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Traffic Accident Anticipation (TAA) in traffic scenes is a challenging problem for achieving zero fatalities in the future. Current approaches typically treat TAA as a supervised learning task needing the laborious annotation of accident…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Jianwu Fang , Lei-Lei Li , Zhedong Zheng , Hongkai Yu , Jianru Xue , Zhengguo Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Significant improvement has been achieved in automated audio captioning (AAC) with recent models. However, these models have become increasingly large as their performance is enhanced. In this work, we propose a knowledge distillation (KD)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xuenan Xu , Haohe Liu , Mengyue Wu , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Story continuation focuses on generating the next image in a narrative sequence so that it remains coherent with both the ongoing text description and the previously observed images. A central challenge in this setting lies in utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Seyed Mohammad Mousavi , Morteza Analoui

Generative models have shown significant achievements in audio generation tasks. However, existing models struggle with complex and detailed prompts, leading to potential performance degradation. We hypothesize that this problem stems from…

Lifelong person re-identification (LReID) aims to train a generalizable model with sequentially collected data. However, such models often suffer from semantic drift, limited adaptability, and catastrophic forgetting as new domains emerge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wen Wen , Hao Chen , Shiliang Zhang

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is the process of automatically determining whether a person is speaking and identifying the timing of their speech in an audiovisual data. Traditionally, this task has been tackled by processing either audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Andrea Appiani , Cigdem Beyan

Creating a vivid video from the event or scenario in our imagination is a truly fascinating experience. Recent advancements in text-to-video synthesis have unveiled the potential to achieve this with prompts only. While text is convenient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuxin Liu , Yuechen Zhang , Yong Zhang , Yingqing He , Hanyuan Liu , Haoxin Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Tien-Tsin Wong

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) is often formulated as a machine attribute classification task, a strategy necessitated by the common scenario where only normal data is available for training. However, the exhaustive collection of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xin Fang , Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Fan Chu , Lei Wang , Mengui Qian , Mingqi Cai , Jiangzhao Wu , Jianqing Gao , Jun Du

Contrastively pretrained audio-language models (e.g., CLAP) excel at clip-level understanding but struggle with frame-level tasks. Existing extensions fail to exploit the varying granularity of real-world audio-text data, where massive…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xiquan Li , Xuenan Xu , Ziyang Ma , Wenxi Chen , Haolin He , Qiuqiang Kong , Xie Chen

Generating realistic audio for human actions is important for many applications, such as creating sound effects for films or virtual reality games. Existing approaches implicitly assume total correspondence between the video and audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Changan Chen , Puyuan Peng , Ami Baid , Zihui Xue , Wei-Ning Hsu , David Harwath , Kristen Grauman

Clipping is a common nonlinear distortion that occurs whenever the input or output of an audio system exceeds the supported range. This phenomenon undermines not only the perception of speech quality but also downstream processes utilizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Jayeon Yi , Junghyun Koo , Kyogu Lee

Discrete diffusion models are a class of generative models that construct sequences by progressively denoising samples from a categorical noise distribution. Beyond their rapidly growing ability to generate coherent natural language, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Michael Cardei , Jacob K Christopher , Thomas Hartvigsen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ferdinando Fioretto

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to adapt a model of the labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Existing UDA-based semantic segmentation approaches always reduce the domain shifts in pixel level, feature level, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Qianyu Zhou , Zhengyang Feng , Qiqi Gu , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Xuequan Lu , Jianping Shi , Lizhuang Ma

We present a method to improve video description generation by modeling higher-order interactions between video frames and described concepts. By storing past visual attention in the video associated to previously generated words, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Rasool Fakoor , Abdel-rahman Mohamed , Margaret Mitchell , Sing Bing Kang , Pushmeet Kohli

We propose a two-stage framework for audio-driven talking head generation with fine-grained expression control via facial Action Units (AUs). Unlike prior methods relying on emotion labels or implicit AU conditioning, our model explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Shao-Yu Chang , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

We explore a new task for audio-visual-language modeling called fine-grained audible video description (FAVD). It aims to provide detailed textual descriptions for the given audible videos, including the appearance and spatial locations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Xuyang Shen , Dong Li , Jinxing Zhou , Zhen Qin , Bowen He , Xiaodong Han , Aixuan Li , Yuchao Dai , Lingpeng Kong , Meng Wang , Yu Qiao , Yiran Zhong

The deployment of machine listening algorithms in real-life applications is often impeded by a domain shift caused for instance by different microphone characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel domain adaptation strategy based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Jakob Abeßer , Meinard Müller

In recent times, the focus on text-to-audio (TTA) generation has intensified, as researchers strive to synthesize audio from textual descriptions. However, most existing methods, though leveraging latent diffusion models to learn the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Shentong Mo , Jing Shi , Yapeng Tian

Video-to-audio (V2A) generation aims to produce corresponding audio given silent video inputs. This task is particularly challenging due to the cross-modality and sequential nature of the audio-visual features involved. Recent works have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mingjing Yi , Ming Li

Generating visually grounded image captions with specific linguistic styles using unpaired stylistic corpora is a challenging task, especially since we expect stylized captions with a wide variety of stylistic patterns. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Kanzhi Cheng , Zheng Ma , Shi Zong , Jianbing Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen