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This work considers supervised contrastive learning for semantic segmentation. We apply contrastive learning to enhance the discriminative power of the multi-scale features extracted by semantic segmentation networks. Our key methodological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Theodoros Pissas , Claudio S. Ravasio , Lyndon Da Cruz , Christos Bergeles

Overlapping sound events are ubiquitous in real-world environments, but existing end-to-end sound event detection (SED) methods still struggle to detect them effectively. A critical reason is that these methods represent overlapping events…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yadong Guan , Jiqing Han , Hongwei Song , Wenjie Song , Guibin Zheng , Tieran Zheng , Yongjun He

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) models on edge devices typically operate under fixed class assumptions, lacking the transferability needed for real-world applications that require adaptation to new or refined acoustic categories. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Kuang Yuan , Yang Gao , Xilin Li , Xinhao Mei , Syavosh Zadissa , Tarun Pruthi , Saeed Bagheri Sereshki

Audio-visual semantic segmentation (AVSS) represents an extension of the audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task, necessitating a semantic understanding of audio-visual scenes beyond merely identifying sound-emitting objects at the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yujian Lee , Peng Gao , Yongqi Xu , Wentao Fan

Vision transformers (ViT) have made substantial progress for classification tasks in computer vision. Recently, Gong et. al. '21, introduced attention-based modeling for several audio tasks. However, relatively unexplored is the use of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chirag Goel , Surya Koppisetti , Ben Colman , Ali Shahriyari , Gaurav Bharaj

In this work, we tackle the challenging problem of arbitrary image style transfer using a novel style feature representation learning method. A suitable style representation, as a key component in image stylization tasks, is essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Tong-Yee Lee , Changsheng Xu

Contrastive learning has delivered impressive results for various tasks in the self-supervised regime. However, existing approaches optimize for learning representations specific to downstream scenarios, i.e., \textit{global}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Asymmetric appearance between positive pair effectively reduces the risk of representation degradation in contrastive learning. However, there are still a mass of appearance similarities between positive pair constructed by the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chengchao Shen , Jianzhong Chen , Shu Wang , Hulin Kuang , Jin Liu , Jianxin Wang

Contrastively trained vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress in vision and language representation learning, leading to state-of-the-art models for various downstream multimodal tasks. However, recent research has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Harman Singh , Pengchuan Zhang , Qifan Wang , Mengjiao Wang , Wenhan Xiong , Jingfei Du , Yu Chen

The Dynamic Saliency Prediction (DSP) task simulates the human selective attention mechanism to perceive the dynamic scene, which is significant and imperative in many vision tasks. Most of existing methods only consider visual cues, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Hailong Ning , Bin Zhao , Zhanxuan Hu , Lang He , Ercheng Pei

Contrastive learning has become a key component of self-supervised learning approaches for computer vision. By learning to embed two augmented versions of the same image close to each other and to push the embeddings of different images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Yannis Kalantidis , Mert Bulent Sariyildiz , Noe Pion , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Diane Larlus

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to generate pixel-wise segmentation maps that correlate with the auditory signals of objects. This field has seen significant progress with numerous CNN and Transformer-based methods enhancing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sitong Gong , Yunzhi Zhuge , Lu Zhang , Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as positives that should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault , Stéphane Canu

For fine-grained generation and recognition tasks such as minimally-supervised text-to-speech (TTS), voice conversion (VC), and automatic speech recognition (ASR), the intermediate representations extracted from speech should serve as a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Ruibo Fu , Tao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Video object detection is a challenging task because videos often suffer from image deterioration such as motion blur, occlusion, and deformable shapes, making it significantly more difficult than detecting objects in still images. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Lucas Rakotoarivony

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success on various high-level tasks, but there are fewer contrastive learning-based methods proposed for low-level tasks. It is challenging to adopt vanilla contrastive learning technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Gang Wu , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

Neuron labeling assigns textual descriptions to internal units of deep networks. Existing approaches typically rely on highly activating examples, often yielding broad or misleading labels by focusing on dominant but incidental visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Oussama Bouanani , Jim Berend , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Maximilian Dreyer

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

Recent methods for learning unsupervised visual representations, dubbed contrastive learning, optimize the noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) bound on mutual information between two views of an image. NCE uses randomly sampled negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Mike Wu , Milan Mosse , Chengxu Zhuang , Daniel Yamins , Noah Goodman

Self-supervised representation learning has made significant leaps fueled by progress in contrastive learning, which seeks to learn transformations that embed positive input pairs nearby, while pushing negative pairs far apart. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Tri Huynh , Simon Kornblith , Matthew R. Walter , Michael Maire , Maryam Khademi