Highlight Detection in Podcasts: A Multimodal Deep Learning Approach

dc.contributor.authorPhuengpanyaloet, Wongsapat
dc.contributor.authorBoonruengkhao, Nonpipat
dc.contributor.authorAnchutin, Viktor
dc.contributor.authorPasupa, Kitsuchart
dc.contributor.authorLoo, Chu Kiong
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-06T10:49:08Z
dc.date.available2026-08-06T10:49:08Z
dc.date.issued2025-01-01
dc.description.abstractPodcasts have become a pervasive form of digital media, offering diverse content that often spans long hours. However, the vast volume of podcast episodes can make it challenging for listeners to locate the most engaging segments. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has witnessed remarkable advancements with the integration of deep learning techniques. This work proposes utilizing deep learning techniques employed in SER to discern emotional cues within podcasts, thereby enabling the detection of highlights. The task is framed as a binary classification problem, where the positive class contains examples of speech segments with high emotional activation. Transfer learning techniques from computer vision and speech recognition domains are applied, utilizing pre-trained models such as ConvNeXt, Vision Transformer, and wav2vec 2.0, which are compared with a baseline Convolutional Neural Network-Transformer hybrid. Additionally, multimodal models are introduced that learn from two distinct modalities: log mel-spectrograms and high-dimensional vector embeddings, both extracted from the raw audio data. The two modalities are combined using (i) a Simple Concatenated and (ii) CentralNet models. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining two modalities over a single modality, achieving F<inf>1</inf>-scores of 0.6111 and 0.6270 for the Simple Concatenated and CentralNet models, respectively.
dc.identifier.citationLecture Notes in Computer Science, 15294 LNCS, 214-227, 2025
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-981-96-6599-0_15
dc.identifier.issn03029743
dc.identifier.other2-s2.0-105017240087
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.kmitl.ac.th/handle/123456789/16432
dc.sourceLecture Notes in Computer Science
dc.subjectCentralNet
dc.subjectHighlight Detection
dc.subjectMultimodal
dc.titleHighlight Detection in Podcasts: A Multimodal Deep Learning Approach
dc.typeConference Paper

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