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Reverberation not only degrades the quality of speech for human perception, but also severely impacts the accuracy of automatic speech recognition. Prior work attempts to remove reverberation based on the audio modality only. Our idea is to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Changan Chen , Wei Sun , David Harwath , Kristen Grauman

Understanding speech production both visually and kinematically can inform second language learning system designs, as well as the creation of speaking characters in video games and animations. In this work, we introduce a data-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Hong Nguyen , Sean Foley , Kevin Huang , Xuan Shi , Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

We introduce a new approach for audio-visual speech separation. Given a video, the goal is to extract the speech associated with a face in spite of simultaneous background sounds and/or other human speakers. Whereas existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

We focus on the word-level visual lipreading, which requires to decode the word from the speaker's video. Recently, many state-of-the-art visual lipreading methods explore the end-to-end trainable deep models, involving the use of 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xinshuo Weng

Multi-modal based speech separation has exhibited a specific advantage on isolating the target character in multi-talker noisy environments. Unfortunately, most of current separation strategies prefer a straightforward fusion based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Junwen Xiong , Peng Zhang , Lei Xie , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha , Yanning Zhang

Humans use multiple senses to comprehend the environment. Vision and language are two of the most vital senses since they allow us to easily communicate our thoughts and perceive the world around us. There has been a lot of interest in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Yi Bin , Junbin Xiao , Leigang Qu , Yicong Li , Jay Zhangjie Wu , Cong-Duy Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Luu Anh Tuan

Recent studies of hearing aid benefits indicate that head movement behavior influences performance. To systematically assess these effects, movement behavior must be measured in realistic communication conditions. For this, the use of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Maartje M. E. Hendrikse , Gerard Llorach , Giso Grimm , Volker Hohmann

Recent advances in deep learning have heightened interest among researchers in the field of visual speech recognition (VSR). Currently, most existing methods equate VSR with automatic lip reading, which attempts to recognise speech by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yuanhang Zhang , Shuang Yang , Jingyun Xiao , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Visual speech, referring to the visual domain of speech, has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications, such as public security, medical treatment, military defense, and film entertainment. As a powerful AI strategy, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Changchong Sheng , Gangyao Kuang , Liang Bai , Chenping Hou , Yulan Guo , Xin Xu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Lipreading is a challenging cross-modal task that aims to convert visual lip movements into spoken text. Existing lipreading methods often extract visual features that include speaker-specific lip attributes (e.g., shape, color, texture),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yu Li , Feng Xue , Shujie Li , Jinrui Zhang , Shuang Yang , Dan Guo , Richang Hong

Visual perception and language understanding are - fundamental components of human intelligence, enabling them to understand and reason about objects and their interactions. It is crucial for machines to have this capacity to reason using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Thao Minh Le

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

Humans have the ability to utilize visual cues, such as lip movements and visual scenes, to enhance auditory perception, particularly in noisy environments. However, current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Visual Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lakshmipathi Balaji , Karan Singla

Both acoustic and visual information influence human perception of speech. For this reason, the lack of audio in a video sequence determines an extremely low speech intelligibility for untrained lip readers. In this paper, we present a way…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Daniel Michelsanti , Olga Slizovskaia , Gloria Haro , Emilia Gómez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jesper Jensen

During language acquisition, infants have the benefit of visual cues to ground spoken language. Robots similarly have access to audio and visual sensors. Recent work has shown that images and spoken captions can be mapped into a meaningful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Herman Kamper , Shane Settle , Gregory Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

The audio visual benefit in speech perception, where congruent visual input enhances auditory processing, is well documented across age groups, particularly in challenging listening conditions and among individuals with varying hearing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Mareike Daeglau , Juergen Otten , Giso Grimm , Bojana Mirkovic , Volker Hohmann , Stefan Debener

Audio-visual speech enhancement (AV-SE) aims to enhance degraded speech along with extra visual information such as lip videos, and has been shown to be more effective than audio-only speech enhancement. This paper proposes further…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Rui-Chen Zheng , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

Since facial actions such as lip movements contain significant information about speech content, it is not surprising that audio-visual speech enhancement methods are more accurate than their audio-only counterparts. Yet, state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Karren Yang , Dejan Markovic , Steven Krenn , Vasu Agrawal , Alexander Richard

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…