Enhance MIDI Generation with Harmonic and Rhythmic Features

Music generation at Taiwan AI Labs is based on the generation of note sequences. This approach preserves most details of a piece of music, but to the human ear, music is not only a set of notes, but the patterns that are formed by them. This is exactly what chorder and groover aim to achieve; […]

Investigating the Impact of Facebook Polarization on the 2021 Taiwanese Referendum

Taiwan has four important upcoming referendums on December 18, 2021. “Pork Imports”, “Referendum Dates”, “Nuclear Plant”, “Algae Reef Protection.” According to previous research, disinformation and manipulation of the media could influence public opinion on topics like these referendums. This study will examine how Facebook has affected the polarization of public opinion on these topics over the previous eleven months. The phenomenon of public opinion polarization and the factors affecting policy support and political attitudes will be analyzed using artificial intelligence technology. The polarization impact of pages that demonstrated evidence of potential media manipulation through coordinated behavior were considered. Within these pages, those that were shared most often are referred to as “amplifiers.”

Exploring Atypical Online Coincidental Behavior on PTT

This study focuses on atypical coincidental behavior on the Taiwan social media, PTT1, to discover attempts to manipulate public opinion during the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Taiwan from May through August 2021.

The Challenge of Speaker Diarization

Introduction Speaker Diarization is the task to partition audio recordings into segments corresponding to the identity of the speaker. In short, a task to identify “who spoke when”. Speaker diarization can be used to analyze audio data in various scenarios, such as business meetings, court proceedings, online videos, just to name a few. However, it […]

Lyrics-free Singing Voice Generation

The conventional approach to generate singing voices is through singing voice synthesis (SVS) techniques. A human user feeds lyrics and MIDI scores (a sequence of notes) to a well-trained SVS model, and the model generates audio recordings following the given lyrics and scores faithfully. The synthesis models have little freedom deciding what to “sing.” In […]

MuseMorphose: Music Style Transfer with A Transformer VAE

Architecture of MuseMorphose

At Taiwan AI Labs, we are constantly pushing the frontier of deep music generation models. In the past year, we have rolled out Guitar Transformer (blog), which can compose human-readable guitar tabs with plausible fingerings, and Compound Word Transformer (blog), which vastly accelerated model training and inference thanks to carefully re-engineered music representation. Today, proudly making its debut […]

It is Enough to Take Only One Image: Re-exposure Images by Reconstructing Radiance Maps

Fig. 1 (Left) original image (Middle) result image of adjusting the brightness directly (Right) result image of adjusting the exposure on our reconstructed radiance map. Nowadays, more and more people like to take pictures with smartphones and post on social media to share beautiful photos with their friends. Usually, they do some image editing before […]

360° Depth Estimation

360° videos provide an immersive environment for people to engage, and Taiwan Traveler is a smart online tourism platform that utilizes 360° panoramic views to realize virtual sightseeing experiences. To immerse users in the virtual world, we aim to exploit depth information to provide a sense of space, enabling tourists to better explore scenic attractions. […]

The Magic to Disappear Cameraman: Removing Object from 8K 360° Videos

360° video, also known as immersive video, has been increasingly popular and drawn great attention nowadays since it unlocks unlimited possibilities for content creators and encourages viewer engagement. One representative application which exploits the power of 360° videos is Taiwan Traveler. Taiwan Traveler, Taiwan’s first smart tourism platform developed by Taiwan AI Labs, aims to […]

Azoospermia with Deep Learning Object Detection

Introduce Azoospermia Azoospermia is a medical term implying the condition of no measurable sperm in a man’s semen. It is also the main challenge in male infertility. Azoospermia could be divided into two classes, including obstructive azoospermia(OA) and non-obstructive azoospermia(NOA). For OA, the testicular size and serum hormone profile are normal. On the other hand, […]