DOVER-Lap

Official implementation for DOVER-Lap: A method for combining overlap-aware diarization outputs.

Installation

pip install dover-lap

How to run

After installation, run

dover-lap [OPTIONS] OUTPUT_RTTM [INPUT_RTTMS]...

Example:

dover-lap egs/ami/rttm_dl_test egs/ami/rttm_test_*

Usage instructions

Usage: dover-lap [OPTIONS] OUTPUT_RTTM [INPUT_RTTMS]...

  Apply the DOVER-Lap algorithm on the input RTTM files.

Options:
  --gaussian-filter-std FLOAT     Standard deviation for Gaussian filter
                                  applied before voting. This can help reduce
                                  the effect of outliers in the input RTTMs.
                                  For quick turn-taking, set this to a small
                                  value (e.g. 0.1). 0.5 is a good value for
                                  most cases. Set this to a very small value,
                                  e.g. 0.01, to remove filtering.  [default:
                                  0.5]

  --custom-weight TEXT            Weights for input RTTMs
  --dover-weight FLOAT            DOVER weighting factor  [default: 0.1]
  --weight-type [rank|custom|norm]
                                  Specify whether to use rank weighting or
                                  provide custom weights  [default: rank]

  --voting-method [average]       Choose voting method to use: average: use
                                  weighted average to combine input RTTMs
                                  [default: average]

  --second-maximal                If this flag is set, run a second iteration
                                  of the maximal matching for greedy label
                                  mapping  [default: False]

  --label-mapping [hungarian|greedy]
                                  Choose label mapping algorithm to use
                                  [default: greedy]

  --random-seed INTEGER
  -c, --channel INTEGER           Use this value for output channel IDs
                                  [default: 1]

  -u, --uem-file PATH             UEM file path
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Note:

1. If --weight-type custom is used, then --custom-weight must be provided. For example:

dover-lap egs/ami/rttm_dl_test egs/ami/rttm_test_* --weight-type custom --custom-weight '[0.4,0.3,0.3]'

2. label-mapping can be set to greedy (default) or hungarian, which is a modified version of the mapping technique originally proposed in DOVER.

Results

We provide a sample result on the AMI mix-headset test set. The results can be obtained using spyder, which is automatically installed with dover-lap:

dover-lap egs/ami/rttm_dl_test egs/ami/rttm_test_*
spyder egs/ami/ref_rttm_test egs/ami/rttm_dl_test

and similarly for the input hypothesis. The DER results are shown below.

	MS	FA	Conf.	DER
Overlap-aware VB resegmentation	9.84	2.06	9.60	21.50
Overlap-aware spectral clustering	11.48	2.27	9.81	23.56
Region Proposal Network	9.49	7.68	8.25	25.43
DOVER-Lap (Hungarian mapping)	9.98	2.13	8.25	20.35
DOVER-Lap (Greedy mapping)*	9.96	2.16	7.75	19.86

* The Greedy label mapping is exponential in number of inputs (see this paper).

Running time

The algorithm is implemented in pure Python with NumPy for tensor computations. The time complexity is expected to increase exponentially with the number of inputs, but it should be reasonable for combining up to 10 input hypotheses. For combining more than 10 inputs, we recommend setting --label-mapping hungarian.

For smaller number of inputs (up to 5), the algorithm should take only a few seconds to run on a laptop.

Combining 2 systems with DOVER-Lap

DOVER-Lap is meant to be used to combine more than 2 systems, since black-box voting between 2 systems does not make much sense. Still, if 2 systems are provided as input, we fall back on the Hungarian algorithm for label mapping, since it is provably optimal for this case. Both the systems are assigned equal weights, and in case of voting conflicts, the region is assigned to both labels. This is not the intended use case and will almost certainly lead to performance degradation.

Citation

@article{Raj2021Doverlap,
  title={{DOVER-Lap}: A Method for Combining Overlap-aware Diarization Outputs},
  author={D.Raj and P.Garcia and Z.Huang and S.Watanabe and D.Povey and A.Stolcke and S.Khudanpur},
  journal={2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
  year={2021}
}

@article{Raj2021ReformulatingDL,
  title={Reformulating {DOVER-Lap} Label Mapping as a Graph Partitioning Problem},
  author={Desh Raj and S. Khudanpur},
  journal={INTERSPEECH},
  year={2021},
}

Contact

For issues/bug reports, please raise an Issue in this repository, or reach out to me at draj@cs.jhu.edu.