43 accepted papers
This letter introduces EGGCodec, a robust neural Encodec framework engineered for electroglottography (EGG) signal reconstruction and F0 extraction. We propose a multi-scale frequency-domain loss function to capture the nuanced relationship between original and reconstructed EGG signals, complemente…
Embodied 3D object detection is a fundamental perception capability for embodied agents, where observations are partial, heavily occluded, and sequential, requiring modeling of temporal continuity. However, existing benchmarks and methods are primarily designed for fully reconstructed global scenes …
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is increasingly expected to provide reusable spatial representations for downstream perception. However, existing approaches often struggle with scale-consistency and producing maps that lack the geometric fidelity required for reliable perception. We pro…
Chest X-rays (CXRs) are the most frequently performed imaging examinations in clinical settings. Recent advancements in Medical Large Multimodal Models (MLMMs) have enabled automated CXR interpretation, improving diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. However, despite their strong visual understanding,…
3D object detection in point clouds is critical in 3D computer vision, autonomous driving, and robotics. Existing point-based detectors, tailored to handle unstructured raw point clouds, often rely on simplistic sampling strategies to select a subset of points for local representation learning and d…
Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology have boosted the viability of fully automated Alzheimer’s disease (AD) detection via ASR transcripts. However, there is a lack of understanding of how ASR errors affect the performance of AD detection. This paper addresses that gap. Fi…
Online object detection and tracking are crucial for embodied intelligence systems, including autonomous vehicles and robotics. Traditional approaches employ a pipeline structure to perform detection and tracking separately, which can not fully leverage information from the detector. Moreover, most
Generating videos in the first-person perspective has broad application prospects in the field of augmented reality and embodied intelligence. In this work, we explore the cross-view video prediction task, where given an exo-centric video, the first frame of the corresponding ego-centric video, and…
Role-playing agents (RPAs) powered by large language models (LLMs) have been widely utilized in dialogue systems for their capability to deliver personalized interactions. Current evaluations of RPAs mainly focus on personality fidelity, tone imitation, and knowledge consistency, while overlooking e…
Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) identifies relations between entities across an entire document. However, as the number and complexity of entities and entity-pair relations grow, the problem space expands quadratically, causing incomplete annotations and frequent false negatives, especial…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are recognized as systems that closely mimic aspects of human intelligence. This capability has attracted the attention of the social science community, who see the potential in leveraging LLMs to replace human participants in experiments, thereby reducing research costs…
Visual grounding involves the identification and localization of image regions given textual descriptions. To reduce the manual labeling effort on region-text pairs, unsupervised visual grounding aims to generate pseudo bounding box and query pairs for training grounding models. However, there exist…
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are rigorous clinical studies crucial for reliable decision-making, but their credibility can be compromised by bias. The Cochrane Risk of Bias tool (RoB 2) assesses this risk, yet manual assessments are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Previous approaches have…
Diffusion models, known for their success in various generative tasks like image generation and super-resolution, are applied in this study for point cloud generation, a field that has not been extensively explored due to the complexity of point clouds. We propose a novel method using a diffusion mo…
This paper presents the Neural Harmony team’s submission to Task 1 (Person Identification) of the ICASSP 2025 EEG-Music Emotion Recognition Challenge, which aims to identify the subject from a given EEG segment. To enhance performance, we propose a novel architecture incorporating the Multiscale Con…
Multimodal fusion offers significant potential for enhancing medical diagnosis, particularly in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where integrating diverse data sources is crucial. Traditional static fusion models often fail to account for sample-wise variations in modality importance, which can impact…
Existing causal representation learning methods are based on the causal graph they build. However, due to the omission of bias within the causal graph, they essentially encourage models to learn biased causal effects in latent space. In this paper, we propose a novel causally disentangling framework…
Controllable captioning has received much attention in recent years. Although substantial progress has been made, existing methods still face challenges such as high training costs, intricate control signals and limited control capabilities. To address these issues, we propose a straightforward and…
Semi-supervised semantic segmentation approaches have drawn much more attention in recent years, which aim to exploit a large amount of unlabeled data together with a small number of labeled data. However, existing models usually regarded segmentation as pixel-wise classification, neglecting global…
Point clouds have shown significant potential in various domains, including Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, existing approaches either rely on dense point clouds to achieve high localization accuracy or use generalized descriptors to reduce map size. Unfortunately, these two a…
Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is crucial for enhancing security and surveillance systems through automatic identification of irregular events, thereby enabling timely responses and augmenting overall situational awareness. Although existing methods have achieved decent detection performances on benc…
Video paragraph captioning task aims to generate a detailed, fluent and relevant paragraph for a given video. Prior studies often focus on isolating visual objects (potential main components in a sentence) from the overall video content. They rarely explore the latent semantic relations between obje…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are often used in face sketch synthesis due to their powerful ability in image generation. However, most GAN based synthesis methods took the entire face as the minimum unit. Differently, we propose a novel fine-granularity face sketch synthesis framework in th…
Medical image diagnosis in real clinical scenario faces the challenging open set recognition problem with domain shift. Based on the observation that it is often merely the local lesion areas in the whole image decide or cause the true seen or potential unseen disease labels, we propose a unified de…
With the rapid development of multimedia technology, audio-visual learning has emerged as a promising research topic within the field of multimodal analysis. In this paper, we explore parameter-efficient transfer learning for audio-visual learning and propose the Audio-Visual Mixture of Experts (\ou…
Understanding human actions from videos of first-person view poses significant challenges. Most prior approaches explore representation learning on egocentric videos only while overlooking the potential benefit of exploiting existing large-scale third-person videos. In this paper (1) we develop EgoI…
This paper presents Tag2Text, a vision language pre-training (VLP) framework, which introduces image tagging into vision-language models to guide the learning of visual-linguistic features. In contrast to prior works which utilize object tags either manually labeled or automatically detected with a…
Detecting in open-world scenarios poses a formidable challenge for models intended for real-world deployment. The advanced closed set object detectors achieve impressive performance under the closed set setting, but often produce overconfident misprediction on unknown objects due to the lack of supe…
Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) aims at aligning images and sketches at the instance level. It is a challenging task as there are significant differences between sketch and image. Existing methods usually produce less desired performance due to the lack of large-scale fine-graine…
Explicit information of lesions can provide visual instructions for diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading on fundus images. However, pixel-level lesion annotations are extremely difficult and time-consuming to acquire. In this work, we propose a novel weakly-supervised lesion-aware network for DR gradin…
With the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3.5 (GPT-3.5) exhibiting remarkable reasoning and comprehension abilities in Natural Language Processing (NLP), most Question Answering (QA) research has primarily centered around general QA tasks based on GPT, neglecting the specific challenges posed by C…
In this paper, we consider the problem of open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS), which aims to segment objects of arbitrary classes instead of pre-defined, closed-set categories. The main contributions are as follows: First, we propose a transformer-based model for OVS, termed as OVSegmentor,…
Recent works have shown the promise of learning pre-trained models for 3D molecular representation. However, existing pre-training models focus predominantly on equilibrium data and largely overlook off-equilibrium conformations. It is challenging to extend these methods to off-equilibrium data beca…
Video paragraph captioning task aims at generating a fine-grained, coherent and relevant paragraph for a video. Different from the images where objects are static, the temporal states of objects are changing in videos. The dynamic information could be contributed to understanding the whole video con…
Automatic and accurate breast mass segmentation plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis of breast cancer. However, it has been a challenging task for two main reasons: (1) Breast masses are diverse; and (2) The boundaries of masses are ambiguous. To address these problems, we propose a Spatial-C…
Generating paragraph captions for untrimmed videos without event annotations is challenging, especially when aiming to enhance precision and minimize repetition at the same time. To address this challenge, we propose a module called Sparse Frame Grouping (SFG). It dynamically groups event informatio…
Recent neural models for video captioning usually employed an encoder-decoder framework. However, most approaches either neglected the spatial and temporal interactions between objects in a video or implicitly modelled the interactions, resulting in less desired performance. In this paper, we propos…
User sessions empower many search and recommendation tasks on a daily basis. Such session data are semi-structured, which encode heterogeneous relations between queries and products, and each item is described by the unstructured text. Despite recent advances in self-supervised learning for text or…
Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) aims to localize objects with image-level supervision. Existing works mainly rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) derived from a classification model. However, CAM-based methods usually focus on the most discriminative parts of an object (i.e., incomple…
Decision-focused learning (DFL) was recently proposed for stochastic optimization problems that involve unknown parameters. By integrating predictive modeling with an implicitly differentiable optimization layer, DFL has shown superior performance to the standard two-stage predict-then-optimize pipe…
Automatic video polyp segmentation (VPS) is highly valued for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, existing methods are limited in three respects: 1) most of them work on static images, while ignoring the temporal information in consecutive video frames; 2) all of them are fully superv…
Speech enhancement in realistic scenarios still remains many challenges, such as complex background signals and data limitations. In this paper, we present a co-attention based framework that incorporates self-supervised and curriculum learning to derive the target speech in noisy environments. Spec…
Object detection models have achieved increasingly better performance based on more complex architecture designs, but the heavy computation limits their further widespread application on the devices with insufficient computational power. To this end, we propose a novel Object-Oriented Relational Dis…