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This paper introduces effective design choices for text-to-music retrieval systems. An ideal text-based retrieval system would support various input queries such as pre-defined tags, unseen tags, and sentence-level descriptions. In reality,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-29 SeungHeon Doh , Minz Won , Keunwoo Choi , Juhan Nam

Audio-text retrieval (ATR), which retrieves a relevant caption given an audio clip (A2T) and vice versa (T2A), has recently attracted much research attention. Existing methods typically aggregate information from each modality into a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Qian Wang , Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling

Dual-encoder-based audio retrieval systems are commonly optimized with contrastive learning on a set of matching and mismatching audio-caption pairs. This leads to a shared embedding space in which corresponding items from the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Audio question answering (AQA) is a multimodal translation task where a system analyzes an audio signal and a natural language question, to generate a desirable natural language answer. In this paper, we introduce Clotho-AQA, a dataset for…

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end user-defined keyword spotting method that utilizes linguistically corresponding patterns between speech and text sequences. Unlike previous approaches requiring speech keyword enrollment, our…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Hyeon-Kyeong Shin , Hyewon Han , Doyeon Kim , Soo-Whan Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

We present RECAP (REtrieval-Augmented Audio CAPtioning), a novel and effective audio captioning system that generates captions conditioned on an input audio and other captions similar to the audio retrieved from a datastore. Additionally,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru , Ramani Duraiswami , Dinesh Manocha

Finding sound effects or environmental sounds that match a creator's intended impression remains a largely manual process in multimedia production. This is especially relevant for comics and other visual media, where visually stylized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Keisuke Imoto , Yamato Kojima , Takao Tsuchiya

Cross-modal associations between voice and face from a person can be learnt algorithmically, which can benefit a lot of applications. The problem can be defined as voice-face matching and retrieval tasks. Much research attention has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Chuyuan Xiong , Deyuan Zhang , Tao Liu , Xiaoyong Du

Language-based audio retrieval is a task, where natural language textual captions are used as queries to retrieve audio signals from a dataset. It has been first introduced into DCASE 2022 Challenge as Subtask 6B of task 6, which aims at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Huang Xie , Samuel Lipping , Tuomas Virtanen

Language-based audio retrieval is a task, where natural language textual captions are used as queries to retrieve audio signals from a dataset. It has been first introduced into DCASE 2022 Challenge as Subtask 6B of task 6, which aims at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Huang Xie , Samuel Lipping , Tuomas Virtanen

Retrieval is a widely adopted approach for improving language models leveraging external information. As the field moves towards multi-modal large language models, it is important to extend the pure text based methods to incorporate other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jari Kolehmainen , Aditya Gourav , Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Yile Gu , Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow , Grant Strimel , Ivan Bulyko

Multi-modal contrastive learning techniques in the audio-text domain have quickly become a highly active area of research. Most works are evaluated with standard audio retrieval and classification benchmarks assuming that (i) these models…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ho-Hsiang Wu , Oriol Nieto , Juan Pablo Bello , Justin Salamon

Audio captioning is a multi-modal task, focusing on using natural language for describing the contents of general audio. Most audio captioning methods are based on deep neural networks, employing an encoder-decoder scheme and a dataset with…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Emre Çakır , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

In this study, we introduce a novel cross-modal retrieval task involving speaker descriptions and their corresponding audio samples. Utilizing pre-trained speaker and text encoders, we present a simple learning framework based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xuechen Liu , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

We study the task of conversational fashion image retrieval via multiturn natural language feedback. Most previous studies are based on single-turn settings. Existing models on multiturn conversational fashion image retrieval have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Yifei Yuan , Wai Lam

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

Conventional audio classification relied on predefined classes, lacking the ability to learn from free-form text. Recent methods unlock learning joint audio-text embeddings from raw audio-text pairs describing audio in natural language.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ali Vosoughi , Luca Bondi , Ho-Hsiang Wu , Chenliang Xu

Many studies combine text and audio to capture multi-modal information but they overlook the model's generalization ability on new datasets. Introducing new datasets may affect the feature space of the original dataset, leading to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yingfei Sun , Xu Gu , Wei Ji , Hanbin Zhao , Yifang Yin , Roger Zimmermann

In this work, we propose and study annotated code search: the retrieval of code snippets paired with brief descriptions of their intent using natural language queries. On three benchmark datasets, we investigate how code retrieval systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Geert Heyman , Tom Van Cutsem

Automated audio captioning (AAC) has developed rapidly in recent years, involving acoustic signal processing and natural language processing to generate human-readable sentences for audio clips. The current models are generally based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhongjie Ye , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou