Developments in dynamic contour tracking permit sparse representation of the outlines of moving contours. Given the increasing computing power of general-purpose workstations it is now possible to track human faces and parts of faces in real-time without special hardware. This paper describes a real-time lip tracker that uses a Kalman filter based dynamic contour to track the outline of the lips. Two alternative lip trackers, one that tracks lips from a profile view and the other from a frontal view, were developed to extract visual speech recognition features from the lip contour. In both cases, visual features have been incorporated into an acoustic automatic speech recogniser. Tests on small isolated-word vocabularies using a dynamic time warping based audiovisual recogniser demonstrate that real-time, contour-based lip tracking can be used to supplement acoustic-only speech recognisers enabling robust recognition of speech in the presence of acoustic noise.
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Kaucic, R., Dalton, B., & Blake, A. (1996). Real-time lip tracking for audio-visual speech recognition applications. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 1065, pp. 376–387). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61123-1_154
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