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Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) seeks to model, and thereby exploit, the dynamic relationship between a human voice and the corresponding mouth movements. A recently proposed multimodal fusion strategy, AV Align, based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 George Sterpu , Christian Saam , Naomi Harte

We capitalize on large amounts of readily-available, synchronous data to learn a deep discriminative representations shared across three major natural modalities: vision, sound and language. By leveraging over a year of sound from video and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Yusuf Aytar , Carl Vondrick , Antonio Torralba

The recent success in deep learning has lead to various effective representation learning methods for videos. However, the current approaches for video representation require large amount of human labeled datasets for effective learning. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Shruti Vyas , Yogesh S Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Humans learn language by listening, speaking, writing, reading, and also, via interaction with the multimodal real world. Existing language pre-training frameworks show the effectiveness of text-only self-supervision while we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

We present a novel approach to multilingual audio-visual speech recognition tasks by introducing a single model on a multilingual dataset. Motivated by a human cognitive system where humans can intuitively distinguish different languages…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Joanna Hong , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

An increasing number of datasets contain multiple views, such as video, sound and automatic captions. A basic challenge in representation learning is how to leverage multiple views to learn better representations. This is further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Nils Holzenberger , Shruti Palaskar , Pranava Madhyastha , Florian Metze , Raman Arora

Linguistic knowledge is of great benefit to scene text recognition. However, how to effectively model linguistic rules in end-to-end deep networks remains a research challenge. In this paper, we argue that the limited capacity of language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Shancheng Fang , Hongtao Xie , Yuxin Wang , Zhendong Mao , Yongdong Zhang

This paper aims for the task of text-to-video retrieval, where given a query in the form of a natural-language sentence, it is asked to retrieve videos which are semantically relevant to the given query, from a great number of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jianfeng Dong , Yabing Wang , Xianke Chen , Xiaoye Qu , Xirong Li , Yuan He , Xun Wang

Unsupervised representation learning of speech has been of keen interest in recent years, which is for example evident in the wide interest of the ZeroSpeech challenges. This work presents a new method for learning frame level…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Mingjie Chen , Thomas Hain

Automatically generating a natural language sentence to describe the content of an input video is a very challenging problem. It is an essential multimodal task in which auditory and visual contents are equally important. Although audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yapeng Tian , Chenxiao Guan , Justin Goodman , Marc Moore , Chenliang Xu

Our objective is to transform a video into a set of discrete audio-visual objects using self-supervised learning. To this end, we introduce a model that uses attention to localize and group sound sources, and optical flow to aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Owens , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) introduces the video modality into the speech recognition process, often by relying on information conveyed by the motion of the speaker's mouth. The use of the video signal requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Dmitriy Serdyuk , Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Recent advances in multimodal LLMs, have led to several video-text models being proposed for critical video-related tasks. However, most of the previous works support visual input only, essentially muting the audio signal in the video. Few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shivprasad Sagare , Hemachandran S , Kinshuk Sarabhai , Prashant Ullegaddi , Rajeshkumar SA

When watching videos, the occurrence of a visual event is often accompanied by an audio event, e.g., the voice of lip motion, the music of playing instruments. There is an underlying correlation between audio and visual events, which can be…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ying Cheng , Ruize Wang , Zhihao Pan , Rui Feng , Yuejie Zhang

With the advance in self-supervised learning for audio and visual modalities, it has become possible to learn a robust audio-visual speech representation. This would be beneficial for improving the audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Zi-Qiang Zhang , Jie Zhang , Jian-Shu Zhang , Ming-Hui Wu , Xin Fang , Li-Rong Dai

The intuitive interaction between the audio and visual modalities is valuable for cross-modal self-supervised learning. This concept has been demonstrated for generic audiovisual tasks like video action recognition and acoustic scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Abhinav Shukla , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

We propose a novel self-supervised approach for learning audio and visual representations from unlabeled videos, based on their correspondence. The approach uses an attention mechanism to learn the relative importance of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Sudha Krishnamurthy

Self-supervised learning has become increasingly important to leverage the abundance of unlabeled data available on platforms like YouTube. Whereas most existing approaches learn low-level representations, we propose a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Chen Sun , Austin Myers , Carl Vondrick , Kevin Murphy , Cordelia Schmid

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models have surpassed their audio-only counterparts in terms of performance. However, the interpretability of AVSR systems, particularly the role of the visual modality, remains under-explored. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Aristeidis Papadopoulos , Naomi Harte

The de-facto approach to many vision tasks is to start from pretrained visual representations, typically learned via supervised training on ImageNet. Recent methods have explored unsupervised pretraining to scale to vast quantities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Karan Desai , Justin Johnson