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Investigating the use of Visual Focus of Attention for Audio-Visual Speaker Diarisation
Type of publication: Conference paper
Citation: Garau_ACMMULTIMEDIA_2009
Booktitle: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Year: 2009
Month: 10
Location: Beijing, China
Abstract: Audio-visual speaker diarisation is the task of estimating ``who spoke when'' using audio and visual cues. In this paper we propose the combination of an audio diarisation system with psychology inspired visual features, reporting experiments on multiparty meetings, a challenging domain characterised by unconstrained interaction and participant movements. More precisely the role of gaze in coordinating speaker turns was exploited by the use of Visual Focus of Attention features. Experiments were performed both with the reference and 3 automatic VFoA estimation systems, based on head pose and visual activity cues, of increasing complexity. VFoA features yielded consistent speaker diarisation improvements in combination with audio features using a multi-stream approach.
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Projects Idiap
AMIDA
IM2
Authors Garau, Giulia
Ba, Silèye O.
Bourlard, Hervé
Odobez, Jean-Marc
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