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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

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

We are at an exciting time for machine lipreading. Traditional research stemmed from the adaptation of audio recognition systems. But now, the computer vision community is also participating. This joining of two previously disparate areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Helen L Bear , Sarah Taylor

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

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) differs from the common perception tasks as it requires deeper reasoning over the video sequence, even by human experts. Despite the recent advances in VSR, current approaches rely on labeled data to fully…

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 Speech Recognition (VSR) transcribes speech by analyzing lip movements. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been integrated into VSR systems, leading to notable performance improvements. However, the potential of LLMs has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zehua Liu , Xiaolou Li , Li Guo , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Visual cues, like lip motion, have been shown to improve the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems in noisy environments. We propose LipGER (Lip Motion aided Generative Error Correction), a novel framework for leveraging…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Ashish Seth , Purva Chiniya , Utkarsh Tyagi , Ramani Duraiswami , Dinesh Manocha

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…

In visual speech processing, context modeling capability is one of the most important requirements due to the ambiguous nature of lip movements. For example, homophenes, words that share identical lip movements but produce different sounds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jeong Hun Yeo , Seunghee Han , Minsu Kim , Yong Man Ro

The goal of this paper is to learn strong lip reading models that can recognise speech in silent videos. Most prior works deal with the open-set visual speech recognition problem by adapting existing automatic speech recognition techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 K R Prajwal , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

Human lip-reading is a challenging task. It requires not only knowledge of underlying language but also visual clues to predict spoken words. Experts need certain level of experience and understanding of visual expressions learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 M Faisal , Sanaullah Manzoor

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

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

Visemes are the visual equivalent of phonemes. Although not precisely defined, a working definition of a viseme is "a set of phonemes which have identical appearance on the lips". Therefore a phoneme falls into one viseme class but a viseme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Helen L Bear , Richard Harvey

Automatic lip-reading (ALR) aims to automatically transcribe spoken content from a speaker's silent lip motion captured in video. Current mainstream lip-reading approaches only use a single visual encoder to model input videos of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 He Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Xucheng Wan , Huan Zhou , Lei Xie

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

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

Decoding text, speech, or images from human neural signals holds promising potential both as neuroprosthesis for patients and as innovative communication tools for general users. Although neural signals contain various information on speech…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-28 Ji-Ha Park , Seo-Hyun Lee , Soowon Kim , Seong-Whan Lee