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Audio Question Answering (AQA) constitutes a pivotal task in which machines analyze both audio signals and natural language questions to produce precise natural language answers. The significance of possessing high-quality, diverse, and…

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models employ attention mechanisms to discover image locations that are most relevant for answering a specific question. For this purpose, several multimodal fusion strategies have been proposed, ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

We introduce a novel deep learning-based audio-visual quality (AVQ) prediction model that leverages internal features from state-of-the-art unimodal predictors. Unlike prior approaches that rely on simple fusion strategies, our model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Ina Salaj , Arijit Biswas

The Audio Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task aims to answer questions related to various visual objects, sounds, and their interactions in videos. Such naturally multimodal videos contain rich and complex dynamic audio-visual components,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Guangyao Li , Henghui Du , Di Hu

In this work, we propose a Multi-Window Masked Autoencoder (MW-MAE) fitted with a novel Multi-Window Multi-Head Attention (MW-MHA) module that facilitates the modelling of local-global interactions in every decoder transformer block through…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sarthak Yadav , Sergios Theodoridis , Lars Kai Hansen , Zheng-Hua Tan

Audio question answering (AQA) is the task of producing natural language answers when a system is provided with audio and natural language questions. In this paper, we propose neural network architectures based on self-attention and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Tuomas Virtanen

Learning an effective attention mechanism for multimodal data is important in many vision-and-language tasks that require a synergic understanding of both the visual and textual contents. Existing state-of-the-art approaches use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhou Yu , Yuhao Cui , Jun Yu , Dacheng Tao , Qi Tian

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to infer human affect by jointly modeling audio and visual cues; however, existing approaches often struggle with temporal misalignment, weakly discriminative feature representations, and suboptimal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Joe Dhanith P R , Shravan Venkatraman , Vigya Sharma , Santhosh Malarvannan

Multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have demonstrated significant success in tasks such as visual captioning, question answering, and image-text retrieval. However, these models face inherent limitations due to their finite internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xingjian Diao , Chunhui Zhang , Weiyi Wu , Zhongyu Ouyang , Peijun Qing , Ming Cheng , Soroush Vosoughi , Jiang Gui

Explaining the decision of a multi-modal decision-maker requires to determine the evidence from both modalities. Recent advances in XAI provide explanations for models trained on still images. However, when it comes to modeling multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Yanbei Chen , Thomas Hummel , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

In the rapidly evolving domain of video understanding, Video Question Answering (VideoQA) remains a focal point. However, existing datasets exhibit gaps in temporal and spatial granularity, which consequently limits the capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wei Dai , Alan Luo , Zane Durante , Debadutta Dash , Arnold Milstein , Kevin Schulman , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei

Spatial audio understanding aims to enable machines to interpret complex auditory scenes, particularly when sound sources move over time. In this work, we study Spatial Audio Question Answering (Spatial AQA) with a focus on movement…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Arvind Krishna Sridhar , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser

Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to detect the target speaker in a multi-talker environment from brain signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), which has made great progress. However, most AAD methods solely utilize attention…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Lu Li , Cunhang Fan , Hongyu Zhang , Jingjing Zhang , Xiaoke Yang , Jian Zhou , Zhao Lv

Question Answering (QA) systems have traditionally relied on structured text data, but the rapid growth of multimedia content (images, audio, video, and structured metadata) has introduced new challenges and opportunities for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Rahul Raja , Arpita Vats

The goal of the Acoustic Question Answering (AQA) task is to answer a free-form text question about the content of an acoustic scene. It was inspired by the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. In this paper, based on the previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Jerome Abdelnour , Jean Rouat , Giampiero Salvi

A major challenge for video captioning is to combine audio and visual cues. Existing multi-modal fusion methods have shown encouraging results in video understanding. However, the temporal structures of multiple modalities at different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Xin Wang , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang

Video-based Question Answering (Video QA) is a challenging task and becomes even more intricate when addressing Socially Intelligent Question Answering (SIQA). SIQA requires context understanding, temporal reasoning, and the integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Aviral Agrawal , Carlos Mateo Samudio Lezcano , Iqui Balam Heredia-Marin , Prabhdeep Singh Sethi

Movie question answering, or MovieQA is a multimedia related task wherein one is provided with a video, the subtitle information, a question and candidate answers for it. The task is to predict the correct answer for the question using the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ankit Shah , Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Shijie Wu

Existing attention mechanisms either attend to local image grid or object level features for Visual Question Answering (VQA). Motivated by the observation that questions can relate to both object instances and their parts, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan

Machine comprehension (MC), answering a query about a given context paragraph, requires modeling complex interactions between the context and the query. Recently, attention mechanisms have been successfully extended to MC. Typically these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Minjoon Seo , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Ali Farhadi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi