Publications (6)
Conditional Flow Matching for Visually-Guided Acoustic Highlighting
Hugo Malard, Gael Le Lan, Daniel Wong +3
Visually-guided acoustic highlighting seeks to rebalance audio in alignment with the accompanying video, creating a coherent audio-visual experience. While visual saliency and enha…
Big model only for hard audios: Sample dependent Whisper model selection for efficient inferences
Hugo Malard, Salah Zaiem, Robin Algayres
Recent progress in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has been coupled with a substantial increase in the model sizes, which may now contain billions of parameters, leading to slow…
TACO: Training-free Sound Prompted Segmentation via Semantically Constrained Audio-visual CO-factorization
Hugo Malard, Michel Olvera, Stephane Lathuiliere +1
Large-scale pre-trained audio and image models demonstrate an unprecedented degree of generalization, making them suitable for a wide range of applications. Here, we tackle the spe…
Unlocking Spatial Grounding in Large Audio-Visual Retrieval models
Hugo Malard, Michel Olvera, Sanjeel Parekh +3
Weak supervision sets a practical regime for audio-visual sound source localization as dense spatial annotations are costly to obtain at scale. The task, however, remains challengi…
Multiple Choice Learning of Low-Rank Adapters for Language Modeling
Victor Letzelter, Hugo Malard, Mathieu Fontaine +4
We propose LoRA-MCL, a training scheme that extends next-token prediction in language models with a method designed to decode diverse, plausible sentence continuations at inference…
An Eye for an Ear: Zero-shot Audio Description Leveraging an Image Captioner using Audiovisual Distribution Alignment
Hugo Malard, Michel Olvera, Stéphane Lathuiliere +1
Multimodal large language models have fueled progress in image captioning. These models, fine-tuned on vast image datasets, exhibit a deep understanding of semantic concepts. In th…