Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis

Speaker diarization is traditionally defined as the problem of determining “who speaks when” given an audio or video stream. This is an important task in many applications for meeting rooms, including automatic transcription of conversations, camera steering or content summarization. When the room i...

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Autores: Cabañas-Molero, Pablo Antonio, Lucena, Manuel, Fuertes, José Manuel, Vera-Candeas, Pedro, Ruiz-Reyes, Nicolás
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Jaén
Repositório:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
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Palavra-chave:Speaker diarization
Meeting rooms
SRP-PHAT
Multimodal processing
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spelling Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysisCabañas-Molero, Pablo AntonioLucena, ManuelFuertes, José ManuelVera-Candeas, PedroRuiz-Reyes, NicolásSpeaker diarizationMeeting roomsSRP-PHATMultimodal processing621.39Speaker diarization is traditionally defined as the problem of determining “who speaks when” given an audio or video stream. This is an important task in many applications for meeting rooms, including automatic transcription of conversations, camera steering or content summarization. When the room is equipped with microphone arrays and cameras, speakers can be distinguished according to their location and the problem can be addressed through localization techniques. This article proposes a multimodal speaker diarization system for meeting environments based on a modified SRP-PHAT function evaluated on space volumes rather than discrete points. In our system, this function is used in combination with a circular array, enabling audio-based localization based on the selection of local maxima. Voicing detection is used to detect speech frames, whereas video analysis is introduced to aid in the decision when users move or simultaneously speak. The approach is evaluated on the well-known AMI dataset with approximately 100 hours of realistic meeting recordings and shows an average diarization error rate of 21% – 25%.This work was supported by the Andalusian Economy and Knowledge Council under project 2010-TIC6762, and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under project TEC2015-67387-C4-2-R.Springer202420242018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10953/2188reponame:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaéninstname:Universidad de JaénInglésMultimedia Tools and Applications 2018; 77, 27685–27707CC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/21882026-06-24T12:41:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis
title Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis
spellingShingle Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis
Cabañas-Molero, Pablo Antonio
Speaker diarization
Meeting rooms
SRP-PHAT
Multimodal processing
621.39
title_short Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis
title_full Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis
title_fullStr Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis
title_full_unstemmed Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis
title_sort Multimodal speaker diarization for meetings using volume-evaluated SRP-PHAT and video analysis
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cabañas-Molero, Pablo Antonio
Lucena, Manuel
Fuertes, José Manuel
Vera-Candeas, Pedro
Ruiz-Reyes, Nicolás
author Cabañas-Molero, Pablo Antonio
author_facet Cabañas-Molero, Pablo Antonio
Lucena, Manuel
Fuertes, José Manuel
Vera-Candeas, Pedro
Ruiz-Reyes, Nicolás
author_role author
author2 Lucena, Manuel
Fuertes, José Manuel
Vera-Candeas, Pedro
Ruiz-Reyes, Nicolás
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Speaker diarization
Meeting rooms
SRP-PHAT
Multimodal processing
621.39
topic Speaker diarization
Meeting rooms
SRP-PHAT
Multimodal processing
621.39
description Speaker diarization is traditionally defined as the problem of determining “who speaks when” given an audio or video stream. This is an important task in many applications for meeting rooms, including automatic transcription of conversations, camera steering or content summarization. When the room is equipped with microphone arrays and cameras, speakers can be distinguished according to their location and the problem can be addressed through localization techniques. This article proposes a multimodal speaker diarization system for meeting environments based on a modified SRP-PHAT function evaluated on space volumes rather than discrete points. In our system, this function is used in combination with a circular array, enabling audio-based localization based on the selection of local maxima. Voicing detection is used to detect speech frames, whereas video analysis is introduced to aid in the decision when users move or simultaneously speak. The approach is evaluated on the well-known AMI dataset with approximately 100 hours of realistic meeting recordings and shows an average diarization error rate of 21% – 25%.
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