no code implementations • 29 Mar 2024 • Jon Fagerström, Sebastian J. Schelcht, Vesa Välimäki
This paper extends the previously proposed basic dark-velvet-noise reverberation algorithm and proposes a parametrization scheme for modeling late reverberation with arbitrary temporal energy decay.
1 code implementation • 27 Mar 2024 • Eloi Moliner, Maija Turunen, Filip Elvander, Vesa Välimäki
This paper presents a novel approach to audio restoration, focusing on the enhancement of low-quality music recordings, and in particular historical ones.
1 code implementation • 17 Feb 2024 • Gloria Dal Santo, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Vesa Välimäki
A common bane of artificial reverberation algorithms is spectral coloration, typically manifesting as metallic ringing, leading to a degradation in the perceived sound quality.
no code implementations • 15 Feb 2024 • Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter, Simon Welker, Eloi Moliner, Vesa Välimäki, Timo Gerkmann
Here, we aim to show that diffusion models can combine the best of both worlds and offer the opportunity to design audio restoration algorithms with a good degree of interpretability and a remarkable performance in terms of sound quality.
no code implementations • 22 Dec 2023 • Eloi Moliner, Leonardo Fierro, Alec Wright, Matti Hämäläinen, Vesa Välimäki
This letter introduces an innovative method to enhance the quality of audio time stretching by precisely decomposing a sound into sines, transients, and noise and by improving the processing of the latter component.
no code implementations • 20 Oct 2023 • Etienne Thuillier, Craig Jin, Vesa Välimäki
Several individualization methods have recently been proposed to estimate a subject's Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) using convenient input modalities such as anthropometric measurements or pinnae photographs.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2023 • Eloi Moliner, Filip Elvander, Vesa Välimäki
In cases where the lowpass degradation is unknown, such as in restoring historical audio recordings, this becomes a blind problem.
no code implementations • 26 May 2023 • Otto Mikkonen, Alec Wright, Eloi Moliner, Vesa Välimäki
The sound of magnetic recording media, such as open-reel and cassette tape recorders, is still sought after by today's sound practitioners due to the imperfections embedded in the physics of the magnetic recording process.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2023 • Eloi Moliner, Vesa Välimäki
The proposed method uses an unconditionally trained generative model, which can be conditioned in a zero-shot fashion for audio inpainting, and is able to regenerate gaps of any size.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2022 • Leonardo Fierro, Alec Wright, Vesa Välimäki, Matti Hämäläinen
A deep neural network solution for time-scale modification (TSM) focused on large stretching factors is proposed, targeting environmental sounds.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2022 • Alec Wright, Vesa Välimäki, Lauri Juvela
We propose an audio effects processing framework that learns to emulate a target electric guitar tone from a recording.
1 code implementation • 27 Oct 2022 • Eloi Moliner, Jaakko Lehtinen, Vesa Välimäki
This paper presents CQT-Diff, a data-driven generative audio model that can, once trained, be used for solving various different audio inverse problems in a problem-agnostic setting.
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2022 • Leonardo Fierro, Vesa Välimäki
The current solutions for this three-way separation detect either horizontal and vertical structures or anisotropy and orientations in the spectrogram to identify the properties of each spectral bin and classify it as sinusoidal, transient, or noise.
1 code implementation • 13 Jun 2022 • Eloi Moliner, Vesa Välimäki
A diffusion probabilistic model is applied to generate highly realistic quasiperiodic noises.
1 code implementation • 4 May 2022 • Jan Wilczek, Alec Wright, Vesa Välimäki, Emanuël Habets
Recent research in deep learning has shown that neural networks can learn differential equations governing dynamical systems.
1 code implementation • 13 Apr 2022 • Eloi Moliner, Vesa Välimäki
Audio bandwidth extension aims to expand the spectrum of narrow-band audio signals.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2022 • Eloi Moliner, Vesa Välimäki
Enhancing the sound quality of historical music recordings is a long-standing problem.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2021 • Benoit Alary, Vesa Välimäki
A common approach is to capture an impulse response in a hall and auralize it by convolving an input signal with the measured reverberant response.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2019 • Alec Wright, Vesa Välimäki
This work investigates alternate pre-emphasis filters used as part of the loss function during neural network training for nonlinear audio processing.