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Multimodal processing has attracted much attention lately especially with the success of pre-training. However, the exploration has mainly focused on vision-language pre-training, as introducing more modalities can greatly complicate model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ludan Ruan , Anwen Hu , Yuqing Song , Liang Zhang , Sipeng Zheng , Qin Jin

We perform a comprehensive benchmarking of contrastive frameworks for learning multimodal representations in the medical domain. Through this study, we aim to answer the following research questions: (i) How transferable are general-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Shuvendu Roy , Yasaman Parhizkar , Franklin Ogidi , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Michael Colacci , Ali Etemad , Elham Dolatabadi , Arash Afkanpour

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

We propose Context-Adaptive Multi-Prompt Embedding, a novel approach to enrich semantic representations in vision-language contrastive learning. Unlike standard CLIP-style models that rely on a single text embedding, our method introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Dahun Kim , Anelia Angelova

In this paper, we leverage the human perceiving process, that involves vision and language interaction, to generate a coherent paragraph description of untrimmed videos. We propose vision-language (VL) features consisting of two modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kashu Yamazaki , Sang Truong , Khoa Vo , Michael Kidd , Chase Rainwater , Khoa Luu , Ngan Le

Video-grounded dialogue systems aim to integrate video understanding and dialogue understanding to generate responses that are relevant to both the dialogue and video context. Most existing approaches employ deep learning models and have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hung Le , Nancy F. Chen , Steven C. H. Hoi

In the context of Audio Visual Question Answering (AVQA) tasks, the audio visual modalities could be learnt on three levels: 1) Spatial, 2) Temporal, and 3) Semantic. Existing AVQA methods suffer from two major shortcomings; the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Asmar Nadeem , Adrian Hilton , Robert Dawes , Graham Thomas , Armin Mustafa

Various state-of-the-art self-supervised visual representation learning approaches take advantage of data from multiple sensors by aligning the feature representations across views and/or modalities. In this work, we investigate how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Thomas M. Hehn , Julian F. P. Kooij , Dariu M. Gavrila

For fine-grained generation and recognition tasks such as minimally-supervised text-to-speech (TTS), voice conversion (VC), and automatic speech recognition (ASR), the intermediate representations extracted from speech should serve as a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Chunyu Qiang , Hao Li , Yixin Tian , Ruibo Fu , Tao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

In this paper we propose a multi-modal multi-correlation learning framework targeting at the task of audio-visual speech separation. Although previous efforts have been extensively put on combining audio and visual modalities, most of them…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaoyu Wang , Xiangyu Kong , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

Contrastive learning is a powerful technique to learn representations that are semantically distinctive and geometrically invariant. While most of the earlier approaches have demonstrated its effectiveness on single-modality learning tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anurag Jain , Yashaswi Verma

Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning has proven effective in deriving high-quality representations from unlabeled data. However, a major challenge that hinders both unimodal and multimodal contrastive learning is feature suppression, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jihai Zhang , Xiang Lan , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng , Mengling Feng , Bryan Hooi

We propose a self-supervised learning method using multiple sampling strategies to obtain general-purpose audio representation. Multiple sampling strategies are used in the proposed method to construct contrastive losses from different…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ibuki Kuroyanagi , Tatsuya Komatsu

Large-scale image-text contrastive pre-training models, such as CLIP, have been demonstrated to effectively learn high-quality multimodal representations. However, there is limited research on learning video-text representations for general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Fan Ma , Zhicheng Huang , Xiaojie Jin , Zikang Liu , Dongmei Fu , Yi Yang , Jing Liu , Jiashi Feng

Multimodal contrastive learning is a methodology for linking different data modalities; the canonical example is linking image and text data. The methodology is typically framed as the identification of a set of encoders, one for each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Ricardo Baptista , Andrew M. Stuart , Son Tran

Until recently, the number of public real-world text images was insufficient for training scene text recognizers. Therefore, most modern training methods rely on synthetic data and operate in a fully supervised manner. Nevertheless, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Aviad Aberdam , Roy Ganz , Shai Mazor , Ron Litman

To solve video-and-language grounding tasks, the key is for the network to understand the connection between the two modalities. For a pair of video and language description, their semantic relation is reflected by their encodings'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yubo Zhang , Feiyang Niu , Qing Ping , Govind Thattai

Cross-modal alignment Learning integrates information from different modalities like text, image, audio and video to create unified models. This approach develops shared representations and learns correlations between modalities, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Time series forecasting traditionally relies on unimodal numerical inputs, which often struggle to capture high-level semantic patterns due to their dense and unstructured nature. While recent approaches have explored representing time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sixun Dong , Wei Fan , Teresa Wu , Yanjie Fu

Contrastive learning has become one of the most impressive approaches for multi-modal representation learning. However, previous multi-modal works mainly focused on cross-modal understanding, ignoring in-modal contrastive learning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhiyu Zhang , Da Liu , Shengqiang Liu , Anna Wang , Jie Gao , Yali Li