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A fitting soundtrack can help a video better convey its content and provide a better immersive experience. This paper introduces a novel approach utilizing self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to automatically recommend audio…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Shimiao Liu , Alexander Lerch

This paper proposes a novel label-synchronous speech-to-text alignment technique for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The speech-to-text alignment is a problem of splitting long audio recordings with un-aligned transcripts into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Yusuke Kida , Tatsuya Komatsu , Masahito Togami

Sparse coding is an unsupervised learning algorithm that learns a succinct high-level representation of the inputs given only unlabeled data; it represents each input as a sparse linear combination of a set of basis functions. Originally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Roger Grosse , Rajat Raina , Helen Kwong , Andrew Y. Ng

This paper studies the problem of automatically generating piano score following videos given an audio recording and raw sheet music images. Whereas previous works focus on synthetic sheet music where the data has been cleaned and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Mengyi Shan , TJ Tsai

Learning from audio-visual data offers many possibilities to express correspondence between the audio and visual content, similar to the human perception that relates aural and visual information. In this work, we present a method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Shanshan Wang , Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros , Tuomas Virtanen

As a new communication paradigm, semantic communication has received widespread attention in communication fields. However, since the decoding of semantic signals relies on contextual knowledge, misalignment between the starting position of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

Sound matching algorithms seek to approximate a target waveform by parametric audio synthesis. Deep neural networks have achieved promising results in matching sustained harmonic tones. However, the task is more challenging when targets are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Han Han , Vincent Lostanlen , Mathieu Lagrange

Video stereo matching is the task of estimating consistent disparity maps from rectified stereo videos. There is considerable scope for improvement in both datasets and methods within this area. Recent learning-based methods often focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Junpeng Jing , Ye Mao , Anlan Qiu , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Alignments, i.e., position-wise comparisons of two or more strings or ordered lists are of utmost practical importance in computational biology and a host of other fields, including historical linguistics and emerging areas of research in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Sarah J. Berkemer , Christian Höner zu Siederdissen , Peter F. Stadler

The paper presents methods for evaluating the accuracy of alignments between transcriptions and audio recordings. The methods have been applied to the Spoken British National Corpus, which is an extensive and varied corpus of natural…

Sound · Computer Science 2011-01-11 Ladan Baghai-Ravary , Sergio Grau , Greg Kochanski

With the development of media and networking technologies, multimedia applications ranging from feature presentation in a cinema setting to video on demand to interactive video conferencing are in great demand. Good synchronization between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Naji Khosravan , Shervin Ardeshir , Rohit Puri

The objective of the sound source localization task is to enable machines to detect the location of sound-making objects within a visual scene. While the audio modality provides spatial cues to locate the sound source, existing approaches…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sung Jin Um , Dongjin Kim , Jung Uk Kim

We present AlignNet, a model that synchronizes videos with reference audios under non-uniform and irregular misalignments. AlignNet learns the end-to-end dense correspondence between each frame of a video and an audio. Our method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jianren Wang , Zhaoyuan Fang , Hang Zhao

Music prediction tasks range from predicting tags given a song or clip of audio, predicting the name of the artist, or predicting related songs given a song, clip, artist name or tag. That is, we are interested in every semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jason Weston , Samy Bengio , Philippe Hamel

Alignment of large language models remains a central challenge in natural language processing. Preference optimization has emerged as a popular and effective method for improving alignment, typically through training-time or prompt-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Frédéric Berdoz , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , René Caky , Roger Wattenhofer

Text-guided image generation has witnessed unprecedented progress due to the development of diffusion models. Beyond text and image, sound is a vital element within the sphere of human perception, offering vivid representations and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yue Yang , Kaipeng Zhang , Yuying Ge , Wenqi Shao , Zeyue Xue , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

The approximate string matching is a fundamental and recurrent problem that arises in most computer science fields. This problem can be defined as follows: Let $D=\{x_1,x_2,\ldots x_d\}$ be a set of $d$ words defined on an alphabet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Ibrahim Chegrane

Audio fingerprinting, exemplified by pioneers like Shazam, has transformed digital audio recognition. However, existing systems struggle with accuracy in challenging conditions, limiting broad applicability. This research proposes an AI and…

Vocals harmonizers are powerful tools to help solo vocalists enrich their melodies with harmonically supportive voices. These tools exist in various forms, from commercially available pedals and software to custom-built systems, each…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Lancelot Blanchard , Cameron Holt , Joseph A. Paradiso

We present a novel method for the compensation of long duration data loss in audio signals, in particular music. The concealment of such signal defects is based on a graph that encodes signal structure in terms of time-persistent spectral…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Nathanael Perraudin , Nicki Holighaus , Piotr Majdak , Peter Balazs