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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

Audio captioning is the task of automatically creating a textual description for the contents of a general audio signal. Typical audio captioning methods rely on deep neural networks (DNNs), where the target of the DNN is to map the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Khoa Nguyen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) aims to develop systems capable of describing an audio recording using a textual sentence. In contrast, Audio-Text Retrieval (ATR) systems seek to find the best matching audio recording(s) for a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Etienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini , Julien Pinquier

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 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

Video captioning is an essential technology to understand scenes and describe events in natural language. To apply it to real-time monitoring, a system needs not only to describe events accurately but also to produce the captions as soon as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Chiori Hori , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Large Audio Language Models struggle to disentangle overlapping events in complex acoustic scenes, yielding temporally inconsistent captions and frequent hallucinations. We introduce Timestamped Audio Captioner (TAC), a model that produces…

Discrete audio representations, termed audio tokens, are broadly categorized into semantic and acoustic tokens, typically generated through unsupervised tokenization of continuous audio representations. However, their applicability to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jingguang Tian , Haoqin Sun , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

We proposed Audio Difference Captioning (ADC) as a new extension task of audio captioning for describing the semantic differences between input pairs of similar but slightly different audio clips. The ADC solves the problem that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Daisuke Niizumi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Automated audio captioning is a cross-modal translation task that aims to generate natural language descriptions for given audio clips. This task has received increasing attention with the release of freely available datasets in recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

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

Automated audio captioning aims to use natural language to describe the content of audio data. This paper presents an audio captioning system with an encoder-decoder architecture, where the decoder predicts words based on audio features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Xinhao Mei , Qiushi Huang , Xubo Liu , Gengyun Chen , Jingqian Wu , Yusong Wu , Jinzheng Zhao , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , H Lilian Tang , Xi Shao , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

We present the first approach to automated audio captioning. We employ an encoder-decoder scheme with an alignment model in between. The input to the encoder is a sequence of log mel-band energies calculated from an audio file, while the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Konstantinos Drossos , Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

Data-driven approaches hold promise for audio captioning. However, the development of audio captioning methods can be biased due to the limited availability and quality of text-audio data. This paper proposes a SynthAC framework, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Feiyang Xiao , Qiaoxi Zhu , Jian Guan , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Kejia Zhang , Wenwu 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

Audio captioning is the novel task of general audio content description using free text. It is an intermodal translation task (not speech-to-text), where a system accepts as an input an audio signal and outputs the textual description (i.e.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Konstantinos Drossos , Samuel Lipping , Tuomas Virtanen

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

Automated audio captioning (AAC) which generates textual descriptions of audio content. Existing AAC models achieve good results but only use the high-dimensional representation of the encoder. There is always insufficient information…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Jianyuan Sun , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Volkan Kılıç , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

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

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