Mixspeech: Cross-modality Self-learning With Audio-visual Stream Mixup For Visual Speech Translation And Recognition | Awesome LLM Papers

Mixspeech: Cross-modality Self-learning With Audio-visual Stream Mixup For Visual Speech Translation And Recognition

Xize Cheng, Linjun Li, Tao Jin, Rongjie Huang, Wang Lin, Zehan Wang, Huangdai Liu, Ye Wang, Aoxiong Yin, Zhou Zhao Β· 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Β· 2023

Multi-media communications facilitate global interaction among people. However, despite researchers exploring cross-lingual translation techniques such as machine translation and audio speech translation to overcome language barriers, there is still a shortage of cross-lingual studies on visual speech. This lack of research is mainly due to the absence of datasets containing visual speech and translated text pairs. In this paper, we present \textbf{AVMuST-TED}, the first dataset for \textbf{A}udio-\textbf{V}isual \textbf{Mu}ltilingual \textbf{S}peech \textbf{T}ranslation, derived from \textbf{TED} talks. Nonetheless, visual speech is not as distinguishable as audio speech, making it difficult to develop a mapping from source speech phonemes to the target language text. To address this issue, we propose MixSpeech, a cross-modality self-learning framework that utilizes audio speech to regularize the training of visual speech tasks. To further minimize the cross-modality gap and its impact on knowledge transfer, we suggest adopting mixed speech, which is created by interpolating audio and visual streams, along with a curriculum learning strategy to adjust the mixing ratio as needed. MixSpeech enhances speech translation in noisy environments, improving BLEU scores for four languages on AVMuST-TED by +1.4 to +4.2. Moreover, it achieves state-of-the-art performance in lip reading on CMLR (11.1%), LRS2 (25.5%), and LRS3 (28.0%).

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