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Investigating the mapping between visual stimuli and neural responses in the visual cortex contributes to a deeper understanding of biological visual processing mechanisms. Most existing studies characterize this mapping by training models…

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Classifying a visual concept merely from its associated online textual source, such as a Wikipedia article, is an attractive research topic in zero-shot learning because it alleviates the burden of manually collecting semantic attributes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Ruizhi Qiao , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Language, as an information medium created by advanced organisms, has always been a concern of neuroscience regarding how it is represented in the brain. Decoding linguistic representations in the evoked brain has shown groundbreaking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yu Wang , Heyang Liu , Yuhao Wang , Chuan Xuan , Yixuan Hou , Sheng Feng , Hongcheng Liu , Yusheng Liao , Yanfeng Wang

Zero-shot learning methods rely on fixed visual and semantic embeddings, extracted from independent vision and language models, both pre-trained for other large-scale tasks. This is a weakness of current zero-shot learning frameworks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shah Nawaz , Jacopo Cavazza , Alessio Del Bue

Speech is understood better by using visual context; for this reason, there have been many attempts to use images to adapt automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Current work, however, has shown that visually adapted ASR models only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Tejas Srinivasan , Ramon Sanabria , Florian Metze

The recent success of the generative model shows that leveraging the multi-modal embedding space can manipulate an image using text information. However, manipulating an image with other sources rather than text, such as sound, is not easy…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Seung Hyun Lee , Wonseok Roh , Wonmin Byeon , Sang Ho Yoon , Chan Young Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Sangpil Kim

Multi-modal data abounds in biomedicine, such as radiology images and reports. Interpreting this data at scale is essential for improving clinical care and accelerating clinical research. Biomedical text with its complex semantics poses…

In recent years, advancements in representation learning and language models have propelled Automated Captioning (AC) to new heights, enabling the generation of human-level descriptions. Leveraging these advancements, we propose AVCap, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Jongsuk Kim , Jiwon Shin , Junmo Kim

The intuitive interaction between the audio and visual modalities is valuable for cross-modal self-supervised learning. This concept has been demonstrated for generic audiovisual tasks like video action recognition and acoustic scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Abhinav Shukla , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Self supervised representation learning has recently attracted a lot of research interest for both the audio and visual modalities. However, most works typically focus on a particular modality or feature alone and there has been very…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Abhinav Shukla , Konstantinos Vougioukas , Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

The Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) task aims to segment sounding objects in the visual space using audio cues. However, in this work, it is recognized that previous AVS methods show a heavy reliance on detrimental segmentation preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Yuanchao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

Zero-shot learning aims to recognize unseen objects using their semantic representations. Most existing works use visual attributes labeled by humans, not suitable for large-scale applications. In this paper, we revisit the use of documents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jihyung Kil , Wei-Lun Chao

Audio-visual captioning aims to generate holistic scene descriptions by jointly modeling sound and vision. While recent methods have improved performance through sophisticated modality fusion, it remains unclear to what extent the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Yuchi Ishikawa , Toranosuke Manabe , Tatsuya Komatsu , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Enabling effective brain-computer interfaces requires understanding how the human brain encodes stimuli across modalities such as visual, language (or text), etc. Brain encoding aims at constructing fMRI brain activity given a stimulus.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Subba Reddy Oota , Jashn Arora , Vijay Rowtula , Manish Gupta , Raju S. Bapi

Neuro-symbolic representations have proved effective in learning structure information in vision and language. In this paper, we propose a new model architecture for learning multi-modal neuro-symbolic representations for video captioning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Hassan Akbari , Hamid Palangi , Jianwei Yang , Sudha Rao , Asli Celikyilmaz , Roland Fernandez , Paul Smolensky , Jianfeng Gao , Shih-Fu Chang

Automated audio captioning (AAC) has developed rapidly in recent years, involving acoustic signal processing and natural language processing to generate human-readable sentences for audio clips. The current models are generally based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhongjie Ye , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou

Machines that can represent and describe environmental soundscapes have practical potential, e.g., for audio tagging and captioning systems. Prevailing learning paradigms have been relying on parallel audio-text data, which is, however,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yanpeng Zhao , Jack Hessel , Youngjae Yu , Ximing Lu , Rowan Zellers , Yejin Choi

Imagine hearing a dog bark and turning toward the sound only to see a parked car, while the real, silent dog sits elsewhere. Such sensory conflicts test perception, yet humans reliably resolve them by prioritizing sound over misleading…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yanhao Jia , Ji Xie , S Jivaganesh , Hao Li , Xu Wu , Mengmi Zhang

In the field of spoken language processing, audio-visual speech processing is receiving increasing research attention. Key components of this research include tasks such as lip reading, audio-visual speech recognition, and visual-to-speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chen Chen , Xiaolou Li , Zehua Liu , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

In this study we describe a methodology to realize visual images cognition in the broader sense, by a cross-modal stimulation through the auditory channel. An original algorithm of conversion from bi-dimensional images to sounds has been…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-16 Takahisa Kishino , Sun Zhe , Roberto Marchisio , Ruggero Micheletto