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ICTCAS-UCAS-TAL Submission to the AVA-ActiveSpeaker Task at ActivityNet Challenge 2021

1 Jun 2021The ActivityNet Large-Scale Activity Recognition Challenge Workshop, CVPR 2021 6archive 2025-07-28

Yuanhang Zhang, Susan Liang, Shuang Yang, Xiao Liu, Zhongqin Wu, Shiguang Shan

This report presents a brief description of our method for the AVA Active Speaker Detection (ASD) task at ActivityNet Challenge 2021. Our solution, the Extended Unified Context Network (Extended UniCon) is based on a novel Unified Context Network (UniCon) designed for robust ASD, which combines multiple types of contextual information to optimize all candidates jointly. We propose a few changes to the original UniCon in terms of audio features, temporal modeling architecture, and loss function design. Together, our best model ensemble sets a new state-of-the-art at 93.4% mAP on the AVA-ActiveSpeaker test set without any form of pretraining, and currently ranks first on the ActivityNet challenge leaderboard.

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Active Speaker DetectionAudio-Visual Active Speaker Detection

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Audio-Visual Active Speaker Detection AVA-ActiveSpeaker Extended UniCon validation mean average precision 93.6% #9 of 20 Archive leaderboard report

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