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For music indexing robust to sound degradations and scalable for big music catalogs, this scientific report presents an approach based on audio descriptors relevant to the music content and invariant to sound transformations (noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Rémi Mignot , Geoffroy Peeters

Regression prediction plays a crucial role in practical applications and strongly relies on data annotation. However, due to prohibitive annotation costs or domain-specific constraints, labeled data in the target domain is often scarce,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-25 Bingbing Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Yu Tang

Model distillation typically focuses on behavioral mimicry, where a student model is trained to replicate a teacher's output while treating its internal computations as a black box. In this work we propose an alternative approach:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Somin Wadhwa , Silvio Amir , Byron C. Wallace

In target speaker extraction, many studies rely on the speaker embedding which is obtained from an enrollment of the target speaker and employed as the guidance. However, solely using speaker embedding may not fully utilize the contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Xue Yang , Changchun Bao , Jing Zhou , Xianhong Chen

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on clean inputs. Although many attack methods can achieve high success rates in the white-box setting, they also exhibit weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhijin Ge , Fanhua Shang , Hongying Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Liang Wan , Wei Feng , Xiaosen Wang

This paper proposes a method for generating images of customized objects specified by users. The method is based on a general framework that bypasses the lengthy optimization required by previous approaches, which often employ a per-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Xuhui Jia , Yang Zhao , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yandong Li , Han Zhang , Boqing Gong , Tingbo Hou , Huisheng Wang , Yu-Chuan Su

End-to-end neural TTS has shown improved performance in speech style transfer. However, the improvement is still limited by the available training data in both target styles and speakers. Additionally, degenerated performance is observed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xiaochun An , Frank K. Soong , Lei Xie

Using more test-time computation during language model inference, such as generating more intermediate thoughts or sampling multiple candidate answers, has proven effective in significantly improving model performance. This paper takes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Xingwu Chen , Miao Lu , Beining Wu , Difan Zou

With the similarity between music and speech synthesis from symbolic input and the rapid development of text-to-speech (TTS) techniques, it is worthwhile to explore ways to improve the MIDI-to-audio performance by borrowing from TTS…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xuan Shi , Erica Cooper , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Shrikanth Narayanan

Recently deep learning based recommendation systems have been actively explored to solve the cold-start problem using a hybrid approach. However, the majority of previous studies proposed a hybrid model where collaborative filtering and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jongpil Lee , Kyungyun Lee , Jiyoung Park , Jangyeon Park , Juhan Nam

Today, the optimal performance of existing noise-suppression algorithms, both data-driven and those based on classic statistical methods, is range bound to specific levels of instantaneous input signal-to-noise ratios. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Rasool Fakoor , Xiaodong He , Ivan Tashev , Shuayb Zarar

In image editing tasks, high-quality text editing capabilities can significantly reduce both human and material resource costs. Existing methods, however, face significant limitations in terms of stroke accuracy for complex text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhenyu Yan , Jian Wang , Aoqiang Wang , Yuhan Li , Wenxiang Shang , Ran Lin

While diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in style transfer tasks, existing methods typically rely on fine-tuning or optimizing pre-trained models during inference, leading to high computational costs and challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bo Huang , Wenlun Xu , Qizhuo Han , Haodong Jing , Ying Li

Audio classification models, particularly the Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST), play a crucial role in efficient audio analysis. However, optimizing their efficiency without compromising accuracy remains a challenge. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Swarup Ranjan Behera , Abhishek Dhiman , Karthik Gowda , Aalekhya Satya Narayani

Fine-tuning is a widely used strategy for adapting pre-trained models to new tasks, yet its methodology and theoretical properties in high-dimensional nonparametric settings with variable selection have not yet been developed. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Jinhang Chai , Jianqing Fan , Cheng Gao , Qishuo Yin

Coloring line art images based on the colors of reference images is an important stage in animation production, which is time-consuming and tedious. In this paper, we propose a deep architecture to automatically color line art videos with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Min Shi , Jia-Qi Zhang , Shu-Yu Chen , Lin Gao , Yu-Kun Lai , Fang-Lue Zhang

Recently, Transformers have been introduced into the field of acoustics recognition. They are pre-trained on large-scale datasets using methods such as supervised learning and semi-supervised learning, demonstrating robust generality--It…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yun Liang , Hai Lin , Shaojian Qiu , Yihang Zhang

Style transfer deals with the algorithms to transfer the stylistic properties of a piece of text into that of another while ensuring that the core content is preserved. There has been a lot of interest in the field of text style transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Abhilasha Sancheti , Kundan Krishna , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Anandhavelu Natarajan

While modern TTS technologies have made significant advancements in audio quality, there is still a lack of behavior naturalness compared to conversing with people. We propose a style-embedded TTS system that generates styled responses…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Yang Gao , Weiyi Zheng , Zhaojun Yang , Thilo Kohler , Christian Fuegen , Qing He

Consumer-grade music recordings such as those captured by mobile devices typically contain distortions in the form of background noise, reverb, and microphone-induced EQ. This paper presents a deep learning approach to enhance low-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Nikhil Kandpal , Oriol Nieto , Zeyu Jin