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5 papers

cs.CV2025

A Little More Like This: Text-to-Image Retrieval with Vision-Language Models Using Relevance Feedback

Bulat Khaertdinov, Mirela Popa, Nava Tintarev

Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable intuitive visual search using natural language queries. However, improving their performance often requires fine-tuning and scaling to la…

cs.LG2025

Challenging Gradient Boosted Decision Trees with Tabular Transformers for Fraud Detection at Booking.com

Sergei Krutikov, Bulat Khaertdinov, Rodion Kiriukhin +3

Transformer-based neural networks, empowered by Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), have demonstrated unprecedented performance across various domains. However, related literature sugg…

cs.CV2025

I see what you mean: Co-Speech Gestures for Reference Resolution in Multimodal Dialogue

Esam Ghaleb, Bulat Khaertdinov, Aslı Özyürek +1

In face-to-face interaction, we use multiple modalities, including speech and gestures, to communicate information and resolve references to objects. However, how representational…

cs.CV2024

Learning Co-Speech Gesture Representations in Dialogue through Contrastive Learning: An Intrinsic Evaluation

Esam Ghaleb, Bulat Khaertdinov, Wim Pouw +4

In face-to-face dialogues, the form-meaning relationship of co-speech gestures varies depending on contextual factors such as what the gestures refer to and the individual characte…

cs.CL2024

Exploring Self-Supervised Multi-view Contrastive Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition with Limited Annotations

Bulat Khaertdinov, Pedro Jeuris, Annanda Sousa +1

Recent advancements in Deep and Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have led to substantial improvements in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) performance, reaching unprecedented levels.…