This paper introduces a two-phase deep feature calibration framework for efficient learning of semantics enhanced text-image cross-modal joint embedding, which clearly separates the deep feature calibration in data preprocessing from training the joint embedding model. We use the Recipe1M dataset for the technical description and empirical validation. In preprocessing, we perform deep feature calibration by combining deep feature engineering with semantic context features derived from raw text-image input data. We leverage LSTM to identify key terms, NLP methods to produce ranking scores for key terms before generating the key term feature. We leverage wideResNet50 to extract and encode the image category semantics to help semantic alignment of the learned recipe and image embeddings in the joint latent space. In joint embedding learning, we perform deep feature calibration by optimizing the batch-hard triplet loss function with soft-margin and double negative sampling, also utilizing the category-based alignment loss and discriminator-based alignment loss. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our SEJE approach with the deep feature calibration significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.
University of Nevada, Reno（内华达大学雷诺分校）；NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology（挪威科技大学）
This report accompanies a dataset release on visual and thermal camera data and details a procedure followed to align such multi-modal camera frames in order to provide pixel-level correspondence between the two without using intrinsic or extrinsic calibration information. To achieve this goal we benefit from progress in the domain of multi-modal image alignment and specifically employ the Mattes Mutual Information Metric to guide the registration process. In the released dataset we release both the raw visual and thermal camera data, as well as the aligned frames, alongside calibration parame…
Multi-modal MRI Translation via Evidential Regression and Distribution Calibration
Fudan University（复旦大学）；University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））；Fuzhou University（福州市大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）
Cross-Modal Attention Calibration for LVLM Hallucination Mitigation
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Meituan（美团）；Inspur Database Technology（Inspur数据库技术）；Guilin University of Electronic Technology（桂林电子科技大学）；Shenzhen Loop Area Institute（深圳河套学院）；Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing（广东大数据分析与处理重点实验室）
FoCal: Frequency-Oriented Cross-Modal Interaction and Spectral Calibration for Aerial Visible-Infrared Object Detection
Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学）；Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院上海技术物理研究所）；China Electronics Technology Group Corporation（中国电子科技集团公司）
CalFuse: Multi-Modal Continual Learning via Feature Calibration and Parameter Fusion
College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University（智能机器人与先进制造学院，复旦大学）；School of Future Science and Engineering, Soochow University（未来科学与工程学院，苏州大学）；DataLab: Data Science and Informatics, University of California, Davis（数据实验室：数据科学与信息学，加州大学戴维斯分校）；University of Rochester（罗切斯特大学）；Ningbo University（宁波大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））；Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）；Academy for Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University（计算机科学与信息学学院，卡迪夫大学）
Regularization by denoising (RED) is a broadly applicable framework for solving inverse problems by using priors specified as denoisers. While RED has been shown to provide state-of-the-art performance in a number of applications, existing RED algorithms require exact knowledge of the measurement operator characterizing the imaging system, limiting their applicability in problems where the measurement operator has parametric uncertainties. We propose a new method, called Calibrated RED (Cal-RED), that enables joint calibration of the measurement operator along with reconstruction of the unknow…
Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Wuhan University of Technology（武汉理工大学）
This paper presents a three-tier modality alignment approach to learning text-image joint embedding, coined as JEMA, for cross-modal retrieval of cooking recipes and food images. The first tier improves recipe text embedding by optimizing the LSTM networks with term extraction and ranking enhanced sequence patterns, and optimizes the image embedding by combining the ResNeXt-101 image encoder with the category embedding using wideResNet-50 with word2vec. The second tier modality alignment optimizes the textual-visual joint embedding loss function using a double batch-hard triplet loss with soft…
Dynamic Camera Clusters (DCCs) are multi-camera systems where one or more cameras are mounted on actuated mechanisms such as a gimbal. Existing methods for DCC calibration rely on joint angle measurements to resolve the time-varying transformation between the dynamic and static camera. This information is usually provided by motor encoders, however, joint angle measurements are not always readily available on off-the-shelf mechanisms. In this paper, we present an encoderless approach for DCC calibration which simultaneously estimates the kinematic parameters of the transformation chain as well…
Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学）；Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；JD AI Research（京东人工智能研究院）
The RGB-infrared cross-modality person re-identification (ReID) task aims to recognize the images of the same identity between the visible modality and the infrared modality. Existing methods mainly use a two-stream architecture to eliminate the discrepancy between the two modalities in the final common feature space, which ignore the single space of each modality in the shallow layers. To solve it, in this paper, we present a novel multi-feature space joint optimization (MSO) network, which can learn modality-sharable features in both the single-modality space and the common space. Firstly, b…
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Changsha University of Science and Technology（数学与统计学学院，长沙理工大学）；School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（生物医学工程学院，上海交通大学）；Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine（上海胸科医院，上海交通大学医学院）
Google（谷歌公司）；University of Bristol（布里斯托尔大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）
This paper studies the problem of novel category discovery on single- and multi-modal data with labels from different but relevant categories. We present a generic, end-to-end framework to jointly learn a reliable representation and assign clusters to unlabelled data. To avoid over-fitting the learnt embedding to labelled data, we take inspiration from self-supervised representation learning by noise-contrastive estimation and extend it to jointly handle labelled and unlabelled data. In particular, we propose using category discrimination on labelled data and cross-modal discrimination on mult…
Renmin University of China（中国人民大学）；Peking University（北京大学）；Microsoft Research（微软研究院）
We propose the first joint audio-video generation framework that brings engaging watching and listening experiences simultaneously, towards high-quality realistic videos. To generate joint audio-video pairs, we propose a novel Multi-Modal Diffusion model (i.e., MM-Diffusion), with two-coupled denoising autoencoders. In contrast to existing single-modal diffusion models, MM-Diffusion consists of a sequential multi-modal U-Net for a joint denoising process by design. Two subnets for audio and video learn to gradually generate aligned audio-video pairs from Gaussian noises. To ensure semantic con…
CalibNet: Dual-branch Cross-modal Calibration for RGB-D Salient Instance Segmentation
School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学计算机科学与工程学院）；School of Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学软件学院）；Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；Nankai International Advanced Research Institute (Shenzhen Futian), Nankai University（南开大学南开大学南开国际高等研究院（深圳福田））；College of Computer Science, Nankai University（南开大学计算机学院）
CR-JEPA: Cross-Modal Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning for Remote Sensing Image Retrieval
Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation（印度空间研究组织空间应用中心）；Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay（印度理工学院孟买资源工程研究中心）
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；University of Maryland（马里兰大学）
A recent method employs 3D voxels to represent 3D shapes, but this limits the approach to low resolutions due to the computational cost caused by the cubic complexity of 3D voxels. Hence the method suffers from a lack of detailed geometry. To resolve this issue, we propose Y^2Seq2Seq, a view-based model, to learn cross-modal representations by joint reconstruction and prediction of view and word sequences. Specifically, the network architecture of Y^2Seq2Seq bridges the semantic meaning embedded in the two modalities by two coupled `Y' like sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) structures. In additio…
We propose a new deep learning method for tumour segmentation when dealing with missing imaging modalities. Instead of producing one network for each possible subset of observed modalities or using arithmetic operations to combine feature maps, our hetero-modal variational 3D encoder-decoder independently embeds all observed modalities into a shared latent representation. Missing data and tumour segmentation can be then generated from this embedding. In our scenario, the input is a random subset of modalities. We demonstrate that the optimisation problem can be seen as a mixture sampling. In a…
UniCalib: Targetless LiDAR-Camera Calibration via Probabilistic Flow on Unified Depth Representations
School of Computer Science, Wuhan University（武汉大学计算机学院）；School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University（武汉大学电子信息学院）；School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University（武汉大学人工智能学院）
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology（脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）
RGB-Infrared (IR) person re-identification is an important and challenging task due to large cross-modality variations between RGB and IR images. Most conventional approaches aim to bridge the cross-modality gap with feature alignment by feature representation learning. Different from existing methods, in this paper, we propose a novel and end-to-end Alignment Generative Adversarial Network (AlignGAN) for the RGB-IR RE-ID task. The proposed model enjoys several merits. First, it can exploit pixel alignment and feature alignment jointly. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to m…
The volume estimation of brain regions from MRI data is a key problem in many clinical applications, where the acquisition of data at high spatial resolution is desirable. While parallel MRI and constrained image reconstruction algorithms can accelerate the scans, image reconstruction artifacts are inevitable, especially at high acceleration factors. We introduce a novel image domain deep-learning framework for calibrationless parallel MRI reconstruction, coupled with a segmentation network to improve image quality and to reduce the vulnerability of current segmentation algorithms to image art…
Online,Target-Free LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration via Cross-Modal Mask Matching
Tongji University（同济大学）；College of Electronics & Information Engineering（电子与信息工程学院）；Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology（上海智能科学技术研究院）；Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems（上海智能自主系统研究院）；State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Autonomous Systems（智能自主系统国家重点实验室）；Frontiers Science Center for Intelligent Autonomous Systems（智能自主系统前沿科学中心）
Laboratoire d’imagerie, de vision et d’intelligence artificielle (LIVIA)（成像、视觉与人工智能实验室（LIVIA））；Ecole de technologie supérieure（高等技术学院）
Automatic emotion recognition (ER) has recently gained lot of interest due to its potential in many real-world applications. In this context, multimodal approaches have been shown to improve performance (over unimodal approaches) by combining diverse and complementary sources of information, providing some robustness to noisy and missing modalities. In this paper, we focus on dimensional ER based on the fusion of facial and vocal modalities extracted from videos, where complementary audio-visual (A-V) relationships are explored to predict an individual's emotional states in valence-arousal spa…
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）；Tencent PCG（腾讯平台与内容事业群）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）
Finding relevant moments and highlights in videos according to natural language queries is a natural and highly valuable common need in the current video content explosion era. Nevertheless, jointly conducting moment retrieval and highlight detection is an emerging research topic, even though its component problems and some related tasks have already been studied for a while. In this paper, we present the first unified framework, named Unified Multi-modal Transformers (UMT), capable of realizing such joint optimization while can also be easily degenerated for solving individual problems. As fa…
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；Huawei Cloud（华为云）；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）；Zhejiang Gongshang University（浙江工商大学）；Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）
Query-based moment localization is a new task that localizes the best matched segment in an untrimmed video according to a given sentence query. In this localization task, one should pay more attention to thoroughly mine visual and linguistic information. To this end, we propose a novel Cross- and Self-Modal Graph Attention Network (CSMGAN) that recasts this task as a process of iterative messages passing over a joint graph. Specifically, the joint graph consists of Cross-Modal interaction Graph (CMG) and Self-Modal relation Graph (SMG), where frames and words are represented as nodes, and the…
Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Wuhan University of Technology（武汉理工大学）
It is widely acknowledged that learning joint embeddings of recipes with images is challenging due to the diverse composition and deformation of ingredients in cooking procedures. We present a Multi-modal Semantics enhanced Joint Embedding approach (MSJE) for learning a common feature space between the two modalities (text and image), with the ultimate goal of providing high-performance cross-modal retrieval services. Our MSJE approach has three unique features. First, we extract the TFIDF feature from the title, ingredients and cooking instructions of recipes. By determining the significance …
