The Reasonable Effectiveness of Speaker Embeddings for Violence Detection
Abstract
In this paper, we focus on audio violence detection (AVD). AVD is necessary for several reasons, especially in the context of maintaining safety, preventing harm, and ensuring security in various environments. This calls for accurate AVD systems. Like many related applications in audio processing, the most common approach for improving the performance, would be by leveraging self-supervised (SSL) pre-trained models (PTMs). However, as these SSL models are very large models with million of parameters and this can hinder real-world deployment especially in compute-constraint environment. To resolve this, we propose the usage of speaker recognition models which are much smaller compared to the SSL models. Experimentation with speaker recognition model embeddings with SVM & Random Forest as classifiers, we show that speaker recognition model embeddings perform the best in comparison to state-of-the-art (SOTA) SSL models and achieve SOTA results.
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@article{arxiv.2406.06798,
title = {The Reasonable Effectiveness of Speaker Embeddings for Violence Detection},
author = {Sarthak Jain and Orchid Chetia Phukan and Arun Balaji Buduru and Rajesh Sharma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.06798},
year = {2024}
}
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Accepted to INTERSPEECH 24 Show & Tell Demonstrations