Sub-word Level Lip Reading With Visual Attention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07603v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:59:57 GMT
• Title: Sub-word Level Lip Reading With Visual Attention
• Authors: Prajwal K R, Triantafyllos Afouras, Andrew Zisserman
• Abstract summary: We focus on the unique challenges encountered in lip reading and propose tailored solutions. We obtain state-of-the-art results on the challenging LRS2 and LRS3 benchmarks when training on public datasets. Our best model achieves 22.6% word error rate on the LRS2 dataset, a performance unprecedented for lip reading models.
• Score: 88.89348882036512
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The goal of this paper is to learn strong lip reading models that can recognise speech in silent videos. Most prior works deal with the open-set visual speech recognition problem by adapting existing automatic speech recognition techniques on top of trivially pooled visual features. Instead, in this paper we focus on the unique challenges encountered in lip reading and propose tailored solutions. To that end we make the following contributions: (1) we propose an attention-based pooling mechanism to aggregate visual speech representations; (2) we use sub-word units for lip reading for the first time and show that this allows us to better model the ambiguities of the task; (3) we propose a training pipeline that balances the lip reading performance with other key factors such as data and compute efficiency. Following the above, we obtain state-of-the-art results on the challenging LRS2 and LRS3 benchmarks when training on public datasets, and even surpass models trained on large-scale industrial datasets by using an order of magnitude less data. Our best model achieves 22.6% word error rate on the LRS2 dataset, a performance unprecedented for lip reading models, significantly reducing the performance gap between lip reading and automatic speech recognition.

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