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This paper addresses the problem of Target Activity Detection (TAD) for binaural listening devices. TAD denotes the problem of robustly detecting the activity of a target speaker in a harsh acoustic environment, which comprises interfering…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Daniel Gerber , Stefan Meier , Walter Kellermann

In a speech recognition system, voice activity detection (VAD) is a crucial frontend module. Addressing the issues of poor noise robustness in traditional binary VAD systems based on DFSMN, the paper further proposes semantic VAD based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Lingyun Zuo , Keyu An , Shiliang Zhang , Zhijie Yan

Active speaker detection (ASD) seeks to detect who is speaking in a visual scene of one or more speakers. The successful ASD depends on accurate interpretation of short-term and long-term audio and visual information, as well as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Rohan Kumar Das , Xinyuan Qian , Mike Zheng Shou , Haizhou Li

Robots are becoming everyday devices, increasing their interaction with humans. To make human-machine interaction more natural, cognitive features like Visual Voice Activity Detection (VVAD), which can detect whether a person is speaking or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Adrian Lubitz , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Frank Kirchner

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) plays a key role in speech processing, often utilizing hand-crafted or neural features. This study examines the effectiveness of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and pre-trained model (PTM)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kumud Tripathi , Chowdam Venkata Kumar , Pankaj Wasnik

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) aims at detecting speech segments on an audio signal, which is a necessary first step for many today's speech based applications. Current state-of-the-art methods focus on training a neural network exploiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Sina Alisamir , Fabien Ringeval , Francois Portet

Sound event localization and detection with source distance estimation (3D SELD) involves not only identifying the sound category and its direction-of-arrival (DOA) but also predicting the source's distance, aiming to provide full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Hengyi Hong , Qing Wang , Jun Du , Ruoyu Wei , Mingqi Cai , Xin Fang

In this paper, we propose "personal VAD", a system to detect the voice activity of a target speaker at the frame level. This system is useful for gating the inputs to a streaming on-device speech recognition system, such that it only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Shaojin Ding , Quan Wang , Shuo-yiin Chang , Li Wan , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

Voice activity detection (VAD), used as the front end of speech enhancement, speech and speaker recognition algorithms, determines the overall accuracy and efficiency of the algorithms. Therefore, a VAD with low complexity and high accuracy…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Jayanta Dey , Md Sanzid Bin Hossain , Mohammad Ariful Haque

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) in the presence of background noise remains a challenging problem in speech processing. Accurate VAD is essential in automatic speech recognition, voice-to-text, conversational agents, etc, where noise can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl , Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad , Amin Edraki , Masoud Asgharian , Vahid Partovi Nia

We propose a new deep network for audio event recognition, called AENet. In contrast to speech, sounds coming from audio events may be produced by a wide variety of sources. Furthermore, distinguishing them often requires analyzing an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Naoya Takahashi , Michael Gygli , Luc Van Gool

Speech activity detection (SAD) plays an important role in current speech processing systems, including automatic speech recognition (ASR). SAD is particularly difficult in environments with acoustic noise. A practical solution is to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Fei Tao , Carlos Busso

Voice controlled virtual assistants (VAs) are now available in smartphones, cars, and standalone devices in homes. In most cases, the user needs to first "wake-up" the VA by saying a particular word/phrase every time he or she wants the VA…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Atta Norouzian , Bogdan Mazoure , Dermot Connolly , Daniel Willett

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is a fundamental preprocessing step in automatic speech recognition. This is especially true within the broadcast industry where a wide variety of audio materials and recording conditions are encountered.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Misa Ogura , Matt Haynes

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to locate events that deviate from normal patterns in videos. Traditional approaches often rely on extensive labeled data and incur high computational costs. Recent tuning-free methods based on Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zhaolin Cai , Fan Li , Ziwei Zheng , Haixia Bi , Lijun He

Voice activity detection (VAD) improves the performance of speaker verification (SV) by preserving speech segments and attenuating the effects of non-speech. However, this scheme is not ideal: (1) it fails in noisy environments or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Zuheng Kang , Jianzong Wang , Junqing Peng , Jing Xiao

Recent studies have demonstrated that incorporating auxiliary information, such as speaker voiceprint or visual cues, can substantially improve Speech Enhancement (SE) performance. However, single-channel methods often yield suboptimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Chihyun Liu , Jiaxuan Fan , Mingtung Sun , Michael Anthony , Mingsian R. Bai , Yu Tsao

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to develop intelligent agents to navigate in unseen environments only through language and vision supervision. In the recently proposed continuous settings (continuous VLN), the agent must act in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zongtao He , Liuyi Wang , Shu Li , Qingqing Yan , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) refers to the problem of distinguishing speech segments from background noise. Numerous approaches have been proposed for this purpose. Some are based on features derived from the power spectral density,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Thomas Drugman , Yannis Stylianou , Yusuke Kida , Masami Akamine

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to extracting speaker embeddings with significant success in speaker verification. Incorporating the attention mechanism has shown to be effective in improving the model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Jingyu Li , Yusheng Tian , Tan Lee