Reading Lips In Software

SEWilco writes "The Register points out that Intel has released code for reading lips from a video image, Audio Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR). They do point out that better results would probably be achieved by combining video and audio recognition processing. I don't know if they have any patents, we all know some prior "art" from 2001, er.. 1968. HAL's accomplishment was also mentioned by CNN during 2001 in an article about this group's work."

Comments

The only hope for privacy:

[burgburgburg]

Thick mustaches.

Men and women, boys and girls. All with really thick, dirty, obscuring mustaches.

What is this world coming to?

Good or Evil?

[Blaine Hilton]

That's all we need, now everybody and his brother can easily create software applications to log everything. Security cameras record a lot of movements, but imagine hooking that up to lip readers and then being able to grep through all of that text output? Total Information Awareness here we come......

Go calculate something

No new taxes!

[Shadow Wrought]

Oh wait, that was a different lip reading session...

Woot, this is a godsend for us college students.

[yeoua]

Maybe now with a cluster at our finger tips and this sound visual lip analyser thing, we may be able to (finally) understand what all those foreign heavy accented professors are actually mumbling about...

And well, beats manual note taking if the computer can read the board and his mouth and his voice.

So computers can now talk to themselves (Re /.)

[skermit]

A couple months ago, a very fine article was posted to /. about work at MIT regarding speech-->video synthesis using pre-recorded syllables. This means in the near future we'll be able to have avatars which an communicate to other people by videophone and/or other computers should we wish to do so. I'm reposting the old link because it got /.'ed for about 2 months (the professor took down the link) before putting the vids back up. So check out the amazing work that's on the flip-side of this article.

http://cerboli.mit.edu:8000/research/mary101/resul ts/results.html

Not that 2001 ended up being very accurate...

[DeadScreenSky]

... but I think it is interesting that Arthur C. Clarke thought HAL reading lips was the only implausible scene in the film. You know, as opposed to the whole aliens thing. :P Just goes to show you the perils of trying to predict the future...

Re:Body language

[Suchetha]

simple.. you're posting on /. .. face it.. you're wasting your time

Suchetha