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Zero-shot audio captioning aims at automatically generating descriptive textual captions for audio content without prior training for this task. Different from speech recognition which translates audio content that contains spoken language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Leonard Salewski , Stefan Fauth , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

Audio captioning aims at generating natural language descriptions for audio clips automatically. Existing audio captioning models have shown promising improvement in recent years. However, these models are mostly trained via maximum…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Audio captioning is a multi-modal task, focusing on using natural language for describing the contents of general audio. Most audio captioning methods are based on deep neural networks, employing an encoder-decoder scheme and a dataset with…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Emre Çakır , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

Audio captioning aims to generate text descriptions from environmental sounds. One challenge of audio captioning is the difficulty of the generalization due to the lack of audio-text paired training data. In this work, we propose a simple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Minkyu Kim , Kim Sung-Bin , Tae-Hyun Oh

Emotions lie on a broad continuum and treating emotions as a discrete number of classes limits the ability of a model to capture the nuances in the continuum. The challenge is how to describe the nuances of emotions and how to enable a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Hira Dhamyal , Benjamin Elizalde , Soham Deshmukh , Huaming Wang , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Audio captioning aims at describing the content of audio clips with human language. Due to the ambiguity of audio, different people may perceive the same audio differently, resulting in caption disparities (i.e., one audio may correlate to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yiming Zhang , Hong Yu , Ruoyi Du , Zhanyu Ma , Yuan Dong

Automatically describing the content of an image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence that connects computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we present a generative model based on a deep recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Oriol Vinyals , Alexander Toshev , Samy Bengio , Dumitru Erhan

Audio event detection is a widely studied audio processing task, with applications ranging from self-driving cars to healthcare. In-the-wild datasets such as Audioset have propelled research in this field. However, many efforts typically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Rajat Hebbar , Digbalay Bose , Krishna Somandepalli , Veena Vijai , Shrikanth Narayanan

This project involved participation in the DCASE 2022 Competition (Task 6) which had two subtasks: (1) Automated Audio Captioning and (2) Language-Based Audio Retrieval. The first subtask involved the generation of a textual description for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Clive Gomes , Hyejin Park , Patrick Kollman , Yi Song , Iffanice Houndayi , Ankit Shah

Automated audio captioning aims to describe audio data with captions using natural language. Existing methods often employ an encoder-decoder structure, where the attention-based decoder (e.g., Transformer decoder) is widely used and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Feiyang Xiao , Jian Guan , Haiyan Lan , Qiaoxi Zhu , Wenwu Wang

This paper proposes to use similarities of audio captions for estimating audio-caption relevances to be used for training text-based audio retrieval systems. Current audio-caption datasets (e.g., Clotho) contain audio samples paired with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Huang Xie , Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

The Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) task asks models to generate natural language descriptions of an audio input. Evaluating these machine-generated audio captions is a complex task that requires considering diverse factors, among them,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tsung-Han Wu , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

Automated Audio Captioning is a cross-modal task, generating natural language descriptions to summarize the audio clips' sound events. However, grounding the actual sound events in the given audio based on its corresponding caption has not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xuenan Xu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Metrics to evaluate audio captions simply provide a score without much explanation regarding what may be wrong in case the score is low. Manual human intervention is needed to find any shortcomings of the caption. In this work, we introduce…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Rehana Mahfuz , Yinyi Guo , Arvind Krishna Sridhar , Erik Visser

This paper presents a context-aware framework for feature selection and classification procedures to realize a fast and accurate audio event annotation and classification. The context-aware design starts with exploring feature extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 M. Mehrdad Morsali , Hoda Mohammadzade , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Despite extensive research on toxic speech detection in text, a critical gap remains in handling spoken Mandarin audio. The lack of annotated datasets that capture the unique prosodic cues and culturally specific expressions in Mandarin…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Yu-Xiang Luo , Yi-Cheng Lin , Ming-To Chuang , Jia-Hung Chen , I-Ning Tsai , Pei Xing Kiew , Yueh-Hsuan Huang , Chien-Feng Liu , Yu-Chen Chen , Bo-Han Feng , Wenze Ren , Hung-yi Lee

We investigate unsupervised learning of correspondences between sound events and textual phrases through aligning audio clips with textual captions describing the content of a whole audio clip. We align originally unaligned and unannotated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Huang Xie , Okko Räsänen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Compared with ample visual-text pre-training research, few works explore audio-text pre-training, mostly due to the lack of sufficient parallel audio-text data. Most existing methods incorporate the visual modality as a pivot for audio-text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuenan Xu , Zhiling Zhang , Zelin Zhou , Pingyue Zhang , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu