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This paper explores a specific sub-task of cross-modal music retrieval. We consider the delicate task of retrieving a performance or rendition of a musical piece based on a description of its style, expressive character, or emotion from a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Shreyan Chowdhury , Gerhard Widmer

In recent years, text-to-speech (TTS) has seen impressive advancements through large-scale language models, achieving human-level speech quality. Integrating human feedback has proven effective for enhancing robustness in these systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Kangxiang Xia , Xinfa Zhu , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie

Learning a mapping between two unrelated domains-such as image and audio, without any supervision is a challenging task. In this work, we propose a distance-preserving generative adversarial model to translate images of human faces into an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Chelhwon Kim , Andrew Port , Mitesh Patel

In recent years, text-to-music models have been the biggest breakthrough in automatic music generation. While they are unquestionably a showcase of technological progress, it is not clear yet how they can be realistically integrated into…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Gabriele Perego , Fabio Antonacci

Text-To-Music (TTM) models have recently revolutionized the automatic music generation research field. Specifically, by reaching superior performances to all previous state-of-the-art models and by lowering the technical proficiency needed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Luca Comanducci , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro

The proliferation of Text-to-Music (TTM) platforms has democratized music creation, enabling users to effortlessly generate high-quality compositions. However, this innovation also presents new challenges to musicians and the broader music…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Nick Sunday

Audio-driven human gesture synthesis is a crucial task with broad applications in virtual avatars, human-computer interaction, and creative content generation. Despite notable progress, existing methods often produce gestures that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xukun Zhou , Fengxin Li , Ming Chen , Yan Zhou , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Yeying Jin , Zhaoxin Fan , Hongyan Liu , Jun He

Generative multimodal content is increasingly prevalent in much of the content creation arena, as it has the potential to allow artists and media personnel to create pre-production mockups by quickly bringing their ideas to life. The…

Text-to-audio generation (TTA) produces audio from a text description, learning from pairs of audio samples and hand-annotated text. However, commercializing audio generation is challenging as user-input prompts are often under-specified…

Current mainstream audio generation methods primarily rely on simple text prompts, often failing to capture the nuanced details necessary for multi-style audio generation. To address this limitation, the Sound Event Enhanced Prompt Adapter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Chenxu Xiong , Ruibo Fu , Shuchen Shi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Tao Wang , Chenxing Li , Chunyu Qiang , Yuankun Xie , Xin Qi , Guanjun Li , Zizheng Yang

Evaluating the realism of generated images remains a fundamental challenge in generative modeling. Existing distributional metrics such as the Frechet Inception Distance (FID) and CLIP-MMD (CMMD) compare feature distributions at a semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joé Napolitano , Pascal Nguyen

Objective assessment of audio source-separation systems still mismatches subjective human perception, especially when interference from competing talkers and distortion of the target signal interact. We introduce Perceptual Separation (PS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Amir Ivry , Samuele Cornell , Shinji Watanabe

Machine-generated music (MGM) has become a groundbreaking innovation with wide-ranging applications, such as music therapy, personalised editing, and creative inspiration within the music industry. However, the unregulated proliferation of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yupei Li , Qiyang Sun , Hanqian Li , Lucia Specia , Björn W. Schuller

This paper proposes music similarity representation learning (MSRL) based on individual instrument sounds (InMSRL) utilizing music source separation (MSS) and human preference without requiring clean instrument sounds during inference. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Takehiro Imamura , Yuka Hashizume , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

Robust recommendation aims at capturing true preference of users from noisy data, for which there are two lines of methods have been proposed. One is based on noise injection, and the other is to adopt the generative model Variational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Qiaomin Yi , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

The recent and increasing interest in video-language research has driven the development of large-scale datasets that enable data-intensive machine learning techniques. In comparison, limited effort has been made at assessing the fitness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Mattia Soldan , Alejandro Pardo , Juan León Alcázar , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Chen Zhao , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

To further improve the speaking styles of synthesized speeches, current text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems commonly employ reference speeches to stylize their outputs instead of just the input texts. These reference speeches are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yi Meng , Xiang Li , Zhiyong Wu , Tingtian Li , Zixun Sun , Xinyu Xiao , Chi Sun , Hui Zhan , Helen Meng

While the celebrated Word2Vec technique yields semantically rich representations for individual words, there has been relatively less success in extending to generate unsupervised sentences or documents embeddings. Recent work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Lingfei Wu , Ian E. H. Yen , Kun Xu , Fangli Xu , Avinash Balakrishnan , Pin-Yu Chen , Pradeep Ravikumar , Michael J. Witbrock

Although perceptual (dis)similarity between sensory stimuli seems akin to distance, measuring the Euclidean distance between vector representations of auditory stimuli is a poor estimator of subjective dissimilarity. In hearing, nonlinear…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-03 Sarah Oh , Elijah FW Bowen , Antonio Rodriguez , Damian Sowinski , Eva Childers , Annemarie Brown , Laura Ray , Richard Granger

Understanding the quality of a performance evaluation metric is crucial for ensuring that model outputs align with human preferences. However, it remains unclear how well each metric captures the diverse aspects of these preferences, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Genta Indra Winata , David Anugraha , Lucky Susanto , Garry Kuwanto , Derry Tanti Wijaya