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In recent years, datasets of paired audio and captions have enabled remarkable success in automatically generating descriptions for audio clips, namely Automated Audio Captioning (AAC). However, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Theodoros Kouzelis , Vassilis Katsouros

Automated Audio Captioning is a multimodal task that aims to convert audio content into natural language. The assessment of audio captioning systems is typically based on quantitative metrics applied to text data. Previous studies have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Gijs Wijngaard , Elia Formisano , Bruno L. Giordano , Michel Dumontier

The task of audio captioning is similar in essence to tasks such as image and video captioning. However, it has received much less attention. We propose three desiderata for captioning audio -- (i) fluency of the generated text, (ii)…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Tal Shaharabany , Ariel Shaulov , Lior Wolf

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is a novel task, where a method takes as an input an audio sample and outputs a textual description (i.e. a caption) of its contents. Most AAC methods are adapted from from image captioning of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-22 An Tran , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

The analysis, processing, and extraction of meaningful information from sounds all around us is the subject of the broader area of audio analytics. Audio captioning is a recent addition to the domain of audio analytics, a cross-modal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Sandeep Kothinti , Dimitra Emmanouilidou

In conventional studies on environmental sound separation and synthesis using captions, datasets consisting of multiple-source sounds with their captions were used for model training. However, when we collect the captions for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuki Okamoto , Kanta Shimonishi , Keisuke Imoto , Kota Dohi , Shota Horiguchi , Yohei Kawaguchi

The advancement of audio-language (AL) multimodal learning tasks has been significant in recent years. However, researchers face challenges due to the costly and time-consuming collection process of existing audio-language datasets, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Xinhao Mei , Chutong Meng , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Tom Ko , Chengqi Zhao , Mark D. Plumbley , Yuexian Zou , Wenwu Wang

We consider the task of retrieving audio using free-form natural language queries. To study this problem, which has received limited attention in the existing literature, we introduce challenging new benchmarks for text-based audio…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Andreea-Maria Oncescu , A. Sophia Koepke , João F. Henriques , Zeynep Akata , Samuel Albanie

Audio-Text retrieval takes a natural language query to retrieve relevant audio files in a database. Conversely, Text-Audio retrieval takes an audio file as a query to retrieve relevant natural language descriptions. Most of the literature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Soham Deshmukh , Benjamin Elizalde , Huaming Wang

Audio captioning is an important research area that aims to generate meaningful descriptions for audio clips. Most of the existing research extracts acoustic features of audio clips as input to encoder-decoder and transformer architectures…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ayşegül Özkaya Eren , Mustafa Sert

This study introduces a novel training paradigm, audio difference learning, for improving audio captioning. The fundamental concept of the proposed learning method is to create a feature representation space that preserves the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Tatsuya Komatsu , Yusuke Fujita , Kazuya Takeda , Tomoki Toda

The goal of audio captioning is to translate input audio into its description using natural language. One of the problems in audio captioning is the lack of training data due to the difficulty in collecting audio-caption pairs by crawling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Yuma Koizumi , Yasunori Ohishi , Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Masahiro Yasuda

Recent literature uses language to build foundation models for audio. These Audio-Language Models (ALMs) are trained on a vast number of audio-text pairs and show remarkable performance in tasks including Text-to-Audio Retrieval,…

Automated audio captioning (AAC) aims at generating summarizing descriptions for audio clips. Multitudinous concepts are described in an audio caption, ranging from local information such as sound events to global information like acoustic…

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

Audio captioning aims to generate text descriptions of audio clips. In the real world, many objects produce similar sounds. How to accurately recognize ambiguous sounds is a major challenge for audio captioning. In this work, inspired by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Jianyuan Sun , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , Yu Zhang , Lilian H. Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

Most current captioning systems use language models trained on data from specific settings, such as image-based captioning via Amazon Mechanical Turk, limiting their ability to generalize to other modality distributions and contexts. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ariel Shaulov , Tal Shaharabany , Eitan Shaar , Gal Chechik , Lior Wolf

Automated Audio captioning (AAC) is a cross-modal task that generates natural language to describe the content of input audio. Most prior works usually extract single-modality acoustic features and are therefore sub-optimal for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Chen Chen , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Heqing Zou , Xiaofeng Qi , Eng Siong Chng

Learning to associate audio with textual descriptions is valuable for a range of tasks, including pretraining, zero-shot classification, audio retrieval, audio captioning, and text-conditioned audio generation. Existing contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) is the task of generating natural language descriptions given an audio stream. A typical AAC system requires manually curated training data of audio segments and corresponding text caption annotations. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Soham Deshmukh , Benjamin Elizalde , Dimitra Emmanouilidou , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh , Huaming Wang

Storytelling is multi-modal in the real world. When one tells a story, one may use all of the visualizations and sounds along with the story itself. However, prior studies on storytelling datasets and tasks have paid little attention to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jaeyeon Bae , Seokhoon Jeong , Seokun Kang , Namgi Han , Jae-Yon Lee , Hyounghun Kim , Taehwan Kim