English
Related papers

Related papers: User-guided Generative Source Separation

200 papers

Separating two sources from an audio mixture is an important task with many applications. It is a challenging problem since only one signal channel is available for analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for singing voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhe-Cheng Fan , Yen-Lin Lai , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

Music source separation is focused on extracting distinct sonic elements from composite tracks. Historically, many methods have been grounded in supervised learning, necessitating labeled data, which is occasionally constrained in its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Marco Pasini , Stefan Lattner , George Fazekas

An ideal music synthesizer should be both interactive and expressive, generating high-fidelity audio in realtime for arbitrary combinations of instruments and notes. Recent neural synthesizers have exhibited a tradeoff between…

This paper introduces a multi-stage self-directed framework designed to address the spatial semantic segmentation of sound scene (S5) task in the DCASE 2025 Task 4 challenge. This framework integrates models focused on three distinct tasks:…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Younghoo Kwon , Dongheon Lee , Dohwan Kim , Jung-Woo Choi

We provide an example of a distribution preserving source separation method, which aims at addressing perceptual shortcomings of state-of-the-art methods. Our approach uses unconditioned generative models of signal sources. Reconstruction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Pedro J. Villasana T. , Janusz Klejsa , Lars Villemoes , Per Hedelin

We propose a posterior sampling algorithm for the problem of estimating multiple independent source signals from their noisy superposition. The proposed algorithm is a combination of Gibbs sampling method and plug-and-play (PnP) diffusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Yi Zhang , Rui Guo , Yonina C. Eldar

Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

We propose Noise Conditional Variational Score Distillation (NCVSD), a novel method for distilling pretrained diffusion models into generative denoisers. We achieve this by revealing that the unconditional score function implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xinyu Peng , Ziyang Zheng , Yaoming Wang , Han Li , Nuowen Kan , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

To alleviate the reliance of deep neural networks on large-scale datasets, dataset distillation aims to generate compact, high-quality synthetic datasets that can achieve comparable performance to the original dataset. The integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Mingzhuo Li , Guang Li , Jiafeng Mao , Linfeng Ye , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Text-to-music (TTM) generation, which converts textual descriptions into audio, opens up innovative avenues for multimedia creation. Achieving high quality and diversity in this process demands extensive, high-quality data, which are often…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chang Li , Ruoyu Wang , Lijuan Liu , Jun Du , Yixuan Sun , Zilu Guo , Zhenrong Zhang , Yuan Jiang , Jianqing Gao , Feng Ma

Dataset distillation aims to synthesize a small dataset from a large dataset, enabling the model trained on it to perform well on the original dataset. With the blooming of large language models and multimodal large language models, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhenghao Zhao , Haoxuan Wang , Junyi Wu , Yuzhang Shang , Gaowen Liu , Yan Yan

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance for image generation, often times outperforming other generative models. Since their introduction, researchers have extended the powerful noise-to-image denoising pipeline to discriminative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

Multimodal music generation aims to produce music from diverse input modalities, including text, videos, and images. Existing methods use a common embedding space for multimodal fusion. Despite their effectiveness in other modalities, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Baisen Wang , Le Zhuo , Zhaokai Wang , Chenxi Bao , Wu Chengjing , Xuecheng Nie , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have shown incredible promise for zero shot image-to-image translation and editing. Most of these approaches work by combining or replacing network-specific features used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zeqi Gu , Ethan Yang , Abe Davis

In this paper, we propose GuideSR, a novel single-step diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) model specifically designed to enhance image fidelity. Existing diffusion-based SR approaches typically adapt pre-trained generative models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Aditya Arora , Zhengzhong Tu , Yufei Wang , Ruizheng Bai , Jian Wang , Sizhuo Ma

In this paper, we introduce a simple method that can separate arbitrary musical instruments from an audio mixture. Given an unaligned MIDI transcription for a target instrument from an input mixture, we synthesize new mixtures from the midi…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ethan Manilow , Bryan Pardo

Real-world audio recordings often contain multiple speakers and various degradations, which limit both the quantity and quality of speech data available for building state-of-the-art speech processing models. Although end-to-end approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kohei Asai , Wataru Nakata , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The goal of speech enhancement (SE) is to eliminate the background interference from the noisy speech signal. Generative models such as diffusion models (DM) have been applied to the task of SE because of better generalization in unseen…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wen Wang , Dongchao Yang , Qichen Ye , Bowen Cao , Yuexian Zou

While recommender systems have become an integral component of the Web experience, their heavy reliance on user data raises privacy and security concerns. Substituting user data with synthetic data can address these concerns, but accurately…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Derek Lilienthal , Paul Mello , Magdalini Eirinaki , Stas Tiomkin

Diffusion models without guidance generate very unrealistic samples. Guidance is used ubiquitously, and previous research has attributed its effect to low-temperature sampling that improves quality by trading off diversity. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shanchuan Lin , Xiao Yang