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17 papers

eess.AS2026

VIB-AVSR: Variational Information Bottleneck for Noise-Robust LLM-Based Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

Piyush Arora, Navlika Singh, Umberto Cappellazzo +2

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition takes two input modalities, acoustic and visual streams, where visual information from lip movements aids recognition when audio is noisy. Recently,…

eess.AS2026

Dr. SHAP-AV: Decoding Relative Modality Contributions via Shapley Attribution in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

Umberto Cappellazzo, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) leverages both acoustic and visual information for robust recognition under noise. However, how models balance these modalities remains uncle…

eess.AS2026

Assessing True Generalisability of Audio-Visual Speech Recognisers

Zhaofeng Lin, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic +1

Current Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) models achieve near-perfect performance on the standard LRS3 benchmark, raising concerns of adaptive overfitting. To systematically a…

cs.CV2026

FlashLips: 100-FPS Mask-Free Latent Lip-Sync using Reconstruction Instead of Diffusion or GANs

Andreas Zinonos, Michał Stypułkowski, Antoni Bigata +3

We present FlashLips, a two-stage, mask-free lip-sync system that decouples lips control from rendering and achieves real-time performance, with our U-Net variant running at over 1…

cs.CV2026

Pay Attention to CTC: Fast and Robust Pseudo-Labelling for Unified Speech Recognition

Alexandros Haliassos, Rodrigo Mira, Stavros Petridis

Unified Speech Recognition (USR) has emerged as a semi-supervised framework for training a single model for audio, visual, and audiovisual speech recognition, achieving state-of-th…

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Mitigating Attention Sinks and Massive Activations in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with LLMs

Anand, Umberto Cappellazzo, Stavros Petridis +1

Large language models (LLMs) have recently advanced auditory speech recognition (ASR), visual speech recognition (VSR), and audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR). However, underst…