110 accepted papers
With the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) paradigms towards agentic AI, the widespread integration of large language models (LLMs) enhances system capabilities while also introducing situational risks and challenges of value misalignment, making value alignment in agentic AI systems a criti
Soft robots enable compliant interaction with humans and the environment. However, their widespread deployment is constrained by significant challenges, including limited mobility and the inherent complexity of incorporating power and control systems into their bodies. In this paper, we present a fu
Efficiently decoding human movement and/or intention is essential for controlling advanced prosthetic and robotic systems. Various muscle-machine interfaces have been researched for this purpose, including electromyography and lightmyography based interfaces. However, the decoding effectiveness of l…
Recent advances in dense 3D reconstruction have led to significant progress, yet achieving accurate unified geometric prediction remains a major challenge. Most existing methods are limited to predicting a single geometry quantity from input images. However, geometric quantities such as depth, surfa…
All-in-one image restoration (AIR) aims to address diverse degradations within a unified model by leveraging informative degradation conditions to guide the restoration process. However, existing methods often rely on implicitly learned priors, which may entangle feature representations and hinder p
Accurate 6-DoF pose estimation of objects is critical for robots to perform precise manipulation tasks. However, for dynamic object pose estimation, conventional camera-based approaches face several major challenges, such as motion blur, sensor noise, and low-light limitation. To address these issue…
Generating high-quality adversarial texts with low query budgets remains a challenging problem in the hard-label scenario. Most existing approaches rely on greedy algorithms, where one position in the text is selected for substitution, followed by the substitutions of other positions. This local sea
Cutting planes are central to mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) solving, yet their effectiveness hinges on expert tuning of separator configurations and hard-crafted cut-selection heuristics, creating a high barrier for non-specialists. Learning-based methods can reduce manual effort, but typi
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning tasks, but their high computational costs limit their widespread practical application. We argue that this inefficiency arises from the tight coupling of high-level cognitive planning (devising the solution s…
Semi-autonomy in telemanipulation frameworks has the potential to reduce user cognitive load while preserving human perceptual oversight and decision-making capabilities. However, existing semi-autonomous telemanipulation systems are heavily dependent on calibration and hardware configurations, maki…
Recent advances in language and vision have demonstrated that scaling up model capacity consistently improves performance across diverse tasks.In 3D visual geometry reconstruction, large-scale training has likewise proven effective for learning versatile representations.However, further scaling of 3
In Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training, sparse routing, i.e., activating only the top-$K$ experts per token, is essential for balancing convergence speed and computational cost. However, existing works typically choose $K$ empirically, without theoretical guidance. To address this gap, we characterize…
A central paradox in fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) is the frequent degradation of multi-attempt performance (Pass@k) despite improvements in single-attempt accuracy (Pass@1). This is often accompanied by catastrophic forgetting, wh…
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a key technology in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality, requiring efficient and robust localization in large-scale environments. However, most existing methods rely on heavy deep models that are computationally expensive and difficult to deploy on e…
Non-monotonic sequence generation methods, such as masked diffusion models, provide a flexible alternative to left-to-right autoregressive modeling by allowing tokens to be generated in non-fixed and prescribed orders. Despite their practical advantages, most existing non-monotonic models are order-…
Gradient optimization-based adversarial attack methods automate the learning of adversarial triggers to generate jailbreak prompts or leak system prompts. In this work, we take a closer look at the optimization objective of adversarial trigger learning and propose ATLA: Adversarial Trigger Learning…
With the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), numerous efforts have revealed their vulnerabilities to jailbreak attacks. Although these studies have driven the progress in LLMs’ safety alignment, it remains unclear whether LLMs have internalized authentic knowledge to deal with real-world cr
Cooperative perception enhances the individual perception capabilities of autonomous vehicles (AVs) by providing a comprehensive view of the environment. However, balancing perception performance and transmission costs remains a significant challenge. Current approaches that transmit regionlevel fea
Driven by demands for oceanic exploration, advancements in 3D visual tasks based on video frames are essential. Keypoint matching, essential for camera pose and motion, is hindered by the unique challenges of underwater imagery, such as sparse and repetitive textures. To tackle these issues, we intr…
Heterogeneous hypergraph is a kind of structural data that contains multiple types of nodes and multiple types of hyperedges. Each hyperedge type corresponds to a specific multi-ary relation (called hyper-relation) among subsets of nodes, which goes beyond traditional pair-wise relations in simple g…
Instruction tuning has emerged as an effective approach that notably improves large language models (LLMs) performance, showing particular promise in natural language generation tasks by producing more diverse, coherent, and task-relevant outputs. However, extending instruction tuning to natural lan…
In light of recent breakthroughs in text-to-image (T2I) generation, particularly with diffusion transformers (DiT), subject-driven technologies are increasingly being employed for high-fidelity customized production that preserves subject identity from reference inputs, enabling thrilling design wor…
In autonomous driving, The perception capabilities of the ego-vehicle can be improved with roadside sensors, which can provide a holistic view of the environment. However, existing monocular detection methods designed for vehicle cameras are not suitable for roadside cameras due to viewpoint domain
Complex Query Answering over incomplete knowledge graphs is a fundamental yet challenging task. Existing methods based on a pretrained knowledge graph embedding model have achieved good performance. However, they ignore logical rules. Logical rules, as part of the conceptual layer in knowledge graph…
Automated radiology report generation is essential for improving diagnostic efficiency and reducing the workload of medical professionals. However, existing methods face significant challenges, such as disease class imbalance and insufficient cross-modal fusion. To address these issues, we propose t…
Autoregressive models (ARMs) have become the workhorse for sequence generation tasks, since many problems can be modeled as next-token prediction. While there appears to be a natural ordering for text (i.e., left-to-right), for many data types, such as graphs, the canonical ordering is less obvious.…
As cooperative systems that leverage roadside cameras to assist autonomous vehicle perception become increasingly widespread, large-scale precise calibration of infrastructure cameras has become a critical issue. Traditional manual calibration methods are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and m…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities as autonomous agents; yet existing benchmarks either focus on single-agent tasks or are confined to narrow domains, failing to capture the dynamics of multi-agent coordination and competition. In this paper, we introduce MultiAgentBench…
Radiology Report Generation (RRG) is an important research topic for relieving radiologists’ heavy workload. Existing RRG models mainly rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) based on different model architectures using data pairs of radiological images and corresponding radiologist-annotated reports.…
Missense mutations could affect the Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) propensity of proteins and lead to aberrant phase-separating behaviours, which are recently found to be associated with many diseases including Alzheimer's and cancer. However, the regulatory role of mutations in LLPS remains…
We introduce PurpCode, the first post-training recipe for training safe code reasoning models towards generating secure code and defending against malicious cyberactivities. PurpCode trains a reasoning model in two stages: (i) Rule Learning, which explicitly teaches the model to reference cybersafet…
Automatic Radiology Report Generation (RRG) is an important topic for alleviating the substantial workload of radiologists. Existing RRG approaches rely on supervised regression based on different architectures or additional knowledge injection, while the generated report may not align optimally wit…
End-to-end autonomous driving with vision-only is not only more cost-effective compared to LiDAR-vision fusion but also more reliable than traditional methods. To achieve a economical and robust purely visual autonomous driving system, we propose RenderWorld, a vision-only end-to-end autonomous driv
The connections between symbolic rules and neural networks have been explored in various directions, including rule mining through neural networks and rule-based explanation for neural networks. These approaches allow symbolic rules to be extracted from neural network models, which offers explainabi…
Malignant brain tumors have become an aggressive and dangerous disease that leads to death worldwide. Multi-modal MRI data is crucial for accurate brain tumor segmentation, but missing modalities common in clinical practice can severely degrade the segmentation performance. While incomplete multi-mo…
Radar-Camera depth estimation aims to predict dense and accurate metric depth by fusing input images and Radar data. Model efficiency is crucial for this task in pursuit of real-time processing on autonomous vehicles and robotic platforms. However, due to the sparsity of Radar returns, the prevailin…
Jailbreaking large-language models (LLMs) involves testing their robustness against adversarial prompts and evaluating their ability to withstand prompt attacks that could elicit unauthorized or malicious responses. In this paper, we present TurboFuzzLLM, a mutation-based fuzzing technique for effic…
Distinguishing key features in complex visual tasks is challenging. A novel approach treats image patches (tokens) as waves. By using both phase and amplitude, it captures richer semantics and specific invariances compared to pixel-based methods, and allows for feature fusion across regions for a ho
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a vital task in industrial recommendation systems. Most existing methods focus on the network architecture design of the CTR model for better accuracy and suffer from the data sparsity problem. Especially in industrial recommendation systems, the widely applied…
Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) plays a crucial role in medical therapy planning and robot navigation. Prototype learning methods in MIS focus on generating segmentation masks through pixel-to-prototype comparison. However, current approaches often overlook sample diversity by using a fixed prototy…
Recent thrilling progress in large-scale text-to-image (T2I) models has unlocked unprecedented synthesis quality of AI-generated content (AIGC) including image generation 3D and video composition. Further personalized techniques enable appealing customized production of a novel concept given only se…
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) show the potential of using LLMs as evaluators for assessing the quality of text generations from LLMs. However, applying LLM evaluators naively to compare different systems can lead to unreliable results due to the inaccuracy and intrinsic bias of LLM…
Few-shot Visual Question Answering (VQA) realizes few-shot cross-modal learning, which is an emerging and challenging task in computer vision. Currently, most of the few-shot VQA methods are confined to simply extending few-shot classification methods to cross-modal tasks while ignoring the spatial…
In autonomous driving, cooperative perception makes use of multi-view cameras from both vehicles and infrastructure, providing a global vantage point with rich semantic context of road conditions beyond a single vehicle viewpoint. Currently, two major challenges persist in vehicle-infrastructure coo…
Compared to identifying binary versions of the same function under different compilation options, existing Learning-Based Binary Code Similarity Detection (LB-BCSD) methods exhibit lower accuracy in recognizing functions with the same functionality but different implementations. To address this issu…
Idempotence is the stability of image codec to re-compression. At the first glance, it is unrelated to perceptual image compression. However, we find that theoretically: 1) Conditional generative model-based perceptual codec satisfies idempotence; 2) Unconditional generative model with idempotence c…
In recent research, contrastive learning has proven to be a highly effective method for representation learning and is widely used for dense retrieval. However, we identify that relying solely on contrastive learning can lead to suboptimal retrieval performance. On the other hand, despite many retri…
Recent advancements in single image driven 3D content generation have been propelled by leveraging prior knowledge from pretrained 2D diffusion models. However the 3D content generated by existing methods often exhibits distorted outline shapes and inadequate details. To solve this problem we propos…
We introduce Magicoder, a series of fully open-source (code, weights, and data) Large Language Models (LLMs) for code that significantly closes the gap with top code models while having no more than 7B parameters. Magicoder models are trained on 75K synthetic instruction data using **OSS-Instruct**,…
Jumping is an advantageous locomotion method to extend the motion range, overcome obstacles, and adapt to unstructured environments; however, it is challenging for robotic jumpers to simultaneously maintain structural compliance and achieve powerful, multidirectional jumping. This letter introduces
We propose a lightweight and scalable Regional Point-Language Contrastive learning framework namely RegionPLC for open-world 3D scene understanding aiming to identify and recognize open-set objects and categories. Specifically based on our empirical studies we introduce a 3D-aware SFusion strategy t…
Current 3D stylization methods often assume static scenes which violates the dynamic nature of our real world. To address this limitation we present S-DyRF a reference-based spatio-temporal stylization method for dynamic neural radiance fields. However stylizing dynamic 3D scenes is inherently chall…
The perception of motion behavior in a dynamic environment holds significant importance for autonomous driving systems wherein class-agnostic motion prediction methods directly predict the motion of the entire point cloud. While most existing methods rely on fully-supervised learning the manual labe…
Class-agnostic motion prediction methods aim to comprehend motion within open-world scenarios, holding significance for autonomous driving systems. However, training a high-performance model in a fully-supervised manner always requires substantial amounts of manually annotated data, which can be bot…
Masked (or absorbing) diffusion is actively explored as an alternative to autoregressive models for generative modeling of discrete data. However, existing work in this area has been hindered by unnecessarily complex model formulations and unclear relationships between different perspectives, leadin…
"Sparse 3D detectors have received significant attention since the query-based paradigm embraces low latency without explicit dense BEV feature construction. However, these detectors achieve worse performance than their dense counterparts. In this paper, we find the key to bridging the performance g…
"Existing benchmarks for 3D semantic occupancy prediction in autonomous driving are limited by low resolution (up to [512×512×40] with 0.2m voxel size) and inaccurate annotations, hindering the unification of 3D scene understanding through the occupancy representation. Moreover, previous methods can…
Effective BEV object detection on infrastructure can greatly improve traffic scene understanding and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) cooperative perception. However, cameras installed on infrastructure have various postures, and previous BEV detection methods rely on accurate calibration, which is d…
Although DETR-based 3D detectors simplify the detection pipeline and achieve direct sparse predictions, their performance still lags behind dense detectors with post-processing for 3D object detection from point clouds. DETRs usually adopt a larger number of queries than GTs (e.g., 300 queries v.s.…
In this paper, we propose a novel layer-adaptive weight-pruning approach for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that addresses the challenge of optimizing the output distortion minimization while adhering to a target pruning ratio constraint. Our approach takes into account the collective influence of all…
Recent NLP literature has seen growing interest in improving model interpretability. Along this direction, we propose a trainable neural network layer that learns a global interaction graph between words and then selects more informative words using the learned word interactions. Our layer, we call…
Machine learning models fail to perform when facing out-of-distribution (OOD) domains, a challenging task known as domain generalization (DG). In this work, we develop a novel DG training strategy, we call PGrad, to learn a robust gradient direction, improving models' generalization ability on unsee…
The Multimodal Information based Speech Processing (MISP) 2022 challenge aimed to enhance speech processing performance in harsh acoustic environments by leveraging additional modalities such as video or text. The challenge included two tracks: audio-visual speaker diarization (AVSD) and audio-visua…
The Multi-modal Information based Speech Processing (MISP) challenge aims to extend the application of signal processing technology in specific scenarios by promoting the research into wake-up words, speaker diarization, speech recognition, and other technologies. The MISP2022 challenge has two trac…
An automatic vision-based sewer inspection plays a key role of sewage system in a modern city. Recent advances focus on utilizing deep learning model to realize the sewer inspection system, benefiting from the capability of data-driven feature representation. However, the inherent uncertainty of sew…
Understanding the motion behavior of dynamic environments is vital for autonomous driving, leading to increasing attention in class-agnostic motion prediction in LiDAR point clouds. Outdoor scenes can often be decomposed into mobile foregrounds and static backgrounds, which enables us to associate m…
LiDAR point cloud compression is important for autonomous driving as it consumes a lot of storage and bandwidth. Although the fusion of camera and LiDAR for vision perception has been well studied, it remains unexplored that how we can improve the compression of LiDAR point cloud data using cross-mo…
Most current in-pipe robots are usually designed for pipes of a specific size. In this letter, we propose a novel inchworm-like in-pipe robot based on the concept of tensegrity for moving in pipes with varying diameters. Firstly, a tensegrity-based robotic module capable of two kinds of shape change
In few-shot learning, methods are enslaved to the scarce labeled data, resulting in suboptimal embedding. Recent studies learn the embedding network by other large-scale labeled data. However, the trained network may give rise to the distorted embedding of target data. We argue two respects are requ…
Learning the differential statistical dependency network between two contexts is essential for many real-life applications, mostly in the high dimensional low sample regime. In this paper, we propose a novel differential network estimator that allows integrating various sources of knowledge beyond d…
Training GANs under limited data often leads to discriminator overfitting and memorization issues, causing divergent training. Existing approaches mitigate the overfitting by employing data augmentations, model regularization, or attention mechanisms. However, they ignore the frequency bias of GANs…
This work explores how to design a single neural network capable of adapting to multiple heterogeneous vision tasks, such as image segmentation, 3D detection, and video recognition. This goal is challenging because both network architecture search (NAS) spaces and methods in different tasks are inco…
"Recently, the vision transformer and its variants have played an increasingly important role in both monocular and multi-view human pose estimation. Considering image patches as tokens, transformers can model the global dependencies within the entire image or across images from other views. However…
"Allocating different bit widths to different channels and quantizing them independently bring higher quantization precision and accuracy. Most of prior works use equal bit width to quantize all layers or channels, which is sub-optimal. On the other hand, it is very challenging to explore the hyperp…
In this work, we focus on scene flow learning on point clouds in a self-supervised manner. A real-world scene can be well modeled as a collection of rigidly moving parts, therefore its scene flow can be represented as a combination of rigid motion of each part. Inspired by this observation, we propo…
Optimization-based meta-learning typically assumes tasks are sampled from a single distribution - an assumption that oversimplifies and limits the diversity of tasks that meta-learning can model. Handling tasks from multiple distributions is challenging for meta-learning because it adds ambiguity to…
Recent self-supervised pre-training methods on Heterogeneous Information Networks (HINs) have shown promising competitiveness over traditional semi-supervised Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs). Unfortunately, their performance heavily depends on careful customization of various strategies…
Despite substantial progress in 3D object detection, advanced 3D detectors often suffer from heavy computation overheads. To this end, we explore the potential of knowledge distillation (KD) for developing efficient 3D object detectors, focusing on popular pillar- and voxel-based detectors. In the a…
"Existing few-shot image generation approaches typically employ fusion-based strategies, either on the image or the feature level, to produce new images. However, previous approaches struggle to synthesize high-frequency signals with fine details, deteriorating the synthesis quality. To address this…
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a widely used method for its outstanding generalization ability and simplicity. Adaptive gradient methods have been proposed to further accelerate the optimization process. In this paper, we revisit existing adaptive gradient optimization methods with a new inter…
Recently, records on stereo matching benchmarks are constantly broken by end-to-end disparity networks. However, the domain adaptation ability of these deep models is quite poor. Addressing such problem, we present a novel domain-adaptive pipeline called AdaStereo that aims to align multi-level repr…
Recently proposed knowledge distillation approaches based on feature-map transfer validate that intermediate layers of a teacher model can serve as effective targets for training a student model to obtain better generalization ability. Existing studies mainly focus on particular representation forms…
The end-to-end Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) approach has been successfully used for 3D body reconstruction. However, most HMR-based frameworks reconstruct human body by directly learning mesh parameters from images or videos, while lacking explicit guidance of 3D human pose in visual data. As a result,…
We present a new domain adaptive self-training pipeline, named ST3D, for unsupervised domain adaptation on 3D object detection from point clouds. First, we pre-train the 3D detector on the source domain with our proposed random object scaling strategy for mitigating the negative effects of source do…
This paper investigates a population-based training regime based on game-theoretic principles called Policy-Spaced Response Oracles (PSRO). PSRO is general in the sense that it (1) encompasses well-known algorithms such as fictitious play and double oracle as special cases, and (2) in principle appl…
Variance-reduced algorithms, although achieve great theoretical performance, can run slowly in practice due to the periodic gradient estimation with a large batch of data. Batch-size adaptation thus arises as a promising approach to accelerate such algorithms. However, existing schemes either apply…
The actor-critic (AC) algorithm is a popular method to find an optimal policy in reinforcement learning. In the infinite horizon scenario, the finite-sample convergence rate for the AC and natural actor-critic (NAC) algorithms has been established recently, but under independent and identically dist…
3D object detection from a single image without LiDAR is a challenging task due to the lack of accurate depth information. Conventional 2D convolutions are unsuitable for this task because they fail to capture local object and its scale information, which are vital for 3D object detection. To better…
We present a novel and high-performance 3D object detection framework, named PointVoxel-RCNN (PV-RCNN), for accurate 3D object detection from point clouds. Our proposed method deeply integrates both 3D voxel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and PointNet-based set abstraction to learn more discrimi…
Various types of parameter restart schemes have been proposed for proximal gradient algorithm with momentum to facilitate their convergence in convex optimization. However, under parameter restart, the convergence of proximal gradient algorithm with momentum remains obscure in nonconvex optimization…
Existential rules are an expressive ontology formalism for ontology-mediated query answering and thus query answering is of high complexity, while several tractable fragments have been identified. Existing systems based on first-order rewriting methods can lead to queries too large for DBMS to handl…
Temporal difference (TD) learning is a popular algorithm for policy evaluation in reinforcement learning, but the vanilla TD can substantially suffer from the inherent optimization variance. A variance reduced TD (VRTD) algorithm was proposed by \cite{korda2015td}, which applies the variance reducti…
3D vehicle detection based on point cloud is a challenging task in real-world applications such as autonomous driving. Despite significant progress has been made, we observe two aspects to be further improved. First, the semantic context information in LiDAR is seldom explored in previous works, whi…
Person search by natural language aims at retrieving a specific person in a large-scale image pool that matches given textual descriptions. While most of the current methods treat the task as a holistic visual and textual feature matching one, we approach it from an attribute-aligning perspective th…
The objective of the study is to develop a framework for automatic breast cancer detection with merging four imaging modes. Attempts were made for tumor classification and segmentation; using a multi-parametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) method on breast tumors. MRI data of the breast were obt…
Camera re-localization is an important but challenging task in applications like robotics and autonomous driving. Recently, retrieval-based methods have been considered as a promising direction as they can be easily generalized to novel scenes. Despite significant progress has been made, we observe…
Momentum is a popular technique to accelerate the convergence in practical training, and its impact on convergence guarantee has been well-studied for first-order algorithms. However, such a successful acceleration technique has not yet been proposed for second-order algorithms in nonconvex optimiza…
Two types of zeroth-order stochastic algorithms have recently been designed for nonconvex optimization respectively based on the first-order techniques SVRG and SARAH/SPIDER. This paper addresses several important issues that are still open in these methods. First, all existing SVRG-type zeroth-orde…
Modern convolutional object detectors have improved the detection accuracy significantly, which in turn inspired the development of dedicated hardware accelerators to achieve real-time performance by exploiting inherent parallelism in the algorithm. Non-maximum suppression (NMS) is an indispensable…
Multi-sensor perception is crucial to ensure the reliability and accuracy in autonomous driving system, while multi-object tracking (MOT) improves that by tracing sequential movement of dynamic objects. Most current approaches for multi-sensor multi-object tracking are either lack of reliability by…
SARAH and SPIDER are two recently developed stochastic variance-reduced algorithms, and SPIDER has been shown to achieve a near-optimal first-order oracle complexity in smooth nonconvex optimization. However, SPIDER uses an accuracy-dependent stepsize that slows down the convergence in practice, and…
Cubic regularization (CR) is an optimization method with emerging popularity due to its capability to escape saddle points and converge to second-order stationary solutions for nonconvex optimization. However, CR encounters a high sample complexity issue for finite-sum problems with a large data siz…
Under noisy environments, to achieve the robust performance of speaker recognition is still a challenging task. Motivated by the promising performance of multi-task training in a variety of image processing tasks, we explore the potential of multitask adversarial training for learning a noise-robust…
Cubic-regularized Newton's method (CR) is a popular algorithm that guarantees to produce a second-order stationary solution for solving nonconvex optimization problems. However, existing understandings of convergence rate of CR are conditioned on special types of geometrical properties of the object…
Due to the emergence of Generative Adversarial Networks, video synthesis has witnessed exceptional breakthroughs. However, existing methods lack a proper representation to explicitly control the dynamics in videos. Human pose, on the other hand, can represent motion patterns intrinsically and interp…
Recent studies demonstrate the effectiveness of super vector representation in a number of visual recognition tasks. One popular approach along this line is the Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptor (VLAD) where the super vector is encoded with a codebook generated by k-means. However, the effecti…
The deep two-stream architecture exhibited excellent performance on video based action recognition. The most computationally expensive step in this approach comes from the calculation of optical flow which prevents it to be real-time. This paper accelerates this architecture by replacing optical flo…
In this paper, we propose deformable deep convolutional neural networks for generic object detection. This new deep learning object detection diagram has innovations in multiple aspects. In the proposed new deep architecture, a new deformation constrained pooling (def-pooling) layer models the defor…
A Discontinuous transmission (DTX) system, which is widely adopted in speech codecs, is an important function for speech communication systems that can reduce the transmission bandwidth by at least a half. Within a DTX system, the comfort noise generation (CNG) plays a key role in the overall qualit…
The recently standardized 3GPP codec for Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) offers new features and improvements for low-delay real-time communication systems. Based on a novel, switched low-delay speech/audio codec, the EVS codec contains various tools for better compression efficiency and higher qualit…