EasyCom: An Augmented Reality Dataset to Support Algorithms for Easy Communication in Noisy Environments
Jacob Donley, Vladimir Tourbabin, Jung-Suk Lee, Mark Broyles, Hao, Jiang, Jie Shen, Maja Pantic, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Ravish Mehra

TL;DR
This paper introduces EasyCom, a comprehensive multi-modal dataset designed to advance algorithms for improving communication in noisy environments using augmented reality, including audio, video, and annotation data.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel, high-quality dataset with synchronized multi-modal data, including egocentric audio and video, to support AR communication research in noisy settings.
Findings
Baseline methods show improved speech intelligibility and quality.
Dataset enables development of multi-modal AR communication algorithms.
Annotations facilitate targeted research in noisy environments.
Abstract
Augmented Reality (AR) as a platform has the potential to facilitate the reduction of the cocktail party effect. Future AR headsets could potentially leverage information from an array of sensors spanning many different modalities. Training and testing signal processing and machine learning algorithms on tasks such as beam-forming and speech enhancement require high quality representative data. To the best of the author's knowledge, as of publication there are no available datasets that contain synchronized egocentric multi-channel audio and video with dynamic movement and conversations in a noisy environment. In this work, we describe, evaluate and release a dataset that contains over 5 hours of multi-modal data useful for training and testing algorithms for the application of improving conversations for an AR glasses wearer. We provide speech intelligibility, quality and…
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TopicsSpeech and Audio Processing · Music and Audio Processing · Face recognition and analysis
