Papers with AVSR
Two Heads Are Better Than One: Audio-Visual Speech Error Correction with Dual Hypotheses (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances have introduced GER frameworks that utilize LLMs to refine ASR outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that allows a large language model to compose independent N-best hypotheses from separate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and visual speech recognition models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves 57.7% error rate gain over standard ASR baseline, compared to single-stream approaches that achieve only 10% gain. |
Leveraging Unimodal Self-Supervised Learning for Multimodal Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for audio-visual speech recognition use extra data to increase performance . a recent study shows that the use of unimodal self-supervised learning improves performance on multimodal tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to use unimodal self-supervised learning to train AVSR models on unlabelled unilateral data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on lip reading sentences 2 by 30% even without an external language model. |
MIR-GAN: Refining Frame-Level Modality-Invariant Representations with Adversarial Network for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) leverages multimodal signals to understand human speech. |
| Approach: | They propose an adversarial network to refine frame-level modality-invariant representations to bridge the distribution gap between modalities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art on public benchmarks LRS3 and LRS2 on the modalities of AVSR. |
Hearing Lips in Noise: Universal Viseme-Phoneme Mapping and Transfer for Robust Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing efforts to improve robustness of audio-visual speech recognition with visual information focus on audio modality . current approaches introduce noise adaptation techniques to improve reliability of AVSR task . |
| Approach: | They propose a visual-invariant modality to strengthen robustness of audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) it can adapt to any testing noises without dependence on noisy training data, a.k.a., unsupervised noise adaptation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-arts on visual speech recognition task under various noisy and clean conditions. |
MMS-LLaMA: Efficient LLM-based Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with Minimal Multimodal Speech Tokens (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent Large Language Model (LLM) based AVSR systems incur high computational costs due to high temporal resolution of audio-visual speech. |
| Approach: | They propose an efficient multimodal speech LLM framework that minimizes token length while preserving essential linguistic content. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach reduces token usage by 86% while using only 3.5 tokens per second. |