Diffusion Models for Audio Restoration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09821v2
• Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:15:12 GMT
• Title: Diffusion Models for Audio Restoration
• Authors: Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter, Simon Welker, Eloi Moliner, Vesa Välimäki, Timo Gerkmann,
• Abstract summary: We present here audio restoration algorithms based on diffusion models. We show that diffusion models can combine the best of both worlds and offer the opportunity to design audio restoration algorithms. We explain the diffusion formalism and its application to the conditional generation of clean audio signals.
• Score: 22.385385150594185
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the development of audio playback devices and fast data transmission, the demand for high sound quality is rising for both entertainment and communications. In this quest for better sound quality, challenges emerge from distortions and interferences originating at the recording side or caused by an imperfect transmission pipeline. To address this problem, audio restoration methods aim to recover clean sound signals from the corrupted input data. We present here audio restoration algorithms based on diffusion models, with a focus on speech enhancement and music restoration tasks. Traditional approaches, often grounded in handcrafted rules and statistical heuristics, have shaped our understanding of audio signals. In the past decades, there has been a notable shift towards data-driven methods that exploit the modeling capabilities of DNNs. Deep generative models, and among them diffusion models, have emerged as powerful techniques for learning complex data distributions. However, relying solely on DNN-based learning approaches carries the risk of reducing interpretability, particularly when employing end-to-end models. Nonetheless, data-driven approaches allow more flexibility in comparison to statistical model-based frameworks, whose performance depends on distributional and statistical assumptions that can be difficult to guarantee. 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. We explain the diffusion formalism and its application to the conditional generation of clean audio signals. We believe that diffusion models open an exciting field of research with the potential to spawn new audio restoration algorithms that are natural-sounding and remain robust in difficult acoustic situations.

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