Representation Learning for Underdefined Tasks
Abstract
In the neural network galaxy, the large majority of approaches and research effort is dedicated to defined tasks, like recognize an image of a cat or discriminate noise versus speech records. For these kind of tasks, it is easy to write a labeling reference guide in order to obtain training and evaluation data with a ground truth. But for a large set of high level human tasks, and particularly for tasks related to the artistic field, the task itself is not easy to define, only the result is known, and it is difficult or impossible to write such a labeling book. We name this kind of problem as “Underdefined task”. In this presentation, a methodology based on representation learning is proposed to tackle this class of problems and a practical example is shown in the domain of voice casting for voice dubbing.
Keywords
Representation learning Underdefined task Knowledge distillation Transfer learning Voice casting Voice dubbingNotes
Acknowledgment and Credits
The voice casting for voice dubbing work was supported by Avignon University foundation “Pierre Berge” PhD program and by ANR TheVoice project ANR-17-CE23-0025 (DIGITAL VOICE DESIGN FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY).
The main part of the presented work on voice casting was done by Adrien Gresse during his PhD. Some ongoing parts are directly issued from Mathias Quillot’s (on going) PhD. Both provided a large part of the figures and tabs of this presentation.
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