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Speech Acquisition in Meetings with an Audio-Visual Sensor Array
Type of publication: Idiap-RR
Citation: hari-rr-05-03
Number: Idiap-RR-03-2005
Year: 2005
Institution: IDIAP
Address: Martigny, Switzerland
Note: Published in ``Prof. IEEE ICME'', July, 2005
Abstract: Close-talk headset microphones have been traditionally used for speech acquisition in a number of applications, as they naturally provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio -needed for recognition tasks- than single distant microphones. However, in multi-party conversational settings like meetings, microphone arrays represent an important alternative to close-talking microphones, as they allow for localisation and tracking of speakers and signal-independent enhancement, while providing a non-intrusive, hands-free operation mode. In this article, we investigate the joint use of a small table-top microphone array and a camera array for speaker tracking and speech enhancement in meetings. Our methodology first fuses audio and video for person tracking, and then integrates the output of the tracker with a beamformer for speech enhancement. We compare and discuss the features of the resulting speech signal with respect to that obtained from single close-talking and table-top microphones.
Userfields: ipdinar={2005}, ipdmembership={speech}, language={English},
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Projects Idiap
Authors McCowan, Iain A.
Krishna, Maganti Hari
Gatica-Perez, Daniel
Moore, Darren
Ba, Silèye O.
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