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Multimodal intelligence: Representation learning, information fusion, and applications

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Zhang, Chao, Yang, Zichao, He, Xiaodong, Deng, Li·2020·IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

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Deep learning methods haverevolutionized speech recognition, image recognition, and natural language processing since 2010. Each of these tasks involves a single modality in their input signals. However, many applications in the artificial intelligence field involve multiple modalities. Therefore, it is of broad interest to study the more difficult and complex problem of modeling and learning across multiple modalities. In this paper, we provide a technical review of available models and learning methods for multimodal intelligence. The main focus of this review is the combination of vision and natural language modalities, which has become an important topic in both the computer vision and natural language processing research communities. This review provides a comprehensive analysis of recent works on multimodal deep learning from three perspectives: learning multimodal representations, fusing multimodal signals at various levels, and multimodal applications. Regarding multimodal representation learning, we review the key concepts of embedding, which unify multimodal signals into a single vector space and thereby enable cross-modality signal processing. We also review the properties of many types of embeddings that are constructed and learned for general downstream tasks. Regarding multimodal fusion, this review focuses on special architectures for the integration of representations of unimodal signals for a particular task. Regarding applications, selected areas of a broad interest in the current literature are covered, including image-to-text caption generation, text-to-image generation, and visual question answering. We believe that this review will facilitate future studies in the emerging field of multimodal intelligence for related communities.

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Authors
Zhang, C., Yang, Z., He, X., & Deng, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • Jingdong (China) (CN)
  • Citadel (US)
Venue
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Published
2020-03
Volume
14
Issue
3
Pages
478-493
ISSN
  • 1932-4553 (ISSN-L)
  • 1941-0484
OpenAlex
W2985076077
Cited by
511
References
287
Citations by year
2026: 88 · 2025: 116 · 2024: 92 · 2023: 93 · 2022: 63 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 16
FWCI
20.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Advanced Image Fusion Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
Keywords
multimodal learning, multimodal representation learning, multimodal fusion, vision-language models, embeddings, image captioning, text-to-image generation, visual question answering

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