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Automated audio captioning is machine listening task whose goal is to describe an audio using free text. An automated audio captioning system has to be implemented as it accepts an audio as input and outputs as textual description, that is,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Sergi Perez-Castanos , Javier Naranjo-Alcazar , Pedro Zuccarello , Maximo Cobos

Image captioning is a challenging task and attracting more and more attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and which can be applied to efficient image retrieval, intelligent blind guidance and human-computer interaction, etc. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yiyu Wang , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun , Ben He

Sound designers search for sounds in large sound effects libraries using aspects such as sound class or visual context. However, the metadata needed for such search is often missing or incomplete, and requires significant manual effort to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Sripathi Sridhar , Prem Seetharaman , Oriol Nieto , Mark Cartwright , Justin Salamon

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

Audio captioning aims at describing the content of audio clips with human language. Due to the ambiguity of audio, different people may perceive the same audio differently, resulting in caption disparities (i.e., one audio may correlate to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yiming Zhang , Hong Yu , Ruoyi Du , Zhanyu Ma , Yuan Dong

Automated audio captioning aims at generating natural language descriptions for given audio clips, not only detecting and classifying sounds, but also summarizing the relationships between audio events. Recent research advances in audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Generative models have shown significant achievements in audio generation tasks. However, existing models struggle with complex and detailed prompts, leading to potential performance degradation. We hypothesize that this problem stems from…

Identifying acoustic events from a continuously streaming audio source is of interest for many applications including environmental monitoring for basic research. In this scenario neither different event classes are known nor what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Matthias Meyer , Jan Beutel , Lothar Thiele

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

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

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

The task of video captioning, that is, the automatic generation of sentences describing a sequence of actions in a video, has attracted an increasing attention recently. The complex and high-dimensional representation of video data makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Menatallh Hammad , May Hammad , Mohamed Elshenawy

Acoustic event detection is essential for content analysis and description of multimedia recordings. The majority of current literature on the topic learns the detectors through fully-supervised techniques employing strongly labeled data.…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Anurag Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

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

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

Audio captioning aims at using natural language to describe the content of an audio clip. Existing audio captioning systems are generally based on an encoder-decoder architecture, in which acoustic information is extracted by an audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Qiushi Huang , Jianyuan Sun , Jinzheng Zhao , Haohe Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

Automated audio captioning (AAC) aims to generate informative descriptions for various sounds from nature and/or human activities. In recent years, AAC has quickly attracted research interest, with state-of-the-art systems now relying on a…

We investigate unsupervised learning of correspondences between sound events and textual phrases through aligning audio clips with textual captions describing the content of a whole audio clip. We align originally unaligned and unannotated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Huang Xie , Okko Räsänen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we propose SemanticAC, a semantics-assisted framework for Audio Classification to better leverage the semantic information. Unlike conventional audio classification methods that treat class labels as discrete vectors, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yicheng Xiao , Yue Ma , Shuyan Li , Hantao Zhou , Ran Liao , Xiu Li

In today's world, image processing plays a crucial role across various fields, from scientific research to industrial applications. But one particularly exciting application is image captioning. The potential impact of effective image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Md Alif Rahman Ridoy , M Mahmud Hasan , Shovon Bhowmick