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Jointly Discovering Visual Objects and Spoken Words from Raw Sensory Input
David Harwath, Adrià Recasens, Dídac Surís, Galen Chuang, Antonio Torralba, James Glass
In this paper, we explore neural network models that learn to associate segments of spoken audio captions with the semantically relevant portions of natural images that they refer to. We demonstrate that these audio-visual associative localizations emerge from network-internal representations learned as a by-product of training to perform an image-audio retrieval task. Our models operate directly on the image pixels and speech waveform, and do not rely on any conventional supervision in the form of labels, segmentations, or alignments between the modalities during training. We perform analysis using the Places 205 and ADE20k datasets demonstrating that our models implicitly learn semantically-coupled object and word detectors.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
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| Sound Prompted Semantic Segmentation | ADE20K | DAVENet | mAP | 16.8 | #4 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Sound Prompted Semantic Segmentation | ADE20K | DAVENet | mIoU | 18.1 | #4 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Speech Prompted Semantic Segmentation | ADE20K | DAVENet | mAP | 32.2 | #2 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Speech Prompted Semantic Segmentation | ADE20K | DAVENet | mIoU | 26.3 | #2 of 4 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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