Speaker independent visual-only language identification

Newman, Jacob and Cox, Stephen (2010) Speaker independent visual-only language identification. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2010-03-14 - 2010-03-19.

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Abstract

We describe experiments in visual-only language identification (VLID), in which only lip shape, appearance and motion are used to determine the language of a spoken utterance. In previous work, we had shown that this is possible in speaker-dependent mode, i.e. identifying the language spoken by a multi-lingual speaker. Here, by appropriately modifying techniques that have been successful in audio language identification, we extend the work to discriminating two languages in speaker-independent mode. Our results indicate that even with viseme accuracy as low as about 34%, reasonable discrimination can be obtained. A simulation of degraded accuracy viseme recognition performance indicates that high VLID accuracy should be achievable with viseme recognition errors of the order of 50%.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Interactive Graphics and Audio Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Smart Emerging Technologies
Depositing User:	Nicola Talbot
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2011 09:47
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2023 00:58
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26045
DOI:	10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495071

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