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The goal of the audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task is to segment the sounding objects in the video frames using audio cues. However, current fusion-based methods have the performance limitations due to the small receptive field of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Jinxiang Liu , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang

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…

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Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) systems nowadays integrate Large Language Model (LLM) decoders with transformer-based encoders, achieving state-of-the-art results. However, the relative contributions of improved language modelling…

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The audio-visual speech fusion strategy AV Align has shown significant performance improvements in audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) on the challenging LRS2 dataset. Performance improvements range between 7% and 30% depending on the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 George Sterpu , Christian Saam , Naomi Harte

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are known to exhibit difficulties when transcribing children's speech. This can mainly be attributed to the absence of large children's speech corpora to train robust ASR models and the resulting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Jenthe Thienpondt , Kris Demuynck

Multimodal speech recognition aims to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by leveraging additional visual information that is usually associated to the audio input. While previous approaches make crucial…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Dan Oneata , Horia Cucu

In this study, we try to address the problem of leveraging visual signals to improve Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), also known as visual context-aware ASR (VC-ASR). We explore novel VC-ASR approaches to leverage video and text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Shahram Ghorbani , Yashesh Gaur , Yu Shi , Jinyu Li

Humans are capable of processing speech by making use of multiple sensory modalities. For example, the environment where a conversation takes place generally provides semantic and/or acoustic context that helps us to resolve ambiguities or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ozan Caglayan , Ramon Sanabria , Shruti Palaskar , Loïc Barrault , Florian Metze

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) combines auditory and visual speech cues to enhance the accuracy and robustness of speech recognition systems. Recent advancements in AVSR have improved performance in noisy environments compared to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Zhaofeng Lin , Naomi Harte

We live in a world where 60% of the population can speak two or more languages fluently. Members of these communities constantly switch between languages when having a conversation. As automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are being…

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Visual signals can enhance audiovisual speech recognition accuracy by providing additional contextual information. Given the complexity of visual signals, an audiovisual speech recognition model requires robust generalization capabilities…

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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

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) has gained remarkable success for ameliorating the noise-robustness of speech recognition. Mainstream methods focus on fusing audio and visual inputs to obtain modality-invariant representations.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Qiang Zhang , Heqing Zou , Beier Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

Audio-visual speech recognition has received a lot of attention due to its robustness against acoustic noise. Recently, the performance of automatic, visual, and audio-visual speech recognition (ASR, VSR, and AV-ASR, respectively) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Pingchuan Ma , Alexandros Haliassos , Adriana Fernandez-Lopez , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Audio and video are two most common modalities in the mainstream media platforms, e.g., YouTube. To learn from multimodal videos effectively, in this work, we propose a novel audio-video recognition approach termed audio video Transformer,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wentao Zhu

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

Transformer has achieved competitive performance against state-of-the-art end-to-end models in automatic speech recognition (ASR), and requires significantly less training time than RNN-based models. The original Transformer, with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Wenyong Huang , Wenchao Hu , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) is the task of predicting spoken words from silent lip movements. VSR is regarded as a challenging task because of the insufficient information on lip movements. In this paper, we propose an Audio Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Jeong Hun Yeo , Minsu Kim , Jeongsoo Choi , Dae Hoe Kim , Yong Man Ro

In recent research, slight performance improvement is observed from automatic speech recognition systems to audio-visual speech recognition systems in the end-to-end framework with low-quality videos. Unmatching convergence rates and…

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