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The identification of sound sources is a common problem in acoustics. Different parameters are sought, among these are signal and position of the sources. We present an adjoint-based approach for sound source identification, which employs…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Mathias Lemke , Lewin Stein

Acoustic Word Embeddings (AWEs) improve the efficiency of speech retrieval tasks such as Spoken Term Detection (STD) and Keyword Spotting (KWS). However, existing approaches suffer from limitations, including unimodal supervision, disjoint…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ramesh Gundluru , Shubham Gupta , Sri Rama Murty K

Word alignment is an important natural language processing task that indicates the correspondence between natural languages. Recently, unsupervised learning of log-linear models for word alignment has received considerable attention as it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Yang Liu , Maosong Sun

We tackle the problem of audiovisual scene analysis for weakly-labeled data. To this end, we build upon our previous audiovisual representation learning framework to perform object classification in noisy acoustic environments and integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Sanjeel Parekh , Alexey Ozerov , Slim Essid , Ngoc Duong , Patrick Pérez , Gaël Richard

This paper presents a solution to the challenges faced by contrastive learning in sequential recommendation systems. In particular, it addresses the issue of false negative, which limits the effectiveness of recommendation algorithms. By…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jaeheyoung Jeon , Jung Hyun Ryu , Jewoong Cho , Myungjoo Kang

Modeling various aspects that make a music piece unique is a challenging task, requiring the combination of multiple sources of information. Deep learning is commonly used to obtain representations using various sources of information, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Andres Ferraro , Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Yuntae Kim , Dmitry Bogdanov

This paper presents a whitening-based contrastive learning method for sentence embedding learning (WhitenedCSE), which combines contrastive learning with a novel shuffled group whitening. Generally, contrastive learning pulls distortions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Wenjie Zhuo , Yifan Sun , Xiaohan Wang , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif

We address the problem of learning self-supervised representations from unlabeled image collections. Unlike existing approaches that attempt to learn useful features by maximizing similarity between augmented versions of each input image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha

Medical contrastive vision-language pre-training (VLP) has demonstrated significant potential in improving performance on downstream tasks. Traditional approaches typically employ contrastive learning, treating paired image-report samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Phuoc-Nguyen Bui , Toan Duc Nguyen , Junghyun Bum , Duc-Tai Le , Hyunseung Choo

Efficiently retrieving specific instrument timbres from audio mixtures remains a challenge in digital music production. This paper introduces a contrastive learning framework for musical instrument retrieval, enabling direct querying of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Gwendal Le Vaillant , Yannick Molle

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, ultrasound has emerged as an effective tool for bedside monitoring of patients. Due to this, a large amount of lung ultrasound scans have been made available which can be used for AI based diagnosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-20 Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare , Hai V. Tran , Bennett P deBoisblanc , Ricardo Luis Rodriguez , John Michael Galeotti

Fine-grained classification involves dealing with datasets with larger number of classes with subtle differences between them. Guiding the model to focus on differentiating dimensions between these commonly confusable classes is key to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Varsha Suresh , Desmond C. Ong

The effectiveness of contrastive learning technology in natural language processing tasks is yet to be explored and analyzed. How to construct positive and negative samples correctly and reasonably is the core challenge of contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Nankai Lin , Guanqiu Qin , Jigang Wang , Aimin Yang , Dong Zhou

A long-standing goal in the field of sensory substitution is to enable sound perception for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people by visualizing audio content. Different from existing models that translate to hand sign language, between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Chunjin Song , Yuchi Zhang , Willis Peng , Parmis Mohaghegh , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

Contrastive learning is a powerful technique for discovering meaningful data representations by optimizing objectives based on $\textit{contrastive information}$, often given as a set of weighted triplets $\{(x_i, y_i^+, z_{i}^-)\}_{i =…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jingming Yan , Yiyuan Luo , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Ioannis Panageas , Parnian Shahkar , Stelios Stavroulakis

Spatial audio is an essential medium to audiences for 3D visual and auditory experience. However, the recording devices and techniques are expensive or inaccessible to the general public. In this work, we propose a self-supervised audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Yu-Ding Lu , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Yu Tseng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this paper, we present a framework for contrastive learning for audio representations, in a self supervised frame work without access to any ground truth labels. The core idea in self supervised contrastive learning is to map an audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Prateek Verma , Julius Smith

Dense correspondence across semantically related images has been extensively studied, but still faces two challenges: 1) large variations in appearance, scale and pose exist even for objects from the same category, and 2) labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Taihong Xiao , Sifei Liu , Shalini De Mello , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

While there has been much recent progress using deep learning techniques to separate speech and music audio signals, these systems typically require large collections of isolated sources during the training process. When extending audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Fatemeh Pishdadian , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux