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Although lip-to-speech synthesis (L2S) has achieved significant progress in recent years, current state-of-the-art methods typically rely on intermediate representations such as mel-spectrograms or discrete self-supervised learning (SSL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Yifan Liang , Andong Li , Kang Yang , Guochen Yu , Fangkun Liu , Lingling Dai , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

We present a lightweight latent diffusion model for vocal-conditioned musical accompaniment generation that addresses critical limitations in existing music AI systems. Our approach introduces a novel soft alignment attention mechanism that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hei Shing Cheung , Boya Zhang , Jonathan H. Chan

The video-to-audio (V2A) generation task has drawn attention in the field of multimedia due to the practicality in producing Foley sound. Semantic and temporal conditions are fed to the generation model to indicate sound events and temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yaoyun Zhang , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu

Symbolic-control drum generation requires preserving explicit event timing and dynamics while synthesizing acoustically plausible waveforms. We present Sec2Drum-DAC, a conditional latent-diffusion model for symbolic-to-audio drum rendering.…

Autoregressive (AR) vision-language models (VLMs) have long dominated multimodal understanding, reasoning, and graphical user interface (GUI) grounding. Recently, discrete diffusion vision-language models (DVLMs) have shown strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shrinidhi Kumbhar , Haofu Liao , Srikar Appalaraju , Kunwar Yashraj Singh

Talking head generation is a significant research topic that still faces numerous challenges. Previous works often adopt generative adversarial networks or regression models, which are plagued by generation quality and average facial shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ziyu Yao , Xuxin Cheng , Zhiqi Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced molecular discovery, but existing multimodal molecular architectures fundamentally rely on autoregressive (AR) backbones. This strict left-to-right inductive bias is sub-optimal for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Seohyeon Shin , HanJun Choi , Jun-Hyung Park , Hong Kook Kim , Mansu Kim

Recent attempts to interleave autoregressive (AR) sketchers with diffusion-based refiners over continuous speech representations have shown promise, but they remain brittle under distribution shift and offer limited levers for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Yakun Song , Xiaobin Zhuang , Jiawei Chen , Zhikang Niu , Guanrou Yang , Chenpeng Du , Dongya Jia , Zhuo Chen , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Xie Chen

While video-to-audio generation has achieved remarkable progress in semantic and temporal alignment, most existing studies focus solely on these aspects, paying limited attention to the spatial perception and immersive quality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yanan Wang , Linjie Ren , Zihao Li , Junyi Wang , Tian Gan

Audio generation has attracted significant attention. Despite remarkable enhancement in audio quality, existing models overlook diversity evaluation. This is partially due to the lack of a systematic sound class diversity framework and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Baihan Li , Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Yiwei Guo , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Kai Yu , Mengyue Wu

Although audio generation shares commonalities across different types of audio, such as speech, music, and sound effects, designing models for each type requires careful consideration of specific objectives and biases that can significantly…

We propose a step-by-step video-to-audio (V2A) generation method for finer controllability over the generation process and more realistic audio synthesis. Inspired by traditional Foley workflows, our approach aims to comprehensively capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Akio Hayakawa , Masato Ishii , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

Recent advances in audio generation have focused on text-to-audio (T2A) and video-to-audio (V2A) tasks. However, T2A or V2A methods cannot generate holistic sounds (onscreen and off-screen). This is because T2A cannot generate sounds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Saksham Singh Kushwaha , Yapeng Tian

Standard discrete diffusion models treat all unobserved states identically by mapping them to an absorbing [MASK] token. This creates an 'information void' where semantic information that could be inferred from unmasked tokens is lost…

Text-to-music (TTM) generation, which converts textual descriptions into audio, opens up innovative avenues for multimedia creation. Achieving high quality and diversity in this process demands extensive, high-quality data, which are often…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chang Li , Ruoyu Wang , Lijuan Liu , Jun Du , Yixuan Sun , Zilu Guo , Zhenrong Zhang , Yuan Jiang , Jianqing Gao , Feng Ma

High-quality audio is essential in a wide range of applications, including online communication, virtual assistants, and the multimedia industry. However, degradation caused by noise, compression, and transmission artifacts remains a major…

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…

With recent advances of AIGC, video generation have gained a surge of research interest in both academia and industry (e.g., Sora). However, it remains a challenge to produce temporally aligned audio to synchronize the generated video,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Yuchen Hu , Yu Gu , Chenxing Li , Rilin Chen , Dong Yu

This work focuses on full-body co-speech gesture generation. Existing methods typically employ an autoregressive model accompanied by vector-quantized tokens for gesture generation, which results in information loss and compromises the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Binjie Liu , Lina Liu , Sanyi Zhang , Songen Gu , Yihao Zhi , Tianyi Zhu , Lei Yang , Long Ye

Diffusion-based generative models have exhibited powerful generative performance in recent years. However, as many attributes exist in the data distribution and owing to several limitations of sharing the model parameters across all levels…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Ha-Yeong Choi , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee