Machine learning, task automation and robotics are already widely used in business. These and other AI technologies are about to multiply, and we look at how organizations can best take advantage of them. In the movie '2001' I found the scariest moment was when astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole met in the EVA pod to discuss the artificially intelligent HAL 9000 computer's behavior - and HAL reads their lips. Science fiction? In the paper, researchers Joon Son Chung, of Oxford University, Andrew Senior, Oriol Vinyals, and Andrew Zisserman, of Google, tested an algorithm that bested professional human lip readers. Soon, surveillance videos may not only show your actions, but the content of your speech. Google's DeepMind The researchers used Google's Deep Mind neural network and trained it using thousands of hours of subtitled BBC television videos.
The videos showed a broad spectrum of people speaking in a wide variety of poses, activities, and lighting - thus the 'in the wild' designation. Lip reading is an active area of AI research, and this team is not the first to work on it. But by using thousands of hours of BBC videos, their algorithm achieved the best results yet. The videos were 120x120 pixel images, showing only the lips, sampled every 40 milliseconds.
In my case, impossible without lip-reading. More and more profoundly deaf use cochlear implants, which is a revolution: it helps a lot to understand speech, but it's still quite difficult over a. A new computer software program has the potential to lip-read more accurately than people and to help those with hearing loss, Oxford University researchers have found. AI lip-reading.
Results They found that a professional lip reader is able to correctly decipher less than one-quarter of the spoken words. Their WAS model (lips only) was able to decipher half of the spoken words, significantly better than professional lip readers.
The Storage Bits take There are many practical uses for machine lip reading, such as transcription in noisy contexts, dubbing and/or transcribing silent films, resolving multi-speaker concurrent speech, and improving automated speech recognition. But let's let our imaginations run wild.
With chatbots, and AI surpassing human intelligence someday this century, it's clear that humans will have to cover their mouths - as David and Frank should have - in order to have secure verbal communication during the coming war with our AI overlords. Or maybe we'll all just have to mumble.
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