A Fast and Lightweight Model for Causal Audio-Visual Speech Separation

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Main Authors: Sang, Wendi, Li, Kai, Yang, Runxuan, Huang, Jianqiang, Hu, Xiaolin
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Published: 2025
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author Sang, Wendi
Li, Kai
Yang, Runxuan
Huang, Jianqiang
Hu, Xiaolin
author_facet Sang, Wendi
Li, Kai
Yang, Runxuan
Huang, Jianqiang
Hu, Xiaolin
contents Audio-visual speech separation (AVSS) aims to extract a target speech signal from a mixed signal by leveraging both auditory and visual (lip movement) cues. However, most existing AVSS methods exhibit complex architectures and rely on future context, operating offline, which renders them unsuitable for real-time applications. Inspired by the pipeline of RTFSNet, we propose a novel streaming AVSS model, named Swift-Net, which enhances the causal processing capabilities required for real-time applications. Swift-Net adopts a lightweight visual feature extraction module and an efficient fusion module for audio-visual integration. Additionally, Swift-Net employs Grouped SRUs to integrate historical information across different feature spaces, thereby improving the utilization efficiency of historical information. We further propose a causal transformation template to facilitate the conversion of non-causal AVSS models into causal counterparts. Experiments on three standard benchmark datasets (LRS2, LRS3, and VoxCeleb2) demonstrated that under causal conditions, our proposed Swift-Net exhibited outstanding performance, highlighting the potential of this method for processing speech in complex environments.
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spellingShingle A Fast and Lightweight Model for Causal Audio-Visual Speech Separation
Sang, Wendi
Li, Kai
Yang, Runxuan
Huang, Jianqiang
Hu, Xiaolin
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Audio-visual speech separation (AVSS) aims to extract a target speech signal from a mixed signal by leveraging both auditory and visual (lip movement) cues. However, most existing AVSS methods exhibit complex architectures and rely on future context, operating offline, which renders them unsuitable for real-time applications. Inspired by the pipeline of RTFSNet, we propose a novel streaming AVSS model, named Swift-Net, which enhances the causal processing capabilities required for real-time applications. Swift-Net adopts a lightweight visual feature extraction module and an efficient fusion module for audio-visual integration. Additionally, Swift-Net employs Grouped SRUs to integrate historical information across different feature spaces, thereby improving the utilization efficiency of historical information. We further propose a causal transformation template to facilitate the conversion of non-causal AVSS models into causal counterparts. Experiments on three standard benchmark datasets (LRS2, LRS3, and VoxCeleb2) demonstrated that under causal conditions, our proposed Swift-Net exhibited outstanding performance, highlighting the potential of this method for processing speech in complex environments.
title A Fast and Lightweight Model for Causal Audio-Visual Speech Separation
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06689