Egocentric Deep Multi-Channel Audio-Visual Active Speaker Localization

@article{Jiang2022EgocentricDM,
  title={Egocentric Deep Multi-Channel Audio-Visual Active Speaker Localization},
  author={Hao Jiang and Calvin Murdock and Vamsi Krishna Ithapu},
  journal={2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year={2022},
  pages={10534-10542}
}
Augmented reality devices have the potential to enhance human perception and enable other assistive functionalities in complex conversational environments. Effectively capturing the audio-visual context necessary for understanding these social interactions first requires detecting and localizing the voice activities of the device wearer and the surrounding people. These tasks are challenging due to their egocentric nature: the wearer's head motion may cause motion blur, surrounding people may… 
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