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Diffusion/score-based models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems, including accelerated MRI reconstruction. While their flexibility allows decoupling the measurement model from the learned prior,…

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The demand for keeping the information secure and confidential simultaneously has been progressively increasing. Among various techniques- Audio Steganography, a technique of embedding information transparently in a digital media thereby…

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Diffusion models have recently been shown to be relevant for high-quality speech generation. Most work has been focused on generating spectrograms, and as such, they further require a subsequent model to convert the spectrogram to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roi Benita , Michael Elad , Joseph Keshet

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. Therefore, these models are impractical for processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Timo Gerkmann

With the development of audio playback devices and fast data transmission, the demand for high sound quality is rising for both entertainment and communications. In this quest for better sound quality, challenges emerge from distortions and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Eloi Moliner , Vesa Välimäki , Timo Gerkmann

The Inversion-Denoising Paradigm, which is based on diffusion models, excels in diverse image editing and restoration tasks. We revisit its mechanism and reveal a critical, overlooked factor in reconstruction degradation: the approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenshuo Chen , Haosen Li , Shaofeng Liang , Lei Wang , Haozhe Jia , Kaishen Yuan , Jieming Wu , Bowen Tian , Yutao Yue

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

Image deep steganography (IDS) is a technique that utilizes deep learning to embed a secret image invisibly into a cover image to generate a container image. However, the container images generated by convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Huajie Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Yuan Zhao , Bo Liu , Xin Yu , Wanlei Zhou

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have been recently proposed to generate high-quality samples by estimating the gradient of the data density. The framework defines the prior noise as a standard Gaussian distribution, whereas the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-22 Sang-gil Lee , Heeseung Kim , Chaehun Shin , Xu Tan , Chang Liu , Qi Meng , Tao Qin , Wei Chen , Sungroh Yoon , Tie-Yan Liu

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems. However, training diffusion models in the pixel space are both data-intensive and computationally demanding, which restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Bowen Song , Soo Min Kwon , Zecheng Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Qing Qu , Liyue Shen

Image steganography is a technique to conceal secret messages within digital images. Steganalysis, on the contrary, aims to detect the presence of secret messages within images. Recently, deep-learning-based steganalysis methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zexin Fan , Kejiang Chen , Kai Zeng , Jiansong Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) observations. However, the inherent randomness injected during the reverse diffusion process causes the performance of…

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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

The aim of steganographic algorithms is to identify the appropriate pixel positions in the host or cover image, where bits of sensitive information can be concealed for data encryption. Work is being done to improve the capacity to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Sahil Nokhwal , Saurabh Pahune , Ankit Chaudhary

Generative models have demonstrated strong performance in conditional settings and can be viewed as a form of data compression, where the condition serves as a compact representation. However, their limited controllability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiao Li , Liangji Zhu , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Unsupervised deep learning methods for solving audio restoration problems extensively rely on carefully tailored neural architectures that carry strong inductive biases for defining priors in the time or spectral domain. In this context,…

Acquiring high-quality data for training discriminative models is a crucial yet challenging aspect of building effective predictive systems. In this paper, we present Diffusion Inversion, a simple yet effective method that leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yongchao Zhou , Hshmat Sahak , Jimmy Ba

The recent emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced the precision of learnable priors, presenting innovative avenues for addressing inverse problems. Since inverse problems inherently entail maximum a posteriori estimation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiawei Zhang , Jiaxin Zhuang , Cheng Jin , Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

Stable Audio 3 is a family of fast latent diffusion models (small, medium, large) for variable-length audio generation and editing. Since our models can generate several minutes of audio, variable-length generations are key to avoid the…

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

How do diffusion generative models convert pure noise into meaningful images? In a variety of pretrained diffusion models (including conditional latent space models like Stable Diffusion), we observe that the reverse diffusion process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Binxu Wang , John J. Vastola