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Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of talking head generation, yet still face challenges in expressiveness, controllability, and stability in long-time generation. In this research, we propose an EmotiveTalk framework to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Yueyan Li , Zilu Guo , Jun Du , Shutong Niu , Jiefeng Ma , Shan He , Xiaoyan Wu , Qiming Hu , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu

Audio diffusion models can synthesize a wide variety of sounds. Existing models often operate on the latent domain with cascaded phase recovery modules to reconstruct waveform. This poses challenges when generating high-fidelity audio. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ge Zhu , Yutong Wen , Marc-André Carbonneau , Zhiyao Duan

Existing gesture generation methods primarily focus on upper body gestures based on audio features, neglecting speech content, emotion, and locomotion. These limitations result in stiff, mechanical gestures that fail to convey the true…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yongkang Cheng , Mingjiang Liang , Shaoli Huang , Gaoge Han , Jifeng Ning , Wei Liu

Although auto-regressive models excel in natural language processing, they often struggle to generate diverse text and provide limited controllability. Non-auto-regressive methods could be an alternative but often produce degenerate outputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hyukhun Koh , Minha Jhang , Dohyung Kim , Sangmook Lee , Kyomin Jung

Diffusion models have recently advanced photorealistic human synthesis, although practical talking-head generation (THG) remains constrained by high inference latency, temporal instability such as flicker and identity drift, and imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh

Diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) techniques such as VoiceGrad have attracted interest because of their high VC performance in terms of speech quality and speaker similarity. However, a notable limitation is the slow inference caused by…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

We propose DAVIS, a Diffusion-based Audio-VIsual Separation framework that solves the audio-visual sound source separation task through generative learning. Existing methods typically frame sound separation as a mask-based regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

We propose DiffSHEG, a Diffusion-based approach for Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture generation with arbitrary length. While previous works focused on co-speech gesture or expression generation individually, the joint…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Junming Chen , Yunfei Liu , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Yu Li , Qifeng Chen

Deep neural network based speech enhancement technique focuses on learning a noisy-to-clean transformation supervised by paired training data. However, the task-specific evaluation metric (e.g., PESQ) is usually non-differentiable and can…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Weiwei Weng , Eng Siong Chng

Learning from a large corpus of data, pre-trained models have achieved impressive progress nowadays. As popular generative pre-training, diffusion models capture both low-level visual knowledge and high-level semantic relations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Diffusion models that are based on iterative denoising have been recently proposed and leveraged in various generation tasks like image generation. Whereas, as a way inherently built for continuous data, existing diffusion models still have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiaao Chen , Aston Zhang , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Diyi Yang

This paper presents a generative approach to speech enhancement based on a recurrent variational autoencoder (RVAE). The deep generative speech model is trained using clean speech signals only, and it is combined with a nonnegative matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is an essential speech signal processing technology that removes echoes from microphone inputs to facilitate natural-sounding full-duplex communication. Currently, deep learning-based AEC methods primarily…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fei Zhao , Xueliang Zhang

Despite recent advances in voice separation methods, many challenges remain in realistic scenarios such as noisy recording and the limits of available data. In this work, we propose to explicitly incorporate the phonetic and linguistic…

End-to-end learning has emerged as a transformative paradigm in autonomous driving. However, the inherently multimodal nature of driving behaviors and the generalization challenges in long-tail scenarios remain critical obstacles to robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rui Zhao , Yuze Fan , Ziguo Chen , Fei Gao , Zhenhai Gao

The past decade has witnessed substantial growth of data-driven speech enhancement (SE) techniques thanks to deep learning. While existing approaches have shown impressive performance in some common datasets, most of them are designed only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Wangyou Zhang , Kohei Saijo , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

A diffusion-based voice conversion (VC) model (e.g., VoiceGrad) can achieve high speech quality and speaker similarity; however, its conversion process is slow owing to iterative sampling. FastVoiceGrad overcomes this limitation by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Takuhiro Kaneko , Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Yuto Kondo

The performance of deep neural network-based speech enhancement systems typically increases with the training dataset size. However, studies that investigated the effect of training dataset size on speech enhancement performance did not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May

While diffusion models are best known for their performance in generative tasks, they have also been successfully applied to many other tasks, including audio source separation. However, current generative approaches to music source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Yun-Ning , Hung , Richard Vogl , Filip Korzeniowski , Igor Pereira