Creating a piece of music is difficult for people who have never been trained to compose. We present an automatic music generation system to lower the threshold of creating music. The system takes the user's humming as input and creates full music based on the humming melody. The system consists of five modules: 1) humming transcription, 2) melody generation, 3) broken chord generation, 4) accompaniment generation, and 5) audio synthesis. The first module transcribes the user's humming audio to a score, and then the melody generation module composes a complete melody based on the user's humming melody. After that, the third module will generate a broken chord track to accompany the full melody, and the fourth module will create more accompanying tracks. Finally, the audio synthesis module mixes all the tracks to generate the music. Through the user experiment, our system can generate high-quality music with natural expression based on the user's humming input.

This paper presents a novel system, named LingGe ("伶歌" in Chinese), to generate songs for ancient Chinese poems automatically. LingGe takes the poem as the lyric, composes music conditioned on the lyric, and finally outputs a full song including the singing and the accompaniment. It consists of four modules: rhythm recognition, melody generation, accompaniment generation, and audio synthesis. Firstly, the rhythm recognition module analyzes the song structure and rhythm according to the poem. Secondly, the melody generation module assembles the rhythm into the template and then generates the melody. Thirdly, the accompaniment generation module predicts the accompaniment in harmony with the melody. Finally, the audio synthesis module generates singing and accompaniment audio and then mixes them to obtain songs. The results show that LingGe can generate high-quality and expressive songs for ancient Chinese poems, both in harmony and rhythm.

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have shown great potential for image quality improvement in low-dose CT (LDCT). In general, the shallow features of generator include more shallow visual information such as edges and texture, while the deep features of generator contain more deep semantic information such as organization structure. To improve the network's ability to categorically deal with different kinds of information, this paper proposes a new type of GAN with dual-encoder- single-decoder structure. In the structure of the generator, firstly, a pyramid non-local attention module in the main encoder channel is designed to improve the feature extraction effectiveness by enhancing the features with self-similarity; Secondly, another encoder with shallow feature processing module and deep feature processing module is proposed to improve the encoding capabilities of the generator; Finally, the final denoised CT image is generated by fusing main encoder's features, shallow visual features, and deep semantic features. The quality of the generated images is improved due to the use of feature complementation in the generator. In order to improve the adversarial training ability of discriminator, a hierarchical-split ResNet structure is proposed, which improves the feature's richness and reduces the feature's redundancy in discriminator. The experimental results show that compared with the traditional single-encoder- single-decoder based GAN, the proposed method performs better in both image quality and medical diagnostic acceptability. Code is available in https://github.com/hanzefang/DESDGAN.