  Several end-to-end deep learning approaches have been recently presented
which extract either audio or visual features from the input images or audio
signals and perform speech recognition. However, research on end-to-end
audiovisual models is very limited. In this work, we present an end-to-end
audiovisual model based on residual networks and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent
Units (BGRUs). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first audiovisual
fusion model which simultaneously learns to extract features directly from the
image pixels and audio waveforms and performs within-context word recognition
on a large publicly available dataset (LRW). The model consists of two streams,
one for each modality, which extract features directly from mouth regions and
raw waveforms. The temporal dynamics in each stream/modality are modeled by a
2-layer BGRU and the fusion of multiple streams/modalities takes place via
another 2-layer BGRU. A slight improvement in the classification rate over an
end-to-end audio-only and MFCC-based model is reported in clean audio
conditions and low levels of noise. In presence of high levels of noise, the
end-to-end audiovisual model significantly outperforms both audio-only models.
