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Publications (36)

eess.AS2024

Text-to-Song: Towards Controllable Music Generation Incorporating Vocals and Accompaniment

Zhiqing Hong, Rongjie Huang, Xize Cheng +5

A song is a combination of singing voice and accompaniment. However, existing works focus on singing voice synthesis and music generation independently. Little attention was paid t…

cs.CV2023

3DRP-Net: 3D Relative Position-aware Network for 3D Visual Grounding

Zehan Wang, Haifeng Huang, Yang Zhao +5

3D visual grounding aims to localize the target object in a 3D point cloud by a free-form language description. Typically, the sentences describing the target object tend to provid…

eess.AS2025

Rhythm Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Voice Conversion via Shortcut Flow Matching

Jialong Zuo, Shengpeng Ji, Minghui Fang +7

Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (VC) aims to transform the source speaker's timbre into an arbitrary unseen one while retaining speech content. Most prior work focuses on preserving the…

cs.SD2026

MARS-Sep: Multimodal-Aligned Reinforced Sound Separation

Zihan Zhang, Xize Cheng, Zhennan Jiang +4

Universal sound separation faces a fundamental misalignment: models optimized for low-level signal metrics often produce semantically contaminated outputs, failing to suppress perc…

cs.SD2025

T2A-Feedback: Improving Basic Capabilities of Text-to-Audio Generation via Fine-grained AI Feedback

Zehan Wang, Ke Lei, Chen Zhu +8

Text-to-audio (T2A) generation has achieved remarkable progress in generating a variety of audio outputs from language prompts. However, current state-of-the-art T2A models still s…

cs.CV2024

FreeBind: Free Lunch in Unified Multimodal Space via Knowledge Fusion

Zehan Wang, Ziang Zhang, Xize Cheng +8

Unified multi-model representation spaces are the foundation of multimodal understanding and generation. However, the billions of model parameters and catastrophic forgetting probl…

cs.CV2023

MixSpeech: Cross-Modality Self-Learning with Audio-Visual Stream Mixup for Visual Speech Translation and Recognition

Xize Cheng, Linjun Li, Tao Jin +7

Multi-media communications facilitate global interaction among people. However, despite researchers exploring cross-lingual translation techniques such as machine translation and a…

cs.SD2024

OmniSep: Unified Omni-Modality Sound Separation with Query-Mixup

Xize Cheng, Siqi Zheng, Zehan Wang +8

The scaling up has brought tremendous success in the fields of vision and language in recent years. When it comes to audio, however, researchers encounter a major challenge in scal…

eess.AS2024

WavChat: A Survey of Spoken Dialogue Models

Shengpeng Ji, Yifu Chen, Minghui Fang +16

Recent advancements in spoken dialogue models, exemplified by systems like GPT-4o, have captured significant attention in the speech domain. Compared to traditional three-tier casc…

cs.LG2023

Connecting Multi-modal Contrastive Representations

Zehan Wang, Yang Zhao, Xize Cheng +8

Multi-modal Contrastive Representation learning aims to encode different modalities into a semantically aligned shared space. This paradigm shows remarkable generalization ability…

cs.IR2025

CART: A Generative Cross-Modal Retrieval Framework with Coarse-To-Fine Semantic Modeling

Minghui Fang, Shengpeng Ji, Jialong Zuo +9

Cross-modal retrieval aims to search for instances, which are semantically related to the query through the interaction of different modal data. Traditional solutions utilize a sin…

cs.CV2023

Distilling Coarse-to-Fine Semantic Matching Knowledge for Weakly Supervised 3D Visual Grounding

Zehan Wang, Haifeng Huang, Yang Zhao +5

3D visual grounding involves finding a target object in a 3D scene that corresponds to a given sentence query. Although many approaches have been proposed and achieved impressive p…

cs.LG2024

A Wander Through the Multimodal Landscape: Efficient Transfer Learning via Low-rank Sequence Multimodal Adapter

Zirun Guo, Xize Cheng, Yangyang Wu +1

Efficient transfer learning methods such as adapter-based methods have shown great success in unimodal models and vision-language models. However, existing methods have two main ch…

cs.CV2023

Diffusion Denoising Process for Perceptron Bias in Out-of-distribution Detection

Luping Liu, Yi Ren, Xize Cheng +3

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a crucial task for ensuring the reliability and safety of deep learning. Currently, discriminator models outperform other methods in this reg…

cs.SD2024

MuVi: Video-to-Music Generation with Semantic Alignment and Rhythmic Synchronization

Ruiqi Li, Siqi Zheng, Xize Cheng +3

Generating music that aligns with the visual content of a video has been a challenging task, as it requires a deep understanding of visual semantics and involves generating music w…

cs.LG2026

Character Beyond Speech: Leveraging Role-Playing Evaluation in Audio Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning

Dongjie Fu, Fangming Feng, Xize Cheng +3

The rapid evolution of multimodal large models has revolutionized the simulation of diverse characters in speech dialogue systems, enabling a novel interactive paradigm. Character…

cs.CV2024

OmniBind: Large-scale Omni Multimodal Representation via Binding Spaces

Zehan Wang, Ziang Zhang, Hang Zhang +5

Recently, human-computer interaction with various modalities has shown promising applications, like GPT-4o and Gemini. Given the foundational role of multimodal joint representatio…

eess.AS2026

A Survey of Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Systems: Architectural Hierarchy, Interaction Ontology, and Decision State Machine

Jingyu Lu, Yuhan Wang, Jianming Luo +15

More than a dozen spoken dialogue systems have recently claimed to be "full-duplex," yet the term has been used to describe substantially different capabilities. Existing surveys c…

eess.AS2025

ControlSpeech: Towards Simultaneous and Independent Zero-shot Speaker Cloning and Zero-shot Language Style Control

Shengpeng Ji, Qian Chen, Wen Wang +8

In this paper, we present ControlSpeech, a text-to-speech (TTS) system capable of fully cloning the speaker's voice and enabling arbitrary control and adjustment of speaking style.…

cs.CL2023

OpenSR: Open-Modality Speech Recognition via Maintaining Multi-Modality Alignment

Xize Cheng, Tao Jin, Linjun Li +3

Speech Recognition builds a bridge between the multimedia streaming (audio-only, visual-only or audio-visual) and the corresponding text transcription. However, when training the s…

cs.CV2024

SegTalker: Segmentation-based Talking Face Generation with Mask-guided Local Editing

Lingyu Xiong, Xize Cheng, Jintao Tan +7

Audio-driven talking face generation aims to synthesize video with lip movements synchronized to input audio. However, current generative techniques face challenges in preserving i…

eess.AS2024

AudioLCM: Text-to-Audio Generation with Latent Consistency Models

Huadai Liu, Rongjie Huang, Yang Liu +5

Recent advancements in Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have propelled them to the forefront of various generative tasks. However, their iterative sampling process poses a significan…

eess.AS2025

WavReward: Spoken Dialogue Models With Generalist Reward Evaluators

Shengpeng Ji, Tianle Liang, Yangzhuo Li +11

End-to-end spoken dialogue models such as GPT-4o-audio have recently garnered significant attention in the speech domain. However, the evaluation of spoken dialogue models' convers…

cs.SD2023

TransFace: Unit-Based Audio-Visual Speech Synthesizer for Talking Head Translation

Xize Cheng, Rongjie Huang, Linjun Li +7

Direct speech-to-speech translation achieves high-quality results through the introduction of discrete units obtained from self-supervised learning. This approach circumvents delay…

cs.SD2026

Qwen-Music Technical Report

Jin Xu, Kangdi Wang, Ruibin Yuan +24

Qwen-Music is a large language model‑based system that generates high‑fidelity songs with vocals from text prompts or re‑imagines existing tracks, using a semantic token representa…

#music generation#text-to-music#cover song generation#semantic tokenization
eess.AS2026

SDiaReward: Modeling and Benchmarking Spoken Dialogue Rewards with Modality and Colloquialness

Jingyu Lu, Yuhan Wang, Fan Zhuo +7

The rapid evolution of end-to-end spoken dialogue systems demands transcending mere textual semantics to incorporate paralinguistic nuances and the spontaneous nature of human conv…

cs.SD2026

Auto-AEG: Scalable Data Construction for Open-Vocabulary Audio Event Grounding

Zihan Zhang, Xize Cheng, Wenhao Yan +5

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) reason fluently about sound yet struggle to localize precisely when events occur, while classical Sound Event Detection attains frame-level prec…

cs.LG2026

X-OPD: Distilling Reasoning into Large Audio-Language Models via On-Policy Alignment

Dongjie Fu, Di Cao, Xize Cheng +6

While large audio-language models have achieved remarkable progress in auditory perception, they still lag behind text-based large language models in deep logical reasoning, primar…

cs.CV2024

Landmark-guided Diffusion Model for High-fidelity and Temporally Coherent Talking Head Generation

Jintao Tan, Xize Cheng, Lingyu Xiong +6

Audio-driven talking head generation is a significant and challenging task applicable to various fields such as virtual avatars, film production, and online conferences. However, t…

cs.CL2023

Wav2SQL: Direct Generalizable Speech-To-SQL Parsing

Huadai Liu, Rongjie Huang, Jinzheng He +4

Speech-to-SQL (S2SQL) aims to convert spoken questions into SQL queries given relational databases, which has been traditionally implemented in a cascaded manner while facing the f…

eess.AS2025

WavTokenizer: an Efficient Acoustic Discrete Codec Tokenizer for Audio Language Modeling

Shengpeng Ji, Ziyue Jiang, Wen Wang +14

Language models have been effectively applied to modeling natural signals, such as images, video, speech, and audio. A crucial component of these models is the codec tokenizer, whi…

cs.CL2025

OmniChat: Enhancing Spoken Dialogue Systems with Scalable Synthetic Data for Diverse Scenarios

Xize Cheng, Dongjie Fu, Xiaoda Yang +11

With the rapid development of large language models, researchers have created increasingly advanced spoken dialogue systems that can naturally converse with humans. However, these…

cs.CL2023

AV-TranSpeech: Audio-Visual Robust Speech-to-Speech Translation

Rongjie Huang, Huadai Liu, Xize Cheng +8

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) aims to convert speech from one language into another, and has demonstrated significant progress to date. Despite the recent success, cur…

cs.CV2024

Chat-Scene: Bridging 3D Scene and Large Language Models with Object Identifiers

Haifeng Huang, Yilun Chen, Zehan Wang +8

Recent advancements in 3D Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities for 3D scene understanding. However, previous methods exhibit deficiencies in genera…

cs.SD2025

Unleashing the Power of Natural Audio Featuring Multiple Sound Sources

Xize Cheng, Slytherin Wang, Zehan Wang +3

Universal sound separation aims to extract clean audio tracks corresponding to distinct events from mixed audio, which is critical for artificial auditory perception. However, curr…

cs.SD2025

Enhancing Expressive Voice Conversion with Discrete Pitch-Conditioned Flow Matching Model

Jialong Zuo, Shengpeng Ji, Minghui Fang +8

This paper introduces PFlow-VC, a conditional flow matching voice conversion model that leverages fine-grained discrete pitch tokens and target speaker prompt information for expre…