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Neural Synthesis of Footsteps Sound Effects with Generative Adversarial Networks

arXiv 2110.09605 ↗First posted 18 Oct 2021cs.SD cs.AI cs.LGcited by 4

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Abstract (arXiv)

Footsteps are among the most ubiquitous sound effects in multimedia applications. There is substantial research into understanding the acoustic features and developing synthesis models for footstep sound effects. In this paper, we present a first attempt at adopting neural synthesis for this task. We implemented two GAN-based architectures and compared the results with real recordings as well as six traditional sound synthesis methods. Our architectures reached realism scores as high as recorded samples, showing encouraging results for the task at hand.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 15 of its 44 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Oct 2021.

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  1. 2022Full-band General Audio Synthesis with Score-based Diffusioncited by 32
  2. 2024T-FOLEY: A Controllable Waveform-Domain Diffusion Model for Temporal-Event-Guided Foley Sound Synthesiscited by 17
  3. 2024FolAI: Synchronized Foley Sound Generation with Semantic and Temporal Alignmentcited by 5
  4. 2023A General Framework for Learning Procedural Audio Models of Environmental Soundscited by 0