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Self-supervised learning has attracted plenty of recent research interest. However, most works for self-supervision in speech are typically unimodal and there has been limited work that studies the interaction between audio and visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Abhinav Shukla , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Labeling data is often very time consuming and expensive, leaving us with a majority of unlabeled data. Self-supervised representation learning methods such as SimCLR (Chen et al., 2020) or BYOL (Grill et al., 2020) have been very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zhaohan Daniel Guo , Bernardo Avila Pires , Khimya Khetarpal , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

Auditory and visual signals usually present together and correlate with each other, not only in natural environments but also in clinical settings. However, the audio-visual modelling in the latter case can be more challenging, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jianbo Jiao , Mohammad Alsharid , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , Andrew Zisserman , J. Alison Noble

Audio representations for music information retrieval are typically learned via supervised learning in a task-specific fashion. Although effective at producing state-of-the-art results, this scheme lacks flexibility with respect to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Ilaria Manco , Emmanouil Benetos , Elio Quinton , Gyorgy Fazekas

The large amount of audiovisual content being shared online today has drawn substantial attention to the prospect of audiovisual self-supervised learning. Recent works have focused on each of these modalities separately, while others have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Pingchuan Ma , Rodrigo Mira , Stavros Petridis , Björn W. Schuller , Maja Pantic

Inspired by the humans' cognitive ability to generalise knowledge and skills, Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) targets at discovering general representations from large-scale data without requiring human annotations, which is an expensive and…

The goal of Automatic Voice Over (AVO) is to generate speech in sync with a silent video given its text script. Recent AVO frameworks built upon text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) have shown impressive results. However, the current AVO learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman , Mingyang Zhang , Haizhou Li

Understanding model uncertainty is important for many applications. We propose Bootstrap Your Own Variance (BYOV), combining Bootstrap Your Own Latent (BYOL), a negative-free Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) algorithm, with Bayes by Backprop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Polina Turishcheva , Jason Ramapuram , Sinead Williamson , Dan Busbridge , Eeshan Dhekane , Russ Webb

Unsupervised learning, a branch of machine learning that can operate on unlabelled data, has proven to be a powerful tool for data exploration and discovery in astronomy. As large surveys and new telescopes drive a rapid increase in data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-22 Koketso Mohale , Michelle Lochner

Inspired by the recent progress in self-supervised learning for computer vision, in this paper we introduce DeLoRes, a new general-purpose audio representation learning approach. Our main objective is to make our network learn…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sreyan Ghosh , Ashish Seth , and Deepak Mittal , Maneesh Singh , S. Umesh

Self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale datasets like AudioSet has become the dominant paradigm for audio representation learning. While the continuous influx of new, unlabeled audio presents an opportunity to enrich these static…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yizhou Zhang , Yuan Gao , Wangjin Zhou , Zicheng Yuan , Keisuke Imoto , Tatsuya Kawahara

Our objective is an audio-visual model for separating a single speaker from a mixture of sounds such as other speakers and background noise. Moreover, we wish to hear the speaker even when the visual cues are temporarily absent due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

The intuitive interaction between the audio and visual modalities is valuable for cross-modal self-supervised learning. This concept has been demonstrated for generic audiovisual tasks like video action recognition and acoustic scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Abhinav Shukla , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Recently, e-learning platforms have grown as a place where students can post doubts (as a snap taken with smart phones) and get them resolved in minutes. However, the significant increase in the number of student-posted doubts with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Vedant Sandeep Joshi , Sivanagaraja Tatinati , Yubo Wang

Multimodal large models have been recognized for their advantages in various performance and downstream tasks. The development of these models is crucial towards achieving general artificial intelligence in the future. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Sen Fang , Bowen Gao , Yangjian Wu , Teik Toe Teoh

Recently, a newly proposed self-supervised framework Bootstrap Your Own Latent (BYOL) seriously challenges the necessity of negative samples in contrastive learning frameworks. BYOL works like a charm despite the fact that it discards the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Haizhou Shi , Dongliang Luo , Siliang Tang , Jian Wang , Yueting Zhuang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently shown remarkable results in closing the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning. The idea is to learn robust features that are invariant to distortions of the input data. Despite its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Bac Nguyen , Stefan Uhlich , Fabien Cardinaux

Machine anomalous sound detection (ASD) is a valuable technique across various applications. However, its generalization performance is often limited due to challenges in data collection and the complexity of acoustic environments. Inspired…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bing Han , Anbai Jiang , Xinhu Zheng , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Jia Liu , Pingyi Fan , Yanmin Qian

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) demonstrate impressive general audio understanding, but once deployed, they are static and fail to improve with new real-world audio data. As traditional supervised fine-tuning is costly, we introduce a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Haoyu Zhang , Jiaxian Guo , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

We propose a novel self-supervised approach for learning audio and visual representations from unlabeled videos, based on their correspondence. The approach uses an attention mechanism to learn the relative importance of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Sudha Krishnamurthy