Yu

Neural audio codecs provide compact discrete representations for speech generation and manipulation. However, most codecs organize tokens as frame-level sequences, making it difficult to study or intervene on global factors of variation. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Francesco Paissan , Luca Della Libera , Mirco Ravanelli , Cem Subakan

The rapid rise of real-time communication and large language models has significantly increased the importance of speech compression. Deep learning-based neural speech codecs have outperformed traditional signal-level speech codecs in terms…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Jun Xu , Zhengxue Cheng , Guangchuan Chi , Yuhan Liu , Yuelin Hu , Li Song

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

The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is the key step in many image and video coding standards. The 8-point DCT is an important special case, possessing several low-complexity approximations widely investigated. However, 16-point DCT…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-02-08 F. M. Bayer , R. J. Cintra , A. Edirisuriya , A. Madanayake

Neural Audio Codecs (NACs) can reduce transmission overhead by performing compact compression and reconstruction, which also aim to bridge the gap between continuous and discrete signals. Existing NACs can be divided into two categories:…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zhisheng Zhang , Xiang Li , Yixuan Zhou , Jing Peng , Shengbo Cai , Guoyang Zeng , Zhiyong Wu

This paper introduces a novel method for transmitting video data over noisy wireless channels with high efficiency and controllability. The method derivates from model division multiple access (MDMA) to extract common semantic features from…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Zhicheng Bao , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Cong Li , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang