Title
Range Based Multi Microphone Array Fusion For Speaker Activity Detection In Small Meetings
Abstract
This paper presents a method for speaker activity detection in small meetings. The activity of the participants is deduced from audio streams obtained by multiple microphone arrays. One of the novelty of the proposed approach is that it uses a human tracker that relies on scanning laser range finders to localize the participants. First, this additional information is exploited by the beamforming algorithm creating the audio streams for each of the microphone arrays. Then, at each array, the speaker activity detection is performed using Gaussian mixture models that were trained before hand. Finally, a fusion procedure, that also uses the location information, combines the detection results of the different microphone arrays. An experiment reproducing a meeting configuration demonstrates the effectiveness of the system.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5
speaker identification, microphone array, fusion
Field
DocType
Citations 
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Fusion,Microphone array,Speech recognition,Activity detection,Artificial intelligence
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jani Even15011.58
Panikos Heracleous26816.27
Carlos Toshinori Ishi319729.39
Norihiro Hagita42877259.10