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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

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

To train transcriptor models that produce robust results, a large and diverse labeled dataset is required. Finding such data with the necessary characteristics is a challenging task, especially for languages less popular than English.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Alexandre R. Ferreira , Cláudio E. C. Campelo

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging task that plays a crucial role in natural human-computer interaction. One of the main challenges in SER is data scarcity, i.e., insufficient amounts of carefully labeled data to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sarala Padi , Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

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

Deep learning-based text classification models need abundant labeled data to obtain competitive performance. Unfortunately, annotating large-size corpus is time-consuming and laborious. To tackle this, multiple researches try to use data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Xiaotian Lin , Nankai Lin , Yingwen Fu , Ziyu Yang , Shengyi Jiang

A major impediment to the application of deep learning to real-world problems is the scarcity of labeled data. Small training sets are in fact of no use to deep networks as, due to the large number of trainable parameters, they will very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ismail Elezi , Alessandro Torcinovich , Sebastiano Vascon , Marcello Pelillo

In this progress paper the previous results of the single note recognition by deep learning are presented. The several ways for data augmentation and "artificial semantic" augmentation are proposed to enhance efficiency of deep learning…

Data augmentation is an inexpensive way to increase training data diversity and is commonly achieved via transformations of existing data. For tasks such as classification, there is a good case for learning representations of the data that…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Turab Iqbal , Karim Helwani , Arvindh Krishnaswamy , Wenwu Wang

Deep learning technologies have significantly advanced the performance of target speaker extraction (TSE) tasks. To enhance the generalization and robustness of these algorithms when training data is insufficient, data augmentation is a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Junjie Li , Ke Zhang , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li , Man-Wai Mak , Kong Aik Lee

Audio tagging has attracted increasing attention since last decade and has various potential applications in many fields. The objective of audio tagging is to predict the labels of an audio clip. Recently deep learning methods have been…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Shengyun Wei , Kele Xu , Dezhi Wang , Feifan Liao , Huaimin Wang , Qiuqiang Kong

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

A recurrent issue in deep learning is the scarcity of data, in particular precisely annotated data. Few publicly available databases are correctly annotated and generating correct labels is very time consuming. The present article…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Celine Jacques , Axel Roebel

In this paper, we tackle the new Language-Based Audio Retrieval task proposed in DCASE 2022. Firstly, we introduce a simple, scalable architecture which ties both the audio and text encoder together. Secondly, we show that using this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Andrew Koh , Eng Siong Chng

Incremental learning aims to learn new tasks sequentially without forgetting the previously learned ones. Most of the existing incremental learning methods for audio focus on training the model from scratch on the initial task, and the same…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manjunath Mulimani , Annamaria Mesaros

Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence have been made possible by deep neural networks. In applications where data are scarce, transfer learning and data augmentation techniques are commonly used to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , Amir Erfan Eshratifar , David Eigen , Yanzhi Wang , Shahin Nazarian , Massoud Pedram

In training a deep learning system to perform audio transcription, two practical problems may arise. Firstly, most datasets are weakly labelled, having only a list of events present in each recording without any temporal information for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Veronica Morfi , Dan Stowell

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

Speech data has rich acoustic and paralinguistic information with important cues for understanding a speaker's tone, emotion, and intent, yet traditional large language models such as BERT do not incorporate this information. There has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Fatema Hasan , Yulong Li , James Foulds , Shimei Pan , Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee
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