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Sound effects play an essential role in producing high-quality radio stories but require enormous labor cost to add. In this paper, we address the problem of automatically adding sound effects to radio stories with a retrieval-based model.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Songwei Ge , Curtis Xuan , Ruihua Song , Chao Zou , Wei Liu , Jin Zhou

Modeling and synthesizing image noise is an important aspect in many computer vision applications. The long-standing additive white Gaussian and heteroscedastic (signal-dependent) noise models widely used in the literature provide only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

Locating the right sound effect efficiently is an important yet challenging topic for audio production. Most current sound-searching systems rely on pre-annotated audio labels created by humans, which can be time-consuming to produce and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Haohe Liu , Thomas Deacon , Wenwu Wang , Matt Paradis , Mark D. Plumbley

This paper describes a computational model of loudness variations in expressive ensemble performance. The model predicts and explains the continuous variation of loudness as a function of information extracted automatically from the written…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Thassilo Gadermaier , Maarten Grachten , Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacón

Sound effects build an essential layer of multimodal storytelling, shaping the emotional atmosphere and the narrative semantics of videos. Despite recent advancement in video-text-to-audio (VT2A), the current formulation faces three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Bingxuan Li , Yiming Cui , Yicheng He , Yiwei Wang , Shu Zhang , Longyin Wen , Yulei Niu

The rise of wearable smart devices raises unprecedented opportunities for self-improvement through ubiquitous behavior tracking and guidance. However, the design of effective wearable behavior intervention systems remains relatively…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhang Youpeng , Nuwan Janaka , Ashwin Ram , Yin Peilin , Tian Yang , Shengdong Zhao , Pierre Dragicevic

Building multisensory AI systems that learn from multiple sensory inputs such as text, speech, video, real-world sensors, wearable devices, and medical data holds great promise for impact in many scientific areas with practical benefits,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Paul Pu Liang

Foundation models can be disruptive for future AI development by scaling up deep learning in terms of model size and training data's breadth and size. These models achieve state-of-the-art performance (often through further adaptation) on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Johannes Schneider

Modern audio generation predominantly relies on latent-space compression, introducing additional complexity and potential information loss. In this work, we challenge this paradigm with WavFlow, a framework that generates high-fidelity…

This work critically analyzes existing models for open-vocabulary EEG-to-Text translation. We identify a crucial limitation: previous studies often employed implicit teacher-forcing during evaluation, artificially inflating performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Hyejeong Jo , Yiqian Yang , Juhyeok Han , Yiqun Duan , Hui Xiong , Won Hee Lee

Speech enhancement in hearing aids remains a difficult task in nonstationary acoustic environments, mainly because current signal processing algorithms rely on fixed, manually tuned parameters that cannot adapt in situ to different users or…

Foundation model development attracts a rapidly expanding body of contributors, scientists, and applications. To help shape responsible development practices, we introduce the Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet: a growing collection of…

As generative techniques pervade the audio domain, there has been increasing interest in tracing back through these complicated models to understand how they draw on their training data to synthesize new examples, both to ensure that they…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Christopher J. Tralie , Matt Amery , Benjamin Douglas , Ian Utz

Recent text-to-video diffusion models can generate compelling video sequences, yet they remain silent -- missing the semantic, emotional, and atmospheric cues that audio provides. We introduce LTX-2, an open-source foundational model…

Audio-Visual Intelligence (AVI) has emerged as a central frontier in artificial intelligence, bridging auditory and visual modalities to enable machines that can perceive, generate, and interact in the multimodal real world. In the era of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 You Qin , Kai Liu , Shengqiong Wu , Kai Wang , Shijian Deng , Yapeng Tian , Junbin Xiao , Yazhou Xing , Yinghao Ma , Bobo Li , Roger Zimmermann , Lei Cui , Furu Wei , Jiebo Luo , Hao Fei

We consider audio decoding as an inverse problem and solve it through diffusion posterior sampling. Explicit conditioning functions are developed for input signal measurements provided by an example of a transform domain perceptual audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Pedro J. Villasana T. , Lars Villemoes , Janusz Klejsa , Per Hedelin

AI-synthesized voice technology has the potential to create realistic human voices for beneficial applications, but it can also be misused for malicious purposes. While existing AI-synthesized voice detection models excel in intra-domain…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hainan Ren , Li Lin , Chun-Hao Liu , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

Every artist has a creative process that draws inspiration from previous artists and their works. Today, "inspiration" has been automated by generative music models. The black box nature of these models obscures the identity of the works…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Julia Barnett , Hugo Flores Garcia , Bryan Pardo

Accurately interpreting cardiac auscultation signals plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases. However, the paucity of labelled data inhibits classification models' training. Researchers have turned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Leigh Abbott , Milan Marocchi , Matthew Fynn , Yue Rong , Sven Nordholm

In this paper, we present our comprehensive study aimed at enhancing the generalization capabilities of audio deepfake detection models. We investigate the performance of various pre-trained backbones, including Wav2Vec2, WavLM, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Jose A. Lopez , Georg Stemmer , Héctor Cordourier Maruri