Self-Supervised Learning for Audio-Visual Speaker Diarization

Yifan Ding, Yong Xu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Yahuan Cong, Liqiang Wang

Abstract: Speaker diarization, which is to find the speech segments of specific speakers, has been widely used in human-centered applications such as video conferences or human-computer interaction systems. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised audio-video synchronization learning method to address the problem of speaker diarization without massive labeling effort. We improve the previous approaches by introducing two new loss functions: the dynamic triplet loss and the multinomial loss. We test them on a real-world human-computer interaction system and the results show our best model yields a remarkable gain of +8% F <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sub> -scores as well as diarization error rate reduction. Finally, we introduce a new large scale audio-video corpus designed to fill the vacancy of audio-video dataset in Chinese.