Using visual speech information in masking methods for audio speaker separation

Khan, Faheem, Milner, Ben P. and Le Cornu, Thomas (2018) Using visual speech information in masking methods for audio speaker separation. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 26 (10). pp. 1742-1754. ISSN 1558-7916

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Abstract

This work examines whether visual speech infor- mation can be effective within audio masking-based speaker separation to improve the quality and intelligibility of the target speech. Two visual-only methods of generating an audio mask for speaker separation are first developed. These use a deep neural network to map visual speech features to an audio feature space from which both visually-derived binary masks and visually- derived ratio masks are estimated, before application to the speech mixture. Secondly, an audio ratio masking method forms a baseline approach for speaker separation which is extended to exploit visual speech information to form audio-visual ratio masks. Speech quality and intelligibility tests are carried out on the visual-only, audio-only and audio-visual masking methods of speaker separation at mixing levels from -10dB to +10dB. These reveal substantial improvements in the target speech when applying the visual-only and audio-only masks, but with highest performance occurring when combining audio and visual information to create the audio-visual masks.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Interactive Graphics and Audio Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Smart Emerging Technologies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2018 11:30
Last Modified:	20 Apr 2023 23:45
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67404
DOI:	10.1109/TASLP.2018.2835719

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