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Content-based music information retrieval has seen rapid progress with the adoption of deep learning. Current approaches to high-level music description typically make use of classification models, such as in auto-tagging or genre and mood…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ilaria Manco , Emmanouil Benetos , Elio Quinton , Gyorgy Fazekas

Video-text retrieval, the task of retrieving videos based on a textual query or vice versa, is of paramount importance for video understanding and multimodal information retrieval. Recent methods in this area rely primarily on visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Boseung Jeong , Jicheol Park , Sungyeon Kim , Suha Kwak

Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mingkang Tang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenhua Liu , Fengyun Rao , Dian Li , Xiu Li

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

Text-to-Video (T2V) retrieval aims to identify the most relevant item from a gallery of videos based on a user's text query. Traditional methods rely solely on aligning video and text modalities to compute the similarity and retrieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Adriano Fragomeni , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

Contrastive language-audio pretraining~(CLAP) has been developed to align the representations of audio and language, achieving remarkable performance in retrieval and classification tasks. However, current CLAP struggles to capture temporal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yi Yuan , Zhuo Chen , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Xuenan Xu , Dongya Jia , Yuanzhe Chen , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Web-crawled image-text pairs are inherently noisy. Prior studies demonstrate that semantically aligning and enriching textual descriptions of these pairs can significantly enhance model training across various vision-language tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xianhang Li , Haoqin Tu , Mude Hui , Zeyu Wang , Bingchen Zhao , Junfei Xiao , Sucheng Ren , Jieru Mei , Qing Liu , Huangjie Zheng , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

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

The Learning-to-match (LTM) framework proves to be an effective inverse optimal transport approach for learning the underlying ground metric between two sources of data, facilitating subsequent matching. However, the conventional LTM…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Manh Luong , Khai Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Reza Haf , Dinh Phung , Lizhen Qu

Mainstream Audio Analytics models are trained to learn under the paradigm of one class label to many recordings focusing on one task. Learning under such restricted supervision limits the flexibility of models because they require labeled…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Benjamin Elizalde , Soham Deshmukh , Mahmoud Al Ismail , Huaming Wang

Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have become the standard approach for learning discriminative vision-language representations. However, these models often exhibit shallow language understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Ioanna Ntinou , Alexandros Xenos , Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

In this paper, we propose a new approach for retrieval of video segments using natural language queries. Unlike most previous approaches such as concept-based methods or rule-based structured models, the proposed method uses image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Sangkuk Lee , Daesik Kim , Myunggi Lee , Jihye Hwang , Nojun Kwak

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

It might appear that natural language processing should improve the accuracy of information retrieval systems, by making available a more detailed analysis of queries and documents. Although past results appear to show that this is not so,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Elworthy

We address the problem of text-based activity retrieval in video. Given a sentence describing an activity, our task is to retrieve matching clips from an untrimmed video. To capture the inherent structures present in both text and video, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Huijuan Xu , Kun He , Bryan A. Plummer , Leonid Sigal , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko

The Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) model has demonstrated excellent performance in general audio description-related tasks, such as audio retrieval. However, in the emerging field of emotional speaking style description…

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

The aim of this research is to refine knowledge transfer on audio-image temporal agreement for audio-text cross retrieval. To address the limited availability of paired non-speech audio-text data, learning methods for transferring the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Shunsuke Tsubaki , Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Keisuke Imoto

This paper proposes a method for unsupervised anomalous sound detection (UASD) and captioning the reason for detection. While there is a method that captions the difference between given normal and anomalous sound pairs, it is assumed to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Ryoya Ogura , Tomoya Nishida , Yohei Kawaguchi

Previous methods for audio-image matching generally fall into one of two categories: pipeline models or End-to-End models. Pipeline models first transcribe speech and then encode the resulting text; End-to-End models encode speech directly.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Zhenyu Lu , Lakshay Sethi