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This paper presents a novel metric learning approach to address the performance gap between normal and silent speech in visual speech recognition (VSR). The difference in lip movements between the two poses a challenge for existing VSR…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Sara Kashiwagi , Keitaro Tanaka , Qi Feng , Shigeo Morishima

Lip Reading, or Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (V-ASR), is a complex task requiring the interpretation of spoken language exclusively from visual cues, primarily lip movements and facial expressions. This task is especially challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Marshall Thomas , Edward Fish , Richard Bowden

Lipreading, i.e. speech recognition from visual-only recordings of a speaker's face, can be achieved with a processing pipeline based solely on neural networks, yielding significantly better accuracy than conventional methods. Feed-forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Michael Wand , Jan Koutník , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Visual speech recognition (VSR), commonly known as lip reading, has garnered significant attention due to its wide-ranging practical applications. The advent of deep learning techniques and advancements in hardware capabilities have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Bowen Hao , Dongliang Zhou , Xiaojie Li , Xingyu Zhang , Liang Xie , Jianlong Wu , Erwei Yin

In this paper, we present how to hybridize a Word2vec model and an attention-based end-to-end speech recognition model. We build a phoneme recognition system based on Listen, Attend and Spell model. And the phoneme recognition model uses a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Xin Feng , Lei Wang

Language has always been one of humanity's defining characteristics. Visual Language Identification (VLI) is a relatively new field of research that is complex and largely understudied. In this paper, we present a preliminary study in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lucia Cascone , Michele Nappi , Fabio Narducci

In conventional speech recognition, phoneme-based models outperform grapheme-based models for non-phonetic languages such as English. The performance gap between the two typically reduces as the amount of training data is increased. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Kazuki Irie , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Anjuli Kannan , Antoine Bruguier , David Rybach , Patrick Nguyen

Lip reading, also known as visual speech recognition, aims to recognize the speech content from videos by analyzing the lip dynamics. There have been several appealing progress in recent years, benefiting much from the rapidly developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dalu Feng , Shuang Yang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Lip reading has witnessed unparalleled development in recent years thanks to deep learning and the availability of large-scale datasets. Despite the encouraging results achieved, the performance of lip reading, unfortunately, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Ya Zhao , Rui Xu , Xinchao Wang , Peng Hou , Haihong Tang , Mingli Song

Recovering the masked speech frames is widely applied in speech representation learning. However, most of these models use random masking in the pre-training. In this work, we proposed two kinds of masking approaches: (1) speech-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Kexin Zhu , Jing Xiao

Recent progress in Spoken Language Modeling has shown that learning language directly from speech is feasible. Generating speech through a pipeline that operates at the text level typically loses nuances, intonations, and non-verbal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Maxime Poli , Emmanuel Chemla , Emmanuel Dupoux

Lipreading, also known as visual speech recognition, aims to identify the speech content from videos by analyzing the visual deformations of lips and nearby areas. One of the significant obstacles for research in this field is the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Evgeniy Egorov , Vasily Kostyumov , Mikhail Konyk , Sergey Kolesnikov

Lipreading has a lot of potential applications such as in the domain of surveillance and video conferencing. Despite this, most of the work in building lipreading systems has been limited to classifying silent videos into classes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Yaman Kumar , Rohit Jain , Khwaja Mohd. Salik , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Yifang yin , Roger Zimmermann

In recent years, significant progress has been made in automatic lip reading. But these methods require large-scale datasets that do not exist for many low-resource languages. In this paper, we have presented a new multipurpose audio-visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Javad Peymanfard , Samin Heydarian , Ali Lashini , Hossein Zeinali , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Nasser Mozayani

This work presents a scalable solution to open-vocabulary visual speech recognition. To achieve this, we constructed the largest existing visual speech recognition dataset, consisting of pairs of text and video clips of faces speaking…

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) provides a promising solution to ameliorate the noise-robustness of audio-only speech recognition with visual information. However, most existing efforts still focus on audio modality to improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Yuchen Hu , Ruizhe Li , Chen Chen , Chengwei Qin , Qiushi Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (V-ASR) is a challenging task that involves interpreting spoken language solely from visual information, such as lip movements and facial expressions. This task is notably challenging due to the absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Matthew Kit Khinn Teng , Haibo Zhang , Takeshi Saitoh

Lipreading is a difficult gesture classification task. One problem in computer lipreading is speaker-independence. Speaker-independence means to achieve the same accuracy on test speakers not included in the training set as speakers within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Jake Burton , David Frank , Madhi Saleh , Nassir Navab , Helen L. Bear

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) method has been widely used in numerous classification tasks. The main idea of this algorithm is based on the principle of the margin maximization to find an hyperplane which separates the data into two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Rimah Amami , Dorra Ben Ayed , Nouerddine Ellouze

Generating semantically coherent and visually accurate talking faces requires bridging the gap between linguistic meaning and facial articulation. Although audio-driven methods remain prevalent, their reliance on high-quality paired audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Fei Wang , Lechao Cheng , Dan Guo , Feng Xue , Richang Hong