The Conversation: Deep Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement
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Abstract (arXiv)
Our goal is to isolate individual speakers from multi-talker simultaneous speech in videos. Existing works in this area have focussed on trying to separate utterances from known speakers in controlled environments. In this paper, we propose a deep audio-visual speech enhancement network that is able to separate a speaker's voice given lip regions in the corresponding video, by predicting both the magnitude and the phase of the target signal. The method is applicable to speakers unheard and unseen during training, and for unconstrained environments. We demonstrate strong quantitative and qualitative results, isolating extremely challenging real-world examples.
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- 2021Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Videocited by 1,530
- 2024VoiceBench: Benchmarking LLM-Based Voice Assistantscited by 192
- 2021VisualVoice: Audio-Visual Speech Separation with Cross-Modal Consistencycited by 114
- 2022Visual Speech Recognition for Multiple Languages in the Wildcited by 94
- 2022SoundSpaces 2.0: A Simulation Platform for Visual-Acoustic Learningcited by 93
- 2022Robust Self-Supervised Audio-Visual Speech Recognitioncited by 72
- 2022Mix and Localize: Localizing Sound Sources in Mixturescited by 54
- 2022Few-Shot Audio-Visual Learning of Environment Acousticscited by 48
- 2021Visually Informed Binaural Audio Generation without Binaural Audioscited by 46
- 2022Visual Acoustic Matchingcited by 45
- 2022Learning in Audio-visual Context: A Review, Analysis, and New Perspectivecited by 44
- 2022Anticipative Feature Fusion Transformer for Multi-Modal Action Anticipationcited by 41
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- 2021Move2Hear: Active Audio-Visual Source Separationcited by 35
- 2021The Right to Talk: An Audio-Visual Transformer Approachcited by 33
- 2023Novel-View Acoustic Synthesiscited by 33
- 2021Space-Time Crop & Attend: Improving Cross-modal Video Representation Learningcited by 31
- 2023Sound Source Localization is All about Cross-Modal Alignmentcited by 30
- 2022Learning Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Graphs for Active Speaker Detectioncited by 29
- 2022iQuery: Instruments as Queries for Audio-Visual Sound Separationcited by 29
- 2021Looking into Your Speech: Learning Cross-modal Affinity for Audio-visual Speech Separationcited by 27
- 2022Egocentric Deep Multi-Channel Audio-Visual Active Speaker Localizationcited by 27
- 2022Audio-Visual Speech Codecs: Rethinking Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement by Re-Synthesiscited by 24
- 2022AudioScopeV2: Audio-Visual Attention Architectures for Calibrated Open-Domain On-Screen Sound Separationcited by 24
- 2024FlowAVSE: Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Conditional Flow Matchingcited by 23
- 2021Geometry-Aware Multi-Task Learning for Binaural Audio Generation from Videocited by 22
- 2021Look Who's Talking: Active Speaker Detection in the Wildcited by 21
- 2022Deep Learning for Visual Speech Analysis: A Surveycited by 21
- 2022Leveraging Modality-specific Representations for Audio-visual Speech Recognition via Reinforcement Learningcited by 21
- 2022Look&Listen: Multi-Modal Correlation Learning for Active Speaker Detection and Speech Enhancementcited by 20
- 2022Sound Localization by Self-Supervised Time Delay Estimationcited by 18
- 2023Modality-Independent Teachers Meet Weakly-Supervised Audio-Visual Event Parsercited by 18
- 2022Active Audio-Visual Separation of Dynamic Sound Sourcescited by 16
- 2023Target Speech Extraction with Conditional Diffusion Modelcited by 15
- 2023AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberationcited by 15
- 2023TalkNCE: Improving Active Speaker Detection with Talk-Aware Contrastive Learningcited by 15
- 2022VoViT: Low Latency Graph-based Audio-Visual Voice Separation Transformercited by 14
- 2021VisualTTS: TTS with Accurate Lip-Speech Synchronization for Automatic Voice Overcited by 13
- 2021A cappella: Audio-visual Singing Voice Separationcited by 12
- 2023Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Score-Based Generative Modelscited by 12
- 2023IIANet: An Intra- and Inter-Modality Attention Network for Audio-Visual Speech Separationcited by 11
- 2024Look Once to Hear: Target Speech Hearing with Noisy Examplescited by 11
- 2021Multimodal Attention Fusion for Target Speaker Extractioncited by 10
- 2022An Audio-Visual Speech Separation Model Inspired by Cortico-Thalamo-Cortical Circuitscited by 9
- 2023Speaker Recognition in Realistic Scenario Using Multimodal Datacited by 9
- 2023Seeing Through the Conversation: Audio-Visual Speech Separation based on Diffusion Modelcited by 9
- 2024FunnyNet-W: Multimodal Learning of Funny Moments in Videos in the Wildcited by 9
- 2024The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge: A Retrospectivecited by 9
- 2022ConceptBeam: Concept Driven Target Speech Extractioncited by 8
- 2022Lip-to-Speech Synthesis for Arbitrary Speakers in the Wildcited by 8
- 2022LA-VocE: Low-SNR Audio-visual Speech Enhancement using Neural Vocoderscited by 8
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- 2026SG-Mamba: Sparse Graph-Guided Mamba for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement16 Sep 2026
- 2026DAVE: A Decoupled Audio-Visual Enhancement Framework for Real-World Speech Separation10 Aug 2026
- 2026Audio-visual Contrastive Alignment for Diffusion-based Visual-conditioned Speech Enhancement16 Jun 2026
- 2026The Radio-Frequency Transformer for Signal Separation10 Mar 2026
- 2026Visual-Informed Speech Enhancement Using Attention-Based Beamforming5 Mar 2026
- 2025Lightweight Wasserstein Audio-Visual Model for Unified Speech Enhancement and Separation7 Dec 2025
- 2025AUREXA-SE: Audio-Visual Unified Representation Exchange Architecture with Cross-Attention and Squeezeformer for Speech Enhancement6 Oct 2025
- 2025Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Separation with Discrete Lip Semantics and Multi-Scale Global-Local Attention28 Sep 2025
- 2025Real-Time System for Audio-Visual Target Speech Enhancement25 Sep 2025
- 2025Real-Time Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Using Pre-trained Visual Representations29 Jul 2025
- 2025LipDiffuser: Lip-to-Speech Generation with Conditional Diffusion Models16 May 2025
- 2025Understanding Co-speech Gestures in-the-wild28 Mar 2025
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- 2025Contextual Speech Extraction: Leveraging Textual History as an Implicit Cue for Target Speech Extraction11 Mar 2025
- 2025Efficient Audiovisual Speech Processing via MUTUD: Multimodal Training and Unimodal Deployment30 Jan 2025
- 2025Bridging The Multi-Modality Gaps of Audio, Visual and Linguistic for Speech Enhancement23 Jan 2025
- 2024SoundLoc3D: Invisible 3D Sound Source Localization and Classification Using a Multimodal RGB-D Acoustic Camera22 Dec 2024
- 2024FabuLight-ASD: Unveiling Speech Activity via Body Language20 Nov 2024
- 2024SAV-SE: Scene-aware Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Selective State Space Model12 Nov 2024
- 2024Continual Audio-Visual Sound Separation5 Nov 2024
- 2024VoiceBench: Benchmarking LLM-Based Voice Assistants22 Oct 2024
- 2024Diffusion-based Unsupervised Audio-visual Speech Enhancement4 Oct 2024
- 2024LSTMSE-Net: Long Short Term Speech Enhancement Network for Audio-visual Speech Enhancement3 Sep 2024
- 2024The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge: A Retrospective27 Aug 2024
- 2024Aligning Sight and Sound: Advanced Sound Source Localization Through Audio-Visual Alignment18 Jul 2024
- 2024AV-CrossNet: an Audiovisual Complex Spectral Mapping Network for Speech Separation By Leveraging Narrow- and Cross-Band Modeling17 Jun 2024
- 2024FlowAVSE: Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Conditional Flow Matching13 Jun 2024
- 2024Audio-Visual Talker Localization in Video for Spatial Sound Reproduction1 Jun 2024
- 2024Look Once to Hear: Target Speech Hearing with Noisy Examples10 May 2024
- 2024Separate in the Speech Chain: Cross-Modal Conditional Audio-Visual Target Speech Extraction19 Apr 2024
- 2024Robust Active Speaker Detection in Noisy Environments27 Mar 2024
- 2024Listen, Chat, and Remix: Text-Guided Soundscape Remixing for Enhanced Auditory Experience6 Feb 2024
- 2024TDFNet: An Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Separation Model with Top-down Fusion25 Jan 2024
- 2024FunnyNet-W: Multimodal Learning of Funny Moments in Videos in the Wild8 Jan 2024
- 2023Leveraging Visual Supervision for Array-based Active Speaker Detection and Localization21 Dec 2023
- 2023Sounding Bodies: Modeling 3D Spatial Sound of Humans Using Body Pose and Audio1 Nov 2023
- 2023Seeing Through the Conversation: Audio-Visual Speech Separation based on Diffusion Model30 Oct 2023
- 2023RTFS-Net: Recurrent Time-Frequency Modelling for Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Separation29 Sep 2023
- 2023TalkNCE: Improving Active Speaker Detection with Talk-Aware Contrastive Learning21 Sep 2023
- 2023Sound Source Localization is All about Cross-Modal Alignment19 Sep 2023
- 2023AV2Wav: Diffusion-Based Re-synthesis from Continuous Self-supervised Features for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement14 Sep 2023
- 2023AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberation23 Aug 2023
- 2023IIANet: An Intra- and Inter-Modality Attention Network for Audio-Visual Speech Separation16 Aug 2023
- 2023Target Speech Extraction with Conditional Diffusion Model8 Aug 2023
- 2023Audio-visual video-to-speech synthesis with synthesized input audio31 Jul 2023
- 2023Learning Spatial Features from Audio-Visual Correspondence in Egocentric Videos10 Jul 2023
- 2023Audio-visual End-to-end Multi-channel Speech Separation, Dereverberation and Recognition6 Jul 2023
- 2023Large-scale unsupervised audio pre-training for video-to-speech synthesis27 Jun 2023
- 2023Visually-Guided Sound Source Separation with Audio-Visual Predictive Coding19 Jun 2023
- 2023Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Score-Based Generative Models2 Jun 2023
- 2023Modality-Independent Teachers Meet Weakly-Supervised Audio-Visual Event Parser27 May 2023
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- 2024FlowAVSE: Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Conditional Flow Matchingcited by 23
- 2023Target Speech Extraction with Conditional Diffusion Modelcited by 15
- 2023Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Score-Based Generative Modelscited by 12
- 2023Seeing Through the Conversation: Audio-Visual Speech Separation based on Diffusion Modelcited by 9
- 2023AV2Wav: Diffusion-Based Re-synthesis from Continuous Self-supervised Features for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancementcited by 5
- 2025LipDiffuser: Lip-to-Speech Generation with Conditional Diffusion Modelscited by 2
- 2025LipDiffuser: Lip-to-Speech Generation with Conditional Diffusion Models16 May 2025
- 2024FlowAVSE: Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Conditional Flow Matching13 Jun 2024
- 2023Seeing Through the Conversation: Audio-Visual Speech Separation based on Diffusion Model30 Oct 2023
- 2023AV2Wav: Diffusion-Based Re-synthesis from Continuous Self-supervised Features for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement14 Sep 2023
- 2023Target Speech Extraction with Conditional Diffusion Model8 Aug 2023
- 2023Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement with Score-Based Generative Models2 Jun 2023
- 2021Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Videocited by 1,530
- 2024VoiceBench: Benchmarking LLM-Based Voice Assistantscited by 192
- 2021VisualVoice: Audio-Visual Speech Separation with Cross-Modal Consistencycited by 114
- 2022Visual Speech Recognition for Multiple Languages in the Wildcited by 94
- 2022SoundSpaces 2.0: A Simulation Platform for Visual-Acoustic Learningcited by 93
- 2022Robust Self-Supervised Audio-Visual Speech Recognitioncited by 72
- 2022Mix and Localize: Localizing Sound Sources in Mixturescited by 54
- 2022Few-Shot Audio-Visual Learning of Environment Acousticscited by 48
- 2021Visually Informed Binaural Audio Generation without Binaural Audioscited by 46
- 2022Visual Acoustic Matchingcited by 45
- 2022Learning in Audio-visual Context: A Review, Analysis, and New Perspectivecited by 44
- 2022Anticipative Feature Fusion Transformer for Multi-Modal Action Anticipationcited by 41
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- 2026DAVE: A Decoupled Audio-Visual Enhancement Framework for Real-World Speech Separation10 Aug 2026
- 2026Audio-visual Contrastive Alignment for Diffusion-based Visual-conditioned Speech Enhancement16 Jun 2026
- 2026The Radio-Frequency Transformer for Signal Separation10 Mar 2026
- 2026Visual-Informed Speech Enhancement Using Attention-Based Beamforming5 Mar 2026
- 2025Lightweight Wasserstein Audio-Visual Model for Unified Speech Enhancement and Separation7 Dec 2025
- 2025AUREXA-SE: Audio-Visual Unified Representation Exchange Architecture with Cross-Attention and Squeezeformer for Speech Enhancement6 Oct 2025
- 2025Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Separation with Discrete Lip Semantics and Multi-Scale Global-Local Attention28 Sep 2025
- 2025Real-Time System for Audio-Visual Target Speech Enhancement25 Sep 2025
- 2025Real-Time Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Using Pre-trained Visual Representations29 Jul 2025
- 2025Understanding Co-speech Gestures in-the-wild28 Mar 2025
- 2025Contextual Speech Extraction: Leveraging Textual History as an Implicit Cue for Target Speech Extraction11 Mar 2025
- 2025Efficient Audiovisual Speech Processing via MUTUD: Multimodal Training and Unimodal Deployment30 Jan 2025
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