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We address the issue of localizing individuals in a scene that contains several people engaged in a multiple-speaker conversation. We use a human-like configuration of sensors (binaural and binocular) to gather both auditory and visual observations. We show that the localization problem can be recast as the task of clustering the audio-visual observations into coherent groups. We propose a probabilistic generative model that captures the relations between audio and visual observations. This model maps the data to a representation of the common 3D scene-space, via a pair of Gaussian mixture models. Inference is performed by a version of the Expectation Maximization algorithm, which provides cooperative estimates of both the activity (speaking or not) and the 3D position of each speaker.
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Khalidov, V., Forbes, F., Hansard, M., Arnaud, E., Horaud, R. (2008). Audio-Visual Clustering for 3D Speaker Localization. In: Popescu-Belis, A., Stiefelhagen, R. (eds) Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction. MLMI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85853-9_8
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