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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

Self-supervised speech pre-training methods have developed rapidly in recent years, which show to be very effective for many near-field single-channel speech tasks. However, far-field multichannel speech processing is suffering from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Qiushi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Yuchen Hu , Lirong Dai

Cross-lingual self-supervised learning has been a growing research topic in the last few years. However, current works only explored the use of audio signals to create representations. In this work, we study cross-lingual self-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andreas Zinonos , Alexandros Haliassos , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) aims to infer speech into text depending on lip movements alone. As it focuses on visual information to model the speech, its performance is inherently sensitive to personal lip appearances and movements, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Minsu Kim , Hyung-Il Kim , Yong Man Ro

This paper presents XLSR which learns cross-lingual speech representations by pretraining a single model from the raw waveform of speech in multiple languages. We build on wav2vec 2.0 which is trained by solving a contrastive task over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Alexis Conneau , Alexei Baevski , Ronan Collobert , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Michael Auli

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) stands at the intersection of computer vision and speech recognition, aiming to interpret spoken content from visual cues. A prominent challenge in VSR is the presence of homophenes-visually similar lip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Young Jin Ahn , Jungwoo Park , Sangha Park , Jonghyun Choi , Kee-Eung Kim

This paper presents an audio visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) system using a Transformer-based architecture. We particularly focus on the scene context provided by the visual information, to ground the ASR. We extract…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Aparna Khare , Shiva Sundaram

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

In this paper, we present a method for learning discrete linguistic units by incorporating vector quantization layers into neural models of visually grounded speech. We show that our method is capable of capturing both word-level and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 David Harwath , Wei-Ning Hsu , James Glass

Humans are adept at leveraging visual cues from lip movements for recognizing speech in adverse listening conditions. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models follow similar approach to achieve robust speech recognition in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Maxime Burchi , Krishna C. Puvvada , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg , Radu Timofte

Visual speech recognition is a challenging research problem with a particular practical application of aiding audio speech recognition in noisy scenarios. Multiple camera setups can be beneficial for the visual speech recognition systems in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Marina Zimmermann , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Spoken language recognition (SLR) is the task of automatically identifying the language present in a speech signal. Existing SLR models are either too computationally expensive or too large to run effectively on devices with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Oriol Nieto , Zeyu Jin , Franck Dernoncourt , Justin Salamon

Recently reported state-of-the-art results in visual speech recognition (VSR) often rely on increasingly large amounts of video data, while the publicly available transcribed video datasets are limited in size. In this paper, for the first…

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

Large language models (LLMs) have recently achieved impressive results in speech recognition across multiple modalities, including Auditory Speech Recognition (ASR), Visual Speech Recognition (VSR), and Audio-Visual Speech Recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Umberto Cappellazzo , Xubo Liu , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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

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…

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 work presents an extensive and detailed study on Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) for five widely spoken languages: Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, and French. We have collected large-scale datasets for each language except…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sanath Narayan , Yasser Abdelaziz Dahou Djilali , Ankit Singh , Eustache Le Bihan , Hakim Hacid

With recent progress in joint modeling of visual and textual representations, Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved impressive performance on many multimodal downstream tasks. However, the requirement for expensive annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zirui Wang , Jiahui Yu , Adams Wei Yu , Zihang Dai , Yulia Tsvetkov , Yuan Cao