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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

Current methods for active speak er detection focus on modeling short-term audiovisual information from a single speaker. Although this strategy can be enough for addressing single-speaker scenarios, it prevents accurate detection when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Juan Leon Alcazar , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Long Mai , Federico Perazzi , Joon-Young Lee , Pablo Arbelaez , Bernard Ghanem

We present a cross-modal unsupervised framework for active speaker detection in media content such as TV shows and movies. Machine learning advances have enabled impressive performance in identifying individuals from speech and facial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Rahul Sharma , Shrikanth Narayanan

Target-speaker voice activity detection is currently a promising approach for speaker diarization in complex acoustic environments. This paper presents a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (Seq2Seq-TSVAD)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Ming Cheng , Weiqing Wang , Yucong Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Current Active Speaker Detection (ASD) models achieve great results on AVA-ActiveSpeaker (AVA), using only sound and facial features. Although this approach is applicable in movie setups (AVA), it is not suited for less constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Tiago Roxo , Joana C. Costa , Pedro R. M. Inácio , Hugo Proença

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

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an essential pre-processing step for tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker recognition. A basic goal is to remove silent segments within an audio, while a more general VAD system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Yefei Chen , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu

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

Active speaker detection and speech enhancement have become two increasingly attractive topics in audio-visual scenario understanding. According to their respective characteristics, the scheme of independently designed architecture has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Junwen Xiong , Yu Zhou , Peng Zhang , Lei Xie , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha

Active speaker detection in videos addresses associating a source face, visible in the video frames, with the underlying speech in the audio modality. The two primary sources of information to derive such a speech-face relationship are i)…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Rahul Sharma , Shrikanth Narayanan

Active speaker detection is an important component in video analysis algorithms for applications such as speaker diarization, video re-targeting for meetings, speech enhancement, and human-robot interaction. The absence of a large,…

Audio-visual learning has demonstrated promising results in many classical speech tasks (e.g., speech separation, automatic speech recognition, wake-word spotting). We believe that introducing visual modality will also benefit speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Ming Cheng , Ming Li

Recent advances in the Active Speaker Detection (ASD) problem build upon a two-stage process: feature extraction and spatio-temporal context aggregation. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end ASD workflow where feature learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Juan Leon Alcazar , Moritz Cordes , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

Speaker diarization for real-life scenarios is an extremely challenging problem. Widely used clustering-based diarization approaches perform rather poorly in such conditions, mainly due to the limited ability to handle overlapping speech.…

Concurrent Speaker Detection (CSD), the task of identifying active speakers and their overlaps in an audio signal, is essential for various audio applications, including meeting transcription, speaker diarization, and speech separation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Amit Eliav , Sharon Gannot

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) aims to extract the specific person's speech from the audio mixture given auxiliary visual cues. Previous methods usually search for the target voice through speech-lip synchronization.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ruijie Tao , Xinyuan Qian , Yidi Jiang , Junjie Li , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li

We present UniTalk, a novel dataset specifically designed for the task of active speaker detection, emphasizing challenging scenarios to enhance model generalization. Unlike previously established benchmarks such as AVA, which predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Le Thien Phuc Nguyen , Zhuoran Yu , Khoa Quang Nhat Cao , Yuwei Guo , Tu Ho Manh Pham , Tuan Tai Nguyen , Toan Ngo Duc Vo , Lucas Poon , Soochahn Lee , Yong Jae Lee

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) is the process of identifying the attended speech in a multi-talker environment using brain signals, typically recorded through electroencephalography (EEG). Over the past decade, AAD has undergone…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nhan Duc Thanh Nguyen , Huy Phan , Simon Geirnaert , Kaare Mikkelsen , Preben Kidmose

Target-speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) has recently shown promising results for speaker diarization on highly overlapped speech. However, the original model requires a fixed (and known) number of speakers, which limits its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Maokui He , Desh Raj , Zili Huang , Jun Du , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe

This paper addresses the issue of active speaker detection (ASD) in noisy environments and formulates a robust active speaker detection (rASD) problem. Existing ASD approaches leverage both audio and visual modalities, but non-speech sounds…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Siva Sai Nagender Vasireddy , Chenxu Zhang , Xiaohu Guo , Yapeng Tian