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The rapid evolution of diffusion models has democratized face swapping but also raises concerns about privacy and identity security. Existing proactive defenses, often adapted from image editing attacks, prove ineffective in this context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Liqin Wang , Qianyue Hu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Diffusion speech enhancement on discrete audio codec features gain immense attention due to their improved speech component reconstruction capability. However, they usually suffer from high inference computational complexity due to multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Yihui Fu , Tim Fingscheidt

With a recent influx of voice generation methods, the threat introduced by audio DeepFake (DF) is ever-increasing. Several different detection methods have been presented as a countermeasure. Many methods are based on so-called front-ends,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Piotr Kawa , Marcin Plata , Michał Czuba , Piotr Szymański , Piotr Syga

Diffusion-based speech generators are ubiquitous. These methods can generate very high quality synthetic speech and several recent incidents report their malicious use. To counter such misuse, synthetic speech detectors have been developed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Kratika Bhagtani , Amit Kumar Singh Yadav , Paolo Bestagini , Edward J. Delp

The goal of homomorphic encryption is to encrypt data such that another party can operate on it without being explicitly exposed to the content of the original data. We introduce an idea for a privacy-preserving transformation on natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zhifeng Hu , Serhii Havrylov , Ivan Titov , Shay B. Cohen

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a key technique for improving conditional generation in diffusion models, enabling more accurate control while enhancing sample quality. It is natural to extend this technique to video diffusion, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kiwhan Song , Boyuan Chen , Max Simchowitz , Yilun Du , Russ Tedrake , Vincent Sitzmann

Dataset obfuscation refers to techniques in which random noise is added to the entries of a given dataset, prior to its public release, to protect against leakage of private information. In this work, dataset obfuscation under two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Mahshad Shariatnasab , Farhad Shirani , S. Sitharma Iyengar

Diffusion models have recently exhibited remarkable performance on synthetic data. After a diffusion path is selected, a base model, such as UNet, operates as a denoising autoencoder, primarily predicting noises that need to be eliminated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Wenhao Li , Xiu Su , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Data obfuscation is a promising technique for mitigating attribute inference attacks by semi-trusted parties with access to time-series data emitted by sensors. Recent advances leverage conditional generative models together with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xin Yang , Omid Ardakanian

The rapid progress of Deepfake technology has made face swapping highly realistic, raising concerns about the malicious use of fabricated facial content. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to unseen domains due to the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ke Sun , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Hong Liu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

Our voice encodes a uniquely identifiable pattern which can be used to infer private attributes, such as gender or identity, that an individual might wish not to reveal when using a speech recognition service. To prevent attribute inference…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Dimitrios Stoidis , Andrea Cavallaro

Existing accent normalization methods do not typically offer control over accent strength, yet many applications-such as language learning and dubbing-require tunable accent retention. We propose DLM-AN, a controllable accent normalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Qibing Bai , Yuhan Du , Tom Ko , Shuai Wang , Yannan Wang , Haizhou Li

The objective of this work is to extract target speaker's voice from a mixture of voices using visual cues. Existing works on audio-visual speech separation have demonstrated their performance with promising intelligibility, but maintaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Suyeon Lee , Chaeyoung Jung , Youngjoon Jang , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

In a typical voice conversion system, prior works utilize various acoustic features (e.g., the pitch, voiced/unvoiced flag, aperiodicity) of the source speech to control the prosody of generated waveform. However, the prosody is related…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Zheng Lian , Zhengqi Wen

Trajectories are nowadays valuable information for a wide range of applications. However they are also inherently sensitive, as they contain highly personal information about individuals. Facing this challenge, synthesizing mobility…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Florent Guépin , Cheick Tidiani Cisse , Denis Renaud , François Bidet , Arnaud Legendre

Adolescent suicide is a critical global health issue, and speech provides a cost-effective modality for automatic suicide risk detection. Given the vulnerable population, protecting speaker identity is particularly important, as speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Ziyun Cui , Sike Jia , Yang Lin , Yinan Duan , Diyang Qu , Runsen Chen , Chao Zhang , Chang Lei , Wen Wu

The goal of this paper is to generate realistic audio with a lightweight and fast diffusion-based vocoder, named FreGrad. Our framework consists of the following three key components: (1) We employ discrete wavelet transform that decomposes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Tan Dat Nguyen , Ji-Hoon Kim , Youngjoon Jang , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

Given the increasing privacy concerns from identity theft and the re-identification of speakers through content in the speech field, this paper proposes a prompt-based speech generation pipeline that ensures dual anonymization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Belinda Soh Hui Hui , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang

In this work, we propose DiffWave, a versatile diffusion probabilistic model for conditional and unconditional waveform generation. The model is non-autoregressive, and converts the white noise signal into structured waveform through a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Zhifeng Kong , Wei Ping , Jiaji Huang , Kexin Zhao , Bryan Catanzaro

Virtual try-on (VTON) aims to synthesize realistic images of a person wearing a target garment, with broad applications in e-commerce and digital fashion. While recent advances in latent diffusion models have substantially improved visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xiang Xu