AVATAR submission to the Ego4D AV Transcription Challenge
In this report, we describe our submission to the Ego4D AudioVisual (AV) Speech Transcription Challenge 2022. Our pipeline is based on AVATAR, a state of the art encoder-decoder model for AV-ASR that performs early fusion of spectrograms and RGB images. We describe the datasets, experimental settings and ablations. Our final method achieves a WER of 68.40 on the challenge test set, outperforming the baseline by 43.7
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