**End-to-End Neural Diarization** is a neural network for speaker diarization in which a neural network directly outputs speaker diarization results given a multi-speaker recording. To realize such an end-to-end model, the speaker diarization problem is formulated as a multi-label classification problem and a permutation-free objective function is introduced to directly minimize diarization errors. The EEND method can explicitly handle speaker overlaps during training and inference. Just by feeding multi-speaker recordings with corresponding speaker segment labels, the model can be adapted to real conversations.

Channel & spatial attention combines the advantages of channel attention and spatial attention. It adaptively selects both important objects and regions

Channel & Spatial attention

Residual Attention Network for Image Classification

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End-to-End Neural Diarization: Reformulating Speaker Diarization as Simple Multi-label Classification

**Center Pooling** is a pooling technique for object detection that aims to capture richer and more recognizable visual patterns. The geometric centers of objects do not necessarily convey very recognizable visual patterns (e.g., the human head contains strong visual patterns, but the center keypoint is often in the middle of the human body). 

The detailed process of center pooling is as follows: the backbone outputs a feature map, and to determine if a pixel in the feature map is a center keypoint, we need to find the maximum value in its both horizontal and vertical directions and add them together. By doing this, center pooling helps the better detection of center keypoints.

Source	End-to-End Neural Diarization: Reformulating Speaker Diarization as Simple Multi-label Classification
Year	2000
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