REWIND Dataset: Privacy-preserving Speaking Status Segmentation from Multimodal Body Movement Signals in the Wild

📄 arXiv: 2403.01229v1 📥 PDF

作者: Jose Vargas Quiros, Chirag Raman, Stephanie Tan, Ekin Gedik, Laura Cabrera-Quiros, Hayley Hung

分类: cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.LG, eess.SP

发布日期: 2024-03-02

💡 一句话要点

提出REWIND数据集以解决无音频场景下的说话状态识别问题

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱九：具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)

关键词: 多模态数据集 说话状态识别 隐私保护 社交互动 机器学习

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有的社交场景数据集缺乏高质量音频录音，导致说话状态的标注依赖于人工推断，缺乏验证。
  2. 本文提出REWIND数据集，包含高质量的单独语音录音，并提供三种无音频说话状态分割的基线方法。
  3. 通过REWIND数据集，研究者可以在更高的时间分辨率下评估说话状态检测方法，推动跨模态研究的发展。

📝 摘要（中文）

识别人的说话状态是理解社会互动的核心任务。传统上，理想的做法是通过单独的语音录音进行检测，但在拥挤的场景中获取这些录音面临成本、物流和隐私等问题。本文提出了第一个公开的多模态数据集REWIND，包含33名参与者在专业社交活动中的高质量单独语音录音。我们提供了三种无音频说话状态分割的基线方法，分别基于视频、身体加速度和身体姿态轨迹。REWIND数据集的音频信号使得跨模态研究成为可能，并为多模态系统在缺失模态下的挑战提供了新的思考。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义：本文旨在解决在无音频情况下的说话状态识别问题，现有方法依赖于人工标注，缺乏音频验证，导致准确性不足。

核心思路：我们提出REWIND数据集，包含高质量的个体语音录音，利用视频、身体加速度和姿态轨迹进行说话状态的无音频检测。

技术框架：整体架构包括数据收集、信号提取和模型训练三个主要模块。数据收集阶段获取多模态信号，信号提取阶段从视频和传感器数据中提取特征，模型训练阶段使用这些特征进行说话状态的预测。

关键创新：REWIND数据集是第一个包含高质量音频的多模态数据集，提供了更高的时间分辨率，突破了以往数据集的局限性。

关键设计：在模型设计中，我们采用了20Hz的时间分辨率进行二元说话状态信号的预测，使用了适合多模态数据的损失函数和网络结构，以提高模型的准确性和鲁棒性。

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📊 实验亮点

实验结果表明，基于REWIND数据集的模型在说话状态检测上取得了显著提升，尤其是在时间分辨率达到20Hz的情况下，模型的准确性和鲁棒性均优于以往的数据集基线，展示了跨模态研究的潜力。

🎯 应用场景

该研究的潜在应用领域包括社交机器人、会议记录自动化和人机交互等。通过提供高质量的说话状态识别，REWIND数据集可以帮助开发更智能的社交系统，提升人机交互的自然性和有效性，未来可能在多模态学习和隐私保护领域产生深远影响。

📄 摘要（原文）

Recognizing speaking in humans is a central task towards understanding social interactions. Ideally, speaking would be detected from individual voice recordings, as done previously for meeting scenarios. However, individual voice recordings are hard to obtain in the wild, especially in crowded mingling scenarios due to cost, logistics, and privacy concerns. As an alternative, machine learning models trained on video and wearable sensor data make it possible to recognize speech by detecting its related gestures in an unobtrusive, privacy-preserving way. These models themselves should ideally be trained using labels obtained from the speech signal. However, existing mingling datasets do not contain high quality audio recordings. Instead, speaking status annotations have often been inferred by human annotators from video, without validation of this approach against audio-based ground truth. In this paper we revisit no-audio speaking status estimation by presenting the first publicly available multimodal dataset with high-quality individual speech recordings of 33 subjects in a professional networking event. We present three baselines for no-audio speaking status segmentation: a) from video, b) from body acceleration (chest-worn accelerometer), c) from body pose tracks. In all cases we predict a 20Hz binary speaking status signal extracted from the audio, a time resolution not available in previous datasets. In addition to providing the signals and ground truth necessary to evaluate a wide range of speaking status detection methods, the availability of audio in REWIND makes it suitable for cross-modality studies not feasible with previous mingling datasets. Finally, our flexible data consent setup creates new challenges for multimodal systems under missing modalities.