Machine Based Lip-Reading

15th January 2009, 7:00pm for 7:30pm

Dr Richard Harvey

UEA

If you have ever tried to chat someone up in a noisy bar or nightclub you will realise that everyone lipreads to some extent. However, as the Italian footballer Marco Materazzi discovered, not everyone lip-reads with the same skill. In this talk we will examine human lip reading and see how the skill might be implemented on a computer. We shall see that lip-reading is not just another kind of speech recognition and, because of this, lip-reading is turning out to be a problem of considerable scientific challenge.

Hotel Elizabeth, Copdock, Nr Ipswich
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