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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2016.14.8.233

Lip Reading Method Using CNN for Utterance Period Detection  

Kim, Yong-Ki (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Lim, Jong Gwan (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST)
Kim, Mi-Hye (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.14, no.8, 2016 , pp. 233-243 More about this Journal
Abstract
Due to speech recognition problems in noisy environment, Audio Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) system, which combines speech information and visual information, has been proposed since the mid-1990s,. and lip reading have played significant role in the AVSR System. This study aims to enhance recognition rate of utterance word using only lip shape detection for efficient AVSR system. After preprocessing for lip region detection, Convolution Neural Network (CNN) techniques are applied for utterance period detection and lip shape feature vector extraction, and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are then used for the recognition. As a result, the utterance period detection results show 91% of success rates, which are higher performance than general threshold methods. In the lip reading recognition, while user-dependent experiment records 88.5%, user-independent experiment shows 80.2% of recognition rates, which are improved results compared to the previous studies.
Keywords
Image Processing; AVSR; Lip Reading; Motion Segmentation; DNN;
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