Looking to Listen at the Cocktail Party: A Speaker-Independent Audio-Visual Model for Speech Separation
Autor: | Avinatan Hassidim, Michael Rubinstein, Kevin W. Wilson, Ariel Ephrat, Tali Dekel, William T. Freeman, Inbar Mosseri, Oran Lang |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Sound (cs.SD) Computer science Speech recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 02 engineering and technology Signal Computer Science - Sound Background noise Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Source separation FOS: Electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Focus (computing) business.industry Deep learning 020206 networking & telecommunications Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Speech enhancement Task (computing) 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Artificial intelligence Joint (audio engineering) business Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing |
Popis: | We present a joint audio-visual model for isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of sounds such as other speakers and background noise. Solving this task using only audio as input is extremely challenging and does not provide an association of the separated speech signals with speakers in the video. In this paper, we present a deep network-based model that incorporates both visual and auditory signals to solve this task. The visual features are used to "focus" the audio on desired speakers in a scene and to improve the speech separation quality. To train our joint audio-visual model, we introduce AVSpeech, a new dataset comprised of thousands of hours of video segments from the Web. We demonstrate the applicability of our method to classic speech separation tasks, as well as real-world scenarios involving heated interviews, noisy bars, and screaming children, only requiring the user to specify the face of the person in the video whose speech they want to isolate. Our method shows clear advantage over state-of-the-art audio-only speech separation in cases of mixed speech. In addition, our model, which is speaker-independent (trained once, applicable to any speaker), produces better results than recent audio-visual speech separation methods that are speaker-dependent (require training a separate model for each speaker of interest). Accepted to SIGGRAPH 2018. Project webpage: https://looking-to-listen.github.io |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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