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Deep Learning for Environmentally Robust Speech Recognition: An Overview of Recent Developments
Eliminating the negative effect of non-stationary environmental noise is a
long-standing research topic for automatic speech recognition that stills
remains an important challenge. Data-driven supervised approaches, including
ones based on deep neural networks, have recently emerged as potential
alternatives to traditional unsupervised approaches and with sufficient
training, can alleviate the shortcomings of the unsupervised methods in various
real-life acoustic environments. In this light, we review recently developed,
representative deep learning approaches for tackling non-stationary additive
and convolutional degradation of speech with the aim of providing guidelines
for those involved in the development of environmentally robust speech
recognition systems. We separately discuss single- and multi-channel techniques
developed for the front-end and back-end of speech recognition systems, as well
as joint front-end and back-end training frameworks
Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Robust Speech Recognition
This paper describes the extension and optimization of our previous work on
very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for effective recognition of
noisy speech in the Aurora 4 task. The appropriate number of convolutional
layers, the sizes of the filters, pooling operations and input feature maps are
all modified: the filter and pooling sizes are reduced and dimensions of input
feature maps are extended to allow adding more convolutional layers.
Furthermore appropriate input padding and input feature map selection
strategies are developed. In addition, an adaptation framework using joint
training of very deep CNN with auxiliary features i-vector and fMLLR features
is developed. These modifications give substantial word error rate reductions
over the standard CNN used as baseline. Finally the very deep CNN is combined
with an LSTM-RNN acoustic model and it is shown that state-level weighted log
likelihood score combination in a joint acoustic model decoding scheme is very
effective. On the Aurora 4 task, the very deep CNN achieves a WER of 8.81%,
further 7.99% with auxiliary feature joint training, and 7.09% with LSTM-RNN
joint decoding.Comment: accepted by SLT 201
Deep Learning for Single Image Super-Resolution: A Brief Review
Single image super-resolution (SISR) is a notoriously challenging ill-posed
problem, which aims to obtain a high-resolution (HR) output from one of its
low-resolution (LR) versions. To solve the SISR problem, recently powerful deep
learning algorithms have been employed and achieved the state-of-the-art
performance. In this survey, we review representative deep learning-based SISR
methods, and group them into two categories according to their major
contributions to two essential aspects of SISR: the exploration of efficient
neural network architectures for SISR, and the development of effective
optimization objectives for deep SISR learning. For each category, a baseline
is firstly established and several critical limitations of the baseline are
summarized. Then representative works on overcoming these limitations are
presented based on their original contents as well as our critical
understandings and analyses, and relevant comparisons are conducted from a
variety of perspectives. Finally we conclude this review with some vital
current challenges and future trends in SISR leveraging deep learning
algorithms.Comment: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM
Combining Residual Networks with LSTMs for Lipreading
We propose an end-to-end deep learning architecture for word-level visual
speech recognition. The system is a combination of spatiotemporal
convolutional, residual and bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory networks. We
train and evaluate it on the Lipreading In-The-Wild benchmark, a challenging
database of 500-size target-words consisting of 1.28sec video excerpts from BBC
TV broadcasts. The proposed network attains word accuracy equal to 83.0,
yielding 6.8 absolute improvement over the current state-of-the-art, without
using information about word boundaries during training or testing.Comment: Submitted to Interspeech 201
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