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We live in a rich and varied acoustic world, which is experienced by individuals or communities as a soundscape. Computational auditory scene analysis, disentangling acoustic scenes by detecting and classifying events, focuses on objective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Yuanbo Hou , Qiaoqiao Ren , Andrew Mitchell , Wenwu Wang , Jian Kang , Tony Belpaeme , Dick Botteldooren

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) aims to generate natural textual descriptions for input audio signals. Recent progress in audio pre-trained models and large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced audio understanding and textual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Wenxi Chen , Ziyang Ma , Xiquan Li , Xuenan Xu , Yuzhe Liang , Zhisheng Zheng , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Automated audio captioning aims at generating textual descriptions for an audio clip. To evaluate the quality of generated audio captions, previous works directly adopt image captioning metrics like SPICE and CIDEr, without justifying their…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zelin Zhou , Zhiling Zhang , Xuenan Xu , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

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

Automatic target sound extraction (TSE) is a machine learning approach to mimic the human auditory perception capability of attending to a sound source of interest from a mixture of sources. It often uses a model conditioned on a fixed form…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Chenda Li , Yao Qian , Zhuo Chen , Dongmei Wang , Takuya Yoshioka , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

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

We introduce Diffusion-based Audio Captioning (DAC), a non-autoregressive diffusion model tailored for diverse and efficient audio captioning. Although existing captioning models relying on language backbones have achieved remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Manjie Xu , Chenxing Li , Xinyi Tu , Yong Ren , Ruibo Fu , Wei Liang , Dong Yu

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) systems attempt to generate a natural language sentence, a caption, that describes the content of an audio recording, in terms of sound events. Existing datasets provide audio-caption pairs, with captions…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Matéo Cousin , Étienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini

Audio captioning is a novel field of multi-modal translation and it is the task of creating a textual description of the content of an audio signal (e.g. "people talking in a big room"). The creation of a dataset for this task requires a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Samuel Lipping , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Image captioning creates informative text from an input image by creating a relationship between the words and the actual content of an image. Recently, deep learning models that utilize transformers have been the most successful in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Israa Al Badarneh , Bassam Hammo , Omar Al-Kadi

Audio Captioning (AC) plays a pivotal role in enhancing audio-text cross-modal understanding during the pretraining and finetuning of Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). To strengthen this alignment, recent works propose Audio Difference Captioning…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuhang Jia , Xu Zhang , Yujie Guo , Yang Chen , Shiwan Zhao

In recent years, advancements in representation learning and language models have propelled Automated Captioning (AC) to new heights, enabling the generation of human-level descriptions. Leveraging these advancements, we propose AVCap, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Jongsuk Kim , Jiwon Shin , Junmo Kim

Speech samples recorded in both indoor and outdoor environments are often contaminated with secondary audio sources. Most end-to-end monaural speech recognition systems either remove these background sounds using speech enhancement or train…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Chaitanya Narisetty , Emiru Tsunoo , Xuankai Chang , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Michael Hentschel , Shinji Watanabe

Evaluating conversational AI systems that use external tools is challenging, as errors can arise from complex interactions among user, agent, and tools. While existing evaluation methods assess either user satisfaction or agents'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhaoyi Joey Hou , Tanya Shourya , Yingfan Wang , Shamik Roy , Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar , Rashmi Gangadharaiah

Detailed captions that accurately reflect the characteristics of a music piece can enrich music databases and drive forward research in music AI. This paper introduces a multi-task music captioning model, SonicVerse, that integrates caption…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Anuradha Chopra , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans

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

Automated audio captioning is a cross-modal translation task for describing the content of audio clips with natural language sentences. This task has attracted increasing attention and substantial progress has been made in recent years.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Automatic Audio Captioning (AAC) is the task that aims to describe an audio signal using natural language. AAC systems take as input an audio signal and output a free-form text sentence, called a caption. Evaluating such systems is not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Etienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini , Julien Pinquier

Existing approaches to image captioning usually generate the sentence word-by-word from left to right, with the constraint of conditioned on local context including the given image and history generated words. There have been many studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhengcong Fei , Junshi Huang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei

This paper introduces a novel approach for streaming openvocabulary keyword spotting (KWS) with text-based keyword enrollment. For every input frame, the proposed method finds the optimal alignment ending at the frame using connectionist…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sichen Jin , Youngmoon Jung , Seungjin Lee , Jaeyoung Roh , Changwoo Han , Hoonyoung Cho