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A neural network approach to audio-assisted movie dialogue detection

Kotti, M, Benetos, E., Kotropoulos, C. & Pitas, I (2007). A neural network approach to audio-assisted movie dialogue detection. Neurocomputing, 71(1-3), pp. 157-166. doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2007.08.006

Abstract

A novel framework for audio-assisted dialogue detection based on indicator functions and neural networks is investigated. An indicator function defines that an actor is present at a particular time instant. The cross-correlation function of a pair of indicator functions and the magnitude of the corresponding cross-power spectral density are fed as input to neural networks for dialogue detection. Several types of artificial neural networks, including multilayer perceptrons, voted perceptrons, radial basis function networks, support vector machines, and particle swarm optimization-based multilayer perceptrons are tested. Experiments are carried out to validate the feasibility of the aforementioned approach by using ground-truth indicator functions determined by human observers on 6 different movies. A total of 41 dialogue instances and another 20 non-dialogue instances is employed. The average detection accuracy achieved is high, ranging between 84.78%±5.499% and 91.43%±4.239%.

Publication Type: Article
Publisher Keywords: dialogue detection, indicator functions, cross-correlation, cross-power spectral density
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Computer Science
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