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We introduce Perception Encoder Audiovisual, PE-AV, a new family of encoders for audio and video understanding trained with scaled contrastive learning. Built on PE, PE-AV makes several key contributions to extend representations to audio,…

Image emotion classification (IEC) is a longstanding research field that has received increasing attention with the rapid progress of deep learning. Although recent advances have leveraged the knowledge encoded in pre-trained visual models,…

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State-of-the-art audio captioning methods typically use the encoder-decoder structure with pretrained audio neural networks (PANNs) as encoders for feature extraction. However, the convolution operation used in PANNs is limited in capturing…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Feiyang Xiao , Jian Guan , Qiaoxi Zhu , Wenwu Wang

Research on multi-modal contrastive learning strategies for audio and text has rapidly gained interest. Contrastively trained Audio-Language Models (ALMs), such as CLAP, which establish a unified representation across audio and language…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Anshuman Sinha , Camille Migozzi , Aubin Rey , Chao Zhang

Audio self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to learn general-purpose representations from large-scale unlabeled audio data. While recent advances have been driven mainly by generative reconstruction objectives, contrastive approaches remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hanxun Huang , Qizhou Wang , Xingjun Ma , Cihang Xie , Christopher Leckie , Sarah Erfani

Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has recently emerged as a method for making audio analysis more generalisable. Specifically, CLAP-style models are able to `answer' a diverse set of language queries, extending the capabilities…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xin Jing , Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Björn Schuller

Contrastive vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated excellent zero-shot capability across semantic recognition tasks, mainly attributed to the training on a large-scale I&1T (one Image with one Text) dataset. This kind of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhichao Yang , Leida Li , Pengfei Chen , Jinjian Wu , Giuseppe Valenzise

Spoken communication plays a central role in clinical workflows. In radiology, for example, most reports are created through dictation. Yet, nearly all medical AI systems rely exclusively on written text. In this work, we address this gap…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Lukas Buess , Jan Geier , David Bani-Harouni , Chantal Pellegrini , Matthias Keicher , Paula Andrea Perez-Toro , Nassir Navab , Andreas Maier , Tomas Arias-Vergara

Self-supervised audio representation learning offers an attractive alternative for obtaining generic audio embeddings, capable to be employed into various downstream tasks. Published approaches that consider both audio and words/tags…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen , Xavier Serra

Aesthetic image captioning (AIC) refers to the multi-modal task of generating critical textual feedbacks for photographs. While in natural image captioning (NIC), deep models are trained in an end-to-end manner using large curated datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Koustav Ghosal , Aakanksha Rana , Aljosa Smolic

Despite recent advancements, audio-text models still lag behind their image-text counterparts in scale and performance. In this paper, we propose to improve both the data scale and the training procedure of audio-text contrastive models.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ge Zhu , Jordan Darefsky , Zhiyao Duan

Multimodal learning from document data has achieved great success lately as it allows to pre-train semantically meaningful features as a prior into a learnable downstream task. In this paper, we approach the document classification problem…

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Webly supervised learning has attracted increasing attention for its effectiveness in exploring publicly accessible data at scale without manual annotation. However, most existing methods of learning with web datasets are faced with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yulei Qin , Xingyu Chen , Yunhang Shen , Chaoyou Fu , Yun Gu , Ke Li , Xing Sun , Rongrong Ji

Audio captioning is the novel task of general audio content description using free text. It is an intermodal translation task (not speech-to-text), where a system accepts as an input an audio signal and outputs the textual description (i.e.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Konstantinos Drossos , Samuel Lipping , Tuomas Virtanen

Multiple modalities for certain information provide a variety of perspectives on that information, which can improve the understanding of the information. Thus, it may be crucial to generate data of different modality from the existing data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-26 HaeChun Chung , JooYong Shim , Jong-Kook Kim

Recently introduced Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) bridges images and text by embedding them into a joint latent space. This opens the door to ample literature that aims to manipulate an input image by providing a textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chenliang Zhou , Fangcheng Zhong , Cengiz Oztireli

Multimodal models, such as the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model, have demonstrated remarkable success in aligning visual and linguistic representations. However, these models exhibit limitations when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hiroshi Sasaki

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has achieved remarkable performance in various multimodal tasks. However, it still struggles with compositional image-text matching, particularly in accurately associating objects with their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Qi Zhang , Yuxu Chen , Lei Deng , Lili Shen

Image Aesthetics Assessment (IAA) is a challenging task due to its subjective nature and expensive manual annotations. Recent large-scale vision-language models, such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), have shown their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Liwu Xu , Jinjin Xu , Yuzhe Yang , Xilu Wang , Yijie Huang , Yaqian Li

The process of transforming input images into corresponding textual explanations stands as a crucial and complex endeavor within the domains of computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we propose an innovative…

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