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Recent video and language pretraining frameworks lack the ability to generate sentences. We present Multimodal Video Generative Pretraining (MV-GPT), a new pretraining framework for learning from unlabelled videos which can be effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Arsha Nagrani , Anurag Arnab , Cordelia Schmid

The advent of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has significantly advanced multimodal tasks, enabling more sophisticated and accurate reasoning across various applications, including image and video captioning, visual question answering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hang Hua , Qing Liu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jing Shi , Zhifei Zhang , Yilin Wang , Jianming Zhang , Jiebo Luo

Recent advances in video generation have been remarkable, enabling models to produce visually compelling videos with synchronized audio. While existing video generation benchmarks provide comprehensive metrics for visual quality, they lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daili Hua , Xizhi Wang , Bohan Zeng , Xinyi Huang , Hao Liang , Junbo Niu , Xinlong Chen , Quanqing Xu , Wentao Zhang

Audio generation has attracted significant attention. Despite remarkable enhancement in audio quality, existing models overlook diversity evaluation. This is partially due to the lack of a systematic sound class diversity framework and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Baihan Li , Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Yiwei Guo , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Kai Yu , Mengyue Wu

Existing deep learning based speech enhancement mainly employ a data-driven approach, which leverage large amounts of data with a variety of noise types to achieve noise removal from noisy signal. However, the high dependence on the data…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Huaying Xue , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that can be used for learning the distribution of complex data. VAEs have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mostafa Sadeghi , Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-PIneda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Accurately interpreting cardiac auscultation signals plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases. However, the paucity of labelled data inhibits classification models' training. Researchers have turned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Leigh Abbott , Milan Marocchi , Matthew Fynn , Yue Rong , Sven Nordholm

Data augmentation is crucial for pixel-wise annotation tasks like semantic segmentation, where labeling requires significant effort and intensive labor. Traditional methods, involving simple transformations such as rotations and flips,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Quang-Huy Che , Duc-Tri Le , Bich-Nga Pham , Duc-Khai Lam , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen

Generative vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong high-level image understanding but lack spatially dense alignment between vision and language modalities, as our findings indicate. Orthogonal to advancements in generative VLMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tim Lebailly , Vijay Veerabadran , Satwik Kottur , Karl Ridgeway , Michael Louis Iuzzolino

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) is the task of generating natural language descriptions given an audio stream. A typical AAC system requires manually curated training data of audio segments and corresponding text caption annotations. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Soham Deshmukh , Benjamin Elizalde , Dimitra Emmanouilidou , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh , Huaming Wang

Singing voices contain much richer information than common voices, including varied vocal and acoustic properties. However, current open-source audio-text datasets for singing voices capture only a narrow range of attributes and lack…

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Training Large Multimodality Models (LMMs) relies on descriptive image caption that connects image and language. Existing methods for generating such captions often rely on distilling the captions from pretrained LMMs, constructing them…

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Existing text-to-speech systems predominantly focus on single-sentence synthesis and lack adequate contextual modeling as well as fine-grained performance control capabilities for generating coherent multicast audiobooks. To address these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Min Liu , JingJing Yin , Xiang Zhang , Siyu Hao , Yanni Hu , Bin Lin , Yuan Feng , Hongbin Zhou , Jianhao Ye

Observing a set of images and their corresponding paragraph-captions, a challenging task is to learn how to produce a semantically coherent paragraph to describe the visual content of an image. Inspired by recent successes in integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Dandan Guo , Ruiying Lu , Bo Chen , Zequn Zeng , Mingyuan Zhou

Generating video stories from text prompts is a complex task. In addition to having high visual quality, videos need to realistically adhere to a sequence of text prompts whilst being consistent throughout the frames. Creating a benchmark…

The introduction of audio latent diffusion models possessing the ability to generate realistic sound clips on demand from a text description has the potential to revolutionize how we work with audio. In this work, we make an initial attempt…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Dimitrios Bralios , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Zexu Pan , Sameer Khurana , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

The task of Visual Text-to-Speech (VisualTTS), also known as video dubbing, aims to generate speech synchronized with the lip movements in an input video, in additional to being consistent with the content of input text and cloning the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuyue Wang , Xin Cheng , Yihan Wu , Xihua Wang , Jinchuan Tian , Ruihua Song

Automatically generating descriptive captions for images is a well-researched area in computer vision. However, existing evaluation approaches focus on measuring the similarity between two sentences disregarding fine-grained semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Philipp Harzig , Dan Zecha , Rainer Lienhart , Carolin Kaiser , René Schallner

Existing datasets for audio understanding primarily focus on single-turn interactions (i.e. audio captioning, audio question answering) for describing audio in natural language, thus limiting understanding audio via interactive dialogue. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Arushi Goel , Zhifeng Kong , Rafael Valle , Bryan Catanzaro

Understanding video content and generating caption with context is an important and challenging task. Unlike prior methods that typically attempt to generate generic video captions without context, our architecture contextualizes captioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Philipp Rimle , Pelin Dogan , Markus Gross