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Automatic music captioning, which generates natural language descriptions for given music tracks, holds significant potential for enhancing the understanding and organization of large volumes of musical data. Despite its importance,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-01 SeungHeon Doh , Keunwoo Choi , Jongpil Lee , Juhan Nam

Compositional reasoning is a hallmark of human visual intelligence. Yet, despite the size of large vision-language models, they struggle to represent simple compositions by combining objects with their attributes. To measure this lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Arijit Ray , Filip Radenovic , Abhimanyu Dubey , Bryan A. Plummer , Ranjay Krishna , Kate Saenko

Dual-encoder-based audio retrieval systems are commonly optimized with contrastive learning on a set of matching and mismatching audio-caption pairs. This leads to a shared embedding space in which corresponding items from the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

The representation of events in text plays a significant role in various NLP tasks. Recent research demonstrates that contrastive learning has the ability to improve event comprehension capabilities of Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yubo Feng , Lishuang Li , Yi Xiang , Xueyang Qin

Multi-channel video-language retrieval require models to understand information from different channels (e.g. video$+$question, video$+$speech) to correctly link a video with a textual response or query. Fortunately, contrastive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xudong Lin , Simran Tiwari , Shiyuan Huang , Manling Li , Mike Zheng Shou , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Contrastive language--audio pretraining (CLAP) has achieved remarkable success as an audio--text embedding framework, but existing approaches are limited to monaural or single-source conditions and cannot fully capture spatial information.…

We present a simple yet effective end-to-end Video-language Pre-training (VidLP) framework, Masked Contrastive Video-language Pretraining (MAC), for video-text retrieval tasks. Our MAC aims to reduce video representation's spatial and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Fangxun Shu , Biaolong Chen , Yue Liao , Shuwen Xiao , Wenyu Sun , Xiaobo Li , Yousong Zhu , Jinqiao Wang , Si Liu

Large language models have an exceptional capability to incorporate new information in a contextual manner. However, the full potential of such an approach is often restrained due to a limitation in the effective context length. One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Szymon Tworkowski , Konrad Staniszewski , Mikołaj Pacek , Yuhuai Wu , Henryk Michalewski , Piotr Miłoś

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models excel at understanding image-text relationships but struggle with adapting to new data without forgetting prior knowledge. To address this, models are typically fine-tuned using both new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan King , Gang Li , Bobak Mortazavi , Tianbao Yang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)~\citep{radford2021learning} has emerged as a pivotal model in computer vision and multimodal learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance at aligning visual and textual representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaoan Xie , Lingjing Kong , Yujia Zheng , Yu Yao , Zeyu Tang , Eric P. Xing , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

Pre-trained self-supervised models such as BERT have achieved striking success in learning sequence representations, especially for natural language processing. These models typically corrupt the given sequences with certain types of noise,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Fuli Luo , Pengcheng Yang , Shicheng Li , Xuancheng Ren , Xu Sun

While the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining(CLIP) model has achieved remarkable success in a variety of downstream vison language understanding tasks, enhancing its capability for fine-grained image-text alignment remains an active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yicheng Xiao , Yu Chen , Haoxuan Ma , Jiale Hong , Caorui Li , Lingxiang Wu , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang

Music tagging and content-based retrieval systems have traditionally been constructed using pre-defined ontologies covering a rigid set of music attributes or text queries. This paper presents MuLan: a first attempt at a new generation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Qingqing Huang , Aren Jansen , Joonseok Lee , Ravi Ganti , Judith Yue Li , Daniel P. W. Ellis

Conformers have shown great results in speech processing due to their ability to capture both local and global interactions. In this work, we utilize a self-supervised contrastive learning framework to train conformer-based encoders that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Kemal Altwlkany , Elmedin Selmanovic , Sead Delalic

Video-and-language pre-training has shown promising results for learning generalizable representations. Most existing approaches usually model video and text in an implicit manner, without considering explicit structural representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Guohao Li , Hu Yang , Feng He , Zhifan Feng , Yajuan Lyu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Contrastive cross-modal models such as CLIP and CLAP aid various vision-language (VL) and audio-language (AL) tasks. However, there has been limited investigation of and improvement in their language encoder, which is the central component…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mengjie Zhao , Junya Ono , Zhi Zhong , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Naoki Murata , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Takashi Shibuya , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

We introduce SyncLipMAE, a self-supervised pretraining framework for talking-face video that learns synchronization-aware and transferable facial dynamics from unlabeled audio-visual streams. Our approach couples masked visual modeling with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ling , Xiaodong Gu , Jiangnan Tang , Changqing Zou

A pre-trained visual-language model, contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP), successfully accomplishes various downstream tasks with text prompts, such as finding images or localizing regions within the image. Despite CLIP's strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 YeongHyeon Park , Myung Jin Kim , Hyeong Seok Kim

Trigger-word detection plays an important role as the entry point of user's communication with voice assistants. But supporting a particular word as a trigger-word involves huge amount of data collection, augmentation and labelling for that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Sivakumar Balasubramanian , Aditya Jajodia , Gowtham Srinivasan

Contrastive learning has revolutionized self-supervised image representation learning field, and recently been adapted to video domain. One of the greatest advantages of contrastive learning is that it allows us to flexibly define powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Haofei Kuang , Yi Zhu , Zhi Zhang , Xinyu Li , Joseph Tighe , Sören Schwertfeger , Cyrill Stachniss , Mu Li