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Foley synthesis aims to synthesize high-quality audio that is both semantically and temporally aligned with video frames. Given its broad application in creative industries, the task has gained increasing attention in the research…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zhi Zhong , Akira Takahashi , Shuyang Cui , Keisuke Toyama , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

We study timbre transfer as an inference-time editing problem for music audio. Starting from a strong pre-trained latent diffusion model, we introduce a lightweight procedure that requires no additional training: (i) a dimension-wise noise…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ching Ho Lee , Javier Nistal , Stefan Lattner , Marco Pasini , George Fazekas

Generating multi-instrument music from symbolic music representations is an important task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). A central but still largely unsolved problem in this context is musically and acoustically informed control in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ben Maman , Johannes Zeitler , Meinard Müller , Amit H. Bermano

We introduce Diffusion-based Audio Captioning (DAC), a non-autoregressive diffusion model tailored for diverse and efficient audio captioning. Although existing captioning models relying on language backbones have achieved remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Manjie Xu , Chenxing Li , Xinyi Tu , Yong Ren , Ruibo Fu , Wei Liang , Dong Yu

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that have shown outstanding performance in image generation literature. As a consequence, studies have attempted to apply diffusion models to other tasks, such as speech enhancement. A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May

We introduce the Latent Fourier Transform (LatentFT), a framework that provides novel frequency-domain controls for generative music models. LatentFT combines a diffusion autoencoder with a latent-space Fourier transform to separate musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mason Wang , Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang

Directly sending audio signals from a transmitter to a receiver across a noisy channel may absorb consistent bandwidth and be prone to errors when trying to recover the transmitted bits. On the contrary, the recent semantic communication…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Eleonora Grassucci , Christian Marinoni , Andrea Rodriguez , Danilo Comminiello

Diffusion models have significantly reshaped the field of generative artificial intelligence and are now increasingly explored for their capacity in discriminative representation learning. Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has recently gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Changyu Liu , James Chenhao Liang , Wenhao Yang , Yiming Cui , Jinghao Yang , Tianyang Wang , Qifan Wang , Dongfang Liu , Cheng Han

Generative audio requires fine-grained controllable outputs, yet most existing methods require model retraining on specific controls or inference-time controls (\textit{e.g.}, guidance) that can also be computationally demanding. By…

Acoustic echo and background noise pose challenges on speech enhancement in hands-free systems and speakerphones. Discriminatively trained end-to-end methods represent a powerful solution for joint acoustic echo control (AEC) and denoising.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Haljan Lugo Girao , Ernst Seidel , Pejman Mowlaee , Ziyue Zhao , Tim Fingscheidt

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 advances in diffusion models have endowed talking head synthesis with subtle expressions and vivid head movements, but have also led to slow inference speed and insufficient control over generated results. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Tianqi Li , Ruobing Zheng , Minghui Yang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

In this paper we propose a novel generative approach, DiffRoll, to tackle automatic music transcription (AMT). Instead of treating AMT as a discriminative task in which the model is trained to convert spectrograms into piano rolls, we think…

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) enable high-quality audio synthesis but are often computationally intensive and require substantial storage, which limits their practical deployment. In this paper, we present a comprehensive evaluation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Tanmay Khandelwal , Magdalena Fuentes

Recent advancements in deep generative models present new opportunities for music production but also pose challenges, such as high computational demands and limited audio quality. Moreover, current systems frequently rely solely on text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Javier Nistal , Marco Pasini , Cyran Aouameur , Maarten Grachten , Stefan Lattner

Recently, the application of diffusion probabilistic models has advanced speech enhancement through generative approaches. However, existing diffusion-based methods have focused on the generation process in high-dimensional waveform or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Shengkui Zhao , Zexu Pan , Kun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Bin Ma

This paper presents CQT-Diff, a data-driven generative audio model that can, once trained, be used for solving various different audio inverse problems in a problem-agnostic setting. CQT-Diff is a neural diffusion model with an architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Eloi Moliner , Jaakko Lehtinen , Vesa Välimäki

We propose a highly controllable voice manipulation system that can perform any-to-any voice conversion (VC) and prosody modulation simultaneously. State-of-the-art VC systems can transfer sentence-level characteristics such as speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Kyungguen Byun , Sunkuk Moon , Erik Visser

Diffusion models are instrumental in text-to-audio (TTA) generation. Unfortunately, they suffer from slow inference due to an excessive number of queries to the underlying denoising network per generation. To address this bottleneck, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yatong Bai , Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida , Somayeh Sojoudi

Latent diffusion models have shown promising results in audio generation, making notable advancements over traditional methods. However, their performance, while impressive with short audio clips, faces challenges when extended to longer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zhenxiong Tan , Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang