AVFSNet: Audio-Visual Speech Separation for Flexible Number of Speakers with Multi-Scale and Multi-Task Learning

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author Zhang, Daning
Wei, Ying
author_facet Zhang, Daning
Wei, Ying
contents Separating target speech from mixed signals containing flexible speaker quantities presents a challenging task. While existing methods demonstrate strong separation performance and noise robustness, they predominantly assume prior knowledge of speaker counts in mixtures. The limited research addressing unknown speaker quantity scenarios exhibits significantly constrained generalization capabilities in real acoustic environments. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes AVFSNet -- an audio-visual speech separation model integrating multi-scale encoding and parallel architecture -- jointly optimized for speaker counting and multi-speaker separation tasks. The model independently separates each speaker in parallel while enhancing environmental noise adaptability through visual information integration. Comprehensive experimental evaluations demonstrate that AVFSNet achieves state-of-the-art results across multiple evaluation metrics and delivers outstanding performance on diverse datasets.
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spellingShingle AVFSNet: Audio-Visual Speech Separation for Flexible Number of Speakers with Multi-Scale and Multi-Task Learning
Zhang, Daning
Wei, Ying
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
Separating target speech from mixed signals containing flexible speaker quantities presents a challenging task. While existing methods demonstrate strong separation performance and noise robustness, they predominantly assume prior knowledge of speaker counts in mixtures. The limited research addressing unknown speaker quantity scenarios exhibits significantly constrained generalization capabilities in real acoustic environments. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes AVFSNet -- an audio-visual speech separation model integrating multi-scale encoding and parallel architecture -- jointly optimized for speaker counting and multi-speaker separation tasks. The model independently separates each speaker in parallel while enhancing environmental noise adaptability through visual information integration. Comprehensive experimental evaluations demonstrate that AVFSNet achieves state-of-the-art results across multiple evaluation metrics and delivers outstanding performance on diverse datasets.
title AVFSNet: Audio-Visual Speech Separation for Flexible Number of Speakers with Multi-Scale and Multi-Task Learning
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12972