The Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) 2023 Challenge: Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction

Previous Multimodal Information based Speech Processing (MISP) challenges mainly focused on audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) with commendable success. However, the most advanced back-end recognition systems often hit performance limits due to the complex acoustic environments. This has prompte...

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Main Authors: Wu, Shilong, Wang, Chenxi, Chen, Hang, Dai, Yusheng, Zhang, Chenyue, Wang, Ruoyu, Lan, Hongbo, Du, Jun, Lee, Chin-Hui, Chen, Jingdong, Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco, Scharenborg, Odette, Wang, Zhong-Qiu, Pan, Jia, Gao, Jianqing
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustics
Benchmark testing
Data mining
MISP challenge
multimodality
real-world scenarios
Recording
Speech enhancement
Speech recognition
target speaker extraction
Visualization
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Summary:Previous Multimodal Information based Speech Processing (MISP) challenges mainly focused on audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) with commendable success. However, the most advanced back-end recognition systems often hit performance limits due to the complex acoustic environments. This has prompted a shift in focus towards the Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction (AVTSE) task for the MISP 2023 challenge in ICASSP 2024 Signal Processing Grand Challenges. Unlike existing audio-visual speech enhancement challenges primarily focused on simulation data, the MISP 2023 challenge uniquely explores how front-end speech processing, combined with visual clues, impacts back-end tasks in real-world scenarios. This pioneering effort aims to set the first benchmark for the AVTSE task, offering fresh insights into enhancing the accuracy of back-end speech recognition systems through AVTSE in challenging and real acoustic environments. This paper delivers a thorough overview of the task setting, dataset, and baseline system of the MISP 2023 challenge. It also includes an in-depth analysis of the challenges participants may encounter. The experimental results highlight the demanding nature of this task, and we look forward to the innovative solutions participants will bring forward.
ISSN:2379-190X
DOI:10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447462