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Machine lipreading (MLR) is speech recognition from visual cues and a niche research problem in speech processing & computer vision. Current challenges fall into two groups: the content of the video, such as rate of speech or; the…

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

Lip-reading is the operation of recognizing speech from lip movements. This is a difficult task because the movements of the lips when pronouncing the words are similar for some of them. Viseme is used to describe lip movements during a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Javad Peymanfard , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Hossein Zeinali , Nasser Mozayani

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

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

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…

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

A critical assumption of all current visual speech recognition systems is that there are visual speech units called visemes which can be mapped to units of acoustic speech, the phonemes. Despite there being a number of published maps it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Helen L. Bear , Richard W. Harvey , Barry-John Theobald , Yuxuan Lan

This paper proposes a novel lip-reading driven deep learning framework for speech enhancement. The proposed approach leverages the complementary strengths of both deep learning and analytical acoustic modelling (filtering based approach) as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Ahsan Adeel , Mandar Gogate , Amir Hussain , William M. Whitmer

Video recordings of speech contain correlated audio and visual information, providing a strong signal for speech representation learning from the speaker's lip movements and the produced sound. We introduce Audio-Visual Hidden Unit BERT…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Bowen Shi , Wei-Ning Hsu , Kushal Lakhotia , Abdelrahman Mohamed

Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction (AVTSE) aims to separate a target speaker's voice from a mixed audio signal using the corresponding visual cues. While most existing AVTSE methods rely exclusively on frontal-view videos, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Peijun Yang , Zhan Jin , Juan Liu , Ming Li

Lip reading, the process of interpreting silent speech from visual lip movements, has gained rising attention for its wide range of realistic applications. Deep learning approaches greatly improve current lip reading systems. However, lip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Linzhi Wu , Xingyu Zhang , Yakun Zhang , Changyan Zheng , Tiejun Liu , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

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

Memory is essential for large vision-language models (LVLMs) to handle long, multimodal interactions, with two method directions providing this capability: long-context LVLMs and memory-augmented agents. However, no existing benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xiyu Ren , Zhaowei Wang , Yiming Du , Zhongwei Xie , Chi Liu , Xinlin Yang , Haoyue Feng , Wenjun Pan , Tianshi Zheng , Baixuan Xu , Zhengnan Li , Yangqiu Song , Ginny Wong , Simon See

The performance of automated lip reading using visemes as a classification schema has achieved less success compared with the use of ASCII characters and words largely due to the problem of different words sharing identical visemes. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Souheil Fenghour , Daqing Chen , Kun Guo , Perry Xiao

Lip motion reflects behavior characteristics of speakers, and thus can be used as a new kind of biometrics in speaker recognition. In the literature, lots of works used two-dimensional (2D) lip images to recognize speaker in a textdependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jianrong Wang , Tong Wu , Shanyu Wang , Mei Yu , Qiang Fang , Ju Zhang , Li Liu

DeepFake based digital facial forgery is threatening the public media security, especially when lip manipulation has been used in talking face generation, the difficulty of fake video detection is further improved. By only changing lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Ganglai Wang , Peng Zhang , Lei Xie , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha , Yanning Zhang

One of the many tasks facing the typically-developing child language learner is learning to discriminate between the distinctive sounds that make up words in their native language. Here we investigate whether multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sophia Zhi , Roger P. Levy , Stephan C. Meylan

Lip-reading models have been significantly improved recently thanks to powerful deep learning architectures. However, most works focused on frontal or near frontal views of the mouth. As a consequence, lip-reading performance seriously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Shiyang Cheng , Pingchuan Ma , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Stavros Petridis , Adrian Bulat , Jie Shen , Maja Pantic

Audio-visual (AV) lip biometrics is a promising authentication technique that leverages the benefits of both the audio and visual modalities in speech communication. Previous works have demonstrated the usefulness of AV lip biometrics.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Meng Liu , Longbiao Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Hanyi Zhang , Chang Zeng , Jianwu Dang

Audio large language models (LLMs) are considered experts at recognizing sound objects, yet their performance relative to LLMs in other sensory modalities, such as visual or audio-visual LLMs, and to humans using their ears, eyes, or both…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xilin Jiang , Junkai Wu , Vishal Choudhari , Nima Mesgarani