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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

Speaker diarization is one of the critical components of computational media intelligence as it enables a character-level analysis of story portrayals and media content understanding. Automated audio-based speaker diarization of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Rahul Sharma , Shrikanth Narayanan

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) is conventionally performed by modelling the temporal synchronisation of acoustic and visual speech cues. In egocentric recordings, however, the efficacy of synchronisation-based methods is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

Active speaker detection is a challenging task in audio-visual scenario understanding, which aims to detect who is speaking in one or more speakers scenarios. This task has received extensive attention as it is crucial in applications such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Junhua Liao , Haihan Duan , Kanghui Feng , Wanbing Zhao , Yanbing Yang , Liangyin Chen

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

The objective of this paper is to separate a target speaker's speech from a mixture of two speakers using a deep audio-visual speech separation network. Unlike previous works that used lip movement on video clips or pre-enrolled speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Soo-Whan Chung , Soyeon Choe , Joon Son Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Recent years have seen a surge in finding association between faces and voices within a cross-modal biometric application along with speaker recognition. Inspired from this, we introduce a challenging task in establishing association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Muhammad Saad Saeed , Shah Nawaz , Pietro Morerio , Arif Mahmood , Ignazio Gallo , Muhammad Haroon Yousaf , Alessio Del Bue

Our objective is to transform a video into a set of discrete audio-visual objects using self-supervised learning. To this end, we introduce a model that uses attention to localize and group sound sources, and optical flow to aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Owens , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Under noisy conditions, automatic speech recognition (ASR) can greatly benefit from the addition of visual signals coming from a video of the speaker's face. However, when multiple candidate speakers are visible this traditionally requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Speech activity detection (or endpointing) is an important processing step for applications such as speech recognition, language identification and speaker diarization. Both audio- and vision-based approaches have been used for this task in…

In this paper, we study the associations between human faces and voices. Audiovisual integration, specifically the integration of facial and vocal information is a well-researched area in neuroscience. It is shown that the overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Changil Kim , Hijung Valentina Shin , Tae-Hyun Oh , Alexandre Kaspar , Mohamed Elgharib , Wojciech Matusik

The intuitive interaction between the audio and visual modalities is valuable for cross-modal self-supervised learning. This concept has been demonstrated for generic audiovisual tasks like video action recognition and acoustic scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Abhinav Shukla , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Interactions involving children span a wide range of important domains from learning to clinical diagnostic and therapeutic contexts. Automated analyses of such interactions are motivated by the need to seek accurate insights and offer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Anfeng Xu , Kevin Huang , Tiantian Feng , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Shrikanth Narayanan

Active speaker detection (ASD) systems are important modules for analyzing multi-talker conversations. They aim to detect which speakers or none are talking in a visual scene at any given time. Existing research on ASD does not agree on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan , Changshui Zhang

We introduce a new efficient framework, the Unified Context Network (UniCon), for robust active speaker detection (ASD). Traditional methods for ASD usually operate on each candidate's pre-cropped face track separately and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Yuanhang Zhang , Susan Liang , Shuang Yang , Xiao Liu , Zhongqin Wu , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Multi-modal based speech separation has exhibited a specific advantage on isolating the target character in multi-talker noisy environments. Unfortunately, most of current separation strategies prefer a straightforward fusion based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Junwen Xiong , Peng Zhang , Lei Xie , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha , Yanning Zhang

Speech separation aims to separate individual voice from an audio mixture of multiple simultaneous talkers. Although audio-only approaches achieve satisfactory performance, they build on a strategy to handle the predefined conditions,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Peng Zhang , Jiaming Xu , Jing shi , Yunzhe Hao , Bo Xu

Many previous audio-visual voice-related works focus on speech, ignoring the singing voice in the growing number of musical video streams on the Internet. For processing diverse musical video data, voice activity detection is a necessary…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yuanbo Hou , Zhesong Yu , Xia Liang , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Dick Botteldooren

Conventional audio-visual approaches for active speaker detection (ASD) typically rely on visually pre-extracted face tracks and the corresponding single-channel audio to find the speaker in a video. Therefore, they tend to fail every time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

Speaker identification, determining which character said each utterance in literary text, benefits many downstream tasks. Most existing approaches use expert-defined rules or rule-based features to directly approach this task, but these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ben Zhou , Dian Yu , Dong Yu , Dan Roth