A Multimodal German Dataset for Automatic Lip Reading Systems and Transfer Learning

Gerald Schwiebert, Cornelius Weber, Leyuan Qu, Henrique Siqueira, Stefan Wermter


Abstract
Large datasets as required for deep learning of lip reading do not exist in many languages. In this paper we present the dataset GLips (German Lips) consisting of 250,000 publicly available videos of the faces of speakers of the Hessian Parliament, which was processed for word-level lip reading using an automatic pipeline. The format is similar to that of the English language LRW (Lip Reading in the Wild) dataset, with each video encoding one word of interest in a context of 1.16 seconds duration, which yields compatibility for studying transfer learning between both datasets. By training a deep neural network, we investigate whether lip reading has language-independent features, so that datasets of different languages can be used to improve lip reading models. We demonstrate learning from scratch and show that transfer learning from LRW to GLips and vice versa improves learning speed and performance, in particular for the validation set.
Anthology ID:
2022.lrec-1.737
Volume:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
Address:
Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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6829–6836
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.737
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Gerald Schwiebert, Cornelius Weber, Leyuan Qu, Henrique Siqueira, and Stefan Wermter. 2022. A Multimodal German Dataset for Automatic Lip Reading Systems and Transfer Learning. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6829–6836, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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A Multimodal German Dataset for Automatic Lip Reading Systems and Transfer Learning (Schwiebert et al., LREC 2022)
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Data
GLipsLRW