Enhancing Video Music Recommendation with Transformer-Driven Audio-Visual Embeddings

Shimiao Liu, Alexander Lerch

Abstract: A fitting soundtrack can help a video better convey its content and provide a better immersive experience. This paper introduces a novel approach utilizing self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to automatically recommend audio for video content, thereby eliminating the need for manual labeling. We use a dual-branch cross-modal embedding model that maps both audio and video features into a common low-dimensional space. The fit of various audio-video pairs can then be mod-eled as inverse distance measure. In addition, a comparative analysis of various temporal encoding methods is presented, emphasizing the effectiveness of transformers in managing the temporal information of audio-video matching tasks. Through multiple experiments, we demonstrate that our model TIVM, which integrates transformer encoders and using InfoN Celoss, significantly improves the performance of audio-video matching and surpasses traditional methods.