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Active Speaker Detection as a Multi-Objective Optimization with Uncertainty-based Multimodal Fusion

7 Jun 2021arXiv:2106.03821archive 2025-07-28

Baptiste Pouthier, Laurent Pilati, Leela K. Gudupudi, Charles Bouveyron, Frederic Precioso

It is now well established from a variety of studies that there is a significant benefit from combining video and audio data in detecting active speakers. However, either of the modalities can potentially mislead audiovisual fusion by inducing unreliable or deceptive information. This paper outlines active speaker detection as a multi-objective learning problem to leverage best of each modalities using a novel self-attention, uncertainty-based multimodal fusion scheme. Results obtained show that the proposed multi-objective learning architecture outperforms traditional approaches in improving both mAP and AUC scores. We further demonstrate that our fusion strategy surpasses, in active speaker detection, other modality fusion methods reported in various disciplines. We finally show that the proposed method significantly improves the state-of-the-art on the AVA-ActiveSpeaker dataset.

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Active Speaker DetectionAudio-Visual Active Speaker Detection

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Audio-Visual Active Speaker Detection AVA-ActiveSpeaker SA-uncertainty Fusion validation mean average precision 91.9% #14 of 20 Archive leaderboard report

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