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Audio-visual feature synchronization for real-time speech enhancement in hearing aids represents a progressive approach to improving speech intelligibility and user experience, particularly in strong noisy backgrounds. This approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Nasir Saleem , Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Adeel Hussain , Usman Anwar , Adewale Adetomi , Tughrul Arslan , Amir Hussain

Learning aligned multimodal embeddings from weakly paired, label-free corpora is challenging: pipelines often provide only pre-extracted features, clips contain multiple events, and spurious co-occurrences. We propose HSC-MAE (Hierarchical…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Donghuo Zeng , Hao Niu , Masato Taya

In recent research, slight performance improvement is observed from automatic speech recognition systems to audio-visual speech recognition systems in the end-to-end framework with low-quality videos. Unmatching convergence rates and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yusheng Dai , Hang Chen , Jun Du , Xiaofei Ding , Ning Ding , Feijun Jiang , Chin-Hui Lee

Visual neural decoding aims to extract and interpret original visual experiences directly from human brain activity. Recent studies have demonstrated the feasibility of decoding visual semantic categories from electroencephalography (EEG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hongzhou Chen , Lianghua He , Yihang Liu , Longzhen Yang , Shaohua Shang , MengChu Zhou

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) incorporates auditory and visual modalities to improve recognition accuracy, particularly in noisy environments where audio-only speech systems are insufficient. While previous research has largely…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Sungnyun Kim , Sungwoo Cho , Sangmin Bae , Kangwook Jang , Se-Young Yun

Audio-visual recognition (AVR) has been considered as a solution for speech recognition tasks when the audio is corrupted, as well as a visual recognition method used for speaker verification in multi-speaker scenarios. The approach of AVR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Amirsina Torfi , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Jeremy Dawson

This paper proposes a single-stage training approach that semantically aligns three modalities - audio, visual, and text using a contrastive learning framework. Contrastive training has gained prominence for multimodal alignment, utilizing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Irene Martín-Morató , Tuomas Virtanen

Acoustic matching aims to re-synthesize an audio clip to sound as if it were recorded in a target acoustic environment. Existing methods assume access to paired training data, where the audio is observed in both source and target…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Arjun Somayazulu , Changan Chen , Kristen Grauman

Self-supervised audio-visual source separation leverages natural correlations between audio and vision modalities to separate mixed audio signals. In this work, we first systematically analyse the performance of existing multimodal fusion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Han Hu , Dongheng Lin , Qiming Huang , Yuqi Hou , Hyung Jin Chang , Jianbo Jiao

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for speech-image retrieval. We utilize speech-image contrastive (SIC) learning tasks to align speech and image representations at a coarse level and speech-image matching (SIM) learning tasks to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Lifeng Zhou , Yuke Li

We introduce CAN, a simple, efficient and scalable method for self-supervised learning of visual representations. Our framework is a minimal and conceptually clean synthesis of (C) contrastive learning, (A) masked autoencoders, and (N) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shlok Mishra , Joshua Robinson , Huiwen Chang , David Jacobs , Aaron Sarna , Aaron Maschinot , Dilip Krishnan

Self-supervised sound source localization is usually challenged by the modality inconsistency. In recent studies, contrastive learning based strategies have shown promising to establish such a consistent correspondence between audio and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Tianyu Liu , Peng Zhang , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha , Tao You , Yanning Zhang

Speech enhancement plays an essential role in various applications, and the integration of visual information has been demonstrated to bring substantial advantages. However, the majority of current research concentrates on the examination…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xinyuan Qian , Jiaran Gao , Yaodan Zhang , Qiquan Zhang , Hexin Liu , Leibny Paola Garcia , Haizhou Li

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) attracts a surge of research interest recently by leveraging multimodal signals to understand human speech. Mainstream approaches addressing this task have developed sophisticated architectures and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Ruizhe Li , Heqing Zou , Eng Siong Chng

Videos captured from multiple viewpoints can help in perceiving the 3D structure of the world and benefit computer vision tasks such as action recognition, tracking, etc. In this paper, we present a method for self-supervised learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketul Shah , Robert Crandall , Jie Xu , Peng Zhou , Marian George , Mayank Bansal , Rama Chellappa

Fine-grained image-text alignment is a pivotal challenge in multimodal learning, underpinning key applications such as visual question answering, image captioning, and vision-language navigation. Unlike global alignment, fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiale Liu , Haoming Zhou , Yishu Liu , Bingzhi Chen , Yuncheng Jiang

Visual decoding from brain signals is a key challenge at the intersection of computer vision and neuroscience, requiring methods that bridge neural representations and computational models of vision. We introduce a tri-modal contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zexuan Chen , Sichao Liu , Runhao Lu , Huichao Qi , Alexandra Woolgar , Xi Vincent Wang , Lihui Wang

This work addresses the lack of multimodal generative models capable of producing high-quality videos with spatially aligned audio. While recent advancements in generative models have been successful in video generation, they often overlook…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Kazuki Shimada , Christian Simon , Takashi Shibuya , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

Existing methods on audio-visual deepfake detection mainly focus on high-level features for modeling inconsistencies between audio and visual data. As a result, these approaches usually overlook finer audio-visual artifacts, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Marcella Astrid , Enjie Ghorbel , Djamila Aouada

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) learn rich low-level representations from unlabeled data but require substantial labeled data to effectively adapt to downstream tasks. Conversely, Instance Discrimination (ID) emphasizes high-level semantics,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Afrina Tabassum , Dung Tran , Trung Dang , Ismini Lourentzou , Kazuhito Koishida