Speaker-Independent Visual Speech Recognition with the Inception V3 Model

Timothy Israel Santos, Andrew Abel, Nick Wilson, Yan Xu

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Abstract

The natural process of understanding speech involves combining auditory and visual cues. CNN based lip reading systems have become very popular in recent years. However, many of these systems consider lipreading to be a black box problem, with limited detailed performance analysis. In this paper, we performed transfer learning by training the Inception v3 CNN model, which has pre-trained weights produced from IMAGENET, with the GRID corpus, delivering good speech recognition results, with 0.61 precision, 0.53 recall, and 0.51 F1-score. The lip reading model was able to automatically learn pertinent features, demonstrated using visualisation, and achieve speaker-independent results comparable to human lip readers on the GRID corpus. We also identify limitations that match those of humans, therefore limiting potential deep learning performance in real world situations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2021 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages613-620
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781728170664
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jan 2021
Event2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2021 - Virtual, Shenzhen, China
Duration: 19 Jan 202122 Jan 2021

Publication series

Name2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2021 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Shenzhen
Period19/01/2122/01/21

Keywords

  • Deep Learning
  • Lip-reading
  • Visual Speech Recognition

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