Lip-reading is a process of interpreting speech by visually analysing lip movements.Recent research in this area has shifted from simple word recognition to lip-reading sentences in the wild.This paper attempts to use...Lip-reading is a process of interpreting speech by visually analysing lip movements.Recent research in this area has shifted from simple word recognition to lip-reading sentences in the wild.This paper attempts to use phonemes as a classification schema for lip-reading sentences to explore an alternative schema and to enhance system performance.Different classification schemas have been investigated,including characterbased and visemes-based schemas.The visual front-end model of the system consists of a Spatial-Temporal(3D)convolution followed by a 2D ResNet.Transformers utilise multi-headed attention for phoneme recognition models.For the language model,a Recurrent Neural Network is used.The performance of the proposed system has been testified with the BBC Lip Reading Sentences 2(LRS2)benchmark dataset.Compared with the state-of-the-art approaches in lip-reading sentences,the proposed system has demonstrated an improved performance by a 10%lower word error rate on average under varying illumination ratios.展开更多
文摘Lip-reading is a process of interpreting speech by visually analysing lip movements.Recent research in this area has shifted from simple word recognition to lip-reading sentences in the wild.This paper attempts to use phonemes as a classification schema for lip-reading sentences to explore an alternative schema and to enhance system performance.Different classification schemas have been investigated,including characterbased and visemes-based schemas.The visual front-end model of the system consists of a Spatial-Temporal(3D)convolution followed by a 2D ResNet.Transformers utilise multi-headed attention for phoneme recognition models.For the language model,a Recurrent Neural Network is used.The performance of the proposed system has been testified with the BBC Lip Reading Sentences 2(LRS2)benchmark dataset.Compared with the state-of-the-art approaches in lip-reading sentences,the proposed system has demonstrated an improved performance by a 10%lower word error rate on average under varying illumination ratios.
