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Audio-visual speech enhancement and speaker separation

Institution:

University of East Anglia

Dept/School/Faculty:

School of Computing Sciences

PhD Supervisor:

Dr B Milner

Co-Supervisor:

Prof S Cox

Application Deadline:

No more applications being accepted

Funding Availability:

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Project

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Significant amounts of correlation exist between the audio speech produced by a speaker and the shape of the speaker’s lips. This project will exploit this correlation to enhance audio speech that has been contaminated by either noise or speech from competing speakers. Work will begin by developing audio-visual models of speech that allow an estimate to be made of acoustic speech features from visual speech features. Using these estimated acoustic speech features various methods of speech enhancement will be investigated, such as deriving filters (e.g. Wiener, log MMSE) and reconstructing speech using a speech model driven by the acoustic speech features. The application will begin with enhancement of noisy speech and then move to speaker separation.

Funding Notes:

Funding may be available for UK/EU students. If funding is awarded for this project it will cover tuition fees and stipend for UK students. EU students may be eligible for full funding, or tuition fees only, depending on the funding source. International students will not be eligible for this funding however they are still welcome to apply for this project but would have to find alternative funding. Self funded students are also welcome to apply.