| Paper ID | AUD-8.6 |
| Paper Title |
BLIND EXTRACTION OF MOVING AUDIO SOURCE IN A CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTED BY SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION VIA X-VECTORS |
| Authors |
Jiri Malek, Jakub Jansky, Tomas Kounovsky, Zbynek Koldovsky, Jindrich Zdansky, Technical University of Liberec, Czechia |
| Session | AUD-8: Audio and Speech Source Separation 4: Multi-Channel Source Separation |
| Location | Gather.Town |
| Session Time: | Wednesday, 09 June, 13:00 - 13:45 |
| Presentation Time: | Wednesday, 09 June, 13:00 - 13:45 |
| Presentation |
Poster
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| Topic |
Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing: [AUD-SEP] Audio and Speech Source Separation |
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| Abstract |
We propose a novel approach for semi-supervised extraction of a moving audio source of interest (SOI) applicable in reverberant and noisy environments. The blind part of the method is based on independent vector extraction (IVE) and uses the recently proposed constant separating vector (CSV) mixing model. This model allows for changes of mixing parameters within the processed interval of the mixture, which potentially leads to higher accuracy of SOI estimation. The supervised part of the method concerns a pilot signal, which is related to the SOI and ensures the convergence of the blind method towards the SOI. The pilot is based on robust detection of frames where SOI is dominant via speaker embeddings called X-vectors. Robustness of the detection is achieved through augmentation of the data for the supervised training of the X-vectors. The pilot-supported extraction yields significantly better performance compared to its unsupervised counterpart identifying SOI solely using the initialization. |
