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Synchronous systems provide a basic model of embedded systems and industrial systems are modeled as Simulink diagrams and/or Lustre programs. Although the test generation problem is critical in the development of safe systems, it often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Daisuke Ishii , Takashi Tomita , Kenji Onishi , Toshiaki Aoki

We introduce ACE-Step, a novel open-source foundation model for music generation that overcomes key limitations of existing approaches and achieves state-of-the-art performance through a holistic architectural design. Current methods face…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Junmin Gong , Sean Zhao , Sen Wang , Shengyuan Xu , Joe Guo

We present a new model for singing synthesis based on a modified version of the WaveNet architecture. Instead of modeling raw waveform, we model features produced by a parametric vocoder that separates the influence of pitch and timbre.…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada

We present a hybrid neural network and rule-based system that generates pop music. Music produced by pure rule-based systems often sounds mechanical. Music produced by machine learning sounds better, but still lacks hierarchical temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Yifei Teng , An Zhao , Camille Goudeseune

The Talking Face Generation task has enormous potential for various applications in digital humans and agents, etc. Singing, as a common facial movement second only to talking, can be regarded as a universal language across ethnicities and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhilin Gao , Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Yucheng Zhu , Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai

Recent progress in deep learning for audio synthesis opens the way to models that directly produce the waveform, shifting away from the traditional paradigm of relying on vocoders or MIDI synthesizers for speech or music generation. Despite…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Alexandre Défossez , Neil Zeghidour , Nicolas Usunier , Léon Bottou , Francis Bach

Text-to-image generative models have achieved remarkable visual quality but still struggle with compositionality$-$accurately capturing object relationships, attribute bindings, and fine-grained details in prompts. A key limitation is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Arman Zarei , Jiacheng Pan , Matthew Gwilliam , Soheil Feizi , Zhenheng Yang

Autoregressive (AR) models excel at generating temporally coherent audio by producing tokens sequentially, yet they often falter in faithfully following complex textual prompts, especially those describing complex sound events. We uncover a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Juncheng Wang , Zhe Hu , Chao Xu , Siyue Ren , Yuxiang Feng , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Shujun Wang

Providing soundtracks for videos remains a costly and time-consuming challenge for multimedia content creators. We introduce EMSYNC, an automatic video-based symbolic music generator that creates music aligned with a video's emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Serkan Sulun , Paula Viana , Matthew E. P. Davies

Due to the lack of effective cross-modal modeling, existing open-source audio-video generation methods often exhibit compromised lip synchronization and insufficient semantic consistency. To mitigate these drawbacks, we propose UniAVGen, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Guozhen Zhang , Zixiang Zhou , Teng Hu , Ziqiao Peng , Youliang Zhang , Yi Chen , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Limin Wang

Generative systems of musical accompaniments are rapidly growing, yet there are no standardized metrics to evaluate how well generations align with the conditional audio prompt. We introduce a distribution-based measure called…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Maarten Grachten , Javier Nistal

A vocoder is a conditional audio generation model that converts acoustic features such as mel-spectrograms into waveforms. Taking inspiration from Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP), we propose a new vocoder named SawSing for…

Generating stylized talking head with diverse head motions is crucial for achieving natural-looking videos but still remains challenging. Previous works either adopt a regressive method to capture the speaking style, resulting in a coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji , Yu Ding , Ye Pan

We introduce VampNet, a masked acoustic token modeling approach to music synthesis, compression, inpainting, and variation. We use a variable masking schedule during training which allows us to sample coherent music from the model by…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hugo Flores Garcia , Prem Seetharaman , Rithesh Kumar , Bryan Pardo

The present paper describes a singing voice synthesis based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Singing voice synthesis systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) are currently being proposed and are improving the naturalness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Kazuhiro Nakamura , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda

This paper summarizes the ICASSP 2026 Automatic Song Aesthetics Evaluation (ASAE) Challenge, which focuses on predicting the subjective aesthetic scores of AI-generated songs. The challenge consists of two tracks: Track 1 targets the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Guobin Ma , Yuxuan Xia , Jixun Yao , Huixin Xue , Hexin Liu , Shuai Wang , Hao Liu , Lei Xie

We propose a unified framework for Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) and Conversion (SVC), addressing the limitations of existing approaches in cross-domain SVS/SVC, poor output musicality, and scarcity of singing data. Our framework enables…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shuqi Dai , Yunyun Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg , Zeyu Jin

Access to multiple predictive models trained for the same task, whether in regression or classification, is increasingly common in many applications. Aggregating their predictive uncertainties to produce reliable and efficient uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Nabil Alami , Jad Zakharia , Souhaib Ben Taieb

State-of-the-art Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion models can generate visually impressive results, yet they still frequently fail to compose complex scenes or follow logical temporal instructions. In this paper, we argue that many errors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mariam Hassan , Bastien Van Delft , Wuyang Li , Alexandre Alahi

High-quality singing annotations are fundamental to modern Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) systems. However, obtaining these annotations at scale through manual labeling is unrealistic due to the substantial labor and musical expertise…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yukun Chen , Tianrui Wang , Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , EngSiong Chng