2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Paper IDSPE-29.2
Paper Title IMPROVING ULTRASOUND TONGUE CONTOUR EXTRACTION USING U-NET AND SHAPE CONSISTENCY-BASED REGULARIZER
Authors Ming Feng, Yin Wang, Tongji University, China; Kele Xu, Huaimin Wang, Bo Ding, National University of Defense Technology, China
SessionSPE-29: Speech Processing 1: Production
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 16:30 - 17:15
Presentation Time:Wednesday, 09 June, 16:30 - 17:15
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Topic Speech Processing: [SPE-SPRD] Speech Production
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Abstract B-mode ultrasound tongue imaging is widely used to visualize the tongue motion, due to its appearing properties. Extracting the tongue surface contour in the B-mode ultrasound image is still a challenge, while it is a prerequisite for further quantitative analysis. Recently, deep learning-based approach has been adopted in this task. However, the standard deep models fail to address faint contour when the ultrasound wave goes parallel to the tongue surface. To address the faint or missing contours in the sequence, we explore the shape consistency-based regularizer, which can take sequential information into account. By incorporating the regularizer, the deep model not only can extract frame-specific contours, but also can enforce the similarity between the contours extracted from adjacent frames. Extensive experiments are conducted both on the synthetic and real ultrasound tongue imaging dataset and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed method.