Surface Learning with Applications to Lip-Reading

TitleSurface Learning with Applications to Lip-Reading
Publication TypeTechnical Report
Year of Publication1994
AuthorsBregler, C., & Omohundro S.
Other Numbers871
Abstract

Most connectionist research has focused on learning mappings from one space to another (e.g. classification and regression). This paper introduces the more general task of learning constraint surfaces. It describes a simple but powerful architecture for learning and manipulating nonlinear surfaces from data. We demonstrate the technique on low dimensional synthetic surfaces and compare it to nearest neighbor approaches. We then show its utility in learning the space of lip images in a system for improving speech recognition by lip reading. This learned surface is used to improve the visual tracking performance during recognition.

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ftp/global/pub/techreports/1994/tr-94-001.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

ICSI Technical Report TR-94-001

Abbreviated Authors

C. Bregler and S. Omohundro

ICSI Publication Type

Technical Report