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Most current zero-shot voice conversion methods rely on externally supervised components, particularly speaker encoders, for training. To explore alternatives that eliminate this dependency, this paper introduces GenVC, a novel framework…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Zexin Cai , Henry Li Xinyuan , Ashi Garg , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Matthew Wiesner , Nicholas Andrews

This paper tackles GAN optimization and stability issues in the context of voice conversion. First, to simplify the conversion task, we propose to use spectral envelopes as inputs. Second we propose two adversarial weight training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Rafael Ferro , Nicolas Obin , Axel Roebel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn a deep generative model that is able to synthesise novel, high-dimensional data samples. New data samples are synthesised by passing latent samples, drawn from a chosen prior distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Antonia Creswell , Anil A Bharath

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have significantly advanced image synthesis through mapping randomly sampled latent codes to high-fidelity synthesized images. However, applying well-trained GANs to real image editing remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jiapeng Zhu , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu , Deli Zhao , Qifeng Chen , Bolei Zhou

We propose a parallel-data-free voice-conversion (VC) method that can learn a mapping from source to target speech without relying on parallel data. The proposed method is general purpose, high quality, and parallel-data free and works…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-21 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka

In medical imaging, a general problem is that it is costly and time consuming to collect high quality data from healthy and diseased subjects. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) is a deep learning method that has been developed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Per Welander , Simon Karlsson , Anders Eklund

In recent years, deep learning based generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Diffusion Models (DMs), have been instrumental in in generating diverse, high-quality content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shamim Yazdani , Akansha Singh , Nripsuta Saxena , Zichong Wang , Avash Palikhe , Deng Pan , Umapada Pal , Jie Yang , Wenbin Zhang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have an enormous potential impact on digital content creation, e.g., photo-realistic digital avatars, semantic content editing, and quality enhancement of speech and images. However, the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Pavel Andreev , Alexander Fritzler , Dmitry Vetrov

Factorizing speech as disentangled speech representations is vital to achieve highly controllable style transfer in voice conversion (VC). Conventional speech representation learning methods in VC only factorize speech as speaker and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Jie Wang , Jingbei Li , Xintao Zhao , Zhiyong Wu , Shiyin Kang , Helen Meng

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have received wide attention in the machine learning field for their potential to learn high-dimensional, complex real data distribution. Specifically, they do not rely on any assumptions about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Yongjun Hong , Uiwon Hwang , Jaeyoon Yoo , Sungroh Yoon

Since their inception in 2014, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have rapidly emerged as powerful tools for generating realistic and diverse data across various domains, including computer vision and other applied areas. Consisting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tanujit Chakraborty , Ujjwal Reddy K S , Shraddha M. Naik , Madhurima Panja , Bayapureddy Manvitha

In general, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is significantly degraded due to the mismatch between training and test environments. Recently, a deep-learning-based image-to-image translation technique to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-15 Jong-Hyeon Park , Myungwoo Oh , Hyung-Min Park

Research on deep learning-powered voice conversion (VC) in speech-to-speech scenarios is getting increasingly popular. Although many of the works in the field of voice conversion share a common global pipeline, there is a considerable…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Anders R. Bargum , Stefania Serafin , Cumhur Erkut

Video super-resolution (VSR) has become one of the most critical problems in video processing. In the deep learning literature, recent works have shown the benefits of using adversarial-based and perceptual losses to improve the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Alice Lucas , Santiago Lopez Tapia , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Face aging, which aims at aesthetically rendering a given face to predict its future appearance, has received significant research attention in recent years. Although great progress has been achieved with the success of Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Yunfan Liu , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to convert the emotional style of a source speech signal to a target style while preserving its content and speaker identity information. Previous emotional conversion studies do not disentangle…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Xiangheng He , Junjie Chen , Georgios Rizos , Björn W. Schuller

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been effective for learning generative models for real-world data. However, existing GANs (GAN and its variants) tend to suffer from training problems such as instability and mode collapse. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Chaoyue Wang , Chang Xu , Xin Yao , Dacheng Tao

Medical image processing has been highlighted as an area where deep learning-based models have the greatest potential. However, in the medical field in particular, problems of data availability and privacy are hampering research progress…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Christoph Angermann , Johannes Bereiter-Payr , Kerstin Stock , Markus Haltmeier , Gerald Degenhart

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize realistic images from a random latent vector. While many studies have explored various training configurations and architectures for GANs, the problem of inverting a generative model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nicky Bayat , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Audio codecs are typically transform-domain based and efficiently code stationary audio signals, but they struggle with speech and signals containing dense transient events such as applause. Specifically, with these two classes of signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Arijit Biswas , Dai Jia