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How does visual information included in training affect language processing in audio- and text-based deep learning models? We explore how such visual grounding affects model-internal representations of words, and find substantially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Adrian Sauter , Willem Zuidema , Marianne de Heer Kloots

This paper addresses text-supervised semantic segmentation, aiming to learn a model capable of segmenting arbitrary visual concepts within images by using only image-text pairs without dense annotations. Existing methods have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ji-Jia Wu , Andy Chia-Hao Chang , Chieh-Yu Chuang , Chun-Pei Chen , Yu-Lun Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Hou-Ning Hu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Yen-Yu Lin

Audio captioning aims to generate text descriptions of audio clips. In the real world, many objects produce similar sounds. How to accurately recognize ambiguous sounds is a major challenge for audio captioning. In this work, inspired by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Jianyuan Sun , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , Yu Zhang , Lilian H. Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

The many-to-many multilingual neural machine translation can be regarded as the process of integrating semantic features from the source sentences and linguistic features from the target sentences. To enhance zero-shot translation, models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Mengyu Bu , Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng

Decoding neurophysiological signals into language is of great research interest within brain-computer interface (BCI) applications. Electroencephalography (EEG), known for its non-invasiveness, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness, has been…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-26 Yitian Tao , Yan Liang , Luoyu Wang , Yongqing Li , Qing Yang , Han Zhang

Decoding visual information from electroencephalography (EEG) signals remains a fundamental challenge in brain-computer interfaces and medical rehabilitation. Existing EEG visual decoding methods mainly focus on learning a single global EEG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Xiang Gao , Hui Tian , Yanming Zhu , Xuefei Yin , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by using visual and/or auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same with visual data already, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Dengxin Dai , Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Jiri Matas , Luc Van Gool

Large-scale pre-trained multi-modal models (e.g., CLIP) demonstrate strong zero-shot transfer capability in many discriminative tasks. Their adaptation to zero-shot image-conditioned text generation tasks has drawn increasing interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wei Li , Linchao Zhu , Longyin Wen , Yi Yang

Recent literature uses language to build foundation models for audio. These Audio-Language Models (ALMs) are trained on a vast number of audio-text pairs and show remarkable performance in tasks including Text-to-Audio Retrieval,…

Decoding imagined speech from non-invasive brain recordings is challenging because imagined datasets are scarce and difficult to align temporally across subjects and sessions In this work, we propose a new approach to the decoding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Maryam Maghsoudi , Shihab Shamma

This work presents a novel method of exploring human brain-visual representations, with a view towards replicating these processes in machines. The core idea is to learn plausible computational and biological representations by correlating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato , Isaak Kavasidis , Daniela Giordano , Joseph Schmidt , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we study zero-shot learning in audio classification via semantic embeddings extracted from textual labels and sentence descriptions of sound classes. Our goal is to obtain a classifier that is capable of recognizing audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Huang Xie , Tuomas Virtanen

Understanding the neural mechanisms behind auditory and linguistic processing is key to advancing cognitive neuroscience. In this study, we use Magnetoencephalography (MEG) data to analyze brain responses to spoken language stimuli. We…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-08 Matteo Ciferri , Matteo Ferrante , Nicola Toschi

Visual Semantic Embedding (VSE) models, which map images into a rich semantic embedding space, have been a milestone in object recognition and zero-shot learning. Current approaches to VSE heavily rely on static word em-bedding techniques.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yue Jiao , Jonathon Hare , Adam Prügel-Bennett

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

Representing the semantics of words is a long-standing problem for the natural language processing community. Most methods compute word semantics given their textual context in large corpora. More recently, researchers attempted to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Éloi Zablocki , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

The intrication of brain signals drives research that leverages multimodal AI to align brain modalities with visual and textual data for explainable descriptions. However, most existing studies are limited to coarse interpretations, lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Weihao Xia , Cengiz Oztireli

Among the most impressive recent applications of neural decoding is the visual representation decoding, where the category of an object that a subject either sees or imagines is inferred by observing his/her brain activity. Even though…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Angeliki Papadimitriou , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

Accurate volume estimation of objects from visual data is a long-standing challenge in computer vision with significant applications in robotics, logistics, and smart health. Existing methods often rely on complex 3D reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Fengqing Zhu

Language decoding studies have identified word representations which can be used to predict brain activity in response to novel words and sentences (Anderson et al., 2016; Pereira et al., 2018). The unspoken assumption of these studies is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jon Gauthier , Anna Ivanova