Search Results for author: Xubo Liu

Found 47 papers, 28 papers with code

Scaling Transformers for Low-Bitrate High-Quality Speech Coding

1 code implementation29 Nov 2024 Julian D Parker, Anton Smirnov, Jordi Pons, CJ Carr, Zack Zukowski, Zach Evans, Xubo Liu

The tokenization of speech with neural audio codec models is a vital part of modern AI pipelines for the generation or understanding of speech, alone or in a multimodal context.

Quantization

Learning Source Disentanglement in Neural Audio Codec

no code implementations17 Sep 2024 Xiaoyu Bie, Xubo Liu, Gaël Richard

Neural audio codecs have significantly advanced audio compression by efficiently converting continuous audio signals into discrete tokens.

Audio Compression Audio Generation +2

Universal Sound Separation with Self-Supervised Audio Masked Autoencoder

no code implementations16 Jul 2024 Junqi Zhao, Xubo Liu, Jinzheng Zhao, Yi Yuan, Qiuqiang Kong, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

In this paper, we propose integrating a self-supervised pre-trained model, namely the audio masked autoencoder (A-MAE), into a universal sound separation system to enhance its separation performance.

Self-Supervised Learning

Selective Prompting Tuning for Personalized Conversations with LLMs

1 code implementation26 Jun 2024 Qiushi Huang, Xubo Liu, Tom Ko, Bo Wu, Wenwu Wang, Yu Zhang, Lilian Tang

To alleviate those issues, we propose \textbf{S}elective \textbf{P}rompt \textbf{T}uning (SPT), which softly prompts LLMs for personalized conversations in a selective way.

Contrastive Learning Dialogue Generation +1

Fish Tracking, Counting, and Behaviour Analysis in Digital Aquaculture: A Comprehensive Review

no code implementations20 Jun 2024 Meng Cui, Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Jinzheng Zhao, Daoliang Li, Wenwu Wang

This paper presents a comprehensive review of three interconnected digital aquaculture tasks, namely, fish tracking, counting, and behaviour analysis, using a novel and unified approach.

Multi-Task Learning

Dynamic Identity-Guided Attention Network for Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification

no code implementations21 May 2024 Peng Gao, Yujian Lee, HUI ZHANG, Xubo Liu, Yiyang Hu, Guquan Jing

Effectively minimizing these cross-modal discrepancies relies on obtaining representations that are guided by identity and consistent across modalities, while also filtering out representations that are irrelevant to identity.

Person Re-Identification

ComposerX: Multi-Agent Symbolic Music Composition with LLMs

1 code implementation28 Apr 2024 Qixin Deng, Qikai Yang, Ruibin Yuan, Yipeng Huang, Yi Wang, Xubo Liu, Zeyue Tian, Jiahao Pan, Ge Zhang, Hanfeng Lin, Yizhi Li, Yinghao Ma, Jie Fu, Chenghua Lin, Emmanouil Benetos, Wenwu Wang, Guangyu Xia, Wei Xue, Yike Guo

Music composition represents the creative side of humanity, and itself is a complex task that requires abilities to understand and generate information with long dependency and harmony constraints.

In-Context Learning Music Generation

T-CLAP: Temporal-Enhanced Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining

no code implementations27 Apr 2024 Yi Yuan, Zhuo Chen, Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Xuenan Xu, Dongya Jia, Yuanzhe Chen, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

Contrastive language-audio pretraining~(CLAP) has been developed to align the representations of audio and language, achieving remarkable performance in retrieval and classification tasks.

Retrieval

WavCraft: Audio Editing and Generation with Large Language Models

1 code implementation14 Mar 2024 Jinhua Liang, huan zhang, Haohe Liu, Yin Cao, Qiuqiang Kong, Xubo Liu, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, Huy Phan, Emmanouil Benetos

We introduce WavCraft, a collective system that leverages large language models (LLMs) to connect diverse task-specific models for audio content creation and editing.

In-Context Learning

Audio Prompt Tuning for Universal Sound Separation

1 code implementation30 Nov 2023 Yuzhuo Liu, Xubo Liu, Yan Zhao, Yuanyuan Wang, Rui Xia, Pingchuan Tain, Yuxuan Wang

Specifically, APT improves the separation performance of specific sources through training a small number of prompt parameters with limited audio samples, while maintaining the generalization of the USS model by keeping its parameters frozen.

CM-PIE: Cross-modal perception for interactive-enhanced audio-visual video parsing

no code implementations11 Oct 2023 Yaru Chen, Ruohao Guo, Xubo Liu, Peipei Wu, Guangyao Li, Zhenbo Li, Wenwu Wang

Audio-visual video parsing is the task of categorizing a video at the segment level with weak labels, and predicting them as audible or visible events.

Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Audio Generation

no code implementations14 Sep 2023 Yi Yuan, Haohe Liu, Xubo Liu, Qiushi Huang, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

Despite recent progress in text-to-audio (TTA) generation, we show that the state-of-the-art models, such as AudioLDM, trained on datasets with an imbalanced class distribution, such as AudioCaps, are biased in their generation performance.

AudioCaps Audio Generation +2

Separate Anything You Describe

1 code implementation9 Aug 2023 Xubo Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Yan Zhao, Haohe Liu, Yi Yuan, Yuzhuo Liu, Rui Xia, Yuxuan Wang, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

In this work, we introduce AudioSep, a foundation model for open-domain audio source separation with natural language queries.

Audio Source Separation Natural Language Queries +2

WavJourney: Compositional Audio Creation with Large Language Models

1 code implementation26 Jul 2023 Xubo Liu, Zhongkai Zhu, Haohe Liu, Yi Yuan, Meng Cui, Qiushi Huang, Jinhua Liang, Yin Cao, Qiuqiang Kong, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

Subjective evaluations demonstrate the potential of WavJourney in crafting engaging storytelling audio content from text.

Audio Generation

Text-Driven Foley Sound Generation With Latent Diffusion Model

1 code implementation17 Jun 2023 Yi Yuan, Haohe Liu, Xubo Liu, Xiyuan Kang, Peipei Wu, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

We have observed that the feature embedding extracted by the text encoder can significantly affect the performance of the generation model.

Transfer Learning

Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Audio-Visual Video Captioning

no code implementations16 Jun 2023 Özkan Çaylı, Xubo Liu, Volkan Kılıç, Wenwu Wang

Automatically describing audio-visual content with texts, namely video captioning, has received significant attention due to its potential applications across diverse fields.

Audio-Visual Video Captioning Caption Generation +1

Adapting Language-Audio Models as Few-Shot Audio Learners

no code implementations28 May 2023 Jinhua Liang, Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Huy Phan, Emmanouil Benetos, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

We presented the Treff adapter, a training-efficient adapter for CLAP, to boost zero-shot classification performance by making use of a small set of labelled data.

Audio Classification Few-Shot Learning +1

SynthVSR: Scaling Up Visual Speech Recognition With Synthetic Supervision

no code implementations CVPR 2023 Xubo Liu, Egor Lakomkin, Konstantinos Vougioukas, Pingchuan Ma, Honglie Chen, Ruiming Xie, Morrie Doulaty, Niko Moritz, Jáchym Kolář, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic, Christian Fuegen

Furthermore, when combined with large-scale pseudo-labeled audio-visual data SynthVSR yields a new state-of-the-art VSR WER of 16. 9% using publicly available data only, surpassing the recent state-of-the-art approaches trained with 29 times more non-public machine-transcribed video data (90, 000 hours).

Lip Reading speech-recognition +1

AudioLDM: Text-to-Audio Generation with Latent Diffusion Models

4 code implementations29 Jan 2023 Haohe Liu, Zehua Chen, Yi Yuan, Xinhao Mei, Xubo Liu, Danilo Mandic, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley

By learning the latent representations of audio signals and their compositions without modeling the cross-modal relationship, AudioLDM is advantageous in both generation quality and computational efficiency.

AudioCaps Audio Generation +2

Towards Generating Diverse Audio Captions via Adversarial Training

no code implementations5 Dec 2022 Xinhao Mei, Xubo Liu, Jianyuan Sun, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

Captions generated by existing models are generally faithful to the content of audio clips, however, these machine-generated captions are often deterministic (e. g., generating a fixed caption for a given audio clip), simple (e. g., using common words and simple grammar), and generic (e. g., generating the same caption for similar audio clips).

Audio captioning Diversity +1

Ontology-aware Learning and Evaluation for Audio Tagging

1 code implementation22 Nov 2022 Haohe Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Xubo Liu, Xinhao Mei, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley

The proposed metric, ontology-aware mean average precision (OmAP) addresses the weaknesses of mAP by utilizing the AudioSet ontology information during the evaluation.

Audio Tagging

Personalized Dialogue Generation with Persona-Adaptive Attention

1 code implementation27 Oct 2022 Qiushi Huang, Yu Zhang, Tom Ko, Xubo Liu, Bo Wu, Wenwu Wang, Lilian Tang

Persona-based dialogue systems aim to generate consistent responses based on historical context and predefined persona.

Dialogue Generation

Automated Audio Captioning via Fusion of Low- and High- Dimensional Features

no code implementations10 Oct 2022 Jianyuan Sun, Xubo Liu, Xinhao Mei, Mark D. Plumbley, Volkan Kilic, Wenwu Wang

Moreover, in LHDFF, a new PANNs encoder is proposed called Residual PANNs (RPANNs) by fusing the low-dimensional feature from the intermediate convolution layer output and the high-dimensional feature from the final layer output of PANNs.

AudioCaps Audio captioning +2

Learning Temporal Resolution in Spectrogram for Audio Classification

1 code implementation4 Oct 2022 Haohe Liu, Xubo Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley

The audio spectrogram is a time-frequency representation that has been widely used for audio classification.

Audio Classification General Classification

Simple Pooling Front-ends For Efficient Audio Classification

1 code implementation3 Oct 2022 Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Xinhao Mei, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

Recently, there has been increasing interest in building efficient audio neural networks for on-device scenarios.

Audio Classification

Low-complexity CNNs for Acoustic Scene Classification

no code implementations2 Aug 2022 Arshdeep Singh, James A King, Xubo Liu, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley

This technical report describes the SurreyAudioTeam22s submission for DCASE 2022 ASC Task 1, Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC).

Acoustic Scene Classification Classification +1

Segment-level Metric Learning for Few-shot Bioacoustic Event Detection

1 code implementation15 Jul 2022 Haohe Liu, Xubo Liu, Xinhao Mei, Qiuqiang Kong, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley

In addition, we use transductive inference on the validation set during training for better adaptation to novel classes.

Event Detection Few-Shot Learning +2

Continual Learning For On-Device Environmental Sound Classification

1 code implementation15 Jul 2022 Yang Xiao, Xubo Liu, James King, Arshdeep Singh, Eng Siong Chng, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

Experimental results on the DCASE 2019 Task 1 and ESC-50 dataset show that our proposed method outperforms baseline continual learning methods on classification accuracy and computational efficiency, indicating our method can efficiently and incrementally learn new classes without the catastrophic forgetting problem for on-device environmental sound classification.

Classification Computational Efficiency +3

Automated Audio Captioning: An Overview of Recent Progress and New Challenges

no code implementations12 May 2022 Xinhao Mei, Xubo Liu, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the published contributions in automated audio captioning, from a variety of existing approaches to evaluation metrics and datasets.

Audio captioning Caption Generation +2

On Metric Learning for Audio-Text Cross-Modal Retrieval

1 code implementation29 Mar 2022 Xinhao Mei, Xubo Liu, Jianyuan Sun, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

We present an extensive evaluation of popular metric learning objectives on the AudioCaps and Clotho datasets.

AudioCaps Cross-Modal Retrieval +4

Neural Vocoder is All You Need for Speech Super-resolution

1 code implementation28 Mar 2022 Haohe Liu, Woosung Choi, Xubo Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Qiao Tian, DeLiang Wang

In this paper, we propose a neural vocoder based speech super-resolution method (NVSR) that can handle a variety of input resolution and upsampling ratios.

Audio Super-Resolution Bandwidth Extension +1

Separate What You Describe: Language-Queried Audio Source Separation

1 code implementation28 Mar 2022 Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Xinhao Mei, Jinzheng Zhao, Qiushi Huang, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

In this paper, we introduce the task of language-queried audio source separation (LASS), which aims to separate a target source from an audio mixture based on a natural language query of the target source (e. g., "a man tells a joke followed by people laughing").

AudioCaps Audio Source Separation

Diverse Audio Captioning via Adversarial Training

no code implementations13 Oct 2021 Xinhao Mei, Xubo Liu, Jianyuan Sun, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

As different people may describe an audio clip from different aspects using distinct words and grammars, we argue that an audio captioning system should have the ability to generate diverse captions for a fixed audio clip and across similar audio clips.

Audio captioning Diversity +2

CL4AC: A Contrastive Loss for Audio Captioning

2 code implementations21 Jul 2021 Xubo Liu, Qiushi Huang, Xinhao Mei, Tom Ko, H Lilian Tang, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

Automated Audio captioning (AAC) is a cross-modal translation task that aims to use natural language to describe the content of an audio clip.

Audio captioning Decoder +1

Audio Captioning Transformer

1 code implementation21 Jul 2021 Xinhao Mei, Xubo Liu, Qiushi Huang, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

In this paper, we propose an Audio Captioning Transformer (ACT), which is a full Transformer network based on an encoder-decoder architecture and is totally convolution-free.

AudioCaps Decoder +1

Conditional Sound Generation Using Neural Discrete Time-Frequency Representation Learning

1 code implementation21 Jul 2021 Xubo Liu, Turab Iqbal, Jinzheng Zhao, Qiushi Huang, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang

We evaluate our approach on the UrbanSound8K dataset, compared to SampleRNN, with the performance metrics measuring the quality and diversity of generated sounds.

Diversity Music Generation +2

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