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Video Paragraph Grounding (VPG) is an emerging task in video-language understanding, which aims at localizing multiple sentences with semantic relations and temporal order from an untrimmed video. However, existing VPG approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Chaolei Tan , Jianhuang Lai , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

While multitask and transfer learning has shown to improve the performance of neural networks in limited data settings, they require pretraining of the model on large datasets beforehand. In this paper, we focus on improving the performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS) aligns audio and video at the pixel level but requires costly per-frame annotations. We introduce Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (WSAVSS), which uses only video-level labels to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chengzhi Li , Heyan Huang , Ping Jian , Yanghao Zhou

Recent progress in speech recognition has relied on models trained on vast amounts of labeled data. However, classroom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) faces the real-world challenge of abundant weak transcripts paired with only a small…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Ahmed Adel Attia , Dorottya Demszky , Jing Liu , Carol Espy-Wilson

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) is a challenging task. Generating fine-grained pseudo-labels based on weak-label and then self-training a classifier is currently a promising solution. However, since the existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhiwei Yang , Jing Liu , Peng Wu

Jointly learning from a small labeled set and a larger unlabeled set is an active research topic under semi-supervised learning (SSL). In this paper, we propose a novel SSL method based on a two-stage framework for leveraging a large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Tanmay Khandelwal , Rohan Kumar Das , Andrew Koh , Eng Siong Chng

Target sound detection (TSD) aims to detect the target sound from mixture audio given the reference information. Previous works have shown that TSD models can be trained on fully-annotated (frame-level label) or weakly-annotated (clip-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Dongchao Yang , Helin Wang , Yuexian Zou , Wenwu Wang

Text segmentation is a challenging vision task with many downstream applications. Current text segmentation methods require pixel-level annotations, which are expensive in the cost of human labor and limited in application scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyan Zu , Haiyang Yu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Automatic Audio Captioning (AAC) refers to the task of translating an audio sample into a natural language (NL) text that describes the audio events, source of the events and their relationships. Unlike NL text generation tasks, which rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Swapnil Bhosale , Rupayan Chakraborty , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Temporal language grounding (TLG) aims to localize a video segment in an untrimmed video based on a natural language description. To alleviate the expensive cost of manual annotations for temporal boundary labels, we are dedicated to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yuechen Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

State-of-the-art deep neural networks require large-scale labeled training data that is often expensive to obtain or not available for many tasks. Weak supervision in the form of domain-specific rules has been shown to be useful in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Giannis Karamanolakis , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Guoqing Zheng , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Multi-modal learning, particularly among imaging and linguistic modalities, has made amazing strides in many high-level fundamental visual understanding problems, ranging from language grounding to dense event captioning. However, much of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Tanzila Rahman , Bicheng Xu , Leonid Sigal

Audio-visual segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict pixel-level masks for sound sources in a video. Previous work applied a comprehensive manually designed architecture with countless pixel-wise accurate masks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shentong Mo , Bhiksha Raj

In this paper, we propose a multi-level attention model to solve the weakly labelled audio classification problem. The objective of audio classification is to predict the presence or absence of audio events in an audio clip. Recently,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-08 Changsong Yu , Karim Said Barsim , Qiuqiang Kong , Bin Yang

In this paper, we study the problem of weakly-supervised temporal grounding of sentence in video. Specifically, given an untrimmed video and a query sentence, our goal is to localize a temporal segment in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Peng Tang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Due to the lack of temporal annotation, current Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) methods are generally stuck into over-complete or incomplete localization. In this paper, we aim to leverage the text information to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Xinbo Gao

Recently, increasing efforts have been focused on Weakly Supervised Scene Graph Generation (WSSGG). The mainstream solution for WSSGG typically follows the same pipeline: they first align text entities in the weak image-level supervisions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xingchen Li , Long Chen , Wenbo Ma , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

Text-to-audio (TTA), which generates audio signals from textual descriptions, has received huge attention in recent years. However, recent works focused on text to monaural audio only. As we know, spatial audio provides more immersive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Lei Zhao , Sizhou Chen , Linfeng Feng , Jichao Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

We propose a weakly-supervised approach that takes image-sentence pairs as input and learns to visually ground (i.e., localize) arbitrary linguistic phrases, in the form of spatial attention masks. Specifically, the model is trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Fanyi Xiao , Leonid Sigal , Yong Jae Lee

The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang