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Neural audio codecs have made significant strides in efficiently mapping raw audio waveforms into discrete token representations, which are foundational for contemporary audio generative models. However, most existing codecs are optimized…

In this study we present a mixture of deep experts (MoDE) neural-network architecture for single microphone speech enhancement. Our architecture comprises a set of deep neural networks (DNNs), each of which is an 'expert' in a different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Shlomo E. Chazan , Jacob Goldberger , Sharon Gannot

Despite the tremendous progress of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) in developing vision tasks such as image and video, exploring MAE in large-scale 3D point clouds remains challenging due to the inherent irregularity. In contrast to previous 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Honghui Yang , Tong He , Jiaheng Liu , Hua Chen , Boxi Wu , Binbin Lin , Xiaofei He , Wanli Ouyang

Masked graph autoencoder (MGAE) has emerged as a promising self-supervised graph pre-training (SGP) paradigm due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, existing efforts perform the mask-then-reconstruct operation in the raw data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Wenxuan Tu , Qing Liao , Sihang Zhou , Xin Peng , Chuan Ma , Zhe Liu , Xinwang Liu , Zhiping Cai

It is promising to design a single model that can suppress various distortions and improve speech quality, i.e., universal speech enhancement (USE). Compared to supervised learning-based predictive methods, diffusion-based generative models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Jie Zhang , Haoyin Yan , Xiaofei Li

Robust content moderation requires classification systems that can quickly adapt to evolving policies without costly retraining. We present classification using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which shifts traditional classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Richard Willats , Josh Pennington , Aravind Mohan , Bertie Vidgen

The rapid advancement of spoofing algorithms necessitates the development of robust detection methods capable of accurately identifying emerging fake audio. Traditional approaches, such as finetuning on new datasets containing these novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xiaohui Zhang , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Chenlong Wang , Le Xu , Ruibo Fu

Audio classification and restoration are among major downstream tasks in audio signal processing. However, restoration derives less of a benefit from pretrained models compared to the overwhelming success of pretrained models in…

Noise suppression and echo cancellation are critical in speech enhancement and essential for smart devices and real-time communication. Deployed in voice processing front-ends and edge devices, these algorithms must ensure efficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Kaijun Tan , Benzhe Dai , Jiakui Li , Wenyu Mao

Text-to-audio generation synthesizes realistic sounds or music given a natural language prompt. Diffusion-based frameworks, including the Tango and the AudioLDM series, represent the state-of-the-art in text-to-audio generation. Despite…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kuan-Po Huang , Shu-wen Yang , Huy Phan , Bo-Ru Lu , Byeonggeun Kim , Sashank Macha , Qingming Tang , Shalini Ghosh , Hung-yi Lee , Chieh-Chi Kao , Chao Wang

Recent autoregressive transformer-based speech enhancement (SE) methods have shown promising results by leveraging advanced semantic understanding and contextual modeling of speech. However, these approaches often rely on complex…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Frédéric Berdoz , Antonis Asonitis , Roger Wattenhofer

In this paper we present a single-microphone speech enhancement algorithm. A hybrid approach is proposed merging the generative mixture of Gaussians (MoG) model and the discriminative neural network (NN). The proposed algorithm is executed…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Shlomo E. Chazan , Jacob Goldberger , Sharon Gannot

Masked AutoEncoders (MAE) have emerged as a robust self-supervised framework, offering remarkable performance across a wide range of downstream tasks. To increase the difficulty of the pretext task and learn richer visual representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Carlos Hinojosa , Shuming Liu , Bernard Ghanem

Speech enhancement in hearing aids remains a difficult task in nonstationary acoustic environments, mainly because current signal processing algorithms rely on fixed, manually tuned parameters that cannot adapt in situ to different users or…

Recent studies in neural network-based monaural speech separation (SS) have achieved a remarkable success thanks to increasing ability of long sequence modeling. However, they would degrade significantly when put under realistic noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Heqing Zou , Xionghu Zhong , Eng Siong Chng

Current speech enhancement techniques operate on the spectral domain and/or exploit some higher-level feature. The majority of them tackle a limited number of noise conditions and rely on first-order statistics. To circumvent these issues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà

We propose EMAGE, a framework to generate full-body human gestures from audio and masked gestures, encompassing facial, local body, hands, and global movements. To achieve this, we first introduce BEAT2 (BEAT-SMPLX-FLAME), a new mesh-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Haiyang Liu , Zihao Zhu , Giorgio Becherini , Yichen Peng , Mingyang Su , You Zhou , Xuefei Zhe , Naoya Iwamoto , Bo Zheng , Michael J. Black

Virtual humans have gained considerable attention in numerous industries, e.g., entertainment and e-commerce. As a core technology, synthesizing photorealistic face frames from target speech and facial identity has been actively studied…

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have recently been shown to be efficient for speech enhancement. However, most, if not all, existing speech enhancement GANs (SEGAN) make use of a single generator to perform one-stage enhancement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Huy Phan , Ian V. McLoughlin , Lam Pham , Oliver Y. Chén , Philipp Koch , Maarten De Vos , Alfred Mertins

Recent advancements in Neural Audio Codec (NAC) models have inspired their use in various speech processing tasks, including speech enhancement (SE). In this work, we propose a novel, efficient SE approach by leveraging the pre-quantization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Haoyang Li , Jia Qi Yip , Tianyu Fan , Eng Siong Chng