speech_separation

Overview

This is a project to improve the speech separation task. In this project, Audio-only and Audio-Visual deep learning separation models are modified based on the paper Looking to Listen at the Cocktail Party[1].

Data

AVspeech dataset : contains 4700 hours of video segments, from a total of 290k YouTube videos.

Customized video and audio downloader are provided in audio and video. (based on youtube-dl,sox,ffmpeg)

Instrouction for generating data is under Data.

Preprocessing

There are several preprocess functions in the utils. Including STFT, iSTFT, power-law compression, complex mask and modified hyperbolic tangent[5] etc. Below is the preprocessing for audio data:

For the visual part, MTCNN is applied to detect face and correct it by checking the provided face center[2]. The visual frames are transfered to 1792 (lowest layer in the network that is not spatially varying) face embeddings features with pre-trained FaceNet model[3]. Below is the preprocessing for visual data:

Model

Audio-only model is provided in model_v1 and Audio-visual model is provided in model_v2.

Follwing is the brief structure of Audio-Visual model, some layers are revised corresponding to our customized compression and dataset.[1]

Training

Loss function : modified discriminative loss function inspired from paper[4].

Optimizer : Adam

Prediction

Apply complex ratio mask (cRM) to STFT of the mixed speech, we can produce the STFT of single speaker’s speech.

Samples to complete the prediction are provided in eval file in model_v1 and model_v2.

Reference

[1] Lookng to Listen at the Cocktail Party:A Speaker-Independent Audio-Visual Model for Speech Separation, A. Ephrat et al., arXiv:1804.03619v2 [cs.SD] 9 Aug 2018

[2] MTCNN face detection

[3] FaceNet Pretrained model

[4] Joint Optimization of Masks and Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Monaural Source Separation, P. Hunag et al,arXiv:1502.04149v4 [cs.SD] 1 Oct 2015

[5] Complex Ratio Masking for Monaural Speech Separation