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An increasing number of datasets contain multiple views, such as video, sound and automatic captions. A basic challenge in representation learning is how to leverage multiple views to learn better representations. This is further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Nils Holzenberger , Shruti Palaskar , Pranava Madhyastha , Florian Metze , Raman Arora

In medical imaging, manual annotations can be expensive to acquire and sometimes infeasible to access, making conventional deep learning-based models difficult to scale. As a result, it would be beneficial if useful representations could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Jianbo Jiao , Yifan Cai , Mohammad Alsharid , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. With the ability in alleviating data sparsity, contrastive learning is prevailing in the task. However, we spot that existing contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Zhizheng Wang , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Contrastive learning of auditory and visual perception has been extremely successful when investigated individually. However, there are still major questions on how we could integrate principles learned from both domains to attain effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Haider Al-Tahan , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Speech models may be affected by performance imbalance in different population subgroups, raising concerns about fair treatment across these groups. Prior attempts to mitigate unfairness either focus on user-defined subgroups, potentially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Alkis Koudounas , Flavio Giobergia , Eliana Pastor , Elena Baralis

Dense correspondence across semantically related images has been extensively studied, but still faces two challenges: 1) large variations in appearance, scale and pose exist even for objects from the same category, and 2) labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Taihong Xiao , Sifei Liu , Shalini De Mello , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Research on multi-modal contrastive learning strategies for audio and text has rapidly gained interest. Contrastively trained Audio-Language Models (ALMs), such as CLAP, which establish a unified representation across audio and language…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Anshuman Sinha , Camille Migozzi , Aubin Rey , Chao Zhang

Video Question Answering (Video QA) requires fine-grained understanding of both video and language modalities to answer the given questions. In this paper, we propose novel training schemes for multiple-choice video question answering with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Seonhoon Kim , Seohyeong Jeong , Eunbyul Kim , Inho Kang , Nojun Kwak

Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has achieved notable success in learning semantically rich audio representations and is widely adopted for various audio-related tasks. However, current CLAP models face several key limitations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Xinhao Mei , Gael Le Lan , Haohe Liu , Zhaoheng Ni , Varun Nagaraja , Yang Liu , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

As the real propagation environment becomes in creasingly complex and dynamic, millimeter wave beam prediction faces huge challenges. However, the powerful cross modal representation capability of vision-language model (VLM) provides a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Ji Wang , Bin Tang , Jian Xiao , Qimei Cui , Xingwang Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

The integration of visual and textual data in Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models is crucial for enhancing vision-language understanding. However, the adversarial robustness of these models, especially in the alignment of image-text…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Youze Wang , Wenbo Hu , Yinpeng Dong , Hanwang Zhang , Hang Su , Richang Hong

Language-supervised vision models have recently attracted great attention in computer vision. A common approach to build such models is to use contrastive learning on paired data across the two modalities, as exemplified by Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Ryumei Nakada , Halil Ibrahim Gulluk , Zhun Deng , Wenlong Ji , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

Speech emotion recognition is a challenge and an important step towards more natural human-computer interaction (HCI). The popular approach is multimodal emotion recognition based on model-level fusion, which means that the multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Fan Qian , Jiqing Han

Robust frame-wise embeddings are essential to perform video analysis and understanding tasks. We present a self-supervised method for representation learning based on aligning temporal video sequences. Our framework uses a transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Keyne Oei , Amr Gomaa , Anna Maria Feit , João Belo

Self-supervised pre-training recently demonstrates success on large-scale multimodal data, and state-of-the-art contrastive learning methods often enforce the feature consistency from cross-modality inputs, such as video/audio or video/text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Junru Wu , Yi Liang , Feng Han , Hassan Akbari , Zhangyang Wang , Cong Yu

Multimodal fusion breaks through the boundaries between diverse modalities and has already achieved notable performances. However, in many specialized fields, it is struggling to obtain sufficient alignment data for training, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zijia Song , Zelin Zang , Yelin Wang , Guozheng Yang , Kaicheng yu , Wanyu Chen , Miaoyu Wang , Stan Z. Li

Contrastive learning is a powerful way of learning multimodal representations across various domains such as image-caption retrieval and audio-visual representation learning. In this work, we investigate if these findings generalize to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Karel Veldkamp , Mariya Hendriksen , Zoltán Szlávik , Alexander Keijser

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

We focus on contrastive methods for self-supervised video representation learning. A common paradigm in contrastive learning is to construct positive pairs by sampling different data views for the same instance, with different data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chen Sun , Arsha Nagrani , Yonglong Tian , Cordelia Schmid

Deep learning has brought significant improvements to the field of cross-modal representation learning. For tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), voice conversion (VC), and automatic speech recognition (ASR), a cross-modal fine-grained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Chunyu Qiang , Wang Geng , Yi Zhao , Ruibo Fu , Tao Wang , Cheng Gong , Tianrui Wang , Qiuyu Liu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Chen Zhang , Hao Che , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Jianhua Tao