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First experiments in audio/video features for phoneme recognition Petr Motl cek FIT VUT Brno, motlicek@fit.vutbr.cz M4 meeting in Prague, January 22nd - 23rd 2004 Introduction Data: M4 IDIAP, 41 min., audio-video data (training,


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First experiments in audio/video features for phoneme recognition

Petr Motl´ ıˇ cek

FIT VUT Brno, motlicek@fit.vutbr.cz

M4 meeting in Prague, January 22nd - 23rd 2004

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Introduction

  • Data: M4 – IDIAP, 41 min., audio-video data (training, testing).
  • Labels: 47 phoneme categories, obtained by forced alignment (models on

ICSI data, adapted on M4 data).

  • Audio: Beam-formed recordings, 16kHz.
  • Video: Cut off head positions.
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Audio preprocessing

  • Fs = 16kHz, frame-rate 100Hz, 20ms long frames of MFB log energies.

Video preprocessing

  • Frame-rate 25Hz, RGB frames 70x70 points.
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Bimodal speech recognition system

Neural Net

Recognition results

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 −−−> time

Feature

scalization Resize Edge calculation 2D−cross correlation LPF 2D − DCT Maximum Square cropping

fusion

Acoustic features (23 dim., 100Hz) Audio signal (16kHz) (25Hz) Visual signal Visual features Visual features

Interpolation parameterization Visual parameterization Acoustic

Gray (16 dim., 25Hz) (16 dim., 25Hz) (39ddim., 100Hz) features Acoustic−visual

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Recognition results - Accuracy

Acoustic [%] Visual [%] Acoustic-Visual [%] Phonemes 31.05 12.15 31.33 VAD 94.04 83.79 94.12

  • 0 (83%)

96.86 99.62 96.89

  • 1 (17%)

79.32 1.44 79.71

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Problems & Current focus

  • More data for acoustic-visual experiments.
  • Incorporation of robust mouth detection algorithm.
  • Compensation algorithms to reduce lighting variations, rotation, . . . .
  • LDA - to reduce dimensionality and improve discrimination among the speech

classes.