English
Related papers

Related papers: Poformer: A simple pooling transformer for speaker…

200 papers

In this work, we introduce a multi-task transformer for speech deepfake detection, capable of predicting formant trajectories and voicing patterns over time, ultimately classifying speech as real or fake, and highlighting whether its…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Viola Negroni , Luca Cuccovillo , Paolo Bestagini , Patrick Aichroth , Stefano Tubaro

Speech-driven 3D facial animation is important for many multimedia applications. Recent work has shown promise in using either Diffusion models or Transformer architectures for this task. However, their mere aggregation does not lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhiyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Chen Qian , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Zhen Lei

This paper presents a streaming extension for the Sortformer speaker diarization framework, whose key property is the arrival-time ordering of output speakers. The proposed approach employs an Arrival-Order Speaker Cache (AOSC) to store…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Ivan Medennikov , Taejin Park , Weiqing Wang , He Huang , Kunal Dhawan , Jinhan Wang , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

In this work, instead of directly predicting the pixel-level segmentation masks, the problem of referring image segmentation is formulated as sequential polygon generation, and the predicted polygons can be later converted into segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jiang Liu , Hui Ding , Zhaowei Cai , Yuting Zhang , Ravi Kumar Satzoda , Vijay Mahadevan , R. Manmatha

This paper explores the use of ASR-pretrained Conformers for speaker verification, leveraging their strengths in modeling speech signals. We introduce three strategies: (1) Transfer learning to initialize the speaker embedding network,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Danwei Cai , Ming Li

While existing end-to-end beamformers achieve impressive performance in various front-end speech processing tasks, they usually encapsulate the whole process into a black box and thus lack adequate interpretability. As an attempt to fill…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Andong Li , Guochen Yu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

In this paper, we make the explicit connection between image segmentation methods and end-to-end diarization methods. From these insights, we propose a novel, fully end-to-end diarization model, EEND-M2F, based on the Mask2Former…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Marc Härkönen , Samuel J. Broughton , Lahiru Samarakoon

End-to-end models are fast replacing the conventional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition. Transformer, a sequence-to-sequence model, based on self-attention popularly used in machine translation tasks, has given promising results…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Vishwas M. Shetty , Metilda Sagaya Mary N J , S. Umesh

Complex-valued processing has brought deep learning-based speech enhancement and signal extraction to a new level. Typically, the process is based on a time-frequency (TF) mask which is applied to a noisy spectrogram, while complex masks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

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

In multi-speaker applications is common to have pre-computed models from enrolled speakers. Using these models to identify the instances in which these speakers intervene in a recording is the task of speaker tracking. In this paper, we…

Automatic Speaker Verification systems are gaining popularity these days; spoofing attacks are of prime concern as they make these systems vulnerable. Some spoofing attacks like Replay attacks are easier to implement but are very hard to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Rahul T P , P R Aravind , Ranjith C , Usamath Nechiyil , Nandakumar Paramparambath

Speaker embeddings extracted with deep 2D convolutional neural networks are typically modeled as projections of first and second order statistics of channel-frequency pairs onto a linear layer, using either average or attentive pooling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Themos Stafylakis , Johan Rohdin , Lukas Burget

Multi-talker overlapped speech recognition remains a significant challenge, requiring not only speech recognition but also speaker diarization tasks to be addressed. In this paper, to better address these tasks, we first introduce speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peng Shen , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

The human auditory system is able to distinguish the vocal source of thousands of speakers, yet not much is known about what features the auditory system uses to do this. Fourier Transforms are capable of capturing the pitch and harmonic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-28 Shariq Mobin , Joan Bruna

Transformers achieve unrivalled performance in modelling language, but remain inefficient in terms of memory and time complexity. A possible remedy is to reduce the sequence length in the intermediate layers by pooling fixed-length segments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Piotr Nawrot , Jan Chorowski , Adrian Łańcucki , Edoardo M. Ponti

We present a transformer-based architecture for voice separation of a target speaker from multiple other speakers and ambient noise. We achieve this by using two separate neural networks: (A) An enrolment network designed to craft…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Akam Rahimi , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

Transformer architectures have achieved SOTA performance on the human mesh recovery (HMR) from monocular images. However, the performance gain has come at the cost of substantial memory and computational overhead. A lightweight and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ce Zheng , Xianpeng Liu , Guo-Jun Qi , Chen Chen

Recently, attention-based transformers have become a de facto standard in many deep learning applications including natural language processing, computer vision, signal processing, etc.. In this paper, we propose a transformer-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tathagata Bandyopadhyay

State-of-the-art speech-to-text models typically employ Transformer-based encoders that model token dependencies via self-attention mechanisms. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention in both memory and computation imposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Eva Feillet , Ryan Whetten , David Picard , Alexandre Allauzen