The Telegraph My details My newsletters Logout Upgrade to Premium My details My newsletters Logout The Telegraph Lip-reading artificial intelligence could help police fight crime 24 March 2016 • 5:59pm If the lip-reading technology had been used during the 2006 World Cup Final, when Zinedine Zidane was given a red card for headbutting Marco Materazzi, the outcome of the game could have been different.
 Closer analysis of the event revealed that Zidane responded to Materazzi insulting his family.
 "If we'd had live lip-reading technology they probably would have both been red carded," said Dr Helen Bear, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in Norwich who has developed a lip-reading artificial intelligence program.
 The new technology can lip-read better than humans could help solve crimes by analysing speech in CCTV footage.
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 We’ve still got more ideas for how we can improve the research further," said Dr Bear.
 Dr Richard Harvey, another researcher who worked on the technology, said: "Lip-reading is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence so it’s great to make progress on one of the trickier aspects, which is how to train machines to recognise the appearance and shape of human lips.
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