11 accepted papers
While recent works on blind face image restoration have successfully produced impressive high-quality (HQ) images with abundant details from low-quality (LQ) input images, the generated content may not accurately reflect the real appearance of a person. To address this problem, incorporating well-sh…
Personalized TTS is an exciting and highly desired application that allows users to train their TTS voice using only a few recordings. However, TTS training typically requires many hours of recording and a large model, making it unsuitable for deployment on mobile devices. To overcome this limitatio…
Many existing conditional score-based data generation methods utilize Bayes' theorem to decompose the gradients of a log posterior density into a mixture of scores. These methods facilitate the training procedure of conditional score models, as a mixture of scores can be separately estimated using a…
Depth estimation is a long-lasting yet important task in computer vision. Most of the previous works try to estimate depth from input images and assume images are all-in-focus (AiF), which is less common in real-world applications. On the other hand, a few works take defocus blur into account and co…
In this paper, we present CLCC, a novel contrastive learning framework for color constancy. Contrastive learning has been applied for learning high-quality visual representations for image classification. One key aspect to yield useful representations for image classification is to design illuminant…
Modeling imaging sensor noise is a fundamental problem for image processing and computer vision applications. While most previous works adopt statistical noise models, real-world noise is far more complicated and beyond what these models can describe. To tackle this issue, we propose a data-driven a…
In this paper we propose speaker characterization using time delay neural networks and long short-term memory neural networks (TDNN-LSTM) speaker embedding. Three types of front-end feature extraction are investigated to find good features for speaker embedding. Three kinds of data augmentation are…
We propose to integrate the attention mechanism into deep recurrent neural network models for speech emotion recognition. This is based on the intuition that it is beneficial to emphasize the expressive part of the speech signal for emotion recognition. By introducing attention mechanism, we make th…
In this paper, we propose to apply ensemble learning methods on neural networks to improve the performance of speech emotion recognition tasks. The basic idea is to first divide unbalanced data set into balanced subsets and then combine the predictions of the models trained on these subsets. Several…
We propose a neural-network training algorithm that is robust to data imbalance in classification. In our proposed algorithm, weights are introduced to training examples, effectively modifying the trajectory traversed in the parameter space during the learning process. Furthermore, the proposed algo…
We propose to use orthogonal feature detectors in artificial neural networks for the robustness of performance under noisy conditions. The motivation is grounded on the principle that orthogonal decomposition is the most efficient among all representation of a signal. In this paper, we incorporate o…