Viseme recognition experiment using context dependent hidden Markov models

Soonkyu Lee, Dongsuk Yook

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Abstract

Visual images synchronized with audio signals can provide user-friendly interface for man machine interactions. The visual speech can be represented as a sequence of visemes, which are the generic face images corresponding to particular sounds. We use HMMs (hidden Markov models) to convert audio signals to a sequence of visemes. In this paper, we compare two approaches in using HMMs. In the first approach, an HMM is trained for each triviseme which is a viseme with its left and right context, and the audio signals are directly recognized as a sequence of trivisemes. In the second approach, each triphone is modeled with an HMM, and a general triphone recognizer is used to produce a triphone sequence from the audio signals. The triviseme or triphone sequence is then converted to a viseme sequence. The performances of the two viseme recognition systems are evaluated on the TIMIT speech corpus.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2002 - 3rd International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsHujun Yin, Nigel Allinson, Richard Freeman, John Keane, Simon Hubbard
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages557-561
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9783540440253
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002
Event3rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2002 - Manchester, United Kingdom
Duration: 2002 Aug 122002 Aug 14

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2412
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other3rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2002
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityManchester
Period02/8/1202/8/14

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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