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This paper briefly reports our ongoing attempt at the development of a multi-platform browser-based speech recording system. We designed the system toward a service of providing open service of building large-scale speech corpora at a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Keita Ishizuka , Takashi Nose

Some complex problems, such as image tagging and natural language processing, are very challenging for computers, where even state-of-the-art technology is yet able to provide satisfactory accuracy. Therefore, rather than relying solely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Xuan Liu , Meiyu Lu , Beng Chin Ooi , Yanyan Shen , Sai Wu , Meihui Zhang

State-of-the-art image captioners can generate accurate sentences to describe images in a sequence to sequence manner without considering the controllability and interpretability. This, however, is far from making image captioning widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Luka Maxwell

With the advent of generative audio features, there is an increasing need for rapid evaluation of their impact on speech intelligibility. Beyond the existing laboratory measures, which are expensive and do not scale well, there has been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-25 Laura Lechler , Kamil Wojcicki

The rapid advances in audio analysis underscore its vast potential for humancomputer interaction, environmental monitoring, and public safety; yet, existing audioonly datasets often lack spatial context. To address this gap, we present two…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shuaihang Yuan , Congcong Wen , Muhammad Shafique , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

Recently, there has been an increasing focus on audio-text cross-modal learning. However, most of the existing audio-text datasets contain only simple descriptions of sound events. Compared with classification labels, the advantages of such…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xuenan Xu , Xiaohang Xu , Zeyu Xie , Pingyue Zhang , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

This paper presents an augmentation of MSCOCO dataset where speech is added to image and text. Speech captions are generated using text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis resulting in 616,767 spoken captions (more than 600h) paired with images.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 William Havard , Laurent Besacier , Olivier Rosec

Challenges around collecting and processing quality data have hampered progress in data-driven dialogue models. Previous approaches are moving away from costly, resource-intensive lab settings, where collection is slow but where the data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 José Lopes , Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia , Helen Hastie

Captioning has attracted much attention in image and video understanding while a small amount of work examines audio captioning. This paper contributes a Mandarin-annotated dataset for audio captioning within a car scene. A sentence-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Xuenan Xu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Crowdsourcing information constitutes an important aspect of human-in-the-loop learning for researchers across multiple disciplines such as AI, HCI, and social science. While using crowdsourced data for subjective tasks is not new,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Ramya Srinivasan , Ajay Chander

In the last decade, crowdsourcing has become a popular method for conducting quantitative empirical studies in human-machine interaction. The remote work on a given task in crowdworking settings suits the character of typical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Annalena Aicher , Stefan Hillmann , Isabel Feustel , Thilo Michael , Sebastian Möller , Wolfgang Minker

The availability of labeled image datasets has been shown critical for high-level image understanding, which continuously drives the progress of feature designing and models developing. However, constructing labeled image datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Yazhou Yao , Jian Zhang , Fumin Shen , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Dongxiang Zhang , Heng-Tao Shen

Computer vision systems require large amounts of manually annotated data to properly learn challenging visual concepts. Crowdsourcing platforms offer an inexpensive method to capture human knowledge and understanding, for a vast number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Adriana Kovashka , Olga Russakovsky , Li Fei-Fei , Kristen Grauman

Recent advances in image captioning task have led to increasing interests in video captioning task. However, most works on video captioning are focused on generating single input of aggregated features, which hardly deviates from image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Andrew Shin , Katsunori Ohnishi , Tatsuya Harada

Conversational agents are gaining popularity with the increasing ubiquity of smart devices. However, training agents in a data driven manner is challenging due to a lack of suitable corpora. This paper presents a novel method for gathering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Joachim Fainberg , Ben Krause , Mihai Dobre , Marco Damonte , Emmanuel Kahembwe , Daniel Duma , Bonnie Webber , Federico Fancellu

When people observe events, they are able to abstract key information and build concise summaries of what is happening. These summaries include contextual and semantic information describing the important high-level details (what, where,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mathew Monfort , SouYoung Jin , Alexander Liu , David Harwath , Rogerio Feris , James Glass , Aude Oliva

We present a resource for the task of FrameNet semantic frame disambiguation of over 5,000 word-sentence pairs from the Wikipedia corpus. The annotations were collected using a novel crowdsourcing approach with multiple workers per sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Anca Dumitrache , Lora Aroyo , Chris Welty

Good figure captions help paper readers understand complex scientific figures. Unfortunately, even published papers often have poorly written captions. Automatic caption generation could aid paper writers by providing good starting captions…

Visual crowd counting has been recently studied as a way to enable people counting in crowd scenes from images. Albeit successful, vision-based crowd counting approaches could fail to capture informative features in extreme conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Di Hu , Lichao Mou , Qingzhong Wang , Junyu Gao , Yuansheng Hua , Dejing Dou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

There has been growing interest in audio-language retrieval research, where the objective is to establish the correlation between audio and text modalities. However, most audio-text paired datasets often lack rich expression of the text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yoori Oh , Yoseob Han , Kyogu Lee