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The objectives of this work are cross-modal text-audio and audio-text retrieval, in which the goal is to retrieve the audio content from a pool of candidates that best matches a given written description and vice versa. Text-audio retrieval…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 A. Sophia Koepke , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , João F. Henriques , Zeynep Akata , Samuel Albanie

Audio-text retrieval aims at retrieving a target audio clip or caption from a pool of candidates given a query in another modality. Solving such cross-modal retrieval task is challenging because it not only requires learning robust feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

In recent years, user-generated audio content has proliferated across various media platforms, creating a growing need for efficient retrieval methods that allow users to search for audio clips using natural language queries. This task,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Haoran Sun , Zimu Wang , Qiuyi Chen , Jianjun Chen , Jia Wang , Haiyang Zhang

Audio-text retrieval based on natural language descriptions is a challenging task. It involves learning cross-modality alignments between long sequences under inadequate data conditions. In this work, we investigate several audio features…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Siyu Lou , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

This work presents a text-to-audio-retrieval system based on pre-trained text and spectrogram transformers. Our method projects recordings and textual descriptions into a shared audio-caption space in which related examples from different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Paul Primus , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer

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

Matching raw audio signals with textual descriptions requires understanding the audio's content and the description's semantics and then drawing connections between the two modalities. This paper investigates a hybrid retrieval system that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Paul Primus , Gerhard Widmer

Retrieval-augmented generation can improve audio captioning by incorporating relevant audio-text pairs from a knowledge base. Existing methods typically rely solely on the input audio as a unimodal retrieval query. In contrast, we propose…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Choi Changin , Lim Sungjun , Rhee Wonjong

In this paper, we propose and design a new task called audio moment retrieval (AMR). Unlike conventional language-based audio retrieval tasks that search for short audio clips from an audio database, AMR aims to predict relevant moments in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Hokuto Munakata , Taichi Nishimura , Shota Nakada , Tatsuya Komatsu

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

Audio-text retrieval is a challenging task, requiring the search for an audio clip or a text caption within a database. The predominant focus of existing research on English descriptions poses a limitation on the applicability of such…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhiyong Yan , Heinrich Dinkel , Yongqing Wang , Jizhong Liu , Junbo Zhang , Yujun Wang , Bin Wang

The absence of large labeled datasets remains a significant challenge in many application areas of deep learning. Researchers and practitioners typically resort to transfer learning and data augmentation to alleviate this issue. We study…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Paul Primus , Gerhard Widmer

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

Recent advancements in machine learning have fueled research on multimodal tasks, such as for instance text-to-video and text-to-audio retrieval. These tasks require models to understand the semantic content of video and audio data,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Andreea-Maria Oncescu , João F. Henriques , A. Sophia Koepke

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

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

We present an analysis of large-scale pretrained deep learning models used for cross-modal (text-to-audio) retrieval. We use embeddings extracted by these models in a metric learning framework to connect matching pairs of audio and text.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Benno Weck , Miguel Pérez Fernández , Holger Kirchhoff , Xavier Serra

The amount of audio data available on public websites is growing rapidly, and an efficient mechanism for accessing the desired data is necessary. We propose a content-based audio retrieval method that can retrieve a target audio that is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Daisuke Niizumi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Query-based audio source extraction seeks to recover a target source from a mixture conditioned on a query. Existing approaches are largely confined to single-channel audio, leaving the spatial information in multi-channel recordings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Chenxin Yu , Hao Ma , Xu Li , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Mingjie Shao , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

Audio-text retrieval enables semantic alignment between audio content and natural language queries, supporting applications in multimedia search, accessibility, and surveillance. However, current state-of-the-art approaches struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Meizhu Liu , Matthew Rowe , Amit Agarwal , Michael Avendi , Yassi Abbasi , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Paul Li , Kyu J. Han , Tao Sheng , Sujith Ravi , Dan Roth
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