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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

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

Detecting sound source objects within visual observation is important for autonomous robots to comprehend surrounding environments. Since sounding objects have a large variety with different appearances in our living environments, labeling…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yoshiki Masuyama , Yoshiaki Bando , Kohei Yatabe , Yoko Sasaki , Masaki Onishi , Yasuhiro Oikawa

In this paper, we propose a speaker verification method by an Attentive Multi-scale Convolutional Recurrent Network (AMCRN). The proposed AMCRN can acquire both local spatial information and global sequential information from the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Yanxiong Li , Zhongjie Jiang , Wenchang Cao , Qisheng Huang

In multi-speaker applications is common to have pre-computed models from enrolled speakers. Using these models to identify the instances in which these speakers intervene in a recording is the task of speaker tracking. In this paper, we…

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

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

This paper delves into the challenging task of Active Speaker Detection (ASD), where the system needs to determine in real-time whether a person is speaking or not in a series of video frames. While previous works have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Arnav Kundu , Yanzi Jin , Mohammad Sekhavat , Max Horton , Danny Tormoen , Devang Naik

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

Meetings are a common activity in professional contexts, and it remains challenging to endow vocal assistants with advanced functionalities to facilitate meeting management. In this context, a task like active speaker detection can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Lionel Pibre , Francisco Madrigal , Cyrille Equoy , Frédéric Lerasle , Thomas Pellegrini , Julien Pinquier , Isabelle Ferrané

In this paper, we propose an iterative framework for self-supervised speaker representation learning based on a deep neural network (DNN). The framework starts with training a self-supervision speaker embedding network by maximizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Danwei Cai , Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

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

We present an approach to tackle the speaker recognition problem using Triplet Neural Networks. Currently, the $i$-vector representation with probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) is the most commonly used technique to solve…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Kin Wai Cheuk , Balamurali B. T. , Gemma Roig , Dorien Herremans

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

Active Speaker Detection (ASD) aims to identify who is speaking in each frame of a video. ASD reasons from audio and visual information from two contexts: long-term intra-speaker context and short-term inter-speaker context. Long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xizi Wang , Feng Cheng , Gedas Bertasius , David Crandall

Self-supervised speech pre-training methods have developed rapidly in recent years, which show to be very effective for many near-field single-channel speech tasks. However, far-field multichannel speech processing is suffering from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Qiushi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai

We address the problem of active speaker detection through a new framework, called SPELL, that learns long-range multimodal graphs to encode the inter-modal relationship between audio and visual data. We cast active speaker detection as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Sourya Roy , Kyle Min , Subarna Tripathi , Tanaya Guha , Somdeb Majumdar

The goal of this work is Active Speaker Detection (ASD), a task to determine whether a person is speaking or not in a series of video frames. Previous works have dealt with the task by exploring network architectures while learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Chaeyoung Jung , Suyeon Lee , Kihyun Nam , Kyeongha Rho , You Jin Kim , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

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

When watching videos, the occurrence of a visual event is often accompanied by an audio event, e.g., the voice of lip motion, the music of playing instruments. There is an underlying correlation between audio and visual events, which can be…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ying Cheng , Ruize Wang , Zhihao Pan , Rui Feng , Yuejie Zhang