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Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize temporal segments in long, untrimmed videos that align with a given natural language query. This task typically comprises two subtasks: Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Minseok Kang , Minhyeok Lee , Minjung Kim , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Weakly Labelled learning has garnered lot of attention in recent years due to its potential to scale Sound Event Detection (SED) and is formulated as Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) problem. This paper proposes a Multi-Task Learning (MTL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

We address the problem of grounding free-form textual phrases by using weak supervision from image-caption pairs. We propose a novel end-to-end model that uses caption-to-image retrieval as a `downstream' task to guide the process of phrase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Samyak Datta , Karan Sikka , Anirban Roy , Karuna Ahuja , Devi Parikh , Ajay Divakaran

There are two sub-tasks implied in the weakly-supervised SED: audio tagging and event boundary detection. Current methods which combine multi-task learning with SED requires annotations both for these two sub-tasks. Since there are only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Yuxin Huang , Xiangdong Wang , Liwei Lin , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

Thanks to the rapid advances in deep learning techniques and the wide availability of large-scale training sets, the performance of video saliency detection models has been improving steadily and significantly. However, deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Guotao Wang , Chenglizhao Chen , Deng-Ping Fan , Aimin Hao , Hong Qin

Recent work has shown that speech paired with images can be used to learn semantically meaningful speech representations even without any textual supervision. In real-world low-resource settings, however, we often have access to some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Ankita Pasad , Bowen Shi , Herman Kamper , Karen Livescu

In text-audio retrieval (TAR) tasks, due to the heterogeneity of contents between text and audio, the semantic information contained in the text is only similar to certain frames within the audio. Yet, existing works aggregate the entire…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Yifei Xin , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou

Joint video-language learning has received increasing attention in recent years. However, existing works mainly focus on single or multiple trimmed video clips (events), which makes human-annotated event boundaries necessary during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Teng Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Feng Zheng , Wenhao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Ping Luo

We study weakly-supervised video object grounding: given a video segment and a corresponding descriptive sentence, the goal is to localize objects that are mentioned from the sentence in the video. During training, no object bounding boxes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Luowei Zhou , Nathan Louis , Jason J. Corso

Current state-of-the-art open-vocabulary segmentation methods typically rely on image-mask-text triplet annotations for supervision. However, acquiring such detailed annotations is labour-intensive and poses scalability challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhaoqing Wang , Xiaobo Xia , Ziye Chen , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Weakly-supervised salient object detection (WSOD) aims to develop saliency models using image-level annotations. Despite of the success of previous works, explorations on an effective training strategy for the saliency network and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yongri Piao , Jian Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhengxuan Ma , Huchuan Lu

Arbitrary-shaped text detection is an important and challenging task in computer vision. Most existing methods require heavy data labeling efforts to produce polygon-level text region labels for supervised training. In order to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Mengbiao Zhao , Wei Feng , Fei Yin , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Annotating time boundaries of sound events is labor-intensive, limiting the scalability of strongly supervised learning in audio detection. To reduce annotation costs, weakly-supervised learning with only clip-level labels has been widely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Keisuke Imoto

Text-based speech editing aims to modify specific segments while preserving speaker identity and acoustic context. Existing methods rely on task-specific training, which incurs high data costs and struggles with temporal fidelity in…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sihan Lv , Yechen Jin , Zhen Li , Jintao Chen , Jinshan Zhang , Ying Li , Jianwei Yin , Meng Xi

We target at the task of weakly-supervised video object grounding (WSVOG), where only video-sentence annotations are available during model learning. It aims to localize objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Wang , Junyu Gao , Changsheng Xu

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

Text-VQA aims at answering questions that require understanding the textual cues in an image. Despite the great progress of existing Text-VQA methods, their performance suffers from insufficient human-labeled question-answer (QA) pairs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jun Wang , Mingfei Gao , Yuqian Hu , Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Chetan Ramaiah , Ran Xu , Joseph F. JaJa , Larry S. Davis

Weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) aims to train an object detector only requiring the image-level annotations. Recently, some works have managed to select the accurate boxes generated from a well-trained WSOD network to supervise a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zitong Huang , Yiping Bao , Bowen Dong , Erjin Zhou , Wangmeng Zuo

Audio-visual source localization is a challenging task that aims to predict the location of visual sound sources in a video. Since collecting ground-truth annotations of sounding objects can be costly, a plethora of weakly-supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Shentong Mo , Pedro Morgado

Weakly supervised learning algorithms are critical for scaling audio event detection to several hundreds of sound categories. Such learning models should not only disambiguate sound events efficiently with minimal class-specific annotation…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Anurag Kumar , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu