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Speaker counting is the task of estimating the number of people that are simultaneously speaking in an audio recording. For several audio processing tasks such as speaker diarization, separation, localization and tracking, knowing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Pierre-Amaury Grumiaux , Srdan Kitic , Laurent Girin , Alexandre Guérin

The large size of nowadays' online multimedia databases makes retrieving their content a difficult and time-consuming task. Users of online sound collections typically submit search queries that express a broad intent, often making the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Xavier Favory , Frederic Font , Xavier Serra

In this paper we introduce a realistic and challenging, multi-source and multi-room acoustic environment and an improved algorithm for the estimation of source-dominated microphone clusters in acoustic sensor networks. Our proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Alexandru Nelus , Rene Glitza , Rainer Martin

While recent research advances in speaker diarization mostly focus on improving the quality of diarization results, there is also an increasing interest in improving the efficiency of diarization systems. In this paper, we demonstrate that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Quan Wang , Yiling Huang , Han Lu , Guanlong Zhao , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

Separating an audio scene into isolated sources is a fundamental problem in computer audition, analogous to image segmentation in visual scene analysis. Source separation systems based on deep learning are currently the most successful…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux , Bryan Pardo

Speaker diarization has been investigated extensively as an important central task for meeting analysis. Recent trend shows that integration of end-to-end neural (EEND)-and clustering-based diarization is a promising approach to handle…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Tomoharu Iwata

In this paper, a hierarchical attention network to generate utterance-level embeddings (H-vectors) for speaker identification is proposed. Since different parts of an utterance may have different contributions to speaker identities, the use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

The performance of speaker recognition system is highly dependent on the amount of speech used in enrollment and test. This work presents a detailed experimental review and analysis of the GMM-SVM based speaker recognition system in…

For online speaker diarization, samples arrive incrementally, and the overall distribution of the samples is invisible. Moreover, in most existing clustering-based methods, the training objective of the embedding extractor is not designed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yifan Chen , Yifan Guo , Qingxuan Li , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

In this paper, we propose Discriminative Neural Clustering (DNC) that formulates data clustering with a maximum number of clusters as a supervised sequence-to-sequence learning problem. Compared to traditional unsupervised clustering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Qiujia Li , Florian L. Kreyssig , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

This paper investigates the utilization of an end-to-end diarization model as post-processing of conventional clustering-based diarization. Clustering-based diarization methods partition frames into clusters of the number of speakers; thus,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Shota Horiguchi , Paola Garcia , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu

Speaker clustering is the task of forming speaker-specific groups based on a set of utterances. In this paper, we address this task by using Dominant Sets (DS). DS is a graph-based clustering algorithm with interesting properties that fits…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Feliks Hibraj , Sebastiano Vascon , Thilo Stadelmann , Marcello Pelillo

Accurately interpreting cardiac auscultation signals plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases. However, the paucity of labelled data inhibits classification models' training. Researchers have turned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Leigh Abbott , Milan Marocchi , Matthew Fynn , Yue Rong , Sven Nordholm

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

This paper describes an effective unsupervised speaker indexing approach. We suggest a two stage algorithm to speed-up the state-of-the-art algorithm based on the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). In the first stage of the merging…

Sound · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Konstantin Biatov

The seen birds twitter, the running cars accompany with noise, etc. These naturally audiovisual correspondences provide the possibilities to explore and understand the outside world. However, the mixed multiple objects and sounds make it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Di Hu , Feiping Nie , Xuelong Li

This paper introduces a novel approach to speaker-attributed ASR transcription using a neural clustering method. With a parallel processing mechanism, diarisation and ASR can be applied simultaneously, helping to prevent the accumulation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Xianrui Zheng , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Mice vocalize in the ultrasonic range during social interactions. These vocalizations are used in neuroscience and clinical studies to tap into complex behaviors and states. The analysis of these ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) has been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Jiaxi Wang , Karel Mundnich , Allison T. Knoll , Pat Levitt , Shrikanth Narayanan

Recently, deep clustering (DPCL) based speaker-independent speech separation has drawn much attention, since it needs little speaker prior information. However, it still has much room of improvement, particularly in reverberant…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ziye Yang , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Audio scene classification, the problem of predicting class labels of audio scenes, has drawn lots of attention during the last several years. However, it remains challenging and falls short of accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Kele Xu , Dawei Feng , Haibo Mi , Boqing Zhu , Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Hengxing Cai , Shuwen Liu