EMNLP 2024finding0 citations

SaSR-Net: Source-Aware Semantic Representation Network for Enhancing Audio-Visual Question Answering

Tianyu Yang, Yiyang Nan, Lisen Dai, Zhenwen Liang, Yapeng Tian, Xiangliang Zhang

Abstract

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a challenging task that involves answering questions based on both auditory and visual information in videos. A significant challenge is interpreting complex multi-modal scenes, which include both visual objects and sound sources, and connecting them to the given question. In this paper, we introduce the Source-aware Semantic Representation Network (SaSR-Net), a novel model designed for AVQA. SaSR-Net utilizes source-wise learnable tokens to efficiently capture and align audio-visual elements with the corresponding question. It streamlines the fusion of audio and visual information using spatial and temporal attention mechanisms to identify answers in multi-modal scenes. Extensive experiments on the Music-AVQA and AVQA-Yang datasets show that SaSR-Net outperforms state-of-the-art AVQA methods. We will release our source code and pre-trained models.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{yang-etal-2024-sasr,
    title = "{S}a{SR}-Net: Source-Aware Semantic Representation Network for Enhancing Audio-Visual Question Answering",
    author = "Yang, Tianyu  and
      Nan, Yiyang  and
      Dai, Lisen  and
      Liang, Zhenwen  and
      Tian, Yapeng  and
      Zhang, Xiangliang",
    editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.933/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.933",
    pages = "15894--15904"
}