Review of Visible-Infrared Cross-Modality Person Re-Identification

Person re-identification(ReID)is a sub-problem under image retrieval.It is a technology that uses computer vision to identify a specific pedestrian in a collection of pictures or videos.The pedestrian image under cross-device is taken from a monitored pedestrian image.At present,most ReID methods deal with the matching between visible and visible images,but with the continuous improvement of security monitoring system,more and more infrared cameras are used to monitor at night or in dim light.Due to the image differences between infrared camera and RGB camera,there is a huge visual difference between cross-modality images,so the traditional ReID method is difficult to apply in this scene.In view of this situation,studying the pedestrian matching between visible and infrared modalities is particularly crucial.Visible-infrared person re-identification(VI-ReID)was first proposed in 2017,and then attracted more and more attention,and many advanced methods emerged.

Cross-Modal Consistency with Aesthetic Similarity for Multimodal False Information Detection

With the explosive growth of false information on social media platforms, the automatic detection of multimodalfalse information has received increasing attention. Recent research has significantly contributed to multimodalinformation exchange and fusion, with many methods attempting to integrate unimodal features to generatemultimodal news representations. However, they still need to fully explore the hierarchical and complex semanticcorrelations between different modal contents, severely limiting their performance detecting multimodal falseinformation. This work proposes a two-stage detection framework for multimodal false information detection,called ASMFD, which is based on image aesthetic similarity to segment and explores the consistency andinconsistency features of images and texts. Specifically, we first use the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training(CLIP) model to learn the relationship between text and images through label awareness and train an imageaesthetic attribute scorer using an aesthetic attribute dataset. Then, we calculate the aesthetic similarity betweenthe image and related images and use this similarity as a threshold to divide the multimodal correlation matrixinto consistency and inconsistencymatrices. Finally, the fusionmodule is designed to identify essential features fordetectingmultimodal false information. In extensive experiments on four datasets, the performance of the ASMFDis superior to state-of-the-art baseline methods.

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Based on a Cross-Modal Multihead Attention Mechanism

Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to understand people’s emotions and opinions from diverse data.Concate-nating or multiplying various modalities is a traditional multi-modal sentiment analysis fusion method.This fusion method does not utilize the correlation information between modalities.To solve this problem,this paper proposes amodel based on amulti-head attention mechanism.First,after preprocessing the original data.Then,the feature representation is converted into a sequence of word vectors and positional encoding is introduced to better understand the semantic and sequential information in the input sequence.Next,the input coding sequence is fed into the transformer model for further processing and learning.At the transformer layer,a cross-modal attention consisting of a pair of multi-head attention modules is employed to reflect the correlation between modalities.Finally,the processed results are input into the feedforward neural network to obtain the emotional output through the classification layer.Through the above processing flow,the model can capture semantic information and contextual relationships and achieve good results in various natural language processing tasks.Our model was tested on the CMU Multimodal Opinion Sentiment and Emotion Intensity(CMU-MOSEI)and Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset(MELD),achieving an accuracy of 82.04% and F1 parameters reached 80.59% on the former dataset.

Keypoints and Descriptors Based on Cross-Modality Information Fusion for Camera Localization

To address the problem that traditional keypoint detection methods are susceptible to complex backgrounds and local similarity of images resulting in inaccurate descriptor matching and bias in visual localization, keypoints and descriptors based on cross-modality fusion are proposed and applied to the study of camera motion estimation. A convolutional neural network is used to detect the positions of keypoints and generate the corresponding descriptors, and the pyramid convolution is used to extract multi-scale features in the network. The problem of local similarity of images is solved by capturing local and global feature information and fusing the geometric position information of keypoints to generate descriptors. According to our experiments, the repeatability of our method is improved by 3.7%, and the homography estimation is improved by 1.6%. To demonstrate the practicability of the method, the visual odometry part of simultaneous localization and mapping is constructed and our method is 35% higher positioning accuracy than the traditional method.

A Multi-Level Circulant Cross-Modal Transformer for Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition

Speech emotion recognition,as an important component of humancomputer interaction technology,has received increasing attention.Recent studies have treated emotion recognition of speech signals as a multimodal task,due to its inclusion of the semantic features of two different modalities,i.e.,audio and text.However,existing methods often fail in effectively represent features and capture correlations.This paper presents a multi-level circulant cross-modal Transformer(MLCCT)formultimodal speech emotion recognition.The proposed model can be divided into three steps,feature extraction,interaction and fusion.Self-supervised embedding models are introduced for feature extraction,which give a more powerful representation of the original data than those using spectrograms or audio features such as Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients(MFCCs)and low-level descriptors(LLDs).In particular,MLCCT contains two types of feature interaction processes,where a bidirectional Long Short-term Memory(Bi-LSTM)with circulant interaction mechanism is proposed for low-level features,while a two-stream residual cross-modal Transformer block is appliedwhen high-level features are involved.Finally,we choose self-attention blocks for fusion and a fully connected layer to make predictions.To evaluate the performance of our proposed model,comprehensive experiments are conducted on three widely used benchmark datasets including IEMOCAP,MELD and CMU-MOSEI.The competitive results verify the effectiveness of our approach.

TECMH:Transformer-Based Cross-Modal Hashing For Fine-Grained Image-Text Retrieval

In recent years,cross-modal hash retrieval has become a popular research field because of its advantages of high efficiency and low storage.Cross-modal retrieval technology can be applied to search engines,crossmodalmedical processing,etc.The existing main method is to use amulti-label matching paradigm to finish the retrieval tasks.However,such methods do not use fine-grained information in the multi-modal data,which may lead to suboptimal results.To avoid cross-modal matching turning into label matching,this paper proposes an end-to-end fine-grained cross-modal hash retrieval method,which can focus more on the fine-grained semantic information of multi-modal data.First,the method refines the image features and no longer uses multiple labels to represent text features but uses BERT for processing.Second,this method uses the inference capabilities of the transformer encoder to generate global fine-grained features.Finally,in order to better judge the effect of the fine-grained model,this paper uses the datasets in the image text matching field instead of the traditional label-matching datasets.This article experiment on Microsoft COCO(MS-COCO)and Flickr30K datasets and compare it with the previous classicalmethods.The experimental results show that this method can obtain more advanced results in the cross-modal hash retrieval field.

ViT2CMH:Vision Transformer Cross-Modal Hashing for Fine-Grained Vision-Text Retrieval

In recent years,the development of deep learning has further improved hash retrieval technology.Most of the existing hashing methods currently use Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)and Recurrent Neural Networks(RNNs)to process image and text information,respectively.This makes images or texts subject to local constraints,and inherent label matching cannot capture finegrained information,often leading to suboptimal results.Driven by the development of the transformer model,we propose a framework called ViT2CMH mainly based on the Vision Transformer to handle deep Cross-modal Hashing tasks rather than CNNs or RNNs.Specifically,we use a BERT network to extract text features and use the vision transformer as the image network of the model.Finally,the features are transformed into hash codes for efficient and fast retrieval.We conduct extensive experiments on Microsoft COCO(MS-COCO)and Flickr30K,comparing with baselines of some hashing methods and image-text matching methods,showing that our method has better performance.

Adequate alignment and interaction for cross-modal retrieval

Background Cross-modal retrieval has attracted widespread attention in many cross-media similarity search applications,particularly image-text retrieval in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing.Recently,visual and semantic embedding(VSE)learning has shown promising improvements in image text retrieval tasks.Most existing VSE models employ two unrelated encoders to extract features and then use complex methods to contextualize and aggregate these features into holistic embeddings.Despite recent advances,existing approaches still suffer from two limitations:(1)without considering intermediate interactions and adequate alignment between different modalities,these models cannot guarantee the discriminative ability of representations;and(2)existing feature aggregators are susceptible to certain noisy regions,which may lead to unreasonable pooling coefficients and affect the quality of the final aggregated features.Methods To address these challenges,we propose a novel cross-modal retrieval model containing a well-designed alignment module and a novel multimodal fusion encoder that aims to learn the adequate alignment and interaction of aggregated features to effectively bridge the modality gap.Results Experiments on the Microsoft COCO and Flickr30k datasets demonstrated the superiority of our model over state-of-the-art methods.

Attention-Enhanced Voice Portrait Model Using Generative Adversarial Network

Voice portrait technology has explored and established the relationship between speakers’ voices and their facialfeatures, aiming to generate corresponding facial characteristics by providing the voice of an unknown speaker.Due to its powerful advantages in image generation, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have now beenwidely applied across various fields. The existing Voice2Face methods for voice portraits are primarily based onGANs trained on voice-face paired datasets. However, voice portrait models solely constructed on GANs facelimitations in image generation quality and struggle to maintain facial similarity. Additionally, the training processis relatively unstable, thereby affecting the overall generative performance of the model. To overcome the abovechallenges,wepropose a novel deepGenerativeAdversarialNetworkmodel for audio-visual synthesis, namedAVPGAN(Attention-enhanced Voice Portrait Model using Generative Adversarial Network). This model is based ona convolutional attention mechanism and is capable of generating corresponding facial images from the voice ofan unknown speaker. Firstly, to address the issue of training instability, we integrate convolutional neural networkswith deep GANs. In the network architecture, we apply spectral normalization to constrain the variation of thediscriminator, preventing issues such as mode collapse. Secondly, to enhance the model’s ability to extract relevantfeatures between the two modalities, we propose a voice portrait model based on convolutional attention. Thismodel learns the mapping relationship between voice and facial features in a common space from both channeland spatial dimensions independently. Thirdly, to enhance the quality of generated faces, we have incorporated adegradation removal module and utilized pretrained facial GANs as facial priors to repair and enhance the clarityof the generated facial images. Experimental results demonstrate that our AVP-GAN achieved a cosine similarity of0.511, outperforming the performance of our comparison model, and effectively achieved the generation of highqualityfacial images corresponding to a speaker’s voice.

Fake News Detection Based on Text-Modal Dominance and Fusing Multiple Multi-Model Clues

In recent years,how to efficiently and accurately identify multi-model fake news has become more challenging.First,multi-model data provides more evidence but not all are equally important.Secondly,social structure information has proven to be effective in fake news detection and how to combine it while reducing the noise information is critical.Unfortunately,existing approaches fail to handle these problems.This paper proposes a multi-model fake news detection framework based on Tex-modal Dominance and fusing Multiple Multi-model Cues(TD-MMC),which utilizes three valuable multi-model clues:text-model importance,text-image complementary,and text-image inconsistency.TD-MMC is dominated by textural content and assisted by image information while using social network information to enhance text representation.To reduce the irrelevant social structure’s information interference,we use a unidirectional cross-modal attention mechanism to selectively learn the social structure’s features.A cross-modal attention mechanism is adopted to obtain text-image cross-modal features while retaining textual features to reduce the loss of important information.In addition,TD-MMC employs a new multi-model loss to improve the model’s generalization ability.Extensive experiments have been conducted on two public real-world English and Chinese datasets,and the results show that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on classification evaluation metrics.

Guided-YNet: Saliency Feature-Guided Interactive Feature Enhancement Lung Tumor Segmentation Network

Multimodal lung tumor medical images can provide anatomical and functional information for the same lesion.Such as Positron Emission Computed Tomography(PET),Computed Tomography(CT),and PET-CT.How to utilize the lesion anatomical and functional information effectively and improve the network segmentation performance are key questions.To solve the problem,the Saliency Feature-Guided Interactive Feature Enhancement Lung Tumor Segmentation Network(Guide-YNet)is proposed in this paper.Firstly,a double-encoder single-decoder U-Net is used as the backbone in this model,a single-coder single-decoder U-Net is used to generate the saliency guided feature using PET image and transmit it into the skip connection of the backbone,and the high sensitivity of PET images to tumors is used to guide the network to accurately locate lesions.Secondly,a Cross Scale Feature Enhancement Module(CSFEM)is designed to extract multi-scale fusion features after downsampling.Thirdly,a Cross-Layer Interactive Feature Enhancement Module(CIFEM)is designed in the encoder to enhance the spatial position information and semantic information.Finally,a Cross-Dimension Cross-Layer Feature Enhancement Module(CCFEM)is proposed in the decoder,which effectively extractsmultimodal image features through global attention and multi-dimension local attention.The proposed method is verified on the lung multimodal medical image datasets,and the results showthat theMean Intersection overUnion(MIoU),Accuracy(Acc),Dice Similarity Coefficient(Dice),Volumetric overlap error(Voe),Relative volume difference(Rvd)of the proposed method on lung lesion segmentation are 87.27%,93.08%,97.77%,95.92%,89.28%,and 88.68%,respectively.It is of great significance for computer-aided diagnosis.

Mechanism of Cross-modal Information Influencing Taste

Studies on the integration of cross-modal information with taste perception has been mostly limited to uni-modal level.The cross-modal sensory interaction and the neural network of information processing and its control were not fully explored and the mechanisms remain poorly understood.This mini review investigated the impact of uni-modal and multi-modal information on the taste perception,from the perspective of cognitive status,such as emotion,expectation and attention,and discussed the hypothesis that the cognitive status is the key step for visual sense to exert influence on taste.This work may help researchers better understand the mechanism of cross-modal information processing and further develop neutrally-based artificial intelligent(AI)system.

CSMCCVA:Framework of cross-modal semantic mapping based on cognitive computing of visual and auditory sensations

Cross-modal semantic mapping and cross-media retrieval are key problems of the multimedia search engine.This study analyzes the hierarchy,the functionality,and the structure in the visual and auditory sensations of cognitive system,and establishes a brain-like cross-modal semantic mapping framework based on cognitive computing of visual and auditory sensations.The mechanism of visual-auditory multisensory integration,selective attention in thalamo-cortical,emotional control in limbic system and the memory-enhancing in hippocampal were considered in the framework.Then,the algorithms of cross-modal semantic mapping were given.Experimental results show that the framework can be effectively applied to the cross-modal semantic mapping,and also provides an important significance for brain-like computing of non-von Neumann structure.

Use of sensory substitution devices as a model system for investigating cross-modal neuroplasticity in humans

Blindness provides an unparalleled opportunity to study plasticity of the nervous system in humans.Seminal work in this area examined the often dramatic modifications to the visual cortex that result when visual input is completely absent from birth or very early in life（Kupers and Ptito,2014）.More recent studies explored what happens to the visual pathways in the context of acquired blindness.This is particularly relevant as the majority of diseases that cause vision loss occur in the elderly.

Cross-Modal Hashing Retrieval Based on Deep Residual Network

In the era of big data rich inWe Media,the single mode retrieval system has been unable to meet people’s demand for information retrieval.This paper proposes a new solution to the problem of feature extraction and unified mapping of different modes:A Cross-Modal Hashing retrieval algorithm based on Deep Residual Network(CMHR-DRN).The model construction is divided into two stages:The first stage is the feature extraction of different modal data,including the use of Deep Residual Network(DRN)to extract the image features,using the method of combining TF-IDF with the full connection network to extract the text features,and the obtained image and text features used as the input of the second stage.In the second stage,the image and text features are mapped into Hash functions by supervised learning,and the image and text features are mapped to the common binary Hamming space.In the process of mapping,the distance measurement of the original distance measurement and the common feature space are kept unchanged as far as possible to improve the accuracy of Cross-Modal Retrieval.In training the model,adaptive moment estimation(Adam)is used to calculate the adaptive learning rate of each parameter,and the stochastic gradient descent(SGD)is calculated to obtain the minimum loss function.The whole training process is completed on Caffe deep learning framework.Experiments show that the proposed algorithm CMHR-DRN based on Deep Residual Network has better retrieval performance and stronger advantages than other Cross-Modal algorithms CMFH,CMDN and CMSSH.

Visible-infrared person re-identification using query related cluster

Visible-infrared person re-identification(VIPR), is a cross-modal retrieval task that searches a target from a gallery captured by cameras of different spectrums.The severe challenge for VIPR is the large intra-class variation caused by the modal discrepancy between visible and infrared images.For that, this paper proposes a query related cluster(QRC) method for VIPR.Firstly, this paper uses an attention mechanism to calculate the similarity relation between a visible query and infrared images with the same identity in the gallery.Secondly, those infrared images with the same query images are aggregated by using the similarity relation to form a dynamic clustering center corresponding to the query image.Thirdly, QRC loss function is designed to enlarge the similarity between the query image and its dynamic cluster center to achieve query related clustering, so as to compact the intra-class variations.Consequently, in the proposed QRC method, each query has its own dynamic clustering center, which can well characterize intra-class variations in VIPR.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed QRC method is superior to many state-of-the-art approaches, acquiring a 90.77% rank-1 identification rate on the RegDB dataset.

Cross-modal learning using privileged information for long-tailed image classification

The prevalence of long-tailed distributions in real-world data often results in classification models favoring the dominant classes,neglecting the less frequent ones.Current approaches address the issues in long-tailed image classification by rebalancing data,optimizing weights,and augmenting information.However,these methods often struggle to balance the performance between dominant and minority classes because of inadequate representation learning of the latter.To address these problems,we introduce descriptional words into images as cross-modal privileged information and propose a cross-modal enhanced method for long-tailed image classification,referred to as CMLTNet.CMLTNet improves the learning of intraclass similarity of tail-class representations by cross-modal alignment and captures the difference between the head and tail classes in semantic space by cross-modal inference.After fusing the above information,CMLTNet achieved an overall performance that was better than those of benchmark long-tailed and cross-modal learning methods on the long-tailed cross-modal datasets,NUS-WIDE and VireoFood-172.The effectiveness of the proposed modules was further studied through ablation experiments.In a case study of feature distribution,the proposed model was better in learning representations of tail classes,and in the experiments on model attention,CMLTNet has the potential to help learn some rare concepts in the tail class through mapping to the semantic space.

Social network search based on semantic analysis and learning

Because of everyone＇s involvement in social networks, social networks are full of massive multimedia data, and events are got released and disseminated through social networks in the form of multi-modal and multi-attribute heterogeneous data. There have been numerous researches on social network search. Considering the spatio-temporal feature of messages and social relationships among users, we summarized an overall social network search framework from the perspective of semantics based on existing researches. For social network search, the acquisition and representation of spatio-temporal data is the basis, the semantic analysis and modeling of social network cross-media big data is an important component, deep semantic learning of social networks is the key research field, and the indexing and ranking mechanism is the indispensable part. This paper reviews the current studies in these fields, and then main challenges of social network search are given. Finally, we give an outlook to the prospect and further work of social network search.

Exploiting multi-context analysis in semantic image classification

As the popularity of digital images is rapidly increasing on the Internet, research on technologies for semantic image classification has become an important research topic. However, the well-known content-based image classification methods do not overcome the so-called semantic gap problem in which low-level visual features cannot represent the high-level semantic content of images. Image classification using visual and textual information often performs poorly since the extracted textual features are often too limited to accurately represent the images. In this paper, we propose a semantic image classification ap- proach using multi-context analysis. For a given image, we model the relevant textual information as its multi-modal context, and regard the related images connected by hyperlinks as its link context. Two kinds of context analysis models, i.e., cross-modal correlation analysis and link-based correlation model, are used to capture the correlation among different modals of features and the topical dependency among images induced by the link structure. We propose a new collective classification model called relational support vector classifier (RSVC) based on the well-known Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and the link-based cor- relation model. Experiments showed that the proposed approach significantly improved classification accuracy over that of SVM classifiers using visual and/or textual features.

Robust cross-modal retrieval with alignment refurbishment

Cross-modal retrieval tries to achieve mutual retrieval between modalities by establishing consistent alignment for different modal data.Currently,many cross-modal retrieval methods have been proposed and have achieved excellent results;however,these are trained with clean cross-modal pairs,which are semantically matched but costly,compared with easily available data with noise alignment(i.e.,paired but mismatched in semantics).When training these methods with noise-aligned data,the performance degrades dramatically.Therefore,we propose a robust cross-modal retrieval with alignment refurbishment(RCAR),which significantly reduces the impact of noise on the model.Specifically,RCAR first conducts multi-task learning to slow down the overfitting to the noise to make data separable.Then,RCAR uses a two-component beta-mixture model to divide them into clean and noise alignments and refurbishes the label according to the posterior probability of the noise-alignment component.In addition,we define partial and complete noises in the noise-alignment paradigm.Experimental results show that,compared with the popular cross-modal retrieval methods,RCAR achieves more robust performance with both types of noise.