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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

Automatic Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction is employed to evaluate the quality of synthetic speech. This study extends the application of predicted MOS to the task of Fake Audio Detection (FAD), as we expect that MOS can be used to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Wangjin Zhou , Zhengdong Yang , Chenhui Chu , Sheng Li , Raj Dabre , Yi Zhao , Tatsuya Kawahara

MOS (Mean Opinion Score) is a subjective method used for the evaluation of a system's quality. Telecommunications (for voice and video), and speech synthesis systems (for generated speech) are a few of the many applications of the method.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Bálint Gyires-Tóth , Csaba Zainkó

Besides the well-known classification task, these days neural networks are frequently being applied to generate or transform data, such as images and audio signals. In such tasks, the conventional loss functions like the mean squared error…

Speech quality assessment is a critical process in selecting text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) or voice conversion models. Evaluation of voice synthesis can be done using objective metrics or subjective metrics. Although there are many…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Saurabh Agrawal , Raj Gohil , Gopal Kumar Agrawal , Vikram C M , Kushal Verma

Despite great progress in supervised semantic segmentation,a large performance drop is usually observed when deploying the model in the wild. Domain adaptation methods tackle the issue by aligning the source domain and the target domain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haoran Wang , Tong Shen , Wei Zhang , Lingyu Duan , Tao Mei

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown remarkable results in modeling complex distributions, but their evaluation remains an unsettled issue. Evaluations are essential for: (i) relative assessment of different models and (ii)…

The acoustic environment can degrade speech quality during communication (e.g., video call, remote presentation, outside voice recording), and its impact is often unknown. Objective metrics for speech quality have proven challenging to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Karl El Hajal , Milos Cernak , Pablo Mainar

We present a system for automatic multi-axis perceptual quality prediction of generative audio, developed for Track 2 of the AudioMOS Challenge 2025. The task is to predict four Audio Aesthetic Scores--Production Quality, Production…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Dyah A. M. G. Wisnu , Ryandhimas E. Zezario , Stefano Rini , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

Distant supervision can effectively label data for relation extraction, but suffers from the noise labeling problem. Recent works mainly perform soft bag-level noise reduction strategies to find the relatively better samples in a sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Pengda Qin , Weiran Xu , William Yang Wang

Assessing the perceptual quality of synthetic speech is crucial for guiding the development and refinement of speech generation models. However, it has traditionally relied on human subjective ratings such as the Mean Opinion Score (MOS),…

Generative AI is reshaping the media landscape, enabling unprecedented capabilities in video creation, personalization, and scalability. This paper presents a comprehensive SWOT analysis of Metas Movie Gen, a cutting-edge generative AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Abul Ehtesham , Saket Kumar , Aditi Singh , Tala Talaei Khoei

Over the past few decades, computational methods have been developed to estimate perceptual audio quality. These methods, also referred to as objective quality measures, are usually developed and intended for a specific application domain.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Matteo Torcoli , Thorsten Kastner , Jürgen Herre

In this paper, we study the task of subjective speech quality assessment (SSQA), which refers to predicting the perceptual quality of speech. Owing to the development of deep neural network models, SSQA has greatly advanced and has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Wen-Chin Huang , Erica Cooper , Tomoki Toda

The quantification of audio aesthetics remains a complex challenge in audio processing, primarily due to its subjective nature, which is influenced by human perception and cultural context. Traditional methods often depend on human…

The objective optimization of medical imaging systems requires full characterization of all sources of randomness in the measured data, which includes the variability within the ensemble of objects to-be-imaged. This can be accomplished by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Weimin Zhou , Sayantan Bhadra , Frank J. Brooks , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) is often formulated as a machine attribute classification task, a strategy necessitated by the common scenario where only normal data is available for training. However, the exhaustive collection of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xin Fang , Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Fan Chu , Lei Wang , Mengui Qian , Mingqi Cai , Jiangzhao Wu , Jianqing Gao , Jun Du

State-of-the-art under-determined audio source separation systems rely on supervised end-end training of carefully tailored neural network architectures operating either in the time or the spectral domain. However, these methods are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Vivek Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Rushil Anirudh , Andreas Spanias

An automated metric to evaluate dialogue quality is vital for optimizing data driven dialogue management. The common approach of relying on explicit user feedback during a conversation is intrusive and sparse. Current models to estimate…

Semantic annotations have to satisfy quality constraints to be useful for digital libraries, which is particularly challenging on large and diverse datasets. Confidence scores of multi-label classification methods typically refer only to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Martin Toepfer , Christin Seifert