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Existing works have made strides in video generation, but the lack of sound effects (SFX) and background music (BGM) hinders a complete and immersive viewer experience. We introduce a novel semantically consistent v ideo-to-audio generation…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Gehui Chen , Guan'an Wang , Xiaowen Huang , Jitao Sang

Audio tokenizers are fundamental to unifying audio understanding and generation. Understanding requires high-level semantics, while generation demands semantic and acoustic details. Existing unified tokenizers jointly encode both in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Zhisheng Zhang , Xiang Li , Yixuan Zhou , Jing Peng , Guoyang Zeng , Zhiyong Wu

The recent success in StyleGAN demonstrates that pre-trained StyleGAN latent space is useful for realistic video generation. However, the generated motion in the video is usually not semantically meaningful due to the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Seung Hyun Lee , Gyeongrok Oh , Wonmin Byeon , Chanyoung Kim , Won Jeong Ryoo , Sang Ho Yoon , Hyunjun Cho , Jihyun Bae , Jinkyu Kim , Sangpil Kim

Latent representations are at the heart of the majority of modern generative models. In the audio domain they are typically produced by a neural-audio-codec autoencoder. In this work we introduce SAME (Semantically-Aligned Music…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Julian D. Parker , Zach Evans , CJ Carr , Zachary Zukowski , Josiah Taylor , Matthew Rice , Jordi Pons

In recent times, the focus on text-to-audio (TTA) generation has intensified, as researchers strive to synthesize audio from textual descriptions. However, most existing methods, though leveraging latent diffusion models to learn the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Shentong Mo , Jing Shi , Yapeng Tian

Traditional video-to-audio generation techniques primarily focus on perspective video and non-spatial audio, often missing the spatial cues necessary for accurately representing sound sources in 3D environments. To address this limitation,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Huadai Liu , Tianyi Luo , Kaicheng Luo , Qikai Jiang , Peiwen Sun , Jialei Wang , Rongjie Huang , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Xiangtai Li , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan , Zhou Zhao , Wei Xue

Text-to-audio (TTA), which generates audio signals from textual descriptions, has received huge attention in recent years. However, recent works focused on text to monaural audio only. As we know, spatial audio provides more immersive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Lei Zhao , Sizhou Chen , Linfeng Feng , Jichao Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are widely used in natural language generation due to the regularization of the latent space. However, generating sentences from the continuous latent space does not explicitly model the syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Yu Bao , Hao Zhou , Shujian Huang , Lei Li , Lili Mou , Olga Vechtomova , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Although audio generation has been widely studied over recent years, video-aligned audio generation still remains a relatively unexplored frontier. To address this gap, we introduce StereoSync, a novel and efficient model designed to…

Despite progress in video-to-audio generation, the field focuses predominantly on mono output, lacking spatial immersion. Existing binaural approaches remain constrained by a two-stage pipeline that first generates mono audio and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Mengchen Zhang , Qi Chen , Tong Wu , Zihan Liu , Dahua Lin

While mel-spectrograms have been widely utilized as intermediate representations in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS), their inherent redundancy leads to inefficiency in learning text-speech alignment. Compact VAE-based latent representations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Zhikang Niu , Shujie Hu , Jeongsoo Choi , Yushen Chen , Peining Chen , Pengcheng Zhu , Yunting Yang , Bowen Zhang , Jian Zhao , Chunhui Wang , Xie Chen

Text-to-audio (TTA) systems have recently demonstrated strong performance in synthesizing monaural audio from text. However, the task of generating binaural spatial audio from text, which provides a more immersive auditory experience by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Linfeng Feng , Lei Zhao , Boyu Zhu , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Xuelong Li

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in mono-channel audio generation. However, when it comes to stereo audio generation, the soundscapes often have a complex scene of multiple objects and directions. Controlling stereo…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Peiwen Sun , Sitong Cheng , Xiangtai Li , Zhen Ye , Huadai Liu , Honggang Zhang , Wei Xue , Yike Guo

Spatial audio understanding is essential for accurately perceiving and interpreting acoustic environments. However, existing audio-language models exhibit limitations in processing spatial audio and perceiving spatial acoustic scenes. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Zhenbo Luo , Jun Yang

Imagine being able to listen to the birds chirping in a park without hearing the chatter from other hikers, or being able to block out traffic noise on a busy street while still being able to hear emergency sirens and car honks. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Bandhav Veluri , Malek Itani , Justin Chan , Takuya Yoshioka , Shyamnath Gollakota

How does audio describe the world around us? In this work, we propose a method for generating images of visual scenes from diverse in-the-wild sounds. This cross-modal generation task is challenging due to the significant information gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Kim Sung-Bin , Arda Senocak , Hyunwoo Ha , Tae-Hyun Oh

While many text-to-audio systems produce monophonic or fixed-stereo outputs, generating audio with user-defined spatial properties remains a challenge. Existing deep learning-based spatialization methods often rely on latent-space…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tutti Chi , Letian Gao , Yixiao Zhang

This work pioneers the utilization of generative features in enhancing audio understanding. Unlike conventional discriminative features that directly optimize posterior and thus emphasize semantic abstraction while losing fine grained…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zeyu Xie , Chenxing Li , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Wenfu Wang , Ruibo Fu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Yuexian Zou

Prevailing Video-to-Audio (V2A) generation models operate offline, assuming an entire video sequence or chunks of frames are available beforehand. This critically limits their use in interactive applications such as live content creation…

Sound effect editing-modifying audio by adding, removing, or replacing elements-remains constrained by existing approaches that rely solely on low-level signal processing or coarse text prompts, often resulting in limited flexibility and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xinyue Guo , Xiaoran Yang , Lipan Zhang , Jianxuan Yang , Zhao Wang , Jian Luan