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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 present the submitted system for the third DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge from the DKU-Duke-Lenovo team. Our system consists of several modules: voice activity detection (VAD), segmentation, speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Weiqing Wang , Qingjian Lin , Danwei Cai , Lin Yang , Ming Li

Dialogue models falter in noisy, multi-speaker environments, often producing irrelevant responses and awkward turn-taking. We present AV-Dialog, the first multimodal dialog framework that uses both audio and visual cues to track the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Tuochao Chen , Bandhav Veluri , Hongyu Gong , Shyamnath Gollakota

Active speaker detection requires a solid integration of multi-modal cues. While individual modalities can approximate a solution, accurate predictions can only be achieved by explicitly fusing the audio and visual features and modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Juan León-Alcázar , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

Personalized Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) systems activate only in response to a specific target speaker. Speaker-conditioning methods are employed to inject information about the target speaker into a VAD pipeline, to achieve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad , Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl , Amin Edraki , Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Masoud Asgharian , Yuanhao Yu , Vahid Partovi Nia

In this work, we propose a full-band real-time speech enhancement system with GAN-based stochastic regeneration. Predictive models focus on estimating the mean of the target distribution, whereas generative models aim to learn the full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Sanberk Serbest , Tijana Stojkovic , Milos Cernak , Andrew Harper

The deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) methods always take the clean speech's waveform or time-frequency spectrum feature as the learning target, and train the deep neural network (DNN) by reducing the error loss between the DNN's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Yuewei Zhang , Huanbin Zou , Jie Zhu

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

We address voice activity detection in acoustic environments of transients and stationary noises, which often occur in real life scenarios. We exploit unique spatial patterns of speech and non-speech audio frames by independently learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Amir Ivry , Baruch Berdugo , Israel Cohen

Voice activity detection is the task of detecting speech regions in a given audio stream or recording. First, we design a neural network combining trainable filters and recurrent layers to tackle voice activity detection directly from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Marvin Lavechin , Marie-Philippe Gill , Ruben Bousbib , Hervé Bredin , Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera

Detecting anchor's voice in live musical streams is an important preprocessing for music and speech signal processing. Existing approaches to voice activity detection (VAD) primarily rely on audio, however, audio-based VAD is difficult to…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yuanbo Hou , Yi Deng , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Dick Botteldooren

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and Overlapped Speech Detection (OSD) are key pre-processing tasks for speaker diarization. In the meeting context, it is often easier to capture speech with a distant device. This consideration however leads…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Théo Mariotte , Anthony Larcher , Silvio Montrésor , Jean-Hugh Thomas

Speech Activity Detection (SAD), locating speech segments within an audio recording, is a main part of most speech technology applications. Robust SAD is usually more difficult in noisy conditions with varying signal-to-noise ratios (SNR).…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Omid Ghahabi , Volker Fischer

As one of the fundamental video tasks in computer vision, Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition (OVAR) recently gains increasing attention, with the development of vision-language pre-trainings. To enable generalization of arbitrary classes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Haozhe Cheng , Cheng Ju , Haicheng Wang , Jinxiang Liu , Mengting Chen , Qiang Hu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) involves identifying the temporal intervals that contain anomalous events in untrimmed videos, where only video-level annotations are provided as supervisory signals. However, a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yu Wang , Shengjie Zhao

We propose SpeakerNet - a new neural architecture for speaker recognition and speaker verification tasks. It is composed of residual blocks with 1D depth-wise separable convolutions, batch-normalization, and ReLU layers. This architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jason Li , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

This report describes the submission of the DKU-DukeECE-Lenovo team to the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC) 2021 track 4. Our system including a voice activity detection (VAD) model, a speaker embedding model, two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Weiqing Wang , Danwei Cai , Qingjian Lin , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Jin Wang , Ming Li

Humans can intuitively infer sounds from silent videos, but whether multimodal large language models can perform modal-mismatch reasoning without accessing target modalities remains relatively unexplored. Current…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yong Ren , Chenxing Li , Le Xu , Hao Gu , Duzhen Zhang , Yujie Chen , Manjie Xu , Ruibo Fu , Shan Yang , Dong Yu

Humans have the ability to utilize visual cues, such as lip movements and visual scenes, to enhance auditory perception, particularly in noisy environments. However, current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Visual Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lakshmipathi Balaji , Karan Singla

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) addresses the task of determining the speech activity of a candidate speaker given acoustic and visual data. Typically, systems model the temporal correspondence of audiovisual cues, such as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze