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Audio-visual speaker diarization aims at detecting "who spoke when" using both auditory and visual signals. Existing audio-visual diarization datasets are mainly focused on indoor environments like meeting rooms or news studios, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Eric Zhongcong Xu , Zeyang Song , Satoshi Tsutsui , Chao Feng , Mang Ye , Mike Zheng Shou

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) aims to extract the clean speech of the target speaker in an audio mixture, eliminating irrelevant background noise and speech. While prior work has explored various auxiliary cues including pre-recorded…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ziyang Jiang , Jiahe Lei , Xueyan Chen , Yifan Zhang , Zexu Pan , Wei Xue , Xinyuan Qian

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

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

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

We present the first neural network model to achieve real-time and streaming target sound extraction. To accomplish this, we propose Waveformer, an encoder-decoder architecture with a stack of dilated causal convolution layers as the…

Extracting the speech of a target speaker from mixed audios, based on a reference speech from the target speaker, is a challenging yet powerful technology in speech processing. Recent studies of speaker-independent speech separation, such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Zining Zhang , Bingsheng He , Zhenjie Zhang

Speech enhancement in audio-only settings remains challenging, particularly in the presence of interfering speakers. This paper presents a simple yet effective real-time audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) system, RAVEN, which isolates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 T. Aleksandra Ma , Sile Yin , Li-Chia Yang , Shuo Zhang

The common target speech separation directly estimate the target source, ignoring the interrelationship between different speakers at each frame. We propose a multiple-target speech separation model (MTSS) to simultaneously extract each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Bang Zeng , Hongbing Suo , Yulong Wan , Ming Li

In this paper, we propose TitaNet, a novel neural network architecture for extracting speaker representations. We employ 1D depth-wise separable convolutions with Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) layers with global context followed by channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Taejin Park , Boris Ginsburg

The scarcity of labeled audio-visual datasets is a constraint for training superior audio-visual speaker diarization systems. To improve the performance of audio-visual speaker diarization, we leverage pre-trained supervised and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Huan Zhao , Li Zhang , Yue Li , Yannan Wang , Hongji Wang , Wei Rao , Qing Wang , Lei Xie

Target Sound Extraction (TSE) focuses on the problem of separating sources of interest, indicated by a user's cue, from the input mixture. Most existing solutions operate in an offline fashion and are not suited to the low-latency causal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Shrishail Baligar , Mikolaj Kegler , Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Shawn Newsam

Audio-visual Target Speaker Extraction (AV-TSE) aims to isolate the speech of a specific target speaker from an audio mixture using time-synchronized visual cues. In real-world scenarios, visual cues are not always available due to various…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junjie Li , Ke Zhang , Shuai Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Man-Wai Mak , Haizhou Li

Visual information can serve as an effective cue for target speaker extraction (TSE) and is vital to improving extraction performance. In this paper, we propose AV-SepFormer, a SepFormer-based attention dual-scale model that utilizes cross-…

In target speaker extraction, many studies rely on the speaker embedding which is obtained from an enrollment of the target speaker and employed as the guidance. However, solely using speaker embedding may not fully utilize the contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Xue Yang , Changchun Bao , Jing Zhou , Xianhong Chen

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's speech from a mixture using speaker enrollment as a reference. While most existing approaches are discriminative, recent generative methods for TSE achieve strong results.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Yael Segal-Feldman , Neta Glazer , Gil Hetz , Joseph Keshet

Spatial target speaker extraction isolates a desired speaker's voice in multi-speaker environments using spatial information, such as the direction of arrival (DoA). Although recent deep neural network (DNN)-based discriminative methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

Target speech separation refers to extracting the target speaker's speech from mixed signals. Despite the recent advances in deep learning based close-talk speech separation, the applications to real-world are still an open issue. Two main…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Rongzhi Gu , Yuexian Zou

Universal speech enhancement aims at handling inputs with various speech distortions and recording conditions. In this work, we propose a novel hybrid architecture that synergizes the signal fidelity of discriminative modeling with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yinghao Liu , Chengwei Liu , Xiaotao Liang , Haoyin Yan , Shaofei Xue , Zheng Xue

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