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In this paper we propose a multi-modal multi-correlation learning framework targeting at the task of audio-visual speech separation. Although previous efforts have been extensively put on combining audio and visual modalities, most of them…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaoyu Wang , Xiangyu Kong , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

Does popular music from the 60s sound different than that of the 90s? Prior study has shown that there would exist some variations of patterns and regularities related to instrumentation changes and growing loudness across multi-decadal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Qiqi He , Xuchen Song , Weituo Hao , Ju-Chiang Wang , Wei-Tsung Lu , Wei Li

Music genre classification has been widely studied in past few years for its various applications in music information retrieval. Previous works tend to perform unsatisfactorily, since those methods only use audio content or jointly use…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ganghui Ru , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Since we were babies, we intuitively develop the ability to correlate the input from different cognitive sensors such as vision, audio, and text. However, in machine learning, this cross-modal learning is a nontrivial task because different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Bin Duan , Wei Wang , Hao Tang , Hugo Latapie , Yan Yan

Semantic overlap among land-cover categories, highly imbalanced label distributions, and complex inter-class co-occurrence patterns constitute significant challenges for multi-label remote-sensing image retrieval. In this article,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Amna Amir , Erchan Aptoula

We present a multimodal framework to learn general audio representations from videos. Existing contrastive audio representation learning methods mainly focus on using the audio modality alone during training. In this work, we show that…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Luyu Wang , Pauline Luc , Adria Recasens , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aaron van den Oord

Automated Audio captioning (AAC) is a cross-modal task that generates natural language to describe the content of input audio. Most prior works usually extract single-modality acoustic features and are therefore sub-optimal for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Chen Chen , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Heqing Zou , Xiaofeng Qi , Eng Siong Chng

Music retrieval and recommendation applications often rely on content features encoded as embeddings, which provide vector representations of items in a music dataset. Numerous complementary embeddings can be derived from processing items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andres Ferraro , Jaehun Kim , Sergio Oramas , Andreas Ehmann , Fabien Gouyon

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Souhail Bakkali , Zuheng Ming , Mickael Coustaty , Marçal Rusiñol , Oriol Ramos Terrades

Music similarity retrieval is fundamental for managing and exploring relevant content from large collections in streaming platforms. This paper presents a novel cross-modal contrastive learning framework that leverages the open-ended nature…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Tristan Tsoi , Jiajun Deng , Yaolong Ju , Benno Weck , Holger Kirchhoff , Simon Lui

Linking sheet music images to audio recordings remains a key problem for the development of efficient cross-modal music retrieval systems. One of the fundamental approaches toward this task is to learn a cross-modal embedding space via deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Luis Carvalho , Tobias Washüttl , Gerhard Widmer

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is a multimodal neural network trained on (text, image) pairs to predict the most relevant text caption given an image. It has been used extensively in image generation by connecting its output…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhouyao Xie , Nikhil Yadala , Xinyi Chen , Jing Xi Liu

Content-based music information retrieval has seen rapid progress with the adoption of deep learning. Current approaches to high-level music description typically make use of classification models, such as in auto-tagging or genre and mood…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ilaria Manco , Emmanouil Benetos , Elio Quinton , Gyorgy Fazekas

Recent advances in audio-text cross-modal contrastive learning have shown its potential towards zero-shot learning. One possibility for this is by projecting item embeddings from pre-trained backbone neural networks into a cross-modal space…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tiago Tavares , Fabio Ayres , Zhepei Wang , Paris Smaragdis

Multimodal learning aims to imitate human beings to acquire complementary information from multiple modalities for various downstream tasks. However, traditional aggregation-based multimodal fusion methods ignore the inter-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Heqing Zou , Meng Shen , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

Several automatic approaches for objective music performance assessment (MPA) have been proposed in the past, however, existing systems are not yet capable of reliably predicting ratings with the same accuracy as professional judges. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Pavan Seshadri , Alexander Lerch

We introduce a multi-modal diffusion model tailored for the bi-directional conditional generation of video and audio. We propose a joint contrastive training loss to improve the synchronization between visual and auditory occurrences. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ruihan Yang , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun

The objectives of this work are cross-modal text-audio and audio-text retrieval, in which the goal is to retrieve the audio content from a pool of candidates that best matches a given written description and vice versa. Text-audio retrieval…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 A. Sophia Koepke , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , João F. Henriques , Zeynep Akata , Samuel Albanie

Image-Text Retrieval (ITR) is challenging in bridging visual and lingual modalities. Contrastive learning has been adopted by most prior arts. Except for limited amount of negative image-text pairs, the capability of constrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Haoran Wang , Dongliang He , Wenhao Wu , Boyang Xia , Min Yang , Fu Li , Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

A range of applications of multi-modal music information retrieval is centred around the problem of connecting large collections of sheet music (images) to corresponding audio recordings, that is, identifying pairs of audio and score…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Luis Carvalho , Gerhard Widmer