Advances in Audio and Image Processing

The field of audio and image processing is rapidly evolving, with a focus on developing innovative methods for efficient transmission, compression, and analysis of multimedia data. Recent research has explored the use of deep learning models, such as transformers and variational autoencoders, to improve the accuracy and robustness of audio and image classification tasks. Additionally, there is a growing interest in developing lightweight and efficient models that can be deployed on edge devices, enabling real-time processing and analysis of multimedia data.

Noteworthy papers in this area include the introduction of the IMPACT model, which provides a novel foundation for industrial machine sound analysis, and the development of the LISTEN model, a lightweight industrial sound-representable transformer for edge notification. The MGVQ method has also shown promising results in improving the reconstruction quality of vector quantized variational autoencoders.

These advances have significant implications for a wide range of applications, including audio question answering, image compression, and industrial monitoring. Overall, the field of audio and image processing is poised for continued innovation and growth, with a focus on developing more efficient, accurate, and robust models for analyzing and understanding multimedia data.

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Text-Guided Token Communication for Wireless Image Transmission

Improving AI-Based Canine Heart Disease Diagnosis with Expert-Consensus Auscultation Labeling

Contrastive and Transfer Learning for Effective Audio Fingerprinting through a Real-World Evaluation Protocol

IMPACT: Industrial Machine Perception via Acoustic Cognitive Transformer

Denoising Multi-Beta VAE: Representation Learning for Disentanglement and Generation

Assessing Learned Models for Phase-only Hologram Compression

Revealing the Hidden Temporal Structure of HubertSoft Embeddings based on the Russian Phonetic Corpus

Data-Balanced Curriculum Learning for Audio Question Answering

Comparative Analysis of CNN and Transformer Architectures with Heart Cycle Normalization for Automated Phonocardiogram Classification

D-CNN and VQ-VAE Autoencoders for Compression and Denoising of Industrial X-ray Computed Tomography Images

Assessing the Alignment of Audio Representations with Timbre Similarity Ratings

Re-Bottleneck: Latent Re-Structuring for Neural Audio Autoencoders

LISTEN: Lightweight Industrial Sound-representable Transformer for Edge Notification

Single-pass Adaptive Image Tokenization for Minimum Program Search

MGVQ: Could VQ-VAE Beat VAE? A Generalizable Tokenizer with Multi-group Quantization

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