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Multimodal representation learning aims to capture both shared and complementary semantic information across multiple modalities. However, the intrinsic heterogeneity of diverse modalities presents substantial challenges to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chengxuan Qian , Shuo Xing , Shawn Li , Yue Zhao , Zhengzhong Tu

Systems that can find correspondences between multiple modalities, such as between speech and images, have great potential to solve different recognition and data analysis tasks in an unsupervised manner. This work studies multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen

Continual learning is essential for adapting models to new tasks while retaining previously acquired knowledge. While existing approaches predominantly focus on uni-modal data, multi-modal learning offers substantial benefits by utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Evelyn Chee , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Our world is full of physics-driven data where effective mappings between data manifolds are desired. There is an increasing demand for understanding combined model-based and data-driven methods. We propose a nonlinear, learned singular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Yoeri E. Boink , Christoph Brune

Multi-modal learning relates information across observation modalities of the same physical phenomenon to leverage complementary information. Most multi-modal machine learning methods require that all the modalities used for training are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

Aligning signals from different modalities is an important step in vision-language representation learning as it affects the performance of later stages such as cross-modality fusion. Since image and text typically reside in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jiali Duan , Liqun Chen , Son Tran , Jinyu Yang , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi

The matching of 3D shapes has been extensively studied for shapes represented as surface meshes, as well as for shapes represented as point clouds. While point clouds are a common representation of raw real-world 3D data (e.g. from laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Florian Bernard

Multimodal learning aims to imitate human beings to acquire complementary information from multiple modalities for various downstream tasks. However, traditional aggregation-based multimodal fusion methods ignore the inter-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Heqing Zou , Meng Shen , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

Many vision-related tasks benefit from reasoning over multiple modalities to leverage complementary views of data in an attempt to learn robust embedding spaces. Most deep learning-based methods rely on a late fusion technique whereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Austin Reiter , Menglin Jia , Pu Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Multi-view representation learning has developed rapidly over the past decades and has been applied in many fields. However, most previous works assumed that each view is complete and aligned. This leads to an inevitable deterioration in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Jie Wen , Yao Zhao

Multimodal learning enhances the performance of various machine learning tasks by leveraging complementary information across different modalities. However, existing methods often learn multimodal representations that retain substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tong Zhang , Shu Shen , C. L. Philip Chen

Embeddings play an important role in end-to-end solutions for multi-modal language processing problems. Although there has been some effort to understand the properties of single-modality embedding spaces, particularly that of text, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Muhammad Huzaifah , Ivan Kukanov

This paper proposes a new strategy for learning powerful cross-modal embeddings for audio-to-video synchronization. Here, we set up the problem as one of cross-modal retrieval, where the objective is to find the most relevant audio segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Soo-Whan Chung , Joon Son Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

We present a deployment friendly, fast bottom-up framework for multi-person 3D human pose estimation. We adopt a novel neural representation of multi-person 3D pose which unifies the position of person instances with their corresponding 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Ambareesh Revanur , Govind Vitthal Waghmare , Rahul Mysore Venkatesh , R. Venkatesh Babu

In this paper, we propose a novel method for projecting data from multiple modalities to a new subspace optimized for one-class classification. The proposed method iteratively transforms the data from the original feature space of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Fahad Sohrab , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Multimodal models have demonstrated powerful capabilities in complex tasks requiring multimodal alignment, including zero-shot classification and cross-modal retrieval. However, existing models typically rely on millions of paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fabian Gröger , Shuo Wen , Huyen Le , Maria Brbić

Many applications, such as autonomous driving, heavily rely on multi-modal data where spatial alignment between the modalities is required. Most multi-modal registration methods struggle computing the spatial correspondence between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Moab Arar , Yiftach Ginger , Dov Danon , Ilya Leizerson , Amit Bermano , Daniel Cohen-Or

Multimodal representation learning produces high-dimensional embeddings that align diverse modalities in a shared latent space. While this enables strong generalization, it also introduces scalability challenges, both in terms of storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Eleonora Grassucci , Giordano Cicchetti , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

In many applications involving multi-media data, the definition of similarity between items is integral to several key tasks, e.g., nearest-neighbor retrieval, classification, and recommendation. Data in such regimes typically exhibits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Brian McFee , Gert Lanckriet

Previous multimodal sentence representation learning methods have achieved impressive performance. However, most approaches focus on aligning images and text at a coarse level, facing two critical challenges:cross-modal misalignment bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Kang He , Yuzhe Ding , Haining Wang , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji