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Style transfer aims to fuse the artistic representation of a style image with the structural information of a content image. Existing methods train specific networks or utilize pre-trained models to learn content and style features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ying Hu , Chenyi Zhuang , Pan Gao

In recent years, research on music transcription has focused mainly on architecture design and instrument-specific data acquisition. With the lack of availability of diverse datasets, progress is often limited to solo-instrument tasks such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Frank Cwitkowitz , Kin Wai Cheuk , Woosung Choi , Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez , Keisuke Toyama , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Yuki Mitsufuji

Recently, multi-instrument music generation has become a hot topic. Different from single-instrument generation, multi-instrument generation needs to consider inter-track harmony besides intra-track coherence. This is usually achieved by…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xipin Wei , Junhui Chen , Zirui Zheng , Li Guo , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Multitrack music transcription aims to transcribe a music audio input into the musical notes of multiple instruments simultaneously. It is a very challenging task that typically requires a more complex model to achieve satisfactory result.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wei-Tsung Lu , Ju-Chiang Wang , Yun-Ning Hung

Music editing primarily entails the modification of instrument tracks or remixing in the whole, which offers a novel reinterpretation of the original piece through a series of operations. These music processing methods hold immense…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Bing Han , Junyu Dai , Weituo Hao , Xinyan He , Dong Guo , Jitong Chen , Yuxuan Wang , Yanmin Qian , Xuchen Song

In this study, we produce a geometrically scaled perceptual timbre space from dissimilarity ratings of subtractive synthesized sounds and correlate the resulting dimensions with a set of acoustic descriptors. We curate a set of 15 sounds,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Cyrus Vahidi , George Fazekas , Charalampos Saitis , Alessandro Palladini

Given the recent success of diffusion in producing natural-sounding synthetic speech, we investigate how diffusion can be used in speaker adaptive TTS. Taking cues from more traditional adaptation approaches, we show that adaptation can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Haolin Chen , Philip N. Garner

Electronic synthesizer sounds are controlled by parameter settings that yield complex timbral characteristics and ADSR envelopes, making synthesizer-style audio transfer particularly challenging. Recent approaches to timbre transfer often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Jeng-Yue Liu , Ting-Chao Hsu , Yen-Tung Yeh , Li Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

We propose an end-to-end music mixing style transfer system that converts the mixing style of an input multitrack to that of a reference song. This is achieved with an encoder pre-trained with a contrastive objective to extract only audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Junghyun Koo , Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Stefan Uhlich , Kyogu Lee , Yuki Mitsufuji

Tone Transfer is a novel deep-learning technique for interfacing a sound source with a synthesizer, transforming the timbre of audio excerpts while keeping their musical form content. Due to its good audio quality results and continuous…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Franco Caspe , Andrew McPherson , Mark Sandler

Image tiling -- the seamless connection of disparate images to create a coherent visual field -- is crucial for applications such as texture creation, video game asset development, and digital art. Traditionally, tiles have been constructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Or Madar , Ohad Fried

This paper presents a novel approach to neural instrument sound synthesis using a two-stage semi-supervised learning framework capable of generating pitch-accurate, high-quality music samples from an expressive timbre latent space. Existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Christian Limberg , Fares Schulz , Zhe Zhang , Stefan Weinzierl

Recent research in zero-shot speech synthesis has made significant progress in speaker similarity. However, current efforts focus on timbre generalization rather than prosody modeling, which results in limited naturalness and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuepeng Jiang , Tao Li , Fengyu Yang , Lei Xie , Meng Meng , Yujun Wang

Existing music generation models are mostly language-based, neglecting the frequency continuity property of notes, resulting in inadequate fitting of rare or never-used notes and thus reducing the diversity of generated samples. We argue…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shipei Liu , Xiaoya Fan , Guowei Wu

This paper proposes RefXVC, a method for cross-lingual voice conversion (XVC) that leverages reference information to improve conversion performance. Previous XVC works generally take an average speaker embedding to condition the speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Yi Ren , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Haizhou Li

We present a fast and high-fidelity method for music generation, based on specified f0 and loudness, such that the synthesized audio mimics the timbre and articulation of a target instrument. The generation process consists of learned…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Michael Michelashvili , Lior Wolf

Any-to-any singing voice conversion (SVC) aims to transfer a target singer's timbre to other songs using a short voice sample. However many diffusion model based any-to-any SVC methods, which have achieved impressive results, usually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Shihao Chen , Yu Gu , Jianwei Cui , Jie Zhang , Rilin Chen , Lirong Dai

Songs, as a central form of musical art, exemplify the richness of human intelligence and creativity. While recent advances in generative modeling have enabled notable progress in long-form song generation, current systems for full-length…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Huakang Chen , Yuepeng Jiang , Guobin Ma , Chunbo Hao , Shuai Wang , Jixun Yao , Ziqian Ning , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Lei Xie

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), inferring musical notes from raw audio, is a challenging task at the core of music understanding. Unlike Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which typically focuses on the words of a single speaker, AMT…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Josh Gardner , Ian Simon , Ethan Manilow , Curtis Hawthorne , Jesse Engel