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Lipreading is the task of decoding text from the movement of a speaker's mouth. Traditional approaches separated the problem into two stages: designing or learning visual features, and prediction. More recent deep lipreading approaches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Yannis M. Assael , Brendan Shillingford , Shimon Whiteson , Nando de Freitas

The scarcity of labeled audio-visual datasets is a constraint for training superior audio-visual speaker diarization systems. To improve the performance of audio-visual speaker diarization, we leverage pre-trained supervised and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Huan Zhao , Li Zhang , Yue Li , Yannan Wang , Hongji Wang , Wei Rao , Qing Wang , Lei Xie

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) is an extension of ASR that incorporates visual cues, often from the movements of a speaker's mouth. Unlike works that simply focus on the lip motion, we investigate the contribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Valentin Gabeur , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Arsha Nagrani , Chen Sun , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid

Video captioning which automatically translates video clips into natural language sentences is a very important task in computer vision. By virtue of recent deep learning technologies, e.g., convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Junbo Wang , Wei Wang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

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

Talking head generation is to synthesize a lip-synchronized talking head video by inputting an arbitrary face image and corresponding audio clips. Existing methods ignore not only the interaction and relationship of cross-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Sen Chen , Zhilei Liu , Jiaxing Liu , Longbiao Wang

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

Video-to-speech (V2S) synthesis, the task of generating speech directly from silent video input, is inherently more challenging than other speech synthesis tasks due to the need to accurately reconstruct both speech content and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yifan Liu , Yu Fang , Zhouhan Lin

We introduce a technique for augmenting neural text-to-speech (TTS) with lowdimensional trainable speaker embeddings to generate different voices from a single model. As a starting point, we show improvements over the two state-ofthe-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Sercan Arik , Gregory Diamos , Andrew Gibiansky , John Miller , Kainan Peng , Wei Ping , Jonathan Raiman , Yanqi Zhou

In this paper, we propose an online speaker adaptation method for WaveNet-based neural vocoders in order to improve their performance on speaker-independent waveform generation. In this method, a speaker encoder is first constructed using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Qiuchen Huang , Yang Ai , Zhenhua Ling

Direct speech-to-speech translation achieves high-quality results through the introduction of discrete units obtained from self-supervised learning. This approach circumvents delays and cascading errors associated with model cascading.…

Voice cloning is the task of learning to synthesize the voice of an unseen speaker from a few samples. While current voice cloning methods achieve promising results in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis for a new voice, these approaches lack…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Paarth Neekhara , Shehzeen Hussain , Shlomo Dubnov , Farinaz Koushanfar , Julian McAuley

AV-HuBERT, a multi-modal self-supervised learning model, has been shown to be effective for categorical problems such as automatic speech recognition and lip-reading. This suggests that useful audio-visual speech representations can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 I-Chun Chern , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yi-Ting Chen , Tassadaq Hussain , Mandar Gogate , Amir Hussain , Yu Tsao , Jen-Cheng Hou

Understanding and conversing about dynamic scenes is one of the key capabilities of AI agents that navigate the environment and convey useful information to humans. Video question answering is a specific scenario of such AI-human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Guan-Lin Chao , Abhinav Rastogi , Semih Yavuz , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Jindong Chen , Ian Lane

Speech-driven facial animation is the process that automatically synthesizes talking characters based on speech signals. The majority of work in this domain creates a mapping from audio features to visual features. This approach often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Konstantinos Vougioukas , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

This paper presents a cross-lingual voice conversion framework that adopts a modularized neural network. The modularized neural network has a common input structure that is shared for both languages, and two separate output modules, one for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Yi Zhou , Xiaohai Tian , Emre Yılmaz , Rohan Kumar Das , Haizhou Li

Neural Machine Translation with its significant results, still has a great problem: lack or absence of parallel corpus for many languages. This article suggests a method for generating considerable amount of parallel corpus for any language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Farshad Jafari

Audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) methods use both audio and visual features for the task of speech enhancement and the use of visual features has been shown to be particularly effective in multi-speaker scenarios. In the majority of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Recent studies in speech-driven 3D talking head generation have achieved convincing results in verbal articulations. However, generating accurate lip-syncs degrades when applied to input speech in other languages, possibly due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kim Sung-Bin , Lee Chae-Yeon , Gihun Son , Oh Hyun-Bin , Janghoon Ju , Suekyeong Nam , Tae-Hyun Oh

The advancements of AI-synthesized human voices have introduced a growing threat of impersonation and disinformation. It is therefore of practical importance to developdetection methods for synthetic human voices. This work proposes a new…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Chengzhe Sun , Shan Jia , Shuwei Hou , Ehab AlBadawy , Siwei Lyu