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Iterative-based methods have become mainstream in stereo matching due to their high performance. However, these methods heavily rely on labeled data and face challenges with unlabeled real-world data. To this end, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jingyi Zhou , Peng Ye , Haoyu Zhang , Jiakang Yuan , Rao Qiang , Liu YangChenXu , Wu Cailin , Feng Xu , Tao Chen

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image and video generation tasks. However, the high computational demands of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) pose a significant challenge to their practical deployment. While feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Peiliang Cai , Jiacheng Liu , Haowen Xu , Xinyu Wang , Chang Zou , Linfeng Zhang

While language models (LMs) paired with residual vector quantization (RVQ) tokenizers have shown promise in text-to-audio (T2A) generation, they still lag behind diffusion-based models by a non-trivial margin. We identify a critical dilemma…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Juncheng Wang , Chao Xu , Cheng Yu , Zhe Hu , Haoyu Xie , Guoqi Yu , Lei Shang , Shujun Wang

Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Runwu Shi , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Rui Zhang , Nabeela Khan , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Diffusion models have emerged as the de facto choice for generating high-quality visual signals across various domains. However, training a single model to predict noise across various levels poses significant challenges, necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

Audio is a fundamental modality for analyzing speech, music, and environmental sounds. Although pretrained audio models have significantly advanced audio understanding, they remain fragile in real-world settings where data distributions…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Chang Li , Kanglei Zhou , Liyuan Wang

Machine hearing or listening represents an emerging area. Conventional approaches rely on the design of handcrafted features specialized to a specific audio task and that can hardly generalized to other audio fields. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Imad Rida , Romain Hérault , Gilles Gasso

Recent advances in speech-aware language models have coupled strong acoustic encoders with large language models, enabling systems that move beyond transcription to produce richer outputs. Among these, word-level timestamp prediction is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Xulin Fan , Vishal Sunder , Samuel Thomas , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon

Training diffusion models for audiovisual sequences allows for a range of generation tasks by learning conditional distributions of various input-output combinations of the two modalities. Nevertheless, this strategy often requires training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Gwanghyun Kim , Alonso Martinez , Yu-Chuan Su , Brendan Jou , José Lezama , Agrim Gupta , Lijun Yu , Lu Jiang , Aren Jansen , Jacob Walker , Krishna Somandepalli

Self-conditioning has been central to the success of continuous diffusion language models, as it allows models to correct previous errors. Yet its ability degrades precisely in the regime where diffusion is most attractive for deployment:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Dat Nguyen-Cong , Tung Kieu , Hoang Thanh-Tung

Diffusion-based audio-driven talking-head generation enables realistic portrait animation, but also introduces risks of misuse, such as fraud and misinformation. Existing protection methods are largely limited to a single modality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wenli Zhang , Xianglong Shi , Sirui Zhao , Xinqi Chen , Guo Cheng , Yifan Xu , Tong Xu , Yong Liao

This work proposes an efficient method to enhance the quality of corrupted speech signals by leveraging both acoustic and visual cues. While existing diffusion-based approaches have demonstrated remarkable quality, their applicability is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Chaeyoung Jung , Suyeon Lee , Ji-Hoon Kim , Joon Son Chung

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an essential component in conversational systems. Most SLU component treats each utterance independently, and then the following components aggregate the multi-turn information in the separate phases.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Po-Chun Chen , Ta-Chung Chi , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Text-to-speech (TTS) methods have shown promising results in voice cloning, but they require a large number of labeled text-speech pairs. Minimally-supervised speech synthesis decouples TTS by combining two types of discrete speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Yi Zhao , Ying Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Text-to-audio (TTA) generation with fine-grained control signals, e.g., precise timing control or intelligible speech content, has been explored in recent works. However, constrained by data scarcity, their generation performance at scale…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuxuan Jiang , Zehua Chen , Zeqian Ju , Yusheng Dai , Weibei Dou , Jun Zhu

Recently, the application of diffusion models has facilitated the significant development of speech and audio generation. Nevertheless, the quality of samples generated by diffusion models still needs improvement. And the effectiveness of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Wenhao Guan , Kaidi Wang , Wangjin Zhou , Yang Wang , Feng Deng , Hui Wang , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong , Yong Qin

In this work, we build upon our previous publication and use diffusion-based generative models for speech enhancement. We present a detailed overview of the diffusion process that is based on a stochastic differential equation and delve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Timo Gerkmann

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

Audio token modeling has become a powerful framework for speech synthesis, with two-stage approaches employing semantic tokens remaining prevalent. In this paper, we aim to simplify this process by introducing a semantic knowledge…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Gerard I. Gállego , Roy Fejgin , Chunghsin Yeh , Xiaoyu Liu , Gautam Bhattacharya