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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

Lip-reading aims to recognize speech content from videos via visual analysis of speakers' lip movements. This is a challenging task due to the existence of homophemes-words which involve identical or highly similar lip movements, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Chenhao Wang

In this paper, we combine two-step knowledge distillation, structured pruning, truncation, and vocabulary trimming for extremely compressing multilingual encoder-only language models for low-resource languages. Our novel approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Daniil Gurgurov , Michal Gregor , Josef van Genabith , Simon Ostermann

Despite the advancement in the domain of audio and audio-visual speech recognition, visual speech recognition systems are still quite under-explored due to the visual ambiguity of some phonemes. In this work, we propose a new lip-reading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shahd Elashmawy , Marian Ramsis , Hesham M. Eraqi , Farah Eldeshnawy , Hadeel Mabrouk , Omar Abugabal , Nourhan Sakr

Lip-to-speech involves generating a natural-sounding speech synchronized with a soundless video of a person talking. Despite recent advances, current methods still cannot produce high-quality speech with high levels of intelligibility for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Yochai Yemini , Aviv Shamsian , Lior Bracha , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

Lipreading refers to understanding and further translating the speech of a speaker in the video into natural language. State-of-the-art lipreading methods excel in interpreting overlap speakers, i.e., speakers appear in both training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Feng Xue , Yu Li , Deyin Liu , Yincen Xie , Lin Wu , Richang Hong

Lip reading has received increasing attention in recent years. This paper focuses on the synergy of multilingual lip reading. There are about as many as 7000 languages in the world, which implies that it is impractical to train separate lip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Mingshuang Luo , Shuang Yang , Xilin Chen , Zitao Liu , Shiguang Shan

Recognizing speech from silent lip movement, which is called lip reading, is a challenging task due to 1) the inherent information insufficiency of lip movement to fully represent the speech, and 2) the existence of homophenes that have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Minsu Kim , Jeong Hun Yeo , Yong Man Ro

Sentence embedding models play a key role in various Natural Language Processing tasks, such as in Topic Modeling, Document Clustering and Recommendation Systems. However, these models rely heavily on parallel data, which can be scarce for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Fred Philippy , Siwen Guo , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

We present LipDiffuser, a conditional diffusion model for lip-to-speech generation synthesizing natural and intelligible speech directly from silent video recordings. Our approach leverages the magnitude-preserving ablated diffusion model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Julius Richter , Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Automatic lip-reading (ALR) aims to automatically transcribe spoken content from a speaker's silent lip motion captured in video. Current mainstream lip-reading approaches only use a single visual encoder to model input videos of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 He Wang , Pengcheng Guo , Xucheng Wan , Huan Zhou , Lei Xie

Lip reading aims to predict spoken language by analyzing lip movements. Despite advancements in lip reading technologies, performance degrades when models are applied to unseen speakers due to their sensitivity to variations in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jeong Hun Yeo , Chae Won Kim , Hyunjun Kim , Hyeongseop Rha , Seunghee Han , Wen-Huang Cheng , Yong Man Ro

Lipreading, i.e. speech recognition from visual-only recordings of a speaker's face, can be achieved with a processing pipeline based solely on neural networks, yielding significantly better accuracy than conventional methods. Feed-forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Michael Wand , Jan Koutník , Jürgen Schmidhuber

We propose a new approach for learning contextualised cross-lingual word embeddings based on a small parallel corpus (e.g. a few hundred sentence pairs). Our method obtains word embeddings via an LSTM encoder-decoder model that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Takashi Wada , Tomoharu Iwata , Yuji Matsumoto , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

Many people with some form of hearing loss consider lipreading as their primary mode of day-to-day communication. However, finding resources to learn or improve one's lipreading skills can be challenging. This is further exacerbated in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Aditya Agarwal , Bipasha Sen , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Vinay Namboodiri , C. V Jawahar

Diffusion models have achieved great success in modeling continuous data modalities such as images, audio, and video, but have seen limited use in discrete domains such as language. Recent attempts to adapt diffusion to language have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Chao Wan , Eliot Shekhtman , Kilian Q. Weinberger

This paper presents an efficient visual speech encoder for lip reading. While most recent lip reading studies have been based on the ResNet architecture and have achieved significant success, they are not sufficiently suitable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Young-Hu Park , Rae-Hong Park , Hyung-Min Park

Today's Automatic Speech Recognition systems only rely on acoustic signals and often don't perform well under noisy conditions. Performing multi-modal speech recognition - processing acoustic speech signals and lip-reading video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Matthijs Van keirsbilck , Bert Moons , Marian Verhelst

In this paper, we propose a neural end-to-end system for voice preserving, lip-synchronous translation of videos. The system is designed to combine multiple component models and produces a video of the original speaker speaking in the…

While speech recognition has seen a surge in interest and research over the last decade, most machine learning models for speech recognition either require large training datasets or lots of storage and memory. Combined with the prominence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yonatan Alon