Discriminating real and synthetic super-resolved audio samples using embedding-based classifiers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03443v1
• Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:10:45 GMT
• Title: Discriminating real and synthetic super-resolved audio samples using embedding-based classifiers
• Authors: Mikhail Silaev, Konstantinos Drossos, Tuomas Virtanen,
• Abstract summary: Generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in audio super-resolution.<n>Here we analyze the separability of real and super-resolved audio in various embedding spaces.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in audio super-resolution (ADSR), producing perceptually convincing wideband audio from narrowband inputs. However, existing evaluations primarily rely on signal-level or perceptual metrics, leaving open the question of how closely the distributions of synthetic super-resolved and real wideband audio match. Here we address this problem by analyzing the separability of real and super-resolved audio in various embedding spaces. We consider both middle-band ($4\to 16$~kHz) and full-band ($16\to 48$~kHz) upsampling tasks for speech and music, training linear classifiers to distinguish real from synthetic samples based on multiple types of audio embeddings. Comparisons with objective metrics and subjective listening tests reveal that embedding-based classifiers achieve near-perfect separation, even when the generated audio attains high perceptual quality and state-of-the-art metric scores. This behavior is consistent across datasets and models, including recent diffusion-based approaches, highlighting a persistent gap between perceptual quality and true distributional fidelity in ADSR models.

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