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We present an approach to Audio-Visual Speech Recognition that builds on a pre-trained Whisper model. To infuse visual information into this audio-only model, we extend it with an AV fusion module and LoRa adapters, one of the most…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Christopher Simic , Korbinian Riedhammer , Tobias Bocklet

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) combines audio-visual modalities to improve speech recognition, especially in noisy environments. However, most existing methods deploy the unidirectional enhancement or symmetric fusion manner, which…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junxiao Xue , Xiaozhen Liu , Xuecheng Wu , Xinyi Yin , Danlei Huang , Fei Yu

In recent years, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has approached human-level performance on conversational speech under relatively clean listening conditions. In more demanding situations involving distant microphones,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 George Sterpu , Naomi Harte

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

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 automatic speech recognition is a promising approach to robust ASR under noisy conditions. However, up until recently it had been traditionally studied in isolation assuming the video of a single speaking face matches the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

Speaker-independent VSR is a complex task that involves identifying spoken words or phrases from video recordings of a speaker's facial movements. Over the years, there has been a considerable amount of research in the field of VSR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Praneeth Nemani , G. Sai Krishna , Supriya Kundrapu

The image-based multimodal automatic speech recognition (ASR) model enhances speech recognition performance by incorporating audio-related image. However, some works suggest that introducing image information to model does not help…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jiliang Hu , Zuchao Li , Ping Wang , Haojun Ai , Lefei Zhang , Hai Zhao

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-visual speech recognition (AVSR) system is thought to be one of the most promising solutions for robust speech recognition, especially in noisy environment. In this paper, we propose a novel multimodal attention based method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Pan Zhou , Wenwen Yang , Wei Chen , Yanfeng Wang , Jia Jia

Audiovisual speech recognition (AVSR) is a method to alleviate the adverse effect of noise in the acoustic signal. Leveraging recent developments in deep neural network-based speech recognition, we present an AVSR neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Michael Wand , Ngoc Thang Vu , Juergen Schmidhuber

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

Audiovisual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) aims to improve speech recognition accuracy by leveraging visual signals. It is particularly challenging in unconstrained real-world scenarios across various domains due to noisy acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yihan Wu , Yichen Lu , Yifan Peng , Xihua Wang , Ruihua Song , Shinji Watanabe

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) integrates acoustic and visual information to enhance robustness in adverse acoustic conditions. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have yielded competitive automatic speech recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Fei Su , Cancan Li , Juan Liu , Wei Ju , Hongbin Suo , Ming Li

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yusheng Dai , Hang Chen , Jun Du , Xiaofei Ding , Ning Ding , Feijun Jiang , Chin-Hui Lee

Speech recognition and translation systems perform poorly on noisy inputs, which are frequent in realistic environments. Augmenting these systems with visual signals has the potential to improve robustness to noise. However, audio-visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-13 HyoJung Han , Mohamed Anwar , Juan Pino , Wei-Ning Hsu , Marine Carpuat , Bowen Shi , Changhan Wang

Audio-visual speaker diarization aims at detecting "who spoke when" using both auditory and visual signals. Existing audio-visual diarization datasets are mainly focused on indoor environments like meeting rooms or news studios, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Eric Zhongcong Xu , Zeyang Song , Satoshi Tsutsui , Chao Feng , Mang Ye , Mike Zheng Shou

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) aims to recognize corresponding text by analyzing visual information from lip movements. Due to the high variability and weak information of lip movements, VSR tasks require effectively utilizing any…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zehua Liu , Xiaolou Li , Chen Chen , Li Guo , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

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

This paper proposes a novel, resource-efficient approach to Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) leveraging speech representations produced by any trained Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. Moving away from the resource-intensive trends…

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