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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

The objective of this work is to extract target speaker's voice from a mixture of voices using visual cues. Existing works on audio-visual speech separation have demonstrated their performance with promising intelligibility, but maintaining…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Suyeon Lee , Chaeyoung Jung , Youngjoon Jang , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

While automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems degrade significantly in noisy environments, audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) systems aim to complement the audio stream with noise-invariant visual cues and improve the system's…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-09 He Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Pan Zhou , Lei Xie

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) plays a key role in speech processing, often utilizing hand-crafted or neural features. This study examines the effectiveness of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and pre-trained model (PTM)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kumud Tripathi , Chowdam Venkata Kumar , Pankaj Wasnik

Audio-visual captioning aims to generate holistic scene descriptions by jointly modeling sound and vision. While recent methods have improved performance through sophisticated modality fusion, it remains unclear to what extent the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Yuchi Ishikawa , Toranosuke Manabe , Tatsuya Komatsu , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Deepfakes are synthetic media generated using deep generative algorithms and have posed a severe societal and political threat. Apart from facial manipulation and synthetic voice, recently, a novel kind of deepfakes has emerged with either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Vinaya Sree Katamneni , Ajita Rattani

Conventional automatic speaker verification systems can usually be decomposed into a front-end model such as time delay neural network (TDNN) for extracting speaker embeddings and a back-end model such as statistics-based probabilistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Chang Zeng , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

Using multiple spatial modalities has been proven helpful in improving semantic segmentation performance. However, there are several real-world challenges that have yet to be addressed: (a) improving label efficiency and (b) enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Harsh Maheshwari , Yen-Cheng Liu , Zsolt Kira

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech of a target speaker from mixtures containing multiple competing speakers. Conventional TSE systems predominantly rely on speaker cues, such as pre-enrolled speech, to identify and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Haoyu Li , Yu Xi , Yidi Jiang , Shuai Wang , Kate Knill , Mark Gales , Haizhou Li , Kai Yu

The brain-assisted target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the attended speech from mixed speech by utilizing the brain neural activities, for example Electroencephalography (EEG). However, existing models overlook the issue of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Cunhang Fan , Ying Chen , Jian Zhou , Zexu Pan , Jingjing Zhang , Youdian Gao , Xiaoke Yang , Zhengqi Wen , Zhao Lv

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) seeks to model, and thereby exploit, the dynamic relationship between a human voice and the corresponding mouth movements. A recently proposed multimodal fusion strategy, AV Align, based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 George Sterpu , Christian Saam , Naomi Harte

Constructing an embedding space for musical instrument sounds that can meaningfully represent new and unseen instruments is important for downstream music generation tasks such as multi-instrument synthesis and timbre transfer. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Xuan Shi , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi

Multi-modal cues, including spatial information, facial expression and voiceprint, are introduced to the speech separation and speaker extraction tasks to serve as complementary information to achieve better performance. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Qinghua Liu , Yating Huang , Yunzhe Hao , Jiaming Xu , Bo Xu

Audiovisual segmentation (AVS) aims to identify visual regions corresponding to sound sources, playing a vital role in video understanding, surveillance, and human-computer interaction. Traditional AVS methods depend on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Seung-jae Lee , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Audio-visual large language models (LLM) have drawn significant attention, yet the fine-grained combination of both input streams is rather under-explored, which is challenging but necessary for LLMs to understand general video inputs. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Guangzhi Sun , Wenyi Yu , Changli Tang , Xianzhao Chen , Tian Tan , Wei Li , Lu Lu , Zejun Ma , Chao Zhang

We propose a multi-stage framework for universal speech enhancement, designed for the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge. Our system first employs a Sparse Compression Network to robustly separate sources and extract an initial clean speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nabarun Goswami , Tatsuya Harada

End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems based on neural networks have seen large improvements in recent years. The availability of large scale hand-labeled datasets and sufficient computing resources made it possible to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

To realize robust end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition(E2E ASR) under radio communication condition, we propose a multitask-based method to joint train a Speech Enhancement (SE) module as the front-end and an E2E ASR model as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Duo Ma , Nana Hou , Van Tung Pham , Haihua Xu , Eng Siong Chng

This paper proposes a multi-task learning network with phoneme-aware and channel-wise attentive learning strategies for text-dependent Speaker Verification (SV). In the proposed structure, the frame-level multi-task learning along with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yan Liu , Zheng Li , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Recently, vision transformer based multimodal learning methods have been proposed to improve the robustness of face anti-spoofing (FAS) systems. However, multimodal face data collected from the real world is often imperfect due to missing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Zitong Yu , Rizhao Cai , Yawen Cui , Ajian Liu , Changsheng Chen