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Audio-visual speaker extraction has attracted increasing attention, as it removes the need for pre-registered speech and leverages the visual modality as a complement to audio. Although existing methods have achieved impressive performance,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiadong Wang , Ke Zhang , Xinyuan Qian , Ruijie Tao , Haizhou Li , Björn Schuller

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for creating lifelike avatars and enhancing human-computer interactions by synchronizing gestures with speech. Despite recent advancements, existing methods struggle with accurately identifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pinxin Liu , Pengfei Zhang , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Ari Shapiro , Kyle Olszewski

In the study of auditory attention, it has been revealed that there exists a robust correlation between attended speech and elicited neural responses, measurable through electroencephalography (EEG). Therefore, it is possible to use the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Dashanka De Silva , Siqi Cai , Saurav Pahuja , Tanja Schultz , Haizhou Li

Speaker extraction requires a sample speech from the target speaker as the reference. However, enrolling a speaker with a long speech is not practical. We propose a speaker extraction technique, that performs in multiple stages to take full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Meng Ge , Chenglin Xu , Longbiao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Jianwu Dang , Haizhou Li

Audio-visual speaker extraction isolates a target speaker's speech from a mixture speech signal conditioned on a visual cue, typically using the target speaker's face recording. However, in real-world scenarios, other co-occurring faces are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Zexu Pan , Shengkui Zhao , Tingting Wang , Kun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Bin Ma

Target speech separation refers to isolating target speech from a multi-speaker mixture signal by conditioning on auxiliary information about the target speaker. Different from the mainstream audio-visual approaches which usually require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Leyuan Qu , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Extracting the speech of participants in a conversation amidst interfering speakers and noise presents a challenging problem. In this paper, we introduce the novel task of target conversation extraction, where the goal is to extract the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Tuochao Chen , Qirui Wang , Bohan Wu , Malek Itani , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Shyamnath Gollakota

The Audio-Visual Speaker Extraction (AVSE) algorithm employs parallel video recording to leverage two visual cues, namely speaker identity and synchronization, to enhance performance compared to audio-only algorithms. However, the visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Junjie Li , Meng Ge , Zexu pan , Rui Cao , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Shiliang Zhang

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) uses a reference cue to extract the target speech from a mixture. In TSE systems relying on audio cues, the speaker embedding from the enrolled speech is crucial to performance. However, these embeddings may…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu Wu , Anbin Qi , Yanzhang Xie , Xiang Xie

Target Language Extraction aims to extract speech in a specific language from a mixture waveform that contains multiple speakers speaking different languages. The human auditory system is adept at performing this task with the knowledge of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mehmet Sinan Yıldırım , Ruijie Tao , Wupeng Wang , Junyi Ao , Haizhou Li

Target speaker extraction, which aims at extracting a target speaker's voice from a mixture of voices using audio, visual or locational clues, has received much interest. Recently an audio-visual target speaker extraction has been proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki

Humans possess the remarkable ability to selectively attend to a single speaker amidst competing voices and background noise, known as selective auditory attention. Recent studies in auditory neuroscience indicate a strong correlation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Zexu Pan , Marvin Borsdorf , Siqi Cai , Tanja Schultz , Haizhou Li

Speaker extraction and diarization are two enabling techniques for real-world speech applications. Speaker extraction aims to extract a target speaker's voice from a speech mixture, while speaker diarization demarcates speech segments by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Junyi Ao , Mehmet Sinan Yıldırım , Ruijie Tao , Meng Ge , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

Target Speech Extraction (TSE) traditionally relies on explicit clues about the speaker's identity like enrollment audio, face images, or videos, which may not always be available. In this paper, we propose a text-guided TSE model StyleTSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Mingyue Huo , Abhinav Jain , Cong Phuoc Huynh , Fanjie Kong , Pichao Wang , Zhu Liu , Vimal Bhat

Audio-driven co-speech human gesture generation has made remarkable advancements recently. However, most previous works only focus on single person audio-driven gesture generation. We aim at solving the problem of conversational co-speech…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Haiwei Xue , Sicheng Yang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zonghong Dai , Helen Meng

The hand gestures are one of the typical methods used in sign language. It is very difficult for the hearing-impaired people to communicate with the world. This project presents a solution that will not only automatically recognize the hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 K. Manikandan , Ayush Patidar , Pallav Walia , Aneek Barman Roy

Gestures are inherent to human interaction and often complement speech in face-to-face communication, forming a multimodal communication system. An important task in gesture analysis is detecting a gesture's beginning and end. Research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Esam Ghaleb , Ilya Burenko , Marlou Rasenberg , Wim Pouw , Ivan Toni , Peter Uhrig , Anna Wilson , Judith Holler , Aslı Özyürek , Raquel Fernández

Speaker extraction is to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-talker speech. It simulates humans' cocktail party effect or the selective listening ability. The prior work mostly performs speaker extraction in frequency domain, then…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Speech separation has been extensively explored to tackle the cocktail party problem. However, these studies are still far from having enough generalization capabilities for real scenarios. In this work, we raise a common strategy named…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Jing Shi , Jiaming Xu , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Bo Xu

Human speech is often accompanied by hand and arm gestures. Given audio speech input, we generate plausible gestures to go along with the sound. Specifically, we perform cross-modal translation from "in-the-wild'' monologue speech of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Shiry Ginosar , Amir Bar , Gefen Kohavi , Caroline Chan , Andrew Owens , Jitendra Malik