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Recognizing human activities in videos is challenging due to the spatio-temporal complexity and context-dependence of human interactions. Prior studies often rely on single input modalities, such as RGB or skeletal data, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Hung Tran , Truyen Tran

Multimodal learning is defined as learning over multiple heterogeneous input modalities such as video, audio, and text. In this work, we are concerned with understanding how models behave as the type of modalities differ between training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Brandon McKinzie , Joseph Cheng , Vaishaal Shankar , Yinfei Yang , Jonathon Shlens , Alexander Toshev

Multimodal semantic communication has gained widespread attention due to its ability to enhance downstream task performance. A key challenge in such systems is the effective fusion of features from different modalities, which requires the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Hongwei Zhang , Meixia Tao

Multimodal learning, while contributing to numerous success stories across various fields, faces the challenge of prohibitively expensive manual annotation. To address the scarcity of annotated data, a popular solution is unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jun Sun , Xinxin Zhang , Simin Hong , Jian Zhu , Xiang Gao

Understanding linguistics and morphology of resource-scarce code-mixed texts remains a key challenge in text processing. Although word embedding comes in handy to support downstream tasks for low-resource languages, there are plenty of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ayan Sengupta , Sourabh Kumar Bhattacharjee , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Md Shad Akhtar

Multimodal learning mimics the reasoning process of the human multi-sensory system, which is used to perceive the surrounding world. While making a prediction, the human brain tends to relate crucial cues from multiple sources of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Lang Su , Chuqing Hu , Guofa Li , Dongpu Cao

Today, the acquisition of various behavioral log data has enabled deeper understanding of customer preferences and future behaviors in the marketing field. In particular, multimodal deep learning has achieved highly accurate predictions by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Junichiro Niimi

This study focuses on how different modalities of human communication can be used to distinguish between healthy controls and subjects with schizophrenia who exhibit strong positive symptoms. We developed a multi-modal schizophrenia…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Gowtham Premananth , Yashish M. Siriwardena , Philip Resnik , Carol Espy-Wilson

Recent advances in multi-modal detection have significantly improved detection accuracy in challenging environments (e.g., low light, overexposure). By integrating RGB with modalities such as thermal and depth, multi-modal fusion increases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xiaofan Yang , Yubin Liu , Wei Pan , Guoqing Chu , Junming Zhang , Jie Zhao , Zhuoqi Man , Xuanming Cao

Training a multimodal network is challenging and it requires complex architectures to achieve reasonable performance. We show that one reason for this phenomena is the difference between the convergence rate of various modalities. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Aya Abdelsalam Ismail , Mahmudul Hasan , Faisal Ishtiaq

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) is a fundamental complex research problem due to the heterogeneity gap between different modalities and the ambiguity of human emotional expression. Although there have been many successful attempts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jiahao Zheng , Sen Zhang , Xiaoping Wang , Zhigang Zeng

Combined visual and force feedback play an essential role in contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks. Current methods focus on developing the feedback control around a single modality while underrating the synergy of the sensors. Fusing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Piaopiao Jin , Yinjie Lin , Yanchao Tan , Tiefeng Li , Wei Yang

Multi-Head Attention (MHA) is the core computational primitive underlying modern Large Language Models (LLMs). However, MHA suffers from a fundamental linear scaling limitation: $H$ attention heads produce exactly $H$ independent attention…

Modern Web systems such as social media and e-commerce contain rich contents expressed in images and text. Leveraging information from multi-modalities can improve the performance of machine learning tasks such as classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Huidong Liu , Shaoyuan Xu , Jinmiao Fu , Yang Liu , Ning Xie , Chien-Chih Wang , Bryan Wang , Yi Sun

Multimodal learning integrates information from different modalities to enhance model performance, yet it often suffers from modality imbalance, where dominant modalities overshadow weaker ones during joint optimization. This paper reveals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xiaoyu Ma , Hao Chen

Multimodal representation learning aims to construct a shared embedding space in which heterogeneous modalities are semantically aligned. Despite strong empirical results, InfoNCE-based objectives introduce inherent conflicts that yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wenzhe Yin , Pan Zhou , Zehao Xiao , Jie Liu , Shujian Yu , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

In robotics, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that integrate diverse multimodal signals from multi-view inputs have emerged as an effective approach. However, most prior work adopts static fusion that processes all visual inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Young-Chae Son , Jung-Woo Lee , Yoon-Ji Choi , Dae-Kwan Ko , Soo-Chul Lim

Person identification systems often rely on audio, visual, or behavioral cues, but real-world conditions frequently present with missing or degraded modalities. To address this challenge, we propose a multimodal person identification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Aref Farhadipour , Teodora Vukovic , Volker Dellwo , Petr Motlicek , Srikanth Madikeri

Multimodal learning faces two major challenges: modality imbalance and data noise, which significantly affect the robustness and generalization ability of models. Existing methods achieve modality balance by suppressing dominant modalities,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zijing Xu , Yunfeng Kou , Kunming Wu , Hong Liu

Modern Review Helpfulness Prediction systems are dependent upon multiple modalities, typically texts and images. Unfortunately, those contemporary approaches pay scarce attention to polish representations of cross-modal relations and tend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Xiaobao Wu , Anh-Tuan Luu , Cong-Duy Nguyen , Zhen Hai , Lidong Bing