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Speaker extraction seeks to extract the target speech in a multi-talker scenario given an auxiliary reference. Such reference can be auditory, i.e., a pre-recorded speech, visual, i.e., lip movements, or contextual, i.e., phonetic sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Junjie Li , Meng Ge , Zexu Pan , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is a challenging task, which aims to segment sounding objects in video frames by exploring audio signals. Generally AVS faces two key challenges: (1) Audio signals inherently exhibit a high degree of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuhang Ling , Yuxi Li , Zhenye Gan , Jiangning Zhang , Mingmin Chi , Yabiao Wang

In target speaker extraction (TSE), we aim to recover target speech from a multi-talker mixture using a short enrollment utterance as reference. Recent studies on diffusion and flow-matching generators have improved target-speech fidelity.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Duojia Li , Shuhan Zhang , Zihan Qian , Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li , Haizhou Li

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

The prevailing noise-resistant and reverberation-resistant localization algorithms primarily emphasize separating and providing directional output for each speaker in multi-speaker scenarios, without association with the identity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yu Chen , Xinyuan Qian , Zexu Pan , Kainan Chen , Haizhou Li

Deep neural networks have become an indispensable technique for audio source separation (ASS). It was recently reported that a variant of CNN architecture called MMDenseNet was successfully employed to solve the ASS problem of estimating…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Naoya Takahashi , Nabarun Goswami , Yuki Mitsufuji

Developing a single-microphone speech denoising or dereverberation front-end for robust automatic speaker verification (ASV) in noisy far-field speaking scenarios is challenging. To address this problem, we present a novel front-end design…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Joon-Young Yang , Joon-Hyuk Chang

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) plays a critical role in enhancing speech signals in noisy and multi-speaker environments. This paper presents an end-to-end TSE model that incorporates Direction of Arrival (DOA) and beamwidth embeddings to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Kangqi Jing , Wenbin Zhang , Yu Gao

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a desired speaker's voice from a multi-speaker mixture using auxiliary information such as a reference utterance. Although recent advances in diffusion and flow-matching models have improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Riki Shimizu , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani

The objective of this paper is to perform audio-visual sound source separation, i.e.~to separate component audios from a mixture based on the videos of sound sources. Moreover, we aim to pinpoint the source location in the input video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Lingyu Zhu , Esa Rahtu

Target sound extraction (TSE) consists of isolating a desired sound from a mixture of arbitrary sounds using clues to identify it. A TSE system requires solving two problems at once, identifying the target source and extracting the target…

This paper proposes a novel online audio-visual speaker extraction model. In the streaming regime, most studies optimize the audio network only, leaving the visual frontend less explored. We first propose a lightweight visual frontend based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Zexu Pan , Wupeng Wang , Shengkui Zhao , Chong Zhang , Kun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Bin Ma

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

Generative target speaker extraction (TSE) methods often produce more natural outputs than predictive models. Recent work based on diffusion or flow matching (FM) typically relies on a small, fixed number of reverse steps with a fixed step…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Tsun-An Hsieh , Minje Kim

Common target sound extraction (TSE) approaches primarily relied on discriminative approaches in order to separate the target sound while minimizing interference from the unwanted sources, with varying success in separating the target from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Jiarui Hai , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Karan Thakkar , Najim Dehak , Mounya Elhilali

Recently, Constant Separating Vector (CSV) mixing model has been proposed for the Blind Source Extraction (BSE) of moving sources. In this paper, we experimentally verify the applicability of CSV in the blind extraction of a moving speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Jakub Janský , Zbyněk Koldovský , Jiří Málek , Tomáš Kounovský , Jaroslav Čmejla

Given an audio-visual pair, audio-visual segmentation (AVS) aims to locate sounding sources by predicting pixel-wise maps. Previous methods assume that each sound component in an audio signal always has a visual counterpart in the image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chen Liu , Peike Li , Hu Zhang , Lincheng Li , Zi Huang , Dadong Wang , Xin Yu

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the target speaker's voice from the input mixture. Previous studies have concentrated on high-overlapping scenarios. However, real-world applications usually meet more complex scenarios like…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-30 He Zhao , Hangting Chen , Jianwei Yu , Yuehai Wang

We propose to explore a new problem called audio-visual segmentation (AVS), in which the goal is to output a pixel-level map of the object(s) that produce sound at the time of the image frame. To facilitate this research, we construct the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jinxing Zhou , Jianyuan Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Stan Birchfield , Dan Guo , Lingpeng Kong , Meng Wang , Yiran Zhong

This paper presents a Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF)-guided framework for binaural Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) from mixtures of concurrent sources. Unlike conventional TSE methods based on Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Yoav Ellinson , Sharon Gannot