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We introduce a distinctive real-time, causal, neural network-based active speaker detection system optimized for low-power edge computing. This system drives a virtual cinematography module and is deployed on a commercial device. The system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Ilya Gurvich , Ido Leichter , Dharmendar Reddy Palle , Yossi Asher , Alon Vinnikov , Igor Abramovski , Vishak Gopal , Ross Cutler , Eyal Krupka

Audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) methods use both audio and visual features for the task of speech enhancement and the use of visual features has been shown to be particularly effective in multi-speaker scenarios. In the majority of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets

As a sub-branch of affective computing, impression recognition, e.g., perception of speaker characteristics such as warmth or competence, is potentially a critical part of both human-human conversations and spoken dialogue systems. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yuanchao Li , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Learning from audio-visual data offers many possibilities to express correspondence between the audio and visual content, similar to the human perception that relates aural and visual information. In this work, we present a method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Shanshan Wang , Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros , Tuomas Virtanen

It is challenging to recognize facial action unit (AU) from spontaneous facial displays, especially when they are accompanied by speech. The major reason is that the information is extracted from a single source, i.e., the visual channel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Zibo Meng , Shizhong Han , Ping Liu , Yan Tong

Traditional sentiment analysis has long been a unimodal task, relying solely on text. This approach overlooks non-verbal cues such as vocal tone and prosody that are essential for capturing true emotional intent. We introduce Dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sadia Abdulhalim , Muaz Albaghdadi , Moshiur Farazi

Recently, more and more personalized speech enhancement systems (PSE) with excellent performance have been proposed. However, two critical issues still limit the performance and generalization ability of the model: 1) Acoustic environment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Xiaofeng Ge , Jiangyu Han , Haixin Guan , Yanhua Long

We propose to use neural networks for simultaneous detection and localization of multiple sound sources in human-robot interaction. In contrast to conventional signal processing techniques, neural network-based sound source localization…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Weipeng He , Petr Motlicek , Jean-Marc Odobez

Automatic speaker naming is the problem of localizing as well as identifying each speaking character in a TV/movie/live show video. This is a challenging problem mainly attributes to its multimodal nature, namely face cue alone is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Yongtao Hu , Jimmy Ren , Jingwen Dai , Chang Yuan , Li Xu , Wenping Wang

We present a system for localizing sound sources in a room with several ad-hoc microphone arrays. Each circular array performs direction of arrival (DOA) estimation independently using commercial software. The DOAs are fed to a fusion…

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) in egocentric recordings is challenged by frequent occlusions, motion blur, and audio interference, which undermine the discernability of temporal synchrony between lip movement and speech.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

Humans are adept at leveraging visual cues from lip movements for recognizing speech in adverse listening conditions. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models follow similar approach to achieve robust speech recognition in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Maxime Burchi , Krishna C. Puvvada , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg , Radu Timofte

In this paper, we propose two techniques, namely joint modeling and data augmentation, to improve system performances for audio-visual scene classification (AVSC). We employ pre-trained networks trained only on image data sets to extract…

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) typically improves recognition accuracy in noisy environments by integrating noise-immune visual cues with audio signals. Nevertheless, high-noise audio inputs are prone to introducing adverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Linzhi Wu , Xingyu Zhang , Hao Yuan , Yakun Zhang , Changyan Zheng , Liang Xie , Tiejun Liu , Erwei Yin

We address the problem of estimating direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) for multiple acoustic sources in a reverberant environment using a spherical microphone array. It is well-known that multi-source DOA estimation is challenging in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Rohith Mars , Hiroyuki Ehara , Srikanth Nagisetty , Chong Soon Lim

Recent advances in pre-trained vision transformers have shown promise in parameter-efficient audio-visual learning without audio pre-training. However, few studies have investigated effective methods for aligning multimodal features in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Tanvir Mahmud , Shentong Mo , Yapeng Tian , Diana Marculescu

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to infer human affect by jointly modeling audio and visual cues; however, existing approaches often struggle with temporal misalignment, weakly discriminative feature representations, and suboptimal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Joe Dhanith P R , Shravan Venkatraman , Vigya Sharma , Santhosh Malarvannan

Both visual and auditory information are valuable to determine the salient regions in videos. Deep convolution neural networks (CNN) showcase strong capacity in coping with the audio-visual saliency prediction task. Due to various factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Yingzi Fan , Longfei Han , Yue Zhang , Lechao Cheng , Chen Xia , Di Hu

Recent vision-language pre-training models have exhibited remarkable generalization ability in zero-shot recognition tasks. Previous open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding methods mostly focus on training 3D models using either image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ruihuang Li , Zhengqiang Zhang , Chenhang He , Zhiyuan Ma , Vishal M. Patel , Lei Zhang

Recently, a method has been proposed to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of a single speaker by minimizing the frequency-averaged Hermitian angle between an estimated relative transfer function (RTF) vector and a database of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Daniel Fejgin , Simon Doclo