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Diffusion models have recently shown promising results for difficult enhancement tasks such as the conditional and unconditional restoration of natural images and audio signals. In this work, we explore the possibility of leveraging a…

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This paper explores the outcome of training state-of-the-art dereverberation models with supervision settings ranging from weakly-supervised to virtually unsupervised, relying solely on reverberant signals and an acoustic model for…

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We present in this paper an informed single-channel dereverberation method based on conditional generation with diffusion models. With knowledge of the room impulse response, the anechoic utterance is generated via reverse diffusion using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

Removing reverb from reverberant music is a necessary technique to clean up audio for downstream music manipulations. Reverberation of music contains two categories, natural reverb, and artificial reverb. Artificial reverb has a wider…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Koichi Saito , Naoki Murata , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Takao Fukui , Yuki Mitsufuji

Reverberation, which is generally caused by sound reflections from walls, ceilings, and floors, can result in severe performance degradation of acoustic applications. Due to a complicated combination of attenuation and time-delay effects,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Wei-Jen Lee , Syu-Siang Wang , Fei Chen , Xugang Lu , Shao-Yi Chien , Yu Tsao

Diffusion models have been shown to achieve natural-sounding enhancement of speech degraded by noise or reverberation. However, their simultaneous denoising and dereverberation capability has so far not been studied much, although this is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Adrian Meise , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

With the development of audio playback devices and fast data transmission, the demand for high sound quality is rising for both entertainment and communications. In this quest for better sound quality, challenges emerge from distortions and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Eloi Moliner , Vesa Välimäki , Timo Gerkmann

The purpose of speech dereverberation is to remove quality-degrading effects of a time-invariant impulse response filter from the signal. In this report, we describe an approach to speech dereverberation that involves joint estimation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Sanna Wager , Keunwoo Choi , Simon Durand

This paper introduces a new training strategy to improve speech dereverberation systems using minimal acoustic information and reverberant (wet) speech. Most existing algorithms rely on paired dry/wet data, which is difficult to obtain, or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Louis Bahrman , Mathieu Fontaine , Gael Richard

The advance of technology for transmitting Data-over-Sound in various IoT and telecommunication applications has led to the concept of machine-to-machine over-the-air acoustic signalling. Reverberation can have a detrimental effect on such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Amogh Matt , Dan Stowell

In this paper, we present an unsupervised single-channel method for joint blind dereverberation and room impulse response estimation, based on posterior sampling with diffusion models. We parameterize the reverberation operator using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Eloi Moliner , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann , Vesa Välimäki

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

Vocal dereverberation remains a challenging task in audio processing, particularly for real-time applications where both accuracy and efficiency are crucial. Traditional deep learning approaches often struggle to suppress reverberation…

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We present the Inverse Drum Machine, a novel approach to Drum Source Separation that leverages an analysis-by-synthesis framework combined with deep learning. Unlike recent supervised methods that require isolated stem recordings for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Bernardo Torres , Geoffroy Peeters , Gael Richard

Diffusion models have shown exceptional scaling properties in the image synthesis domain, and initial attempts have shown similar benefits for applying diffusion to unconditional text synthesis. Denoising diffusion models attempt to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Matthew Baas , Kevin Eloff , Herman Kamper

The imitation of percussive sounds via the human voice is a natural and effective tool for communicating rhythmic ideas on the fly. Thus, the automatic retrieval of drum sounds using vocal percussion can help artists prototype drum patterns…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Alejandro Delgado , SkoT McDonald , Ning Xu , Charalampos Saitis , Mark Sandler

Timbre transfer techniques aim at converting the sound of a musical piece generated by one instrument into the same one as if it was played by another instrument, while maintaining as much as possible the content in terms of musical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci , Augusto Sarti

Diffusion probabilistic models have demonstrated an outstanding capability to model natural images and raw audio waveforms through a paired diffusion and reverse processes. The unique property of the reverse process (namely, eliminating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Yen-Ju Lu , Yu Tsao , Shinji Watanabe

Dereverberation is often performed directly on the reverberant audio signal, without knowledge of the acoustic environment. Reverberation time, T60, however, is an essential acoustic factor that reflects how reverberation may impact a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Yuying Li , Yuchen Liu , Donald S. Williamson

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

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