Summary of Separating the “chirp” From the “chat”: Self-supervised Visual Grounding Of Sound and Language, by Mark Hamilton et al.
Separating the “Chirp” from the “Chat”: Self-supervised Visual Grounding of Sound and Language
by Mark Hamilton, Andrew Zisserman, John R. Hershey, William T. Freeman
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces DenseAV, a novel dual encoder architecture that learns high-resolution features from watching videos without explicit supervision. This model discovers the meaning of words and location of sounds through a multi-head feature aggregation operator that compares dense image and audio representations for contrastive learning. The authors create two new datasets to evaluate AV representations and show that DenseAV outperforms previous state-of-the-art models on speech and sound prompted semantic segmentation, using fewer parameters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary DenseAV is a new way to learn features from videos without extra help. It can figure out what words mean and where sounds come from just by watching videos. This helps it understand audio-visual connections better than other systems that try to do the same thing. The researchers made two new datasets to test how well AV representations work, and they found that DenseAV does much better on these tests. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Encoder » Semantic segmentation
