CoLeaF: A Contrastive-Collaborative Learning Framework for Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Video Parsing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10690v4
• Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:31:54 GMT
• Title: CoLeaF: A Contrastive-Collaborative Learning Framework for Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Video Parsing
• Authors: Faegheh Sardari, Armin Mustafa, Philip J. B. Jackson, Adrian Hilton,
• Abstract summary: Weakly supervised audio-visual video parsing methods aim to detect audible-only, visible-only, and audible-visible events using only video-level labels. We propose CoLeaF, a novel learning framework that optimize the integration of cross-modal context in the embedding space. Our experiments demonstrate that CoLeaF significantly improves the state-of-the-art results by an average of 1.9% and 2.4% F-score on the datasets.
• Score: 23.100602876056165
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Weakly supervised audio-visual video parsing (AVVP) methods aim to detect audible-only, visible-only, and audible-visible events using only video-level labels. Existing approaches tackle this by leveraging unimodal and cross-modal contexts. However, we argue that while cross-modal learning is beneficial for detecting audible-visible events, in the weakly supervised scenario, it negatively impacts unaligned audible or visible events by introducing irrelevant modality information. In this paper, we propose CoLeaF, a novel learning framework that optimizes the integration of cross-modal context in the embedding space such that the network explicitly learns to combine cross-modal information for audible-visible events while filtering them out for unaligned events. Additionally, as videos often involve complex class relationships, modelling them improves performance. However, this introduces extra computational costs into the network. Our framework is designed to leverage cross-class relationships during training without incurring additional computations at inference. Furthermore, we propose new metrics to better evaluate a method's capabilities in performing AVVP. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that CoLeaF significantly improves the state-of-the-art results by an average of 1.9% and 2.4% F-score on the LLP and UnAV-100 datasets, respectively.

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