Advancements in Multimodal Understanding and Representation

The field of multimodal understanding and representation is witnessing significant advancements, driven by the development of innovative models and techniques that can effectively capture and process complex relationships between different modalities, such as vision, audio, and language. A key direction in this area is the focus on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of multimodal interaction modeling, with a particular emphasis on dense event localization, audio-visual segmentation, and 3D visual grounding. Notable papers in this area include LLaVA-Scissor, which proposes a training-free token compression strategy for video multimodal large language models, and DEL, which introduces a framework for dense semantic action localization in long untrimmed videos. Additionally, papers like ASDA and MUG have made significant contributions to self-supervised representation learning and audio-visual video parsing, respectively. Overall, these developments are pushing the boundaries of multimodal understanding and representation, enabling more accurate and efficient processing of complex multimedia data.

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LLaVA-Scissor: Token Compression with Semantic Connected Components for Video LLMs

Decoupled Seg Tokens Make Stronger Reasoning Video Segmenter and Grounder

DEL: Dense Event Localization for Multi-modal Audio-Visual Understanding

Revisiting Audio-Visual Segmentation with Vision-Centric Transformer

Audio-3DVG: Unified Audio - Point Cloud Fusion for 3D Visual Grounding

A Review on Sound Source Localization in Robotics: Focusing on Deep Learning Methods

MUG: Pseudo Labeling Augmented Audio-Visual Mamba Network for Audio-Visual Video Parsing

Spotlighting Partially Visible Cinematic Language for Video-to-Audio Generation via Self-distillation

ASDA: Audio Spectrogram Differential Attention Mechanism for Self-Supervised Representation Learning

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