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The performance of deep neural network-based speech enhancement systems typically increases with the training dataset size. However, studies that investigated the effect of training dataset size on speech enhancement performance did not…

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Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are widely utilized to model the generative process of user interactions. However, these generative models suffer from intrinsic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Wenjie Wang , Yiyan Xu , Fuli Feng , Xinyu Lin , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

Diffusion-based generative models have recently achieved remarkable results in speech and vocal enhancement due to their ability to model complex speech data distributions. While these models generalize well to unseen acoustic environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yudong Yang , Zhan Liu , Wenyi Yu , Guangzhi Sun , Qiuqiang Kong , Chao Zhang

The recent surge in popularity of diffusion models for image generation has brought new attention to the potential of these models in other areas of media generation. One area that has yet to be fully explored is the application of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Flavio Schneider

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which addresses both families of tasks simultaneously. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Yosuke Yamaguchi , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Tianyi Zhou , Jun Ohya , Abhinav Shrivastava

With recent advances of diffusion model, generative speech enhancement (SE) has attracted a surge of research interest due to its great potential for unseen testing noises. However, existing efforts mainly focus on inherent properties of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Ruizhe Li , Qiushi Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

We propose a multi-stage framework for universal speech enhancement, designed for the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge. Our system first employs a Sparse Compression Network to robustly separate sources and extract an initial clean speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nabarun Goswami , Tatsuya Harada

Speech enhancement involves the distinction of a target speech signal from an intrusive background. Although generative approaches using Variational Autoencoders or Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have increasingly been used in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Martin Strauss , Bernd Edler

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Diffusion models have gained attention in speech enhancement tasks, providing an alternative to conventional discriminative methods. However, research on target speech extraction under multi-speaker noisy conditions remains relatively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Leying Zhang , Yao Qian , Linfeng Yu , Heming Wang , Hemin Yang , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian

One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Senmao Li , Taihang Hu , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Tao Liu , Linxuan Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are challenging to train stably, and a promising remedy of injecting instance noise into the discriminator input has not been very effective in practice. In this paper, we propose Diffusion-GAN, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhendong Wang , Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Deep neural network (DNN) based speech enhancement models have attracted extensive attention due to their promising performance. However, it is difficult to deploy a powerful DNN in real-time applications because of its high computational…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xiaohuai Le , Tong Lei , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

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

Diffusion models have recently set new benchmarks in Speech Enhancement (SE). However, most existing score-based models treat speech spectrograms merely as generic 2D images, applying uniform processing that ignores the intrinsic structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ke Xue , Rongfei Fan , Kai Li , Shanping Yu , Puning Zhao , Jianping An

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Invariance to microphone array configuration is a rare attribute in neural beamformers. Filter-and-sum (FS) methods in this class define the target signal with respect to a reference channel. However, this not only complicates formulation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Anton Kovalyov , Kashyap Patel , Issa Panahi

Audio-visual saliency prediction can draw support from diverse modality complements, but further performance enhancement is still challenged by customized architectures as well as task-specific loss functions. In recent studies, denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Junwen Xiong , Peng Zhang , Tao You , Chuanyue Li , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha

Semantic communication is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Speech enhancement is designed to enhance the intelligibility and quality of speech across diverse noise conditions. Recently, diffusion model has gained lots of attention in speech enhancement area, achieving competitive results. Current…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Chengzhong Wang , Jianjun Gu , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li , Yonghong Yan