• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.51-56
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• 2001

Recent researches have been focusing on jointly using lip motions and speech for reliable speech recognitions in noisy environments. To this end, this paper proposes the method of combining the visual speech recognizer and the conventional speech recognizer with each output properly weighted. In particular, we propose the method of autonomously determining the weights, depending on the amounts of noise in the speech. The correlations between adjacent speech samples and the residual errors of the LPC analysis are used for this determination. Simulation results show that the speech recognizer combined in this way provides the recognition performance of 83 ％ even in severely noisy environments.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.259-260
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• 2006

Since audio speech recognition is affected by noise in real environment, visual speech recognition is used to support speech recognition. For the visual speech recognition, this paper suggests the extraction of lip-feature using two types of image segmentation and reduced ASM. Input images are transformed to YCbCr based images and lips are segmented using the contrast of Y/Cb/Cr between lip and face. Subsequently, lip-shape model trained by PCA is placed on segmented lip region and then lip features are extracted using ASM.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.123-132
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• 2001

In recent years research on HCI technology has been very active and speech recognition is being used as its typical method. Its recognition, however, is deteriorated with the increase of surrounding noise. To solve this problem, studies concerning the multimodal HCI are being briskly made. This paper describes automated lipreading for bimodal speech recognition on the basis of image- and speech information. It employs audio-visual DB containing 1,074 words from 70 voice and tri-viseme as a recognition unit, and state tied HMM as a recognition model. Performance of automated recognition of 22 to 1,000 words are evaluated to achieve word recognition of 60.5% in terms of 22word recognizer.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.31-37
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• 1999

A bimodal speech recognition using visual and audio information has been proposed and researched to improve the performance of ASR(Automatic Speech Recognition) system in noisy environments. The integration method of two modalities can be usually classified into an early integration and a late integration. The early integration method includes a method using a fixed weight of lip parameters and a method using a variable weight according to speech SNR information. The 4 late integration methods are a method using audio and visual information independently, a method using speech optimal path, a method using lip optimal path and a way using speech SNR information. Among these 6 methods, the method using the fixed weight of lip parameter showed a better recognition rate.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.478-484
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• 2009

Automatic speech recognition(ASR) is attractive technique in trend these day that seek convenient life. Although many approaches have been proposed for ASR but the performance is still not good in noisy environment. Now-a-days in the state of art in speech recognition, ASR uses not only the audio information but also the visual information. In this paper, We present a novel lip detection method for visual speech recognition in mobile environment. In order to apply visual information to speech recognition, we need to extract exact lip regions. Because eye-detection is more easy than lip-detection, we firstly detect positions of left and right eyes, then locate lip region roughly. After that we apply K-means clustering technique to devide that region into groups, than two lip corners and lip center are detected by choosing biggest one among clustered groups. Finally, we have shown the effectiveness of the proposed method through the experiments based on samsung AVSR database.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.164-170
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• 2013

Recent years have been higher demands for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that are able to operate robustly in an acoustically noisy environment. This paper proposes an improved product hidden markov model (HMM) used for bimodal speech recognition. A two-dimensional training model is built based on dependently trained audio-HMM and visual-HMM, reflecting the asynchronous characteristics of the audio and video streams. A weight coefficient is introduced to adjust the weight of the video and audio streams automatically according to differences in the noise environment. Experimental results show that compared with other bimodal speech recognition approaches, this approach obtains better speech recognition performance.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.71-81
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• 2024

Recent advances in deep learning for speech and visual recognition have accelerated the development of multimodal speech recognition, yielding many innovative results. We introduce a Korean audiovisual speech recognition corpus. This dataset comprises approximately 150 h of manually transcribed and annotated audiovisual data supplemented with additional 2000 h of untranscribed videos collected from YouTube under the Creative Commons License. The dataset is intended to be freely accessible for unrestricted research purposes. Along with the corpus, we propose an open-source framework for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and audiovisual speech recognition (AVSR). We validate the effectiveness of the corpus with evaluations using state-of-the-art ASR and AVSR techniques, capitalizing on both pretrained models and fine-tuning processes. After fine-tuning, ASR and AVSR achieve character error rates of 11.1% and 18.9%, respectively. This error difference highlights the need for improvement in AVSR techniques. We expect that our corpus will be an instrumental resource to support improvements in AVSR.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.198-203
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• 2003

We develop the method of estimating the endpoints of speech by jointly using the lip motion (visual speech) and speech being included in multimedia data and then propose a new speech recognition system (SRS) based on that method. The endpoints of noisy speech are estimated as follows : For each test word, two kinds of endpoints are detected from visual speech and clean speech, respectively Their difference is made and then added to the endpoints of visual speech to estimate those for noisy speech. This estimation method for endpoints (i.e. speech interval) is applied to form a new SRS. The SRS differs from the convention alone in that each word model in the recognizer is provided an interval of speech not Identical but estimated respectively for the corresponding word. Simulation results show that the proposed method enables the endpoints to be accurately estimated regardless of the amount of noise and consequently achieves 8 o/o improvement in recognition rate.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.148-154
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• 2021

With the advent of context-aware computing, many attempts were made to understand emotions. Among these various attempts, Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a method of recognizing the speaker's emotions through speech information. The SER is successful in selecting distinctive 'features' and 'classifying' them in an appropriate way. In this paper, the performances of SER using neural network models (e.g., fully connected network (FCN), convolutional neural network (CNN)) with Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) are examined in terms of the accuracy and distribution of emotion recognition. For Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS) dataset, by tuning model parameters, a two-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (2D-CNN) model with MFCC showed the best performance with an average accuracy of 88.54% for 5 emotions, anger, happiness, calm, fear, and sadness, of men and women. In addition, by examining the distribution of emotion recognition accuracies for neural network models, the 2D-CNN with MFCC can expect an overall accuracy of 75% or more.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.233-243
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• 2016

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.