Fine-Grained Grounding for Multimodal Speech Recognition

Tejas Srinivasan, Ramon Sanabria, Florian Metze, Desmond Elliott


Abstract
Multimodal automatic speech recognition systems integrate information from images to improve speech recognition quality, by grounding the speech in the visual context. While visual signals have been shown to be useful for recovering entities that have been masked in the audio, these models should be capable of recovering a broader range of word types. Existing systems rely on global visual features that represent the entire image, but localizing the relevant regions of the image will make it possible to recover a larger set of words, such as adjectives and verbs. In this paper, we propose a model that uses finer-grained visual information from different parts of the image, using automatic object proposals. In experiments on the Flickr8K Audio Captions Corpus, we find that our model improves over approaches that use global visual features, that the proposals enable the model to recover entities and other related words, such as adjectives, and that improvements are due to the model’s ability to localize the correct proposals.
Anthology ID:
2020.findings-emnlp.242
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
Month:
November
Year:
2020
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Online
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Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2667–2677
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.242
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.242
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Tejas Srinivasan, Ramon Sanabria, Florian Metze, and Desmond Elliott. 2020. Fine-Grained Grounding for Multimodal Speech Recognition. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 2667–2677, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Fine-Grained Grounding for Multimodal Speech Recognition (Srinivasan et al., Findings 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.242.pdf
Code
 tejas1995/MultimodalASR
Data
SPEECH-COCO