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Self-supervised speech pre-training methods have developed rapidly in recent years, which show to be very effective for many near-field single-channel speech tasks. However, far-field multichannel speech processing is suffering from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Qiushi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai

Video-conditioned audio generation, including Video-to-Sound (V2S) and Visual Text-to-Speech (VisualTTS), has traditionally been treated as distinct tasks, leaving the potential for a unified generative framework largely underexplored. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Xin Cheng , Yuyue Wang , Xihua Wang , Yihan Wu , Kaisi Guan , Yijing Chen , Peng Zhang , Xiaojiang Liu , Meng Cao , Ruihua Song

A key challenge in synthesizing audios from silent videos is the inherent trade-off between synthesis quality and inference efficiency in existing methods. For instance, flow matching based models rely on modeling instantaneous velocity,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiaoran Yang , Jianxuan Yang , Xinyue Guo , Haoyu Wang , Ningning Pan , Gongping Huang

Vision-language models have been key to the development of open-vocabulary 2D semantic segmentation. Lifting these models from 2D images to 3D scenes, however, remains a challenging problem. Existing approaches typically back-project and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tomas Berriel Martins , Martin R. Oswald , Javier Civera

The goal of this paper is to provide a new perspective on speech modeling by incorporating perceptual invariances such as amplitude scaling and temporal shifts. Conventional generative formulations often treat each dataset sample as a fixed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Doyeop Kwak , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

Video and audio are closely correlated modalities that humans naturally perceive together. While recent advancements have enabled the generation of audio or video from text, producing both modalities simultaneously still typically relies on…

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to transfer the timbre from the source speaker to an arbitrary unseen speaker while preserving the original linguistic content. Despite recent advancements in zero-shot VC using language model-based or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Jixun Yao , Yuguang Yang , Yu Pan , Ziqian Ning , Jiaohao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Xie

We introduce AV-Flow, an audio-visual generative model that animates photo-realistic 4D talking avatars given only text input. In contrast to prior work that assumes an existing speech signal, we synthesize speech and vision jointly. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Aggelina Chatziagapi , Louis-Philippe Morency , Hongyu Gong , Michael Zollhoefer , Dimitris Samaras , Alexander Richard

We present an Audio-Visual Language Model (AVLM) for expressive speech generation by integrating full-face visual cues into a pre-trained expressive speech model. We explore multiple visual encoders and multimodal fusion strategies during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Weiting Tan , Jiachen Lian , Hirofumi Inaguma , Paden Tomasello , Philipp Koehn , Xutai Ma

Recent studies in speech-driven talking face generation achieve promising results, but their reliance on fixed-driven speech limits further applications (e.g., face-voice mismatch). Thus, we extend the task to a more challenging setting:…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Fang Kang , Yin Cao , Haoyu Chen

Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) is an emerging task that aims to accurately segment sounding objects based on audio-visual cues. The success of AVS learning systems depends on the effectiveness of cross-modal interaction. Such a requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yuanhong Chen , Chong Wang , Yuyuan Liu , Hu Wang , Gustavo Carneiro

Conditional flow matching (CFM) stands out as an efficient, simulation-free approach for training flow-based generative models, achieving remarkable performance for data generation. However, CFM is insufficient to ensure accuracy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Taos Transue , Shih-Hsin Wang , William Feldman , Hong Zhang , Bao Wang

In voice conversion (VC) applications, diffusion and flow-matching models have exhibited exceptional speech quality and speaker similarity performances. However, they are limited by slow conversion owing to their iterative inference.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

Recent diffusion and flow matching models have demonstrated strong capabilities in image generation and editing by progressively removing noise through iterative sampling. While this enables flexible inversion for semantic-preserving edits,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yasong Dai , Zeeshan Hayder , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Hongdong Li

Voice Conversion research in recent times has increasingly focused on improving the zero-shot capabilities of existing methods. Despite remarkable advancements, current architectures still tend to struggle in zero-shot cross-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Advait Joglekar , Divyanshu Singh , Rooshil Rohit Bhatia , S. Umesh

Video dubbing requires content accuracy, expressive prosody, high-quality acoustics, and precise lip synchronization, yet existing approaches struggle on all four fronts. To address these issues, we propose DiFlowDubber, the first video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Thanh V. T. Tran , Jeongsoo Choi , Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy , Van Nguyen

This paper presents a novel task, zero-shot voice conversion based on face images (zero-shot FaceVC), which aims at converting the voice characteristics of an utterance from any source speaker to a newly coming target speaker, solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zheng-Yan Sheng , Yang Ai , Yan-Nian Chen , Zhen-Hua Ling

We introduce and explore a new multimodal input representation for vision-language models: acoustic field video. Unlike conventional video (RGB with stereo/mono audio), our video stream provides a spatially grounded visualization of sound…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Daehwa Kim , Chris Harrison

We present MGAudio, a novel flow-based framework for open-domain video-to-audio generation, which introduces model-guided dual-role alignment as a central design principle. Unlike prior approaches that rely on classifier-based or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Kang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Suyeon Lee , Axi Niu , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) incorporates auditory and visual modalities to improve recognition accuracy, particularly in noisy environments where audio-only speech systems are insufficient. While previous research has largely…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Sungnyun Kim , Sungwoo Cho , Sangmin Bae , Kangwook Jang , Se-Young Yun